Q&A with Julia: Fear of Judgment, Exercise After Recovery, Motherhood, and More
Welcome back, my loves! This week’s episode is a juicy one – it’s our monthly Q&A where Julia and I dive deep into your most vulnerable, heartfelt, and relatable questions. From how to give yourself permission to let go of the ED when you’re scared of judgment, to navigating free time, motherhood, and movement post-recovery… we cover it all.
You’ll hear our personal experiences, client reflections, and direct, loving guidance – with a few laughs and tangents along the way (because would it even be a podcast with us if there weren’t?!).
In this episode we cover:
🌀 What to do when you’re scared of being judged if your body changes
🌀 Reframing “rebellion” from recovery
🌀 How we approach exercise now (and how it’s evolved!)
🌀 The fear of weight gain and how I faced it
🌀 Recovery and motherhood – how your child can become your biggest why
🌀 DBT vs CBT and how coaching is different
🌀 Do I have food rules? How to tell when they’re sneaky
🌀 Pre-meal affirmations, reminders, and tools to help you follow through
🌀 Whether or not to eat more after exercise
🌀 Free time guilt & how to lean into pleasure
Quotes to remember
💬 True recovery is not just about choosing food freedom. It’s about letting go of the fear of judgement that made you seek control in the first place.
💬 You don’t heal a fear of weight gain by avoiding weight gain. You heal it by walking through it – and seeing that you survive.
💬 You are not your eating disorder. Your brain might be wired with one, but it is not who you are.
💬 If your child saw you restricting – would you want that for them? That’s your cue to make a different choice.
💬 Set point weight is not a number. It’s the place where your body breathes a sigh of relief and gets on with living.
💬 The question isn’t just ‘what am I afraid of gaining?’ – it’s ‘what have I been afraid to feel that I’ve been numbing with control?’
💬 Recovery is a rebellion – a rebellion against perfectionism, against diet culture, and against abandoning yourself again and again.
