Meet Lily Thrope, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Lily was featured on Amy Goeckel’s podcast, The Eating Disorder Diaries Podcast:
Amy opens up about her own recent struggles with doomscrolling (especially since becoming pregnant) and how the constant stream of anxiety-inducing content has impacted her mental health and recovery. From pregnancy fears to subtle body comparison traps, she reflects on how quickly social media can shift from entertaining to harmful.
To help unpack all of this, Amy is joined by Lily Thrope, a therapist and founder of Thrope Therapy who specializes in eating disorders, body image, and intuitive eating.
When clothing doesn’t fit the way we expect, it can activate feelings of failure, fear, and unworthiness. This is not your fault. These reactions are learned from a culture that teaches us to equate thinness with value and control with morality. But there are ways to meet these moments with more compassion and grounding.
Trauma can occur when a person perceives danger, or experiences danger, it is the response to the experience that is trauma. Trauma does not always present the same and is not usually what we see depicted in the movies. It doesn’t only come from extreme or life-threatening events, it can also come from chronic stress, medical experiences, relationship wounds, or times when you didn’t feel safe, seen, or supported. For many people, trauma isn’t about what happened, it’s about how your body and nervous system had to respond to survive.
