Q&A With Vic & Julia | Weight Gain Fears, Codependency in Recovery, Feeling Like an Alien in Your Body, & More

The Body Love Binge - Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

Welcome back my loves! 💜 In this episode, Julia and I are diving into your brilliant questions about recovery. This is raw, real, emotional, funny and deep — basically, all the things we are!

We chat about:

• What moment I’d relive without my eating disorder

• Healing mother/daughter codependency while both recovering

• Feeling guilty for resting (and why that’s actually a GOOD thing)

• Why gaining weight feels unsafe — and how I rewired that fear myself

• Sensory overload in a changing body (and what helped me cope)

• How to stop obsessive movement and exercise guilt

• Whether it’s realistic to go all-in after 30+ years of an ED

• Making peace with the lies I told during my eating disorder

• And why life WITHOUT an ED is the real life you deserve

This conversation is packed with tough love, heart, deep truth and so much encouragement.

Healing is messy. Healing is brave. Healing is YOURS. Let’s do it together.

5 Quotes You’ll Love From This Episode:

1. “Trying is asking for permission to fail. Choose it. Commit to it.”

2. “Feeling guilt in recovery doesn’t mean you’re failing – it means you’re healing.”

3. “Your eating disorder helped you survive – but it’s not helping you live.”

4. “The unfamiliar becomes familiar. You can feel like an alien at first – and still belong in your body.”

5. “Freedom, joy, connection… that’s what’s waiting for you on the other side of fear.”

Links to Dive Deeper:

🧡 Free support group: https://victoriakleinsman.com/free-taste-test/

🧡 Website: https://victoriakleinsman.com/

🧡 Instagram: @victoriakleinsmanofficial

💛 Recovery Circle community and courses: https://www.edrecoverycircle.com/