This week on Wellbeing is the last in our 13-part series on anorexia and focusses on anorexia recovery with internationally renowned anorexia recovery expert and author Carolyn Costin. Having gone through her own anorexia journey, Carolyn became a psychotherapist in 1979. She is considered a pioneer in the field. In 1996, she founded the first licensed eating disorder treatment centre in a residential home setting. Her recovery program is unique as it involves the staff and clients shopping, eating, and cooking together, attempting to evoke skills for long-term recovery from anorexia. More recently, Carolyn opened The Carolyn Costin Institute in 2017 which offers training for clinicians in the eating disorders field.

In this episode Carolyn talks about when people should seek help with anorexia, why people may find it difficult to ask for help, the history of the anorexia recovery sector, the recovery process step by step, how the psychological underpinnings of anorexia are taken into account in the recovery process, the importance of self-exploration in anorexia recovery, the affordability of recovery services, and how recovery can differ from person to person.

“You have to dissociate the concept that food equals weight gain because if they have that in their mind forever, as soon as they can stop doing it (balanced eating), they’ll stop doing it.” - Carolyn Costin on this episode of Wellbeing 

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