The Recovery Warrior Show

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow Pre-order your 2016 Recovery Warrior Calendar!!! http://shop.recoverywarriors.com/products/2016-calendar Get your tickets to the Fall into Recovery benefit concert November 14th. Use the discount code WARRIOR to receive 30% off!! www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-into-rec…ets-17702883802 Show Notes: www.recoverywarriors.com/colleen-mann/ What You'll Learn: • What drew Colleen into the world of photography • How photography has helped Colleen understand herself better • How any art form, including photography, can help you through recovery • Why self-expression is a very important part in recovery • Exercises that can help you process and understand your feelings in a deeper level

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/are-you-a-recovery-warrior/ What You'll Learn: • Why this TED talk by Brené Brown will change the way you look at your recovery. • The four values you need to incorporate into your life to have a strong recovery. • What is the definition of a recovery warrior. • The difference between fearlessness and courage.

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow Get your tickets to the Fall into Recovery benefit concert November 14th. Use the discount code WARRIOR to receive 30% off!! www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-into-rec…ets-17702883802 Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/abby-hutcheson/ Like many of us, Abby Hutcheson fell into the yo-yo-diet cycle. She believed restricting calories and excessive exercise would lead her to the healthiest and happiest version of herself, when in reality it did the opposite. Stuck in a vicious cycle of binge eating and isolation, she decided to educate herself on how to break the pattern. In today's show, Abby shares actionable tips that helped her and the women she coaches break destructive food habits and upon doing so, build a healthy relationship to food. What You'll Learn: • What habits Abby needed to break in order to stop binge eating and how she did it. • How you can gain a better understanding of why you engage in unwanted habits. • What do rewards have to do with bad habits. • What is easier: breaking habits or forming new ones. https://www.recoverywarriors.com/abby-hutcheson/

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow Get your tickets to the Fall into Recovery benefit concert November 14th. Use the discount code WARRIOR to receive 30% off!! www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-into-rec…ets-17702883802 Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/michele-kabas/ ‎ "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -Marianne Williamson from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" Listen to this episode of The Recovery Warrior Show to find out what this quote by Marianne Williamson has to do with finding your authentic voice in recovery. What You'll Learn: • What it means to find your voice. • How you can connect to your voice and ways therapy can help. • What is the difference between finding your voice and giving yourself permission to use it. • Why we care what other people think and how it affects us. • What to do with other people's fears and insecurities that enter your space.

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow Get your tickets to the Fall into Recovery benefit concert November 14th. Use the discount code WARRIOR to receive 30% off!! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-into-recovery-benefit-for-project-heal-tickets-17702883802 "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." -Emily Dickinson It's no surprise that this is McKinley Smith's favorite quote because she is one inspirational voice of hope. Tune into this week's show to listen to her live performance (ah-mazing) and learn what she had to go through in recovery to get back to a healthy self and a happy self. What You'll Learn: • What were the two most important pieces of McKinley's recovery process. • When and how to share that you are struggling with an eating disorder to friends and family. • How music can help in the recovery process (BONUS: McKinley plays her song "Love is Worth Fighting" For live!). • What an eating disorder prevented her from having in life. • Why recovery is not a linear path.

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow The Recovery Warrior Show broadcasted live from the 2015 NEDA conference in San Diego, CA. Tune in to hear from an eclectic group of eating disorder advocates. Who You'll Hear From: • Jessie Moore founder of Cake Spy • Christie Dondero from Rock Recovery • Jennifer Siebel Newsom Producer and Director of Miss Representation • McCall Dempsey founder of Southern Smash • Norman Kim, PhD and Nikki Rollo, PhD from Reasons Eating Disorder Treatment Center • Melody Moore PhD., RYT, founder of Embody Love Movement • Andrew Walen, LCSW, founder of The Body Image Therapy • Doug Schueler • Laura Porter • Kimberly Neil • Michael Berrett, PhD, founder of Center for Change https://www.recoverywarriors.com/unique-perspectives-on-recovery-at-neda/

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow?ty=h Feminism means different things to different people, but on this episode of The Recovery Warrior Show you can learn what it means to Melissa Fabello, the managing editor of Everyday Feminism. Tune in to learn how Melissa's history of an eating disorder has led her to become a fierce activist for body acceptance and media literacy. What You'll Learn: • What is Melissa's definition of feminism. • What triggered her eating disorder to form in her mid 20's. • What helped Melissa stabilize her obsessive thoughts. • How she approaches dating and intimate relationships in recovery. Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/melissa-fabello/

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow?ty=h Does he like me? Why hasn't he called? Should I call him? Did I say something stupid? Dating can lead to a lot of anxiety. It's hard not to think far out into the future and wonder how it will end. Happily ever after...or depressed and rejected. In this show, Miriam and I have a casual conversation around dating. We discuss a strategy that has the potential to weed out the guys that are "just not that into you" and reduce some of the obsessive tendencies that come attached to stepping outside of your comfort zone. What You'll Learn: • Why dating can be triggering in eating disorder recovery. • Common fears that hold you back from opening up in intimate relationships. • When to share your eating disorder history with someone you are dating. • Ten rules to follow if you want to play hard to get. Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/how-to-master-the-art-of-playing-hard-to-get

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow?ty=h Recovery is definitely a journey and founder of the Southern California chapter of Project HEAL Meg Burton shares how she has navigated her way through all the ups and downs and turnarounds. Listen in and be inspired by her authenticity and courage. What You'll Learn: • The negative side to always being positive. • Why treatment doesn't always work the first time. • What is Meg's limiting belief and how she works on overcoming it. • What Harry Potter can teach you about recovery. Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/meg-burton/

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow Whether you're in the checkout lane at the grocery store, watching television or talking with friends, it's hard to go a day without receiving a message about dieting. Diets can be very appealing because they promise a new you, a happy and healthy you. But the reality is diets do not work for many reasons and today's guest Lauren Fowler shares her experience to why. What You'll Learn: • How diets affect us emotionally, physically and mentally. • What are the consequences of physical deprivation. • Why the weight-loss messages the dieting industry and the media promote do not lead to wellness and happiness. • Ways to start breaking your self-imposed rules and regulations around food and eating. • If it is possible to stop counting calories. Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/lauren-fowler/ ‎

Support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow?ty=h When Neesha Arter was fourteen years old, she was sexually assaulted by people she had no reason to mistrust. In an effort to to reconcile feelings of guilt and shame and search for control in a seemingly unraveling world, she turned to anorexia. Ten years later, now an established journalist in New York City Neesha has written a powerful memoir that looks back with healing insight on the importance of speaking uncomfortable truths. What You'll Learn: • Why Neesha wrote her memoir Controlled. • Why she believes therapy helped heal her. • How Neesha's relationship to food and exercise has changed. • What advice she would give to a teenage girl now. • What is her definition of recovery. Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/neesha-arter/

Support the Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow?ty=h Lauren Fernandez is a competitive athlete whose steadily on her way to overcoming a long battle with binge eating. Lauren has taken the skills she has learned throughout her athletic career and has translated them off the court to her recovery. Listen in as she lays everything out in the open with no fear and true transparency. What You'll Learn: • Four reasons that you self-sabotage. • What positive character traits of being an athlete Lauren has applied to her recovery. • What being open and transparent with her story has done for her. • What Lauren does when she has an urge to binge. Show Notes: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/lauren-fernandez

Spread the love and support The Recovery Warrior Show on Patreon ❤ https://www.patreon.com/recoverywarriorshow Kaila Prins has a problem with the diet industry. After 13 years of battling an eating disorder and exercise addiction, Kaila is now a wellness and recovery coach and public speaker working with women all over the country to empower them to redefine healthy, happy, and whole at any size. In this show you'll learn: • Why Kaila counts characters not calories? • What her personal history with dieting was like and how it has shaped her opinion of the diet industry? • What has helped her build more body confidence and awareness? • What is her definition of recovery? https://www.recoverywarriors.com/kaila-prinns

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Madelyn Moon spent the last several years training for fitness competitions and modeling photo shoots, only to come to the conclusion that obsessing over food and her body was taking her further away from her passion, not closer. Today, host of the Mind Body Musings Podcast and Life Coach Maddy Moon teaches other women and men how to take control of their relationship with food while enjoying every minute of their newfound freedom. Tune in to see what you will learn. Some Questions I Ask: • What led you to get into the fitness industry and what was it like? • What was the turning point that led you to stop training for fitness competitions? • When you were obsessed with building a “perfect body”, did you find other areas of your life suffered? • How have you been able to bring self-compassion into your life? • How were you able to stop exercising compulsively? • Do you think that your obsession with food and body was a distraction from deeper seeded fears? https://www.recoverywarriors.com/madelyn-moon/