This article presents a comprehensive recovery approach, comprising two inter-related components. The first focuses on personal and social subjective reasons a person embraces universal behavioural patterns, commonly referred to as anorexia nervosa. This component is founded on a modified focus of a narrative informed approach to psychotherapy. The integrated second component centres on the ethical problems in living in a person’s life, in relation to their patterns of post-structuralist understandings of disordered eating. This second component is related to the first as a result of the reciprocal responses of the sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous systems. Focusing on this relationship, the second component engages in a co-operative and supportive way with clients in order for them to embrace their personal ways for them to eat normally. Thus, the two neurologically connected components, the psychological and the nutritional, should contribute to the formation of a meaningful and effective post-structuralist informed therapeutic approach.