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
Spiritual help for Anorexia & Eating Disorder recovery pt 2
When you’re battling the lies, self rejection and self destructive behaviours that come with an eating disorder you need natural and super-natural (spiritual) help to overcome them. I’m talking about…
00:12:58 |
Tue 31 May 2016
Spiritual help for Anorexia & Eating Disorder recovery
When you’re battling the lies, self rejection and self destructive behaviours that come with an eating disorder you need natural and super-natural (spiritual) help to overcome them. I’m talking about…
00:18:30 |
Sun 29 May 2016
Growing battle with the ‘binger’
I was an outpatient at Rivendell for two months before being admitted as an inpatient. The most significant development of this outpatient period was that my bingeing intensified. At the time I had n…
00:22:09 |
Fri 27 May 2016
Escalating Conflict pt 2 – how the eating disorder voices develop
Part 2 in a series describing the escalating conflict and development of ‘voices’ I experienced as my anorexia progressed and my eating disorder “solution” became increasingly untenable. I knew I nee…
00:11:28 |
Thu 26 May 2016
What helps you
I recently uploaded “Escalating Conflict” – a chapter from my book describing the period when, after a few years on the restrictive path I clearly recognised my food control ‘solution’ was no longer …
00:05:51 |
Thu 26 May 2016
Escalating conflict pt 1 – how the eating disorder voices develop
Have you ever wondered about the voices a person with anorexia experiences? Escalating Conflict describes the growing conflict and development of ‘voices’ I experienced as my journey down the scales …
00:16:08 |
Mon 23 May 2016
Understanding and dealing with the numbers
When I first published Illuminating anorexia in 2011 I didn’t think it would be possible to tell the story of a long and complicated eating disorder without some reference to numbers, but then I met …
00:08:42 |
Sun 22 May 2016
A map (or model) to help you SEE why the ED solution to the problem of pain doesn’t work
If you struggle with an eating disorder (ED) or disordered eating (DE) experience, the map (model) I developed in the late 90s will help you SEE why you struggle and what you can do about it. The ED …
00:06:00 |
Wed 18 May 2016
Snapshot of a problem
This podcast explains why I wrote ‘Illuminating Anorexia’ and describes the first time I recognised that my dieting had “gotten out of control.” It was a wake up call, and yet it would be another yea…
00:12:58 |
Tue 10 May 2016
Eating Disorders 101 Radio Interview (pre DSMV)
This is a radio interview I did with Hamish and Emma on The Dip (94.5FM) prior to the relase of the DSMV. It covers some general info about eating disorders, definitions and differences, media influe…
00:20:43 |
Wed 04 May 2016
Scratching the surface pt 3
Originally shot as video and available on YouTube, this is the audio from the final instalment of a 3 part series exploring the precipitating factors that can lead into the development of an eating d…
00:10:45 |
Sun 01 May 2016
Scratching the surface pt 2
Originally shot as video and available on YouTube, this is the audio from part 2 of a 3 part series exploring the precipitating factors that can lead into the development of an eating disorder. I dra…
00:12:32 |
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Scratching the surface – pt 1
Originally shot as video and available on YouTube, this is the audio from part 1 of a 3 part series exploring the precipitating factors that can lead into the development of an eating disorder. I dra…
00:12:08 |
Tue 26 Apr 2016
Recovery Key 4 Take Action
KEY 4
The fourth key to get FREE from an eating disorder (ED) is to take action. The preceding three keys have been preparing you to get to this point where the real “work” of recovery begins. There …
The fourth key to get FREE from an eating disorder (ED) is to take action. The preceding three keys have been preparing you to get to this point where the real “work” of recovery begins. There …
00:07:12 |
Sat 23 Apr 2016
Recovery Key 3 Take Inventory
KEY 3
The third key to get FREE from an eating disorder (ED) is to take inventory of where you are at right now. Don’t change a thing. I suggest you use a simple food diary for a week to become aware…
The third key to get FREE from an eating disorder (ED) is to take inventory of where you are at right now. Don’t change a thing. I suggest you use a simple food diary for a week to become aware…
00:06:30 |
Thu 21 Apr 2016
Recovery Key 2 Make A Decision
KEY 2
The second key to get FREE from an eating disorder (ED) is to make a decision to stop spinning your wheels by ceasing to engage in ED behaviours (restricting, purging and overexercising). This …
The second key to get FREE from an eating disorder (ED) is to make a decision to stop spinning your wheels by ceasing to engage in ED behaviours (restricting, purging and overexercising). This …
00:06:59 |
Tue 19 Apr 2016
Recovery Key 1 Adjust Your Vision
KEY 1
The first key to get FREE from an eating disorder (ED) is to adjust your vision and SEE that your destination is not to be stuck on the ED treadmill, spinning your wheels, losing health, opport…
The first key to get FREE from an eating disorder (ED) is to adjust your vision and SEE that your destination is not to be stuck on the ED treadmill, spinning your wheels, losing health, opport…
00:05:24 |
Sat 16 Apr 2016
Recovery Keys – Introduction
When I travelled through anorexia, EDNOS and binge-eating as a teen and young adult, I felt like if I could just “get above” the problem maybe I could see a way out of it. As it was, I felt stuck in…
00:05:27 |
Tue 12 Apr 2016
You are not your body (Podcast & YouTube)
You are not your Body. Your body is your home. In an image saturated culture it’s good to be reminded that your worth and value as a person do not depend on your physical size, shape or appearance. W…
00:09:09 |
Sun 10 Apr 2016
Going Deeper to fight the lies & despair 2
Over Easter I joined the chat on a wonderful pro-recovery FB group (Anorexia, Bulimia and EDNOS Recovery Support Group) – and was very stirred by the despair I heard in one young lady, Megan B. I rea…
00:13:09 |
Sun 27 Mar 2016
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