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. 

Change. Change. Change. Change everything!

Recovery from a long and enduring restrictive eating disorder is about change on every level. It is about changing every moment of every day so that your brain is unable to fall back into those old “safe” neural ruts of behaviour. Many people in recovery...

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.” Link to paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556220/

Recovery Stories: Eating Disorders and Stealing

In this blog post I am sharing a story from a person in recovery. These stories and admissions are so important. Many of use find ourselves compelled to act in certain ways when we have a restrictive eating disorder and it is crucial that we share stories so that we...

Q & A on some aspects of Rehabilitate, Rewire, Recover!

Hello Tabitha, I have now finished reading both of your books and have read/listened to most of your posts/podcasts/videos, and I’ve learned so much from them. I have begun earnestly trying to let go of my many ED behaviours, and in so doing, I have discovered—much to...

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.   I am writing you in reply to your podcast on eating disorder treatment failures and your question to share experiences as an adult having been to...

Intention, Motivation, Commitment: The difference between wanting to recover, and actually recovering

New Year 2019.  In this podcast, Tabitha talks about her own recovery, and why wanting to recover isn’t enough. 

“Surviving” the holidays [Podcast]

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. 

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 the enemy. The enemy, and one that had this secret hidden agenda to do … I don’t know what. Gain...

Treatment fails eating disorder patients. We can do better

This is another post in which I’m going to talk about the flaws in treatment that all too often we stay quiet about. I’ve been told so many times that “treatment centres are a necessity and they provide a vital service” so I should be more...

Bodybuilding, gyms, and eating disorders: A guy’s perspective [Podcast]

In this week’s podcast, Tabitha talks to Ari Snaevarsson about bodybuilding, gyms, and his perspective on how the fitness culture influences people with eating disorders. Bio Ari Snaevarsson is a certified nutritionist* who has worked a great deal with...

Anorexia recovery: Act on the truth, and only the truth

I know your truth. Your truth is that you are tired and hungry — no, exhausted and starving — and all you really want to do is sit on the coach and eat mountains of food. I also know that this truth frightens you. So you are trying hard to ignore and reject it You...

Eating disorder treatment should never punish eating [Podcast]

In this podcast episode, Tabitha talks to a person in recovery about past treatment experiences, and how these led to this person being taught that unrestricted eating was a thing to avoid at all costs.

What Yoga Teachers Need to Know About Eating Disorders

I’m writing this as a resource for yoga instructors. It is by no-means complete and you are likely going to have to browse this blog and my podcasts to fully understand a lot of the things I talk about here. If you can’t be bothered to do that, however,...

Why eating disorder treatment fails people by making eating more complicated [Podcast]

In this podcast, Tabitha talks to a person in recovery who shares some information about how treatment has made her even more confused about how to eat. It is important that people in recovery are encouraged to listen to their bodies and eat what they want to...

Eating disorder treatment professionals: Stop telling people “binge” eating is bad

I’ve written about binge/feast eating many times before. There is a whole chapter in my book about it. I’m still going to keep blogging about this frequently as it is a message that I’m passionate about. I believe the the misunderstanding about...

Notes on Full Recovery [Podcast]

  In this podcast, Tabitha talks about full recovery.

Anorexia recovery: Be the agent rather than the victim

This is post about empowering you to know that if you want to recover, and if you take the actions needed in order to recover, you will. In order to fully recover, regardless of your deal in life, you have to have agency. You have to actively work for recovery rather...

The scale: To weigh or not to weigh in recovery [Podcast]

In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to Bridget Whitlow about weighing in recovery Bridget Whitlow, MS, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist that provides psychotherapy for adolescent and adult individuals, couples, families, and groups. Bridget has clinical expertise...

Full Recovery: Mental Flexibility

Full recovery is so so so much more than gaining weight. There are cascading and wonderful mental state shifts and changes that actually lead to the mental freedom that recovery is all about. And this mental freedom is why the often overlooked neural rewiring aspect...

Full recovery means even stressful situations aren’t as stressful

We haven’t had to move house for a long time. On purpose, because everyone knows how horrid moving house is. Well, we just did it again this month. This move was horrid — still is actually as we’re trying to remodel the place we are moving in to as we move...

Dr Adele LaFrance: Emotion Focused Family Therapy

In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr Adele LaFrance about Emotion Focused Family Therapy in eating disorder treatment. Links to resources: www.emotionfocusedfamilytherapy.org www.mentalhealthfoundations.ca/resources...

Emotional Eating [Podcast]

In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks about emotional eating, and why it isn’t really a thing   Transcript with thanks to Marie: Hello welcome to this week’s podcast. This week I’m going to talk about emotional eating. But first of all, I’m going to...

“My therapist was more scared of my weight gain than I was …” and other recovery stories

This blog is a collection of things that people have told me — unedited — in the last couple of weeks. This collection circles around what I see to be one of the primary problems with eating disorder treatment: Professionals reinforcing the very fears that the eating...