People who do not eat with their families or co-workers do not have the connection with others that people who break bread' together do. All cultures celebrate with food. Healing from an eating disorder involves the flexibility to eat, more or less, what others do. This doesn't mean the client should become a junk food junkie but less rigidity and fear is essential to normalize eating. There is hope.
People do recover from eating disorders.
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