This is the show where I talk all about revelations that I have had along my eating disorder recovery journey. We will chat about physical health insights, recovery tips, and even spiritual lessons that I’ve had throughout this whole adventure! This show is designed to educate, encourage you on your own recovery journey, give you tips on how to help loved ones who may be navigating an eating disorder and/or recovery, and help you feel seen, understood, and certainly not alone! Recovery can get wild and weird, my friends. It’s time we talk about it all! No holding back.
Restriction, of any sort, is tied to the energy of scarcity. Even if you're not consciously thinking that food is scarce as you're restricting...this could very well be the subconscious program running in the background! All tied to the genetic, survival response. All connected to our ancestors who survived times of famine.
But, as always, it gets more complex! Modern times call for complexity, huh? 😉 But don't worry! Complexity just means we get to explore new and different avenues, forward into recovery and freedom. That's it!
Today, we talk about how a scarcity mindset can bleed over into other areas of life beyond food. We talk about the many ways this can present, how these ways certainly don't always "make sense" ‼️, and ways we can begin aligning with abundance in order to facilitate FULL recovery.
We also touch on restricting going after full recovery in the first place!
You're going to learn possible origins of the scarcity mindset in terms of an eating disorder, ways this can present outside of food restriction, and some possible paths into the freedom that is living in abundance 🫶🏻
Subscribing, sharing, rating, and reviewing would be SO appreciated, Awesome People! 🫶🏻
I'd love to see you over on Instagram! I'm at @recovery.revelations (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/)
The link to my website is here (https://www.lightinganotherway.com)!
And, lastly, you can check out all my books here (https://www.lightinganotherway.com/books)! Spirituality, energetics, physical wellness, Recovery Revelations (the book)…it’s all there, Sweet People!
Until next time...
You got this.
30 Oct 2024
SYMPTOMS SERIES #2: Martyrdom
Doing, doing, doing ALL the time for everyone except yourself at the expense of yourself? No thoughts to personal health, personal needs, personal wellness...
That's not who you are. You ARE a loving being who DOES want to do for others! YES! But what I just described above is NOT you. The Real You takes you into account, too. What's truly loving for others is loving for you and vice versa. That's how it's meant to be! We're a human team.
But the martyr mentality that can come about during an eating disorder is simply reflective of how our ancestors used to survive.
Let's talk about it.
Subscribing, sharing, rating, and reviewing would be SO appreciated, Awesome People! 🫶🏻
I'd love to see you over on Instagram! I'm at @recovery.revelations (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/)
Also? MY BOOK IS LIVE! WHOO! Check that out HERE (https://lightinganotherway.com/ebooks#recovery-revelations), Sweet Loves 🤍
Until next time...
You got this.
22 Oct 2024
SYMPTOMS SERIES #1: Lack of Interest in Life
To kick off this series where we're going to be walking through the symptoms that can come along as a downstream effect of the foundational behaviors of an eating disorder (some of them seeming quite "odd!"), we're talking about...
Losing interest in life
Hopelessness. Not caring about relationships. Social life = gone. Depression. Life is...grey.
THIS IS NORMAL
Not where you need to stay! But normal.
You're not broke. This is not "just who you are." The core of you has not changed.
In this episode, we talk about how very normal it is to be experiencing this, why it could be happening, AND the way forward. Remember: There is always hope.
If you'd like to find me on Instagram, my handle is @recovery.revelations (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/) !
You can check out my book Recovery Revelations here (https://lightinganotherway.com/books#recovery-revelations)!
As always, a rating, a review, and sharing this podcast would all be GREATLY appreciated! 🙏🏻🫶🏻
You can. You will. You GOT THIS.
11 Oct 2024
You Are NOT Crazy. You Are in Survival Mode.
So many of the symptoms of restrictive eating disorders DO NOT make logical sense. I know.
Therefore? One going through the experience can feel…crazy. I know. (And I do mean crazy in the literal sense.)
BUT FEAR NOT! You’re not crazy 😉 NO ONE with a restrictive eating disorder is or ever was CRAZY.
When you take a look at restrictive eating disorder behaviors/symptoms/habits/thought patterns through the SURVIVAL lens? Everything shifts.
Follow me on Instagram here (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/)!
And you can check out my book, Recovery Revelations, here (https://lightinganotherway.com/books#recovery-revelations)!
7 Oct 2024
Give Yourself Permission to Just Figure It Out: Freedom, Autonomy, Permission, & More
We humans thrive in freedom and autonomy. We do the very best when given space! Coupled with learning, encouragement, and inspiration. Coupled with help and support from others.
We thrive when we give ourselves permission to decide how our lives are going to be, recovery included. We don't have to copy others. We don't have to blindly follow what others have told us we MUST do. We don't have to constantly question and doubt ourselves! We don't have to always think we're wrong.
This episode is about freedom, space, permission, uniqueness, and Soul alignment. I pray it's a breath of fresh air, a sigh of relief, and an entrance into a whole new level of healing for you 🙏🏻
Subscribing, sharing, rating, and reviewing would be SO appreciated, Awesome People! 🫶🏻
I'd love to see you over on Instagram! I'm at @recovery.revelations (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/)
Also? MY EBOOK IS LIVE! WHOO! Check that out HERE (https://lightinganotherway.com/ebooks#recovery-revelations), Sweet Loves 🤍
Until next time...
You got this.
30 Sept 2024
Your Recovery Experience is PERFECT - No. Matter. What.
Whenever we're going through a process...no matter what sort of process it is...people like to go ahead and tell us how it's gonna be, huh? How challenging, how long...all that jazz.
But I think this holds us back.
While it may be rooted in wanting to be comforting, I think it ultimately holds us back.
We gotta believe for more, Sweet People! And one way that can start? By accepting that your eating disorder recovery journey can be absolutely anything you want it to be. Yes, it can even be joyful and full of fun. And that doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.
In fact? You could be discovering something new...
That's what we dive into today!
Subscribing, sharing, rating, and reviewing would be SO appreciated, Awesome People! 🫶🏻
I'd love to see you over on Instagram! I'm at @recovery.revelations (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/)
Also? MY EBOOK IS LIVE! WHOO! Check that out HERE (https://lightinganotherway.com/ebooks#recovery-revelations), Sweet Loves 🤍
Until next time...
You got this.
23 Sept 2024
YOU Choose the Story: What Does THIS Experience Mean...?
There are a lot of things to rewire your relationship with during eating disorder recovery! There are a lot of new situations that will arise, things you've never experienced before. You'll have to think in new ways, navigate differently in order to carve your healing path forward. Do you want some really awesome news?
YOU GET TO DECIDE THE EXPERIENCE! To a large degree.
Yes, you can still feel all the feelings, you can notice when the brain starts to throw a fit...but YOU (Dear Sweet Soul) get to captain the ship.
You provide the meaning. You choose what to believe. You choose who you're going to be.
And thereby? You change your reality.
In this episode I talk mainly about hunger & fullness and rest - what do we say these mean during our recovery? We always have choices.
But apart from those specific examples, this applies to ALL parts of ED recovery (and all parts of LIFE!)
Subscribing, sharing, rating, and reviewing would be SO appreciated, Awesome People! 🫶🏻
I'd love to see you over on Instagram! I'm at @recovery.revelations (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/)
Also? MY EBOOK IS LIVE! WHOO! Check that out HERE (https://lightinganotherway.com/ebooks#recovery-revelations), Sweet Loves 🤍
Until next time...
You got this.
21 Sept 2024
BONUS! Famines & Eating Disorders: A Theory Explained
Sweet Loves! Remember how I promised that I would go over the adapted-to-flee-famine theory of eating disorder development?! (I promised that in the trailer and in my story episodes.) Well, here it is! Short. Sweet. To the point.
Basically? Modern-day eating disorders (namely anorexia nervosa) can be traced back to our ancestors who would have had to survive times of famine. Their behaviors would have matched what we see today in those experiencing restrictive eating disorders! Their survival mechanisms/behaviors became encoded in their DNA, passed down through the generations. When environmental conditions signal that a famine may be taking place (even though we're in times where that does not happen like it used to!), those genes are activated.
And then? A development of a restrictive eating disorder can begin.
Be sure to listen to the whole episode for a full explanation! Again, short, sweet, and to the point.
Here is Dr. Shan Guisinger's website (https://www.adaptedtofamine.com)
Please send me a DM on Instagram if you have any questions! I'm at @recovery.revelations (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/)
And be sure to check out my ebook here (https://lightinganotherway.com/ebooks#recovery-revelations)!!! (I know I mentioned in the episode that it wasn't live on Amazon yet, but now it is!!!)
Subscribing, sharing, rating, and reviewing would be SO appreciated, Awesome People! 🫶🏻
Until next time...
You got this.
30 Aug 2024
My Eating Disorder Story PART 2 - The Ups, Downs, Symptoms, & Rock Bottom
WHOO! We've made it through the story, Sweet People. I hope, by the end of this episode (coupled with PART 1), you have a better picture of who I am and where I'm coming from. If you have questions, please feel free to send me a DM on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/)! (Oh, and as I mentioned - here's (https://linktr.ee/lightinganotherway) where you can find all my other work [like nutrition coaching and such]!)
In this PART 2 we walk through college, jobs, the symptoms that I began to develop as a part of the eating disorder, the downhill slide of it all, and my rock bottom moment where I finally decided to jump into recovery.
In the coming episodes, we're going to dive into what happened during recovery, the weird and wacky symptoms that were a part of the eating disorder in more detail, the revelations that I have had since recovery, what recovery CAN look like, and so much more!
Thank you for hanging with me through this, Sweet Souls. It wasn't easy to read!!! (I read straight from my book draft.) There are lots of emotions there. And emotions are okay, right? Yep! All of them.
I'm so excited to continue this journey with you ❤️
28 Aug 2024
My Eating Disorder Story PART 1 - My Food Relationship Background, Where the ED Began, Blood Sugar, Metabolism, Weight, Genetics, & MORE!
Well hello Sweet Souls! FINALLY we are here to the first REAL episode of the podcast! 🙌🏻 Here, we're diving into part one of the story of my eating disorder.
I walk you through my childhood and my earliest memories with food. Then we dive into my relationship with stress, food, appetite, and stress's impact on my body. We also hop into a talk on the complexity of the human metabolism (how weight loss and gain is not so black and white), as well as a chat on genetics!
There's A LOT packed in here, which is why I wanted to break my story into a couple of parts! Part 2 will be out VERY SOON friends - stay tuned.
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch! You can follow me on Instagram @recovery.revelations (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/) (where you can also send me a DM!)
Thank you all so much for being here! The journey has finally begun...
19 Jul 2024
HEY-O! 👋🏻 Here's the Trailer! 😉
Hi sweet people! Well, does a trailer really need that much of a description? Nah. This is just me telling you what you'll find here! Talk to you all more in episode number one. 😊
Tabitha's Book Rehabilitate, Rewire, Recover (https://www.amazon.com/Rehabilitate-Rewire-Recover-Anorexia-determined/dp/1986106705/ref=sr_1_1?crid=4PWGHUB8WJYZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.AVwEDvgJwG8rNWSonW_99-EwHzNMegkaOUJ8TTtokaPQWBeC3KYEDXw5uKzVSzf68PoYNUpE3_-VjcrggeyFJJrUhawUHxgycbykxHOfZVs.wNmTYw68Ypd2kKspem22dJHmMCl6o2FYr1PZLVZFRVo&dib_tag=se&keywords=rehabilitate%2C+rewire%2C+recover+tabitha+farrar&qid=1721422045&sprefix=rehabilitate+rew%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-1)
Shan Guisinger's Website (https://www.adaptedtofamine.com)
My Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/recovery.revelations/)!
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