Just Eat Normally: Eating Disorder Recovery

Ep 37: Intuitive eating and redefining health with registered nurse Victoria Yates

Just Eat Normally: Eating Disorder Recovery

Show Notes

In this episode we discuss:

Journey to intuitive eating

When does healthy eating go too far

Red flags for disordered eating

What is intuitive eating

Intuitive eating with kids

Redefining what healthy means

Breaking out of the calorie counting mindset

3 phases of starting intuitive eating

Choosing foods that satisfy

Recovery resources.

Listen to me discussing bulimia and recovery on 'The redefining health podcast' https://www.victoria-yates.com/blog/overcoming-bulimia-with-rachel-evans

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Victoria.

Victoria Yates is a registered nurse, an intuitive eating counselor and body image coach living in South Carolina. She helps women make peace with food and find freedom and confidence so that they can put their minds on what really matters to them instead of living in fear. Her favourite hobbies are drinking coffee with a pastry at a local coffee shop or wine tasting with girlfriends.

https://www.victoria-yates.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nondiet_rn/

https://www.facebook.com/victoriayatescoaching

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