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Janet's Example
Eating Disorder

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I woke up yesterday and said to myself, "I feel fat" and then I began to think about overeating on junk food. I began to work myself up.

My symptoms were a heaviness in my body, lack of spontaneity, and a churning stomach. My thoughts were, "Oh no, I'm going to lose control, stop functioning and get depressed.

Then I spotted that behind these symptoms and thoughts were unspotted angry and fearful temper over the situation regarding my cat. She was very sick and I needed to take her to the vet that day. So I spotted that this wanting to eat or not eat was a signal to me to spotlight my temper. I spotted that this symptom was distressing, but not dangerous and a harmless outpouring of the nervous imbalance. I spotted that I had angry temper at the situation and at the cat for getting sick. I spotted my fearful temper in the form of self pity and self blame. Maybe I caused her to get sick. I spotted that I needed to face, tolerate, and endure the symptoms and the situation. I spotted that I could reject these food thoughts and I took the secure thought that impulse s could be controlled through my muscles. I endorsed for starving the impulse and doing the thing I feared to do and take the cat to the vet.

Before Recovery, Inc., I would have acted on the impulse to over-eat or under-eat. I may have given the cat away in order to avoid illness and death in something I was very attached to. I would not have seen the eating symptoms and thoughts as nervous in nature, but as an illness that was incurable and that I was a horrible person for having such a compulsion.

Further Spotting!

Marie-- I was impressed that Janet was able to spot that her symptoms were connected with her temper in connection with her cat. She was then able to see her confused thoughts and feelings and become realistic.

Joe-- Janet first spotted no danger to her symptoms. Then she had a chance to become more objective and look at the fearful and angry temper she was having. There's a lot of past practice evident in this example.

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