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The Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistSleighing in your Own Lane in Eating Disorder Recovery with Hannah Hickinbotham and Harriet FrewThis episode is old episode recorded with Hannah Hickinbotham from the Full of Beans Podcast. It will give you lots of tips and support for managing eating over the Christmas period. I hope that you find it helpful. To find out more about my work:- Harriet's Substack: https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist My new APP!  Go to my Website Online courses Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating - a course to help you heal your relationship with food. Online Breaking Free from Bulimia - a course to help you break free...
2025-12-1449 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist3 Radical Mindset Shifts When Healing Your Body ImageIn this episode, I dive into 3 radical mindset shifts needed, when healing your body image. I hope that you find it helpful. 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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/b...
2025-07-0211 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistThe Food and Feelings Diary in Eating Disorder RecoveryIn this episode, I explore the food and feelings diary, as a tool in eating disorder recovery. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https...
2025-06-2709 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistHelp! I’m Obsessed With My Weight. 3 Thoughts Around Navigating ThisThis podcast explores when your relationship with the weighing scales has taken an unhealthy turn. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https://www.theea...
2025-06-2506 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistCan You Pursue Weight Loss Without Screwing Up Your Mental Health?Who doesn’t want to lose weight in 2025? Go onto your local high street in the UK and ask the first twenty people meandering your way, this potent question and I can guarantee that 95% will say a resounding yes. This will probably be true for people of all weights, shapes and body sizes. Because losing weight and pursuing thinness hold incredible social value in society. And there is a ton of stigma about being in a larger body. But can you pursue weight loss without screwing up your mental health? I di...
2025-06-2113 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistExtreme Hunger, Going ‘All-In’ and Am I Just Binge Eating?In this episode, I explore extreme hunger and going 'all-in' versus incremental steps, in eating disorder recovery. I talk about getting stuck in quasi recovery. How to manage extreme hunger and dealing with emotional triggers too. I hope that you find it helpful. 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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Trai...
2025-06-1816 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistInspiring Eating Disorder Recovery Affirmations: Listen in the Car, Out Walking or Going About Your DayInspiring recovery affirmations which you can listen to as you go about your day. I hope you find these supportive and uplifting. If you'd like more of these, do drop me an email: harriet.frew@gmail.com   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.t...
2025-06-1705 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistGLP-1 Meds, Food Noise, Weight Loss and More: Inside the Eating Disorder Therapy RoomIn this episode, I talk about GLP-1 meds and their early impact in the eating disorder world. I hope that you find it helpful.     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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals ...
2025-06-1412 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistWorking in Eating Disorders When You Have Your own ED History. 5 Things I've Learned In this episode, I talk about working in eating disorders, when you have your own eating disorder history. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals htt...
2025-06-1111 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistEight Food Rituals you May Experience When Restricting your EatingIf you have an eating disorder, you may experience food rituals around eating. In this episode, I explore eight common ones, particularly seen by anyone who restricts intake. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk...
2025-06-0708 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistThemes I'm Seeing Inside the Therapy Room: Part TwoIt can be a very lonely experience suffering from an eating disorder. In this episode, I explore common themes that I experience daily inside the therapy room. It will help you feel less alone. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals htt...
2025-06-0409 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistBut I Can’t Possibly Be Hungry, I’ve Just Eaten‘I can’t possibly be hungry; I’ve only just eaten,’ is a phrase I have heard many a time in the therapy room. When you’ve overridden your body’s signals unwittingly to well-meaning diet and wellness plans, it’s no surprise that trusting hunger can feel like a dubious phenomenon. Feeling hungry may even feel downright wrong and shameful. You associate hunger with greediness and impulsiveness. You forcefully push the feeling down again and again. Unsurprisingly, you’re no longer attuned to your body’s signals. It’s a jumbled knot. Wh...
2025-05-3113 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistEating Disorders in your 40's, 50's, 60's and BeyondYou might assume that eating disorders are mostly a young person’s predicament, tangled up with puberty, exams stressors and the turbulent transitions of entering adulthood. And yes, young people are extremely vulnerable to struggling with food and body image concerns, but eating disorders impact people of all ages, and this shows up in the therapy room with clients from 16 to 70 years old (I work with adults mainly). This podcast talks specifically about some of the triggers behind eating disorder development post 40 years and some of the unique challenges and perspectives seen by the more ma...
2025-05-2807 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistFeeling Stuck in Eating Disorder Recovery? 7 Ways to Boost Recovery MotivationOn the eating disorder recovery road, your motivation for change will ebb and flow. Sadly, it is not a beautifully linear journey with marked destination posts and defined milestones. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if it was! Prochaska and DeClemente’s Cycle of Change offers a model for explaining the precarious change road with its inevitable ambivalence and turbulence. The model is not only for eating disorder recovery but can be applied to a myriad of transformation processes. This episode dives into the Cycle of Change and also explores 7 ways to boos...
2025-05-2413 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistHealing Your Inner Child in Eating Disorder RecoveryHealing your inner child can be a valuable step in your recovery journey. But what exactly does this mean? Inner child work is a process of recognising, understanding, validating and healing emotional wounds that you experienced in your childhood and that continue to unconsciously impact your adult life. If you are experiencing challenges in your adult relationships or with regulating your emotions, then it’s highly likely that you have some inner child work to do. It’s true for most of us. This episode dives into inner child healing. What is i...
2025-05-2117 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistTools to Create a Wise Recovery Mindset in Eating Disorder RecoveryYour mindset can make or break your healing journey. With 60,000 plus thoughts per day swirling through your mind and many being repetitive, you can see the power of your thoughts to potentially affect your mood and behaviour. Repetitive thoughts can become entrenched beliefs, which create habits, which ultimately shape your life. As Lao Tzu aptly said: - ‘Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny’. Yo...
2025-05-1718 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistThe 7 Deadly Signs of Disordered Eating and What is Normal Eating Anyway?How do you know if you have a healthy relationship with food and your body? This is an acutely challenging question to answer, as the culture normalises extreme eating practices and body image preoccupation as the norm. Maybe you feel that you don’t have a full-blown eating disorder or you’re not thin enough to properly struggle with food? I would argue that is your eating is causing you distress, it may be worth taking a closer look at it. In this podcast, I’m going to explore different disordered eating...
2025-05-1011 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistBONUS EPISODE! Food, Fear, & Sensory Overload: Making Sense of ARFID & ARFID Plus - with Dr. Marianne MillerThis is a bonus episode where Dr. Marianne Miller is guesting to talk all about ARFID. I hope that you find it helpful.   Dr Marianne's ARFID course: https://www.drmariannemiller.com/arfid $100 off with code HARRIET   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eat...
2025-05-0922 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistCould Intermittent Fasting Work For You? Research and Anecdotal Experience from the Therapy RoomIntermittent fasting (IF) is wellness cool again. Its benefits are celebrated widely on many a credible health podcast and it consistently trends on social media, described as an elixir to youth and offering benefits such as improved memory, blood sugar control, cardiovascular health, fat loss and autophagy. What’s not to love? IF involves eating during specific time windows and there are various ways to practice this. The less-intense approach involves a 12-hour fast and 12-hour eating window, whereas, more hardened fasters might restrict their eating, to only 8, 6 or even 4 hours. Alternatively, you ma...
2025-05-0709 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistThemes I'm Seeing Daily Inside the Eating Disorder Therapy RoomIt can be a very lonely experience suffering from an eating disorder. In this episode, I explore common themes that I experience daily inside the therapy room. It will help you feel less alone. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals htt...
2025-05-0312 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistGwyneth Paltrow and Orthorexia Versus Healthy EatingIn this episode, I explore the difference between orthorexia and healthy eating, this sparked by Gwyneth's recent sharing on her goop podcast about relaxing some of her food rules. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/ea...
2025-04-3010 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistTurning My World Upside Down: 4 Insights From The People Pleaser Healing JourneyIn this episode, I explore the challenges and benefits I have encountered in overcoming people pleasing. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https://www.t...
2025-04-2614 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistDealing with Weight Change in Eating Disorder Recovery In this episode, I explore navigating weight change in recovery and addressing fears around this. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https://www.theea...
2025-04-2313 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist5 Secrets from Inside the Eating Disorder Therapy RoomIn this episode, I explore 5 secrets from inside the eating disorder therapy room. I highlight the fact that eating disorders don't have a look and there are a lot of hidden parts beneath the surface. I hope that you find it helpful. 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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals http...
2025-04-2110 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistAttachment Styles and Eating DisordersIn today's episode, I do a deep dive into attachment styles and eating disorders. I hope that you find it helpful. Useful resource: https://www.attachmentproject.com/blog/attachment-theory-and-eating-disorders/   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body...
2025-04-1930 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistBeach Body Ready: 3 Things I'll be Doing This SummerIn this episode, I offer an alternative approach to getting beach body ready, which focuses on mental health and wellbeing. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Profe...
2025-04-1612 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistHow to Eat Donuts, Chocolate and Pizza With Permission and Without BingeingIf you’re recovering from an eating disorder, you might well desire to eat all the foods that you have been depriving yourself of, as a rebellion against the restriction or dieting fatigue. You may have an all or nothing relationship with food. You’re either being super-healthy and good, or chaotic and devouring everything in sight. Maybe you binge on ‘bad foods’ that you would normally forbid yourself. In recovery, it’s helpful to move towards permitting all these foods into your eating plan. This doesn’t mean eating donuts for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Or throwing hea...
2025-04-1225 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist5 Emotions that Drive Binge EatingBinge eating is not simply scoffing an extra biscuit, with your morning coffee break. Instead, it involves eating fast, an extremely large amount of food (more than you would eat for lunch or dinner), and usually in secret. It can feel like a dissociative or ‘out of body’ experience. You are fully present and grounded on earth, but it feels as if demon has swept over you and taken all rational decision making away. Binge eating can fleetingly be euphoric and pleasurable. This is short-lived before guilt, shame and self-loathing descend like a dark cloud. Plus, the physical consequences of f...
2025-04-0919 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist5 Ways to Get the Most Out of TherapyTherapy has the potential to transform your life in immeasurable ways. It can offer a wonderful container for much change and personal growth. Your therapist’s competency and skills are a hugely important part in this process. But therapy is not a passive process. You can influence your experience and outcomes greatly. By taking responsibility and being an active participant in the journey, you have much to gain. Here I share some thoughts about how to squeeze the maximum juice and value from your therapy experience.   Harriet's Substack: https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   Har...
2025-04-0516 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistEmbodying the Inspiration of Role-Models in Recovery: My Grandmother, Julia Roberts and MoreIn this episode, I explore embodying the inspiration of role models in recovery. 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.co.uk/online-courses.html Online Breaking Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body...
2025-04-0208 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistA Therapist's Perspective: Inside an NHS Inpatient Anorexia Nervosa Treatment CentreIn this episode, I share my experiences of working as a therapist in an NHS adult eating disorder inpatient service for anorexia nervosa. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image...
2025-03-2914 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistHow To Actually Love Yourself (When Everyone Tells You That Getting Thinner Just Won't Work)How to actually love yourself? If you’re on the body image healing road, you’ve probably been told multiple times, by multiple people that you simply need to love yourself. That your desire for thinness is a marker of not feeling good enough and that you’re seeking scraps of worthiness through conforming towards the ‘body ideal’. When I was in the dreary depths of bulimia, wise people would often dispense this advice to me with noble intentions. I would placatingly nod my head, whilst secretly rolling my eyes and having zer...
2025-03-2611 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistWhen Exercise is Compulsive: 12 Ways To Find a Healthier Relationship with MovementCompulsive 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 from difficult emotions. It’s intricately linked to weight control and body image. It’s more than psychological. When you are re...
2025-03-2410 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistLearning to Self-Soothe Without Drugs, Alcohol, Food, Scrolling.....An episode all about learning to self-soothe and developing self-compassion. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html
2025-03-2220 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistWhen Your Eating Disorder is Your Identity and it's Keeping You StuckAn eating disorder can become an integral part of your identity and this can leave you feeling stuck and powerless. In this episode, I share my own experiences of recovery and detachment from the ed identity. I explore how identity can be challenging to shift but how there are practical ways to do this. 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 Free from Bul...
2025-03-1914 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistADHD and Eating Disorders: 11 Insights from the Therapy RoomToday, many of my clients enter the therapy room with a diagnosis or self-diagnosis of ADHD. They have often only recently realised the humungous impact on their lifetime relationship with food. If you have ADHD, you have increased vulnerability to suffering from an eating disorder, particularly bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder. This is backed up by research finding that people with ADHD are four times more likely to have an eating disorder than those without. ADHD adds a layer of complexity in navigating your food relationship, when this is already hugely challenging...
2025-03-1510 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist5 Pearls of Wisdom That I Would Give to my Younger SelfIn this episode, I dispense five pearls of wisdom to my younger self. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bo...
2025-03-1206 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistCompulsive Over-Exercise and Eating Disorders: How to Break FreeCompulsive 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 from difficult emotions. It’s intricately linked to weight control and body image. It’s more than psychological. When you are re...
2025-03-0832 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistMaking Sense of your Eating Disorder Through Psychological FormulationMaking 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 that have wrapped themselves tortuously around you, and to shed some awareness and understanding of the complexity of the issue, therapists sometimes use...
2025-03-0523 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistHow to STOP: 'I've Blown it so I'll Eat Everything' (A Focus on Binge, Emotional and Out-of-Control Eating)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: https://amzn.eu/d/c8rjpeP Appointments: email@marcellerosenutrition.co.uk Website: www.marcellerosenutrition.co.uk Follow on Facebook Fo...
2025-03-0137 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistCompetitiveness. When the Strive for Being Thinner or The Best Becomes DestructiveIn 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.co.uk/online-courses.html Online Breaking Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body...
2025-02-2608 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistDoes CBT-E Work for Treating Eating Disorders?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 transdiagnostic, as it’s relevant for several different eating disorder diagnoses. CBT-E was developed by Professor Christopher Fairburn and his team in Oxford over two decades ago, initially as a tr...
2025-02-2410 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistBeing the Eldest Daughter and Eating Disorders (Super-Caring, People Pleasing and Emotional Challenges)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/@theeatingdisordertherapist   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html Online Breaking Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html
2025-02-2225 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist7 Healthy Hacks I Love (Which Don't Include Cold Plunges or 4 am Wake-Ups)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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https...
2025-02-1908 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistBONUS VALENTINES! Is it Toxic Positivity if You Romanticise Eating Disorder Recovery? 11 Thoughts on Self-Love and Hope on the Healing RoadEating 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 before you feel better. The road feels long and winding. You reach one summit to only realise that there are many more on the horizon. So perhaps it feels ‘toxically positive’ to romanticise aspects of recovery and eek out so...
2025-02-1406 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistThe 8 Impacts of Restrictive Eating on Body, Mind and SoulRestrictive 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 hunger and food preoccupation as a predictable part of the fabric of daily life. You might think that this is just your personality, whereas in fact it’s about restriction. And remember that 85% of people...
2025-02-1208 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistEating Disorder Recovery and Navigating Health and Fitness with Hope, Habits, Happiness and Health, with Michelle RoskoToday I’m talking to Michelle Rosko, who is a holistic health & fitness coach, certified personal trainer, & nutrition coach. Michelle has been on her own eating disorder recovery journey and now comes to the health and fitness space with a compassionate, sustainable, & holistic approach. She is host of the podcast Fitness Freedom. Michelle has an online programme, the 4H method, which brings together Hope, Habits, Happiness and Health. Michelle helps her clients build healthy routines for their lifestyle, look in the mirror & love what they see, go from hating the gym to loving ex...
2025-02-0831 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistWhy the Explosion of Eating Disorders? 4 Reasons Why I Believe That EDs Are On The IncreaseEating disorders are on the rise. The onset of the pandemic accelerated this already increasing trend. In 2022, the Royal College of Psychiatrists reported that hospital admissions for eating disorders increased by 84% in the last five years. During the pandemic, BEAT (National Eating Disorders Association, UK) saw an 81% increase in contact across all Helpline channels. This included a 162% rise in social media contact and a 139% surge in online group attendance. Although the incidence of eating disorders has been ever increasing over the past few decades, why the explosion of diagnoses now?
2025-02-0505 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist9 Learnings from Working as a Therapist in an Adult Eating Disorder ServiceI worked as a therapist in an NHS adult eating disorder service on and off between house moves, babies and life between 2004 and 2023. Working in the NHS had never been my strategic career plan. At 23 years old, I knew that I wanted to work in eating disorders, but the chaos of my early twenties meant that I was running on ideas and dreams, rather than having any concrete plan. Initially, my decision to train as a therapist came from my own wounded healer abandonment issues and wanting to save others. This wounded place was a...
2025-02-0511 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistA Deep Dive into ADHD, Autism, Trauma and Eating Disorders with Becky Grace IrwingToday, I’m talking to Becky Grace Irwing, a BABCP Accredited CBT & EMDR qualified Therapist and qualified Mental Health Nurse. Becky spent 8 years as a Mental Health Nurse and 3 years as a CBT Therapist. She has worked across many mental health services for 14 years including acute, forensic and CAMHS services as well as University Mental Health and Disability Services and a London talking therapies service.  She has a background history as a Fitness and Yoga Instructor of 10 years, and has worked in the fitness industry from the age of 17 to 35. Becky specialises in Eating Disorders, Neurodiversity and comple...
2025-02-0141 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist5 Mindset Shifts in Eating Disorder RecoveryWhen I was struggling with bulimia, I desperately wanted to be free of the eating disorder. Not just experiencing freedom from the soul punishing habits but freedom from the restrictions and ground hog day of living a half-life. To act and achieve change, you need a direction. You need some specificity. Not some generalised ‘One day I hope that I might, maybe, possibly recover’. Your daily mindset is crucial. It’s in the little details of how you think, feel, behave and ultimately live your life. At whatever stage you ar...
2025-01-2909 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistThe Binge Freedom Method with Marcelle Rose (Grounded in Science, Eating Psychology and Nutritional Wisdom)Today I have a returning guest to the podcast and I am talking to Marcelle Rose, founder of Marcelle Rose Nutrition. Marcelle specialises in helping women beat binge eating, bulimia, emotional eating and yo-yo dieting so they can make peace with their body and heal their relationship with food. She acknowledges that for many people that this is a transformational experience, so they can reclaim their life. Marcelle is a BANT registered nutritionist and health coach with specialist training in eating disorders and behaviour change, being a Master Practitioner from the NCFED, plus having undertaken further training in...
2025-01-2533 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistRage, People Pleasing and FoodIf you have an eating disorder, you’re probably sensitive and hugely empathic. You’re the wonderful caretaker and often the listener in conversations. When you’re not isolating yourself, you know the minutiae of your friends’ lives and have been a sounding board for many difficult conversations. Sometimes, you may feel that your personality is multi-faceted. You’re fantastic at screening the person in front of you and then adapting to meet their needs. You can be: - The listener. The enthusiast. The quieter one. You flex and switch adeptly to your environment, to create har...
2025-01-2208 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistSupporting your Loved One in Eating Disorder RecoveryIn this episode, I explore the New Maudsley Animal Model, which provides a framework and set of skills for parents and carers in supporting their loved one in eating disorder recovery. I hope that you find it helpful.   This week's sponsor: - Jane Reagan's Parents Roadmap PARENTSROADMAP.COM   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bul...
2025-01-1810 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistWe Need to Talk About Chewing and Spitting (C and S)Chewing and Spitting (C and S) is a shameful secret sadly suffered by many people with eating disorders. It’s a potentially triggering and tricky topic to talk about, but it’s a subject that needs a conversation and raised awareness. It’s often overlooked in regular eating disorder assessments, as not recognised as an official disorder under mental health classifications. You can struggle with C and S, if you have anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, OSFED or disordered eating. It might be something you experience occasionally, in addition to other behaviours such as pur...
2025-01-1506 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistAn Eating Disorder Recovery Story with Prue: Navigating Anorexia Nervosa and Type 1 DiabetesToday, I’m talking to Prue – an eating disorder recovery warrior and mother, who has type one diabetes and has recovered from anorexia nervosa. Prue has been very generous today in sharing her recovery story. Prue experienced extremely challenging times as a child, having what she calls a ‘text book’ narcissistic father. She was then sent to boarding school and separated from her siblings and support network, feeling very abandoned. Prue then developed type 1 diabetes and was navigating this condition, pretty much in isolation. Prue developed anorexia nervosa as a life raft and coping strategy to keep...
2025-01-1137 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist7 Secrets to Improving your Body Image this January  7 secrets to improving your body image this January. I hope that you enjoy the episode. This is also available as a written article on Substack.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Profe...
2025-01-0811 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistFashion meets psychology: how I love dopamine dressing. Understanding the benefits of dopamine dressing to boost your mood Happy New Year to you all! This is an episode where I talk about dopamine dressing, as a way to enhance your mood and feel better in eating disorder recovery. This is from my Substack. If you would like to subscribe to receive two new, valuable articles a week, please go to the link below.  The regular podcast will be returning next week. Hope that you enjoy the episode.   Harriet's Substack: https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Cour...
2025-01-0407 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist5 New Year Priorities to Support a Healthy Relationship with FoodA short episode to support you in prioritising mental wellbeing and relationship with food, as you make your New Year's resolutions. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for P...
2025-01-0108 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist7 Ways to Create Eating Disorder Recovery Goals in 2025 In this episode, I share my 7 tips to support you in making eating disorder recovery goals in 2025. Of course, you don't have to set goals just because it's the New Year, as recovery is an ongoing process and you can absolutely be inspired for change at any point. But for those of you who are seeking to prioritise change around eating and body image in 2025, this one is for you. I hope that you enjoy it!   Harriet's Substack: https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to...
2024-12-2831 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistHow I Cope with Eating at ChristmasA bonus episode shared from my Substack. I talk about how I navigate eating at Christmas post eating disorder recovery. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Train...
2024-12-2507 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist20 Ways to Support Yourself in Eating Disorder Recovery at ChristmasA bonus audio from my Substack. 20 ways to support yourself in eating disorder recovery at Christmas.  Wishing you all a peaceful and relaxing Christmas period. Remember, that this too shall pass.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating...
2024-12-2505 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistDoing Eating Disorder Recovery versus Being Fully Recovered, with Mindy Gorman-PlutzerToday, I’m talking to Mindy Gorman-Plutzer, Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and Eating Psychology Coach.   Mindy’s life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body science. Mindy is passionate about helping others recover from eating disorders and create a healthier lifestyle. Her approach tackles the root cause of the issue, and emphasizes that how and why you eat is just as important as what you eat.  In addition, Mindy is the author of The Freedom Promise: 7 Steps To Stop Fearing What Food Will Do TO You...
2024-12-2142 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistNavigating Eating Disorder Recovery as an Autistic Person, with Livia Sara (Liv Label Free)Today I’m talking to Livia Sara, aka Liv Label Free, who is an autism eating disorder recovery coach, best-selling author, content creator and more. She helps neurodivergent individuals and their loved ones find freedom. 'Liv Label Free' is the idea that no one needs a label to live a life in which they feel fulfilled; everyone has their own specific needs and no label can ever house the complexity of what makes each person unique! Livia’s mission is to break the stigmas around mental health and empower people to fully recover from disordered eating while embracing their auti...
2024-12-1445 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistBreaking Free from Diet Culture and the Binge/Restrict Cycle, with The Binge Dietitian, Toni RuddToday, I’m talking to Toni Rudd - The Binge Dietitian, a UK Registered Dietitian, who is based in Peru, and working with women all over the world who have binge eating behaviours. Previously, Toni worked within the UK National Health Service and has a range of experience with diabetes, weight management, learning disabilities and mental health. She now works online and is a weight inclusive and non-diet approach dietitian. Throughout her dietetic career, Toni has always been passionate in sharing her love for food, and helping people to realise, that even with chronic conditions like diabetes, th...
2024-12-0734 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistThe Embodied Nervous System: Eating with Polyvagal Awareness in Healing Relationship with Food, with Jessica FrancisToday I’m talking to Jessica Francis from Sooma Nutrition in Montreal, who is a registered dietitian and yoga instructor with a specialisation in eating disorders among adults and adolescents. Using a holistic and trauma-informed approach, she believes in addressing the complex relationship between food, body image, and mental health. Drawing on her extensive knowledge of nutrition and the nuances of each individual’s experience, she supports her clients in their journey toward healing by fostering a compassionate space that honours their autonomy and goals. Jess is particularly passionate about the intersection of embodiment and eatin...
2024-11-2352 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistAll About Atypical Anorexia NervosaIn this episode, I talk all about atypical anorexia nervosa. A condition that is often misunderstood and not acknowledged. I hope that you find it helpful.   This week's sponsor: - Amber Romaniuk http://amberapproved.ca/ Podcast: https://amberapproved.ca/podcast   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eati...
2024-11-1613 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist5 Things You Need in Eating Disorder RecoveryHere I share some thoughts about five things you need in eating disorder recovery.  Of course, you could expand well beyond this list, but I believe that these are particularly important in accelerating you forward on the healing journey. I hope that you find it helpful.   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 Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disord...
2024-11-0926 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistTalking about Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders, with Patty CabotBefore I launch into this week’s episode, I just want to mention a trigger warning as my guest this week talks about sexual abuse. In the episode, we don’t go into the details of the specific abuse, however, this episode may still be triggering for you, if you, or someone you know has experienced abuse. Make sure you take care of yourself. If this is not the right time, you may wish to give this episode a miss. Today I am talking to Patty Cabot, author of the book ‘Not That Girl Anymore’ and someone who is p...
2024-11-0243 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistSupporting Parents: When a Child of Any Age has an Eating Disorder, with Jane ReaganToday, I’m talking to Jane Reagan. Jane is a Boulder, Colorado based Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) who believes that understanding food choices, food quality and one’s relationship with food can lead to greater awareness, improved health and a more abundant life. Jane is passionate about helping her clients find greater health, vitality and improved wellness through balanced nutrition. She understands that food is meant to be enjoyed and loves helping people connect to the wisdom of their own bodies, while providing guidance with evidence-based practices for optimal nutrition. Jane Reagan’s experi...
2024-10-2635 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistUnderstanding your Hidden Hungers with Dr. Melissa McCreeryToday, I’m talking to Dr. Melissa McCreery, Psychologist and Emotional Eating Coach. Melissa helps women break cycles with emotional eating, overeating, and stress – not by hard work and willpower, but by simple changes that make life more enjoyable and create peace with food. Melissa is a psychologist, a coach, and a writer. She is the host of ‘Too Much On Her Plate’ Podcast. She’s the author of The Emotional Eating Rescue Plan for Smart, Busy Women and her approach has been featured in places like The Wall Street Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Fitness...
2024-10-1937 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistA Deep Dive into the Psychology of Bulimia and What Helped in Recovery, with Jade GranthamToday I’m talking to Jade Grantham. Jade is the author of ‘Accept That You Are Imperfect’ a book about her personal journey and recovery with an eating disorder, specifically bulimia nervosa that started when she was 12 years old and lasted for over 10 years. Jade’s book is not a self-help book but rather a raw account of her journey. I would highly recommend it. The link is in the show notes. In the episode today, Jade talks us through her healing journey. If you would like to hear the longer version of this, in today’s show notes...
2024-10-1245 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist9 Reasons You're Binge Eating with Actionable Steps for ChangeBinge eating is not simply scoffing an extra biscuit, with your morning coffee break. Instead, it involves eating fast, an extremely large amount of food (more than you would eat for lunch or dinner). It’s usually in secret and can feel like a dissociative or ‘out of body’ experience. You are fully present and grounded on earth, but it can feel as though a demon has swept over you and taken all rational decision making away. Binge eating can fleetingly bring euphoria and pleasure. This is short-lived before guilt, shame and self-loathing descend like a dark...
2024-10-0517 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistA quick message from Harriet FrewHello lovely listeners. I am returning to releasing one episode per week for the time being. There is nothing sinister happening! I am just wanting to free up time for other projects outside podcasting. I will be releasing one episode (a mixture of guest and solo ones) on Saturdays in the UK. Thank you very much for your support.   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html Online Breaking Free from Bulimia – 20% off with code FREEDOM at checkout h...
2024-04-1701 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistEating Disorder Recovery and Unmet Childhood Needs, with Victoria Kleinsman and Harriet FrewToday I’m talking to Victoria Kleinsman – a Brit living her best life in the Netherlands. Victoria is a food freedom & body love coach, inspirational speaker, podcast host, and writer. She is certified in psychology, spirituality and the science of nutrition and is also inspired greatly in her work, by her own personal experience and walking a tumultuous recovery journey herself. Victoria has overcome anorexia, binge eating disorder, bulimia and an abusive relationship. She struggled for over 20 years with poor body image and disordered eating. But today, Victoria eats whatever she wants, when she...
2024-04-1352 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistWhat is Body Neutrality? How Can You Embrace It?Trying to be body positive can often feel like an unattainable and unrealistic goal. However, body neutrality can offer a path towards body acceptance and greater peace. In this episode, I explore the difference between body positivity and body neutrality; I look at what body neutrality means and how to become more body neutral in your daily life. I hope that you enjoy the episode.   This week's sponsor - Amber Romaniuk:- Go to https://amberapproved.ca/online-programs to sign up.   Or direct click here: https://amber-romaniuk.mykaj...
2024-03-2015 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistHow Fashion can Support Identity, Creativity, Healing and Self-Love in Eating Disorder Recovery, with Anne RichardsonAnne Richardson returns to the podcast to talk about how fashion can help in eating disorder recovery. She explores how it can help rebuild lost identity; how what we wear has a profound impact on how we feel and how Anne's wardrobe has become a manifesto, as opposed to a way of hiding or conforming! I hope that you enjoy the episode.   To find out more about Anne:  https://www.theeatingdisordernutritionist.co.uk/   Instagram: - @theeatingdisordernutritionist   Anne's previous episodes on this podcast can be accessed here...
2024-03-1640 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistDealing with Comments About your Eating and People Dieting Around You, When You're in Eating Disorder RecoveryIt can be hugely challenging to navigate eating disorder recovery, when people around you are constantly talking about their latest wellness diet or even making comments about your eating. In this episode, I explore how to navigate this tricky area. I hope that you find it helpful.   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Ea...
2024-03-1321 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistBinge Eating, Emotions, Self-Care and Body Image with Dr. Marianne MillerToday, I’m talking to Dr. Marianne Miller (all the way from San Diego) who has been in the mental health field for 27 years and has specialised in eating disorders for the last 12 years. Marianne was a full-time academic for 12 years and had a part-time eating disorder practice for much of that time (until she left the university) and went into private practice full-time in 2018. Dr. Marianne loves working with eating disorders as a therapist and a coach. She takes a non-diet, feminist approach that helps people of all genders live empowered, authentic lives. She embraces the He...
2024-03-0948 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistDealing with Relapse in Eating Disorder RecoveryWhen you have a relapse in recovery, you can feel as though you are back to square one. A relapse is a normal part of the process of healing. In this episode, I explore how to manage and even embrace relapses (learning experiences!). I hope that you enjoy the episode.   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html ...
2024-03-0615 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistBody Image and Disordered Eating in Athletes, Fitness Enthusiasts and Sport, with Matt DavisToday I’m talking to Matt Davis. Matt is a Nutritionist specialising in disordered eating, body image and self-compassion. He is the founder of The Flourishing Athlete; an Instagram platform aiming to help athletes and fitness enthusiasts develop a positive relationship with food, body, and self so they can flourish and live a meaningful life whilst engaging with sport and fitness in a healthy way. Having played elite level sport and worked as a personal trainer and nutritionist, Matt promotes a predominantly non-diet, body neutral approach towards sports nutrition, fitness, and performance. He believes that this education and support is...
2024-03-0247 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistA Perspective to Help You Let Go of your Eating DisorderAn eating disorder can feel like a safe life-raft in an uncertain world. It is familiar and known. How can you shift perspective and genuinely find the desire to change, and find motivation to do this? I talk about one-way to do this. I hope that you find it helpful.   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/onl...
2024-02-2814 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistDeveloping Innovative and Personalised Treatment Programmes for People with Eating Disorders, with Professor Melainie Rogers (BALANCE Eating Disorder Treatment Center™)Today I’m talking to internationally recognised eating disorder expert and nutritionist Melainie Rogers, who is founder and CEO of Balance Eating Disorder Treatment Centre in New York City. Melainie is a professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian (CEDRD) and Supervisor.  She is the Founder and CEO of Manhattan-based BALANCE Eating Disorder Treatment Center™, now Joint Commission Accredited as a Centre of Excellence with the facility receiving The Gold Seal of Approval® – an internationally recognised symbol of quality and safety in behavioural healthcar...
2024-02-2440 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistOvercoming Mental Restriction in Eating Disorder Recovery Today I talk about mental restriction around food. Something that many people struggle with. I explore: - What is mental restriction? What are the negative costs of mentally restricting food? How can you move to stop this? I hope that you enjoy the episode.   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/on...
2024-02-2122 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistChildhood Adversity, Diet Trauma and Gastric Surgery with Safi AbdiToday I’m talking to Safi Abdi, a qualified Hypnotherapist, coach, and a trainee Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, dedicated to transforming lives through helping people to change their mindset and heal from diet trauma. As the host of the Gastric Mindset Podcast, Safi delves deep into the psychological roots of yo-yo dieting, empowering people who have had struggled with food and with insights and strategies for sustainable change. From battling childhood obesity to undergoing weight loss surgery in 2015, Safi intimately understands the struggles of the journey to a healthier lifestyle. Her personal experiences have fuelled her mission to help ot...
2024-02-1725 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistUsing Inversion Mindset: 10 Things NOT to do in Eating Disorder RecoveryAre you motivated by the 'carrot' or 'stick' approach when it comes to change? Reading up on the inversion mindset (something that is used by many people in personal development to bring about effective change), I thought I would apply this to eating disorder recovery. I talk about 10 things NOT to do in recovery. Let me know if you find this helpful, or not! I hope that you enjoy it. James Clear - about Inversion: https://jamesclear.com/inversion   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   ...
2024-02-1413 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistHow to Break Free from Binge Eating, with Marcelle RoseToday I have a returning guest to the podcast and I am talking to Marcelle Rose, founder of Marcelle Rose Nutrition. Marcelle specialises in helping women beat binge eating, bulimia, emotional eating and yo-yo dieting so they can make peace with their body and heal their relationship with food. She acknowledges that for many people that this is a transformational experience, so they can reclaim their life. Marcelle is a BANT registered nutritionist and health coach with specialist training in eating disorders and behaviour change, being a Master Practitioner from the NCFED, plus having undertaken further training in...
2024-02-1036 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistDiet Pills and Eating DisordersIn this episode, I explore the use of diet pills and eating disorders. It's a topic that is not talked about enough. I'm aware that many people may be struggling with a physical and mental dependency to these pills. I explore the link between diet pills and eating disorders; how these pills are so easily accessible and 'normalised'; different types of pills and how to begin to come off them. Please do consult with your medical doctor before making any changes around diet pill usage. I hope that you find this helpful.   This w...
2024-02-0716 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist12 Suggested Topics to Focus On in Eating Disorder RecoveryToday I talk about 12 suggested target areas in eating disorder recovery. I include: - 1. Exploring your past and working on motivation. 2. Escaping from diet culture and finding your values. 3. Regular eating and stabilising blood sugar. 4. Breaking free from compensatory strategies. 5. Emotions - awareness, dysregulation and building emotional intelligence. 6. Self-compassion - something we all need! 7. Developing a master mindset around food. 8. Introducing forbidden foods. 9. Developing a better body image, 10. Finding your voice through assertiveness skills. 11. Boosting...
2024-02-0357 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistPsychological and Mindset Shifts in Recovery (Part 5): Control as Coping and Eating DisordersAlthough eating disorder recovery requires behaviour change and a focus on food, it also requires psychological and mindset work. If this part of recovery is not addressed, you are at risk of being stuck in a quasi-recovered place or simply thinking that 'recovery doesn't work for me'.  This is part five on all things psychology and mindset in eating disorder recovery. Many people with eating disorders consciously or unconsciously find that a focus on food and body can bring a sense of safety and control, when life has felt overwhelming and out of control. In this episode, I...
2024-01-3133 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder Therapist7 Ways to Boost Eating Disorder Recovery MotivationMotivation for eating disorder recovery will wax and wane. This is normal. Particularly, as we are heading towards the end of January, your initial hopes for change may have lost their initial enthusiasm and vigour. This is an episode to inspire motivation again, talking through 7 ways to stay motivated and within the recovery lane. I hope that you find it helpful.   This week's sponsor:- Conquering Bulimia https://www.conqueringbulimia.com/   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 5...
2024-01-2416 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistUsing Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) in Eating Disorder Recovery, with Lisa UngerToday I’m talking to Lisa Unger - an emotional and eating disorder specialist and a level 2, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner. Lisa has been on her own healing journey and spent years trapped in a cycle of bingeing and restrictive dieting, leading to self-loathing and unhappiness. She found a path to recovery by combining various techniques with her innate strength and resilience. Today, Lisa embraces all foods without restriction and is no longer ashamed of her body. Using her skills in nutrition and psychology, Lisa now dedicates herself to empowering emotional eaters and those ba...
2024-01-2037 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistPsychological and Mindset Shifts in Recovery (Part 4): 20 Ways to Build Solid Self-Esteem Although eating disorder recovery requires behaviour change and a focus on food, it also requires psychological and mindset work. If this part of recovery is not addressed, you are at risk of being stuck in a quasi-recovered place or simply thinking that 'recovery doesn't work for me'. This is part four on all things psychology and mindset in eating disorder recovery. Many people with eating disorders do not feel good enough. In this episode, I explore 20 ways to build solid self-esteem. I hope that you find it helpful.   This week’s sponsor:- Tracy...
2024-01-1742 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistAdverse Life Experiences and Eating, ’All Foods Fit’ v ’Abstinence’ Models and the Importance of a Nuanced Approach in Nutrition, with Dr. David WissToday I’m talking to Dr. David Wiss who became a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) in 2013 and founded Nutrition in Recovery, a group practice of RDNs specializing in treating eating disorders as well as substance use. He earned his Ph.D. in Public Health with a minor in Health Psychology from UCLA by investigating links between adverse childhood experiences and mental health outcomes among socially disadvantaged men. Dr. Wiss's newest venture is his app called Wise Mind Nutrition. Wise Mind Nutrition delivers educational content using nutrition and lifestyle medicine to improve mental health outcomes. In the episode today...
2024-01-1447 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistPsychological and Mindset Shifts in Recovery (Part 3): Dealing with ThoughtsAlthough eating disorder recovery requires behaviour change and a focus on food, it also requires psychological and mindset work. If this part of recovery is not addressed, you are at risk of being stuck in a quasi-recovered place or simply thinking that 'recovery doesn't work for me'. This is part three on all things psychology and mindset in eating disorder recovery. I talk about dealing with your thoughts in a healthy way, exploring mindfulness, Socratic questioning and dealing with core beliefs. I hope that you find it helpful.   This week's sponsor:- Conquering Bul...
2024-01-1045 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistMy Journey from Pain to Purpose and Hitting ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS!!In this episode, I share my journey from deep pain to finding purpose, from the depths of bulimia, to leading an aligned and peaceful life today. This is also a celebration of one million downloads of The Eating Disorder Therapist Podcast! Thank you everyone who listens and for all your support. And thank you to all my amazing guests! I hope that you enjoy the episode and take some inspiration for your own recovery road.   This week's sponsor:- Conquering Bulimia https://www.conqueringbulimia.com/   Harriet Frew's cu...
2024-01-0630 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistPsychological and Mindset Shifts in Recovery (Part 2): Focusing on EmotionsAlthough eating disorder recovery requires behaviour change and a focus on food, it also requires psychological and mindset work. If this part of recovery is not addressed, you are at risk of being stuck in a quasi-recovered place or simply thinking that 'recovery doesn't work for me'. This is part two of what was going to be a two-part series (but may become three or four!) on all things psychology and mindset in eating disorder recovery. I talk about early life, emotional coping, emotional intelligence and learning to process emotions in a healthy way. I hope that you find it...
2023-12-3052 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistSleighing in Your Own Recovery Lane at Christmas (Full of Beans Podcast Conversation - Hannah Hickinbotham and Harriet Frew)Today I’m sharing a podcast episode that I guested on - Hannah Hickinbotham’s Full of Beans Podcast, in 2022. It’s a deep dive into staying in your own eating disorder recovery lane at Christmas. It’s a fantastic episode that explores social events, managing food, communication, guilt, supporting loved ones and more. I hope that you enjoy it and do go and check out The Full of Beans Eating Disorder Support Podcast if you are not already aware of it.  Link in the show notes.   The Full of Beans Podcast https...
2023-12-1649 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistEating Disorders and People Pleasing: The Costs and How to ChangeA Bite Size episode! Although sorry that it's not very bite sized.  In this episode, I explore my own personal journey as a recovering people pleaser and how this was tangled up in bulimic and other eating disorder behaviours. I talk about 6 true costs of being a people-pleaser and then explain 6 ways to find freedom, embrace change and become more authentic. I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE ht...
2023-10-1836 minThe Eating Disorder Therapist
The Eating Disorder TherapistA Deep Dive into Eating Disorder Therapy and Coaching, with Harriet Frew and Ciandra BirnbaumToday is a conversation between me and Ciandra Birnbaum, the passionate and empathetic eating disorder recovery coach behind “Flourish with Ciandra”. Ciandra possesses a unique blend of personal experience and professional training, She helps individuals navigate the journey to recovery with understanding, resilience, and positivity. Overcoming her own struggles with an eating disorder, Ciandra embarked on a mission to inspire others to embrace their self-worth and transform their lives. With an innovative, compassionate, and holistic approach, Ciandra offers not just coaching, but also empowerment, guidance, and continuous support to those on the path of recovery. Her ultimate aim is to c...
2023-08-1240 min