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    Project Manage Your Eating Disorder Recovery - It Matters!
    Helly Barnes
    • Jun 11
    • 6 min

    Project Manage Your Eating Disorder Recovery - It Matters!

    Eating disorder recovery is the most important project you will ever do. Therefore, approach it with the 5 stages of project management!
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    Want More Eating Disorder Recovery Motivation?  You Need To Know About Dopamine!
    Helly Barnes
    • May 29
    • 6 min

    Want More Eating Disorder Recovery Motivation? You Need To Know About Dopamine!

    Dopamine is a key brain chemical when it comes to motivation. This knowledge can help you find simple hacks to stay motivated & achieve more
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    What are Eating Disorders Beyond 'Fear of Weight Gain'?
    Helly Barnes
    • May 19
    • 8 min

    What are Eating Disorders Beyond 'Fear of Weight Gain'?

    What are eating disorders beyond the over simplified description of 'a fear of weight gain'? I explore my thoughts on this topic.
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    40 Tips To Address Restriction in Eating Disorder Recovery
    Helly Barnes
    • May 11
    • 9 min

    40 Tips To Address Restriction in Eating Disorder Recovery

    In this post I offer 40 tips to help anyone in eating disorder recovery address lingering restriction in their eating.
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    Restriction in Eating Disorder Recovery and How it can Manifest
    Helly Barnes
    • May 5
    • 8 min

    Restriction in Eating Disorder Recovery and How it can Manifest

    Restriction in eating disorder recovery can manifest in many different ways. This post provides a list of some of the most common.
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    Greed and Eating Disorder Recovery
    Helly Barnes
    • Apr 25
    • 4 min

    Greed and Eating Disorder Recovery

    Feelings and thoughts of 'greed' are so common to people in eating disorder recovery. But are these thoughts and feelings ever appropriate?
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    The Brain Based Tug of War Between Your Rational Brain and Emotional Brain in Recovery
    Helly Barnes
    • Apr 13
    • 1 min

    The Brain Based Tug of War Between Your Rational Brain and Emotional Brain in Recovery

    This is a post I wrote over on my Recovering Nomad blog, which some of you might find helpful, if you have not already seen it. In the...
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    Tools To Help You Learn To Rest & Relax in Eating Disorder Recovery
    Helly Barnes
    • Apr 12
    • 13 min

    Tools To Help You Learn To Rest & Relax in Eating Disorder Recovery

    Learning to rest and relax in eating disorder recovery is a skill that is very much needed. This post offers some tools to help the process
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    Find All My Recovery Blog Posts From My Recovery Beginnings to Now On Recovering Nomad!
    Helly Barnes
    • Feb 10
    • 1 min

    Find All My Recovery Blog Posts From My Recovery Beginnings to Now On Recovering Nomad!

    When I started my recovery journey after around 13 years with an eating disorder, I started to document it, initially on Instagram but...
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    Why Does Talking When You Have An Eating Disorder Matter?  #Timetotalk
    Helly Barnes
    • Feb 3
    • 4 min

    Why Does Talking When You Have An Eating Disorder Matter? #Timetotalk

    Today is Time to Talk Day, so I wanted to ask you: - How much do you share your struggles with others? - When was the last time you...
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    Cognitive Reappraisal in Eating Disorder Recovery - Make it a Game!
    Helly Barnes
    • Jan 29
    • 5 min

    Cognitive Reappraisal in Eating Disorder Recovery - Make it a Game!

    What if you change the way you view your situation and the challenges that you face in overcoming an eating disorder or disordered eating...
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    Applying the Principles of Neuroplasticity to Eating Disorder Recovery
    Helly Barnes
    • Jan 22
    • 5 min

    Applying the Principles of Neuroplasticity to Eating Disorder Recovery

    It is useful to understand some of the basic principles of neuroplasticity when recovering from an eating disorder. This post explains more!
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    Asking for Help is OK and will make you Selfless
    Helly Barnes
    • Nov 1, 2020
    • 6 min

    Asking for Help is OK and will make you Selfless

    Asking for help will make you selfless (not selfish!). This is a lesson I had to learn the hard way - you could learn it sooner than that!
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    Achieve Your Recovery Goals By Understanding Your WHY!
    Helly Barnes
    • Nov 1, 2020
    • 4 min

    Achieve Your Recovery Goals By Understanding Your WHY!

    When you have goals or life dreams to achieve, understanding the WHY behind them at a deep level is key to achieving them.
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    Coaching Is Powerful... But What Is It?
    Helly Barnes
    • Nov 1, 2020
    • 7 min

    Coaching Is Powerful... But What Is It?

    Life coaching is powerful. It transforms lives and enables people to not just dream but succeed. Want to know more? Read this.
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