In this episode we cover:
1. Who is Megan, what are her interests, what will we chat about today, and our quotes of the day.
2. How old was Megan and where was she in life when her journey with disordered eating began?
3. What losing control feels like and how it triggered the beginning of her struggles with food.
4. Obsessively working out, calorie counting, repeated check-ins on the weight scale, the size of skinny.
5. What did a day of binging look and feel like during and after? Cheat days, sickness, starvation, and compensation.
6. Physiological health and mental health issues that arose from binging and purging.
7. What did family intervention look like? Ultimatums, therapists, nutritionists, meditation, mindfulness, etc.
8. What college and her social life looked like as a result of this. Social anxiety, diminishing self esteem, and loneliness triggers.
9. A second round of interventions and how it looked different than the first.
10. Returning back to "normal" eating instead of starvation mode and what that looked like.
11, An integrative doctor's approach to treating her, what it felt like to be heard/understood and finding a therapist she actually loved.
12. What did treatment look like and how has it changed over the years? What other types of health issues did you discover you had as a result of your eating disorder?
13. How making the decision to change really does come from within.
14. Date around before choosing a therapist to work with. It's not a one size fits all approach.
15. Is disordered eating life long? Do you consider yourself healed? How do you manage whatever it looks like now and what does a "bad day" look like now?
16. Stress / anxiety management techniques, mindset, toxic people, etc.
17. What would you tell someone right now who is experiencing something similar to what you went through?
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