recovered-ish with chloe cox

Episode Description One of the most common questions I get — from clients, from Instagram, from people deep in the trenches of recovery — is this: does the eating disorder voice ever actually go away? In this episode, I get honest about my own experience with the ED voice: what it sounded like at its worst, how it shifted through different stages of recovery, and where it lives now (spoiler: it&ap...

hello, lovely friends. welcome back to recovered-ish. today we’re talking about the part of recovery that i think catches a lot of people off guard: how long it takes.  how messy it is.  and how discouraging it can feel when you’re doing “everything right” and still not feeling better yet. because i think a lot of people go into recovery expecting it to feel hard for a little while… and then event...

hi! welcome back to recovered-ish. today we’re talking about food guilt. but not in the surface-level way it’s usually talked about. because this isn’t just “i feel a little guilty.” this is the kind of guilt that hits after you eat and makes you feel like you need to fix it. immediately. the kind that lingers. the kind that turns into “i shouldn’t have done that” → “i am bad.” and if you’ve ever...

hello, lovely friends. welcome back to recovered-ish. today’s episode is a little different. i was feeling kind of chaotic, kind of scattered, and i knew i did not have it in me to do justice to one of the bigger, heavier topics i had planned. so instead, i did something i honestly never thought i would do. i pulled out my old journals. the actual journals i kept from the depths of my eating disor...

hello, lovely friends! welcome back to recovered-ish. today we’re talking about body changes in recovery and how to cope when weight gain starts to feel huge. because of course this is one of the biggest fears in recovery. most people would be willing to take the risk on healing if they could guarantee their body would stay the same. but that’s not how this works. and even when you know logically...

hello, lovely friends. welcome back to recovered-ish. today we’re talking about quasi recovery. this is the phase where you’re not relapsed. you’re functioning. you’re eating. life looks mostly normal. but the tape is still running. in this episode, i talk about: – what quasi recovery actually is (and how it’s different from relapse)  – the “good enough” space that can last for years  – rigidity t...

hello, lovely friends! welcome back to recovered-ish. today we’re talking about motivation. and more specifically, why it feels so hard to find motivation to recover. i hear this all the time.  “i don’t feel motivated.”  “i don’t have a strong enough reason.”  “i know what to do, but i can’t make myself do it.” and the more i sat with this topic, the more i realized something. motivation works bea...

hi, my lovely friends. welcome back to recovered-ish. this week’s episode is messy. i’m congested. there’s construction beeping outside my office. it’s a full comedy of errors. but honestly… that feels fitting. recovery is messy too. i did a poll on instagram and you all had so many good questions that i couldn’t pick just one. so we’re doing a recovery buffet. a little bit of this, a little bit o...

hi. welcome back to recovered-ish. this episode is about relapse and why i don’t think it means what we’ve been taught to believe it means. relapse is extremely common. and the fact that it’s so common tells me a few things. this is really hard. success in recovery isn’t well defined. and we haven’t figured out eating disorder treatment as well as we think we have. i talk about how relapse usually...

today we’re covering one of the most confusing and emotionally loaded topics in eating disorder recovery: exercise. because movement can genuinely help anxiety. and it can also quietly become another way the eating disorder stays in control. in this episode, we talk about the role exercise plays in eating disorders, why stopping movement can feel terrifying, and how to tell the difference between...

hi! welcome back to recovered-ish. this episode is about one of the most common thoughts that keeps people stuck in eating disorders: it’s not that bad. it could be worse. i’m not sick enough for help. we talk about where this belief comes from, why it feels so convincing, and how it’s reinforced by medical providers, mental health systems, social media, and comparison — even when someone’s inner...

in this episode, we’re talking about the fear of weight gain — and why you can’t just “get over it.” if you’ve ever thought i want recovery, but i can’t handle my body changing , this episode is for you. we unpack why weight gain can feel like danger (not just discomfort), how avoidance wires fear, and why waiting to feel “okay” before taking action keeps people stuck for years. i also want to nam...

in this episode, i share my eating disorder + recovery story — but not in the “before/after, numbers, shock value” way. i’m not here to give you content you can compare yourself to. i’m here to give you context, meaning, and the parts that actually matter. i talk about the early moments where body awareness and objectification started showing up way before food did, how perfectionism and high achi...

welcome to the first episode of recovered-ish . in this episode, i share why i started this podcast, what recovered-ish actually means, and why the idea of “full recovery” isn’t as clear-cut as we’re often told. i’m 30 years old, over a decade into eating disorder recovery, and both a therapist and recovery coach. if you asked me today whether i’m fully recovered, my answer wouldn’t be a simple ye...