Homework for the Journey

Please first complete the assignment called, “Goodbye Letter to your Eating Disorder Self.” After completion, let your Eating Disorder Self respond to your goodbye letter.

This exercise identifies emotional immaturity in parental figures with the aim to better understand your lived experience.

First complete the assignment entitled, “What My Eating Disorder Does for Me.” Rewrite those statements here, and then answer the evidence, cost, and benefit questions for each of those three reasons.

When you feel an urge to engage in a behavior, listen to and then write what your Eating Disorder Self is telling you, including what behavior it wants to engage in, and try to include why. Then respond from your Healthy Self.

Explore the frequency of committing or experiencing microaggressions in this worksheet to help you respond in a more meaningful way.

Think of a time when you heard someone in your life say something racist or that reflected internalized racism. Write about it in this worksheet.

This worksheet encourages you to think about your strengths and weaknesses in being an ally.

This worksheet identifies potential signs of emotional immaturity in parental relationships.

Emotional immaturity shows itself most clearly in relationships, especially between a parent and child. Read through the following statements, and check off all that reflect your childhood experience.