It is common for people with eating disorders to struggle with issues of identity. They often feel as if their eating disorder is an integral part of who they are. It can be terrifying for a person to let go of an eating disorder because it means letting go of the person they know. Individuals with eating disorders often wonder,
"Who am I without the eating disorder?"
One thing to consider when you are exploring who are is your values.
At your core, what values do you hold? Below is an activity to help you identify your values...
Directions:
- On a piece of paper or in a journal, write down all of the values that you relate to from the list. Go through the list fairly quickly and don't think too much!
- After you have reviewed the entire list, star your 5 most important values.
- If you would like to deepen the process of self-exploration, journal about the following questions:
- How do you know what your values are?
- How do you feel when you read over your list of values?
- How have your values changed over time?
- How are these values expressed in your life already?
- Which values would you like to incorporate into your life more? How could you do this?
- In what ways do your values differ from the eating disorder's values?
- What does it feel like to act in accordance with your values? What does it feel like when you go against them?
- How do your values influence your life? How would you like them to influence your life?
- How would you describe someone who had your list of values?
- Acceptance
- Accomplishment
- Accountability
- Achievement
- Adventure
- Ambition
- Approval
- Art
- Assertiveness
- Authority
- Balance
- Beauty
- Being the best
- Belonging
- Calmness
- Capability
- Care
- Certainty
- Challenge
- Change
- Cleanliness
- Comfort
- Commitment
- Community
- Compassion
- Competition
- Confidence
- Conformity
- Connection
- Contentment
- Control
- Cooperation
- Courage
- Craftiness
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Daring
- Decisiveness
- Dependability
- Depth
- Determination
- Devotion
- Discipline
- Diversity
- Dreaming
- Drive
- Duty
- Education
- Empathy
- Encouragement
- Endurance
- Energy
- Enthusiasm
- Environmentalism
- Ethics
- Experience
- Exploration
- Expressiveness
- Extroversion
- Fairness
- Faith
- Fame
- Family
- Fearlessness
- Ferocity
- Financial independence
- Fitness
- Flexibility
- Focus
- Freedom
- Friendship
- Frugality
- Fun
- Giving
- Grace
- Gratitude
- Growth
- Guidance
- Happiness
- Health
- Honesty
- Hopefulness
- Humor
- Hygiene
- Imagination
- Independence
- Individuality
- Influence
- Insightfulness
- Inspiration
- Intelligence
- Intimacy
- Introspection
- Introversion
- Intuition
- Joy
- Kindness
- Knowledge
- Leadership
- Learning
- Logic
- Love
- Loyalty
- Making a difference
- Mastery
- Maturity
- Meaning
- Mindfulness
- Modesty
- Motivation
- Nature
- Noncomformity
- Obedience
- Open-mindedness
- Optimism
- Organization
- Originality
- Outdoors
- Patience
- Passion
- Peace
- Perfection
- Perseverance
- Persistence
- Playfulness
- Popularity
- Power
- Practicality
- Presence
- Pride
- Privacy
- Professionalism
- Reason
- Reflection
- Relaxation
- Reliability
- Religiousness
- Resilience
- Resourcefulness
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Science
- Security
- Self-control
- Selflessness
- Self-reliance
- Self-respect
- Sensitivity
- Sensuality
- Sexuality
- Silence
- Simplicity
- Sincerity
- Solitude
- Sophistication
- Spirituality
- Spontaneity
- Stability
- Strength
- Success
- Support
- Sympathy
- Teaching
- Teamwork
- Thoughtfulness
- Trust
- Truth
- Understanding
- Uniqueness
- Vision
- Volunteering
- Warmth
- Wealth
- Willingness
- Winning
- Wisdom
- Wonder
- Worthiness
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