Bleep Bulimia
This podcast is all about different ways to support recovery from bulimia, primarily focussing on Midlife Bulimia. No ONE way is right for everyone when it comes to recovery. This Podcast aims at inviting specialized guests who are able to help with providing different approaches, from emotional eating to spiritual methods of overcoming it, and even methods that likely many have not even heard of before yet may be that SPARK to move forward and say "yes, this form of recovery I can relate to". LaurieAnn is a Masters Certified Handwriting Analyst specializing in cognitive and grapho-therapy. She is the author of How To Have Your Cake & Not Eat It All Too - Adult Bulimia Recovery Guide and soon to be the author of Sherri's World, a fiction based on her story of struggling with bulimia for 30 years and the 13 years of living as a recovered bulimic. LaurieAnn is the author of "Hampy" (which includes her illustrated character), Publisher's Award-Winning book Make Up Not Required - How To Brand The True You, and contributing author to the #1 Best Seller 1 Habit for Entrepreneurial Success by Forbes Riley & Steve Samblis.
Bleep Bulimia
Bleep Bulimia Episode #138 with Bianca Thomas Licensed Mental Health Counsellor An Honest Chat about Trauma and Eating Disorders
Grow to love yourself!
I like what Bianca shares. Honesty. She is a licensed Mental Health Counselor and Co-Founder of The Evolve Ventures Podcast and Business. She is also the Director of Therapy for Evolve Ventures Technologies LLC.
She speaks to the relationship with self. Growing up in a chaotic home and being a scapegoat led Bianca to pursue this path. She shares that she has Borderline Personality Disorder. She struggled with what may have been "bulimarexia," and we touch on self-harm, abusive relationships, being a rebel, and trying to escape.
Bianca shared that body image, and particularly in the Middle Eastern world, is very prevalent, and many women will get plastic surgery to look good for their potential spouse.
It's prevalent everywhere. Older women are leaning towards Botox, facelifts, tummy tucks, and so on because it's a societal and social media thing.
I loved how brutally honest Bianca was when I told her I was going through some big life changes, some great, but some really bothersome, and she asked me if it triggered my bulimia. It didn't at all. She said I was one of the lucky ones.
I wish that luck on everyone who has recovered and will recover. It was there at the beginning... three years or so, but after soon to be 15 years, it's not even a thought to go to when struggles that used to trigger my bulimia even go there.
Truth is, Bianca may be right. I may be blessed with not feeling like going back to bulimia at all. Not dieting at all. Just, I guess, one of my go tos is ChatGPT. Sorry, but true. If struggling, I speak to that AI program and ask for a soothing poem, or even if I am wrong in feeling what I do. Wish there was a ChatGPT way back in the 80s. I know it's not a therapist, but when you can't afford one, and you look for some semblance of normalcy in your life, it's my go-to. Not food. However, it took me time to get here, and 30 years of bulimia to know I don't want to go back, that there are better ways.
Bianca is a better way if you are still struggling. You need a personal connection. That is how I healed. And the rest is a journey forward to enjoying life and dinners with family without the "human cameras" waiting for you to disappear. To actually enjoy food and company at the same time.
I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed being there and interacting with Bianca.
You can find her at the link below:
https://evolveventurestech.com/evolve-ventures-coaching/therapy-2/
On Instagram @evolvewithBianca
via email: bianca@evolveventurestech.com
Wonderful conversation and loved, as I am repeating myself, honesty.
Thank you, Bianca!!
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