Meg Mccabe is a coach, educator, writer and mental health advocate and recovered ED warrior obsessed with podcasts, dancing and stand-up comedy.  She’s the proud creator of Baby Got Back Recovery, a coaching and recovery blog that has touched thousands. Meg is also the host of the Full and Thriving Podcast which is designed to support your recovery while helping you re-discover your radiant life outside of your eating disorder.

In this episode we discuss:

• The Recovery Collective and group support for eating disorder recovery
• Meg’s experience as a teen in the modelling industry
• Honouring your body size
• 5 of the most common hang-ups in recovery
• Getting honest about intuitive eating and eating disorder recovery

Resources

Photographer reacts to America's Next Top Model episodes https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaKobeissi 

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Meg.

Meg Mccabe is a coach, educator, writer and mental health advocate and recovered ED warrior. She supports others to recover while helping them to helping you re-discover their radiant life outside of your eating disorder.

http://www.meg-mccabe.com

http://recoverycollective.mykajabi.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/full-and-thriving-an-eating-disorder-recovery-podcast/id1518417774

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC96kAmcX93xG0msyDX4roZA

SHOW NOTES

Renee McGregor is a leading Sports and Eating disorder specialist dietitian with 20 years of experience working in clinical and performance nutrition. She is the founder of Team Renee McGregor, where she leads a team of practitioners within a clinic environment, specialising in supporting individuals and athletes of all levels and ages, coaches and sports science teams to provide nutritional strategies to enhance sports performance and manage eating disorders. When not inspiring others with her incredible work, Renee can be found running the mountains and chasing the trails, most likely training for a crazy ultra-marathon!

In this episode we discuss:

• Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Goes Bad
• How an eating disorder distorts your thinking
• The toxic narrative that social media creates around worth
• How a hungry brain is a negative brain
• Relationship between orthorexia and perfectionism
• Wellness as a disguise for orthorexia
• Taking a holistic approach to recovery

Resources

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219609

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

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https://reneemcgregor.com/

https://www.instagram.com/r_mcgregor/

This week I am joined by Hope Virgo, Suzanna Samaka and Sharon White; three inspirational women involved in the development and promotion of The Eating Disorder Toolkits for school nurses, educators and carers. In this episode we discuss the Toolkits as well as ...

• the latest research on trends in eating disorder development
• why there can still be a taboo around eating disorders and what we can do to remove it
• empowering society to be able to speak about eating disorders
• how school nurses and other staff can have the right conversations around eating disorders
• the impact of social media on eating and body dissatisfaction
• campaigning and change at a political level

Resources:

Download the toolkit - https://saphna.co/homepage/toolkits/eating-disorder-toolkit/

https://www.change.org/p/amend-the-social-media-law-to-label-content-that-has-been-digitally-edited-or-filtered

https://www.change.org/p/eating-disorders-are-not-just-about-weight-dumpthescales

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with this weeks guests:

instagram.com/protectyouthmentalhealth/

https://www.instagram.com/hopevirgo_/

Elle Mace is an eating disorder and body dsymorphia therapeutic coach. She supports and guides those struggling with their relationship to food, their body and themselves to help them live a free and fulfilled life.

In this episode we discuss:

• Elle’s experience recovering from 17 years of eating disorders including anorexia and bulimia
• Using the 'lifeline' activity to understand your eating disorder 
• The relationship between self-worth and an eating disorder
• Perfectionism as a catalyst for food and body image struggles
• A trick for getting rid of comparison

Resources

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/2020/09/29/how-to-stop-comparing-food-on-instagram/

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Elle.

https://www.ellemace.com/

https://www.instagram.com/iamellemace/

https://www.facebook.com/memyselfher

Hannah Hickinbotham is the host of the Full of Beans podcast. She uses her personal, clinical, and educational experience to raise awareness and reduce the stigma associated with eating disorders. In this episode she shares her current experience of a relapse. 

In this episode we discuss

• Growing up in a family that diets and being modelled an unhealthy relationship with food
• Feeling like a failure in recovery
• Feeling stuck in relapse
• How eating disorders behaviours can escalate
• Acceptance as key in recovery
• Hierarchy of eating disorders with regards to praise and a fatphobic society
• Dealing with comments about weight changes
• Finding the motivation to recover
• Why the key to recovery is wanting to recover for yourself

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Hannah.

Hannah Hickinbotham is the host of the Full of Beans podcast. She uses her personal, clinical, and educational experience to raise awareness and reduce the stigma associated with eating disorders. In this episode she shares her current experience of a relapse.

www.fullofbeansed.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/thefobpodcast/

Carly is an Author, Substitute Teacher, and Freelancer specializing in writing, editing, and marketing. As an adolescent, Carly struggled with an eating disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia, and Exercise Addiction) which has contributed to her passion for mental health and overall wellbeing. Carly has been recovered five years and recently worked in a residential treatment facility with those aiming to recover. She gives talks and leads events and workshops throughout Oregon. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Impact of growing up with food scarcity and being forced to finish your plate as a child
• How school sports can spiral into an eating disorder
• Purging with exercise and laxatives
• Dealing with people's comments about body changes
• What a self-recovery journey looks like
• Cultivating confidence to share your story and experience of an eating disorder
• How sharing your story can create a new narrative
• Using social media to find a likeminded community in recovery
• Carly's new book, Good Enough

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Carly.

Carly is an Author, Substitute Teacher, and Freelancer specializing in writing, editing, and marketing. As an adolescent, Carly struggled with an eating disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia, and Exercise Addiction). She has been recovered five years and recently worked in a residential treatment facility with those aiming to recover. She gives talks and leads events and workshops throughout Oregon. To hear her full story, read or listen to Carly's memoir, Good Enough: Believing beautiful through Trauma, through Life, through Disorder.

https://www.sincerelycarly.com/

https://www.instagram.com/_sincerelycarly/

https://www.facebook.com/sincerelycarly/

Renae Saager is certified health & life coach and emotional eating expert who teaches women around the world how to start living a powerful, authentic life free from food and weight obsession. Tapping into her own unique journey with disordered eating and alcoholism, Renae supports her clients through the process of rewiring their brain with her no-BS approach. Through this serious work, Renae is able to help clients challenge their mindset and begin healing, using her own sense of humour and unparalleled perspective. Undoing the crazy you feel around food is Renae's specialty, the confidence and clarity gained is the guilt free icing on the cake.

In this episode we discuss:

• Renae's exprerience of an eating disorder and using alcohol.
• The link between alcohol consumption and eating disorders.
• Alcoholism and drunkorexia
• Do you need to work on the alcohol or food first to recovery?
• What Renae would do differently if she was starting her recovery journey again

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Renae.

Renae Saager is certified health & life coach and emotional eating expert who teaches women around the world how to start living a powerful, authentic life free from food and weight obsession. Renae connects with her clients on a deeper level, supporting them through the process of rewiring their brain with her no-BS approach.

https://www.renaesaager.com

https://www.instagram.com/renaesaager/

Podcast - ditch the binge (rebranding soon)

Helen Brooks is an award-winning Clinical Hypnotherapist and IBS Transformation Coach with a Degree in Applied Psychology. She specialises in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome through an evidence-based approach combining gut-directed hypnotherapy, psychology and wellness coaching. She hosts the podcast ‘Let's Talk IBS with the Tummy Whisperer’ and lives in Brighton with her family and dog Woody. Her mission is to raise awareness of gut directed hypnotherapy and transform the world one tummy at a time.

We discuss:

•  What are the signs and symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
• What is going on in someone's body when they are experiencing IBS?
• How IBS can play a role in the development of an eating disorder 
• The pros and cons of conventional treatment for IBS
• Gut directed hypnotherapy 
• Misconceptions around hypnotherapy 

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Helen.

Helen Brooks is an award-winning Clinical Hypnotherapist and IBS Transformation Coach with a Degree in Applied Psychology. She specialises in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome through an evidence-based approach combining gut-directed hypnotherapy, psychology and wellness coaching. 

www.thetummywhisperer.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/thetummywhisperer/

Ash Seruya is a psychotherapist, artist, and storyteller. They are passionate about fat positivity, Health at Every Size, trauma-informed eating disorder treatment, weight stigma, social justice, ADHD treatment, harm reduction, and the messy, complex reality that is being in a human in this world. 

In this episode we discuss:

• What are the signs or symptoms of ADHD?
•  How is ADHD typically treated/managed and the impact this has on disordered eating
• What a weight inclusive approach to ED recovery would look like for someone with ADHD
• Helpful questions to ask when looking for a therapist
• The use of cannabis to manage ADHD

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Ash.

Ash Seruya is a psychotherapist, artist, and storyteller living and working in the Westchester and New York metropolitan area. They are passionate about fat positivity, Health at Every Size, trauma-informed eating disorder treatment, weight stigma, social justice, ADHD treatment, harm reduction, and the messy, complex reality that is being in a human in this world. They share more of their creative projects on Instagram.

https://ashleymseruya.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/badashtherapy/

It's kind of what it says on the tin. For a limited time I am offering sessions on a 'pay what you want/can afford' basis. Group Q&A sessions available on 5th and 12th October.

More info: https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/pwyww-group

Or email [email protected]

Kylie Johnston is a Psychology student at UBC Okanagan in Canada. She recognised that she had developed an eating disorder in September 2020 and is currently well into her recovery journey. Kylie is a passionate mental health advocate and reached out to me to share her story of recovery to help and inspire others. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Factors that led to the development of an eating disorder, including becoming vegetarian, life changes, the Covid-19 pandemic and isolation 
• Changes in thinking style and unhelpful thought patterns that are common during an eating disorder
• The impact of the eating disorder
• Food rules, compensation mechanisms and exercise addiction
• Kylie's turning point and how her family helped in find the motivation to recover
• The aftermath of an eating disorder
• Benefits that Kylie experience from working with a dietician and therapist during recovery
• Similarities in our stories; I share some of my experience of an eating disorder

Apologies for my baby brain, this episode was recorded back in May 2022 when I had a 2 month old! Despite that, I think that we cover a lot of very important points and concepts in this episode.

Recovery resources.

Episode 3 - What's it like to see an eating disorder dietician? with Talia Cecchele

Episode 13 - Exercise, weight-loss, metabolism and rest with Faye Townsend

Episode 23 - Flow with Chlo on how to get your period back 

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Kylie.

If you would like to connect with Kylie than please contact me and I can put you in touch.