{"podcast":{"title":"Her Best Self with Lindsey Nichol | Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast — Less Food Noise. More Life.","slug":"her-best-self-with-lindsey-nichol-eating-disorder-recovery-podcast-less-food-noise-more-life-5731036","podcast_index_feed_id":5731036,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/herbestself/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.herbestself.co","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/14733630/Her_Best_Self_Eating_Disorder_Recovery_Podcasta6xuu.png","author":"Lindsey Nichol - Certified Health Coach, ED Recovery Coach, ED Intuitive Therapy Certified","episode_count":372,"summary":"Her Best Self is THE eating disorder recovery podcast for women ready to find freedom from disordered eating, body obsession, perfectionism and food anxiety. Hosted by Lindsey Nichol, former figure skater and perfectionist turned eating disorder recovery coach, this show gives you practical tools for healing your relationship with food and body, overcoming perfectionism, and breaking free from diet culture. Twice per week, you’ll get real talk about ED recovery, intuitive eating, body neutrality, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the faith-based journey to becoming your best self—imperfectly. If you’re struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, orthorexia, or disordered eating patterns, this podcast will help you: - Stop obsessing over food and your body - Break free from restriction and binge cycles - Overcome perfectionism and people-pleasing - Build body trust and food freedom - Find community and support in recovery New episodes every Tuesday and Friday. Apply to work with Lindsey 1:1 or learn more about her services and free resources at www.herbestself.co. Join The Recovery Collective ~ the recovery support group that gets the struggle and wants to see you win at rec…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T14:22:22.947172+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-best-self-with-lindsey-nichol-eating-disorder-recovery-podcast-less-food-noise-more-life-5731036"},"episode":{"title":"EP 285: The Unpopular Truth ~ You're NOT Enough & That's OK ~ Why Self-Love Culture Is Making ED Recovery Harder❤️‍🩹","slug":"ep-285-the-unpopular-truth-you-re-not-enough-that-s-ok-why-self-love-culture-is-making-ed-recovery-harder","published_at":"2026-05-15T04:35:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-best-self-with-lindsey-nichol-eating-disorder-recovery-podcast-less-food-noise-more-life-5731036/ep-285-the-unpopular-truth-you-re-not-enough-that-s-ok-why-self-love-culture-is-making-ed-recovery-harder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-best-self-with-lindsey-nichol-eating-disorder-recovery-podcast-less-food-noise-more-life-5731036","url":"https://herbestself.podbean.com/e/ep-285-stop-trying-to-love-your-body-why-youre-enough-culture-is-making-recovery-harder/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7e7t55m8riwss8we/HBS_-_EP_285_FINALbbgfo.mp3","summary":"This might sound counterintuitive, but this could be the most freeing message you hear this week. If you've been told \"just love yourself\" or \"you're enough, sis\" and it feels like another impossible standard to achieve, this episode is for you. What if the pressure to love your body perfectly is just as exhausting as the eating disorder was? In this raw, honest episode, you'll discover: Why self-love culture can become another performance trap The eating disorder's impossible \"enough\" promise that never delivers How recovery culture sometimes creates new standards to achieve Why you were never meant to be \"enough\" on your own The spiritual foundation that changes everything about recovery Permission to struggle and still be worthy How to stop performing and start resting in your worth For the woman exhausted from trying to earn her worthiness. THE EATING DISORDER'S FALSE PROMISE The voice in your head says: \"If you can just be thin enough, disciplined enough, perfect enough, THEN you'll finally be worthy, loved, valuable, not rejected.\" Sound familiar? This is how the eating disorder runs the show—convincing you that \"enough\" is something to achieve, earn, reach on the other side of a number on the scale. So you chase it: Restrict food, track everything, exercise, weigh yourself, body check in every mirror. The disorder promises that if you just get \"there,\" you'll finally feel enough. But you never got there, did you? Every time you hit a goal, the goalpost moves. \"Actually, it's five more pounds. Actually, you should be more disciplined. You're still not there yet.\" The disorder doesn't have an \"enough\" threshold—because if you ever felt enough, you wouldn't need it anymore. THE RECOVERY PERFORMANCE TRAP So you start recovery work. You listen to podcasts, learn abou…","meta_description":"This might sound counterintuitive, but this could be the most freeing message you hear this week. 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