The Void After Recovery: Why Most People Slip Back And How I Didn't With Georgia
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges faced after eating disorder recovery and how to build a fulfilling life beyond the disorder.
Georgia's back — and this time, things are even deeper. When Georgia first came on the podcast, she was in what she thought was full recovery. And in many ways she was. But what followed taught her something nobody really talks about: recovering from an eating disorder doesn't automatically fill the void it leaves behind. In this episode, we get into what happens after recovery, why so many women find themselves slipping back into old patterns not out of relapse but out of boredom and emptiness, and what it actually looks like to build a life so full there's simply no room for the eating disorder anymore. In this episode, we cover: ✨ Why Georgia doesn't call what happened a relapse — and the crucial distinction that matters ✨ What "complacency in recovery" actually looks like and how quickly it can creep in ✨ Why the identity of being "in recovery" can keep you stuck — and what to shift to instead ✨ The void that recovery leaves behind and why filling it is non-negotiable ✨ How boredom, not desire, can pull you back into eating disorder behaviours ✨ Why recovering from an eating disorder doesn't fix life — and why that's actually good news ✨ The honeymoon…
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