The Recovery Feed is a podcast about eating disorder recovery, told by people who’ve lived it.
We’re two humans with lived experience, sharing stories in the belief that one day eating disorder treatment will be as diverse, nuanced, and individual as the people who need it.
We talk about the messy, complicated, multi-layered reality of eating disorders, and what recovery actually looks like. Not the glossy ‘posters of affirmation’ version. The real one. With some not-so-gentle needling of the diet and wellness industry thrown in for good measure.
This podcast is for anyone navigating recovery, loving someone who is, working in the field, or trying to better understand the cultural forces that shape it all. Our aim is simple: to widen the conversation, challenge outdated narratives, and make recovery feel possible.
Listen on –
Our hosts
Ash Myburgh
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Ash Myburgh *
Ash lived with an eating disorder for over 5 years and has been recovered for a number of years. She’s a proud neurodivergent ADHD woman, greyhound mum, a wife to her amazing husband, a pro-wrestling lover, and an advocate and lived experience champion for InsideOut Institute. She sought help after someone was brave enough to share their experience online, so she wanted to start this podcast to hopefully return the favour by helping someone else. She is here to share her own experience, express her strongly worded opinions about the monster that is diet culture, and to continue learning about eating disorders and recovery. She hopes to break the stigma surrounding eating disorders, change the way they are treated and, most importantly, help reduce the impact eating disorders have on lives in the future.
Callie Cote
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Callie is a survivor/warrior and has recovered from Chronic and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa, a feat that she never thought to be possible after a long 16-year battle. She is a supermum to Blake and Parker, a loving partner and a mental health practitioner. She is a regular contributor for EDQ as a lived experience speaker as well as a fierce advocate and trained mentor for mental health and a domestic violence survivor. She is the founder of CA Support - a coaching and support service for those living with eating disorders and mental illness.
She regularly shares her lived experiences online however, she wanted to start this podcast to give hope to those who might feel alone in it all. In addition, she hopes to bring awareness to the prevalence of neurodivergency and the role it plays in mental health treatment as well as the impact motherhood can play in mental health and eating disorders.
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Why we’re no longer called Paved with Gold
You may remember us by the name Paved with Gold. This was our original name, back when we started this podcast in 2022. The name was inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi; the practice of repairing broken pottery with gold, not to hide the cracks but to honour them. We loved the symbolism and we still do.
But over time, we realised our name was too conceptual and lacking clarity. And it didn’t match the overall tone our show was developing into.
So we evolved.
The Recovery Feed now reflects what this has always been: casual, yet honest conversations about eating disorders and recovery, rooted in lived experience, with a healthy dose of humour.
New name. New look. Same commitment to widening the conversation around eating disorders.