Sometimes eating disorder recovery doesn't feel freeing. Instead, it feels terrifying, uncomfortable and WORSE than restriction. This eating disorder recovery message offers support to help you navigate those difficult moments.

In eating disorder recovery, increasing your meal plan can feel worse than restricting. Weight gain can feel worse than being underweight. Letting go of compulsive exercise can feel unbearable, and sitting with food guilt, bloating, fullness, uncertainty and body image distress can make you wonder whether recovery is actually worth it.

The honest truth: recovery isn't always going to feel good in the beginning.

You're asking yourself to move towards things your eating disorder has taught you to fear, and your brain can interpret that discomfort as evidence that you're doing something wrong.

But feeling uncomfortable doesn't necessarily mean you're on the wrong path. Sometimes it means you're doing something different. And that's a good and brave thing.

If recovery currently feels harder than staying in your eating disorder, I hope this video reminds you that you don't have to love recovery every step of the way. You just have to keep choosing the next step that moves you towards food freedom.

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🎧 Whether you’re struggling with fear foods, weight gain anxiety, extreme hunger, body checking, food restriction, post-meal guilt, or relapse thoughts, each episode is here to help you reconnect with recovery and build lasting freedom around food and your body.

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Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast and as part of 'The ED Recovery Messages' is based on my personal experience, professional training and experience as an eating disorder recovery coach, and general educational research. It is intended for informational and supportive purposes only. I am not a licensed medical or mental health professional, and this content should not be used as a substitute for medical, psychological, or nutritional therapy, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare provider regarding any questions or concerns you may have about your health or mental well-being. By choosing to apply any information from this video, you do so at your own discretion and risk. The creator assumes no responsibility for your actions.

“I’m not sick enough to recover.” This eating disorder recovery message offers support to help you navigate the difficult beliefs around not feeling valid, serious enough or sick enough to deserve treatment and recovery.

If you've ever had these thoughts, you are absolutely not alone. But you do not need to reach a certain weight, become more medically compromised, or make your eating disorder worse before you are allowed to recover.

If you're struggling and the eating disorder is impacting your quality of life, you deserve support. And if part of you is waiting until you're “sick enough” before taking recovery seriously, I hope this video helps you question that rule. Quasi recovery is not the same as reclaiming your life and your food freedom. You deserve so much more than that.

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🎧 Whether you’re struggling with fear foods, weight gain anxiety, extreme hunger, body checking, food restriction, post-meal guilt, or relapse thoughts, each episode is here to help you reconnect with recovery and build lasting freedom around food and your body.

👉🏼 Find me on Instagram at @hanne.arts or visit hannearts.co.uk.

🌈 FREE CALL 👉🏼 https://www.hannearts.co.uk/coaching

🦋 RESET & RECOVER 👉🏼 https://www.hannearts.co.uk/reset-and-recover

Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast and as part of 'The ED Recovery Messages' is based on my personal experience, professional training and experience as an eating disorder recovery coach, and general educational research. It is intended for informational and supportive purposes only. I am not a licensed medical or mental health professional, and this content should not be used as a substitute for medical, psychological, or nutritional therapy, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare provider regarding any questions or concerns you may have about your health or mental well-being. By choosing to apply any information from this video, you do so at your own discretion and risk. The creator assumes no responsibility for your actions.

Fear of weight gain can be one of the most powerful parts of an eating disorder. This eating disorder recovery message offers support to help you navigate those difficult moments.

You might know intellectually that weight restoration and nutritional rehabilitation are important, while simultaneously feeling terrified of what will happen if your body changes.

You might be body checking, weighing yourself, comparing yourself to other people, trying to compensate for food, or desperately looking for reassurance that your weight hasn't changed...

If you’re experiencing weight gain anxiety and body image distress, this video is for you. I’m talking about what to do when the fear of gaining weight becomes so loud that it makes you want to turn back towards the eating disorder.

Because recovery doesn't require you to feel completely comfortable with weight gain first. Sometimes the next step is choosing recovery while you're still scared and while you don't feel ready or motivated.

Your eating disorder may tell you that gaining weight means losing control, losing your identity, or becoming someone you don't want to be. This is your reminder that you can be afraid of weight gain and still choose recovery. Despite those fears.

For anyone currently navigating weight restoration, body image struggles, eating disorder recovery, or fear of gaining weight, I hope this gives you somewhere to turn when those thoughts get loud. Subscribe for fortnightly eating disorder recovery insights, and comment below with a topic you would like me to cover in future episodes!

🎧 Whether you’re struggling with fear foods, weight gain anxiety, extreme hunger, body checking, post-meal guilt, or relapse thoughts, each episode is here to help you reconnect with recovery and build lasting freedom around food and your body.

👉🏼 Find me on Instagram at @hanne.arts or visit hannearts.co.uk.

🌈 FREE CALL 👉🏼 https://www.hannearts.co.uk/coaching

🦋 RESET & RECOVER 👉🏼 https://www.hannearts.co.uk/reset-and-recover

Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast and as part of 'The ED Recovery Messages' is based on my personal experience, professional training and experience as an eating disorder recovery coach, and general educational research. It is intended for informational and supportive purposes only. I am not a licensed medical or mental health professional, and this content should not be used as a substitute for medical, psychological, or nutritional therapy, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare provider regarding any questions or concerns you may have about your health or mental well-being. By choosing to apply any information from this video, you do so at your own discretion and risk. The creator assumes no responsibility for your actions.

Struggling with the urge to restrict food, skip a meal, or compensate for eating? This eating disorder recovery message offers support to help you navigate those difficult moments.

This is for when the eating disorder is telling you that restricting will make you feel safer, calmer, or more in control.

If you’re struggling with food restriction, calorie restriction, meal skipping, or compensatory behaviours in anorexia recovery, this is your reminder that the urge to restrict does NOT mean you need to act on it.

The discomfort and food guilt you feel after eating does NOT mean you have done something wrong. And you don't have to wait until the urge disappears before choosing recovery.

This video is designed for anyone seeking guidance and encouragement during their healing journey. This video offers practical eating disorder recovery support for those moments when restricting feels incredibly tempting, but you know that recovery requires you to embrace opposite action.

Recovery isn't about never having the urge to restrict again. It's about learning that you can experience that urge without letting it make your decisions for you.

For anyone currently navigating weight restoration, body image struggles, eating disorder recovery, or fear of gaining weight, I hope this gives you somewhere to turn when those thoughts get loud. Subscribe for fortnightly eating disorder recovery insights, and comment below with a topic you would like me to cover in future episodes!

👉🏼 Find me on Instagram at @hanne.arts or visit hannearts.co.uk.

🌈 FREE CALL 👉🏼 https://www.hannearts.co.uk/coaching

🦋 RESET & RECOVER 👉🏼 https://www.hannearts.co.uk/reset-and-recover

Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast and as part of 'The ED Recovery Messages' is based on my personal experience, professional training and experience as an eating disorder recovery coach, and general educational research. It is intended for informational and supportive purposes only. I am not a licensed medical or mental health professional, and this content should not be used as a substitute for medical, psychological, or nutritional therapy, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare provider regarding any questions or concerns you may have about your health or mental well-being. By choosing to apply any information from this video, you do so at your own discretion and risk. The creator assumes no responsibility for your actions.

Struggling with body checking urges or the need to weigh yourself? This eating disorder recovery message offers support to help you navigate those difficult moments.If you are currently in eating disorder recovery, you know how overwhelming the compulsion to check your body or step on the scale can feel.

In this video, I address those specific urges directly, to help you pause and choose a different path when anxiety spikes. My goal is to provide immediate, actionable support for anyone finding themselves trapped in these repetitive behaviors.

This video is designed for anyone seeking guidance and encouragement during their healing journey. By understanding the root of these impulses, you can learn to manage body checking urges more effectively and reclaim your peace of mind.

Whether you are early in your process or further along, this reminder is here to support your recovery. For sustainable healing.

Subscribe for fortnightly eating disorder recovery insights, and comment below with a topic you would like me to cover in future episodes!

🎧 Whether you’re struggling with fear foods, weight gain anxiety, extreme hunger, body checking, post-meal guilt, or relapse thoughts, each episode is here to help you reconnect with recovery and build lasting freedom around food and your body.

👉🏼 Find me on Instagram at @hanne.arts or visit hannearts.co.uk.

🌈 FREE CALL 👉🏼 https://www.hannearts.co.uk/coaching

🦋 RESET & RECOVER 👉🏼 https://www.hannearts.co.uk/reset-and-recover

Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast and as part of 'The ED Recovery Messages' is based on my personal experience, professional training and experience as an eating disorder recovery coach, and general educational research. It is intended for informational and supportive purposes only. I am not a licensed medical or mental health professional, and this content should not be used as a substitute for medical, psychological, or nutritional therapy, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare provider regarding any questions or concerns you may have about your health or mental well-being. By choosing to apply any information from this video, you do so at your own discretion and risk. The creator assumes no responsibility for your actions.

This is the intro episode to my podcast 'The ED Recovery Messages,' where I talk about what to expect in the episodes to come!

Whether you’re struggling with fear foods, weight gain anxiety, extreme hunger, body checking, post-meal guilt, or relapse thoughts, each episode is here to help you reconnect with recovery and build lasting freedom around food and your body.

👉🏼 Find me on Instagram at @hanne.arts or visit hannearts.co.uk.

Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast and as part of 'The ED Recovery Messages' is based on my personal experience, professional training and experience as an eating disorder recovery coach, and general educational research. It is intended for informational and supportive purposes only. I am not a licensed medical or mental health professional, and this content should not be used as a substitute for medical, psychological, or nutritional therapy, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare provider regarding any questions or concerns you may have about your health or mental well-being. By choosing to apply any information from this video, you do so at your own discretion and risk. The creator assumes no responsibility for your actions.