Illuminating Anorexia & Eating Disorder Recovery
Michelle Sparkes is a therapist and coach with lived experience of anorexia, EDNOS and binge eating in her teen and early adult years. In this podcast she delivers powerful insights, keys and strategies to help individuals recover from these health and life consuming problems.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 149
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Help for Chronic and Enduring Anorexia
What do you say to two brave women now both in their 40s, struggling to stay ‘well enough’ to stay out of hospital after a long journey with anorexia, both traumatised by previous hospital admissions…
00:11:41 |
Wed 28 Nov 2018
How not to revert to bad habits
A listener requests help “not to revert back to old bad habits” and to learn to eat when hungry. Here are some thoughts. Feel free to email your questions to: [email protected]
00:18:35 |
Mon 29 Oct 2018
The importance of compassion when you’re fearful
I recently asked people what their greatest challenge or concern was when it came to their struggle in the ED/DE landscape. One respondent asked how to combat her fear of gaining weight when sh…
00:09:03 |
Fri 19 Oct 2018
Getting beneath the binge 2
When we explore what’s going on inside us in the lead up to a binge it helps makes ‘sense’ of our behaviour; our bingeing feels less mindless and out of control; we can view our situation with more c…
00:16:30 |
Thu 30 Aug 2018
Getting beneath the binge 1
Bingeing isn’t just (or even mostly) about physical hunger, although if we’re not giving our body sufficient food on a regular basis we will certainly binge. Bingeing is primarily about emotional hun…
00:12:14 |
Thu 30 Aug 2018
3 Pillars to Freedom
There are a number of things to embody and embrace (skills to learn, knowledge to apply) to get free from disordered eating behaviours and beliefs but at the heart of it all, I believe there are 3 pi…
00:18:59 |
Tue 21 Aug 2018
Self and body esteem – how they connect
If embodying value is the first pillar to freedom from disordered eating; experiencing your body as home (not object) is the second…and they are intimately connected…listen here for more.
00:23:48 |
Tue 14 Aug 2018
What makes you valuable
Here are three things that can help you value yourself in ways that are life-affirming and health promoting:
* Understand your intrinsic worth and value
* Reflect on what you value in others
* Spend…
* Understand your intrinsic worth and value
* Reflect on what you value in others
* Spend…
00:21:07 |
Mon 13 Aug 2018
Why we binge and what we can do about it
We binge because we’re hungry –physically, emotionally, spiritually
We binge because we’ve been restricting – possibly even starving ourselves – of nurture – physical and emotional
We restrict becaus…
We binge because we’ve been restricting – possibly even starving ourselves – of nurture – physical and emotional
We restrict becaus…
00:13:43 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
3 Keys for those who struggle
If you struggle with disordered eating, self and body concerns 3 key things you will need to recover a life worth living are compassion, curiosity and support. Listen here for more…
00:17:20 |
Tue 31 Jul 2018
3 Keys for Carers
Dear Carer you are a lifeline to the one you love. I know it can be tremendously challenging to watch someone you love restricting, starving, bingeing, purging or punishing their body. You KNOW these…
00:16:13 |
Sun 29 Jul 2018
Keeping it simple – when labels don’t help
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed or discouraged by an eating disorder ‘label’ or diagnosis this podcast will help you see that you are not alone, unusual or beyond help…and if you need more encoura…
00:09:25 |
Mon 23 Jul 2018
A map (or model) to explain how eating disorders function
When pain comes our way it is natural to protect against it. And a very understandable way to protect against pain directed at the self or experienced within the self, is to try and control it. Food/…
00:15:45 |
Mon 29 Jan 2018
Illuminating Eating Disorder Recovery
Freedom from disordered eating comes as we cease food restrictions and nurture body and soul.
The first step on our road to freedom requires that we SEE that our current disordered eating behaviours,…
The first step on our road to freedom requires that we SEE that our current disordered eating behaviours,…
00:10:25 |
Sat 27 Jan 2018
The Father’s Hug
What happens when the drive for health becomes unhealthy? asks Jenny Brockie, host of SBS Insight, as she explores our nations “health obsession” with a roomful of people and three 20+ year olds stru…
00:23:03 |
Thu 07 Sep 2017
Exploring the spiritual dimension in mental health
“Could it be that depression is not purely a physical sickness but a spiritual malaise?” asks Elizabeth Farrelly in her article, “Finding the black dog’s spiritual lead” (The Sydney Morning Herald, 2…
00:12:37 |
Tue 29 Aug 2017
Help for depression with Prof Ian Hickie AM
More than just feeling down, clinical depression is a serious mental health condition that affects the way people feel, think, and react to general daily activities, such as eating, sleeping, or work…
00:24:56 |
Wed 23 Aug 2017
Hello Japan
Great to be back in the podcasting seat! I’ve been offline piloting the 4×4 Freedom Express and really enjoying the face to face interaction involved. I believe human connection is more needed now t…
00:16:30 |
Thu 15 Jun 2017
Why I do what I do
I traveled through an eating disorder in my teen and early adult years (as illustrated) and lost ~ 15 years of my life spinning my wheels on the eating disorder treadmill because I couldn’t SEE what …
00:21:11 |
Thu 25 May 2017
Why and how hospital helped
In the last episode I was saying that in my experience of anorexia prior to my hospital admission, I had become enmeshed, hyper-vigilant and ‘trigger-happy’ in my family environment. I was physically…
00:10:44 |
Tue 25 Apr 2017
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