In this podcast Tabitha Farrar explains why she believes that neural rewiring is a crucial and often not understood aspect of achieving full recovery from a long-term restrictive eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder. Hello there, welcome to this week’s podcast. This week it’s just me, I’m going to chat […]

In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks about emotional eating, and why it isn’t really a thing   Transcript with thanks to Marie: Hello welcome to this week’s podcast. This week I’m going to talk about emotional eating. But first of all, I’m going to apologise in advance for the cats. I only actually have 2 […]

The odds were stacked against me. I grew up in a small town and had no clue what an eating disorder was. I had never heard anyone talk about it and there was no one that looked emaciated like me.  I had never heard the word ‘anorexia’.   Looking back on it now, I realize my […]

In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr Adele LaFrance about Emotion Focused Family Therapy in eating disorder treatment. Hello there welcome to this weeks podcast. This week I am delighted to have a conversation with Doctor Adele LaFrance who is a psychologist and she’s based in Denver. She is also the co-founder of something […]

Full recovery is so so so much more than gaining weight. There are cascading and wonderful mental state shifts and changes that actually lead to the mental freedom that recovery is all about. And this mental freedom is why the often overlooked neural rewiring aspect to recovery is so important. If you don’t gain mental […]

Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hunger-artist/201306/not-being-the-thinnest-any-more-how-adjust  When you’re recovering from anorexia, it’s one of the most frightening things in the world to realise that you’re no longer the thinnest person in the room. And for it suddenly to be true not just once, but usually. After years of starving yourself, followed by months of regaining the weight you lost in […]

Transitions are hard, full stop. This is true for most people, and in many different contexts: changing jobs, moving to a new city, big life events like marriage or having kids. When it feels like everything is in upheaval, people often grasp at parts of their life that they have control over—and for those vulnerable […]

In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to Bridget Whitlow about weighing in recovery Bridget Whitlow, MS, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist that provides psychotherapy for adolescent and adult individuals, couples, families, and groups. Bridget has clinical expertise in the treatment of anxiety, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, LGBTQ, and self-criticism. To learn more about her Hello […]

My childhood and teenage years weren’t exactly easy and I know that what I went through over this time significantly contributed to my low self esteem as well as the development of my anorexia. At the time I had no idea why my mum was treating me the way she was but now I know […]

This is post about empowering you to know that if you want to recover, and if you take the actions needed in order to recover, you will. In order to fully recover, regardless of your deal in life, you have to have agency. You have to actively work for recovery rather than take the more […]

Article  from: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/what-does-it-mean-to-recover-from-an-eating-disorder/?utm_content=buffer00bb4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer When I first entered into treatment, I believed that once I put on the weight that I had lost and learned how to eat normally, I would be recovered. I didn’t think about the processing that had to happen in order to fully leave the eating disorder in my past. I thought that […]

Facilitating a peer mentorship program requires being mindful of the different experiences, backgrounds, and identities each individual brings to the mentoring relationship. From recruiting and training to matching, there is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes. Hull House Real Recovery and ANAD both understand the commitment it takes to create a […]