Summary of Carolyn Costin & Gwen Schubert Grabb's 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder

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#1 Remember, your worst eating disorder day is a reflection of what your life with an eating disorder is really like. It is meant to motivate you to get better so you don’t have more days like that.

#2 There are many phases people go through in their recovery from an eating disorder. You may have had an eating disorder for some time before you even realized that you had one. Once you became aware of the disorder, you may have gone on for some time before sharing this awareness with others.

#3 The end goal of recovery is to be recovered, which means no longer meeting the diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder. A more accurate definition of the term recovered is when a person no longer meets the diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder, but is still symptomatic.

#4 We cannot know the reasons you might have for wanting to get better. Motivation to change comes in many forms and changes over time. You might want to get better for someone else, or you might want to do it for yourself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822500297

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Insights on Carolyn Costin & Gwen Schubert Grabb's 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Remember, your worst eating disorder day is a reflection of what your life with an eating disorder is really like. It is meant to motivate you to get better so you don’t have more days like that.

#2

There are many phases people go through in their recovery from an eating disorder. You may have had an eating disorder for some time before you even realized that you had one. Once you became aware of the disorder, you may have gone on for some time before sharing this awareness with others.

#3

The end goal of recovery is to be recovered, which means no longer meeting the diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder. A more accurate definition of the term recovered is when a person no longer meets the diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder, but is still symptomatic.

#4

We cannot know the reasons you might have for wanting to get better. Motivation to change comes in many forms and changes over time. You might want to get better for someone else, or you might want to do it for yourself.

#5

Whatever brought you to these pages, it helps illuminate where you are in terms of your ambivalence and motivation. When reading this key, you can gauge your own readiness to change and modify the activities and exercises accordingly.

#6

The motivation and readiness to change can be broken down into five levels: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. When clients feel stuck, it is often because they are having difficulty moving from one level to the next.

#7

You must be willing to recognize your progress, no matter how small it may seem. You must also be willing to recognize what you will lose if you give up your eating disorder, as well as what you want your relationship with food to look like in the future.

#8

To maintain your recovery, you must be aware of the situations that make you vulnerable to falling back into your behaviors. You must develop the tools and skills to maintain the progress you made.

#9

Gwen’s recovery involved working on maintaining her positive changes, which involved maintaining her motivation level at level 4: Working to continue new behaviors. She realized that all of her relapses started with a painful