Want to be the one who eats in a restaurant without obsessing over the menu; who can truly notice the people and the events happening around you; and whose routine isn’t driven entirely by a food and movement schedule?

Sarah and Debbie use this episode to remind you of the importance of maintaining recovery momentum, in order to get a life which features the spontaneity, joy and freedom you crave.

Sure, you can stay in quasi and keep ‘functioning’ your way through life’s various activities and encounters, but is this really what you want?

We explore what’s really required of true commitment, and share some of our experiences of facing up to that anguish as you embrace true recovery.

Get in touch with your thoughts on this episode – email [email protected]

Overcoming an eating disorder is more than just learning to eat more, and learning to maintain a new health routine in your everyday existence.

Our identity in recovery is key, and for many of us, clothes, hair and beauty are at the very centre of this.

Sarah and Debbie explore this topic in our latest episode.

Listen out for a forthcoming event opportunity, and be sure to make contact with us if what we discuss resonates with you [email protected]

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Released to coincide with the start of Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2022, this podcast episode sees Debbie chatting to therapist Sarah Parker.

Sarah experienced an eating disorder for 15 years, and now works as a therapist, guiding many people to their full and deserved recovery.

Debbie and Sarah explore issues around brain starvation, ‘freezing time’, family bonds, curiosity about the future self, and what we can all learn from the Minnesota Starvation study.

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This ‘in conversation with’ episode features Debbie and Sarah chatting to Pippa, who endured a tough journey with an eating disorder, incorporating several in-patient stays and some desperately dark times of despair.

Thanks to the love of a great family, some superb treatment and care, and a relentless commitment to recovery, she’s now living a joyful life which sees her on the path to achieving her heart’s greatest desires.

Take the time to listen and to remind yourself that, as Pippa reiterates, ‘recovery is possible’, and plenty of people want to help you win that fight for your life.

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Are you micro-managing your eating disorder recovery so stringently you’re still stuck in a fruitless middle ground where the life you want remains out of reach?

Hmm. Ask yourself again – ‘how well is this rule slavery really working out for me’?

Sarah and Debbie tackle the topic of how we fall into creating rules for our intended recovery journey, and how sustainable freedom from our eating disorder can only be achieved by letting go of regimes and accepting that, particularly in a state of brain starvation, we’re ill equipped to even know what’s right for us and our future self.

As Sarah and Debbie reflect, rules of some nature can be helpful when seen with flexibility and agility, but can equally become so counterintuitive and prevent the desired outcome.

Recovery is so unique, but all recovery needs one rule alone – I will remain committed and an active participant in achieving full health.

Stay in touch by sending us a message and checking us out on the usual social channels.

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How many invitations have you turned down in the last week, month, year or lifetime of living with an eating disorder?

Are you prone to ‘life restriction’ in an effort to maintain the illness and its unhealthy grasp on your mind?

Eating disorders are all too successful at sabotaging our social and personal world.

Sarah and Debbie discuss how isolation occurs, how to challenge your discomfort with being among others, and how to support those you love in returning to socialisation.

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Eating disorders can cause even the kindest, sweetest, placid person, to be transformed into an unrecognisable being – someone who is suffering such nutritional famine and brain starvation, that their emotions manifest in the very behaviours and persona which they’d despise in others and certainly dread to acknowledge as their own true self.

Sarah and Debbie use this episode to talk about those competing personalities during an eating disorder battle, and offer tips for facing up to those less pleasant traits in a bid to remain wholly recovery-focused.

We’ll also discuss one of the key questions vital to ask oneself when seeking to move forward from recovery procrastination and ambivalence… “is that really true?”.

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Don’t you just love a bit of alliteration for the title of a podcast episode? This time, Sarah and Debbie travel through a variety of topics, capturing some of the challenges and the joys involved in eating disorder recovery.

Ambivalence remains such a huge issue for so many who desire to get well from their illness, but there is a way out of that paralysis – with plenty of repetition and determination.

We also explore the necessary tweaks and tailoring which may need to happen in a household to help truly support the recovery of someone you love…even if that means you giving up the Diet Coke purchase and committing to having a family breakfast on the daily schedule.

Finally, our hosts applaud some great recovery successes happening right now within our community, and, as ever, we urge you to get in touch to share your insights and tales of triumph.

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No matter whether it’s first of the month, the year, a minute beyond Midnight or the start of the working week.

You can turn over a new leaf in recovery anytime of any year, and this episode is all about encouraging you to ignore the ‘New Year New You’ diet and exercise regime rhetoric, and instead truly go firm and fastidious on being your best friend and persistent recovery coach.

Why let another 12 month period end in disappointment?

Why get caught up in the office dialogue around quick-fix diets and food bans? Why drag yourself into the exercise obsessive chat or calorie counting nonsense, when, right now, as things stand, you know that ‘noise’ will serve you no good?

Sarah and Debbie use this episode to talk about putting 2022 to good use for dedicated recovery, and offer tactical advice for sticking to your purposeful journey toward a full well lived life.

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Presents unwrapped, tree looking pretty sorry for itself, and guests departed back to their own homes?

It’s that peculiar ‘in between bit’ of the festive season and no time is more important for ensuring you stay on track with recovery momentum.

Eating one Christmas dinner and three Quality Streets does not recovery make.

Sarah and Debbie discuss the importance of repeating healthy recovery behaviours and challenging uncomfortable thoughts.

Parents and carers are at the same time reminded of their vital role in early intervention and not giving up on getting appropriate help.

If you’d like to share a ‘festive triumph’ story, do get in touch.

Find out more about Wednesday's Child at https://wednesdayschild.co.uk/