{"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 290: Is Restricting My Food Actually Hurting Me? Real Talk in the Era of GLP-1s & Celebrity Thinness","slug":"ep-290-is-restricting-my-food-actually-hurting-me-real-talk-in-the-era-of-glp-1s-celebrity-thinness","published_at":"2026-06-16T04:51:00+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-290-is-restricting-my-food-actually-hurting-me-real-talk-in-the-era-of-glp-1s-celebrity-thinness","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-290-is-restricting-my-food-actually-hurting-me-an-honest-word-in-the-era-of-glp-1s/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7ntjer76ppdpm35p/HBS_-_EP_290_FINALal9wq.mp3","summary":"You're trying to recover. The whole world seems to be on a shot, shrinking on purpose, celebrating it loudly. And somewhere underneath all of that, a quieter question keeps surfacing in you: is what I'm doing to my body actually hurting me? That question is the whole episode. If you've been afraid to ask it out loud — this one's for you. In this one, Lindsey opens up about the moment \"just trying to be healthy\" stopped serving her life and started running it, what restriction quietly takes that no scale can show, and the truth she wants you to hold onto in a culture that keeps telling you to make yourself smaller. This isn't a meal plan. It's not a fear list. It's an honest word, woman to woman, for the one who's wondering if she's okay. What this episode is really about How \"wellness\" can quietly become the cage The cultural moment we're in — GLP-1s, shrinking-culture, and what it's like to try to recover in the middle of it The real, honest answer to \"is this hurting me?\" — without giving the disorder one more thing to monitor What restriction takes that no one talks about: not what you see in the mirror, but what makes you you Why your wondering is the wisest part of you The truth that you were chosen to be free — right now, as you are A few lines from the episode \"A lot of us didn't fall into this through vanity. We fell in through wellness.\" \"You're not losing what you see in the mirror. You're losing what makes you you.\" \"If that question is in you at all — listen to it. That's not fear talking. That's the wisest part of you, the part that's still on your side.\" \"Health was never the number. It never was.\" \"You can feel the storm and not be the storm.\" \"You were chosen to be free. 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