Coping with Feelings after New Years

A Nourishing Treat for Getting Through This Week Well

       As you move through this first week of the New
Year, I recommend that you read or re-read Joseph Campbell's
Hero with a Thousand Faces.

       This is the classic that can guide your through
your journey to eating disorder recovery.  Even if you
don't see the relevance, your unconscious will gladly take
in the healthy nourishment Campbell has to offer.

       I met Joe many years ago at an imagery conference
at UCLA.  We met in a big hall outside the workshops.
Many of the speakers and workshops were good, but at that
moment I was fleeing a bad one.  Joe was also in flight
from something he couldn't bear as well.

       We sat on a step at the bottom of the staircase and
talked for well over an hour.  The energy, honesty, humanity
and richness of the man came through so well I can feel him
today.  He also had a twinkle in his eye for attractive
young women which I enjoyed.  After all, he was a most popular
professor at Sarah Lawrence for many years.

       Many books came later.  His influence on the creation
of Star Wars came later yet. 

       But give yourself a gift and a boost into healing by
reading his first book, the book he wrote when he was a young
man starting his own journey.  Enjoy.  Please know that you
can be the heroine of your life.

Joanna Poppink, MFT, psychotherapist eating disorder specialist, Los Angeles, CA
bulimia, anorexia, compulsive overeating recovery, www.poppink.com