Hannah Myall (2025)

29/07/2024

What to do when you are having a bad body image day?

Yes today was one of those days (and yes I still have them!)

This is just one of my go-to bad body image jumpers 😊

I still have days when I look in the mirror and want to change something, I’m bloated or just extra hard on myself…..but I think that is just part of life. We can’t expect to love ourselves every minute of every day. We are human after all.

When I’m having these non-love days I just try to focus on the practical and be realistic.

Accept whatever I am feeling and realise that my body isn’t the problem, it’s ok to have days like this and that these days will pass.

So.

I commit to focusing on ANYTHING else.

➡️My clients
➡️My husband and Bub
➡️Going for a run or moving to make me feel good
➡️Watching something lighthearted
➡️Walking in nature

Place your focus on ANYTHING ELSE!

Because you feed what you focus on.

So if you are having a hard body image day, if you obsess, dwell, worry, hate, punish yourself- guess what you will feel even worse about your body.

Like 👍🏼if you have had a hard body image day recently.

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18/07/2024

Unusual symptoms of bulimia you may not have realised!

Eating disorders go WAY beyond just food. This includes symptoms.

Swipe to discover signs and symptoms that you or someone you know may be showing that you didn’t think could be related to bulimia ➡️.

Comment if you have noticed any other unusual symptoms 👇🏼

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28/06/2024

PROOF!! Your body is not the problem! ❤️

27/06/2024

Are there days where you feel stuck with your eating disorder?

🔹Why does nothing I try work?
🔹What is wrong with me?
🔹Will I be like this forever?

These questions would race through my mind on a daily basis when I was in the depths of my Eating Disorder. I felt like I would be one of the people who would not recover (that is pretty high as studies have found that

04/06/2024

YOU ARE NOT YOUR EATING DISORDER ❤️❤️❤️

Very similar to split personality, all of us have two parts to ourselves:

1. Your true self part (who wants to change)
2. Your eating disorder part (who is holding you back)

Now consider the idea of you feed what you focus on. This applies to these 2 parts of you.

If you are spending most of your time giving your eating disorder part the most attention, whether that is through worrying, battling in your mind or even giving in, this part of you will become stronger and more dominant over time because you are feeding those neurological connections in your brain and making those connections stronger and more powerful.

The more you do this, the stronger those connections are becoming- kind of like rolling up a ball of string which keeps getting bigger and bigger. Then you suddenly find yourself being totally controlled and consumed by your food issues. It feels like it just takes over you automatically and you have no control over it.

You feel lost and you don’t know who you are anymore. This is not only due to the eating disorder part using your energy and attention but also due to another concept called ‘what you fail to use you lose’.

Your true self part, will shrink the less you pay attention to her, becoming quieter and weaker over time until you completely lose your true voice, you feel lost and completely controlled by your eating disorder part and you start living your life from that part of you.

To start figuring this out, the key is to firstly start paying attention to who is ruling the show? And where your focus tends to go in those challenging moments.

31/05/2024

A slip up IS NOT the same as a relapse in recovery.

Now slip ups are GOING to happen during recovery and they are to be expected. If you think about the first time you learned any new skill, you made mistakes or ‘slip ups’ along the way. Recovery is similar- you are learning new ways of thinking, feeling and acting…. Which you won’t get right everytime.

🔹 A slip up = a brief lapse in your eating behaviours where your eating disorder may have taken control.

On the other hand:

🔹 A relapse = a return to your old eating disorder behaviours for a prolonged period of time.

Instead of beating yourself up for a slip up, think of them as something you can Slips can use for learning and making future progress 👍.

‘What could I do differently next time I face this same situation, event or trigger?’

Remember you are human ❤️

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28/05/2024

What will bring recovered from your eating disorder bring to your life?

Eating disorders work to keep you small (not just physically for some).

They work to shrink your life, keeping you in this bubble of control until there is very little of YOU left.

In the mist of my eating disorder nothing else mattered, I couldn’t see past it at what life could bring or what is possible.

Never would I thought that since recovering I would be opened up to so many possibilities that have enabled me to become a wife, mother, move across the world and have a fulfilling career.

When I was in my eating disorder I would have laughed at the thought of any of these things and I didn’t think I deserved them.

But with time, work and the right support my life slowly began to grow and my eating disorder began to shrink.

Life is waiting for you, even if you can’t quite see or believe it…..yet

Recovery is not easy, but it is worth it.

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25/05/2024

Starting therapy can feel SCARY!

I put off going to see a therapist for a long time because I was so nervous about opening up and I just didn’t know what to expect.

That first session takes a HUGE amount of courage to commit to- it can feel like walking into the unknown with all your vulnerabilities on show.

I wish I had known more about what to expect during that first session.

This session is all about getting to know each other- finding out more about you and your story and what bought you to therapy. Even what you like, what your interests and even your strengths are.

It is also your chance to see whether the therapist is right for you- this is hugely important as the therapeutic relationship underpins the success of treatment. This is your time to share any worries or concerns you have- this could be ‘I don’t even know if I want to be here’.

Lastly we want to know what you actually WANT! What will we be working towards and how do you want your life to be.

And after that first session if this has highlighted that it this isn’t right for you or you don’t feel comfortable with the therapist then we will help you find the right fit. I always say, if I’m not the right therapist for you I will do my best to help you find something else who might be.

Remember- that first session is as much about you figuring out whether this is right for you as answering questions from the therapist. ❤️

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21/05/2024

But the thoughts feel so real and that voice in my head feels like me!

When trying to differentiate between you and your eating disorder it can feel really difficult.

The reason it can feel like those thoughts are so real is because of something called the ‘confirmation bias’. This means paying attention to thoughts and feelings that back up your beliefs e.g. I am not good enough or I need to be skinny to be happy.

Your subconscious mind is essentially designed to look for proof of what it already believes and will filter out anything that doesn’t fit.

When we experience a thought that is in alignment with the self-image we hold we are more likely to overlook the fact that it is just a thought and we assume it to be true.

So that restrictive thought of ‘I can’t eat that because it has too many calories’ will be confirmed by that self-image of only feeling good enough once you have lost weight.

This is why it feels so real! ⚠️Our mind is backing up the stories we are telling ourselves internally with proof from our environment. But this simply is not true or real, it just ‘feels’ that way.

There are some simple ways to differentiate between your true self and your eating disorder WITHOUT getting caught up in the context.

Your eating disorder ⚠️:

1. Comes from fear and scarcity
2. Focuses on the negatives- don’t, can’t, won’t, shouldn’t
3. Time-dependent- it will either ruminate in the past or project into the future
4. It is stuck in your head, consuming your mind

Your true self❤️:
1. Comes from love, growth and expansion
2. Focuses on the positives- can, will, want, need, choose
3. Totally present
4. It is more of a feeling than a thought

The key is to start WATCHING the conversation in your head and play the observer of your thoughts. Get curious about what structure these thoughts are in to tell you which part they are coming from.

How loud has your eating disorder been today? What are some of the things it has been tellin?

20/05/2024

Ever feel like you just cannot escape the food noise in your mind?

Research has found that we make on average 226.7 food choices per day and most of these are without us even having to take about it.

➡️So there is no escaping thinking about food.

At my peak, food would be on my mind EVERY second of the day. I must have been making at least 1,000,000 food decisions per day. My inner voice totally consumed and controlled me making me second guess myself at every opportunity, feel guilt, ashamed and distrust my own body and mind.

During recovery this can be one of the most challenging things to tackle. And yes at times it may feel like you will never escape the food noise.

However with every choice you make for your recovery that noise will get a little quieter. And over time you may notice less and less noise.

Once you start to detach from those eating disorder thoughts they be SO much less power over you and your actions. This is a BIG part of recovery.

Learning that the food noise is NOT coming from you and learning the skills to detach when they take over so you remain in control. This is not easy but it is possible with the right support, time and practice.

You can’t stop thoughts but you can learn how to pay attention to the ones that really matter.

YES! You can escape the food noise ❤️.

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17/05/2024

Are you hating on yourself for your eating disorder?

You did the best you knew to do how to do at that time.

Give yourself permission🙏🏼 to move forward from the lessons of your past, because when you know better you will do better.

During my recovery I punished myself for my past and blamed myself constantly for having an eating disorder.

Letting this go was one of the hardest parts of my recovery. This meant to finally stop beating myself up with blame, guilt and anxiety over what happened to me and how weak I felt I was not to get help sooner.

Like me, you did not chose your eating disorder, you were just trying to cope with whatever was going on in your life in the best way you knew how at the time.

However, what worked back then, may no longer be working for you.

So maybe it might be time to learn some new resources… because the truth is, you don’t need your eating disorder to cope. You are strong enough to find another way that helps you rather than hurts you. ❤️

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15/05/2024

Unusual symptoms of anorexia you may not have realised!

Eating disorders go WAY beyond just good. This includes symptoms.

Swipe to discover signs and symptoms that you or someone you know may be showing that you didn’t think could be related to anorexia ➡️.

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