The Eating Disorder Therapist

Mar 07 2025 362 ep. 31 mins 53
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A podcast supporting eating disorder recovery, with tips, information and guest interviews.

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Compulsive Over-Exercise and Eating Disorders: How to Break Free

Mar 07 2025 32 mins  
Compulsive exercise is not joyful. It has become a weary, punishing ‘should’ to endure despite injury and bone-weary exhaustion. You cannot stop. Your sanity depends on completing the next workout and achieving your step count. It’s rigid and time robbing of precious life moments. You rely on exercise to earn your meals and to give you permission to eat. It is a distraction f

Making Sense of your Eating Disorder Through Psychological Formulation

Mar 04 2025 23 mins  
Making sense of your eating disorder through psychological formulation If you’re lost in the jungle of your eating disorder, without a map to guide you safely, you probably feel intense confusion and overwhelm. Why can’t I just eat normally? Why the constant obsessions with food? What is wrong with me? You likely feel terribly alone. To begin to unravel the tangled ed vines tha

How to STOP: 'I've Blown it so I'll Eat Everything' (A Focus on Binge, Emotional and Out-of-Control Eating)

Feb 28 2025 37 mins  
Your thoughts play an important role in your relationship with food. This episode dives into raising awareness of negative automatic thoughts and how to challenge them. This is particularly relevant if you are struggling with binge eating, emotional eating, out-of-control eating and/or chewing/spitting. I hope that you find it helpful. This week's sponsor: - Marcelle Rose Book:

Competitiveness. When the Strive for Being Thinner or The Best Becomes Destructive

Feb 25 2025 8 mins  
In this episode, I explore unhealthy competitiveness and how it can be destructive. Particularly, when it leaves you constantly comparing and not feeling good enough. I hope that you enjoy it. Harriet's Substack: https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.

Does CBT-E Work for Treating Eating Disorders?

Feb 23 2025 10 mins  
CBT-E is one of the most favoured and researched therapies for eating disorders. It means enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy. If you access support via the NHS (assuming that you are based in the UK), you may well be offered this treatment, particularly if you meet diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder. The approach is described as tra

Being the Eldest Daughter and Eating Disorders (Super-Caring, People Pleasing and Emotional Challenges)

Feb 21 2025 25 mins  
Being the eldest daughter can bring unique challenges to well-being. Eldest children tend to be super-carers, overly responsible and 'good children'. In this episode, I explore my personal experience as an eldest child and the impact on relationship with food and mental health. I hope that you enjoy the episode. Harriet's Substack: https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapis

7 Healthy Hacks I Love (Which Don't Include Cold Plunges or 4 am Wake-Ups)

Feb 18 2025 8 mins  
Here I share 7 healthy hacks, which I love. These are centred around mental wellbeing, connection and self-care. I hope that you enjoy the episode. Harriet's Substack: https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html Online Breaking F

The Incredible Benefits of Art Therapy in Eating Disorder Recovery, with Alexandra Lederman

Feb 14 2025 36 mins  
Today, I’m talking with Alexandra Lederman, an art therapist working in Melbourne, Australia. After working as a fine artist and discovering the benefits and value of the creative process, Alex knew that she wanted to help others learn how to express and communicate through art. Alex’s experience lies in therapeutic support for diverse population groups, including young childre

BONUS VALENTINES! Is it Toxic Positivity if You Romanticise Eating Disorder Recovery? 11 Thoughts on Self-Love and Hope on the Healing Road

Feb 13 2025 6 mins  
Eating disorder recovery is often a murky, dark and difficult road with sporadic glimmers of hope along the way. It’s digging around in the depths of your psyche to work through traumas and abandonment wounds. It’s about interrupting disordered cycles with food, which have long protected and kept you safe. It’s profoundly challenging work. You might feel distinctly worse befo

The 8 Impacts of Restrictive Eating on Body, Mind and Soul

Feb 11 2025 8 mins  
Restrictive eating, under the guise of wellness is very normalised. As we live in a society that continues to validate thinness on the pedestal of achievement. The impact of undereating on the body can be profound. It’s not something that just skinny people do. If you’re a serial dieter or you struggle with eating disorders or disordered eating, then you probably relate to hung