Ep 47: Cultivating confidence to share your story with author Carly Newberg

Just Eat Normally: Eating Disorder Recovery

Carly is an Author, Substitute Teacher, and Freelancer specializing in writing, editing, and marketing. As an adolescent, Carly struggled with an eating disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia, and Exercise Addiction) which has contributed to her passion for mental health and overall wellbeing. Carly has been recovered five years and recently worked in a residential treatment facility with those aiming to recover. She gives talks and leads events and workshops throughout Oregon.

In this episode we discuss:

• Impact of growing up with food scarcity and being forced to finish your plate as a child
• How school sports can spiral into an eating disorder
• Purging with exercise and laxatives
• Dealing with people's comments about body changes
• What a self-recovery journey looks like
• Cultivating confidence to share your story and experience of an eating disorder
• How sharing your story can create a new narrative
• Using social media to find a likeminded community in recovery
• Carly's new book, Good Enough

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Carly.

Carly is an Author, Substitute Teacher, and Freelancer specializing in writing, editing, and marketing. As an adolescent, Carly struggled with an eating disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia, and Exercise Addiction). She has been recovered five years and recently worked in a residential treatment facility with those aiming to recover. She gives talks and leads events and workshops throughout Oregon. To hear her full story, read or listen to Carly's memoir, Good Enough: Believing beautiful through Trauma, through Life, through Disorder.

https://www.sincerelycarly.com/

https://www.instagram.com/_sincerelycarly/

https://www.facebook.com/sincerelycarly/

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