by Ashley Darger and Shea Harvey
Eating While Crying is a podcast about recovery, food, and outgrowing a world that keeps us small. We met in eating disorder treatment, and now we’re navigating the messy world of recovery - together. Each week, we talk about the stuff people don’t usually say out loud: diet culture, body image, relapse, progress, and everything in between.
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June 15, 2026
<p><strong>Content note:</strong> This podcast discusses eating disorders, recovery, and mental health. We don't share numbers or get graphic about behaviors, but some topics may be sensitive for listeners in early recovery.</p><p><br></p><p>This week Ashley and Shea get real about what it actually feels like to be mid-slip — not in retrospect, but in the thick of it, while recording a podcast about recovery. Plus: the grief of getting better, why self-worth is somehow scarier than shame, white-knuckling vs. doing the work, recreating treatment containment at home, and the real cost of keeping the eating disorder in your back pocket "just in case."</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Resources:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Get Help</strong>NEDA Helpline: 1-800-931-2237 | nationaleatingdisorders.orgCrisis Text Line: Text "NEDA" to 741741Find treatment: psychologytoday.com/us/treatment-centers</p><p><br></p><p><strong>A Note from Ashley & Shea:</strong> We are not medical or mental health professionals, just two people navigating recovery and sharing what that looks like in real life. Nothing in this podcast should be taken as clinical advice. Please reach out to a qualified professional if you're struggling.</p>
June 8, 2026
<p><strong>Content note:</strong> This podcast discusses eating disorders, recovery, and mental health. We don't share numbers or get graphic about behaviors, but some topics may be sensitive for listeners in early recovery.</p><p><br></p><p>This week Ashley and Shea get candid about what it actually looks and feels like to be mid-slip. They talk about the difference between a lapse and a relapse — not the clinical definitions, but the lived ones — and how the eating disorder quietly gains ground through isolation, skipped snacks, and the slow erosion of your own voice. They dig into navigating recovery in the age of Ozempic, why the culture of thinness makes everything harder right now, and how to find footholds when the storm clouds start rolling in. Plus: the restriction high, the treatment high, the diagnosis you're maybe a little sad to no longer qualify for, and why people-pleasing is actually one of recovery's secret weapons.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Terms & Resources Mentioned</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Lapse vs. Relapse</strong> – A lapse is a temporary slip while still maintaining awareness and engagement with recovery. A relapse involves a fuller return to disordered patterns and mindset.</li><li><strong>Red/Yellow/Green lists</strong> – A tool used in ED treatment to categorize behaviors by risk level, helping with self-monitoring in recovery.</li><li><strong>Parts Work (IFS)</strong> – A therapeutic approach that treats the psyche as made up of distinct "parts," some of which carry pain or protective roles. Referenced when talking about separating from — or integrating — the eating disorder identity.</li><li><strong>Life Without Ed</strong> – A book by Jenni Schaefer that frames the eating disorder as a separate relationship to be ended. Referenced in discussion of externalization vs. integration.</li><li><strong>Ozempic / Wegovy</strong> – GLP-1 medications originally developed for diabetes and weight management, now widely used (and misused) for weight loss. Discussed in the context of how cultural thinness ideals are intensifying.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Get Help</strong>NEDA Helpline: 1-800-931-2237 | nationaleatingdisorders.orgCrisis Text Line: Text "NEDA" to 741741Find treatment: psychologytoday.com/us/treatment-centers</p><p><br></p><p><strong>A Note from Ashley & Shea:</strong> We are not medical or mental health professionals, just two people navigating recovery and sharing what that looks like in real life. Nothing in this podcast should be taken as clinical advice. Please reach out to a qualified professional if you're struggling.</p>
May 31, 2026
<p><strong>Content note:</strong> This podcast discusses eating disorders, identity, and recovery. We don't share numbers or get graphic about behaviors, but some topics may be sensitive for listeners in early recovery.</p><p><br></p><p>This week Ashley and Shea dig into one of the most disorienting parts of recovery: figuring out who you are when your eating disorder has been running the show. They talk about how the ED quietly takes the reins — thriving on inattention, missed signals, and isolation — and what it takes to start taking them back. They explore the gap between who you thought you'd become after treatment and who you actually are, why recovery feels like it should be a mountain peak moment but keeps turning out to be more of a series of scrambles up and down, and what genuinely grows when the disorder starts to shrink: empathy, joy, a sense of style, the ability to eat pasta again.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Terms & Resources Mentioned</strong></p><p><strong>PHP (Partial Hospitalization Program)</strong> – More intensive than IOP; typically full days, 5 days/week, but you go home at night.</p><p><strong>IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program)</strong> – A structured treatment program typically 3 days/week, a few hours per day. A step down from PHP.</p><p><strong>Res (Residential Treatment)</strong> – 24/7 supervised care in a treatment facility; the most intensive level before inpatient hospitalization.</p><p><strong>Stepped up / stepped down</strong> – Clinical language for moving to a more or less intensive level of treatment based on current needs.</p><p><strong>Parts Work (IFS)</strong> – A therapeutic approach that treats the psyche as made up of distinct "parts," some of which carry pain or protective roles. Referenced when talking about reintegrating rejected aspects of identity.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Get Help</strong></p><p>NEDA Helpline: 1-800-931-2237 | nationaleatingdisorders.org</p><p>Crisis Text Line: Text "NEDA" to 741741Find treatment: psychologytoday.com/us/treatment-centers</p><p><br></p><p><strong>A Note from Ashley & Shea:</strong> We are not medical or mental health professionals, just two people navigating recovery and sharing what that looks like in real life. Nothing in this podcast should be taken as clinical advice. Please reach out to a qualified professional if you're struggling.</p>
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Eating While Crying is a podcast about recovery, food, and outgrowing a world that keeps us small.
We met in eating disorder treatment, and now we’re navigating the messy world of recovery - together. Each week, we talk about the stuff people don’t usually say out loud: diet culture, body image, relapse, progress, and everything in between.
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