As a therapist, I love supporting clients to explore their story and to make sense of their eating disorder. It's not always an easy job, as eating disorders are complicated and there is no one cause. It can feel as if they are all about food, however, they are a complex interplay of genetics, environment, family life, stressors and triggers. In supporting a client with change, it can be a valuable process to piece together the different parts of the jigsaw to begin to make sense of all the different parts. Through this process, someone can begin to understand why they have developed an eating disorder; possible triggers and the perpetuating factors that keep them stuck in destructive cycles.
In this episode, I talk about three ways that eating disorders help people cope (albeit short-term). Of course, longer term, they bring about many more problems. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, I hope this will help you question and explore your own psychology to begin to make better sense of what's going on. If you're a carer, it will offer you an insight into why your loved one may be doing what they're doing, which can provide a starting point for better understanding and compassion.
I hope that you enjoy the episode.
Getting Started on an Eating Disorder Recovery Journey
Understanding More About the Psychology of Eating Disorders
Shedding Shame and Eating Disorders
It’s Not About Food, It’s About Feelings
Competition and Comparison with Others and Eating Disorders
Eating Disorder Recovery, Managing Eating, The ED Voice, Thoughts on Diaries, Body Image and Finding your Voice with Scarlett O’Connor
A Deep Dive into Rumination Syndrome
A Deep Dive into Autism and Eating Disorders, with Ryan Althaus
Why Can’t I Change? When You’re Feeling Stuck on the Recovery Road. 3 Tips to Support You.
Social Media and Eating Disorders. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly with returning guest, Brooke Carlson
5 Ways to Deal with a Mother Entrenched in Diet Culture, When you are Working on your own Eating Disorder Recovery
My First Experience of HYROX and Navigating a Healthy Relationship with Movement
7 Tips on Navigating Sexual Desire, Intimacy and Connection in Eating Disorder Recovery
Slaying Monsters, Dodging Doughnuts - A Mother’s Journey in Supporting her Daughter through Anorexia Recovery, with Emma Carter
Living with a Long Term Eating Disorder. 6 Tips for Coping and Overcoming this
From Six Pack Abs and Weight Loss, to Movement and Mental Wellbeing, with Katie Bramlett (WeShape)
How to Stop Calorie Counting, Tracking and Obsessing Over Every Gram of Food
5 Ways Towards Understanding and Interrupting your Binge Eating
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