31/03/2022
Meaningful analogy by Shane Jeffrey about the importance of challenging the Eating Disorder 🤩 Lets keep draining the battery! 🔋Thanks! Re-Posted • Have you heard of the ‘Battery-Box’ analogy for eating disorders and recovery? 🤔
👉🏻Our leader at ROH Shane Jeffrey likens an ED and the recovery journey to taking the lid off of a box, and draining a battery of its charge.
If a person chooses to ‘keep the lid on the box’, they are unable to learn about the thoughts, feelings and experiences potentially contributing to their ED. 📦
Whilst doing this, they continue to engage in ED thoughts, and pursue ED behaviours. This ‘keeps the battery charged’ (keeps the ED alive) and box closed. 🔋
As a person chooses to ‘open the box’ and confront uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, emotions and memories contributing to their eating disorder, they begin to formulate an understanding of why they use an ED as a coping mechanism. 🧠
Through this, they progressively become less likely to engage in ED behaviours, and thus drain the ED of its charge. ⚡️
Over time as the person builds a stronger connection with their healthy self, the ED may still lie dormant in the background, but its battery will be stripped of charge, and it will no longer impede on the person’s life like it used to. 🌈
Did you resonate with this and find it useful? 🤍