What is Self Help?

  • Dear Icebergers,

    I started to write my first self-help book well over twenty years ago while recovering from eating distress. It was a great help to me that I practiced everything I was writing about, it really helped my recovery. When I recovered I did not wanted people to experience the darkness of the mind for as long as I did, and I started to research ways how to speed up recovery and experience real life and freedom. In my 18 years of working and researching eating distress I...

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Daily Tip: ED Recovery

  • "Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." (Henry Word Beecher) The word compassion is taken from the Latin word “passum” which means “suffered”. When we suffer from eating distress we are looking at suffering as something we want to get...

Daily Tip: Family and Carers

  • What really helped me was when my family members started to be honest with me and did keep their promises.

Featured Iceberger Post

  • Although there are many elements that we each have in common in recovery like forgiveness, self acceptance and green thoughts, the obstacles to overcome them can be different and in that way all of our recoveries are different. This used to frustrate me because I just wanted to take the hand of a careworker and get their imprint and use this as...

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