Amanda is 20 years old and aspires to help those with eating disorders one day. In her story she tells about her struggles and relapses with anorexia and depression and shares a lot of treatment tools that she found helpful in her recovery. In our conversation, she and I talk about our experiences with residential treatment, coping skills and motivation in recovery, blind weights, relationships, and more.

Full List of Conversation Topics:

- Center for Discovery & Residential Treatment

- Recovery as a full-time job

- Coping skills for recovery

- Motivation to get better

- Negative vs Positive Self-talk

- Relief-band and its effect on treatment

- Weighing and blind weights

- ED, Recovery, & Relationships

Resources:

- IG Handle: HealthyIsTheNewSkinny

- Center for Discovery

- Center for Discovery Scholarship

- Reliefband

- The Mental Illness Happy Hour Podcast

- Mentally Yours Podcast

- Healthy is the New Skinny: Your Guide to Self-Love in a “Picture Perfect” World by Katie H. Willcox

- Pound for Pound: A story of one woman’s recovery and the shelter dogs who loved her back to life by Shannon Kopp

- Amanda’s Blog: Beautiful Us Recovery

- Accept Recovery 8-Day E-Course