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By: Jellis Vaes Read When: podcast
For most of us, food is a delight to enjoy every day. Whether alone or with family, friends, our spouse, children, or strangers. However, what might be nothing but a pleasant experience for someone can harbor great demons for others.
For some, what they can eat, how much they can eat, why they eat, and so many other thoughts and beliefs around food, are a daily occupation that runs through their head constantly.
As outsiders who do not struggle with eating and food, it can be confusing to understand exactly what eating disorders are about.
As our guest for this interview here on the IPS Podcast, Ashley McHan, a licensed eating disorder and trauma specialist says;
“Eating disorders are not about food.”
But what then are eating disorders about?
It is complicated.
Which is exactly why we invited a specialist on the podcast to talk about them.
For those reading who struggle or think they might struggle with an eating disorder; in this interview you will find a whole lot of compassion, understanding, and practical tips and advice on what to do.
Also, for anyone reading who is seeking to help someone, this interview with Ashley will answer many of your questions and give you practical takeaways to be there for someone else.
Understanding eating disorders and knowing what to do can be challenging both for those struggling and those trying to help someone.
But to quote Ashley:
“One of the other things that people have in common regardless of any variation of disordered eating to diagnosable eating disorders, is that lack of belief that your life can change. That you can do it.”
However, as you will learn in this interview, change truly is possible. Yes it will take time, yes it will take effort, and yes there will be ups and downs, but the path of healing is one that is available to all of us.
I sincerely hope through this interview and the additional resources provided down below, we at The IPS Project can ever so slightly aid you on this path of healing.
With that please enjoy this insightful interview with licensed therapist Ashley McHan.
“What I came to see that we all have in common is that these underlying limiting beliefs were there for all of us, but sent us in different directions. Sent us into different unhealthy coping strategies.”
“If you look at patterns of eating disorders as coping gone wrong, if you look at the patterns of eating disorders as symptoms of a problem, then you start to look at it a bit differently. Why might it make sense that a person is doing this?”
Question about this episode: Did you find this episode with Ashley to be helpful? Did it help you in understanding eating disorders better? Also if you would like to share your story or something else related to this topic, feel free to share down below in the comments.
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