[Recover Strong] 5 REASONS CONTROL is linked to eating disorders
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Jessica Flint
4.8 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
"An eating disorder starts out as a way to gain control, until it starts controlling you."
When we feel a lack of control in our lives, we experience anxiety and despair. We seek to make our environments and our lives predictable. With an eating disorder our food, weight, and self-concept becomes meticulously managed and controlled. We create routines, build habits, and organize our lives around behaviors that provide a sense of safe and familiarity.
In this episode, we explore the scientific research on the role control plays in eating disorders and the different reasons it manifest.
With a greater awareness you gain a greater ability to change.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Recover Strong, a podcast that will transform your recovery from any 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. |
| 0:18.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.4 | Good morning warriors. Time to start your day. Keep your head up marching on. Don't |
| 0:29.8 | understand in your way. |
| 0:36.1 | Hello there, Warrior. 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. |
| 0:55.6 | I believe recovery is not only possible, but it is worth it. |
| 0:59.8 | That is why Recovery Strong exists to help you see and connect to the potential that |
| 1:04.4 | lies within you to find freedom from an eating disorder. |
| 1:09.9 | Today is a Five Things feature where you get more recovery wisdom in less time. |
| 1:15.3 | Each week we talk about five things related to recovery. |
| 1:18.1 | And today's topic is on five reasons control is linked to eating disorders. |
| 1:22.2 | Now control has been something that has been top of mind for me lately. |
| 1:25.4 | I even recently dropped a new affirmation track for |
| 1:27.5 | the daily growth habit on letting go of control and how to surrender into the unknown. Because this |
| 1:34.7 | is such an important process in recovery, is letting go of all the anxiety, anxiety really translating |
| 1:40.3 | to future-oriented fear of what's going to happen, what's going to happen to your |
| 1:44.6 | body, what's going to happen to your life. And so when we can start to understand how to surrender, |
| 1:50.1 | how to let go, what does control look like? That can help a lot in the recovery process. So if you're |
| 1:56.8 | interested in getting that affirmation track for free, go to recovery warriors.com slash habit. |
| 2:01.8 | If you are one of the many who are already subscribed to the daily growth habit, you can get |
| 2:06.8 | that in your podcast player. |
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