Control is an unavoidable theme in the subject of eating disorder recovery. What is your relationship to control and how do you define it? The hosts explore their own experience of the concept and also highlight its important (and at times, healthy) role in navigating recovery. Sarah & Stef discuss:

• Light podcast banter. What podcasts do we listen to?
• The thrill of control/restriction
• Stef feels like control is safety; Sarah feels like control is dominance.
• The role of control in bulimia and/or restriction
• The illusion of control; if we see that it’s an illusion, does it break the spell?
• Is control always at the root of EDs? Not true for Sarah!
• Control as related to sense of self or emotional magnitude
• Control and rebellion. We need to know we have agency & choice.
• Surrender: higher power and the inner compass
• We can’t control what’s hard
• How much control is healthy? How else can we make it productive?

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