The Eating Disorder Therapist

In this episode, I explore the challenges and benefits I have encountered in overcoming people pleasing. I hope that you find it helpful.

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In this episode, I explore navigating weight change in recovery and addressing fears around this. I hope that you find it helpful.

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In 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…

In 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…

In 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.

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If 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 h…

Binge 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)…

Therapy 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 impo…

In this episode, I explore embodying the inspiration of role models in recovery. I hope that you enjoy it.

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In 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.

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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 thinn…

Compulsive 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 an…

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

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An 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 …

Today, 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 y…

In 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 curr…

Compulsive 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 an…

Making 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…

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 …

In 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.

Harr…