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
A solid base of worth & value
Where we sit today (inside our skin; at home in our bodies) will be a reflection of our experiences – how we have internalised and processed our experiences and how these have shaped our beliefs, att…
00:22:40 |
Wed 11 Jan 2017
Still human and deserving of kindness
Louise, a podcast listener wrote in to say, “Thank you to this podcast for illustrating that people with eating disorders are still human and deserve to be treated kindly, still – thank you.” To be …
00:09:06 |
Mon 09 Jan 2017
New hope for a new day
I love the way newness (fresh hope and expectation) are woven into the very fabric of our existence in the natural world. We get a new day every 24 hours, a new season every 3 months and a new year e…
00:11:54 |
Tue 03 Jan 2017
Key truths that take us forward in life 3
My journey through anorexia, EDNOS and binge eating exposed the LIE that I needed to be perfect to be worthy and deserving of life. It may sound so obvious (we all know perfection is it is impossible…
00:10:26 |
Wed 28 Dec 2016
Key truths that take us forward in life 2
In this podcast I explore the lie at the heart of an eating disorder – how it starts in seed form and develops over time, being reinforced by the food control ‘solution.’ I explore why I believe huma…
00:15:29 |
Tue 27 Dec 2016
Key truths that take us forward in life 1
I believe there are a handful of key truths that (experienced) will take us forward into LIFE, and that are essential to the health and well-BEing of every person. These truths relate to our core ne…
00:06:24 |
Mon 26 Dec 2016
Chosen, choice, cherished – YOU!
It’s Christmas Eve and I’m mindful that this can be a challenging time for people depending on where they sit in their relationships with family and friends. Regardless of your circumstances or emot…
00:13:35 |
Sat 24 Dec 2016
“Eating Disorders are (?not) a choice”
“Eating Disorders are not a choice” is a half truth that is unhelpful because it suggests that a person is powerless to get free from their ED. Nothing could be further from the truth. No one and not…
00:11:36 |
Fri 23 Dec 2016
(Re)establishing your worth and value
How do you re-establish your sense of worth and value when you don’t believe you deserve (or are entitled) to these things? The eating disorder lie that says you are not good enough/not worthy/don’t …
00:15:55 |
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Overcoming the lie ‘you’re not good enough’
Anorexia and other eating disorders reflect a hunger for life – a hunger to know oneself as loved, worthwhile, of value, and to feel secure within. This may surprise you because you may know someone …
00:13:17 |
Tue 20 Dec 2016
Eating Disorders are not a mystery
Eating disorders are not a mystery. They reflect a way of dealing with emotional pain; pain in the heart or core “self.” You are not WRONG. Your hunger is not wrong, but because it’s origin is emoti…
00:06:58 |
Mon 19 Dec 2016
How magazines lie to you about your value
Have you ever felt awful about yourself after flicking through a glossy fashion or beauty mag? You’re not alone. Oskar T Brand analysed the content of an Elle and Cosmospolitan magazine and found tha…
00:08:42 |
Wed 30 Nov 2016
EDs morph but core needs remain EDs morph but core needs remain
My ED shifted from anorexia to EDNOS to binge-eating, but the core truth I needed to know and experience at a deep gut level at EVERY stage of my ED was that I had worth and value as a person irrespe…
00:12:09 |
Sun 27 Nov 2016
Your recovery, like life, will be a journey.
Your future is in front of you and is being shaped by your present. If you’re struggling with disordered eating in your present and you don’t want to carry this into your future you will need help to…
00:14:31 |
Thu 24 Nov 2016
Step into your future; deal with your past Step into your future; deal with your past
Your future is in front of you and it is being created right NOW in your present. Sometimes we want our future to look different but we haven’t let go of our past. Life is a journey for all of us, an…
00:16:46 |
Sat 19 Nov 2016
The value of an ‘enlightened witness’
In the last episode I said that changing core beliefs requires more than just challenging our thinking. We need an encounter with truth that is experiential, life-affirming, full of grace and transfo…
00:12:20 |
Wed 16 Nov 2016
Beyond thinking, transforming core beliefs
In the last few episodes I’ve been speaking about capturing and challenging unhelpful thinking. This is an important tool in getting free from disordered eating but it’s not the whole story. Our thou…
00:10:15 |
Tue 15 Nov 2016
How to challenge your thinking when you don’t like how you look
Have you ever felt so awful about the way you look you’ve stayed at home rather than going out with friends only to end up feeling worse about yourSELF and comfort-eating? Let’s use the ABC to catch …
00:11:20 |
Tue 08 Nov 2016
When looking hot and sexy hurts
It’s 11.00pm on a Friday night. A bevy of gorgeous young girls pass me wearing the accoutrements of our popular culture. Tight jeans on long slim legs, high heels with teeny tiny mini skirts and tigh…
00:14:42 |
Fri 04 Nov 2016
How to challenge your thinking when you lose control
Have you ever found yourself reaching for food, comfort eating or bingeing like you’re on autopilot? Before you know it you’ve gone down a track you never intended and it’s not until you stop eating …
00:11:20 |
Fri 04 Nov 2016
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