Emily and Han spend 15 minutes delving into an eating disorder recovery related question.
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How Do I Shift Away From Thinking About Weight Gain in Recovery?
In this episode, Emily and Han discuss how to move your attention away from thinking about weight gain in recovery.The key takeaways are:View weight restoration to an unsurpassed point non-negotiable. You cannot accept what you are seeking to side-stepStop weight gain avoidant behaviours.You cannot suggest to your brain that weight gain is safe when still doing weight gain avoidant behaviours that verify the fear.Get clear on your values, and separate these from your EDs values. Nourish what is within your sphere of influence, and true interest.Set yourself up to winComfortable clothesStop body checking Remove the scaleWhere you can, ensure that your environment is not body-focused. Remove energy deficiency - ensure caloric abundanceÂ
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Is Intuitive Eating a Good Idea in Recovery?
In this episode, Han and Emily discuss Intuitive Eating. The key takeaways are: Allowing intuition to guide us involves letting out body perform unconsciously. Therefore, there is a paradox in consciously deciding to begin to doing Intuitive Eating. Intuition is distorted by fear. Following your hunger and fullness is not necessarily safe to do in recovery, when these cues are very likely warped and compromised. Intuitive eating is not just the 'hunger and fullness diet'. It is about supporting your body, oftentimes proactively. Focus on clearing fear with intentionality. Mechanical processes are often required in any process that also involves fearWe hope you found value in this episode - as always, we really enjoyed speaking this topic through.
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How Do I Juggle Life Responsibilities With The Need To Rest?
In this episode Han and Emily discuss how to navigate life commitments & responsibilities whilst honouring the recovery commitment to rest.The key talking points are:honestydelegationallowing help inshelvingprioritising healing
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How Do I Know If I Am Still Restricting in Recovery?
In this episode, Emily and Han discuss how to identify the signs that you are still restricting.Â
The key takeaways from this episode are:
Getting brutally honest
Tuning into mental hunger
Identifying personal markers of scarcityÂ
Acting, even if in doubtÂ
Acting, without trying to convince/justify your actions to your ED first
Thanks so much for listening in! 🎺
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If I Honour My Hunger, Do I Still Eat My Meals and Snacks?
In this episode, Emily and Han discuss how to honour hunger fully and completely around formal baseline meal times.
The key areas covered here are:
Simplicity of the message that your brain & body needs to receive
Direct opposite actions
Demonstrate consistency food availability for neural rewiring & physiological safety
Leave no doubt
remain in The Now of your recovery
Since there is a fair amount to cover in this topic, it is a little longer than usual.
We hope you enjoyed this episode!
Emily and Han spend 15 minutes delving into an eating disorder recovery related question.
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