[Fear Less] Why we SELF-SABOTAGE: Common inner barriers and blocks to success in recovery
Love & Learn
Jessica Flint
4.8 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt the urge to retreat back to your eating disorder, despite making progress in recovery?
In this episode of Fear Less, hosts Jessica Flint and Andrea Wells discuss the topic of self-sabotage and the common inner barriers and blocks to success that individuals with eating disorders often face.
Take a listen and discover what to do when you feel like you're taking two steps forward, and one step back, along with tips on increasing your window of tolerance in eating disorder recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fearless, an audio series designed to help you take action towards letting go of your eating disorder. |
| 0:12.7 | My name is Jessica Flint, and I'll be your guide to helping you embody the recovered version of yourself. |
| 0:18.3 | Like every human being ever to walk this planet, you and I are not |
| 0:22.9 | immune to fear. It is biologically programmed into our brains. At the same time, I'm committed to |
| 0:29.6 | not letting fear control my destiny and want you to have the same freedom. Every time we choose |
| 0:35.7 | courage over fear, we grow stronger and receive what we desire |
| 0:39.3 | most in regards to our recovery, our health, love, wealth, and impact in the world. In order to |
| 0:46.5 | fully let go of your eating disorder and whatever is holding you back in life, you need to learn |
| 0:51.0 | how to alchemize fear into courage. So let's lock arms and do this work together. Time to fly. Time to fly. |
| 1:15.1 | Welcome back, my warrior loves. |
| 1:17.6 | Today we're going to talk about why we self-sabotage and common inner barriers and blocks |
| 1:22.1 | to success. |
| 1:23.3 | And along for this fearless journey is my co-pilot Andrea Wells, the new host of Recovery Strong. Welcome, Andrea. |
| 1:30.0 | Hi, Jessica. Lovely to be here again. Yeah, Andrea, have you, this idea of self-sabotage? |
| 1:35.3 | Is this something that came up for you in your recovery? Was this something you identify as like you would self-sabotage when things started to get better? |
| 1:42.2 | You started to see like you're on path and then |
| 1:44.1 | you would all of a sudden just do something to throw yourself back to into the, you know, |
| 1:50.1 | the eating disorder. Yeah. Well, the age old line is that recovery is not linear. I definitely felt |
| 1:56.5 | like as I was trying to recover from like a binge restrict cycle, feeling like I'm binging again. |
| 2:04.1 | I'm going back into the cycle. I'm like, I'm giving up. I'm done trying. Let's just go back |
| 2:08.4 | into it. Like that happened a lot. And I'd beat myself up for that. Like, why am I self-sabotaging? |
| 2:13.4 | I've made progress. And with hindsight, I can see, well, it's not linear. It takes time. And sometimes |
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