Tabitha Farrar Archives - Page 7 of 31 - Eating Disorder Recovery for Adults

Eating Disorder Recovery Questions: How do I know if I want more food?

I get asked this question a lot — by clients, via email, via Youtube — and it is one that tripped my up from time to time in my own recovery. Until, one day, I realised that there is one simple answer: If you are asking the question, “how do I know if I want...

Eating disorders and disabilities: cerebral palsy

In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Hannah, about eating disorders and cerebral palsy. Tabitha’s note: I have worked with a number of clients with anorexia who also have cerebral palsy. The aspects of body image and body control justification that Hannah...

Why ignoring lived experience is the biggest mistake the mental health field ever made

Lived Experience: In qualitative phenomenological research, lived experience refers to a representation of the experiences and choices of a given person, and the knowledge that they gain from these experiences and choices. In short, you have actually lived through the...

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.

Eating Disorder Treatment Lessons: Treatment should not traumatize patients

I get sent treatment story emails, and I sometimes ask permission to publish them. I think sharing stories is important, and hope that they reach treatment professionals. If treatment professionals can open themselves up to learning from patients rather than relying...

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...