Today I’m talking to Safi Abdi, a qualified Hypnotherapist, coach, and a trainee Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, dedicated to transforming lives through helping people to change their mindset and heal from diet trauma. As the host of the Gastric Mindset Podcast, Safi delves deep into the psychological roots of yo-yo dieting, empowering people who have had struggled with food and with insights and strategies for sustainable change. From battling childhood obesity to undergoing weight loss surgery in 2015, Safi intimately understands the struggles of the journey to a healthier lifestyle. Her personal experiences have fuelled her mission to help others break free from the vicious cycle of dieting. Drawing from her own journey and her ongoing training as a therapist, Safi offers personalised 1-2-1 coaching, providing clients with the tools and support they need to break free from destructive habits and cultivate lasting success on maintaining their weight loss after Bariatric surgery.  Excitingly, Safi is launching the Mind-Over-Diet community, offering accessible support for individuals navigating the challenges off recovering from, chronic dieting, disordered eating patterns and food addiction. In the episode today, Safi shares openly about her childhood and teenage years, delving into the early trauma and later diet culture that profoundly impacted her. Safi explores the years of yo-yo diets and preoccupation with food, weight and body and the devastating impact on her wellbeing. She also talks about gastric surgery and her work in supporting others. Safi is an incredible inspiration, navigating the ups and downs of her healing journey. I’ll be inviting her back to talk more about gastric surgery and the aftermath of managing weight loss and relationship with food later this year. I hope that you enjoy it. Follow Safi on Instagram @gastricmindset on all platforms and tune in to her podcast on YouTube and TikTok for invaluable insights and inspiration. For more information about Safi visit www.therapybysafi.com   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Are you motivated by the 'carrot' or 'stick' approach when it comes to change? Reading up on the inversion mindset (something that is used by many people in personal development to bring about effective change), I thought I would apply this to eating disorder recovery. I talk about 10 things NOT to do in recovery. Let me know if you find this helpful, or not! I hope that you enjoy it. James Clear - about Inversion: https://jamesclear.com/inversion   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html   .

Today I have a returning guest to the podcast and I am talking to Marcelle Rose, founder of Marcelle Rose Nutrition. Marcelle specialises in helping women beat binge eating, bulimia, emotional eating and yo-yo dieting so they can make peace with their body and heal their relationship with food. She acknowledges that for many people that this is a transformational experience, so they can reclaim their life. Marcelle is a BANT registered nutritionist and health coach with specialist training in eating disorders and behaviour change, being a Master Practitioner from the NCFED, plus having undertaken further training in Socratic Questioning for ED’s and body image. Today, Marcelle is going to do a deep dive into binge eating. She’s going to explore common factors that contribute to people developing binge eating behaviours. Marcelle will talk about what distinguishes ‘normal’ eating from disordered eating. She’s also then going to give you some practical steps to begin the process of overcoming binge eating and healing your relationship with food. So much packed into this conversation. I hope that you enjoy it.   To get in touch with Marcelle: - Break the Cycle Binge Eating Guide Website: http://www.marcellerosenutrition.co.uk Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/marcellerosenutrition The FOOD FREEDOM COLLECTIVE free Facebook community Supporting women to find peace with their body & build a happy relationship with food https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefoodfreedomcollectivewithmarcellerose Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/marcellerosenutrition/   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html    

In this episode, I explore the use of diet pills and eating disorders. It's a topic that is not talked about enough. I'm aware that many people may be struggling with a physical and mental dependency to these pills. I explore the link between diet pills and eating disorders; how these pills are so easily accessible and 'normalised'; different types of pills and how to begin to come off them. Please do consult with your medical doctor before making any changes around diet pill usage. I hope that you find this helpful.   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html   .

Today I talk about 12 suggested target areas in eating disorder recovery. I include: - 1. Exploring your past and working on motivation. 2. Escaping from diet culture and finding your values. 3. Regular eating and stabilising blood sugar. 4. Breaking free from compensatory strategies. 5. Emotions - awareness, dysregulation and building emotional intelligence. 6. Self-compassion - something we all need! 7. Developing a master mindset around food. 8. Introducing forbidden foods. 9. Developing a better body image, 10. Finding your voice through assertiveness skills. 11. Boosting self-worth and feeling good enough. 12. Managing inevitable relapse and reframing this   I hope that you find it helpful.   This week's sponsor: WeShape https://www.weshape.com/freedom   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html   If you are interested in joining the waiting list for the Bulimia and Binge Eating courses, please email me: harriet.frew@gmail.com   .  

Although eating disorder recovery requires behaviour change and a focus on food, it also requires psychological and mindset work. If this part of recovery is not addressed, you are at risk of being stuck in a quasi-recovered place or simply thinking that 'recovery doesn't work for me'.  This is part five on all things psychology and mindset in eating disorder recovery. Many people with eating disorders consciously or unconsciously find that a focus on food and body can bring a sense of safety and control, when life has felt overwhelming and out of control. In this episode, I explore how this plays out and how you can begin to let go of control and surrender, not only with food but in relationships and wider life.  I hope that you find it helpful.   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html  20% off course until 31st January 2024 with code LOVETOLEARN   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html    20% off course until 31st January 2024 with code LOVETOLEARN   .  

Today I’m talking to Cindy Spratt, who's a holistic & functional nutritionist that specialises in eating disorder recovery. Cindy speaks about an all-encompassing approach that teaches fundamentals of nutrition, listening to the body, learning how to respect and love the body, and rebuilding a loving and joyful relationship with food, so that people can thrive long term and feel good about food and in their body. Cindy has been on her own healing journey. As a young girl she loved being in the kitchen and creating and connecting through food. Her first job was at a local tea house, aged 11, and with a local catering company soon after. Throughout her teenage years, however, Cindy’s relationship with food morphed into something different. She spent almost a decade as a competitive gymnast, where weight and body image were of heightened focus. When the time came to step away from gymnastics, the drastic drop in exercise, along with puberty and the complex mental/emotional challenges of adolescence, her once loving, and rather normal relationship with food, was replaced by something deeply dysfunctional. From Cindy’s teens well into her twenties, her food journey became her biggest struggle. She found herself in the throes of bingeing and purging, starving, dieting, over-exercising, and popping pills. She describes the shame and guilt that engulfed her during those years as devastating, and the loneliness, unbearable. In her mid-twenties, Cindy came to the realisation that her health was suffering, that there was more to her than an eating disorder, and more to this life than struggle. Determined to find a way to bring back her love of food and turn her life’s journey into something positive, she aligned herself to a new path and began to look to the health world for guidance. And then…Cindy’s life was turned upside down At 32, as a young wife and mother, and well on her way to being fully recovered from the eating disorder, doctors found a cancerous tumor in her colon. She endured a life altering colon resection and was advised to endure several rounds of chemo. Opting out of chemo, Cindy set out to up her health game. She went back to school, turned to exercise for therapy, and opened up her spirit to life’s teachings. What she found was a calling: to help others find their own positive food journey and to be the help she didn’t have when she was younger. Since then, Cindy has spent years in school becoming a nutritional enthusiast, a kitchen muse, and a food and body advocate, receiving certifications in Holistic Nutrition, Functional Nutrition, Culinary Nutrition, Eating Psychology, and Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching. Her kitchen is now a joyful and creative space, once again. She has learned how to listen to her body, reuniting it with athleticism, dance, and the wondrous outdoors. Cindy’s life story with food has taught her endless lessons: to embrace every moment with gratitude and compassion, to listen to life’s teachings, and that believing in oneself is half the battle. She hopes to pass this along to others. In the episode today, Cindy explores her healing journey with food, and the ups and downs along this tumultuous path. She talks about getting started in recovery with nutrition and also shares some of her best tips for addressing psychology and a bigger picture of recovery. It's an inspiring episode and I hope that you enjoy it. To find out more about Cindy: - Website: - https://www.cindyspratt.com/ Instagram: - @cindysprattnutrition   This week's sponsor:- Conquering Bulimia https://www.conqueringbulimia.com/   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html  20% off course until 31st January 2024 with code LOVETOLEARN   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html    20% off course until 31st January 2024 with code LOVETOLEARN    

Motivation for eating disorder recovery will wax and wane. This is normal. Particularly, as we are heading towards the end of January, your initial hopes for change may have lost their initial enthusiasm and vigour. This is an episode to inspire motivation again, talking through 7 ways to stay motivated and within the recovery lane. I hope that you find it helpful.   This week's sponsor:- Conquering Bulimia https://www.conqueringbulimia.com/   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html  20% off course until 31st January 2024 with code LOVETOLEARN   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html    20% off course until 31st January 2024 with code LOVETOLEARN   .

Today I’m talking to Lisa Unger - an emotional and eating disorder specialist and a level 2, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner. Lisa has been on her own healing journey and spent years trapped in a cycle of bingeing and restrictive dieting, leading to self-loathing and unhappiness. She found a path to recovery by combining various techniques with her innate strength and resilience. Today, Lisa embraces all foods without restriction and is no longer ashamed of her body. Using her skills in nutrition and psychology, Lisa now dedicates herself to empowering emotional eaters and those battling eating disorders to make long term changes to the way they think about food and themselves. With her support Lisa gives them the freedom to regain control of their lives. Lisa has found EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to be a transformative tool for many of her clients in reducing anxiety and enhancing their overall well-being during their recovery journey. It is a technique that can be used in social settings as well which so many of her clients have found to be invaluable.  In the episode today, Lisa talks about her own healing journey and does a deep dive into EFT. What is it? How can we learn it? How can it help? Then, she explores the integration of EFT, as a strategy for managing anxiety and promoting healing in eating disorder recovery. Lisa brings some real practical examples of how to use EFT, showing how it can be such a valuable healing skill to add to your toolbox. I hope that you enjoy the conversation.   To find out more about Lisa: - Website: https://lisaunger.co.uk/ Instagram: @_lisaunger EFT handout: https://mailchi.mp/lisaunger/eft-instructions-eating   This week's sponsor:- Conquering Bulimia https://www.conqueringbulimia.com/   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html  20% off course until 31st January 2024 with code LOVETOLEARN   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html    20% off course until 31st January 2024 with code LOVETOLEARN

Although eating disorder recovery requires behaviour change and a focus on food, it also requires psychological and mindset work. If this part of recovery is not addressed, you are at risk of being stuck in a quasi-recovered place or simply thinking that 'recovery doesn't work for me'. This is part four on all things psychology and mindset in eating disorder recovery. Many people with eating disorders do not feel good enough. In this episode, I explore 20 ways to build solid self-esteem. I hope that you find it helpful.   This week’s sponsor:- Tracy Brown and associates  www.tracybrownrd.com/get-started    Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course with Harriet Frew - 50% off with code FREEDOMISPOSSIBLE https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html   Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html  20% off course until 31st January 2024 with code LOVETOLEARN   Body Image Training for Professionals   https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html