In this episode I speak with Holly Farrar, MS,LPC - owner of Dedicated Recovery, a unique health and mental wellness organization that specializes in helping athletes with many health and mental issues. We explore what it means to create a life for yourself after exercise addiction and how to challenge your relationship to movement and exercise.
Holly has her bachelor’s of science in kinesiology (aka exercise science). At 23years old she began her doctorate in physical therapy in California, but opted to step out of the program after six months of battling an upper respiratory infection. Thinking her life was over, Holly moved back to Arizona, an began working in the gym industry as a personal trainer. She began running into people’s disordered behaviors with food and exercise; having a large interest in mental wellness Holly applied to Grand Canyon University for her master’s of science in professional counseling.
Holly graduated in 2018 with her master’s. As an intern Holly worked in an outpatient private practice for eating disorders. Holly began working for The Meadows Ranch in Wickenburg, AZ in 2019. The Meadows Ranch is a residential treatment center for eating disorders. Holly worked on the adolescent unit for three years providing individual, family and group therapy.

You can find her at www.dedicatedrecovery.net