but after a while, she started using it as her go-to when she would be triggered and tempted to judge herself. More often than not, she was able to pull out of her depressive rumination, and eventually she stopped binge-eating almost entirely, to the point where I discharged her from my clinic because she didn’t need my help anymore. She came back to my clinic for a follow-up visit about four months later, just to make sure everything was still going well. She had lost forty pounds, but more important, she told me this: “I’m grateful for this approach because I feel like I have my life back. I
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