Rachel Anne Hobbs

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09/11/2024

Disordered eating and eating disorders travel down the family line … and so does healing, and it starts with us, today. 🌱

08/12/2023

A gentle reminder from a dietitian .... your body is not the problem.

For years whenever I felt a big emotion I instantly blamed my body ... or my eating for causing the distress; but now I know my body is not the problem, it never was.

Our bodies are just easy targets to condemn; because in some ways it is much simpler to blame our bodies than it is to dive beneath the surface.

But actually we can use these negative thoughts as a messenger that something else needs our attention, our nurturing, our curiosity.

Because buying another diet plan won't heal trauma, going back to tracking your food intake won't allow you to process emotional pain and signing up for a transformation photoshoot won't heal heartbreak.

The problem is not your body.

We delve into this more with my amazing client who shares her journey of recovery after a 20 year experience with binge eating on the latest The Nurture Circle podcast episode 24 (link in bio). 🌱

06/12/2023

Home 🏡

Six months living at Strawberry Tree and getting to renovating this farm cottage has been such an adventure and a huge privilege … and we still have a whole load of magic to create.

The cottage was originally built around 1900 and we wanted to restore it back to its original character, the plan has always been to do it slowly and gently whilst upcycling / re-using as much as possible and learning new skills along the way, (my plastering needs a lot more practise!). I think there is something really special about giving “things” another life.

In the depths of my eating disorder I couldn’t imagine a life that existed beyond obsession and control … but here we are, and I promise … it is SO worth every bit of discomfort that recovery brings.

1. Beatrice on her perch
2. Family (minus F)
3. Cosy kitchen coming together
4. My first wall papering attempt
5. Fun and games space
6. Snuggle space
7. Christmas dinner to be served here with a roaring fire
8. Our neighbours
9. Bedroom reading corner
10. Garden joy

30/11/2023

Take what you need 🌱

We see alot about loving our bodies, but sometimes this feels too alien, too much; for many of us body respect, body acceptance and body neutrality is more accessible.

To live within our body without judging it, without hating it nor the pressure to adore it.

To stop putting excessive time and focus on our bodies so we can give our time and capacity to things we truly enjoy.

We can do this by swapping objectification to functionality. To stop thinking about how our legs look and rather notice and appreciate how they allow us to walk, run and dance.

We can do this by taking a daily or weekly moment to appreciate our body.

“I am grateful that my body danced in the kitchen with my husband, rocked my baby to sleep and carried my shopping in from the car”

We can do this by counteracting any negative self talk with neutral affirmations.

“I don’t need to feel attractive all the time to enjoy my life and relationships”.

We don’t go from hating our bodies to respecting them over night but we do with consistency, patience and time. Gentle gentle gentle.

03/11/2023

Take what you need this weekend … repetition rewires the brain 🌱

02/11/2023

I don’t want to be a supermum. I want to be a fun mum, a joyful mum, a present mum, a rested mum, a snuggling, cuddling, tickling mum, a well nurtured mum. 🌱

27/10/2023

If you are in the midst of struggle you are deserving to be supported by the right people.

I have been a personal trainer for 15 years and love our industry, however I have seen so many trainers and coaches advertising coaching for eating disorders; and it must be so hard to navigate if you’re seeking support.

PTs … I see you wanting to help, but no amount of desire or compassion or lived experience can give you the skills and training you need, eating disorders are complex and have clinical implications.

A PT can be so transformative in someone’s life and also sometimes the most beneficial and supportive thing they can do is to refer out.

I have been a Specialist Dietitian for 10 years and dual trained in Counselling with CPD in therapeutic modalities AND I still refer out when necessary.

Rule one of any helping profession - do no harm 🌱

If you’re looking for support please visit your GP, BEAT, HCPC or BACP registers or self refer to local authority if able (not all local authorities provide this). You deserve freedom 🌱

23/10/2023

A gentle reminder from a therapist … it’s okay to feel it all.

When the world feels so very heavy and we are face to face with our powerlessness, it can be difficult to not feel guilt as we go about our day to day lives; the thing is feeling guilty for caring for ourselves is not supporting anymore, self sacrificing our needs because the world is on fire is only creating a disconnect from the things we can do to support those around us and the wider global community.

It is okay to compartmentalise emotions when needed and it is okay to feel it all when able.

There is no shame in holding space for duality ♥️

20/10/2023

If we binge eat or feel out of control with food we don’t need more self control, more will power or another diet plan. We need to listen in, a binge is a message from our body that something needs some attention.

When our needs go unmet or we are unable to express emotions it feels like a threat within our bodies which is really uncomfortable, so we turn to things we naturally ease this distress.

Somewhere along the way we learnt binge eating supports us through helping us numb that distress, or soothing that discomfort.

Recovery involves less restriction and more permission. Less avoidance and more awareness. Less punishment and more nourishment. Less deprivation and more compassion.

How are we meeting our needs for attachment? How are we meeting our needs for play? How are we meeting our needs for validation? How are we meeting our needs for safety? How are we meeting our needs for connection?

Gentle gentle gentle. 🌱

………………

We have one final cohort this year of “Heal Binge Eating” our evidence based, dietitan led method to recover from binge and emotional overeating. For more information explore the link in my bio 🌱

19/10/2023

If you have to depend on disordered eating behaviours to maintain your weight this probably is not your natural weight.

There can be a lot of resistance in accepting this.

AND it is really important that you are honest with yourself about the eating behaviours you perform in order to maintain the weight you feel you “should” be.

Your natural weight is partially determined by your genetics and will look different for every body.

Your natural weight tends to within a range of 2-4kg that your body can easily maintain without extreme dieting or excessive over eating.

So if you only maintain your current weight by obsessively calorie counting, restricting the timing of intake, skipping meals, sticking to rigid food rituals, compensating for increased food consumption by purging (inclusive of excessive exercise), restricting overall intake; then you probably are not at your natural weight.**

This can be really challenging to accept + giving up your goal weight can be really tough, there is an element of grief involved in this process.

However moving from a place of self deprivation to self care offers so much freedom,

If this resonates with you I would recommend you try the following;

- Write down a pros + cons list of continuing to repeat your current eating behaviours.

- Change your social media feed to ensure that you see body diversity as you scroll.

- Challenge engrained beliefs about what you have been taught about being in bigger or smaller bodies.

- Research internalised fat phobia

- Draw a pie chart of how you evaluate yourself, if body image + eating behaviours take up a large part, think of how you can increase the size of the other parts - spending more time with family, taking up a new course, starting a new hobby or new book, volunteering, exploring spirituality ...

- Write a list of the disordered eating behaviours you perform, tackle the easiest first.

- start to sensitise yourself with your body’s hunger + satiety signals.

*likewise regular overeating/emotional eating w/o restriction, can lead to being over your natural weight

17/10/2023

In the depths of my eating disorder I thought that there was something inherently “wrong” with me, I didn’t realise until much later that the way I ate or did not eat mirrored every other aspect of my experience in the world.

When life feels tough we tend to blame our bodies or our eating for creating the dis-ease, they are easy targets, but if we really want to heal our relationship with food we have to explore what’s going on beneath our eating behaviours, a meal plan or another diet isn’t the answer.

Instead we can use the way we eat as an invitation, a mirror, to explore what else is going on within our lives and experiences; and in turn our eating behaviours start to change to one’s that nurture us and nourish us. 🌱

12/10/2023

Our bodies are not meant to stay the same,
Our bodies are meant to change
I think we forget that.
Our bodies are meant to change throughout our lifetimes,
Whether it is the body maturing from our teenage body to our adult body,
Through pregnancy or menopause or transitioning into older age,
Through times we train for performance or times we rest and restore,

Our bodies are meant to change throughout the year
Whether we enjoy the glorious food at Christmas time
Or listen to our appetite reduction in the summer months,
Our bodies are meant to change throughout the month
Whether we are menstruating or ovulating,
Or perhaps we have enjoyed a long weekend away with our friends,
Our bodies are even meant to change throughout the day
After eating regular meals our stomachs are naturally going to be more distended in the evening, a home for the nutrients that will give us energy.
This is normal.
This is healthy.

Yet we put this unrealistic expectation on our bodies to stay the same.

Angry at them if we are bloated.

Frustrated if we can’t fit into those jeans we bought five years ago.

Distressed if we look through photos and see our bodies expanding, growing, changing over time.

The thing is if we make body acceptance conditional,

e.g. I will accept my body when ….

Then we will never reach acceptance.

Our bodies are constantly changing,

They are shifting in response to our internal and external world,

They reflect our stories and our experiences, our joy and our pain,

If we base our self worth on something that is naturally ever changing

We will forever be on a rollercoaster of shame, guilt and obsession.

Our bodies changing is a sign that we are so very very alive. 🌱

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