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Joanna Poppink
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Psychotherapist: depth psychotherapy with midlife women. PTSD, anxiety, narcissistic abuse, better quality of life. I cheer for laughter, courage, creativity, healing power of love. MFT; CA, FL, OR, AZ. www.eatingdisorderrecovery.net; joanna@poppink.com
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Protests and the National Guard: Finding Your Stability in Confrontation
by Joanna Poppink, MFT

This is soul work.

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#trauma #healing #depthpsychotherapy #mentalhealth #stability #nervoussystem
June 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Eating Disorder and Trauma Recovery need fierceness
and tenderness.
Together, they change everything.
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June 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Sometimes, silence is the most potent intervention in psychotherapy. Being present for the client allows her to feel her experience without interruption. She bears her feelings. Yet she is not alone.This is more intimate and sustaining than any words could be.

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Different, silent, and together. Present for one another, and both benefit.
January 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama

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"We are the ones we have been waiting for." Obama
January 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Why Love in Psychotherapy is the Heart of Healing and Growth

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Love: powerful when it's the real thing. Swans mate for life. They are loyal, loving and fierce when that is what is needed.
December 31, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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"Perfection belongs to the gods; completeness or wholeness is the most a human being can hope for."

Marion Woodman

We can accept a gift from Marion Woodman's words by taking a moment today to celebrate one small way we’ve embraced our wholeness, imperfections, and all.

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imperfectly perfect
December 25, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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"Hanukkah is about the freedom to be true to what we believe without denying the freedom of those who believe otherwise."

—Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

I breathe more easily as I read Sacks' words, and a smile comes to me and lingers.

Happy Hannakka, Everyone!

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At Soltice time, Christians and Jews honor the festival of lights. :)
December 24, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach."
Charles Dickens

I can't add a thing to that! Merry Christmas, Everyone!
A star Christmas tree in space for all of us.
December 23, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necesssary may speak.” Hans Hoffman.

How your wisdom self shows you your way.

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Want to know what’s next for you? Discover how open space in your heart, mind and soul invites your wisdom self to show you your way.
December 17, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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Seeing Opportunities and Acting on Them

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Turn Recognition into Action
December 16, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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“When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Charles A. Beard

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Stars: You can only see them if you are in the dark.
December 11, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
George Bernard Shaw

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Clean, bright, beautiful, and inspiring for what it is and all the love and dedication that poured into rebuilding and restoring this cathedral.
December 10, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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“Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.”
– Earl Grollman

We can grieve those we have lost and actively love and enjoy those we have now. Yes!

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Glorious discovery on my regular walk. Growth and a new season can be a revelation.
December 9, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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“Half an hour’s meditation is essential except when you are very busy. Then a full hour is needed.” Francis de Sales.

Check out the link! ☺️
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Eight Immortals are on their way to get their peach from the Queen's once every 8,000-year garden party.
December 8, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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“Regret is an appalling waste of energy: you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.”
Katherine Mansfield
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Regret is painful and a waste of time. When regret descends on us we need to feel it, recognize our limitations that caused it and make an effort to do better.
December 7, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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“Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you,” Aldous Huxley
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How we respond to what happens to us creates our lives.
December 6, 2024 at 5:12 AM
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“…human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” William James
James describes the key to eating disorder recovery.

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You can change your perspective and attitude with attention and an openness to a new point of view. And that can change how people respond to you. That can change your life.
December 5, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Bertrand Russell
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Dance in the rain. Watch a butterfly in honeysuckle. Fiddle in your workshop. Browse in a thrift shop. Watch your dog or cat or child sleep. The joys of wasting time like this feed your soul forever.
December 4, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost: that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau

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No one can sustain an eating disorder without pouring dedication, commitment, creativity, intelligence, and lots of energy and strategic thinking into it. In recovery, you can access those qualities you've had all along. You can use them to build your best life and smile while you're doing it.
December 3, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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“It does not matter how slowly you go
So long as you do not stop”

Confucius

Progress in eating disorder recovery psychotherapy can seem invisible. If you stay the course, both connection and healing will come.
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Staying on your eating disorder recovery path will bring you results, even when you can't see change for an unknown time. You've developed your eating disorder over time. It will take time to disassemble it as you grow in strength and awareness, so you don't need it.
December 2, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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I've decided the best I can do for my country and compatriots is to do the best I can in my corner of knowledge and skill. That's eating disorder recovery, which includes me. The more health and mental health we have the better.

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Me, in a beautiful day today, walking in my Los Angeles neighborhood with my dog, Jeffrey. And here's Jeffrey! Not easy to get a good close up of him. He's 12! Today he happily walked with me on UCLA campus through sculpture gardens, alongside fountains and under trees with squirrels safely scampering about. I'm good for his physical and mental health, and he's good for mine!
December 1, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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“In the coal counties, east and west, they were strip-mining without respect for the past or mercy to the future, and the reign of a compunctionless national economy was established everywhere.”
― Wendell Berry, Remembering: A Novel
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The metaphor of strip-mining is the experience of a person with an eating disorder. Because she is oblivious to her value, she is a victim to exploiters, including herself. Recovery involves breaking through her oblivion. She needs help for that.
December 1, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott
Metaphors can reach people with eating disorders emotionally when direct vocabulary seems cold and easy to sidestep.
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Metaphors to empower people with eating disorders to move into healing and recovery.
November 30, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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“Stop shrinking to fit places you’ve outgrown”

Sustained eating disorder recovery requires sustained attention to honoring your ability to grow.

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November 29, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Focus on what improves your heart, mind, body, and soul to recover from an eating disorder. Give yourself time to bear your fear and think simultaneously. Be with a psychotherapist you trust and who appreciates your courage.

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Your eating disorder develops to protect you from memories and feelings you cannot bear. Your triggers can guide you to understand what you need to develop to understand and bear those fears. Psychotherapy helps you gain strength and power to survive your past traumas and live free. You develop new courage you didn't know you had.
November 27, 2024 at 11:03 PM