Your guide to visioning recovery, body acceptance,
and learning to carry grief with grace.
You’re not broken.
Recovery is possible.
You can find your happy. Even After.
Dr. Linda Shanti specializes in Grief, Eating Disorder (compulsive eating, emotional eating, binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia) recovery, Body image challenges, Anxiety, Depression, and imperfect parenting. She also utilizes expressive arts modalities to assist in healing and visioning during life transitions.
Are you uncertain about who you are after someone you love has died?
Or without the eating disorder?
Do you feel as if you are “too sensitive” or “should be further along” in your recovery or grief process?
Do you want freedom from food obsession?
Do you find yourself engaging in disordered eating even though you "know better" (have read all the books, are a feminist, feel awful every time afterward, know it won't fix what you are really struggling with)?
Do you often “compare and despair” looking at other people thinking they have perfected this body image/life/career/relationship/recovery/grief thing figured out and you don’t?
Are you wanting to cultivate a spiritual practice or use art for self discovery?
I can help you explore these questions and others in the confidential space of therapy.
Why Visioning?
You have to vision, to image-in that something is possible before you can experience it. You have to imagine yourself in it. What do you imagine finding happiness again (or in the first place), recovery, freedom from food obsession, freedom from (or a more mindful and compassionate relationship with) depression and anxiety, and accepting your body to look like? What would finding new meaning when traveling with grief be like? How would you feel? What would you be doing? What would your relationships look like? In the words of Meister Eckart:
"When the Soul wants to experience something, she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it."
It is possible to recover. It is possible to get yourself back (or find yourself in the first place). You are not alone.
Three tidbits I’ve discovered along the road to recovery:
1) You are not responsible for your eating disorder. You are responsible for your recovery.
2) The size of your body is not your business.
3) The mean girl voice in your head will continue to share. You do not have to believe it.