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recovery@givawilkerson.com
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267-314-7893
Recovery ✔. Now what?
Maintaining Your Recovery While Supporting Others
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Are you a peer supporter in need of support and a safe place to share your concerns about your own recovery?
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Are you a peer supporter looking for tools and strategies to better support your clients?
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Are you looking to become a peer supporter; but want to get a better understanding of yourself and your own recovery before taking the plunge into the field?
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Have you entered the "maintenance phase" in your recovery, and looking for support navigating recovery during your everyday life?
Have you done recovery, checked the box on your "To Do" list and are now asking yourself "Now what?" - Then this is the program for you.
Maintenance Phase Support
Whether you refer to yourself as "recovered", "healed" or "on a lifelong journey of recovery", we can all agree that recovery from an eating disorder is a beautifully complicated, multi-layered, process. One filled with ups and downs, that can take years for an "progress" to be seen or felt (and that's OK). Recovery is hard to define and determining when a person is "recovered" or "in a good place" can be even harder. To help support clients during their "maintenance phase", we provide coaching in the following areas:
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(Re)Defining Recovery on YOUR own terms
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Defining and establishing supports (social and emotional)
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How to talk (to others) about your eating disorder and Self Advocacy
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Diet Culture 101/ How to be Anti-Fatphobic
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Nutrition 101 (Redefining 'good' and 'bad' foods)
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Redefining Health and Wellness
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Redefining Beauty
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How and when to re-introduce movement into your lifestyle
Support for Peer Supporters
ED recovery is all about your understanding, acceptance and relationship with yourself.
As a PWLE, or person with lived experience, (the essence of what makes you a peer) there are a few important things to understand:How much have you changed over the course of your recovery? What have you learned? And how does this impact your understanding, acceptance and relationship with yourself?
To help you answer these questions, we provide the following services:
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Coaching Sessions
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Guidance and support with the integration of lived experience into client sessions
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Personal recovery counseling and maintenance support
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Supervision sessions
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Guidance and support with individual clients
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Support with provider collaboration and team-building
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Establishing and maintaining boundaries in peer to peer support relationships
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Peer Support Readiness Assessment
Eating Disorder Peer Support: Am I Ready?
There are a lot of factors to consider before committing to becoming an eating disorder peer support provider. And it takes a strong person (like you!) to do the work of getting to know themselves well enough to decide if they're ready. At this point, you may be 100% clear that you are ready. Or, like most people, you are confident; but still not sure. To assist you in this process, we have developed an extensive self assessment, broken down into specific sections, to inspire contemplation; and hopefully help you get the answers you seek.