S2 · E1 · 52 min
People with eating disorders consistently report that working with others who have recovered was one of the most significant factors in helping them get well.
In this special two-part conversation, I sit down with 3 Australian eating disorder coaches who have walked their own difficult road from illness to recovery, and now dedicate their lives to helping others become recovered.
Here, in part one, Olivia Soha, Mia Findlay and Millie Thomas share pieces of their personal journey, including being told they would have to manage their eating disorder for the rest of their lives. All are living proof that full recovery is possible and an eating disorder does not have to forever define your life.
These coaches offer something incredibly powerful, not just professional knowledge, but the lived experience of knowing what it feels like to be caught in an eating disorder, AND what it takes to come out the other side. This episode illuminates how important recovered coaches are as role models and purveyors of inspiration and hope. Most importantly, these coaches share skills, strategies, and practical tools they used to heal themselves, and now use to help others, covering areas like body image, meal support and reaching out to others instead of the eating disorder.
If you are struggling, supporting someone you love, or simply need a reminder that becoming fully recovered is possible and worth it, this conversation provides a good reason to keep going.
And… there is so much more to come in Part Two, next week, where we continue to discuss tools to use and small steps to take to consistently move toward recovery.
ABOUT MIA:
Mia Findlay is a CCI Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach and Founder of Beyond Body. Drawing on more than 13 years of experience in the eating disorder field, as well as her own lived experience of recovery, Mia has supported hundreds of individuals in breaking free from eating disorders and rebuilding their relationship with food, body, and self. Mia is a passionate voice for body acceptance and eating disorder awareness in Australia and co-hosts popular recovery podcast, Beyond Body.
Beyond Body podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHrQEi61E_4&list=PLbjO8iff0lmgil…
www.beyondbodycoach.com
Follow me at @whatmiadidnext
ABOUT MILLIE:
Millie Thomas is a CCI Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner. She battled Anorexia Nervosa for 15 years and very nearly lost her life to the illness. Her miraculous recovery was a catalyst for a complete career change. She became determined to use her lived experience to help bring eating disorders out of the shadows and into the light. She dedicates her time to eating disorder advocacy and eating disorder recovery coaching, helping clients around the world to gain freedom from their eating disorders and reclaim their lives. Millie has her private practice HealED and has also worked with Sunshine Coast based charity endED where she was involved in numerous projects including the establishment of Australia’s first residential eating disorders facility ‘Wandi Nerida’.
www.healed.net.au
Follow me at @healedrecoverycoach | @millietnz
ABOUT OLIVIA:
Olivia Soha is the Founder and Lead Eating Disorder Recovery Coach at Uncovery, supporting individuals worldwide. With over 8+ years of experience in the eating disorder field, Olivia brings an integrated perspective as both a lived experience practitioner and service leader. Olivia leads and mentors a team of recovery coaches, working closely alongside psychologists, dietitians, and medical professionals to ensure support is collaborative, safe, and aligned with clinical treatment. Olivia’s professional background includes international experience at BALANCE Eating Disorder Treatment Center in the United States, alongside formal training with the Carolyn Costin Institute. She has presented at national and international conferences, and has contributed to sector initiatives with organizations such as the National Eating Disorders Collaboration and the Butterfly Foundation.
www.uncovery.com.au
Follow me at: @uncovery.ed.coaching
Carolyn Costin is a world-renowned eating disorder clinician, author, and speaker. Recovered from anorexia, she pioneered the belief that full recovery is possible. Founder of Monte Nido, she transformed treatment with a holistic, home-based model. She later founded the Carolyn Costin Institute, training coaches and clinicians worldwide. She has authored six books, including 8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder.
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