Recover To Flourish | Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
Welcome to the Recover To Flourish, The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast, a show dedicated to exploring recovery from an eating disorder. I'm your host, Ciandra, an eating disorder recovery coach and nutritional advisor. Through this podcast, I hope to provide a safe and supportive space for people to learn about eating recovery, share their stories, and connect with others on a similar journey.
In each weekly episode, we'll dive into various topics related to eating disorder recovery, including mindset shifts, self-care practices, and techniques for managing triggers. We'll also feature interviews with experts in the field, as well as people who have successfully overcome their eating disorders. Follow me at @recovertoflourish_pod and @flourishwithciandra.
Recover To Flourish | Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
Social Eating, Comparison & Living Normally Again | Recovery Q&A #2
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Welcome to part two of the Recovery Q&A series.
This week we're moving away from weight gain and talking about something that can feel just as challenging: recovering in a world where everyone seems to have an opinion about food.
How do you stop comparing your plate to everyone else's? What do you do when your family comments on your food? How do you recover when diet culture is everywhere? And does recovery ever reach the point where food just becomes... normal again?
In this episode, I'm sharing my own experiences, the psychology behind comparison and diet culture, and the lessons I've learnt from supporting hundreds of people through eating disorder recovery.
In this episode we cover:
- Why comparing your food to other people's keeps you stuck.
- How your eating disorder uses confirmation bias to reinforce old beliefs.
- Recovering when everyone around you seems to be dieting.
- The difference between self-care and self-control.
- What to do when family members comment on your food or body.
- How to navigate "healthy eating" without slipping back into restriction.
- My biggest motivation for recovery since becoming a mum.
- Whether you can pass an eating disorder onto your children.
- What recovery really looks like years later—and whether food ever becomes ordinary again.
If you've ever felt like you're trying to recover whilst the rest of the world is telling you to eat less, move more, or change your body, this episode is for you.
Because recovery isn't about learning to survive in diet culture.
It's about learning to trust yourself enough that it no longer gets the final say.
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