Tina has done so much healing, and her question becomes: when is recovery “enough”?
In this conversation, listener Tina shares a recovery story that will feel deeply familiar to many listeners: years of restriction, calorie counting, binge eating, fear foods, food obsession—and then a long, thoughtful climb toward something much steadier.
She’s no longer trapped in the binge-restrict cycle. Food doesn’t dominate her life the way it once did. She can eat fear foods. Enjoy social meals. Loosen the rules. And yet…
She still has some food noise. She still loosely knows the numbers. She’d still happily snap her fingers and lose a few pounds. So does that mean she’s not really recovered? Or is this what recovery actually looks like for many people, not perfection, but a sustainable middle ground?
In this episode, we talk about the so-called “messy middle” of recovery, the pressure to achieve perfect food freedom, and why all-or-nothing thinking can sneak into healing just as easily as it sneaks into dieting.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
This is such an important conversation for anyone who has ever wondered:
If I still stress about food sometimes… am I doing recovery wrong?
Because maybe healing isn’t about becoming a perfectly intuitive, salad-in-a-meadow person.
Maybe it’s about building a relationship with food that gives you your life back.
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