How To Fully Recover From An Eating Disorder with Chris Sandel

The Body Love Binge - Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

In this episode, Victoria interviews nutritionist and eating disorder recovery coach Chris Sandell. They discuss why all eating disorders have commonalities in terms of recovery, what skills help build resilience to fully recover, and mindset shifts and action steps to move forward into recovery.

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Chris attended the College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM) and graduated with a Diploma in Nutritional Therapy. He founded his own company, Seven Health, in 2009 and found his calling in working with eating disorders and helping people fully recover.

As a perpetual student, Chris Sandel is also trained in Intuitive Eating (IE), Health At Every Size (HAES) ®, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), polyvagal theory, Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), trauma, behavioural psychology, and habit formation. Originally from Sydney, Chris lives in the UK with his wife Ali and 6-year-old son Ramsay.

Main Discussion Points:

- Why restriction is present in all eating disorders and the common threads between them (00:13:17)

- Building resilience - physical, psychological, emotional, connection - to enable full recovery (00:41:09)

- Taking meaningful action versus small incremental changes in recovery (00:25:44)

- Creating distance from unhelpful thoughts through diffusion techniques (00:48:20)

- Connecting to your vision and values to move through fear of weight gain (00:55:52)

Key Quotes:

"I am a full advocate that people can reach a place of full recovery and that full recovery is for everybody, and it's not a maybe or possible. It's like a yeah." (00:09:31)

"The only way to build resilience is to take action. And so really, if if I'm looking at this in terms of a visual, the the thing that connects all of those things is action taking." (00:45:58)

"It doesn't matter whether something is true or not. Because you can be thinking a thought that is true, that is really, really unhelpful for you to to continue thinking of." (00:49:50)

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https://seven-health.com/https://seven-health.com/real-health-radio/

https://www.instagram.com/sevenhealthcompany

https://www.facebook.com/SevenHealthCompany/