Feck It, Fun, Fabulous & Free Eating Disorder Recovery
This is a podcast all about eating disorder recovery, providing frequent bite-size episodes containing information, inspiration, motivation and hope, as well as some relevant research and neuroscience, to help anyone be more feck it, fun, fabulous and free in their eating disorder recovery. Hosted by Helly Barnes, a woman who has lived with an eating disorder for over a decade as an adult, has navigated the tricky and messy recovery process, and who now works as a professional eating disorder recovery coach. Find out more about Helly: www.hellybarnes.com and here: www.recoveringnomad.com
Episodes
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
Most people have heard of dopamine as a brain chemical that rewards us for things that occur in our lives (things we do, see, taste etc)...
But dopamine is also an important brain chemical in motivating us towards goals that are difficult.
This episode is about how to use what we know about dopamine to help motivate you in eating disorder recovery.
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Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
We talk about fear a lot with eating disorders because the illness generates intense and powerful fear reactions when you try to eat more, rest more, face weight gain and those fears have to be faced in the process. But we don't often talk about using fear FOR recovery and that is the topic of this episode!
More on me:
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Saturday May 14, 2022
Saturday May 14, 2022
For Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, the topic is loneliness. Therefore, I have made an episode about my experiences of loneliness both when I had an eating disorder and in recovery.
More about me:
www.hellybarnes.com
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Following on from an earlier episode about how restriction can sneakily manifest in eating disorder recovery, this episode includes lots of practical tips in how to overcome the restriction that is lingering in your life.
My coaching:
www.hellybarnes.com
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
One thing is true.
Eating disorders are manipulative and they lie. They twist the reality of the person who has the illness and make them believe things or see things that are just not true or valid.
But they are persuasive and believable.
This episode is all about just how eating disorders behave like spin doctors in your brain.
My coaching:
www.hellybarnes.com
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
When in eating disorder recovery, one of the key areas to focus on is overcoming all the restriction in the how, what, where and when you eat, digging out any sneaky ways the eating disorder might be trying to keep a hold on you.
In recovery, you can be eating so so so much more food and appearing to the world to be winning at recovery but actually still restricting. In this episode I discuss several ways in which restriction can manifest in eating disorder recovery.
More on me:
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Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
When you have an eating disorder, it can be the case that you are scared to recover because you fear that when you are 'recovered' you will have to restrict your intake again (this fear is often a result of traditional treatment approaches and diet culture).
This episode is to reassure anyone who needs to hear it that unrestricted eating is not just for recovery... it is for life... that's right, you get to eat huge amounts for the rest of your life and never feel like you are holding back again!
My coaching:
www.hellybarnes.com
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
In eating disorder recovery, it is crucial to rewire your brain so that the new habits of eating without restriction and not compensating for eating in any way become hard wired in and take little or no conscious effort in future.
One way to help rewire faster is by using positivity when you are in recovery! Find out more in this episode.
More about my coaching:
www.hellybarnes.com
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
This is an episode in which I share my opinions and thoughts on whether anyone can be bulletproof in full recovery from an eating disorder, and the concerns I have about people getting too complacent in full recovery.
My coaching services:
www.hellybarnes.com
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Eating disorder recovery is a long process and it is easy to get complacent and stuck in new recovery ruts along the way.
This is why it is crucial to keep shaking recovery up!
My coaching website:
www.hellybarnes.com