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
Why I differentiate Anorexia from other Eating Disorders
The reason I differentiate anorexia from other eating disorders is because there are two sub-types of anorexia – a restricting sub-type and a binge-eating/purging sub type. Understanding the differen…
00:09:27 |
Tue 06 Sep 2016
Free to be loved
Free to be wrong and free to be loved…woohoo! Bring on the freedom. This is a continuation of the previous post. Amazing, wonderful, mysterious, sublime how the realities of life, the vulnerability, …
00:20:31 |
Wed 24 Aug 2016
Free to be wrong
One of the most liberating experiences of my life is to know and accept my frail, flawed, finite humanity. It reads like a misprint doesn’t it? As human beings we often spend much of our lives ‘prote…
00:13:04 |
Tue 23 Aug 2016
Beating the Bully pt 2
This is a brief addendum to the episode on Beating the bully in your head. When I said get out of the environment (change your perspective) and get going (release some of the energy bound up in the m…
00:08:34 |
Tue 16 Aug 2016
Losing perfectionism
I love this play on words. I use it deliberately. Perfectionism is a losing game. The more you chase perfectionism the more it will elude you. You will find yourself chasing your tail and getting wor…
00:07:05 |
Tue 16 Aug 2016
Beating the bully in your head
Have you ever found yourself getting beaten up by the bully in your head? Most people are familiar with this experience. It’s good to know how your bully operates. After five days cooped up at home t…
00:13:31 |
Mon 15 Aug 2016
Emotional Nurture for Anorexia
I just listened to an interview on Hack radio regarding ‘Treating Anorexia.’ Canadian professor Louis Charland (?spelling), Philosopher of Science and Bioethicist, was speaking with Sarah McFee about…
00:15:03 |
Sun 07 Aug 2016
Getting Help When You’re in a Healthy Weight Range
I was speaking with a young lady last night and it reminded me that when you’re in a healthy weight range it can be difficult for others to recognise that you are struggling with an eating disorder. …
00:07:05 |
Wed 03 Aug 2016
Building resilience in our kids & young people
I was reading a newspaper article this morning about the doubling rates of anorexia in young people under 14 years of age in the UK. We have similar figures in Australia. I thought I’d share some tho…
00:19:55 |
Sun 31 Jul 2016
The power of gratitude
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by bad news and challenging life circumstances? I’m sure we all have. When wave after wave crashes in on your world or ebbs away at you over a long season it can make i…
00:14:24 |
Sat 30 Jul 2016
Anchoring our security in troubled times
Following on from the last episode (where I spoke about some of the factors I believe are giving rise to the increasing prevalence of eating disorders and disordered eating in our communities), I wan…
00:13:00 |
Thu 28 Jul 2016
Why Eating Disorders are on the rise
Two unrelated articles stirred my mind this week. One by journalist Brian McNair from University of Technology Queensland, about “terror going viral” where he explores some of the downside of our int…
00:17:58 |
Thu 28 Jul 2016
No shame
Following up my last episode with SB, realise I got a bit feisty but I know that when a person is feeling too ashamed to reach out for human help they need to know at a deep gut level (deep in their …
00:19:26 |
Sat 23 Jul 2016
Supercharged support to get free from ED mindset
The most powerful truth I know to help you get FREE from an eating disorder is to know (by experience) that you are loved, desired, of inestimable worth, chosen. You may never have experienced these …
00:08:37 |
Sun 17 Jul 2016
How to get free from the ED mindset
A young lady wrote in to ask how she could get free from the ED mindset. This was my response. You can watch it on YouTube where I refer to the model I created to help explain the ED ‘solution’ to th…
00:07:26 |
Sun 17 Jul 2016
Get unstuck from your ED with a Map & 4 Keys!
Have you ever felt like you would NEVER be free from your eating disorder or disordered eating experience? Have you ever wondered, "How on earth did I get stuck in this place where thoughts of foo…
00:09:46 |
Mon 11 Jul 2016
Soul Food Alert!!!
Have you ever watched something you wished you had not? I had this experience recently. It was a reminder that I need to be discerning about what I “let in” to my inner world via my eyes and ears. If…
00:08:22 |
Sun 19 Jun 2016
Getting Support (Pt 2 of 2)
Pt 2 in a 2 part series originally shot on video and available on my YouTube channel. Recovering from an eating disorder requires (re) connecting with your self, your body and other people in healthy…
00:16:05 |
Thu 16 Jun 2016
Getting Support (Pt 1 of 2)
Recovering from an eating disorder requires (re) connecting with our self, our body and other people in healthy ways. You will need support. We all do. It’s part of being human. Reaching out is not a…
00:15:26 |
Mon 13 Jun 2016
Mayday! You can help
In May this year the Butterfly Foundation put out a “Mayday” call seeking to raise awareness and support for those suffering with eating disorders in Australia. They estimate there are now 1 million …
00:14:31 |
Thu 09 Jun 2016
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