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Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
In this special podcast for Eating Disorder Awareness week, I share some stories and experiences from adults in recovery from eating disorders. Today the focus is relationships, sex, family and kids!
Adults in recovery from eating disorders face different challenges than children and teenagers do. The idea behind AEDRA — Active Eating Disorder Recovery for Adults is that we focus on adults and the specific problems that an adult in recovery will face.
The sex/relationships one is a big topic of conversation for adults. Lack of libido tends to lead to a dramatic fall in the desire to participate in sexual activity. Also the irritability and other disposition changes that many sufferers face as a reaction to malnutrition isn’t exactly a relationship booster. Family life can be fraught as it is, but when an eating disorder barges in it takes on a whole new level of tension.
From lack of interest in sex, to dealing with family reactions to weight loss. That is what we are talking about today.
Active Eating Disorder Recovery for Adults website: http://www.adulteatingdisorderrecovery.com/en/
Private adults only online support group: http://tabithafarrar.com/slack-forum/
Blogs on Anorexia and Money: http://tabithafarrar.com/2016/10/anorexia-money-recovery-meant-look-relationship/
Twitter @Love_Fat_ and @ED_MealSupport
If you want to send me your thoughts on tomorrow’s topic please email me at info@tabithafarrar.com. The Topics that will be covered this week are as follows:
Mon – Work/money – financial issues due to being sick
Tue – Family – partners and children
Wed – Entrenched behaviours/ personal identity crisis after 5,10,20,30 + years of ED identity
Thur – Loneliness
Fri – Not being treated like an adult in treatment
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Monday Feb 27, 2017
In this special podcast for Eating Disorder Awareness week, I share some stories and experiences from adults in recovery from eating disorders. Today the focus is money and work.
Adults in recovery from eating disorders face different challenges than children and teenagers do. The idea behind AEDRA — Active Eating Disorder Recovery for Adults is that we focus on adults and the specific problems that an adult in recovery will face.
The money and work one is a big topic of conversation for adults. We often have to pay for our own treatment. What do we do when we are too sick to work? Recovery is a full time job, so what about taking time out for that? And then there are the money-spending problems that many people with restrictive eating disorders have.
From spending money on putting the heating on to keep a thin and frail body warm enough, to paying thousands for treatment, to actually forking out for that piece of cake that you know you are scared to eat. It all adds up to a lot of money stress. That is what we are talking about today.
Active Eating Disorder Recovery for Adults website: http://www.adulteatingdisorderrecovery.com/en/
Private adults only online support group: http://tabithafarrar.com/slack-forum/
Blogs on Anorexia and Money: http://tabithafarrar.com/2016/10/anorexia-money-recovery-meant-look-relationship/
Twitter @Love_Fat_ and @ED_MealSupport
If you want to send me your thoughts on tomorrow’s topic please email me at info@tabithafarrar.com. The Topics that will be covered this week are as follows:
Mon – Work/money – financial issues due to being sick
Tue – Family – partners and children
Wed – Entrenched behaviours/ personal identity crisis after 5,10,20,30 + years of ED identity
Thur – Loneliness
Fri – Not being treated like an adult in treatment
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
In this podcast Tabitha has the pleasure of chatting with parent advocate and coach Eva Musby. We talk about:
- Nonviolent communication skills
- Exhaustion, shame, regrets, and how to deal with these normal emotions
- How kindness can heal for all parties involved
- Origins of stress for parents of people with eating disorders
- Types of stress and how eating disorder play into them
- How to really not take rebuttal, hate, and withdrawal personally
- Setting up for the long haul – as eating disorders can take years to treat
- Nurturing friendships, mindfulness, living with joy to enable you to stay in it for the long haul.
- Self compassion vs self esteem — and why you need both!
- Why you need to take time out – and how to do it!
- Action! How taking action can relieve stress for parents and caregiver.
- The importance of getting support
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Friday Feb 24, 2017
Friday Feb 24, 2017
In this podcast Tabitha talks about her experience with recovery binges when she was recovering from Anorexia. She describes how she went from restriction, into a binge-restrict cycle. More importantly, she talks about how the way out of that binge-restrict cycle is to find the restriction that is still present in your eating and eliminate it. thus allowing the body to eat freely and unlimited.
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More information on this topic in the following blog posts:
Why You Cannot Possibly Eat Too Much In Recovery From Anorexia
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Monday Feb 20, 2017
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Tabitha talks to Christina Fisanick about her experience with Binge Eating Disorder.
In this podcast we talk about:
- Being honest in recovery
- Understanding that anybody can relapse
- The Anorexia recovery binges are not Binge Eating Disorder. More on this here: http://tabithafarrar.com/2017/02/recovery-binges-not-end-world/
- Important of using support in Binge Eating Disorder Recovery
- The assumptions that are made about Binge Eating Disorder
- Mindfulness and Binge Eating Disorder Recovery.
- Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder not being weight loss orientated.
- Being healthy in your own size.
Christina Fisanick Greer, Ph.D. is professor of English at California University of Pennsylvania and the author of more than 35 books. Her memoir, The Optimistic Food Addict: Recovering from Binge Eating Disorder, explores her more than 30 year battle with an eating disorder and other personal challenges. Her most recent writing has appeared on the National Eating Disorder Association’s website and on her blog, Optimistic Food Addict. She is the founder of Food Addiction Recovery, a Facebook-based support group which has nearly 9,000 members.
The Optimistic Food Addict: Recovering from Binge Eating Disorder
http://amzn.to/2lA8kcM
Website: OptimisticFoodAddict.com
Other resources:
https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/stories-of-hope/christina-fisanick-greer-phd
Facebook/FoodAddictionRecovery
AEDRA Meal Support:
http://www.adulteatingdisorderrecovery.com/en/
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Sunday Feb 12, 2017
Sunday Feb 12, 2017
In this podcast Tabitha gets to talk to one of her favorite eating disorder experts: Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh. We discuss FEAST, eating disorder peer support forums, and how to take the sting out of an eating disorder diagnosis for the family members involved.
Laura founded FEAST, and this website is a true gift for any parent navigating the world of eating disorders. Since FEAST Laura has stayed active in the eating disorder parent community and works with treatment centers on how they can better gear services towards families from start to end.
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh wrote the book “Eating With Your Anorexic,” which provided a blueprint for all parents struggling with the elemental challenge of parenting a child with anorexia nervosa.
In 2008, Laura became the original Executive Director of FEAST — Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders.
Laura now operates Circum Mensam. She offers her knowledge and experience in the field of eating disorders from a parent perspective to educational and advocacy organizations. Starting in 2017 Laura is also providing services for parents as well: through private consultations and Starfish Packages.
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Sunday Feb 05, 2017
Sunday Feb 05, 2017
In this podcast, Tabitha talks with former NFL player Patrick Devenny about being a man with Bulimia. We talk about the mental and physical complications that his illness brought and how these affected his life. We also talk about the role of exercise and how Patrick’s compulsion to exercise was a large part of the problem. Patrick is now on a recovery path, and while he says that there is still a way to go, he knows that the treatment that he has received from the eating disorder specialists that he has worked with has been invaluable to his recovery.
It takes incredible strength to recover from an eating disorder. It takes even more self acceptance to talk about it openly in a world where many people believe that eating disorders are a phase that teenage girls go through. Patrick is doing a fantastic service by talking about his experience with bulimia. It shows incredible strength and courage and I hope that he will lead the way so that more men can get treatment.
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Sunday Jan 29, 2017
Sunday Jan 29, 2017
In this podcast, Tabitha has a chat to Ryan Sheldon. Ryan talks about how he first discovered that he had binge eating disorder (BED), how it impacted his life and his mental health, and how he progressed through treatment.
In this podcast, we discuss:
- Binge Eating Disorder from a sufferer’s perspective
- Cultural implications of being a man with an eating disorder
- The behaviors and thought patterns associated with Binge Eating Disorder
- The importance of speaking out and seeking support
- The effects of treatment
- What recovery looks like for Ryan
About Ryan
Ryan Sheldon is founder of Confessions of a Binge Eater, a blog he created to share about his journey with Binge Eating Disorder (BED). Ryan hopes his story will help others suffering from BED overcome shame and embarrassment. In particular, Ryan provides a voice for the many men struggling eating disorders while encouraging them to get help.We want your feedback!
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Sunday Jan 22, 2017
Sunday Jan 22, 2017
Tabitha talks to Carrie Arnold on her experience on adult eating disorder recovery when Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Anorexia are present together. Anorexia brings its own type of OCD behaviors, however for adults in recovery who also have premorbid OCD on top of that, recovery can be even more complicated.
In this podcast we discuss:
- Premorbid OCD with Anorexia
- Contamination fears and other non-eating disorder related OCD behaviors
- Strategies to limit the disruption to recovery
- The importance of putting recovery as a priority as an adult with an eating disorder
- Later onset eating disorders
About Carrie Arnold
Carrie Arnold is an award winning blogger, freelance science writer, and author living in Virginia. She writes on a variety of topics from microbiology to evolution. Carrie is in recovery from anorexia, and is very active in the eating disorder community as an advocate for better research and treatments.
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Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
In this podcast I explain negative energy balance (energy deficit) in restrictive eating disorders. I talk about what it actually is, how it is different in a person with an eating disorder compared to a person without an eating disorder, and how if feels.
Energy deficit is important to understand as it helps us figure out why something that feels really good for us can actually be very bad for us. In order to recover, sufferers have to learn to resist the lure of negative energy balance and the soothing aspects of it. While this creates anxiety and uncomfortableness at first, it is an important aspect of recovery.
Understanding the mechanisms behind restrictive eating disorders can help us figure out what we need to do in order to overcome them.
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Monday Jan 09, 2017
Monday Jan 09, 2017
In this podcast I interview Tara Deliberto. Tara is the director of the new Eating Disorders Partial Hospitalization Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
In this podcast we discuss
- Recovery resource services such as Eating Disorder’s Partial Hospitalization Program.
- How having to eat puts us in a constant state of fearfulness.
- The difference between treating the eating disorder and treating the underlying cause.
- Why the eating disorder needs treatment first and foremost.
- Why and how eating disorders are deadly.
- Programs aimed at helping adults in recovery.
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Monday Dec 26, 2016
Monday Dec 26, 2016
In this Podcast, Tabitha Farrar Speaks to Therese Waterhous on Creating a Complete Treatment Model for Eating Disorders
In this podcast we discuss:
- Myths and limitations of inpatient treatment for eating disorders
- Problems with short-sighted treatments
- How to work together to incorporate a long-term plan
- Training practitioners in up-to-date treatments for eating disorders
- Recognizing exercise as a symptom of an eating disorder and setting expectations around levels of exercise for a person in recovery with parents
- Problems arising from lack of good communication between practitioners and parents/patients.
About Therese S. Waterhous
Therese S. Waterhous is a PhD/RDN, CEDRD and IAEDP (International Assn. of eating Disorders Professionals) approved supervisor, is owner of Willamette Nutrition Source, LLC, a private outpatient practice devoted to eating disorders care. Therese has formal training in basic research, clinical nutrition and multidisciplinary team treatment of severe pediatric disorders.
Therese co-authored the AND (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) Practice Paper on nutrition intervention in treatment of eating disorders, authored the online chapter for the AND on pediatric eating disorders and she is immediate past Director of the Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness nutrition practice group’s eating disorder subunit as well as being a professional advisor for FEAST-ED.org. She is the credentialing chair for the Oregon IAEDP chapter, served as co-chair of the Family Based Treatment SIG, within the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED) and she currently serves on the Medical Care Standards Committee for the AED and also the Health and
Nutrition Committee for IAEDP. Therese enjoys conducing trainings for health care professionals on eating disorder research and treatment and educating the general public about eating disorders.
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Sunday Dec 18, 2016
Sunday Dec 18, 2016
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talk to Dr Laura Hill about the neurobiology of eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa. We also talk about the new treatment approach that Dr Hill is developing. In this podcast we discuss:
- The history of research and understanding about eating disorders
- The importance of involving the family in all aspects of treatment and educating support persons.
- How understanding how eating disorders affect areas of the brain can explain the behaviors demonstrated by patients
- The developments in treatment models as informed by neurobiology and patient studies
- Dr Laura Hill’s contributions to the field of the neurobiology behind eating disorders
- Treatment gaps and technologies to fill them
- Eating disorders as brain-based illnesses
- Developing compassion and understanding and applications for treatment
About Dr Laura Hill
Dr. Laura Hill is the President & CEO of The Center for Balanced Living, a free standing not-for-profit organization that specializes in the education, treatment and research of eating disorders. Dr Hill is the recipient of Muskingum University Distinguished Service Award in 2014, the National Eating Disorders Association 2011 Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness and was a TEDx Columbus speaker in 2012. She is an original founder of the Academy for Eating Disorders in 1993 and was Director of what is now known as The National Eating Disorder Association from 1990 to 1994.
She is the lead author of the Family Eating Disorder Manual, 2012; and has conducted research and spoken internationally over the last 35 years. She is a recipient of the national Feeding Hope award by NEDA, in collaboration with UCSD Eating Disorder and Research.
Find out more about Dr Laura Hill here: http://www.centerforbalancedliving.org/laura-hill/
Link to the recent study that we discussed:
http://jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40337-016-0119-x
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Sunday Dec 11, 2016
Sunday Dec 11, 2016
In this podcast Tabs talks to Emily Troscianko about what we refer to as “overshoot” in eating disorder recovery.
In this podcast we discuss:
- Why not to stop halfway in recovery
- What exactly overshoot is in eating disorder recovery
- The importance of fat as an organ
- Why overshoot is a natural part of recovering from an eating disorder
- Why trusting the body is so crucial … but so hard!
- The greatness of life without an eating disorder
About Emily Troscianko
Emily Troscianko does research on the psychological effects of reading fiction, especially as they relate to mental health. She also writes a blog about eating disorders and is coauthoring a textbook on consciousness. She suffered from anorexia between the ages of 16 and 26, and is thankful that it wasn’t longer.
http://www.troscianko.com, is where you can find out more about Emily, and her blog is at, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hunger-artist.
I you are interested in learning more about “overshoot” the following resources may be of interest to you.
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Tuesday Dec 06, 2016
Tuesday Dec 06, 2016
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks about how people with eating disorders who are in active recovery can not only survive Christmas but come out feeling stronger and more in control than they were before.
Thanksgiving, family meals, Christmas and other such celebrations are hard work for a person with an eating disorder.
- How to prepare for the day without letting the eating disorder ruin it before it starts
- How to manage eating disorder thoughts leading up to Christmas
- How to stick to your guns with your recovery plan leading up to Christmas
- When to know if Christmas with family is a good idea or not.
- Understanding that recovery is a priority.
There is a blog post for this episode here.
This podcast contains actionable tips on how to manage an eating disorder leading up to Christmas.
If you are interested in either the Slack group for adults in active recovery from an eating disorder, or the group for adults helping adults in active recovery, please contact Tabitha.
Sunday Dec 04, 2016
Sunday Dec 04, 2016
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Beth Rosen, MS, RD, CDN, a Registered Dietitian promoting a non-diet approach to wellness.
- Origins of health at every size
- Dental issues in eating disorders
- Diet industry business model and how it exploits
- Overshoot in eating disorder recovery
- False truths and how they govern our eating decisions
- Dangers of diet rules
- Getting rid of the thin ideal
- How to be an activist for health at every size!
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Sunday Nov 27, 2016
Sunday Nov 27, 2016
Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr. Lauren Muhlheim on the subject of compulsive exercise in eating disorders such as Anorexia. We discuss:
- Why exercise in eating disorders is a problem
- The dangers of exercising when you are underweight
- How to know if exercise is part of the eating disorder rather than a healthy pastime
- The problem of recognizing exercise as an eating disorder symptom
- Experiments in starvation in rats
- Exercise and excessive movements in children with eating disorders
- What lab experiments and observation in children can teach us about exercise as a symptom of an eating disorder
Article in Verywell on exercise written by Dr. Muhlheim
Dr. Lauren Muhlheim
Dr. Lauren Mulhleim is a clinical psychologist at Eating Disorder Therapy LA who specializes in providing evidence-based cognitive behavioral psychotherapy for a variety of problems experienced by adults including eating disorders. Dr. Muhlheim regularly volunteers her time for several organizations including the Academy for Eating Disorders, the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, and Best Friends LA. She is my go-to professional and a highly valued member of the eating disorder advocacy community.
In short: Dr. Muhlheim gets eating disorders. Check out her website for more information and resources and follow her on twitter @drmuhlheim
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Thursday Nov 24, 2016
Thursday Nov 24, 2016
In this podcast I talk about the Binge/Purge Cycle In Anorexia Recovery that many of us experience. Some people find it very difficult to break this cycle once it is an established behavior. This podcast includes some practical advice on how to overcome and move through into full recovery.
In this podcast, Tabitha talks about:
- Her own experience in binge eating and purging behavior
- The destructiveness of the binge/purge cycle
- How to overcome the binge/purge cycle
- Why binge eating is common in eating disorder recovery
- The importance of not restricting food or purging via exercise
- Why we don’t negotiate with eating disorders
Full blog post on the binge/purge cycle in eating disorder recovery here.
Information on Tabitha Farrar can be found here
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Sunday Nov 20, 2016
Sunday Nov 20, 2016
In this podcast I explain the crucial difference between treating the trigger vs treating the eating disorder. For any person in recovery from an eating disorder or any person who is helping a sufferer recover this is a concept that you will really have to grasp in order to decide on the most effective form of treatment.
- Triggers are separate from the eating disorder and should be treated separately
- Weight restoration should be the priority in people who are underweight
- Treating triggers is important but not as important as weight restoration
- Once weight restored trigger issues are easier to treat due to the patients increased physical and mental resources.
If you are an adult in recovery or a parent/partner of an adult in recovery please remember that I have a peer support Slack group for you to join if you are looking for more support. You can find out more here.
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Sunday Nov 13, 2016
Sunday Nov 13, 2016
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks about how people with eating disorders who are in active recovery can not only survive Thanksgiving but come out feeling stronger and more in control than they were before.
Thanksgiving, family meals, Christmas and other such celebrations are hard work for a person with an eating disorder.
- How to prepare for the day without letting the eating disorder ruin it before it starts
- How to manage eating disorder thoughts leading up to Thanksgiving
- How to stick to your guns with your recovery plan the morning of Thanksgiving
- How to not only get through the meal, but even enjoy it.
- How to deal with the eating disorder guilt thoughts post Thanksgiving dinner.
This podcast contains actionable tips on how to manage an eating disorder over a holiday meal.
If you are interested in either the Slack group for adults in active recovery from an eating disorder, or the group for adults helping adults in active recovery, please contact Tabitha.