RCS 5: the role your environment plays in eating disorder recovery with Eric Pothen
BITE BY BITE | Honest Conversations About Eating Disorder RecoveryShow Notes
Welcome back to the Recovery Companion Series. 🎉 In this episode, Kait and Eric explore the role of your environment in eating disorder recovery and why it goes far beyond where you live. Your environment includes your relationships, daily interactions, social media, and even your internal thoughts. They unpack how some environments support recovery while others reinforce the eating disorder, and why you may not always be able to change your environment right away. Instead, recovery often means learning how to navigate it, set boundaries, and continue choosing recovery anyway.
Episode takeaways: Your environment includes more than your physical space. It also includes people, conversations, routines, and your internal mindset
The eating disorder tends to thrive in environments where it is not challenged
You may not recognize harmful environments because they feel familiar or normal
You cannot always change your environment immediately, but you can change how you respond within it
Setting boundaries supports both your recovery and your relationships
You are not responsible for how other people react when you advocate for yourself
Social media is an environment that can either support or harm your recovery
Recovery requires active choices, especially in moments that feel triggering
Self compassion is essential when your environment is not ideal
Recovery ultimately comes down to the choices you make, even when support is present
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