How to Externalize the Eating Disorder Voice When It Gets Loud
The ED Recovery Messages by Hanne Arts
Episode notes
The eating disorder voice often gets loudest at the exact moments you're trying hardest to recover. This eating disorder recovery message is about how to externalize the ED voice and stay recovery-aligned.
You might know intellectually that the eating disorder voice isn't you, while simultaneously feeling unable to tell where you end and it begins.
You might be negotiating with it all day, obeying its demands just for a moment of peace/relief, arguing back until you're exhausted, believing its thoughts are your own, or wondering who you'd even be without it...
If the ED voice has been getting louder recently, this video is for you. I'm talking about what externalizing actually means, how to separate yourself from the eating disorder voice, and how to respond differently when it starts shouting over your recoย ...ย