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My voice vs. the eating disorder's voice

Tell the eating disorder's voice apart from your own, write down its lines, and practice answering back.

About 15 minutes · 7 questionsNarrative therapy · Eating disorder treatment
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Food, body & eating~15 minNarrative therapyEating disorder treatment

My voice vs. the eating disorder's voice

Tell the eating disorder's voice apart from your own, write down its lines, and practice answering back.

Why this helps

Externalizing — seeing a problem as separate from who you are — comes from narrative therapy and is widely used in eating disorder treatment. When you can tell the eating disorder's voice from your own, it gets easier to disobey it.

Please leave out numbers — weights, sizes, calories or amounts. If you have a treatment team, bring this to them. The National Alliance for Eating Disorders helpline, staffed by therapists on weekdays, is (866) 662-1235In a crisis, call or text 988.

1. Things the eating disorder voice says to me

Write the general message — not specific rules or numbers.

2. What it promises me

Control, safety, being liked, feeling okay…

3. What following it has actually cost me

4. When it's loudest

5. What my own voice — my wise, healthy self — says back

6. What the people who love me would say back to it

7. A phrase I'll use when the voice gets loud

"That's the eating disorder talking. I'm going to eat anyway."

From the Workbook on Amity Connect, via RecoveryHome.comFor reflection and practice — not a diagnosis or a substitute for professional care. In crisis, call or text 988.amityconnect.com/app/workbook/ed-voice
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It comes from the Amity Connect workbook, built by the same team as RecoveryHome, and is free to print and share. It's for reflection and practice — not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for professional care. Content is never written or edited by advertisers. If you're in crisis, call or text 988.

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