The Eating Disorder Therapist

Are you in eating disorder recovery and feeling extremely hungry? Are you terrified, exhilarated, scared, overwhelmed and feeling out of control? Do you want to understand your extreme hunger and work with it?

In this episode, I’m going to give you 20 recovery tips to support you in managing your extreme hunger, like a pro. You’ll be equipped with the knowledge, know how and information to guide you through this tricky period.

Time slots

1. The way out is through - 0.42

2. A biological response to famine - 1.16

3. Food, food and more food - 1.34

4. Weight is irrelevant - 2.05

5. Your body is healing - 2.34

6. Physical torment - 3.03

7. Supporting the process - 3.38

8. Feelings and mood - 4.24

9. Eating more than others - 4.39

10. The length of the extremely hungry period will vary - 5.06

11. You will experience physical hunger - 5.29

12. And mental hunger - 5.54

13. There is not one way to manage extreme hunger - 6.27

14. Body Mass Index (BMI) is unhelpful - 7.02

15. The terror of eating more - 7.32

16. Support yourself in the process - 7.55

17. Distraction can be helpful - 8.41

18. Work on rewiring the brain - 8.54

19. Extreme hunger and binge eating - 9.22

20. Extreme hunger will pass - 9.49

What has helped you in navigating extreme hunger in your own recovery?

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

 

🔔 Subscribe to YouTube for weekly eating disorder recovery support, therapy insights, and real conversations about food and healing: https://www.youtube.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist?sub_confirmation=1

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

 Professional Training:

 Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

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How to build self-trust in eating disorder recovery. I explore building a connection to your body rather than overthinking; validating yourself over what other people think and becoming the most authentic version of you. I hope that you enjoy the episode.

Time slots

1.19 Listen to your body.

5.44 Feeling over appealing to others.

8.19 Being authentically you.

 

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

 

🔔 Subscribe to YouTube for weekly eating disorder recovery support, therapy insights, and real conversations about food and healing: https://www.youtube.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist?sub_confirmation=1

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

 Professional Training:

 Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

 

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Today, I have a guest on the show and I am talking to Maximus Lerois - The Identity Architect. Maximus is a retired U.S. Marine with two combat tours in Afghanistan, a certified psychotherapist, certified NLP practitioner, and certified emotional intelligence specialist.

He helps leaders and audiences find the script running underneath their performance - and to rewrite it. He is the creator of The Revision Method™ and the author of the book Mental Health Is a Lie.

In today's episode, Maximus talks about how our early life experiences shape the way we look at the world, how we show up and what we tolerate in our experience.

He talks through his transformational Revision Method, to help rewrite the script of early life and to then lead a life with purpose, intention and legacy.

I hope that you enjoy the episode.

To find out more about Maximus's work or to get in touch with him:

https://www.maximuslerois.com/

 

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

 

🔔 Subscribe to YouTube for weekly eating disorder recovery support, therapy insights, and real conversations about food and healing: https://www.youtube.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist?sub_confirmation=1

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

 Professional Training:

 Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

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Today, I'm talking to Tom Wooldridge, who is a is a board-certified clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and certified eating disorders specialist whose work sits at the intersection of psychoanalytic theory, the treatment of eating disorders—particularly in men and boys—and the developmental impact of digital technology.

Tom is Vice Provost for Digital Innovation and founding Dean of the School of Psychology at Golden Gate University, where he directs the Human Systems Lab on how AI and emerging technologies affect people and institutions, and he holds training and supervising analyst appointments at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

He is the author or editor of six books, including End the Food Fight (Guilford Press, 2026), with a foreword by Susie Orbach, and more than twenty-five peer-reviewed articles. In 2024 he received the JAPA Award for the year's outstanding paper in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

In today's episode, Tom is going to talk about his new book End The Food Fight (Replacing Control with Connection to Help Your Child Heal from an Eating Disorder). Tom has some incredible insights and advice on how to support your struggling child, whilst maintaining connection and relationship with them - SO vital in the healing process. I hope that you enjoy the conversation.

To get in touch with Tom and/or to find out more about his work: https://www.tomwooldridge.com/eating-disorders

 

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

 

🔔 Subscribe to YouTube for weekly eating disorder recovery support, therapy insights, and real conversations about food and healing: https://www.youtube.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist?sub_confirmation=1

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

 Professional Training:

 Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

 

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7 body image boosters to help you find body neutrality and body acceptance in a thin obsessed world.

Time slots:

3:08 When weight is worth.

6:00 Body image stories.

7:23 Body neutrality.

8:58 The weighing scales.

9:41 Mirrors.

10:25 Comparisons.

11:58 Expand your life.

I hope that you find it helpful.

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

 

🔔 Subscribe to YouTube for weekly eating disorder recovery support, therapy insights, and real conversations about food and healing: https://www.youtube.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist?sub_confirmation=1

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

 Professional Training:

 Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

#HarrietFrew #TheEatingDisorderTherapist #EatingDisorderRecovery #anorexianervosa #atypicalanorexia #DisorderedEating #osfed #FoodFreedomJourney #BingeEatingRecovery #MentalHealthSupport #FoodObsessions #BodyImageHealing #RecoveryIsPossible #EmotionalEating #InnerHealing #TherapyInsights #copingstrategy #copingstrategies #eatingdisorders #bulimiarecovery #bingeeating #psychology #therapist #bulimiarecovery #bulimianervosa #bulimia #selfworth #bingeeating #bingeeatingdisorder #bingeeatingrecovery #bodyimage #bodyimagehealing #bodyimageissues #bodyacceptance