recovered-ish with chloe cox
Recovered-ish is where we talk about the real side of eating disorder recovery — the messy parts, the confusing parts, and the parts no one wants to say out loud.
I’m Chloe — therapist, recovery coach, and someone who’s been through it myself. Every solo episode gets into the stuff you’re actually dealing with: the constant mental noise, the guilt after eating, the fear of fullness, the body image spirals, the pressure to shrink, and the moments where you’re convinced you’re “failing” at recovery.
This isn’t about perfection or doing recovery the “right” way. It’s about learning how to feed yourself, trust yourself, and build a relationship with your body that isn’t rooted in fear.
You’ll get practical tools, honest conversations, and the kind of support I wish I had when I was in it.
If you want recovery that’s imperfect, human, and actually possible… you’re in the right place.
recovered-ish with chloe cox
how to recover when you have no motivation | the recovered-ish podcast ep. 8
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hello, lovely friends! welcome back to recovered-ish.
today we’re talking about motivation. and more specifically, why it feels so hard to find motivation to recover.
i hear this all the time.
“i don’t feel motivated.”
“i don’t have a strong enough reason.”
“i know what to do, but i can’t make myself do it.”
and the more i sat with this topic, the more i realized something.
motivation works beautifully inside an eating disorder.
there are goals. numbers. boxes to check. clear cause and effect. you restrict and you feel less guilt. you hit a number and your brain gives you a dopamine spike. accomplishment feeds motivation. motivation feeds accomplishment.
it’s a loop.
so when we flip the script and say okay, now i’m going to do the opposite of everything that felt concrete and measurable and “safe,” it makes sense that motivation suddenly disappears.
in this episode, i talk about:
– why eating disorders are incredibly motivating
– how accomplishment and dopamine wire you in
– how self hatred can also fuel motivation
– why recovery feels harder to initiate
– the belief underneath recovery which is “i am deserving of care”
– why mindset work alone rarely moves the needle
– why action has to come before belief
– why motivation is not sustainable
– what actually carries you forward when motivation fails
i also share more of my own story. the false promises my eating disorder made. the flashes of clarity that didn’t last. the fear of being trapped in my own brain. the anger that finally pushed me to take action.
and then we get to the two things that actually move recovery forward long term.
trust.
and risk taking.
if motivation feels unreliable for you right now, this episode is for you.
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