Finding Your Way Through Social Media, Fitness Culture and Plant-Based Eating in Recovery with Sophie Macfie

About this episode

In this episode, Hannah Hickinbotham talks with Sophie Macfie about navigating social media, fitness culture, and plant-based eating during recovery from disordered eating.

Have you ever found yourself struggling to navigate social media in recovery, comparing, doom scrolling, and falling into patterns you thought you'd left behind? This episode is for you. This week on the Full of Beans Podcast , I'm joined by Sophie Macfie, founder of Soph's Plant Kitchen, cookbook author, and personal trainer, who shares her own experience of disordered eating and how she's built a life that genuinely nourishes her in every sense of the word. We also talk about the complicated relationship between wellness culture, the fitness industry, and recovery, and why it can be so hard to tell the difference between what's helping and what isn't. In this episode, we explore: Sophie's own experience of disordered eating and what helped her turn a corner Why social media can feel so triggering in eating disorder recovery How plant-based eating can be a genuine expression of values, and when it isn't The fitness industry, body ideals and why aesthetics can be a trap The "strong not skinny" movement, where it lands and where it falls short Why what you're drawn to on social media can signal where you are in your recovery Responsibility for harmful content online: the person…

People in this episode

Host: Hannah Hickinbotham

Guest: Sophie Macfie

Topics covered

• social media in recovery
• disordered eating
• plant-based eating
• wellness culture
• fitness industry
• body ideals
• recovery journey

Keywords

• social media
• recovery
• disordered eating
• plant-based
• wellness culture
• fitness
• body image
• strong not skinny

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Soph's Plant Kitchen

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