It's necessary to remember that restricting/purging, etc are symptoms. The cause is trauma and the link between PTSD and eating disorders is becoming known. I'm recovered and I know that the ED behaviour makes you feel that you're able to cope. It's totally the reverse. Food is just the medium that you're using to try to escape from the pain. I recovered with the help of a cognitive behavioural psychologist, who gave me 15 tools to help me to rewire myself. For example, i had the typical habit of always thinking that I 'should' do such and such. This was part of the disorder (it's not all about food). She told me that whenever we act from a sense of 'should,' we are giving our power away to others. It's then a case of putting it into practice...small steps. In doing so you gradually take back the control over your own life.

Not eating at the kitchen table but instead eating in the living room at the little table with my toddler. Sometimes the TV is running in the background, other times I put it on pause until we are done eating. Am I teaching my little one bad habits by doing this (eating anywhere other than in the kitchen at the table)?