052 - HER STORY - Overcoming Drugs, Alcohol, Adderall & Anorexia With Lisa

The Dear Body Podcast

Jessi Jean

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to eating disorders, alcohol, drugs and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode! Like so many people, Lisa’s struggles with food and her body started at a young age. She remembers growing up and how a well-intentioned comment caused her to begin the cycles of restricting food. In this episode, Jessi and Lisa discuss Lisa’s experience with navigating through this from late childhood, into her teen years, through college and beyond. They talk about how she fell into using drugs like Adderall to give herself more control over restricting food, her struggle with Anorexia and the cycles of binging and restricting. Lisa shares how her life and relationships were impacted by this and how she found Jessi and the FFM. She tells her experience of joining the course, how her body image has shifted and how her relationship with food and her body has changed for the better. In this episode: What prompted her struggles with food and body Finding herself slowly gaining weight Starting the cycle of attempting to restrict her eating Realizing that food was way more than a physical sensation for her and feeling controlled by food Trying to find herself in college and dealing with an eating disorder Using Adderall to help herself restrict food The cycles of binging and restricting from food How connecting to faith helped her to get on a better path The reality of how what she was doing was affecting her health Knowing that something had to change Not letting her husband in on her struggles How she found the FFM and her fears about joining The impact of the community aspect in the course What happened in her relationship with food after joining the FFM How her breakthroughs have come incrementally through the course Where Lisa sees herself going from here and how she feels about her body image Why she decided to commit to the Rise with Me Live event What mountain top living means to Lisa Links: **Update** We now offer something EVEN better then the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up! Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program. You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

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0:00.0	What's up, sister? Welcome back to the show. I don't know about you, but man, have I been feeling all of the feels the last few weeks with everything going on with the coronavirus, the global uncertainty that we are all dealing with? It has been a time in human history. And I swear, the only thing that has kept me from flying off the handle and losing it has been the consistency with my morning routine. I am telling you, a morning routine will change your life. It'll bring clarity in the midst of the chaos. It'll bring peace in the midst of everything that is going on. It is the thing that has kept me sane. It has kept me focused. It's kept me calm and grounded.
0:39.1	And I've been able to release fear and anxiety and things that are triggering because of my
0:44.1	morning routine. So if you have not yet joined the free Rise with Me Live morning routine challenge,
0:48.7	I'll put a link to that in the show notes. But we need each other now more than ever, and we need clarity and peace and
0:56.1	groundedness in the midst of this time more than ever. And I know those of you who are
1:00.6	struggling with food and body image challenges, this is an especially triggering time. And I just
1:06.4	want to offer you support and love. I see you. I know that this is a triggering time. We have all of
1:11.5	these highly palatable foods in our cabinets and a lot of us are having to stay at home and you're
1:16.9	in the presence of all this food that you aren't normally. So it's challenging. And I just want to
1:22.1	acknowledge that it also is challenging and brings up a lot of body image struggles and insecurities and fears and the
1:29.2	gym is closed and a lot of you are working from home for the first time and it's and some of you
1:34.0	have kids that are home and you're adjusting to homeschooling. So life is exceptionally different than
1:39.5	it was just one month ago. And I just want you to know that I'm here for you. And I promise getting consistent
1:46.8	with even just 12 minutes of a morning routine will change the entire trajectory of your day, how you
1:52.8	feel about yourself, how you feel about your body. So come on in to our free group. Get that link in the
1:58.1	show notes and get some rest and some nourishment and some love
2:02.3	for your soul first thing in the morning. So anyways, let's dive into this episode. You're about
2:06.6	to hear an incredible story that will bring you a lot of inspiration and encouragement in
2:12.3	the midst of this time. You're about to hear from a woman named Lisa. She has overcome struggles with binging and
2:19.7	restricting drugs and alcohol, being addicted to Adderall and dealing with anxiety and
2:26.0	depression and keeping this all in a very secret, isolated place to coming out of these
2:32.1	struggles and completely blossoming into a confident, balanced, healthy,
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