Eating more in recovery is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. Not just emotionally — though the guilt, fear, and anxiety are very real — but physically too. Your body is changing, your digestion is acting up, and somewhere in the back of your mind, a voice keeps telling you that you’re doing…
Have you ever noticed that during an eating disorder your brain just… stops working normally? You try to focus on a conversation, but your mind keeps drifting back to food. You try to concentrate on work or studies, but your thoughts feel scattered and difficult to hold onto for long. Your emotions might feel overwhelming,…
Recently, I was scrolling through some of my older YouTube videos to reshare them on Instagram stories, and I noticed a comment under one of them that really stuck with me: “Why does nobody talk about recovering from an eating disorder in a larger body?” So I thought – let’s talk about it. Acknowledging Where…
Struggling with weight gain in eating disorder recovery? This Q&A blog tackles common fears like overshooting, feeling uncomfortable in your body, and overcoming the fear of weight gain. Learn why weight gain is essential for healing and how to shift your mindset for full recovery.
Today we will work on rewiring a common limiting belief – “People will judge me if I gain weight” In this post we will talk about: Fear of weight gain or fear of what others *think* about our weight gain? Why do we worry so much about what others think? How to change this limiting belief…
In recovery, we can’t just work on stopping the restrictive and disordered behaviors but we must also work on the thoughts and beliefs that are fuelling those behaviors in the first place. Beliefs like: “I can only be happy if I’m thin” “People will judge me if I gain weight” “Nobody will love me if I…
Today’s post is all about recovery burnout. Many people feel totally exhausted with recovery – constantly having to challenge themselves, go against all the food rules, face fears, resist urges and deal with the fears and negative thoughts that come up. Unfortunately, there is no way to avoid facing all of that in recovery… BUT…
Do you feel like you could just eat, eat, eat, and never seem to get full in your recovery? Do you feel like you have lost all control with food and are now just bingeing? Do you fear that letting go of restriction has now resulted in you having a binge eating disorder? This is…
In this post, I will talk about how to deal with triggering comments in eating disorder recovery and I will give you some examples of how to respond to them. Because recently, I have got many messages where people say that because of the quarantine they have to stay at home with their families and…
When you come from a restrictive past your hunger cues are messed up. You can feel full and not hungry. But it doesn’t mean you are now done with recovery and ready to follow intuitive eating. You likely still experience many physical and mental starvation symptoms and do not even feel fully recovered. So the…
