THE RECOVERY BEAN

Today I wanted to share my experience of moving away to university whilst battling an Eating Disorder. Before I start I want to disclaim...

Hey everyone, Today I wanted to talk about the challenges of trying to recover in a disordered society. I want to explore how we can...

Hey everyone, As you guys seemed to like my "Bake with me", I thought that today I would do something similar, but this time a "Cook with..

Today I wanted to talk about calorie counting, and explain why it was necessary for me to stop this behaviour in my recovery, and how I...

Hey everyone, Today I wanted to have a look at how the importance of timings and structure has shifted throughout my recovery. This is...

Bit of a different post today, but since being in lockdown, and especially since living with my girlfriend, I have been doing lots more...

The other day I read a post by Jennifer Rollin, discussing the signs of partial recovery, and despite my belief that I'm in active...

Something I've been exploring with my therapist recently, is the ways in which I cope when things go wrong. We have established that I...

Today I wanted to have a quick chat about how I get the most out of my CBT sessions and how I have adapted to online therapy. Everyone's...

Today I wanted to talk about how letting people help me with my ED recovery has been beneficial, and why it's important to remember that...

Something I've been thinking about a lot recently, is how we have a tendency to over complicate things in recovery. I've been feeling...

In today's post I wanted to look at 'All or Nothing' thinking: how it is intertwined with our ED's, and how we can overcome it in recovery..

So today I got my period back. What an opener right? But here's the thing, getting my period back has brought up some unexpected feelings...

As I've mentioned previously over on my Instagram @the_recovery_bean, I am working on setting up a community ED project, and so as part of..

Today I wanted to look at the necessity of eating your fear foods in recovery, and why we will never be able to truly get better by...

I'm talking about the disordered attitude we hold that goes something along the lines of "I'll recover when I'm ready", or in this case...

Today is one of those days that's just a bit rubbish. I didn't sleep well - the night sweats were horrid, I woke up feeling bloated and...

think the first thing we need to remember when applying this methodology, is what fear represents. It's no good telling you to feel this...

Today I wanted to discuss "overshoot", and moreover, why we need to stop treating it like it's something to fear, when it's something we...

Fear is something we talk about a lot in recovery. We have "fear foods", fear of change, of weight gain, of comparison... fear of not...