Episodes
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Maintaining motivation in eating disorder recovery isn't easy when the process is hard and can take months and years.
Life can take over, small improvements will seem enough and it's easy to stop pushing forwards before you have found full freedom. This episode provides a simple tool to help you maintain motivation and focus in recovery.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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Overcoming an eating disorder is so hard. And the powerful return of emotions during the process is a key factor in making it so challenging.
In this episode I talk about the return of emotions in eating disorder recovery, why your emotions can return so suddenly and how to manage this difficult stage of the process.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
My website:
Hellybarnes.com
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Self-empowerment is critical to overcome an eating disorder and build a free life. This involves taking control of the process and gaining confidence that you can recover, doing so in your own way.
This episode discusses what self-empowerment involves, why it matters and how to develop it in YOUR eating disorder recovery.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
Me:
www.hellybarnes.com
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To choose eating disorder recovery and commit to it is advice that's often given. But this well meant advice over simplifies a process that necessitates so much more.
There are several other key ingredients for eating disorder recovery success and that's what I talk about in this episode.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit - A Neuroscience Based Guide to Eating Disorders
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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If you never had children because of an eating disorder and you are now in your mid life, you might face unique and difficult emotions.
This episode covers some of the reasons an eating disorder can stop you from having children, the emotions you might experience and finally, how to move forwards.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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It's time to get real about 'quasi-recovery' and eating disorders… it's usually a state of being 'highly functional' but still with an active eating disorder.
In this episode I talk about what I mean by this and what to do if you are in this situation at the moment. There is still so much hope for a FULL recovery!!
My Books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit - A Neuroscience Based Guide to Restrictive Eating Disorders and How to Overcome One
Aiming for Overshoot - The Handbook You Need to Fully Overcome a Restrictive Eating Disorder
www.hellybarnes.com
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In this episode, which is part of a series about overcoming an eating disorder when you are in your mid or later life years, I talk about some of the specific challenges that arise from overcoming an eating disorder as a parent and the extra considerations that you will face as a result of having children.
My Books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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An eating disorder will impact on your ability to have real fun in life but fun in life is so important. This episode considers why fun matters and the importance of finding more of it as you overcome an eating disorder and build yourself a life that is eating disorder free and a little more feck it and fun!
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
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Setting eating disorder eliminating goals or new year resolutions is important in the process to overcome an eating disorder. But to achieve those bigger goals, establishing daily intentions can help you to stay focused and accountable, so that you make meaningful progress.
My Books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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Food decisions with an eating disorder and when overcoming one can be hard, emotional and have a lot of anxiety and overthinking attached. This episode discusses the idea that maybe you don't have to decide between different foods or food situations...
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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In this episode I challenge the very common narrative in our modern Westernised culture that restrictive eating disorders are at their core driven by a fear of weight gain. I believe that this view is an oversimplified and convenient narrative that has been convenient to draw but it also prevents eating disorders being more widely understood.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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This final part of the series about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, relating its findings to restrictive eating disorders, covers what the Minnesota Starvation Experiment teaches us about starvation syndrome and the physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural effects that semi-starvation alone can have on a person.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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The Minnesota Starvation Experiment gives us the best evidence we have of what starvation can do to a person and what happens when emerging from semi-starvation.
In this episode, the experiment and its findings are compared to what can be experienced with restrictive eating disorders and recovering from one.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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If you have a restrictive eating disorder then you need to know about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment and its findings. This experiment, carried out during the Second World War, is the most important evidence we have for the effects of hunger and starvation on a person and what happens as they 'refeed' and rehabilitate back to health.
This episode is part one of two on this topic and this post includes information about what the experiment involved and some of the key findings.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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In this second episode of the series about overcoming an eating disorder when you are in mid or later life, I talk about the extra considerations that you need to account for when you have a partner or spouse.
A partner or spouse can be a benefit to the eating disorder recovery process but there are also challenges that can come too. It is also important to remember the impact that the eating disorder and the process to overcome it has on your partner or spouse.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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Your self-identity can be deeply affected when you have an eating disorder. When you are overcoming an eating disorder, an important part is to let the eating disordered parts of your self-identity go and allow yourself to learn who you are without it.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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Eating disorders are hard to overcome at any age but when you are overcoming an eating disorder in mid or later life, there are more factors to consider, with the 'adult' responsibilities and limiting beliefs you might have.
This is the first in a series of posts on this topic and this focuses on the importance of self-belief that you can recover, no matter what age you are, alongside being able to let the eating disorder identity go.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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With a restrictive eating disorder, your brain can lose the ability to understand what it means to eat without restriction, let alone let you actually do it.
One effective way to push past this brain fog and to really overcome the eating disorder, reprogram your brain and emerge from energy deficit is eating to gain... Eating to gain weight and eating to gain your life back.
My books:
Addicted to Energy Deficit
Aiming for Overshoot
www.hellybarnes.com
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