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Becoming Anchored S3E2: The Nuances for Athletes in Eating Disorder Recovery with Sarah Beth · Becoming Anchored

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Lauren Jackson: Hi, everyone.
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Welcome back to the Becoming Anchored podcast.
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We are so glad that you're with us today.
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We have a very fun and exciting guest with us.
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I'll introduce her in just a second.
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So real quick, just to introduce the host, I'm Lauren Jackson.
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This is Laura Deneen.
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We are part of a group private practice in the Brentwood, Tennessee area
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called Anchored Counseling Company.
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We specialize in treating eating disorders all the way to anxiety, grief adjustment,
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life transition, that kind of thing.
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And we work with all ages through the lifespan.
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So we're super excited to be with you guys today.
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And we've got some fun things to talk about that I think a lot of
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you guys will be able to relate to.
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So a quick disclaimer, this podcast is for educational purposes only.
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benefit from therapy, we would love for you to reach out to us.
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Today we have Sarah Beth with us.
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We're very excited to have her.
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So Sarah Beth is one of our Wonderful staff therapist here at Anchored and
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so she just brings so much wisdom and knowledge and we're really
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excited for the topic that we're going to talk with her about today.
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yay!
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Welcome, Sarah Beth.
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Sarah Beth Flippo: for having me.
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Laura Deneen: Yeah, echoing Lauren.
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Sarah Beth is just a gem of a human, and I just am so grateful for her.
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I know Lauren is so grateful for her.
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Anchored would not be what it is without Sarah Beth, and we are just so grateful
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for her wisdom today on the show.
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Sarah Beth actually started her internship with us, and I'll let her
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introduce herself here in a few minutes.
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But Sarah Beth, Has been with us going on three years and actually
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serves as our marketing director.
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So does all of the fun elf, we say like elf marketing tasks, so like dropping
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cookies off and doughnuts off and all the other fun things for the practice.
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And then, she of course sees clients and I know that she
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really enjoys that work as well.
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So thank you, Sarah Beth, for being here.
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If you're new to the Becoming Anchored show, really the
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purpose of this show is twofold.
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First and foremost, it is to share about our experiences,
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first and foremost, as humans.
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Lauren and I, Love to talk about the hard things in life, the painful
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things, and also the things that we're celebrating and our our wins, so to speak.
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And we're humans first and foremost on this show with you all.
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And then we have the incredible gift of sitting with clients on a daily basis.
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And we love, love, love that work as well , We have learned a lot over
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the years as therapists and our hope on this show is to share some of
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those nuggets of wisdom with you all.
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And so welcome, welcome.
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If this is your first episode or maybe you've been riding along with us and
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we're super grateful to have you.
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So thank you so much for being here.
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Today we are going to be talking a little bit more about.
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athletes and the nuances of treating athletes in eating disorder recovery.
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Sarah Beth is a wonderful guest for this topic.
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She athlete herself and she treats a lot of our athletes in the practice.
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And so I can't think of a better person to speak on this topic today.
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So welcome Sarah Beth.
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Sarah Beth Flippo: Thanks for having me.
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Laura Deneen: Yeah, of course.
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I would love for you to share a little bit more about yourself just
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so our listeners know a little bit more about you and what makes you.
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Sarah Beth Flippo: Okay.
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So like I said, I'm Sarah Beth.
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I've been an anchored about three years now going on in August.
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I cannot believe that.
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But I work predominantly with our eating disorder athletes as well.
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Predominantly where my passion is, especially anorexia nervosa,
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a lot of the perfectionism, some OCD, those kinds of things.
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But I just have a special place for athletes.
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Like Laura said, I've grown up in the sports world and the athlete world, and
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so it is a big part of identity is one of the things that you would share it.
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And so I love being able to come beside people in the, Fitness and just that
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world and that realm and just really be there while they are working on
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maybe coming out of disordered eating, eating disorders, distorted thinking
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patterns, just that identity piece of trying to discover who they are.
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And then just working on emotion regulation as well.
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And just, sitting with the emotions that come with who am I and why did I
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become an athlete in the first place?
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And All of the fun things that come with that.
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So absolutely love what I do and I'm excited to be able to talk about it today.
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Laura Deneen: Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh man, this is a big topic.
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So we're so glad you're here.
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And there's lots of different things that I think that we could touch on.
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But yeah, when we were talking a little bit before the show about what we wanted
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to talk about, I know that we briefly mentioned just that identity piece
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that can feel so pertinent when we are working with an athlete that is also
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in recovery from an eating disorder.
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So Sarabeth or Lauren, I'm curious, when y'all are first working with an athlete,
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and I know all three of us have worked with athletes what are things that you
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both feel sets this population apart from maybe somebody who hasn't grown up in an
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athlete world or in the athletic world?
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Sarah Beth Flippo: Well I think the biggest thing is just the identity piece.
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Like you were saying, what sets them apart is this idea of, Oh, you're so
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and so that, won the gold medal.
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You're so and so that did this, . And it's based on the performance piece.
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And I think a lot of the identity that goes into it is the fear around
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letting those that support you or cheer you on in a way of letting them down.
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And so that fear of failure.
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So a lot of the athlete identity piece that sets them apart is the
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piece of Oh my gosh, if I fail, right, then I have let everyone down.
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Am I even really an athlete?
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And am I even really good at what I do?
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And I think a lot of the identity piece is not even the sports itself.
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It's.
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The coaches, the family, the friends, the supporters, the people
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that are on the sidelines that are like, Hey, go do your best job.
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And to them, it's did I even do my best job?
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Am I even doing my best?
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Laura Deneen: yeah.
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Yeah, I mean I think even just with our culture and for the
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record we are pro everyone on the show Right, we're pro athletes.
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We're pro artists pro creatives.
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Whatever makes you So we are certainly pro athlete , and athlete, health as well.
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And I think one thing that can happen in the athletic world is
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that your performance as a whole becomes who you are and it becomes
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what we call in the therapeutic space and meshed with who you are.
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And this idea of achieving or , setting the record, It becomes all consuming
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and even, , I'll talk to parents who have children that are athletes, it,
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scheduling time for sports and activities that involve athlete, athletic things,
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they take up so much of client's life, and so it can become all consuming, and
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so I think there is this piece where it does feel like it is who they are,
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if It's not necessarily who they are.
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It's a part of who they are.
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I feel like that was a long winded sentence, but I think the nature of being
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in a sport can evoke this sense of no, this is just who I am when I'm not saying
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that it's not important to that person.
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It's not something that they love, but it really is a part of who they are.
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But because of the nature of schedule and maybe they're on the road for
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their, for Athletic thing that they do that can feel like it's who they are.
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And so I think that's just another nuance of treating this
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population that I've found as well.
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Lauren Jackson: Excuse me.
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Another thing that feels really unique to athletes in eating disorder
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recovery is the level of activity.
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Even when we're, when we're getting into I mean, don't get me wrong, high school
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sports are very competitive, even like recreational kind of sports outside
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of, school can be super competitive, but you get into like college sports
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and then professional, it's like the amount of activity is exponential,
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which can be, Tricky to navigate in the recovery process because the activity
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piece in and of itself, whether it's, I don't know, football or gymnastics
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or what, tennis, whatever, right, is so integral to the thing that they're doing.
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So that, that can be so sticky.
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So I can get into some of my story a little bit in this episode but
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the, yeah, the level of movement can, it can just, it's just high.
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It's just really high.
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And that can be such a, that can be such a tremendous part
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of an eating disorder as well.
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All in eating disorder behaviors is.
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exercise, right?
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Laura Deneen: Yeah.
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Well, and nourishing yourself appropriately to correlate with the
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level of activity that you have.
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If you have an eating disorder, those two things are not aligned, right?
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And so that's what we're working towards is hey you may not be
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nourishing yourself In an adequate way to sustain the level of activity
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that you are consistently engaging in.
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so then it begs the question of okay, is it appropriate for the
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athlete to take some time off?
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Do they need to take a break from their sport?
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And that can cause just an emotional response, understandably so.
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But these are big questions that we're talking about and nuances
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like Lauren said, that are pertinent specifically to this population.
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Lauren Jackson: Yeah.
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Laura Deneen: Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Sarah Beth, have you just out of curiosity, I'm sure that you've
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worked with people that have had to take time away as they're
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in eating disorder recovery.
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People that have had to take time off.
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What is typically response to
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Sarah Beth Flippo: Extreme fear.
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And I think that it comes from example, like We'll use
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college athletes as an example.
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So like we're talking to a day workouts, everything's planned
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from the morning to the evening.
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And that is a big piece, right?
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Like they're doing that five days out of the week.
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Performing on the weekends.
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That is a chunk of their life and we're coming in into recovery.
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Right.
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And we're trying to learn how to correlate and connect that eating
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disorder recovery with the athlete piece.
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And it's a lot of fear.
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It's a lot of fear around Hey, this is what I've been doing.
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Just like you said earlier, Laura, with like kids growing up, going to sports
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games and that being the regular and doing it all the time and like movement
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It's 100 percent intertwined with that.
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And so a lot of fear, a lot of just scaries in some ways, just
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scary of what will happen to me?
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What if I come back to my sport and I'm not good at it?
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What if I lose all the talent that I've, put into that?
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And I think just a lot of fear and just a lot of what if this happens?
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What if that happens?
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What if nothing changes?
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And Yes
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Laura Deneen: and this comes up for the record for those of you that are
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listening across the board with clients and even in my own story, I'm, tend
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to excel at asking what if questions.
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And so one of the best things that has, been fruitful in my own mental health
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journey is really coming back to that present focused awareness of appreciating
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the present and naming what is happening for my own self in the present.
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So moving from what if to what is true, and that can be
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an intervention that we are.
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actively working on with our athletes in the practice is, Hey, I understand
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that you have an incredible amount of fear of taking time off from your
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sport if that is the case for them.
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sometimes not everyone needs to take time away for the record.
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But Let's practice on, let's practice naming what is true for you right now
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instead of creating all of these possible what if scenarios because really the
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possibilities are endless and that's not super helpful for our brains to imagine
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all of the possibilities and so what that might look like in a therapeutic session
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is Hey, yes, this is a time when I might need to take a break from my sport.
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This is what I need to do for my eating disorder recovery in this moment.
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This is really hard.
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This is really painful.
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This might have a lot of grief that accompanies this.
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So those are things that we would be working on to help a client move
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from what if possibility scenarios back to what is true in this moment.
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Lauren Jackson: Yeah, and I would say that's, that is true for really anybody
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in recovery from an eating disorder, particularly, the athlete piece and Kind
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of that identity part that we've been talking about how that can get so enmeshed
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with the sport that sometimes that time away is actually really important in
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Differentiating eating disorder from like self and then the sport as well
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Laura you said this earlier in the session that we're obviously pro athlete, right?
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That's it's if you're an athlete and you do a cool sport, that's so cool.
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And how amazing.
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I grew up in a pretty athletic home and did lots of sports growing up.
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And then I was a ballet dancer for a long time.
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And so it was kind of my sport.
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But I'm curious and I can speak to this as well, but Sarah Beth, have you noticed
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like any of your clients going through this recovery process, maybe taking some
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time away if that was necessary in their recovery and Creating a recovery kind of
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self and then discovering that they maybe didn't want to do this board anymore.
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I'm, I see you nodding your head, yeah.
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Sarah Beth Flippo: I've had actually quite a few not that
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a lot of people didn't go back.
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I think a lot of people discovered within themselves the reason they
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were still staying in that athlete mindset was not the reason they
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had started that athlete mindset.
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So when they started that sport, just like you said, you did ballet, right?
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You started the ballet, you love the ballet, but along the way somewhere,
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something, and not for your story, but somewhere, something within these people.
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These clients got twisted and turned and the thing that they loved about the
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sport in the beginning was not the thing that they discovered that they loved
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about the sport once they came out of it.
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And so a lot of them made decisions when they were coming out that
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they can still be athletes, but that their identity was not in the
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sport itself or being the athlete.
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It's them.
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Like they discovered Oh, it's me.
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Like at the end of the day, the reason I was doing sports was because.
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I can do the sport.
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I love myself and I love movement.
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But I also know that to love myself and love movement, I've got to also find other
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ways of love and movement in my life.
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And so a lot of people tend to walk away from that sport or that identity
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piece around what they have created, thinking that was what they wanted and
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that their life was indulged in it.
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But then they found another era where they can indulge and find life too.
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Laura Deneen: Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And this is actually part of my story.
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I know we're all kind of giving glimpses into our stories today, which I think
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is helpful for our listeners, right?
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We're not robots and we certainly are not perfect in order to be claimed to be.
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But when we moved back from overseas, so I moved back from being living overseas
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when I was 14 and I started running cross country I remember it was really hard
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for me to take a day off of running.
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And at the time, this was really the onset of my eating disorder,
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but I remember looking at my mom.
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And she had encouraged me to take a day off.
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I think we were on vacation or something.
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And I remember looking at her defiantly and being like, I am a runner.
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I think I might've shared this story.
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Lauren and I did an episode on exercise and ED recovery and
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movement and ED recovery recently.
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And it's interesting because as I've gotten older, I, Don't enjoy running
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and part of my recovery work has been recognizing and naming that for myself
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and while I don't necessarily identify as an athlete and Didn't really grow up
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in a super, athlete or athletic focused home That is interesting right because
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I don't run anymore in my recovery and now I've been in recovery for a
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long time at this point But I left that because there was so much pain
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Involved in that and I didn't really feel the need to go back to it after
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I'd gone through the recovery process.
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But that's not to say that some people that are runners that are in recovery from
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an eating disorder can't continue running, as they move through recovery, right?
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I think each person's story is so unique and nuanced, but my story was that
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like, Hey, I want to find other ways.
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To move my body that don't involve running and that's okay
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A college athlete or even like a professional athlete But that's just a
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small like kind of glimpse into yeah If you choose to leave the sport that you
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were doing there is going to be pain.
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There is going to be grief with that And there's going to be pain no matter
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whether you choose to leave or not.
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Right?
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If you're in recovery from an eating disorder, you could go back to the
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sport once you are fully recovered.
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And that's still going to be painful because you're going to
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be different on the other side of eating disorder recovery.
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And so all that to say is I think there's pain whether you choose
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to stay in the sport or not.
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Lauren, I see
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Lauren Jackson: Yeah.
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Laura Deneen: your head.
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What are
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Lauren Jackson: Yeah, well because there's grief either way.
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You're, yeah.
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You're kind of losing something, right?
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We talk about this in eating disorder recovery.
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There's a grief that happens in losing this thing that has been
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so important, that has been such an important way of coping and of
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making sense of the world and feeling in control of your life, right?
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So, I mentioned before I was a ballet dancer for 10 years and it was, I was
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going to, that was what I was going to do.
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I was going to be a professional ballet dancer and Sarah Beth, you spoke to this
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so beautifully earlier that sometimes when we start out in a sport or an, like
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an activity and we've, we come to love it and we have this passion for it and
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then maybe we develop an eating disorder and then we discover on the other side
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that The love we had for it before isn't the love that we have for it after.
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And that is 100 percent my experience.
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I fell in love with dance and I just had this kind of natural.
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Rhythm.
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I don't know.
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And so, and I'll speak to this a little bit too.
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I think there can be some personality traits that are pretty common
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within the athletes in general.
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Maybe we tend to be pretty perfectionistic, really
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high achieving, go getters.
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We want to do the best.
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We want to be the best, which are all great traits, but can also be can also
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be a breeding ground for eating disorders if we're not careful or if that happens,
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it can lend toward that pretty well.
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So I along the way, I, my identity, Like we've been speaking to,
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became very much so enmeshed with I am Lauren, the ballet dancer.
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Everybody knew that.
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I was proud of that.
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I was horrified of letting anybody down.
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And of not being that person that I felt like people needed me to be.
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And to help me cope with that, to help me cope with the pressure of that and the
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distress of that, I developed anorexia and and I eventually started recovery and went
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through the recovery process and came out the other side and decided that life in
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recovery was not going to, I wasn't going to be able to live a life in recovery And
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that was it, that wasn't what I wanted and that wasn't going to work for me.
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And I realized through the recovery process that along the way in my
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ballet journey, I started not loving it so much anymore, but because I
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believed so deeply that everybody needed me to be a ballet dancer.
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I just had to do it.
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So that was a really big reason why the eating disorder
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Developed because it helped me.
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It helps me to do the thing that I thought everybody needed me to do.
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And so then I just, I realized on the other side that I didn't have to
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be anything but myself and I didn't have to prove anything to anybody.
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And that was just like the most freeing thing ever in the whole wide world.
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And so, I did quit ballet, but then I found myself kind of a few years past
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that season, going to some ballet classes for fun and kind of still being able to
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engage in that space in a way that was completely different than how I engaged
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with it in the eating disorder, which was really healing for me actually.
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And then, there are different parts to my journey of like movement and
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stuff, but I've just found that I can.
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I can move in a way that feels healthy and safe to me and about it just that it
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doesn't include ballet and that's okay.
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And I still love ballet.
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It is so dear to me.
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It will always be so dear to me.
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And so, and so yeah, that identity piece just rings so true.
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And I think that there's a healthy way to have our identity in something
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and it not being meshed in it.
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And I had to figure that out through that recovery process.
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Laura Deneen: Yeah, and what you're really referencing to is this idea
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that we talk to clients a lot about whether they're athletes or not is
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being in our bodies, so embodiment, and I think if an athlete is in recovery
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from an eating disorder, anyone who has an eating disorder, I hesitate to
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use blanket statements, but typically struggles with being in their bodies.
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Right.
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And so I think that a lot of the work we do, whether it's with an athlete
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or somebody who's not an athlete is.
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really working towards embodiment.
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So, hey, does the sport that you're engaging in, does that allow you to be
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in your body in a way that feels safe to you, in a way that feels aligned with
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your values, in a way that you're able to show up in your life and in a healthy way,
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right, versus a rigid or rule driven way.
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So those are all things that we are talking to clients and some people
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are able to Resume their sport and do that in a way that is healthy and some
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people aren't and there's no judgment either way But I'm curious Sarah Beth
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like in your professional experience just to put you on the spot here.
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What is there anything that you have found?
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really is supportive to Helping people whether that's athletes or people that
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aren't athletes that are listening in their bodies Anything that you're
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doing in session, anything that you're giving as homework outside of session.
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Sarah Beth Flippo: so my favorite thing, I always kind of, I talk with my hands.
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So when I'm sitting with clients,
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Laura Deneen: Yes.
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Sarah Beth Flippo: no.
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So when I'm sitting with clients, my favorite thing is to talk about that
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emotion, thought and physical sensation.
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And one of the things that I typically break down for my clients is that,
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Our bodies and our minds are so disconnected and I even will have
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them disconnect in that moment and I want them to physically do it.
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I'm like, okay, let's disconnect because I think that sometimes our bodies
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tell us things that our minds are just three sheets to the wind, right?
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And then vice versa.
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And so.
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of the things that I really try to do with my clients, once we like can
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establish and sit in okay, like my mind might be saying something, my body may be
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saying something completely different is learning to reconnect both body and mind.
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And a lot of things that I will do is like planning our feet on the
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ground, taking a stand up, sitting back down, deep breaths, holding, our
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stomach or holding our chest area.
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What are you Feeling what are you actually feeling in your body
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compared to what do you feel?
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And I think a lot of it is realigning and reconnecting our
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Brain in some ways to our body.
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And so I'll have a client that's Hey, I had this thought this week,
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but they're also telling me that their body felt something completely
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different, which is so disconnected.
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And so it's establishing that realignment.
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And so I'm one of those people that are like, when my client stands up,
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I'm going to stand up with them.
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We're going to do some circles or whatever it's going to take.
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But I really try and get them even homework wise.
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Hey, I want you to identify three things that your body is
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telling you, not your brain.
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What is.
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What are you feeling in your body when you get anxious?
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Are you tense in your shoulders when you are feeling the need to act on a behavior?
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What is your stomach telling you?
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Do you feel like what and it's real lining that and I think that I like to do Just
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like physical you know grounding skills.
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What can you touch?
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What can you see?
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What can you taste?
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But really trying to reconnect that misalignment in some ways because
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it can feel so just chaotic And it's Hey, what am I actually thinking?
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And what am I actually feeling about the same thing?
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And that's one of my favorite things.
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Like my clients would be like, are we standing up?
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I'm like, yeah, we're standing up.
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Put those feet on the ground.
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Let's do this.
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Are we taking deep breaths?
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We're doing deep breaths.
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Let's do this.
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I really want you to feel your body compared to just perceiving yourself
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because we perceive ourselves.
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And it's Oh, this is what my body, did it.
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Yeah.
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But what is your body actually telling you and what is your
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thoughts Aligning with that with your body?
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Laura Deneen: And we know that our emotions show up in our
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bodies first and foremost.
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Right.
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And so looking at Those physical sensations as a cue
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to our emotional state, right?
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And that can tell us what's happening.
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And then like Lauren talks about pretty frequently on the show is
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that can cue us into what we need.
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To, of being in our bodies and starting that process.
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I think that really is a lifelong process of, as we move through
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different seasons, whether we have been an athlete historically, or
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maybe we're letting some of that, identity piece go wherever we are.
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really cuing in I think to our body's physical sensations and what information
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that's giving us and I agree with you that we do live in a world where head, mind,
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body, heart, spirit are all disconnected and even for us as therapists, right, we
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can move through the day and sometimes I can go home and feel disconnected and so
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that's certainly not a judgment, but it's really that question and that curiosity of
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okay how can we reconnect to our bodies?
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in this moment.
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And that's fruitful whether you're an athlete or not, right?
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Sarah, Beth, thank you so much for being here today.
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It's a true joy and honor to talk to you.
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Sarah Beth Flippo: for having me.
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Laura Deneen: Yeah.
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Of course.
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So we always close with some homework and an affirmation.
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I know that Sarah Beth is going to give the affirmation.
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So Sarah Beth, I would love to hear what you have for us
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Sarah Beth Flippo: Yes.
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I am more than the sport that I play in the identity piece and
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that I'm me and that's good.
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Laura Deneen: I love it.
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I love it.
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Lauren, do you want to close with our homework?
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Lauren Jackson: Yeah, so I'm gonna kind of, Go off of what Sarah Beth was like,
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literally just saying about, in the eating disorder process we can typically
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be disconnected from our body and so, I want you to notice three things that
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your body is telling you this week.
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Laura Deneen: I love it.
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Thank you all so much for being here on the Becoming Anchored podcast.
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We are so grateful to have you with us and we will see you next time.
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Take care.
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Lauren Jackson: Bye.