The Eating Disorder Therapist

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Overcome disordered eating and find peace with food.

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4 hours ago

How to Stop Nighttime Overeating (5 Simple Steps)

4 hours ago

12 min

How to stop nighttime overeating. The reasons why you overeat and how to change this.

Time slots

1.07 Restrictive eating

3.34 Lack of self-care

5.29 Emotional triggers

8.25 Alcohol

10.11 Food is the number one pleasure.

I hope that you find it helpful.

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

🔔 Subscribe to YouTube for weekly eating disorder recovery support, therapy insights, and real conversations about food and healing: https://www.youtube.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist?sub_confirmation=1

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Professional Training:

Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

#HarrietFrew #TheEatingDisorderTherapist #EatingDisorderRecovery #anorexianervosa #atypicalanorexia #DisorderedEating #osfed #FoodFreedomJourney #BingeEatingRecovery #MentalHealthSupport #FoodObsessions #BodyImageHealing #RecoveryIsPossible #EmotionalEating #InnerHealing #TherapyInsights #copingstrategy #copingstrategies #eatingdisorders #bulimiarecovery #bingeeating #psychology #therapist #bulimiarecovery #bulimianervosa #bulimia #selfworth #bingeeating #bingeeatingdisorder #bingeeatingrecovery #bodyimage #bodyimagehealing #bodyimageissues #bodyacceptance #self-trust #trustyourself #recoveryjourney #quasirecovery #recoveryjourney #regulareating #recoveryhacks #nighttimeeating #overeatingtips #bingeeating #bingeeatingrecovery #bingeeatingdisorder

4 hours ago

12 min

2 days ago

When Regular Eating Feels Impossible: 5 Things That Go Wrong

2 days ago

10 min

Regular eating in eating disorder recovery can sometimes go wrong, due to these common 5 mistakes. I hope that you find it helpful.

Time slots

0.52 Low calorie foods

2.05 Filling up on fluids

3.15 Avoiding carbohydrates

5.17 Avoiding fats

6.29 Avoiding old forbidden foods.

Do you relate?

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Professional Training:

Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

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2 days ago

10 min

3 days ago

One Transformational Eating Disorder Recovery Hack (In Just 12 Minutes)

3 days ago

12 min

A transformational hack that is often overlooked in recovery.

Regular eating involves eating three meals and three snacks (or working up to this). It’s sometimes referred to as the six eats. It is self-caring eating, and you are considering nourishment, health, satisfaction and taste. You are including balance in your meals. This means including a protein source, some carbohydrate, good fats and fruits/vegetables. It can involve introducing your unsafe foods in a structured and controlled manner, to build confidence.

You will be eating every 2 ½ - 3 hours. This means that your blood sugar remains relatively stable. You rarely reach the ‘I’m so hungry, I could eat my arm off,’ situation, which often ends in bingeing or overeating.

In this video I explain the six benefits of regular eating. I hope that you find it helpful.

Time slots

5.52 Scaffolding of support

6.22 Blood sugar

6.58 Hunger

7.53 Physical benefits

8.55 Mental impact

9.52 Digestive issues

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Professional Training:

Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

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3 days ago

12 min

5 days ago

How Lived Experience, Clinical Practice and Education can Transform Eating Disorder Care, with Dr Alyssa Hamel

5 days ago

45 min

Today, I’m talking to Dr. Alyssa Hamel. Alyssa is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, educator, researcher, and eating disorder specialist. She serves as Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at The University at Buffalo, State University of New York flagship institution and has been doing important work around eating disorder education, substance use education, stigma reduction, and clinician training.

Alyssa previously served as the primary psychiatric provider for a comprehensive eating disorders program and now owns a private practice working with individuals with eating disorders and co-occurring conditions. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Academy for Eating Disorders Professionals & Recovery Special Interest Group and is an Ambassador for the Eating Disorders Coalition.

Alyssa has particular interest in challenging the public's inaccurate and harmful perceptions about eating disorders. Her last research project focused on the paradoxical stigma of anorexia nervosa.

In the podcast today, Alyssa is going to share her Three Perspectives and One Mission. How lived experience, clinical practice and education can transform eating disorder care.

There’s so much value in this episode. I hope that you enjoy it.

To get in touch with Dr. Alyssa: -

https://nursing.buffalo.edu/hamel

https://align33media.org/

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Professional Training:

Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

#HarrietFrew #TheEatingDisorderTherapist #psychotherapy #EatingDisorderRecovery #anorexianervosa #atypicalanorexia #DisorderedEating #osfed #FoodFreedomJourney #BingeEatingRecovery #MentalHealthSupport #FoodObsessions #BodyImageHealing #RecoveryIsPossible #EmotionalEating #InnerHealing #TherapyInsights #copingstrategy #copingstrategies #eatingdisorders #bulimiarecovery #bingeeating #psychology #therapist #bulimiarecovery #bulimianervosa #bulimia #selfworth #bingeeating #bingeeatingdisorder #bingeeatingrecovery #bodyimage #bodyimagehealing #bodyimageissues #bodyacceptance #dralyssahamel

5 days ago

45 min

Sep 23, 2026

Quasi-recovery in the Eating Disorder Healing Journey

Sep 23, 2026

7 min

When you’re in quasi recovery, you’re sort of halfway there. It’s significant progress but can also be a miserable, isolating limbo of not being truly ill anymore, but living a million miles away from genuine food freedom. Just because you ‘look so much better,’ according to others, this doesn’t always equate to inner peace with food.

In this episode, I share the 11 signs of quasi eating disorder recovery and talk about 5 practical ways to move beyond it.

Time slots for 11 signs of quasi recovery

2.05 Your setpoint. 2.45 Routines. 3.10 Self worth. 3.25 Food rules. 3.48 Hunger. 4.00 Meals out. 4.20 Identity. 4.31 What others say. 4.51 Romanticising thinness. 5.01 Isolation. 5.15 Deeper coping.

Time slots for 5 ways to move beyond quasi recovery

5.32 Face reality 5.52 Regular eating. 6.28 Get support. 6.37 Body image. 6.55 Expand your life.

I hope that you find it helpful.

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Professional Training:

Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

Sep 23, 2026

7 min

Sep 19, 2026

20 Inspiring Recovery Tips to Manage Extreme Hunger

Sep 19, 2026

10 min

Are you in eating disorder recovery and feeling extremely hungry? Are you terrified, exhilarated, scared, overwhelmed and feeling out of control? Do you want to understand your extreme hunger and work with it?

In this episode, I’m going to give you 20 recovery tips to support you in managing your extreme hunger, like a pro. You’ll be equipped with the knowledge, know how and information to guide you through this tricky period.

Time slots

1. The way out is through - 0.42

2. A biological response to famine - 1.16

3. Food, food and more food - 1.34

4. Weight is irrelevant - 2.05

5. Your body is healing - 2.34

6. Physical torment - 3.03

7. Supporting the process - 3.38

8. Feelings and mood - 4.24

9. Eating more than others - 4.39

10. The length of the extremely hungry period will vary - 5.06

11. You will experience physical hunger - 5.29

12. And mental hunger - 5.54

13. There is not one way to manage extreme hunger - 6.27

14. Body Mass Index (BMI) is unhelpful - 7.02

15. The terror of eating more - 7.32

16. Support yourself in the process - 7.55

17. Distraction can be helpful - 8.41

18. Work on rewiring the brain - 8.54

19. Extreme hunger and binge eating - 9.22

20. Extreme hunger will pass - 9.49

What has helped you in navigating extreme hunger in your own recovery?

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Professional Training:

Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

#HarrietFrew #TheEatingDisorderTherapist #EatingDisorderRecovery #anorexianervosa #atypicalanorexia #DisorderedEating #osfed #FoodFreedomJourney #BingeEatingRecovery #MentalHealthSupport #BodyImageHealing #RecoveryIsPossible #EmotionalEating #InnerHealing #TherapyInsights #copingstrategy #copingstrategies #eatingdisorders #bulimiarecovery #bingeeating #psychology #therapist #bulimiarecovery #bulimianervosa #bulimia #selfworth #bingeeating #bingeeatingdisorder #bingeeatingrecovery #bodyimage #bodyimagehealing #bodyimageissues #bodyacceptance #extremehunger #recoveryjourney #starvation #recoveryjourney

Sep 19, 2026

10 min

Sep 16, 2026

3 Practical Ways to Build Self-Trust in Eating Disorder Recovery

Sep 16, 2026

14 min

How to build self-trust in eating disorder recovery. I explore building a connection to your body rather than overthinking; validating yourself over what other people think and becoming the most authentic version of you. I hope that you enjoy the episode.

Time slots

1.19 Listen to your body.

5.44 Feeling over appealing to others.

8.19 Being authentically you.

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Professional Training:

Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

Sep 16, 2026

14 min

Sep 12, 2026

Rewrite Your Story and Change your Identity with Maximus Lerois

Sep 12, 2026

47 min

Today, I have a guest on the show and I am talking to Maximus Lerois - The Identity Architect. Maximus is a retired U.S. Marine with two combat tours in Afghanistan, a certified psychotherapist, certified NLP practitioner, and certified emotional intelligence specialist.

He helps leaders and audiences find the script running underneath their performance - and to rewrite it. He is the creator of The Revision Method™ and the author of the book Mental Health Is a Lie.

In today's episode, Maximus talks about how our early life experiences shape the way we look at the world, how we show up and what we tolerate in our experience.

He talks through his transformational Revision Method, to help rewrite the script of early life and to then lead a life with purpose, intention and legacy.

I hope that you enjoy the episode.

To find out more about Maximus's work or to get in touch with him:

https://www.maximuslerois.com/

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Professional Training:

Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

#HarrietFrew #TheEatingDisorderTherapist #EatingDisorderRecovery #anorexianervosa #atypicalanorexia #DisorderedEating #osfed #FoodFreedomJourney #BingeEatingRecovery #MentalHealthSupport #FoodObsessions #BodyImageHealing #RecoveryIsPossible #EmotionalEating #InnerHealing #TherapyInsights #copingstrategy #copingstrategies #eatingdisorders #bulimiarecovery #bingeeating #psychology #therapist #bulimiarecovery #bulimianervosa #bulimia #selfworth #bingeeating #bingeeatingdisorder #bingeeatingrecovery #bodyimage #bodyimagehealing #bodyimageissues #bodyacceptance #maximuslerois #personaldevelopment #nlp #identity #revisionmethod

Sep 12, 2026

47 min

Sep 9, 2026

How to Support your Child in Eating Disorder Recovery, whilst Maintaining Relationship and Connection, with Tom Wooldridge (PsyD)

Sep 9, 2026

25 min

Today, I'm talking to Tom Wooldridge, who is a is a board-certified clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and certified eating disorders specialist whose work sits at the intersection of psychoanalytic theory, the treatment of eating disorders—particularly in men and boys—and the developmental impact of digital technology.

Tom is Vice Provost for Digital Innovation and founding Dean of the School of Psychology at Golden Gate University, where he directs the Human Systems Lab on how AI and emerging technologies affect people and institutions, and he holds training and supervising analyst appointments at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

He is the author or editor of six books, including End the Food Fight (Guilford Press, 2026), with a foreword by Susie Orbach, and more than twenty-five peer-reviewed articles. In 2024 he received the JAPA Award for the year's outstanding paper in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

In today's episode, Tom is going to talk about his new book End The Food Fight (Replacing Control with Connection to Help Your Child Heal from an Eating Disorder). Tom has some incredible insights and advice on how to support your struggling child, whilst maintaining connection and relationship with them - SO vital in the healing process. I hope that you enjoy the conversation.

To get in touch with Tom and/or to find out more about his work: https://www.tomwooldridge.com/eating-disorders

🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my work here: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

📱 Food Freedom App: https://studio.com/apps/harriet/freedomfood

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eating-disorder-therapist/id1499476074

Online Courses:

Fitness Lovers Guide to Food Freedom https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/radical-self-care-and-building-your-thriving-eating-disorder-therapy-practice

Breaking Free From Bulimia: https://food-freedom-coach.teachable.com/p/intuitive-eating-beginners-course4

Professional Training:

Eating Disorders Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html

Body Image Training: https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html

📲 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeatingdisordertherapist/ -

#HarrietFrew #TheEatingDisorderTherapist #EatingDisorderRecovery #anorexianervosa #atypicalanorexia #DisorderedEating #osfed #FoodFreedomJourney #BingeEatingRecovery #MentalHealthSupport #FoodObsessions #BodyImageHealing #RecoveryIsPossible #EmotionalEating #TherapyInsights #copingstrategy #copingstrategies #eatingdisorders #bulimiarecovery #bingeeating #psychology #therapist # #selfworth #bingeeating #bingeeatingdisorder #bingeeatingrecovery #neurodivergent #eatingdisorders #anorexiarecovery #relationshipwithfood #TomWooldridge #endthefoodfight #supportforcarers #supportyourchild #carerssupport

Sep 9, 2026

25 min