Rewired

New Year: If Not Now, When?

Ever found yourself waiting for the “right time” when life is calmer, motivation is higher or everything feels more certain, to start recovery? Be that a new meal plan, a challenge, reaching out to a coach or medical profession, targeting exercise compulsions — this episode is all about this common ED trap, and how that moment rarely (if ever) properly arrives.

We talk about how ambivalence is normal and explore what actually helps you start moving forward: tackling perfectionism, working with (not against!) uncertainty, and understanding that recovery often creates the conditions you’re waiting for, rather than requiring them first.

Topics covered:

* Why the “right time” feels necessary – and how the ED benefits from delaying

* The cost of waiting while life keeps moving

* Ambivalence as a normal part of early recovery

* Perfectionism and the search for “perfect conditions”

* What it really means to start recovery

* Reframing “not ready” and taking those first steps forwards

* The key takeaway – imperfect action builds momentum

Connect with us:

Meg

Instagram: @megsy_recovery

YouTube: Megsy Recovery

TikTok: megsy recovery

Safia

Instagram: @safia_edrecoverycoach

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.safiaed.com

Em (copywriter & editor)

Instagram: @em_schone

DISCLAIMER

Please keep in mind we’re not medical professionals, and the podcast content reflects our own experiences and opinions, as well as that of our guests, so it shouldn’t be taken as medical advice. If you’re struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating, please reach out to a medical professional to discuss your own situation and get professional help with your own unique recovery.

Loneliness is often one of the quietest but most painful parts of an eating disorder. In this episode, we talk honestly about how isolation can show up during an eating disorder and why so many people feel alone, even when they’re not physically by themselves…
We explore how eating disorders shrink your world, sometimes even without you realising, and how recovery can sometimes feel lonelier before it feels better. Drawing on our own experiences of disconnection (and the grief that can come with it), we’ll share what helped us begin rebuilding relationships.
Also, we’ve got an exciting update! Introducing ‘Rewired in Action’, a new community we’ve created for people who want connection, support and shared understanding as they navigate recovery. A place to ask questions, hear from others, and hopefully feel less alone in the process.
Topics covered:

• What loneliness looked like for us during our eating disorders• How eating disorders create isolation

• The emotional cost of disconnection / feeling left behind• Why isolation isn’t a personality flaw or a failure

• Why recovery can feel lonelier at first

• Gentle ways to begin reconnecting without pressure

• Why you don’t have to be fully recovered to reconnect

• Rebuilding identity and meaning outside of the eating disorder

• You’re not alone – and your world can grow again

• Introducing ‘Rewired in Action’ community and how it can support you
If you’re curious or would like to find out more, please get in touch (contacts below)! 
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Connect with us:
MegInstagram: @megsy_recoveryYouTube: Megsy RecoveryTikTok: megsy recovery
SafiaInstagram: @safia_edrecoverycoach

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.safiaed.com
DISCLAIMER Please keep in mind we’re not medical professionals, and the podcast content reflects our own experiences and opinions, as well as that of our guests, so it shouldn’t be taken as medical advice. If you’re struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating, please reach out to a medical professional to discuss your own situation and get professional help with your own unique recovery.

Hope Virgo is a multi-award winning campaigner, speaker and author of three amazing books: ‘Stand Tall Little Girl’, ‘Hope Through Recovery’ and ‘You Are Free (Even If You Don’t Feel Like It)’. In this inspiring episode, she candidly shares her own personal experience of suffering from an eating disorder and offers lots of great practical recovery tips to stay motivated. With her super cute newborn cuddled up on her throughout this is an episode not to be missed.

Topics covered:

• Hope’s experience of pregnancy and motherhood, the overwhelming gratitude for her little one as well as the more challenging messaging around food and body that she received when pregnant. 
• Her concerns regarding calories being put on menus and the prevalence of diet culture in children that she has become aware of from speaking in schools.
• The campaigns she has spearheaded: #DumpTheScales and #ChangeTheStory
• Her beautifully written, raw and relatable memoir: ‘You Are Free (Even If You Don’t Feel Like It)’ in which she includes reflective exercises, insightful interviews and advice from her own experiences.
• Why to fight for full recovery and how to break out of the halfway house, stuck-in-the-mud stage of recovery.
• The role her faith has played in her recovery.
• Advice for how to reach out to others you can be vulnerable with for support and motivation.
• Great ideas for supporting loved ones suffering from an eating disorder on their recovery journey. 

Find Hope here:
Instagram: @hopevirgo_

You can find us on social media:

Tallulah Self (editor and Producer)
Instagram: @tallulahself

Meg:
Instagram: @megsy_recovery
YouTube: Megsy Recovery
TikTok: megsy recovery

Safia:
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @safia_edrecoverycoach
Member of the Beyond Body Coaching team: https://www.beyondbodycoach.com

Please keep in mind we’re not medical professionals, and the podcast content reflects our own experiences and opinions, as well as that of our guests, so it shouldn’t be taken as medical advice. If you’re struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating please reach out to a medical professional to discuss your own situation and get professional help with your own unique recovery.

Is your relationship with movement a problem? In this episode we chat about the role exercise played in Safia’s eating disorder and what she did to gain a positive relationship with it now. Throughout the episode there are some red flags to look out for if you are unsure as to whether your relationship with movement is a healthy one. 

Topics covered:

• How Safia’s relationship with movement has changed from when she had her eating disorder to now she is recovered
• What drives the need to move when you have an eating disorder
• The negative impacts of compulsive exercise 
• Ideas of how to heal your relationship with movement 
• Tools and strategies to use in the moment when you have the urge to exercise 
• Cutting back vs cold turkey
• Severing the tie between exercise and food
• Severing the tie between exercise and mood
• Becoming accountable to yourself
• Messaging in society which is not in line with what would be healthy for you personally

You can find us on social media:

Tallulah Self (editor and Producer)

• Instagram: @tallulahself

Meg:

• Instagram: @megsy_recovery
• YouTube: Megsy Recovery
• TikTok: megsy recovery

Safia: 

• Email: [email protected] 
• Instagram: @safia_edrecoverycoach
• Member of the Beyond Body Coaching team: https://www.beyondbodycoach.com

Please keep in mind we’re not medical professionals, and the podcast content reflects our own experiences and opinions, as well as that of our guests, so it shouldn’t be taken as medical advice. If you’re struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating please reach out to a medical professional to discuss your own situation and get professional help with your own unique recovery.

Conceiving, pregnancy and becoming a Mum are the most life changing events we have ever experienced. Each of them has brought us an incredible amount of joy, gratitude and taught us so much about ourselves as well as what we value in life. We also talk about the challenges we learnt to navigate through and practical ways we protected our recovery as we became mothers. Despite both having suffered from eating disorders in the past, we have some differences in our stories as well as commonalities that we connected on. We have been pregnant and given birth to two babies each within months of one another. Throughout our pregnancies and motherhood we have chatted off air about our experiences, so we're excited to chat on air with all of you in the hope it will be helpful or interesting to listeners.

Trigger warning: in this episode we talk about baby loss, miscarriage and fertility treatments. 

Topics covered:

• Our conceiving and pregnancy stories
• Fears about whether we can have kids
• Orthorexic messages during pregnancy
• How we protected our recoveries 
• How life has changed since becoming Mums
• What our kids have taught us
• Fears of children suffering from eating disorders and how to reduce their chances

You can find us on social media:

Tallulah Self (editor and Producer)
Instagram: @tallulahself

Meg:
Instagram: @megsy_recovery
YouTube: Megsy Recovery
TikTok: megsy recovery

Safia:
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @safia_edrecoverycoach
Member of the Beyond Body Coaching team: https://www.beyondbodycoach.com

Please keep in mind we’re not medical professionals, and the podcast content reflects our own experiences and opinions, as well as that of our guests, so it shouldn’t be taken as medical advice. If you’re struggling with an eating disorder or disordered eating please reach out to a medical professional to discuss your own situation and get professional help with your own unique recovery.