People Pleasing and Finding Commitment in Eating Disorder Recovery with Sarah Parker
About this episode
This episode discusses the challenges of people pleasing in eating disorder recovery with psychotherapist Sarah Parker.
Have you ever found yourself trying to balance the needs of your eating disorder, your treatment team, your family, and somewhere in the middle of all of that, completely losing sight of yourself? This episode is for you. This week on the Full of Beans Podcast , I'm joined by Sarah Parker, a psychotherapist based in West Yorkshire, who brings both professional expertise in eating disorder therapy and her own lived experience of fifteen years of anorexia. Sarah knows firsthand how people pleasing can keep you stuck in recovery, doing all the right things, saying all the right things, but doing it for everyone else rather than for yourself. That can be motivating to start with, but after time, motivation can fade and a true commitment to recovery is required. In this episode, we explore: Sarah's own experience of anorexia and what kept her stuck for so long Sarah's experience of detainment, tube feeding, and how collaboration changed this How people pleasing shaped Sarah's experience of treatment Why bringing out the rebel can be more supportive than praising compliance in recovery The difference between motivation and commitment in eating disorder recovery Why commitment helps…
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Host: Hannah Hickinbotham
Guest: Sarah Parker
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Organizations: Full of Beans
Places: West Yorkshire
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