Kathleen Fuller PhD

Eating Disorders - A Perfect Tool to Help - Even With Your Boss



Posted: Saturday, September 19, 2009

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Not Your Mother's diet

I'd like to start with a little bit of information about Dr. Edward Bach who believed that the ills of the heart and the spirit must be the focus of a healer's attention. This is truly a perfect tool for an eating disorder. The bodily ills are symptoms of our fears, our cares, and our anxieties that can open the path to the invasion of illness. This philosophy along with herbal medicine prescribes plants for melancholy or mental indecision. But Bach went further in making a connection between what you feel and that of your actual physical illness. Thus he produced the unconventional Bach Flower Remedies.

Bach developed and specialized in a branch of herbal medicine where he used flowers. He noted that the flowers were high in vitality, as they contained the essence of life or seed of the plant. These qualities were what he wished to experiment with to relieve mental distress. Bach knew that flowers were only part of the puzzle. He knew that the positive give-and-take interaction and the encouragement that a doctor or psychotherapist can give completed this process.

Bach observed certain principles that worked in nature and believed there was no need to complicate the issue with further mental pursuits. Bach gathered hundreds of successful case histories. With that said, I'd like to share a personal family story that illustrates my success using the Bach Flower Remedies.

I know, from my 18 years of clinical case studies in my private practice, that by solving the mental attitudes you can stop a disease from becoming a physical one, or reverse one. For example an intervention early in teens can turn the tragic effects of eating disorders around .Today, as compared to the 1930's when Bach compassionately wanted to relieve those suffering in the Great Depression ; we are beginning to understand disease at an energy level rather than a pathological one.

It's interesting my daughter is now 30 years old. She is a recovered anorexic and perfectionist. I was talking to her the other day and she is now a CPA working in a busy high-powered office. One boss is particularly strict and intimidating. So we are talking, and I asked her, "What kind of techniques or tools do you use to handle the stress of working under a boss like that?"

She said, "Most time I don't take it personally. I may called him a (----- ) in my head but I'm very nice to him face to face." In other words, she uses the technique of sending them flowers in her imagination after she cancels the silent names she calls him. She added further, "Really mom, I find that I love my job and its challenges if I take the Bach Flower Remedies. They help so much so that I don't take my boss personally."

Then I asked her which ones do you do use? And she answered, "The one that I love most is Larch."

I asked her what is Larch for, because I noticed in my own life I was not using the Bach Flower Remedies like I had in years past and I had forgotten about Larch . Yet I do have rescue remedy always on hand. My daughter's favorite, Larch helps boast self-confidence and overcomes the feeling of not being strong enough to succeed. (Plus this is a great flower remedy for overcoming the lack of self confidence with any eating disorder.) My daughter has found that when she feels self-confidence her need to be perfect takes a quiet repose in the back of her mind and then she can more effectively use her command words let it go'.

"Oh," I said, "that is amazing you are still using the Bach Flower Remedies and the tool of command words that I taught you by using these remedies throughout your growing up times. Good for you."

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