By Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP co-author with Karen Carnabucci of “Healing Eating Disorders With Psychodrama and Other Action Methods – Beyond the Silence and the Fury”

“Anorexia is both the result of a protest against the cultural rule that your women must be beautiful.  In the beginning, a young woman strives to be thin and beautiful, but after a time, anorexia takes on a life of its own.  By her behavior, an anorexic girl tells the world, ‘Look, see how thin I am, even thinner than you wanted me to be.  You can’t make me eat more.  I am in control of my fate, even if my fate is starving.’” – Mary Pipher, “Reviving Ophelia” Read more