EXERCISE ADDICTION, food restriction, and extreme perfectionism with Paul Beuttenmuller
Love & Learn
Jessica Flint
4.8 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
"Exercise is a celebration of what the body can do, not a punishment for what it did."
Paul spent so much of his life trying to keep up with the perfect "golden boy" image. This included pretending that everything was okay on the outside, while hiding his true struggles and pain from the world.
Now, Paul is open about everything he’s been through. And in this inspiring episode he encourages you that it does get better. There’s still so much road ahead of you and there’s so much you can do with it if you’re willing to go through the process. Be vulnerable, seek treatment, and really do what you need to do and you’ll be able to get to the other side and do those things you’ve always dreamed about.
For a textbook perfectionist and overachiever, Paul's recovery process has shown him that life is not defined by medals and material things, but by experiences and emotions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Recover Strong, a podcast that will transform your recovery from an eating disorder by helping you go from theory to practice to mastery. |
| 0:10.4 | This is your special time to learn new skills, tools, and get the inspiration you need to recover strong. |
| 0:17.6 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.5 | Good morning, Warriors. |
| 0:23.6 | Time to start your day. |
| 0:25.6 | Keep your head up marching on. |
| 0:29.6 | Don't understand in your way. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello there, Warrior. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm your host, Jessica Flint. I'm the founder and CEO of Recovery Warriors, a wisdom sharing platform for all people impacted by an eating disorder. Recovery Warriors provides resources and support to heal your relationship to food, body, mind, and soul. I believe recovery is not only possible, |
| 0:57.1 | but it is worth it. That is why Recovery Strong exists to help you see and connect to the potential |
| 1:03.3 | that lies within you to find freedom from an eating disorder. Today we have a conversation |
| 1:10.6 | with Paul Butenmiller. He is an inspirational warrior who |
| 1:13.7 | overcame extreme perfectionism and overachieving. After suffering in silence for many years |
| 1:18.6 | with exercise addiction, restriction, and purging behaviors, Paul finally sought treatment. Now he's |
| 1:24.9 | secure in his recovery and talking openly and vulnerably about his struggles. Paul is a radiant example that recovery is possible when we |
| 1:32.8 | surrender to the healing process. Before we get into Paul's story, I want to invite you to take |
| 1:37.9 | our listener survey and enter our raffle for a free recovery strategy session with me. |
| 1:42.7 | I'm picking two lucky winners at the upcoming new moon, |
| 1:45.7 | and if you don't win this time around, you'll stay in the running each new moon. Now, I'm actually |
| 1:50.9 | one of these people who've done raffles a lot over the years and like never win. And I'm always like, |
| 1:57.1 | yes, I'm going to win. I'm going to win. And I just want to say, guys, I just |
| 2:01.2 | want a raffle the other day. My first raffle. So, I don't know, I believe in the raffle, the power of the raffle. You can win. I just won. We're all winners. But anyways, I just want to say that if you don't win the first time around that you'll continue to be in the pot and potentially get drawn at the next new moon. |
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