As a psychotherapist, I often found deep empty spaces in the client's feelings about her/his inner self, and eating disorders such as binge eating and others, was her/his way of filling the emptiness. 

 

Therefore, good questions to ask oneself are:

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• How do you feel inside you? 

• What is missing in your life? 

• What was missing in your childhood?  

• What can you do today to fill the void?

• Describe the void if you have one in your life or in you? 

• Give it a name. 

• What metaphor can you imagine for the void?

• What would your life be like without the eating disorder?

• Where in your life are you happy?

• Where in your life are you unhappy?

• Where in your life do you feel successful?

• Where in your life do you feel unsuccessful?

• What could you add to your life in order to feel more successful?

• What could you do in order to increase your self esteem?

• Describe your true inner self.

• What masks do you wear in order to present your false self to society and other people?

• How are these questions connected to your eating dis-order?

• What did you learn from these questions?

• What did you learn about yourself?

• How could you change your eating habits to feel better about yourself?

• What can you do today to bring about change in your life?

• Draw a picture of how you think you look today and how you see yourself in the mirror. Describe the two pictures.