🎙️ From Forced Recovery to Freedom – Izzy’s Story
This is a powerful, moving, and soul-baring conversation with my incredible client Izzy, who generously shares her journey from years of forced recovery to taking her power back and choosing her own version of freedom.
Izzy and I have worked together for around 6 months, and the transformation she’s experienced is nothing short of phenomenal. In this episode, she speaks candidly about:
✨ How her eating disorder developed during lockdown
✨ What kept her stuck in the relapse-recovery cycle for years
✨ Why traditional therapy wasn’t enough for her
✨ The shift that came from realising SHE had to take full responsibility
✨ Learning to trust her body again and finding freedom with food
✨ Her experience with meal plans and intuition eating
✨ Identity loss and rediscovery during recovery
✨ Facing the fear of weight gain and what’s waiting on the other side
We also talk about the emotional messiness of recovery, the discomfort, the grief, and how you can still keep moving forward even when it’s terrifying.
💬 5 powerful quotes from the episode:
💬 “You can’t build your recovery on someone else’s efforts – it has to come from you.”
💬 “I wasn’t living—I was surviving. Recovery meant choosing life.”
💬 “If I don’t stop the cycle, this will be my life… and that scared the shit out of me.”
💬 “Just start. Do one scary thing. That’s all it takes to start building trust.”
💬 “No one regrets full recovery. No one ever says, ‘I wish I’d stayed sick.’”
Listen if you need a reminder that:
🖤 It’s never too late
🖤 Freedom is possible for YOU
🖤 Meal plans have a time and place, but they’re not the end goal
🖤 You can stop living for fear and start living for YOU
🖤 Recovery is worth every ounce of discomfort
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