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For coping with the holidays, remember that our chats and bulletin boards are open 24 hours a day.

Links for Holiday Survival

HOLIDAY SURVIVAL FORUMS at the SFWED Remember It Hurts Web Board

Ways to Cope - General ways to cope that will also help you get through the holiday season.

Motivations - Motivational exercises and self-affirmations that can help you get through the holidays (or any time of year).

Twelve Ideas to Help Women with Eating Disorders Negotiate Thanksgiving and Christmas - from the Center for Change

When family fun is no fun - from InteliHealth

Eating Disorders and the Holidays - from the Center for Change

Surviving the Holidays - from the Mirror-Mirror Website

Holiday Articles - from Self-Help and Psychology Magazine

I'm Dreaming of a (Guilt-Free) Christmas - from MSNBC with WebMD

Ho, Ho, Ho-Hum: Holidays Not Always Filled With Joy - from MSNBC with WebMD

Avoiding Holiday Depression And Stress - MHA of Colorado

Communication Reduces Holiday Stress - by Gary L. Hansen

Hoping for Happy Holidays - by Heather Mudgett

Food, stress and the holiday season - by MEDA reprinted on Pale-Reflections

Happy Holidays

what if...

Hunger means you eat when physically hungry instead of emotionally hungry.

Attitudes about your size has to with the size of your heart instead of the size of your body.

Parents accept and value you for who you are, not according to how you look.

Problems are resolved in ways other than stuffing your feelings with food.

You spend as much time and energy on helping others, as you do on how you look.

Happiness comes from within rather than from expectations of others.

Occasions for the holidays emphasize relating to others instead of emphasizing food.

Love of self means you deserve to treat yourself in the best humanly possible way.

Identity of self involves more than how you look.

Disapproval of self is changed to approval of who you are.

Acceptance of what one can not change includes your body features.

You treat yourself as you treat your best friend.

Society values you for being you without emphasis to your weight or size.

by: Sharon Sward, President of Eating Disorder Professionals of Colorado
Author of You Are More Than What You Weigh
Radio Talk Show Host on self-esteem, weight, and eating disorders

Special thanks to Sharon for sending this to us by e-mail and allowing us to use it on the website.