Thanks to diet culture many of us have a disordered view when it comes to food. With today’s guest, Avery Rosenbloom, we discuss what it means to use food as a coping mechanism and how stress prompts this pattern. In this, Avery shares why self awareness is needed in recovery and how it helps to identify and work through previous habits, triggers, and thought patterns. Her honest outlook on her own experience with binge eating and weight gain is refreshing and she explains what it looks like to compare oneself along the recovery timeline. Avery doesn’t shy away from the typical ‘taboo’ topics and instead does her best to explore and share more about them.

In this episode we discuss:

• ED recovery and why we use food to cope
• Identifying stress triggers and how to work through them 
• Binge eating and releasing the guilt
• Building self awareness around habits, thoughts, and triggers
• Comparison in the recovery timeline
• Working through weight gain + body dysmorphia
• Navigating recovery with health related food restrictions
• Handling relationships and setting boundaries within ED recovery

To connect with Avery find her @talktummytome and I’m @emilyfeikls and @letsthrivepodcast