Fly To Freedom: The anorexia recovery podcast

In this episode of Fly to Freedom , I’m joined by Beverley Atkins , a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and founder of Pauseture , a somatic movement platform helping people reconnect with their bodies through gentle, guided movement. This conversation feels especially important for anyone navigating anorexia recovery, eating disorder recovery, compulsive exercise, body mistrust, or nervous...

Groundhog Day Recovery: Why You Keep Ending Up Back Where You Started How many times have you told yourself that tomorrow will be different ? Tomorrow you’ll eat properly. Tomorrow you’ll stop compensating. Tomorrow you’ll stop negotiating with the eating disorder. Tomorrow you’ll finally do recovery “right.” And yet somehow… you end up back in the same place. The same thoughts. The same rules. Th...

Recovery can feel deeply uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and at times utterly terrifying. But what if that discomfort is not proof that you are doing recovery wrong… but evidence that your brain and nervous system are learning something new? In this Q&A episode of Fly to Freedom , I answer real questions from members inside The Eating Disorder Recovery Circle about some of the hardest and most hone...

In this episode of Fly to Freedom, I’m joined by Charlie for a really honest and important conversation about healing our relationship with exercise, stepping away from diet culture, and learning how to reconnect with ourselves in midlife and eating disorder recovery. Charlie is a body positive fitness coach and menopause specialist, and from the moment I met her at my gym, I knew there was someth...

Eating Disorder Recovery Q&A: Body Image, Exercise Addiction, Night Hunger, Shame, and Control In this episode of Fly to Freedom , I’m answering real, unfiltered questions from people navigating eating disorder recovery. These aren’t polished situations or neatly packaged problems. They are the honest, often overwhelming experiences that come up when you are in the middle of recovery—when thou...

In this episode of Fly To Freedom , I’m joined by Laura—one of my former clients and a member of The Eating Disorder Recovery Circle. She’s also a doctor working in emergency medicine, and her story highlights something I see time and time again: Eating disorders do not discriminate. You can be intelligent, successful, capable, and still feel completely trapped in the patterns of an eating disorde...

What This Episode Covers In this episode of Fly to Freedom , I’m answering real questions from members inside the Eating Disorder Recovery Circle . These are the questions people are living with right now in eating disorder recovery — the ones that don’t always get said out loud, but are felt deeply by so many. We talk about guilt after eating, fear of weight gain, extreme hunger, habits that feel...

What happens when recovery advice sounds beautiful… but doesn’t actually work for your body? In this episode of Fly To Freedom , I’m joined by Rachael Stern — a clinician with both professional expertise and lived experience of an eating disorder — to explore something that so many people quietly struggle with: Recovery is not the same for every body. Sometimes the body doesn’t feel neutral. Somet...

This Is Why Recovery Feels So Hard Recovery can feel exhausting. You’re eating more. You’re trying. You’re pushing through fear. And still your heart races at the table. Still your body feels flooded. Still your mind questions whether you’re doing it “right”. In this episode of Fly to Freedom , I talk openly about why eating disorder recovery and anorexia recovery can feel overwhelming — even when...

Welcome to this month’s Q&A episode of Fly To Freedom . These questions come directly from members inside the Eating Disorder Recovery Circle. They are real, honest reflections from people in the middle of recovery — people who are brave enough to say the quiet things out loud. In this episode, we explore: • Fear of fullness and the panic that can follow eating • The “I feel fat” sensation and...

In this episode of Fly to Freedom , I’m joined by writer, speaker, and podcast host Brianne Roberge for a deeply honest conversation about self-worth, trauma, and the belief that love has to be earned. We talk about what happens when you grow up learning to perform for approval, to change yourself to be acceptable, and to control your body in the hope that it will finally make you feel worthy. Bri...

Welcome to the January Q&A episode of Fly to Freedom . This monthly Q&A comes directly from inside The Eating Disorder Recovery Circle and features real questions from real people navigating the complex, emotional, and deeply human process of eating disorder recovery. In this episode, Julia answers questions around nervous system regulation, identity, extreme hunger, perfectionism, control...

Bulimia can feel confusing, shame-filled, and deeply misunderstood — especially when the binge–purge cycle starts to feel automatic, secretive, or bigger than willpower. In this episode of Fly To Freedom , I’m joined by Dr Rachel Evans (psychologist, hypnotherapist, and host of the Just Eat Normally podcast). Rachel brings both lived experience and specialist knowledge of bulimia, and she helps me...

This was a tough episode to record, but I've felt that it needed to be recorded for some time. I'd like your comments! Please tell me if you agree with what I'm saying, if you disagree, how are you affected...... anything! This needs to be talked about. Why? Because weight loss injections are everywhere at the moment. It's not the medication itself that matters most to me — it’s the message travel...

After nearly 150 episodes of Fly to Freedom , I’ve been reflecting on the conversations that have genuinely shifted people forward in eating disorder recovery — and this one comes up again and again. This is a re-release of my December 2024 chat with Chris Sandel (Real Health Radio), and it’s one of the most listened-to episodes for a reason. Chris and I talk about full recovery from an eating dis...

Welcome to Fly to Freedom , and a gentle Happy New Year . This first episode of 2026 explores perfectionism in eating disorder recovery through a nervous system lens, focusing on the constant pressure to be doing things right. This episode may resonate if recovery feels structured, controlled, or driven by self-pressure, even when motivation and care are present. This episode speaks to the quiet,...

Welcome to this episode of Fly To Freedom — a Q and A session filled with real, honest questions from inside The Eating Disorder Recovery Circle . If recovery has felt confusing, scary, messy, or strangely “too much”… this episode will help you feel understood, and steady again. We talk about the moment recovery starts to feel terrifying rather than freeing — when the eating disorder has been a fa...

Christmas can be a beautiful time of year — and it can also feel incredibly overwhelming. There’s often pressure to keep going, keep smiling, keep showing up, even when your body and mind are quietly asking for rest. For anyone navigating eating disorder recovery, this season can amplify anxiety, exhaustion, and emotional overload. This Christmas meditation is an invitation to pause. In this episo...

In this heartfelt episode of  Fly to Freedom , I have the privilege of speaking with Di Archer, the CEO and co-founder of tastelife UK. Di shares her personal journey into the world of eating disorders, detailing how her family's experience led to the creation of tastelife UK—a charity dedicated to providing support, education, and recovery tools for those affected by eating disorders. We delv...

In this episode of Fly to Freedom , I sit down with the wonderful George Mycock , a lived experience PhD researcher at the University of Worcester whose work is reshaping how we understand eating disorders in men. George specialises in men’s access to healthcare for eating, exercise, and body image psychopathology , bringing both academic expertise and deeply personal experience to this conversati...

The festive season is meant to feel joyful, but what if instead it feels like you’re behind frosted glass? You can see the lights, hear the laughter, even play the part — but inside you feel numb, separate and alone. In this episode of Fly to Freedom , I talk about the hidden loneliness and emotional disconnection that can show up during Christmas and how eating disorder recovery can amplify these...

n this episode of Fly to Freedom , I’m back with Victoria for another honest Q&A on the realities of eating disorder and anorexia recovery – from parenting a toddler in the city to grieving a soul dog, coping with extreme hunger, and facing fear foods. We explore: Walking vs compensation when you’re a mum Can you still walk everywhere with a toddler when you’ve quit compulsive running? We talk...

Hello lovely, and welcome back to Fly to Freedom . In this episode, I’m opening up about one of the hardest, most confusing, and least-talked-about parts of eating disorder recovery: oedema (fluid retention). For 18 months, I experienced painful swelling in my legs, belly, hands, and face – and not a single professional warned me it could happen. It was frightening, uncomfortable, and made me feel...

Q&A from The Eating Disorder Recovery Circle: Exercise Compulsion, Setbacks, Safe Foods and Coping with Diet Culture This episode of Fly To Freedom is something very special — a real glimpse into the kinds of questions asked inside The Eating Disorder Recovery Circle , my private membership community. These are raw, honest questions from women right in the heart of recovery — navigating fear,...

In this episode of Fly To Freedom , I unpack the fear of weight gain through a compassionate, practical lens. We explore how survival wiring, nervous-system activation and confirmation bias make fear feel indisputable—especially during anorexia recovery and eating disorder recovery. You’ll learn why the brain translates messy, vulnerable emotions (rejection, shame, grief, visibility, intimacy) int...