Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery

Following earlier episodes on compulsive exercise and the importance of learning to rest and relax in eating disorder recovery, I was asked to make an episode with practical tools to help with resting when you are in recovery and have compulsive exercise. Here it is - a few tools to help you learn to rest and relax in recovery.   You will also find a written version of this on my website. My coach...

In this episode I answer a listener's question about why it is common for people in eating disorder recovery to have thoughts that they are 'recovered' after facing just one big fear or challenge. Find out more about my coaching: www.hellybarnes.com

In eating disorder recovery, it is really important to develop skills in rest and relaxation... because when you have an eating disorder, the ability to rest and to relax will very likely not come naturally to you. Find out more about my coaching: www.hellybarnes.com

In this episode, I go back to some more neuroscience about two different brain regions, one of which controls our 'rational' selves and the other our 'emotional' reactions (the pre-frontal cortex and limbic system).  I then explain the tug of war that is often at play between these brain parts in eating disorder recovery and why understanding this matters. My coaching: www.hellybarnes.com  

Eating disorder recovery can be like a game of whack a mole... deal with one eating disorder restriction or behaviour and while your back is turned, another one has popped up that then needs addressing too! My coaching services: www.hellybarnes.com

So many people face feelings of greed and wrong doing in eating disorder recovery which are so intense that it holds them back from all the food they should be eating and want to eat! In this episode I discuss the concept of greed and whether it is an appropriate emotion in eating disorder recovery. My coaching: www.hellybarnes.com

For many people with an eating disorder, compulsive exercise and movement is a huge part and rarely adequately addressed in treatment. Unless people do overcome the compulsive movement in recovery, they won't recover. This episode explains what compulsive movement entails and why it needs to be spoken about. My coaching: www.hellybarnes.com

Rewiring the brain is an essential part of the eating disorder recovery process, so that you can 'wire in' recovery positive actions, thoughts and behaviours and 'wire out' the old disordered pathways. In this episode, I discuss the basics of what neuroplasticity (or rewiring) actually is.  In future episodes I will go into more details. My coaching: www.hellybarnes.com

Like treatment for any medical condition, treatment for eating disorder recovery does come with a lot of side effects, many of which are not particularly fun and can even be very challenging in themselves. In this episode I talk about some of the side effects to recovery that I experienced. My coaching website: www.hellybarnes.com

Eating disorders can create so many stories about why recovery is not possible right now.  They use blame of others, obstacles in your life and any other reason for why you need to delay. But in order to recover, you need to take charge and do recovery despite all these stories about why it's not a good time now, because the perfect time won't ever come... My coaching: www.hellybarnes.com

Eating disorders can make a person rigid, routine driven, perfectionistic and sorry, but I know because I have been there, they make a person a bit boring! In recovery, it can really help to find the fun in recovery and perhaps it is time to find your wild and free side to help along the recovery process. My coaching website: www.hellybarnes.com

In eating disorder recovery, it is important to rewire your brain in a positive, self directed, recovery focused direction. Understanding some of the neuroscience behind how rewiring happens on a brain based level can help when you are in recovery to ensure a more effective and faster rewiring process.  Therefore, this is what I talk about in this episode. More about my coaching: www.hellybarnes.c...

Many people in eating disorder recovery can be doing well, making changes, eating more, breaking habits but instead of recognising their progress, remain down with themselves because they are still restricting or engaging in behaviours and so say they have 'failed' at recovery. This episode is to say that recovery is a process and even if it is not perfect from day one does not mean you have faile...

A common thought pattern for people with eating disorders which can keep someone in the illness or lead to a slide back in recovery, is the 'I didn't eat that much yesterday, so I don't need to today' thinking. In this episode I talk about this common issue in recovery and that one way to overcome it is to keep aiming to make sure each day in recovery is your best yet. Find out more about my coach...

In eating disorder recovery, many people experience high levels of hunger, something commonly referred to as 'extreme hunger'. In this episode, I talk about the fact that 'feast follows famine' when it comes to any period of restriction and never more so than when recovering from an eating disorder.  Listening to the urge to feast eat and going with it is a key part of recovery! Find out more abou...

Eating disorder recovery is long, hard work and exhausting at times and it can be all too tempting to give up when you feel like you are struggling just to tread water. This episode is a little cheerleading episode for anyone in recovery who needs it.  Don't give up, keep going, you can do it, it will be worth it!! Find out more about my coaching: www.hellybarnes.com

This first episode of the Feck It, Fun, Fabulous and Free Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast introduces the podcast series. Within this episode, I explain the title of the series, as well as provide information about me (Helly), your host, in terms of my back story when it comes to eating disorders, recovery and working as an eating disorder recovery coach now. Find out more about my coaching servic...