Unrestrict-ED

In this episode, Emily and Han discuss ensuring recovery happens when navigating difficult life circumstances. The key takeaways are:

• This is WHY recovery is so important: to be able to navigate future circumstances like this (which are inevitable) with compassion and a nourished brain and body.
• Old patterns cannot be an option
• Assess how you are keeping other life plates spinning and use those same strategies 
• Being mechanical with use of a solid minimum
• Setting yourself up to win
• Keeping it simple 
• Focus on energy density
• Call out ED-BS. Yes, you should be recovery right now.
• You do have the skills. Repurpose those.

In this episode, Han and Emily chat through ebbing motivation. The key takeaways are:

• You don’t! Stop waiting for stable motivation or viewing it’s absence as a failure
• Motivation = emotional 
• Commitment = values-based, steady
• Has motivation faded or has ED increased resistance + fear?

In this episode Emily and Han discuss the longevity of extreme hunger. The key takeaways are:

• Extreme hunger isn’t the problem. It’s the solution your body has chosen.
• Consistency of cue response is of paramount importance
• Reaching full nutritional rehabilitation is a non-negotiable for the body to move out of 'extreme' responses 
• Recovery eating isn’t supposed to look ‘normal’
• Permitting rest is a core component of the body feeling safety.
• Your job is to remove all tendrils of ED

In this episode, Emily and Han discuss making recovery work in difficult work circumstances. The key takeaways are:

• Assess whether recovery is possible within the role, or if it is directly oppositional to basic recovery needs.
• Prioritise recovery: eating abundantly; acting oppositional, resting
• Advocate for your recovery needs in the work place
• Practical strategies:

  - Prioritize breakfast before work

  - Use portable, quick, high energy snacks

  - Liquid nutrition 

  - Open up available windows of opportunity 

  - Eat during micro-moments

• Challenge perfectionism and ideal conditions 
• Consider if this could be an opportunity to challenge the eating disorder 

In this episode, Emily and Han discuss absent hunger. If you are keen to hear more on the latter element of this question, please do check out our episode* on eating in the evening hours that we recorded in 2024. The key takeaways from today are:

• The need to ‘wake your body up’ through mechanical eating 
• Provide a base of adequacy in accordance with any mental hunger whipsers 
• Notice how anxiety impacts your connection with your cues
• Get in a backbone rhythm in
• Focus on ‘and’ nor ‘or’.

*episode release on 1st Oct 2024

In this episode, Emily & Han discuss responding to increased hunger in recovery. The key takeaway points are:

• Get back to basics: Eating without restriction and being oppositional to ED are long-term recovery commitments.
• Coping comes with allowing.
• Let go of the idea of a fixed ‘right amount’.
• Nutritional rehabilitation takes a lot of energy.
• Try not to always look to justify. Try to lean into trust.
• Use your breathing, connect with support, turn to reassuring resources
• Just get curious: can I be bolder?

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In this episode, Emily and Han discuss the experience of finding abundance and deliciousness threatening. The key takeaway points are….

• Bland and non-highly palatable foods often feels more familiar, safe and consistent 
• Delicious tasty food is often more energy dense
• Recovery = going towards perceived threat
• Allow yourself to burst out of the survival state
• Celebrate wider life abundance + pleasure + comfort 
• Ensure portion abundance of the delicious food

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1. What is the MOST bold thing I could do here?
2. ED-OCD is elevated by energy debt. Nutritional rehabilitation is a foundation of actioning.
3. Apply the “both/and” approach (not “keep it” vs “take it out”)
4. Show your brain sheer abundance of that food, and all other food.
5. Expand your 'windows of permission'
6. Challenge all conditions of that food 

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In this episode, Han and Emily discuss what it feels like to be in energy balance. The key takeaways are: 

• It’s not based on a number.
• Reduction in mental hunger
• Food aspects of life feel more important - life feels colourful
• Authentic energy levels stabilise 
• Your body functions stabilise long term (digestion, sleep, hormonal health)
• Food feels simple
• You can maintain your body size without constant control
• Hunger and fullness feel more trustworthy
• Night time feels less sacred

In this episode, Emily and Han discuss navigating healing whilst doing an active job. The key points are…

• Nutritional rehabilitation is a fundamental. The prerequisite of this is eating with consistent abundance 
• Focus on YOU
• Seek recovery aligned accommodations at work
• Neural rewiring requires honesty
• Assess the intentionality behind the moment 
• Focus on rest outside of work