The Eating Disorder Therapist

You might not wish to explore your past in therapy, rather seeking tools and strategies to make changes in the present. Here, I talk about the deeper issues that are worth talking about and how to process past traumas to clear the blocks and live authentically today. I hope that you find it helpful.   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website Online courses Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Ea...

In this episode, I share 5 practical ways that you can begin to embody self-love. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating  - a course to help you heal your relationship with food. Online Breaking Free from Bulimia  - a course to help you break fr...

The Netflix Documentary is out today where Victoria Beckham shares about her life, including struggling with an eating disorder. I reflect on Victoria's sharing and explore further, how weight loss can impact mental and physical health.  I hope that you find it helpful.     Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website On...

Your thoughts play an important role in your relationship with food. This episode dives into raising awareness of negative automatic thoughts and how to challenge them. This is particularly relevant if you are struggling with binge eating, emotional eating, out-of-control eating and/or chewing/spitting. I hope that you find it helpful.    Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisorde...

The 9 Top Triggers for Binge Eating Seen Inside the Therapy Room - and how to manage them. Binge eating is not simply scoffing an extra biscuit, with your morning coffee break. Instead, it involves eating fast, an extremely large amount of food (more than you would eat for lunch or dinner). It’s usually in secret and can feel like a dissociative or ‘out of body’ experience. You are fully present a...

Making sense of your eating disorder through psychological formulation If you’re lost in the jungle of your eating disorder, without a map to guide you safely, you probably feel intense confusion and overwhelm. Why can’t I just eat normally? Why the constant obsessions with food? What is wrong with me? You likely feel terribly alone. To begin to unravel the tangled ed vines that have wrapped thems...

In this episode, I explore navigating weight change in recovery and addressing fears around this. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating  - a course to help you heal your relationship with food. Online Breaking Free from Bulimia  - a course to h...

Are you desperate for change but every time you venture to the edge of your comfort zone, panic ensues, and you retreat at speed? The overwhelming fear is so paralysing for you that it feels dangerous and distinctly wrong to venture forward. It’s understandable to be conflicted and ambivalent about change, as an eating disorder is a coping strategy. In this episode, I explore how to heal the deepe...

In this episode, I dive into 3 ways to inspire transformative and glorious change in eating disorder recovery. I hope that you find it helpful.     Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating  - a course to help you heal your relationship with food. Online Breaking Free from Bulimia ...

Change is a complicated and nuanced factor. Ultimately, an eating disorder is a coping strategy, so there will always be some inevitable ambivalence around change. In this episode, I explore 5 factors that help support a client's change. I hope that you find it helpful. Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website Online...

In this episode, I explore how to navigate feeling full. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website ONLINE COURSES - link to all courses  HERE Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating  - a course to help you heal your relationship with food. Online Breaking Free from Bulimia  - a course to...

In this episode, I dive into the psychology of eating disorders. I hope that you find it helpful. Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website ONLINE COURSES - link to all courses  HERE Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating  - a course to help you heal your relationship with food. Online Breaking Free from Bulimia  - a cou...

In this episode, I explore how food can become your best friend and primary turn-to, when you have an eating disorder. I consider how this can be a substitute for healthy relationships with other humans and how to begin to foster more positive connections with others. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about m...

Food rules can be sneaky and subtle. You may consider that you don't have any! If you are struggling with food noise and angst around eating, then food rules will be likely in the background. In this episode, I explore some of these more subtle and lingering rules. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my w...

In eating disorder recovery, you’ll be searching for the latest mindset hack or magic technique to miraculously propel you out of food obsession and into the land of peaceful eating. You’re absorbing YouTube recovery content like it’s a full-time job and following the progress of inspiring recovery warriors on socials. You might watch ‘What I Eat in a Day Content’ on repeat, in a search of the per...

In this episode, I talk about anecdotal experience of the skinny jab and eating disorders. Clients are at high risk of being drawn into using these meds. It's something we need to talk about more with compassion and understanding.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website ONLINE COURSES - link to all courses  HERE O...

In this episode, I explore the need to feel extraordinary in some way, when you have an eating disorder and how this is often a coping mechanism for not feeling good enough. I explore the roots of the issue and how to feel good enough. I hope that you find it helpful. Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website ONLINE C...

If eating disorder recovery was just an easy-peasy walk in the woods, picking bluebells and skipping along beautifully curated paths, then you probably wouldn’t be listening to this. Although recovery can lead to some spectacular destinations and a whole bucket of inner peace, the initial routes are often bumpy and tangled with weeds and rocks blocking the way. It can feel frankly quite terrifying...

In this episode, I explore different factors that influence body image development from insights inside the therapy room. I hope that you find it helpful.     Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website ONLINE COURSES - link to all courses  HERE Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating  - a course to help you heal your relat...

In this episode, I explore 9 signs of disordered eating and consider what 'normal' eating might look like. I hope that you find it helpful.     Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my  Website ONLINE COURSES - link to all courses HERE Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating  - a course to help you heal your relationship with foo...

In this episode, I explore being photographed and dealing with body image distress. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   To find out more about my work:- Go to my Website ONLINE COURSES Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating - a course to help you heal your relationship with food. Online Breaking Free from Bulimia - a course to hel...

'Feeling fat' is often nothing much to do with your body, but a displacement of deeper feelings. I explore more about this in the episode. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html Online Break...

In this episode, I explore the MANTRA flower as an eating disorder recovery tool. I hope that you find it helpful.     Harriet's Substack about the MANTRA flower: https://theeatingdisordertherapist.substack.com/p/a-valuable-tool-in-eating- disorder     Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html Onlin...

In this episode, I explore some of the deeper issues beneath an eating disorder, including the impact of our early relationships, life experiences and how we internalise these. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist....

In this episode, I explore critical experiences in the development of body image. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet's Substack:  https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html Online Breaking Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisorderthera...