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In our lesson today, we take a look at four questions to help you rethink fear around body judgments and make peace with your body.

These four questions are designed by author and psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson, and he has found them to benefit people greatly in a clinical setting.

Take a listen to find out how these questions can help you find peace with your body as it changes in the recovery process.
 

SHOW NOTES -  4 Questions That Will Help You Make Peace With Your Body 

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Today's Fear Less is about exploring how to work with intense emotions around food and body in recovery.

You CAN develop the ability to turn towards these intense and uncomfortable feelings, instead of running back to eating disorder behaviors.
 
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SHOW NOTES - How to manage INTENSE emotions around food & body

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Today, Jessica & Andrea discuss the power of perspective and how it can help you in recovery.

“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”
-Kurt Vonnegut

Trigger warning: Suicide & involuntary hospitalization discussed from 3:46 to 10:15

Lesson starts at 12:05

SHOW NOTES - How PERSPECTIVE can help you overcome food & body fears in recovery


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Controlling your food can be a way to reduce anxiety and feel a sense of power. It can also be a prison. 

In our lesson today, Jessica Flint & Andrea Wells explore the role control plays in the recovery process, and how to move past it to find freedom with food.

SHOW NOTES - Overcoming Control to Find Food Freedom

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In our lesson today, we will be exploring two essential skills to work on to better manage fear and anxiety around weight gain in the recovery process.

Fear and anxiety are closely related. Take a listen to hear how these two skills can help move you forward and overcome fears of gaining weight in eating disorder recovery.

SHOW NOTES - Two Important Skills For Managing Weight Gain Fears in Recovery

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How many times has fear taken over your better judgement in recovery?

Take a moment and recall a specific event where you reacted out of fear.

Maybe you reacted with an intense display of emotion, or you ran to destructive eating disorder behaviors to numb out

In this episode of Fear Less, we explored the difference between reacting vs. responding when facing fears in recovery. 

Listen in to discover how knowing the difference can help you face overwhelming fear and emotions, and hear a powerful analogy that can help you along the way.

SHOW NOTES -  Reacting vs. Responding to Fear in Eating Disorder Recovery 

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Do you feel like you're in a never-ending cycle of diets, weight loss programs, and disordered eating?

Like many, you may have explored the world of wellness culture as a reprieve. But it may surprise you to learn that "wellness" can actually harm your relationship to food and body. Take a listen to find out why. 

In this finale episode of Equipped to Recover, we dive deep into the hidden dangers of wellness culture. We speak with Dori Steinberg and Laura Cohen, two experts who turned their backs on successful careers in the wellness industry after realizing the truth about "wellness."

Get ready to challenge your beliefs around wellness, unlearn harmful habits, and embrace a new perspective on true health and well-being.

 
Topics Covered in this Episode:

SHOW NOTES - How Wellness Culture is More Harmful Than You Think 

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Timestamped Summary of Episode:

[00:02:29] Dietitian turned anti-diet practitioner helps families.

[00:05:44] Successful researcher professor faces internal struggle, seeks help for eating disorder.

[00:12:59] Vivid memory of life-changing book experience.

[00:17:02] Wellness and diet culture are ambiguous.

[00:21:06] Compassionate editor helps clients with disordered eating.

[00:24:00] Weight loss success rates are extremely low. The connection between weight and health is complicated, and weight stigma may be more detrimental to health than weight itself.

[00:27:59] Sharing impactful journey, dispelling weight loss myths.

[00:30:03] Laura and Dori's stories inspire cultural change.

Are you tired of fear holding you back in recovery?

In the second installment of Fear Less, hosts Jessica Flint and Andrea Wells continue their discussion on fear and overcoming obstacles in the recovery process. They reflect on a parable shared in the previous episode (listen here to get caught up) and its practical application in dealing with fear.

Then, Jessica explores the 4 core fears that people with eating disorders commonly face, and how understanding these fears can aid in recovery.

Listen in for more inspiration to choose courage over fear, and find freedom from food and body struggles.

SHOW NOTES - 4 Core Fears We All Have in Common

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Welcome to the first episode of Fear Less, an audio series designed to help you take action toward letting go of your eating disorder.

Like every human being ever to walk this planet, we are not immune to fear. It is biologically programmed into our brains. At the same time, we can commit to not letting fear control our destiny. 

Every time we choose courage over fear we grow stronger and receive what we desire most in regards to our health, love, wealth, and impact in the world. 

As you listen, think of a fear that's holding you back from making progress in recovery, and join hosts Jessica Flint and Andrea Wells as they start off the Fear Less adventure. 

You can learn how to alchemize Fear into Courage. 💪

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Are you tired of feeling trapped in the cycle of negative body image and struggling with societal beauty ideals? Today's guests are body image experts sharing invaluable insights to help you along your healing journey.

Meet Ally Duvall and Cara Bohon, two people who are working together to help others heal their body image and live a life of freedom in eating disorder recovery.

Ally is the Body Image Program Manager and the Senior Program Development Lead at Equip Health. She’s a recovery advocate and fat activist who uses her lived experience with eating disorder recovery in a larger body to help others on their healing journey.

Cara is a clinical psychologist and researcher who has dedicated both her academic and professional careers to helping people with eating disorders. She’s currently the Vice President of Clinical Programs at Equip, and she helped develop the Body Image Program that Ally now manages.

In today's episode of Equipped to Recover, Ally & Cara shed light on the journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and dismantling societal beauty standards to heal body image.

SHOW NOTES -  Healing Body Image and Challenging Beauty Ideals: Advice From Body Image Experts 

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Timestamped Overview:

[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:04:26] Ally shares her long struggle with undiagnosed eating disorder.

[00:08:21] Cara shares how curiosity as a teen sparked an academic career studying eating disorders.

[00:15:43] Overcoming body images struggles through cognitive dissonance, body positivity.

[00:19:17] Importance of parents in Equip's body image program.

[00:22:11] Finding positivity in self-image, overcoming negativity.

[00:27:23] Transformative body image program challenges negative self-talk.

[00:31:59] Body Positivity vs. Body Neutrality

[00:36:03] Neutralizing the power of the word "fat".

[00:41:15] Supportive communities offer freedom from negative thoughts.