Welcome back! This week Elyse Lawry and I get a little personal as we share the biggest mistakes we made in our recovery journeys. 

We go over the mistakes we made with regard to stress management, mindset, body image, exercise, and diet, and how you can avoid making the same ones during your own HA recovery.

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

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Today on the show I’m joined by dietitian, nutritionist, and Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician Georgia Hexter. She provides a compassion filled, non-judgmental space for clients to explore challenges with food, eating and body image, and is committed to collaborating with her clients to help them meet their goals. 

Georgia follows a non-diet, Health at Every Size approach, and assists clients to listen to and respect their body’s hunger and fullness signals to foster calm, mindful and intuitive eating experiences. Outside of work, Georgia enjoys spending time with loved ones, her greyhound Poppy, and creating recipes. She also loves watching reality TV (Kardashians and Real Housewives), and is continuing to practice downtime/non-productive, enjoyable activities. 

In this podcast episode Georgia and I discuss the connection between ADHD and eating disorders including:

• What is ADHD and what are the signs/symptoms people can look out for?
• How ADHD affects eating behaviours?
• If there certain eating disorders which are more commonly linked with ADHD or whether can they occur across all eating disorders and disordered eating subtypes?
• What nutrition and treatment considerations need to be made when a person has both ADHD and an eating disorder/disordered eating? 
• What are some common struggles that individuals with ADHD face when trying to heal from an eating disorder? 
• And lastly she shares some insight on treatment options and strategies for improving eating behaviours with ADHD

You can connect with Georgia through her social media and website below:

Instagram: @oftengood and @thewholebeingco

Website: oftengood.com

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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Jennifer Edmonds knows first hand the journey to motherhood isn't always linear. After marrying the love of her life, Jennifer decided to stop hormonal contraception as she and her partner were ready to start a family.

But her period never returned. She was told by doctors to wait it out and give it a few more months, but her missing period did not come back.

Jennifer saw countless specialists who gave little insight into why her periods were MIA, so at age 35 she decided to go down the route of IVF to try to conceive her first baby.

This episode follows Jennifer's journey to motherhood through the ups and downs of IVF, the impact of lifestyle factors on fertility (something she wish she knew earlier), her experience with miscarriage, the turning point when she found fertility yoga, and the miracle of pregnancy after loss.

You can connect with Jennifer through her social media and website below:

Instagram: @jen.elementpilatesyoga

Tiktok: @elementpilatesyoga

Website: www.elementpilatesyoga.com

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

During recovery, weight restoration or weight gain is an inevitable byproduct of working towards food freedom, and a regular menstrual cycle.

However, the fear of weight gain is usually one of the biggest obstacles that hold many of our clients back from fully embracing the process of change. 

The fear of weight gain usually encompasses worries of not knowing how much weight they might need to gain, what will their body look like, or what will other people think.

All of the above fears are completely valid and are a shared experience during recovery for all of us. But in addition to gaining weight, many of us also frequently discover that doing so brings about a host of other advantages and freedoms that improve our quality of life.

So, you’ve gained weight… but what else have you also gained in the process? 

Today Elyse and I touch on 8 core benefits that come alongside weight gain. We hope that this episode will encourage you to view your recovery through a lens wider than simply putting on weight. It may even inspire you to get out of your own way and embrace everything that comes with healing your relationship with food, exercise and your body.

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

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The need for control is a double edged sword. On the one hand, the more we know about the world, the safer we feel. Conversely, the less we know the more uneasy and scared we feel. Thus the need for control is deeply rooted in fear and those exact fears will be different for everyone.

Today I’m going to discuss:

• Why eating disorders perpetuate a need for control
• How attempts to exert control often negatively impact our lives
• Understanding the different facets of control and how these show up in eating disorders
• What can be gained by letting go of control
• How to start letting go of control so you can recover and reclaim your life

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

Today on the podcast I'm overjoyed to share Gem Woods' real recovery story with you.

Gem’s recovery story has taken 10 years to write its self. And a 10 Year journey to find herself. After years of restrictive and bingeing behaviour, her periods stopped when Gem added a new love of intense exercising, with the addition of practicing bikram yoga, alongside a new vegan and gluten free diet. Gem had lost some weight, but she looked well and ate really healthy. Her doctor did her bloods and found she had Hypothyroidism.

For a few years this was the excusable reason her missing periods. It took another 7 years of investigating, seeing specialist, trying everything from acupuncture, Bowen therapy to reiki, to extensive research of HA, to then finding Sarah, and her well designed HA recovery course.

In this episode Gem and I discuss:

• Her relationship with food growing up and how this shifted after a moment of shame 
• How she struggled through her teens with bingeing and restricting
• The biggest struggles she faced in her recovery journey and how she overcame them
• Her experience with regaining connections with emotions during her recovery journey
• The joy of being in tune with the natural fluctuations of hormones throughout the menstrual cycle
• The helpful recovery lessons she learned practicing yoga and becoming a Yoga instructor
• The trauma informed yoga classes she’s developing to help those going through their own recovery journey
• Her best advice for those currently going through recovery

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

Today on the podcast I’m joined by Alex Rodriguez, an accredited practicing dietitian and eating disorder recovery advocate based in Brisbane, Australia. Combining his own lived experience and passion to pursue a career in the eating disorder field, Alex aims to help and inspire others on their recovery journeys.

In today’s episode Alex and I discuss his own eating disorder recovery journey, the impact of unrealistic body standards on men, the biggest myths that perpetuate unhelpful beliefs about eating disorders, and what it’s like working as a dietitian in the field now he has reached full recovery.

You can follow Alex on Instragram @arod_dietitian

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

We're here with a bit of a contraversial topic today so I'm gonna start this off with a content warning: in this episode we discuss alcohol and its impacts on recovery, as well as ensuring you have a safe and healthy relationship with alcohol. If you find this topic triggering in any way please skip this episode and tune back in next week.

During this podcast Elyse and I discuss:

• Signs you may have a strained relationship with alcohol from disordered eating point of view
• Should you consume alcohol if it's just "empty calories"
• The drunkorexia phenomenon of consuming alcohol in place of calories from food
• Like food restriction, how the restriction of alcohol in the short term may lead to cycles of binge drinking later on
• Is it actually safe to consume alcohol in eating disorder or hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery?
• What does a safe and moderate amount of alcohol look like?
• How both alcohol and malnutrition impact the body and liver function in different ways
• The link between excessive alcohol consumption and missing periods due to stress
• Whether you should challenge any unhelpful beliefs you have around alcohol in recovery
• How alcohol may be another symptom of the "fear of losing control" which is a common concern for those in eating disorder and HA recovery
• Our own personal experiences of our relationship with alcohol before, during and after recovery

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

If you've ever struggled with a rigid or compulsive exercise, it can be hard to imagine a life where your workouts feel fun, and work around your schedule instead of dictating it. Well, the good news is you CAN get there. 

Today's podcast highlights 7 key elements that underpin a healthy relationship with exercise so you know exactly what you need to be working towards when you're going through eating disorder, disordered eating or hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery.

In this episode my co-host Elyse and I discuss:

• Why flexibility with your workout routine in so important and how this looks in real life
• How to let go of exercise you hate and focus on workouts you love
• Ways of identifying if exercise is fitting into your life or ruling your life and dictating your schedule
• Why you should make functionality related goals when it comes to working out
• What a health-at-every-size and non-diet approach to exercise actually looks like 
• How to stop using exercise to earn or burn off the food you've eaten
• What to do if skipping a workout makes you feel guilty, lazy, anxious or stressed
• What "listening to your body" means when it comes to exercise and your workouts
• Plus Elyse and I share our own personal experiences of how we healed our relationships with exercise and now have a fun and flexible approach to our workouts

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❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.

Today I'm joined again by the delightful Isabel Dawkes to discuss all things meal plans: what they are, as well as why, when how we use them to help individuals in recovery from hypothalamic amenorrhea, eating disorders and disordered eating.

In this episode we chat through:

• What is a meal plan?
• How many meals and snacks should be included in your meal plan?
• Common traps people fall into when eating from a meal plan
• How often a meal plan should be updated?
• How long a meal plan should be used for when recovering from an eating disorder, disordered eating or hypothalamic amenorrhea?
• A step-by-step guide on how to transition off a meal plan towards more intuitive eating
• How to rebuild trust and confidence in your body's natural hunger and fullness cues
• Tips to ensure you eat adequately after transitioning off a meal plan
• If it's ever helpful to go back on a meal plan after transitioning off of one

Be sure to follow Isabel on Instagram @isabeldawkes_health

For all details on our support programs and to book a free discovery call, check out the links below:

❤️ Ready to get your period back? Join the next round of Healing Hypothalamic Amenorrhea! This 8-week, hybrid group and 1:1 coaching program is designed to help you recover your period while improving your relationship with food, exercise and your body. Find out details and sign up here: https://sarahlizking.com/healing-ha/

❤️ Take the next steps towards full recovery by checking out our signature coaching program, Recover and Thrive.

❤️ Work with me and my team to improve your relationship with food and exercise by heading to www.sarahlizking.com and filling out the contact form.

❤️ If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5⭐️ review and share a screenshot on Instagram by tagging myself @sarahlizking and I'll be sure to reshare.