Sep 10, 2026 · 30 min · 13 segments
Caitlin had already done the work to heal her anxious relationship with food. But the anxiety didn’t go away. Instead, it started taking over more and more of her life — fueling constant…
You had said that you'd done some therapy before and also worked with a coach for disordered eating.
It really got rid of that anxiety that I felt around food.
And then when I tackled that, it was like, OK, I did this thing.
I tackled this huge thing that I thought was the thing.
But then anxiety started popping up in other ways instead of it controlling how I think of food, how I eat.
how I even think about what recipes I'm going to make.
It started to concentrate on just general everyday anxiety.
So it just got shifted to something else.
I started working with my therapist with that.
And pretty early, maybe like within two months of that diagnosis, I realized that talking about the things that I thought made me feel worse.
So I would spend 50 minutes in therapy talking about this very specific thing.
And it was validating that thing that I thought or that thing that I interpreted in a certain way.
So there was never, it never felt lighter after I ended a session.
And I talked to my therapist, my therapist about that.
And they had some suggestions of, well, we could do this, we could do this.
And every time we would try and do a new thing to try and combat the anxiety, for me, it just made it worse.
It just made it more prevalent.
So what did you feel like you were missing, even if you couldn't like fully name it at the time?
I was so caught up in my own interpretation of something.
You had said that you'd done some therapy before and also worked with a coach for disordered eating.
It really got rid of that anxiety that I felt around food.
And then when I tackled that, it was like, OK, I did this thing.
I tackled this huge thing that I thought was the thing.
But then anxiety started popping up in other ways instead of it controlling how I think of food, how I eat.
how I even think about what recipes I'm going to make.
It started to concentrate on just general everyday anxiety.
So it just got shifted to something else.
I started working with my therapist with that.
And pretty early, maybe like within two months of that diagnosis, I realized that talking about the things that I thought made me feel worse.
So I would spend 50 minutes in therapy talking about this very specific thing.
And it was validating that thing that I thought or that thing that I interpreted in a certain way.
So there was never, it never felt lighter after I ended a session.
And I talked to my therapist, my therapist about that.
And they had some suggestions of, well, we could do this, we could do this.
And every time we would try and do a new thing to try and combat the anxiety, for me, it just made it worse.
It just made it more prevalent.
So what did you feel like you were missing, even if you couldn't like fully name it at the time?
I was so caught up in my own interpretation of something.
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