#287: What Do Disordered Thoughts Mean About Your Recovery?

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Food Psych Programs, Inc.

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Christy answers an audience question about what disordered thoughts mean about your recovery. We also discuss how to handle the messages floating around online that frame recovery in black-and-white ways that ultimately aren’t super helpful for true healing, the role of social media and other algorithmic technologies in amplifying and incentivizing those messages, and how you might respond when you come across them.

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0:00.0	This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my Intro to Intuitive Eating Mini Course.
0:04.8	If you're interested in exploring how intuitive eating can help and recovery from the full
0:08.9	spectrum of disordered eating and eating disorders, check out my Intro to Intuitive Eating Mini Course.
0:14.6	It'll help you start untangling yourself worth from your eating and your weight
0:18.4	so that you can start feeling freer and more at peace with food in your body.
0:22.3	Just go to christieherison.com slash mini course to get it. That's christieherison.com slash mini course.
0:30.1	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture
0:34.8	and answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach.
0:39.3	I'm your host Christy Harrison and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor,
0:44.8	journalist and author of the book's anti-diet which is available now wherever books are sold
0:50.0	and the wellness trap which will be out in early 2023. And by the way on this show I avoid saying
0:56.0	diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers but we don't censor swear words or other adult
1:01.2	language so listener discretion is advised.
1:29.2	Hey there, welcome to this episode of Food Psych. I'm your host Christy Harrison and today I'm
1:34.4	going to be answering an audience question about what disorder thoughts mean about your recovery.
1:39.8	This is a really important topic because for most people the process of healing from
1:44.0	disordered eating or eating disorders is messy and it involves a long middle phase of being not
1:50.0	as disordered as you were before but also definitely still struggling and still thinking
1:54.8	disordered thoughts even if you're not acting on them. And as this question reveals there are
2:00.2	articles floating around online that frame recovery and really black and white ways that ultimately
2:06.2	aren't super helpful for true healing. So not only will we unpack that but we'll talk a little bit
2:11.9	about the role of social media and other algorithmic technologies in amplifying and incentivizing
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