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[Recover Strong] Facing your FOOD FEARS: Exploring the role of a FEAR DIARY in exposure therapy

Love & Learn

Jessica Flint

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 580 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

"Exposure therapy is like jumping off a cliff when you can't see the bottom, and hoping there's a landing."

Dr. Carolyn Becker, leading expert in exposure therapy for eating disorders, breaks down how to effectively create and utilize a fear diary to help you find more peace and freedom with food & body.


Take a listen as she sheds more light on the most scientifically backed method for reducing fears in recovery. Hear specifically how fear diaries help you pinpoint and confront the triggers of food anxiety, transforming how you heal.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Recover Strong, a show that will transform your recovery from an eating disorder by helping you go from theory to practice to mastery.

0:08.4

I'm Jessica Flint, founder of Recovery Warriors, and you are listening to our podcast channel created specifically for you in all the stages and phases of recovery.

0:18.0

I want to celebrate you for carving out this special time to learn new skills,

0:22.7

tools, and get inspiration you need to recover strong. Let's get started.

0:28.5

Good morning, warriors. Time to start your day. Keep your head up marching on, don't another stand in your way.

0:44.8

Hello, Warrior. I'm your host, Andrea Wells. And just like you, I understand what it's like to live with an eating disorder and be held back by body-image struggles.

0:55.2

The recovery journey is ongoing, and we're all in it together as we learn to embrace

0:59.9

new behaviors and new thoughts day by day. Join me as I connect with eating disorder experts

1:05.7

and thought leaders to give you the tools, resources, and strategies you need to recover strong.

1:21.9

Today I'm bringing you a sneak peek into an expert Q&A session held live inside the Courage Club with Dr. Carolyn Becker, a leading expert in exposure therapy for eating disorder recovery. And Carolyn, along with

1:29.6

her colleagues, recently released the book, Eat Without Fear, harnessing science to confront and

1:34.7

overcome your eating disorder. And this step-by-step workbook breaks down the entire exposure

1:39.9

therapy process so you can recover at home either on your own or in conjunction with your

1:45.0

existing treatment team. We have a 30% discount for Eat Without Fear for all of our listeners,

1:50.0

so I'll drop a link to the discount code and other conversations I've had with Dr. Carolyn

1:54.4

Becker on exposure therapy in the show notes below. Now today we'll explore the Fear Diary,

2:00.3

which is made up of specific steps to

2:02.4

help you clearly identify your fears in recovery, along with the avoidance and safety-seeking

2:07.2

behaviors behind them. This is one of the first and most important steps to the exposure

2:12.0

therapy process. And I remember creating a fear diary for exposure therapy during treatment,

2:20.7

both for an eating disorder and for obsessive compulsive disorder.

2:22.1

I am in recovery for both.

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