Dr G: Muscles in recovery, and how you can have an eating disorder in any size body
In this podcast Tabitha talks to Dr Gaudiani about what happens to the muscular system when a person is in recovery from and eating disorder and/or…
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Writing on eating disorder recovery for adults — the recovery process, neural rewiring, extreme hunger, weight restoration, and more.
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Eating disorders and disabilities: cerebral palsy
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Hannah, about eating disorders and cerebral palsy.
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Why ignoring lived experience is the biggest mistake the mental health field ever made
Why lived experience should shape eating disoder treatment rather than the current model of theory shaping treatment. Experts by experience can offer insight
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Migration/Adapt to Flee Famine theory and fear [Podcast]
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar has a discussion with Shan Guisinger — author of the Adapt to Flee Famine paper — about the biological fear of eating response.
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Eating Disorder Treatment Lessons: Treatment should not traumatize patients
If treatment professionals can open themselves up to learning from patients rather than relying only on the information that they have been taught, I…
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Recovery Stories: 11 years old and pushing for recovery [Podcast]
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to "S" an 11-year-old in recovery, about his recovery journey, and his desire and motivation to get well.
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Change. Change. Change. Change everything!
Anorexia recovery: You have to change everything or you'll change nothing.
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Six ‘biases’ against patients and carers in evidence-based medicine [Podcast]
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr Trisha Greenhaugh about the paper titled Six ‘biases’ against patients and carers in evidence-based medicine.
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Recovery Stories: Eating Disorders and Stealing
Admitting to stealing when I was sick with anorexia was one of the very last things I came around to being able to talk about. I was so deeply ashamed. I…
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Q & A on some aspects of Rehabilitate, Rewire, Recover!
Some questions from a reader about energy deficit, mental hunger, and attitude in anorexia recovery
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Response to podcast on why eating disorder treatment fails people
I thought I would share a treatment story that a listener to the Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast sent me recently.
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Intention, Motivation, Commitment: The difference between wanting to recover, and actually recovering
In this podcast, Tabitha talks about her own anorexia recovery, and why wanting to recover isn't enough.
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"Surviving" the holidays [Podcast]
Q & A podcast on the holiday season for people in recovery from eating disorders.
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Treatment Stories: Being shamed for wanting more food
In this podcast you will hear an audio recording of an account of a treatment facility from a person in recovery.
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You can't fight your biology and win. Your body's only agenda is health.
Restrictive eating disorders are like a mental autoimmune disease. In the respect that you literally attack yourself. For years I lived as if my body was…