Mind and meaning
Recovery-aware circle
Carefully facilitated. Recovery-aware does not mean fragile.
This circle is for members with a history of an eating disorder or disordered eating who are taking, considering or coming off a GLP-1 medication. It is the most carefully held space on the site and it works differently: two facilitators are always present, there are no numbers, and conversations that drift into comparison are named out loud.
We will not pretend the tension away. A medication that reduces appetite is not a neutral object in a life that has had a disordered relationship with appetite. Some members find it steadying. Some have found it dangerous. Both are true and anyone who tells you it is simple is selling something.
Who this circle is for
- You have a history of anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID or another eating disorder
- You are in recovery and weighing up whether this is safe for you
- You are working with a treatment team and want peer company alongside
Agreements here
- No numbers of any kind — no intakes, no weights, no measurements, no doses framed as achievement
- No comparison of eating, in either direction
- Facilitators name restriction talk in the open, once, kindly — and then stay with the person
- Two facilitators are present in every session; if only one is available the circle does not meet
- This circle is not a substitute for treatment, and we will always point at real support
Binge eating disorder and what actually changed
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I came off because it was not safe for me
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Being in a community full of change talk
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I decided not to take it, and that was the right decision for me
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The line between not hungry and not eating
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A relapse warning sign I nearly missed
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Old thoughts arriving with a new mechanism
Grizel18 replies
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Recovery-aware does not mean I am made of glass
Gwion15 replies
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How I talked to my treatment team about wanting to try this
Osric20 replies
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Ten years recovered and the caution I still keep
Grizel21 replies
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Weight-blind appointments and how I asked for them
Pádraig19 replies
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What being challenged in this circle was like from the inside
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The safety plan I built before starting
Ollie17 replies
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