Have you ever found yourself trying to balance the needs of your eating disorder, your treatment team, your family, and somewhere in the middle of all of that, completely losing sight of yourself? This episode is for you.
This week on the Full of Beans Podcast, I'm joined by Sarah Parker, a psychotherapist based in West Yorkshire, who brings both professional expertise in eating disorder therapy and her own lived experience of fifteen years of anorexia.
Sarah knows firsthand how people pleasing can keep you stuck in recovery, doing all the right things, saying all the right things, but doing it for everyone else rather than for yourself. That can be motivating to start with, but after time, motivation can fade and a true commitment to recovery is required.
In this episode, we explore:
Sarah's own experience of anorexia and what kept her stuck for so long
Sarah's experience of detainment, tube feeding, and how collaboration changed this
How people pleasing shaped Sarah's experience of treatment
Why bringing out the rebel can be more supportive than praising compliance in recovery
The difference between motivation and commitment in eating disorder recovery
Why commitment helps long-term recovery more than motivation
How to keep going on the days when every part of you is telling you not to
Why anger can actually be a sign that recovery is working
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