Unrestrict-ED – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, Han & Emily chat through permission seeking. The key takeaways are:

• Act boldly
• Building trust comes after action
• Come back to the word unconditional
• Tune into the ways that your body is giving you permission
• Step back from ED thoughts. Add healthy self pairings.
• Set your ambitions high
• Providing unwavering self-support provides a sense of safety.
• Connect to your why and inner wisdom
• Accept uncertainty
• Forge forward regardless of an orange/ red light

In this episode, Emily and Han discuss extreme appetite at any physical state. The key takeaways are:

• “Normal weight” doesn’t mean “fully nourished”
• Emily’s wonderful house analogy
• Build trust in food availability
• Boldly act without restriction
• EH includes mental hunger
• Ask yourself: What happens if I don’t do this?

In this episode, Han and Emily discuss keeping out of disordered ruts through recovery. The main takeaways from this conversation are:

• Energy deficiency exacerbates a propensity to fall into pattens
• Start your day boldly
• Make radical shifts
• Be reactive (e.g., weekly reflective check-in)
• Be proactive (e.g., set specific intentions)
• Equip your support system with clarity of intentions and permission to hold you accountable 
• Change your environment or use predictive power.
• Prioritise recovery

In this episode, Emily and Han discuss digestion in recovery. If you are interested in knowing more about this topic, Han and Emily recommend the podcast ‘Tummy Troubles in Eating Disorder Recovery’ by Tabitha Farrar and Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani.

In this episode, Han is joined by Ro (@Rorecovering) to discuss pursuing recovery without therapy. Ro speaks about her experience of leaving therapy when she was 19, and feeling an immediate acceleration of progress. Though therapy is a vital tool for some, it may not be a route that all find to be the solution to healing. As always, from the experiences shared, please take what helps and leave what doesn’t.

In this episode, Emily and Han share snippets of their experience with extreme hunger. They cover the questions: ‘how long did extreme hunger last?’ and ‘did you experience EH being a healthy weight?’.

In this episode, Emily and Han discuss the rest, busyness and lower level movement. Within the chat, the energy deprived state and mental hunger are mentioned as driving forces behind these biological urges to keep occupied. Both Emily and Han recommend taking some time to reflect where your drive for productivity and busyness is really coming from, and what your body might be desperately calling for. You have unconditional permission to rest, now and forever.

Is this episode, Han and Emily discuss tips to keep your recovery progressing during the festive period. The key points discussed are: 1. Start now 2. Set boundaries that support your recovery, but avoid allowances that enable your ED 3. Focus on you, your needs, your path and your plate 4. Reframe this challenge as an opportunity 5. Stay present in the moment you are in Check out Emily’s recent YouTube video with more tips on actioning your recovery at Christmas.

In this episode, Emily & Han discuss how food obsession is an extremely appropriate biological response to deprivation. Food hyper-fixation will dissipate when the brain understands it has escaped the famine environment.

In this episode, Emily and Han discuss tips on how to choose what to have for lunch when there seem to be so many options. For further resources for this topic, Emily’s YouTube video (linked below) provides a list-making activity to help out with defining foods that the true you wishes to incorporate. Han’s blog (also linked below) provides some further actionable tips for what to do when you freeze in front of the fridge! 

Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu8sQQyA76c&t=1s 

Blog post: https://www.recover-ed.co.uk/post/food-indecision

For more from Emily and Han: @emilyspence__ @oh_hi_han