[Recover Strong] Overcoming BULIMIA and finding recovery in MID-LIFE: Julie Wickham’s body story
Love & Learn
Jessica Flint
4.8 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Recovery is possible at ANY age.
Courage Club alumni, social worker, and fellow recovery warrior Julie Wickham has had a transformative journey finding recovery in midlife through Recovery Warriors' programs. She’s here today to share her body image healing story.
Exploring the misconception that 'skinny equals healthy’, Julie challenges harmful cultural narratives and promotes a balanced approach to body, mind, and spirit in health. She also explains how joyful movement and adapting movement for physical limitations has boosted her wellbeing.
From restrictive eating and bulimia, to embracing her body’s needs - Julie offers profound insights into overcoming fear of weight gain and learning to trust the body again. Her story is a powerful reminder to resist societal pressures and diet culture, and that recovery can happen at any stage of life.
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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. |
| 1:10.8 | Thank you. to give you the tools, resources, and strategies you need to recover strong. |
| 1:20.4 | I am joined by Courage Club alumni, social worker, and fellow recovery warrior Julie Wickham. |
| 1:26.0 | She has had such a transformative journey in finding recovery in midlife through Recovery Warriors programs, and she's here today to share her body image healing story. |
| 1:30.9 | Now, these questions that you hear today may sound familiar. |
| 1:34.2 | That's because this past January and February, we aired a mini series called Beyond Body, |
| 1:39.3 | featuring this series of questions. |
| 1:41.5 | And we had such a great response to the format that we are bringing it in |
| 1:45.4 | as an addition to Recovery Strong's expert interviews. And we know how important it is to both |
| 1:51.4 | universalize and individualize food and body amorty struggles. And the Recovery Warrior shows |
| 1:56.6 | is proud to be a platform for many diverse voices to shine light on one journey to recovery. |
| 2:02.4 | So down the road, we hope to turn this format into a standalone show exclusive to sharing |
| 2:07.1 | body image healing stories. But in the meantime, it is living here on Recovery Strong, and I am excited |
| 2:13.0 | to debut it with a longtime listener of the Recovery Warrior shows, Julie. Thank you, Julie, for coming on |
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