fulfillment. Spiritual interventions for eating disorders include theistic-oriented therapy, spirituality groups, zen in the context of dialectical behavior therapy, and grief work as part of interpersonal therapy. Other treatment modalities include meditation, yoga, storytelling, ritual, and music. To speak in metaphors is to draw upon imagination, and the creative process involves connecting with and expressing one's voice - critical to recovery from an eating disorder.
In the book's concluding chapter I tell my own fictional story of Jesus' sister Salome, who in my account suffers from mood and eating issues. In offering an interpretation of the story, I include insights from Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (2002). Cameron highlights the healing role of creativity in her own life; she also offers a systematized program for others to recover their "blocked artist selves." Her notion of creativity as innate is consistent with Milner's view and with other theoretical perspectives. Both Milner and Cameron suggest that creativity can help one access one's "inner divinity" or creative unconscious.
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