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Fly To Freedom: The anorexia recovery podcast — 163 episodes

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How Do You Recover When Fear Keeps Winning? A Q&A on Restriction, Body Image and Taking Action

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Why Recovery Isn't Just About Willpower: A Compassionate Conversation on Identity, Feelings, Hypnotherapy and Change

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Q&A: What If Eating Disorder Recovery Doesn't Change My Life? Trust, Hope and Learning to Let Go of Certainty

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Somatic Healing, ADHD & Eating Disorder Recovery with Beverley Atkins

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Groundhog Day Recovery: Why You Keep Ending Up Back Where You Started

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2026-14 - Q&A: When Eating Disorder Recovery Feels Terrifying - Fear of Weight Gain, Compensating, Trauma & Choosing Recovery

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2026-13 - You Don’t Have to Push Yourself Anymore: Reclaiming Exercise After an Eating Disorder

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Eating Disorder Recovery Q&A: Body Image, Exercise Addiction, Night Hunger, Shame, and Control

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155 - Successful on the Outside, Struggling Within. How Dr Laura Found the Life Waiting Beyond the Eating Disorder

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Why Recovery Still Feels Hard: A Compassionate Q&A on Fear, Hunger, Control and Hope

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Recovery Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All: Navigating Eating Disorders in Complex Bodies – With Rachael Stern

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Why You Feel Like You're Doing Recovery Wrong

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Eating Disorder Recovery Q&A: Fullness, Weight & Trust

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Learning to Stop Performing for Love in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Q&A: Nervous System Regulation, Identity, Extreme Hunger & Going All In During Eating Disorder Recovery

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Bulimia Recovery: What’s Really Driving the Binge–Purge Cycle, Laxatives Myths, and Compulsive Exercise

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Appetite Suppression Isn’t Care: A Hard Conversation About Weight Loss Injections

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Eating Disorder Recovery: Why Action Beats “Feeling Ready” (Chris Sandel)

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Perfectionism: The Constant Pressure to Be Doing Things Right

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Episode 144: Q&A - When Recovery Feels Terrifying — Extreme Hunger, Food Obsession, “All In”, Set Point, and Rebuilding Trust in Eating Disorder Recovery

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A Christmas Meditation for Overwhelm, Rest, and Self-Permission

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Episode 142: Breaking Free: A Family's Journey Through Eating Disorder Recovery with Di Archer

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Episode 141: The Hidden Struggle: Men, Muscularity & Eating Disorders — with George Mycock

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Episode 140: When Joy Feels Out of Reach This Festive Season

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Episode 139: Q&A with Victoria: Toddler Walks, ‘Fat & Frumpy’ Thoughts & Feeling the Fear in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Episode 138 – Edema in Eating Disorder Recovery: Why Swelling Is a Sign of Healing

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Episode 137: November Q&A. Your questions - answered!

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Episode 136: How to Answer Back When the Brain Says “Don’t Gain Weight”

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Episode 135: How Anxiety Fuels Eating Disorders (and How to Heal the Alarm in Your Body) with Dr Russell Kennedy

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Episode 134: You Hold The Pen - Your New Story Starts Here

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Episode 133: Q&A with Vic: Fear, Fullness and Self-Acceptance in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Episode 132: Set Point Weight Explained: Stop Fighting Your Body

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Episode 131: Angela's journey from Quasi-Recovery to Freedom

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Episode 130: What if ‘fat’ isn’t a feeling?

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Episode 129: Tabitha Farrar: Breaking Free from Anorexia

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Episode 128: Can You Heal Without Facing Trauma? The Tender Truth About Recovery

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Episode 127: From Quasi-Recovery Fears to Episode 127: Family Trust and Body Changes - MONTHLY Q&A WITH VICTORIa

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Episode 126: From the Darkest Place to Freedom – My Full, Unfiltered Eating Disorder Recovery Story

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Episode 125: From Fear to Freedom – Sydney’s Inspiring Recovery Story

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Episode 124: Tough Love, Real Self-Love: What It Really Means to Show Up for Yourself in Recovery

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Episode 123: “Am I Doing Recovery Wrong?” Real Answers to the Hardest Questions

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Episode 122: Sex, Shame and Learning to Feel Again in Recovery

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Episode 121: Breaking the Cycle: Understanding and Healing Purging Behaviours with Dr Rachel Evans

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Episode 120: When Anorexia and Recovery Feel Like Two Equal Loves

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Episode 119: Letting Go of Control, Moving Through Fear, and Redefining Exercise – July Q&A with Victoria & Me

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Episode 118: Why Bother with Recovery? A Message for When You Feel Like Giving Up

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Episode 117: The Truth About Diet Culture, BMI, and Recovery: A Raw Conversation with Dr Cristina Castagnini

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Episode 116: Understanding the Urge to Purge: What It Really Means and How to Begin Healing

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Episode 115: A Healing Journey: Sarah Rzemieniak on Eating Disorder Recovery, Motherhood and Finding Her True Self

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Episode 114: Is It Really Possible to Get Past the Fear of Weight Gain in eating disorder recovery?

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Episode 113: Eating Disorders, Health Myths, and Liberation: A Wake-Up Call with Lucy Aphramor

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Episode 112: Healing the Inner Child: A Missing Piece in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Episode 111: Julia & Vic Roleplay Q&A!

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Episode 110: Why do we fear our feelings? (and why thats ok)

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Episode 109: Julia & Vic's Monthly Catch-up

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Episode 108: You Don’t Have to Do This Alone: Why Support Is Essential in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Episode 107: The Power of Belief, Healing, and Recovery with Dr. Robb Kelly

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Episode 106 - What Healing Feels Like (Part 2) – Understanding the Physical and Emotional Changes in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Episode 105: What Healing Feels Like - Understanding the Physical and Emotional Changes in Recovery

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Episode 104: Julia and Victoria are back again for more Q&A!

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Episode 103: Missing the Eating Disorder – Why Letting Go Feels Like Grief

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Episode 102: So What Is The Anorexic Mindset? with Amy Margolis

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Episode 101: Understanding Atypical Anorexia – The Hidden Struggles

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Episode 100!! Double Love - Q&A With Julia and Victoria

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Episode 99: Why Rest Feels Impossible in Recovery (And Why You Can’t Heal Without It)

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Episode 98: Exploring the Links Between Human Design and Eating Disorders with Katharina Hillenberg

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Episode 97: Understanding Hunger in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Episode 96: Decoding the Hidden Language In Eating Disorders, with Dr Anita Johnston

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Episode 95: Recovery Redefined: Rediscovering Your Authentic Self

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Episode 94: Women are angry A conversation with best selling author Jennifer Cox

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Episode 93: The Role of the Good Girl - People Pleasing in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Episode 92: Building a Stronger US through Recovery

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Episode 91: A Christmas Meditation!

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Episode 90: Protect Your Eating Disorder Recovery: The Power of Boundaries

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Episode 89: The Julia & Vic Christmas Special!

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Episode 88: How did this doctor move from quasi eating disorder recovery to a new life?

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Episode 87: Relapses in eating disorder recovery don’t mean you’ve failed!

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Episode 86: Why Settle for Less? Chris Sandel on Full Recovery and Reclaiming Your Life

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Episode 85: The Truth About Set Point Weight

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Episode 84: Unlocking Recovery: Befriend Your Body

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Episode 83: Mind vs. Recovery: Why Your Brain Sabotages Healing and How to Stop It

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Episode 82: From Anorexia to Freedom: Madison's Inspiring Recovery Journey

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Episode 81: WHY YOU STRUGGLE TO RECOVER FROM AN ED

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Episode 80: Transforming Anorexia Recovery: How Healing Trauma Leads to Real Progress

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Episode 79: Reclaiming Self-Worth: Shifting the ‘Not Good Enough’ Belief in Anorexia Recovery

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Episode 78: How to cope with fear, guilt and anxiety during eating disorder recovery

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Episode 77: You already have what's needed to recover.

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Episode 76 - Have you ever wondered if you're truly ready to break free from your eating disorder?

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Episode 75 - Why is recovery from an eating disorder so hard?

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Episode 74 - Don’t be ashamed of your story with Robyn Shumer

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Episode 73 - How to show up for yourself in eating disorder recovery

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Episode 72 - Exercise, Weight gain and being authentically you with Julia & Victoria

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Episode 71 - Body Image and Eating Disorders - with Harriet Frew

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Episode 70 - Jaq's story - How I recovered from Bulimia

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Episode 69 - Words Matter - How positive self talk and empowering language contribute to eating disorder recovery

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Episode 68 - The excuses we give for not showing up for ourselves to recover from an eating disorder

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Episode 67 - Anorexia Recovery - Dana's recovery story

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Episode 66 - The Power of Letting Go

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Episode 65 - Coping with Extreme Hunger during anorexia recovery

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Episode 64 - Authentic Human Connection: Building Your Village of Support

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Episode 63 - Extreme Hunger, Fear and Fatness with Julia and Victoria

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Episode 62 - Your Inner Child

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Episode 61 - Helpful Tips for Recovery

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Episode 60 - Intuitive Eating

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Episode 59 - How to use Breathwork to help you recover from anorexia.

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Episode 58 - Facing Fears in ED Recovery with Julia & Victoria

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Episode 57 - Feeling Isolated 

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Episode 56 - How Can Homeopathy Help in Recovery?

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Episode 55 - Finding Sisterhood

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Episode 54 - The Reality of Parenting with an ED

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Episode 53 - How to Find Your Strength  

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The Honest Truth of Eating Disorder Recovery with Julia and Victoria

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Episode 51: Psychedelic Therapy in ED Recovery

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Episode 50 - Going “ALL IN”

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Episode 49 - How to feel good in your clothes, with guest Alice Nichol, Stylist

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Episode 48 - Turning Destructive Traits into Productive Ones

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Episode 47 - When you need bigger clothes

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Episode 46 - Hell & Hope in Eating Disorder Recovery with Julia & Victoria

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Episode 45 - Autism, Eating Disorders, and Embracing Neurodiversity

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Episode 44 - Exercise addiction and compulsive movement

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Episode 43 - Can you ever be grateful for the eating disorder ?

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Episode 42 - Developing Consciousness

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Episode-41 The shit that people dont talk about in eating disorder recovery

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Episode 40 - Post christmas feels

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Episode 39 - Weird shit the ED made me do

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Episode 38 - The psychology of behaviour change

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Episode 37 - ORTHOREXIA

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Episode 36 - Katherine Cimorelli shares her ED story (without Song)

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Coping with the festive season 

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Episode 34 - Becoming Embodied

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episode 33 - From shadows to sunshine - Rachel’s journey

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Episode 32 - Body Neutrality

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Episode 31 - Self Love

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Episode 30 - Recovery is Possible with Debbie Lesko

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Episode 29: Listeners' Questions

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Episode 28 - Letting Go Of Limits

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Episode 27 - Coaching with Claire

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Episode 26: Knowing What To Eat

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Episode 25: Anorexia and Us - my husband's story

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Episode 24: Becoming your own best friend

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Episode 23 - Let's talk about the food!

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Episode 22 - I gained weight and........

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Episode 21 - Accessing support - with Jane

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Episode 20 - Overwhelming Guilt

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Episode 19: Finding my new identity- with Karla and Victoria

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Episode 18: An Interview with Harriet Frew

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Episode 17: Living Life Afraid

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Episode 16: Problematic People Pleasing - With Tina O Hoang

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Episode 15: The Lies We Tell!

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Episode 14: When does exercise become unhealthy? With Matt Davis

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Episode 13 - "....but I'm doing it for my health..."

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Episode 12: The Inner Critic, with Abbey Heagney

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Episode 11: Weird ED Behaviours - with Karla Manzanilla

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Episode 10: Lets talk about bingeing - Marianne Miller

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Episode 9: Why are we so afraid of weight gain?

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Episode 8: Overcoming Perfectionism - Dr Menije

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Episode 7: Managing the eating disorder voice

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Episode 6: Lets talk about emotional energy! - Laura Bolgiu

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Episode 5: But How Does It Feel?

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Episode 4: Whats Love Got To Do With It? With Victoria Kleinsman

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Episode 3: Lies! Lies! Lies!

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Episode 2: Do I really have an eating disorder?

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Episode 1: My own eating disorder journey