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HOW MY PARENTS RAISED ME

316. EATING DISORDERS: It’s Not About Body Image

HOW MY PARENTS RAISED ME

Dawn Chitty

Self Help, Self Improvement, Relationships, Personal Journals, Self Esteem, Depression, Healing, Health & Fitness, Women Podcast, Trauma, Emotional Abuse, Ptsd, Mental Health, Anxiety, Childhood Trauma, Narcissistic Mother, Society & Culture

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

If you believe that eating disorders are a desperate attempt to achieve the perfect body, that’s not the full story. Anorexia and bulimia often stem from something far deeper—unresolved trauma and a desperate need for love. Discover the real reason behind the struggle and what most people are missing!


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Tags and Categories: trauma, childhood trauma, anorexia, bulimia, eating disorders




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Hey guys, it's Dawn. I want to share some mini episodes with you each week to give you some bite-sized insights into how to heal, new ways to think, truth bombs, choices you can make for yourself.

0:47.6

I want to encourage you on your healing journey.

0:51.3

I want to help you to see through these beautiful shares more of the

0:56.7

truth and give you even more inspiration to heal. I believe in you, you can do this. So here is one of our mini episodes. I hope it's helpful.

1:10.0

Take a listen. I have some kind of memories of being like really jealous of my

1:17.3

sister when she arrived and I wasn't so important anymore and I had some memories of the games that we played and how we were

1:26.4

both happy together. So yeah she is like four and a half years younger, yeah. So you're saying that when she was born, was that a difficult time for you?

1:36.9

I can remember that it was difficult because, you know, the standard older child thing. I was a bit jealous of the attention that was on

1:45.2

her and maybe I developed the way to take the attention away from her and not me and I challenged

1:51.9

myself to be first pupil of my class and just I had this it was a desire that was led by just craving love and attention that's how I got to have the best grades etc it's not

2:05.9

that I really wanted it it's it's just that I wanted the love and attention that

2:11.0

went with it there was sort of anxiety and then there was competition and there was quite a lot going on for you.

2:18.0

What sort of age were you when you started having a difficult relationship with food?

2:24.4

I was 14. Prior to that, I was really quite thin and happy and

2:30.4

when it comes to food at least, was nothing wrong but then at 14 I remember there was a

2:36.7

summer where I again finished top of the class best at school as the spring term ended and in the summer I just

2:47.0

thought I've always been not so good at fitness activities in sports and I was picked last for like teams when they're playing basketball or whatever and I thought to myself I'm going to really tackle this fitness thing so I started exercising but like really brutally so I would go on these

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