recovered-ish with chloe cox

Episode Description If you've ever thought "I can't do this anymore" or "I just want my life to stop being about recovery" — this episode is for you. In this episode I'm breaking down the difference between recovery burnout and actually outgrowing your eating disorder, because they can feel almost identical from the inside — and they require completely different...

Episode Description You sent in your questions and I'm answering them — honestly, not clinically. This is the real-life picture, not the textbook one. In this episode I'm getting into some of the most common and most loaded questions I receive from people in eating disorder recovery — from whether to look at the scale in treatment, to what to say when someone comments on your weight, to...

Episode Description It feels strange to say, but it's true: my eating disorder taught me things that have actually added to my life. Not the behaviors. Not the rules. But real, paradoxical lessons that I've carried with me into recovery and into the rest of my life. In this episode I'm sharing a casual list of the unexpected things I learned through my eating disorder — about my bod...

Episode Description I used to think pregnancy would give me a break from my eating disorder. That the permission to gain weight, to nourish my baby, would make it all feel easy. That's not quite how it went. In this episode I'm getting honest about what body changes in pregnancy actually feel like when you have an eating disorder history — the first trimester appetite chaos, the body dys...

Episode Description Travel is one of the hardest things you can do in eating disorder recovery. New foods, broken routines, different meal times, swimsuits, pictures — it's a lot. And nobody really talks about how to actually get through it. In this episode I'm sharing my honest survival guide for traveling in ED recovery — from what it looked like when I was deep in my disorder on a fam...

One of the biggest blocks in fully recovering from an eating disorder isn't the food. It's identity. In this episode I'm getting into something I've been circling around for a while but never done a full deep dive into — the way an eating disorder becomes a mask, a persona, a way of being seen in the world. And why letting go of it can feel terrifying even when you desperately...

Episode Description Short answer: yes. Long answer: it's complicated, it takes time, and it definitely doesn't happen the way most people think it does. In this episode I'm getting into my own journey from restriction, to meal plan, to eventually finding something that actually feels like food freedom — and what every stage of that actually looked like. Including the messy middle, t...

You asked, I answered. I get so many DMs and comments with really good recovery questions that deserve more than a quick reply — so this week I'm doing a rapid fire Q&A covering some of the most common and most important ones I've received. We're getting into comparison, quasi-recovery, fear of weight gain, social eating, family dynamics, book recommendations, and more. This one...

Back by popular demand — we're back in the journals. In this episode I'm reading more entries from my eating disorder treatment diaries. These are unfiltered, verbatim entries from residential, PHP, and IOP — the rawest, most honest documentation of what recovery actually looked like from the inside. This one goes to some dark places. There are entries about missing the disorder, about f...

Episode Description Last week's episode sparked a lot of conversation online. I posted a clip about eating disorder recovery in the ozempic era and the comments absolutely exploded — and it got me thinking about something I've been wanting to talk about for a while. The thoughts I had in my eating disorder that I'm not proud of. The ones that would probably get me canceled if I post...

One of the most common questions I get — from clients, from my own lived experience, from people who have spent years wondering — is this: why me? Why did I get an eating disorder when the people around me didn't? In this episode I'm getting into the real answer. Not the oversimplified version. The actual, nuanced, deeply personal answer — using my own story, my clinical experience, and...

Episode Description First things first — I have some news. Big news. News that explains a lot of the cryptic, tired, off-kilter energy you've been picking up on these last few weeks. I'm pregnant. Baby number two is on the way and she is a girl. But after that announcement, we're getting into something I've been genuinely fired up about — because right now, in 2026, I believe t...

Honest confession: my body image has been pretty rough lately. And yes, I know — I'm a recovered eating disorder therapist who just last week talked about how quiet my ED voice has gotten. So what gives? In this episode I'm getting real about what bad body image actually looks like for me now, 11 years into recovery. How it's different from the eating disorder voice. What body dysmo...

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...