Eating Disorders in Discussion, Wednesday's Child

Flying solo for this episode, Debbie Watson refreshes our audience on what led to Wednesday’s Child being created. She also shares some key pointers on motivators for recovery success. Debbie talks about the need to focus on improved physical health, nurtured emotional health, genuinely gaining control, building and sustaining relationships, and having focus on dreams and ambit

It’s been sometime since we caught up with the wonderful Sarah Parker, specialist eating disorder therapist. Under the name Well Of Being, her business helps many individuals and families to navigate their recovery. Here, she chats with Debbie about what you should look for in a therapy relationship, while also giving her thoughts on the current landscape of eating disorder sup

After another (far too long) pause in recording of the Wednesday’s Child podcast, Sarah and Debbie are back to help you find focus and kickstart your recovery in 2024. In this episode, we talk about our own learnings of navigating recovery from an eating disorder, and share tips for how you might gain motivation, commitment and positivity in the year ahead. We also share our ad

Are you in the process of recovering and still drawn toward particular behaviours? Do you find yourself witnessing a loved one slip back into specific unhealthy eating disorder behaviours? In this episode, Sarah and Debbie reflect on how they dealt with particular behaviours in their eating disorder recovery journey. They cover tactics around removing yourself from the situation m

What’s it like to develop an eating disorder when you’re away from home for the first time, embarking on life as a university student? Perhaps you’ve had eating behaviours in the past, been concerned about your body image, or had an addiction to movement and exercise – do these factors make it more challenging to even consider a move to university? Here, as we prepare for t

After a rather long pause in recording, Sarah and Debbie are back in the seat, talking all things eating disorders on the Wednesday’s Child podcast. In this episode, our hosts discuss the importance of checking in with yourself and asking what your recovery path needs most in life right now. They share their own experiences of choosing university, of learning to be less ‘exte

In this episode, we follow up on a mailbox request, which sought answers about how best to look after yourself in eating disorder recovery, while at the same time being a parent. How do you prioritise yourself, but equally take care of your children and the demands of family life? How do you navigate a child’s desire for family foodie outings, or tackle a youngster’s issues a

In this episode, we welcome back our wonderful Perinatal Lead here at Wednesday’s Child, Abi Reynolds She’s joined in her conversation with Debbie, by Chantelle Ecob, who is a trainee clinical psychologist and is keen to gain more insights into the experiences of women who relapse into, or first suffer from, an eating disorder in pregnancy or soon afterwards. We’ll be keepi

This episode sees the return of our duo Debbie and Sarah. Here, they chat at the close of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and use the opportunity to reinforce the need to always ‘turn talk into action’. Throughout this episode, you’ll hear a number of lived experience reflections about what it takes to keep pivoting from hinge behaviours, and to continually challenge the eat

In this episode, we catch up with our lovely therapist Sarah Smetham (Sarah Parker, until her recent nuptials!), where she and Debbie discuss how relationships change as we transition through our eating disorder recovery. Sarah reveals how her own relational needs changed in her progress beyond an eating disorder, and, as a practitioner, she gives guidance on being aware of our ow