It's Not About Food Podcast with Laurelee Roark: Recent Episodes
Laurelee Roark
It's Not About Food podcast is about learning how to love and accept the body you have, re-learn how to eat intuitively and to know how to take care of your emotions.
Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for all the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self-hatred we have carried for so long, and use out compassion to bring love, understanding, and then if necessary, change.
Desiree McGunagle has been in recovery from my eating disorder since October 2018 (bulimia nervosa). She works in communications supporting survivors of sexual assault at our local rape crisis center. Desiree loves talking to others about recovery and learning from all the unique experiences people have in getting closer to their most authentic selves. In her spare time (whatever that is) she loves reading (currently anything Sarah J. Mass), being cat-obsessed, and taking care of her two horses.
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This show is about how recovery is not only beneficial to ourselves but to all who come into contact with us. It’s good for us, our neighborhood, our town, our state, our country and our world.
Margot Magowan is a writer and commentator. Her blog Reel Girl is dedicated to imagining gender equality in the fantasy world. Reel Girl's posts have also been featured on, written about, or linked to major sites around the web including The Week (best opinion), Jezebel, HuffPostLive, Shakesville, feministing.com, Blogher (Spotlight Blogger), Forbes.com, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, New York Times, Adweek, Ms., Bitch (best posts of the internet), SFGate, Harvard Political Review, Le Figaro, Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, Feminist Current, Washington Post, Common Sense Media, and many more.Margot's articles on politics and culture have been in Salon, Glamour, the San Jose Mercury News, and numerous other newspapers and online sites. She has appeared on “Good Morning America,” CNN, Fox News, and other TV and radio programs. For many years, Margot worked as talk radio producer creating top-rated programs. In 1998, Margot co-founded the Woodhull Institute an organization that trains young women to be leaders and change agents. Margot’s short story “Light Me Up” is featured in the anthology Sugar In My Bowl (Ecco 2011) and she is currently writing a Middle Grade novel about the fairyworld. Margot lives with her husband and their three daughters in San Francisco.
margot@magowan.com
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Expressing our feelings and ourselves is the only way to live our truth in our bodies, hearts and souls. Many times we have been taught that to express our feelings is harmful to others and ourselves, but if we learn how to express our feelings honestly and constructively it is beneficial to everyone
Karen Louise Scheuner is a California based weight-inclusive, anti-diet dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Coach with over 16 years of experience under my belt!
I’m passionate about freeing folks from the oppressive force of diet culture so they can reclaim their birthright to live and eat with pleasure, peace and freedom.
Since 2005, I’ve helped hundreds of folks break free from the dieting cycle and create a healthy and peaceful relationship with food and their bodies.
My philosophy is rooted in anti-diet and Health at Every Size frameworks, as well as Intuitive and Mindful Eating. I will soon be a Certified Body Trust Provider. I believe that everyone is the authority of their own bodies; I’m just here to help you to “get out of your head and back into your body.”
Karen Louise Scheuner, MA, RDN, (she/her)
Certified Intuitive Eating Coach~ Anti-Diet Dietitian
510-409-9615
http://www.mindful-nutrition.com
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Honoring means we understand we are sacred beings and our bodies are sacred. They are not objects to be sculpted and forced to meet cultural ideals. They are not a commodity to manipulate in order to measure our self-worth. By de-objectifying and creating reverence for our bodies, we become free to experience the wisdom, magnificence and magic of our bodies.
Emily Ireland Cox is an event planner, body liberation motivator, community builder, and uplifter based in Sacramento, CA.
Co-founder of Fat Positive Sacramento and Sacramento Chunky Dunk swim parties. In recovery from binge eating disorder since 2009.
IG & FB @luckybombshell
linktr.ee/luckybombshell
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This show is about finding, discovering, owning, and sharing your art and passion with the world. What ever your niches is there are those who get it, want it and are so so happy to be with your artistic gifts.
Let your light shine.
Daniela Johnson-Rongstadd Instagram: @calirockchick
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Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path to our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves.
Jessica Setnick
jessica@understandingnutrition.com
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This show is about learning how to work with money and financial health.
Many people who have addictions, compulsions, and difficulties also have issues with money.
Lillian give us very straightforward and much-needed advice on how to navigate the twists and turns of money.
Lillian Meyers is both the founder and president of Meyers Financial Services, Inc., and brings a rare combination of an experienced investment advisor and wealth planner along with expertise in tax minimization strategies. From analyzing a divorce settlement to planning for retirement, taxes have a significant impact on your wealth. She is a graduate of the College for Financial Planning and has often spoken at Sonoma Valley company meetings, student workshops, Women in Business seminars, seniors' organizations, church groups, and more. In addition, she has appeared in interviews with newspapers, radio, and magazines, sharing her insight as a financial planning specialist.
lillian@meyersfinancial.com
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Divinity
All that comes through us is divine because we are divine. A long time ago our bodies were considered to be the image of the devine, yet at some point we started seeing our bodies as objects to be sculpted into someone else’s idea of perfection. Every ounce of us is divine. When we start to accept this, just as we accept our bodies and feelings, then we can stop fighting. With ourselves and allow ourselves and allow ourselves to freely express our own divinity.
Www.Christareynolds.com
christa.reynolds@comcast.net
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Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need.
andreaathertoncoaching@gmail.com
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Creativity is the outward manifestation of who we are as spiritual beings. It is the magical ability to create something out of nothing that is uniquely ours. It is the gift of being able to imagine, to dream, and then to make the dreams come true. Creative expression is essential to feeding our souls. It forced us to go beneath the obsession with food and weight and access the part of ourselves that passionately hungers for self expression.
For more information about George Horner, you can check out his website at https://www.georgehorner.com/
georgeorgehorner@gmail.com
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Margaret Wallace, is a Recreation Therapist based in San Rafael. She works in Senior Fitness and Travel. More information about her and her work can be found at imakefitnessfun.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Alana Van Der Sluys is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, author, speaker, and eating disorder survivor. She is the founder of Freedom with Food and Fitness, an online community dedicated to empowering those who want to heal their relationship with food, weight, and their bodies through intuitive eating and mindset work. Her book, Freedom with Food and Fitness: How Intuitive Eating is the Key to Becoming Your Happiest Self will be released by Urano Publishing in the spring of 2023. A lover of travel, punk rock music, books, chocolate, and bingeing Netflix, she lives in New Jersey with her husband, Scott; son, Archer; and fur baby feline Captain Oats. You can find her on Instagram @FreedomwithFoodandFitness, www.freedomwithfoodandfitness.com or text her at(973) 988-3509.ˆReAlana Alana Van Der Sluys.
Alana Van Der SluyFreedom with Food and Fitness
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Jaclyn Lee is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a virtual private practice that focuses on supporting clients heal from disordered eating. Jaclyn holds a masters degree in counseling psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies. She also has extensive experience in the field of eating disorders through internship and training at Center For Discovery, one of the nation's top eating disorder treatment programs. Jaclyn loves encouraging mindfulness, compassion, and gentleness as a path towards self acceptance and healing one's relationship with food. Jaclyn embraces creativity, curiosity, and hope to support inspiration and courage for those she works with. Jaclynleetherapy.com, instragram handle: Jaclyn.lee.therapy
Phone number is: 510-318-3069
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Joe Kelly, BA, NCLC, is an author, educator, advocate, and a Family Coach for Within Health. He’s spent more than a decade helping loved ones of people with eating disorders. A nationally certified life coach, Joe teaches tools and practices to resist the ways eating disorders hijack families. He also teaches treatment professionals how to engage clients’ male loved ones as allies in treatment and recovery.Joe wrote six books about fathering / step-fathering and co-authored four books about eating disorders. He has served on the boards of the Eating Disorders Coalition, Minnesota Fathers and Family Network, and Fairplay for Children. Joe co-founded New Moon Girls magazine and the national nonprofit Dads & Daughters.
Contact Joekelly3@gmail.com
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Sheira Kahn is a Marriage and Family Therapist and fully recovered bulimic. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Ms. Kahn taught in the UC Berkeley Extension certificate program in Eating and Weight Disorders for ten years. In the 1990s, she studied inner critic disengagement with Byron Brown and natural eating with Judy Wardell. These discourses became the pillars of her method on ending disordered eating. Later, she trained in couples counseling, where the research on attachment provided the final pieces to the puzzle of understanding disordered eating and how to heal it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Sheira Kahn is a Marriage and Family Therapist and fully recovered bulimic. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Ms. Kahn taught in the UC Berkeley Extension certificate program in Eating and Weight Disorders for ten years. In the 1990s, she studied inner critic disengagement with Byron Brown and natural eating with Judy Wardell. These discourses became the pillars of her method on ending disordered eating. Later, she trained in couples counseling, where the research on attachment provided the final pieces to the puzzle of understanding disordered eating and how to heal it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Kimberly Adamis is an LA-based Photographer/Artist whose work has been exhibited in many galleries around the world including Rome, Venice, London as well as here in the US. View her gallery and current projects here:
www.kimberlyadamis.com
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Lindsey Wert, LMFT, CEIP-MH
She/Her/Hers
Psychotherapy, Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, EMDR and Ecotherapy
318 Western Avenue
Petaluma, CA 94952
EDRS Past President
Edrecoverysupport.org
Website: selflovetransformations.com
Phone: 707-780-2496
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Amy Ferraro started Kick ED’s Butt on Jan 2020 as a way to provide positive support for individuals with eating disorders. Kick ED’s Butt is on Facebook as a page and a support group, Instagram, Twitter, and a webpage with a blog. Amy Ferraro began having an eating disorder in high school and continued in private for 30 years before she went to treatment at the Renfrew Center in 2018 for binge eating disorder and Atypical Anorexia.
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Deborah Reidy Kelch is a poet, writer, and spiritual seeker. In 2020, she retired after 40 years as a health policy researcher, advocate and consultant to the California Legislature. Deborah has a grown daughter and lives with her husband in Elk Grove, California.
www.deborahkelch.com
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Angelica Rowell is a singer, actress, writer, and arts educator based in Los Angeles, California. She is adamant about the power art has to change perspectives, and strives to create works that open doors for marginalized peoples while educating others in hopes of creating a more understanding and just world. Angelica has created workshops for youth and adults alike on creating original works that make a statement (“Arts for Activism”) and shedding light on Black musicians who have been erased and overlooked throughout history (“The Evolution of Black Music”). As a creative, Angelica has performed in musicals and operas, including The Industry’s Sweet Land, sung as a featured soloist for the LA Philharmonic’s centennial celebration, debuted various plays with theatre companies across Los Angeles, and served as a staff writer on AMC Allblk’s upcoming TV show, SNAP.
In addition to her creative work, Angelica manages the social media page for Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid, is a member of the arts non-profit Black Light Arts Collective (BLAC), and serves as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant on the board of Bay Area based theatre company, Poison Apple. She holds bachelor’s degrees in theatre and classical voice from the University of California, Irvine.
www.angelica.rowell.com,
Instagram: @angelica.rowell
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Mindy Gorman-Plutzer brings 2 decades of experience to her private practice as a Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and Eating Psychology Coach.
Mindy’s life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body science; introducing a compassionate resolution to physical and emotional challenges resulting from chronic and complex health issues, as they relate to Eating Disorders.
She’s the author of The Freedom Promise: 7 Steps To Stop Fearing What Food Will Do TO You and Start Embracing What It Can Do FOR You.
IG is @thefreedompromiseAttached i
links for the masterclass -https://stopfearingfood.byhealthmeans.com/?idev_id=23572&evt=01
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Katy Byrne has been a licensed psychotherapist for over 35 years. She’s written two books : The Courage to Speak Up and The Power of Being Heard. She’s been a columnist in two papers for over 20 years, recently in The Sonoma Sun: What’s Up With That? Her website is: ConversationswithKaty.comb★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Jen Powers is a local Non-Diet Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Certified Yoga Teacher specializing in eating disorders, healing chronic dieting, HAES, and intuitive eating. She received her Bachelor's in Nutrition at UC Berkeley and Master's in Nutrition at CSU Long Beach where she worked closely with Evelyn Tribole, one of the co-authors of the book Intuitive Eating, on her Master's thesis project and received supervision from her as well. Later she became a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. Jen has worked in the eating disorder field at various levels of care over the past 13 years and started her private practice 1.5 years ago. Her training in mindfulness, meditation, and yoga offers a unique opportunity to strengthen the mind body connection. Jen works with adolescents andadults, offering one-on-one nutrition counseling sessions and family support as well as body empowerment and body positive yoga workshops. It is Jen's passion and mission to help people feel empowered in their body and enjoy food again.
Website: bodymindnourishment.com
Instagram: @bodymindnourishment
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Nutrition Therapist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, RYT-200 Yoga Teacher
T. (707) 338-2474
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McKenzie Cerri is a co-founder of Graydin. Graydin’s mission is to revolutionise the ways we support, empower and connect with our next generations so they can thrive at school and at home. Together with more than 220 schools and Universities worldwide, Graydin has been at the forefront of the coaching movement in education since 2011.
McKenzie has over 15 years of experience in coaching, teacher training and learning content creation for teachers, students and parents. She is a Co-active Coach, a certificated practitioner and coach of NLP, and a Mytho-Self Facilitator. Prior to Graydin, she was a youth coach, and real estate developer and worked closely with Maudsley Hospital eating disorder unit to develop content for suffers and carers. Born in California, now based in London, UK, she took her first personal development course at age nine.
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Tessa Gordon, MA, LMFT, RYT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, certified Nia Instructor, Advanced Pole Instructor, and certified Body Project facilitator, member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, the Academy of Eating Disorders, Facial Pain Association, Diversability Leadership Collective, ReAuthoring Teaching Community, and Yoga for Eating Disorders community. Invisible disability warrior, eating disorder awareness advocate, and activist in the fight against weight stigma and body discrimination. Combining her clinical and lived experiences with her passion for social justice, Tessa works has been actively involved in the eating disorder field for over a decade and has provided therapy at a variety of community counseling centers and treatment facilities. Now in private practice she specializes in eating disorders, non-visible disabilities, chronic illnesses, and trauma. As a registered Yoga, Nia, and Mindful Movement Instructor, Tessa helps people reclaim body-focused forms of movement by shifting language and intention to foster an inclusive and empowering environment for all bodies. Described by her clients as the anti-therapist, Tessa is passionate about working closely with individuals, and their loved ones to discover and connect to their hopes, values, passions, and interests, and support them in re-(dis)covering what their “anti-eating disorder” life will look like. In addition to her work as a therapist, Tessa has provided trainings to other professionals on narrative therapy and eating disorders, the use of therapists lived experience and insider knowledge, mind-body movement and its role in body image acceptance/tolerance, Additionally, Tessa has spoken about stigma and bias in healthcare, the therapeutic relationship, and eating disorder recovery. Tessa is a proud plant parent to approximately 150 indoor plants (and growing…she’s given up counting), and dog mum to the BEST German shepherd ever, Aspen. Want to meet him? He makes appearances in her sessions both over zoom and in Walk + Talk sessions. She loves hiking, yoga, peanut butter, sushi, carrot cake (my own recipe only) and bubble baths.
website is still www.TessaGordonTherapy.com (it will be www.EmbodyingHope.com) but not until mid May
instagram: @EmbodyingHope
upcoming events/news: Yoga 4 ED Recovery Group will be starting, also an outdoor movement based group.
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Ever since becoming a mom in 2019, breaking the cycle of dieting and body-image ancestral trauma has been a priority for Claire Schwartz. After finding Laurelee in her early 20s and starting her healing journey from bulimia, Claire noticed destructive relationship patterns to food and weight in her mother and grandmother.
She’s doing her best each day to model and teach intuitive eating, food neutrality, body appreciation and emotional wisdom to her two children Audrey, 2.5 and Harrison, 4 months. She’s also incredibly proud of her mother for jumping on the intuitive eating train. Better late than never.
claire.g.schwartz@gmail.com
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My name is Eslly Hernandez. I’m 25 years old- and I live in Marin County, CA. I will be graduating from San Francisco State University this May. I’ll be receiving a BA in Business Administration with a concentration in Management. I first joined BH when I was a sophomore in High School because I was initially going to focus on psychology as my major. I absolutely love and am grateful to still participate in BH. I appreciate their values in gearing towards acceptance on oneself at all costs. I will continue to be a part of this program as long as possible, and spread the word of awareness to love everyBODY.
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Megan Botel was born and raised in Marin County, CA, and is now a journalist and radio producer in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on mental health and the environment, particularly on the West’s current fire crisis. Her work has appeared in the LA Times, the Guardian, USA Today, the Washington Post (The Lily), PBS American Experience, HuffPost and more. Currently, she's a podcast producer for Principle Pictures, working on a forthcoming series about teen mental health.
She is a fierce mental health advocate, and a trained teacher in meditation, breath work and yoga. She is especially passionate about the connection between mental and physical health, women’s health and ways to combat the modern burnout epidemic.
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Alexa Redner is currently a mentor teacher for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Program, training people from all over the world to become certified mindfulness teachers. She also works a Mindfulness teacher for Cloud Sangha, guiding people in small groups to deepen their meditation practice in community. Alexa holds a BA in Visual Arts and an MA in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University. Alexa has been a Waldorf Early Childhood teacher, a lead teacher for Mindful Schools, as well as an Eating Disorders and “Body Positive” educator with Beyond Hunger. Alexa emphasizes using mindfulness as a tool to discover love, kindness and acceptance for our bodies and minds.
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Andrea Kanelopoulos, an Author, Motivational Speaker, and Retreat Facilitator for over 2 decades founded Anam Nostos House to combine all her gifts into leading Holistic Wellness Retreats & Workshops. She creates, builds, and offers her teachings and hands on life tools based on her own journey through healing her body image after a 14yr battle. Her vision always is to help others live a full life with the journey they are given.
My website and socials are the best way to get one to my books, retreats and programs.
https://www.facebook.com/anamnostoshouse
https://www.instagram.com/andreakanelopoulosauthor/
https://www.anamnostoshouse.com/
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Kaitlin Geenen is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area and more specifically in person in Livermore.
Kaitlin specializes in the treatment of eating disorders and substance use disorders using an intuitive and integrative approach to therapy that includes a blend of mindfulness practices, harm reduction principles and trauma-informed therapy. Kaitlin is a poet at heart and believes that therapy is some of her best artistic work.
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Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt is a world-leading expert on treating eating disorders. With more than 25 years of clinical experience, she has developed four separate treatment programs, all grounded on a strong bio-psycho-social foundation, and incorporating intensive psychotherapy, with behavioral foundations, and high medical standards. Wendy received her specialty training at New York University-Bellevue Hospital in New York City, she has also held faculty positions at New York University, Albert Einstein School of Medicine and University of Nevada School of Medicine. Wendy is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and in both Adult and Addiction Psychiatry. She is the author of two books, most recently Questions and Answers on Binge Eating Disorder, A Guide for Clinicians. She is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals. She has received Senatorial Recognition for her commitment to the mental health treatment community.
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Holistic means looking at ourselves in a way that includes our entire being, taking each part of ourselves into consideration. When we stop measuring ourselves by how we look, how thin we are, or how much weight we’ve lost we can begin to embrace all of the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of ourselves. We move beyond the goals of having a certain body type an into the integrity and magic of the recovery process itself.
Andrea Lieberstein, MPH, RDN, IMTA CMT-P, RYT is director and founder of the Mindful Eating Training Institute (METI International), an internationally recognized teacher trainer, and trains health professionals in an evidence-based mindful eating and living program, and Well Nourished Coach™ training certification programs. She is bestselling author of the book, Well-Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Feed your Whole Self and End Overeating”, which was chosen as “Best Mindfulness Books 2020” by Mindful Magazine. Andrea also offers coaching, programs and retreats for the general public. She was a lead consultant and mindful eating instructor in NIH funded research at UCSF, is an MB-EAT Teacher Trainer, certified Mindfulness teacher, a dedicated mindfulness meditation practitioner, and MBSR instructor for over thirty years. She spearheaded Mind Body programs at various Kaiser Permanente Northern California centers, for twenty years, and has degrees from Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley.
In her private practice, Andrea works with individuals to have more peace, balance and joy in their relationship with food, nutrition, body-image, and stress-related issues and health concerns or whom simply want to bring their lives back into balance and vibrancy through mindful eating and living. One of Andrea’s greatest passions and joys is studying and practicing the Dharma and sharing the life transforming practices of mindfulness, compassion, mindful eating, yoga, nature awareness, and healthy lifestyles with others. www.mindfuleatingtraining.com, www.yourwellnourishedlife.com, https://www.facebook.com/mindfuleatingtraining
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In this recovery, there are many miracles. We have the choice either to embrace the miracles and take part in them or step around and deny them. As we open our hearts to our recovery and let it guide and teach us, we receive many gifts. We develop compassion for ourselves and others, we create a healthier relationship with our mind, body, and spirit, we free ourselves from the oppression of self-hatred and limited self-perceptions, and most simply, we learn to love ourselves.
Gretchen Werner is a Bay Area native who has struggled with bulimia, body dysmorphia, compulsive eating, and self-hatred for most of her younger life. She found Laurelee and Beyond Hunger in her 20's and was finally able to look at herself and love herself with the help of Beyond Hunger, therapy, mindfulness, and a daily practice of self-care and self-love. She is now a mother to 2 beautiful little girls (3 and 5), pursuing a nursing career, a community activist, and wakes up each day grateful and works on choosing recovery and tries to make it a daily practice to see all the miracles life has to offer each day.
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Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self hatred we have carried for so long, and use our compassion to bring love, understanding, and then, if necessary, change.
Regina Powers is a western trained family nurse practitioner who has worked in both emergency medicine and family practice. After a 4 year training in energy medicine she stumbled upon the teachings of the 5 Elements of Chinese medicine (Earth, Metal, Water, Wood and Fire)which is when everything related to how she saw, and treated people began to shift. She now blends both western and eastern medicine in her private practice in San Francisco, CA. She does both in-person and long distance healing work. She also shares these teachings and understandings in a book titled, “What Color is Your Medicine?”
Regina created a non-profit called Sol Journeys. Here you can discover the elements as a means of healing while out in the natural world. She utilizes energy medicine, breath work, somatic release along with the all the Elements during her retreats and workshops. The next 3-Day Retreat is April 22-24th in the Sierra Nevada Foothills. This is a transformational journey to open, expand and experience a deeper connection to yourself, the Earth and all of her offerings. You can learn more about her and her services at SolJourneys.com or reach out via email- regina.soljourneys@gmail.com
www.soljourneys.com
Medicine for the Heart & Soul
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Reflexion is the ability to see your true self mirrored back to you. Unfortunately, we spend most of our lives using the mirror as a way to judge the imperfections in our appearance, which is a limited and biased perception of who we are. By changing how we see our reflection, we can expand and transform our vision to include the beauty of our true selves.
Amber Rice is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, facilitator, educator, speaker, writer, and activist. Amber has been a mental health provider for over 25 years, with her roots in social work and non-profit, community-based services. Amber’s areas of specialization include trauma, disordered eating, body shame and weight bias, and her Seattle-based private practice supports clients from around the world. Her counseling framework is highly relational and informed by social justice, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and radical self-compassion models. Amber is an AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor and she provides clinical supervision, education, and training to other therapists on topics including countertransference, body politics, anti-fat bias and weight bias in the helping professional fields.
www.amberrice.org
instagram: @amberricelmft
TikTok: amberricelfmt
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Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies.
Jennifer Briscoe, RN, Certified Health Guide and 200 RYT works with women over 40 who are struggling with aging to reconnect their body, mind and spirit. She helps them discover what foods and activities fuel their unique physical and emotional bodies AND work with their lifestyle. She is passionate about helping others slow down, become present and learn to love and accept themselves!
Jennifer is a graduate of Wilkes University, ICF accredited Health Coach Institute and Santa Rosa JC. She offers 1:1 coaching and has a monthly Yoga + Series.
https://www.jenniferbriscoe.com
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Expressing our feelings and ourselves is the only way to live our truth in our bodies, hearts and souls. Many times, we have been taught that to express our feelings is harmful to others and ourselves, but if we learn how to express our feelings honestly and constructively it is beneficial to everyone.
Marybeth Weinstock, PhD, BC-DMT
Dance/Movement Therapist, BC-DMT-565
Previous Member at Large, Western Region, American Dance Therapy Association
Previous President and Communications Chair, CA Chapter American Dance Therapy Association
Creative Transition www.creativetransition.net
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Feelings are the emotions that come from the core of our being that are an essential part of knowing our needs and taking care of ourselves. Our feelings tell us when we are hurt, when we need to stop or set a boundary, what makes us happy and what feeds our soul. When we can learn to go beneath the body hatred and diet thoughts and experience our feelings fully, we can begin to take back our ability to live fully.
L. Smith Counseling, LLC
Linda C. Smith, MS, LMFT, LMHC, CEDS, CCMHC, NCC
6326 Spy Glass Run
Fort Wayne, IN 46804
Office: 260-755-5495
Fax: 260-755-5947
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Nurture means to provide true nourishment for our bodies, minds and souls. When we become more present and aware of our needs, it is easier to define what feels good to our bodies and selves, and what is nourishing to us. When we stop hating ourselves and start practicing loving kindness, it is easier to take care of ourselves in nurturing ways.
Shari Botwin, LCSW has been counseling survivors in recovery from trauma, eating disorders, abuse, and related issues for over 25 years in her South Jersey Private Practice. Her second book, “Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing,” just released worldwide in paperback. She has given commentary on a variety of media outlets and podcasts and is a blogger for Psychology Today Magazine.
https://www.amazon.com/Thriving-After-Trauma-Stories-Healing/dp/1538162679/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1X01GTX8GBGBS&dchild=1&keywords=thriving+after+trauma&qid=1635875557&qsid=14
Shari Botwin, LCSW
www.sharibotwin.com
Author of Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing (Rowman & Littlefield) Updated paperback
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This show is about how to recover from eating disorder, stop feeling not good enough and go through the grief of losing your person and still have a life of joy.
Aidan Park originally from South Korea is a Los Angeles based stand-up comedian headliner, bestselling author, public speaker, certified life coach and creator of The Art of Being Yay brand; your funny guide to yay-ful living. The company encourages people to find their inner YAY! by providing funny relatable content, tools and ideas for a yay-ful lifestyle.
www.theartofbeingyay.com
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Hunger is our strong desire to meet our own needs. Many of us have forgotten how to differentiate between our physical, emotional and spiritual hunger. When we relearn to listen to our bodily wisdom and internal cues, we can begin to understand this difference and meet each hunger with the appropriate response. We can then be satisfied and content.
Ashley McIntosh has led workshops on personal awareness, anxiety-relief, and emotional health for over 15 years, working with thousands of children and adults. For her workshops, Ashley developed playful metaphors to help individuals become aware of their emotions, thoughts and hearts.
Her picture book, The Girl and The Sun, offers these metaphors in a beautifully endearing story so adults can explore these deep concepts within themselves, and then have honest conversations with kids. Her online course, Returning Home to Yourself, helps parents care for their children by first learning to care for themselves.
While currently studying toward a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology, Ashley maintains an active social media presence, and regularly provides parents with candid and thought-provoking content. Learn more at: www.ashleyandthesun.com
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Being a Support Group Leader and Clinical Director for Beyond Hunger “nurture” should be her middle name. This show talks about working in the field of eating disorders as well as deep grief. When we practice the idea of nurturing it means to provide true nourishment to our bodies, minds and souls. When we become more present and aware of our own needs, it is easier to define what feels good to our bodies and selves, and what is nourishing to us. When we stop hating ourselves and start practicing loving kindness it is easier to take care of ourselves in nurturing ways.
Helen has worked in communities, schools and nonprofits for nearly thirty years, helping those with mental health struggles and learning differences. She got into recovery for her own eating disorder during her senior year in college and due to this incredible life changing experience began to consider working with others battling the same illness. She completed graduate school in Sacramento Ca, and finished her licensing hours and exams in the Bay Area. She currently resides in a small town next to San Francisco and enjoys working in private practice where she sees clients with different mental health challenges, specializing in treating children with learning disabilities, grief and loss and eating disorders.
Helen’s office number 415-717-7820
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As Beyond Hunger Board Member and Volunteer extraordinaire Marie talks about what holistic recovery from eating disorders and body hatred look like. Holistic means looking at ourselves in a way that includes our entire being, taking each part of ourselves into consideration. When we stop measuring ourselves by how we look, how thin we are or how much weight we’ve lost, we can begin to embrace all of the physical, emotional and spiritual parts of ourselves. We move beyond the goals of having a certain body type and into the integrity and magic of the recovery process itself.
Marie is an attorney who helps protect consumers by seeking remedies for violations of consumer protection laws, primarily on a class basis. Marie also has a long history of pro bono involvement and currently is a regular volunteer at the Community Legal Assistance Saturday Program, a monthly free legal clinic sponsored by the Alameda County Bar Association. In the past, Marie served on Beyond Hunger’s Board of Directors for several years.
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Volunteering as peer educator in her teens Meg has first-hand knowledge of the idea of nurture. The Body Love Card “Nurture” means to provide true nourishment for our bodies, minds and souls. When we become more present and aware of our needs, it is easier to define what feels good to our bodies and selves, and what is nourishing to us. When we stop hating ourselves and start practicing loving kindness, it is easier to take care ourselves in nurturing ways.
Margaret (Meg) Burton is the Southern California Regional Program Manager at Bring Change to Mind, a national non-profit co-founded by Glenn Close that works to decrease stigma surrounding mental illness. She is also the founder of Heartlines Yoga, yoga designed specifically for teens, as well as a staff member for the summer program at The American School in Switzerland. In her free time Margaret loves traveling, reading, hiking, adventuring, drinking coffee, and practicing yoga. You can find her on instagram at @heartlinesyoga.
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Carol and I talk about what this book is about, why we wrote this book and why every teenager and parent should read it. And listen to this podcast.
Carol Normand, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, with over 30 years of experience as an individual therapist, speaker, author, and group/workshop facilitator. She holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from UC San Diego and an MS in Counseling from San Francisco State University. Carol is founder of Amrita Eating Disorder Intensive Outpatient Program and co-founder of the nonprofit Beyond Hunger. She has authored It’s Not About Food: End Your Obsession with Food & Weight, and Over It: A Teen’s Guide to Getting Beyond Obsessions with Food & Weight. Carol received the Golden Bell Award for her work in developing the Emotional Literacy Program for middle school students.
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Truth is our own internal wisdom that defines who we are. Finding our own truth means figuring out the difference between what we’ve been told we should be, versus who we really are. Often times in the past our true feelings, passions, opinions, and experiences were ignored, rejected or just not encouraged. When we can relearn to identify what our own truth is, we are able to put into action what our heart and soul desires.
M is a trans/non-binary art therapist, fat activist and artist whose work focuses on body justice, intersectional social justice and treatment equity access. They co-own Rainbow Recovery where they support people through the gender affirmation process, complex trauma recovery, eating disorder recovery and body image issues. M is also an adjunct professor at Albertus Magnus College and serves as part of the board of directors for Project HEAL.
Em Reim ifrach
em.reimifrach@gmail.com
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At the heart of every person is a yearning from the deepest part of our souls that must be heard. It is a desire to awaken, embrace our whole selves, and see past the limitations we have put on ourselves. It is the knowing that we are connected with a universal love and a spiritual presence that holds the flame of our true essence of love and light. When we begin to accept that each one of us was born with divine spirit, then we can stop the struggle with defining ourselves as good or bad by our body size or the food we eat. We can then move on to simply expression our true selves.
Corinne Dobbas
corinne@corinnedobbas.com
Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD is a registered dietitian, nutrition therapist, and certified intuitive eating counselor with over a decade of experience in Marin County, Ca. Corinne works with adolescents, young adults, and adults with eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, and body image concerns by helping clients break free from the mental, emotional, and physical toll of chronic dieting through a non-weight focused, non-diet approach.
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Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self-hatred we have caried for so long, and use our compassion to bring love, understanding and then, if necessary, change.
Connie Sobczak
connie.sobczak@gmail.com
Connie Sobczak is the author of Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!), and Co-Founder of The Body Positive, a nonprofit organization that teaches people to listen to their bodies, learn, and thrive. In Connie’s 2021 TEDx Talk, Embracing Your Critical Voice: The Gateway to Self-Love, she shares her painful yet powerful journey to self-love, and offers ways for others to get there as well.
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Acceptance means to honor and respect our body and our self exactly as we are right now, in this moment. When we step into acceptance, we stop struggling and fighting and we begin to make peace with ourselves. This empowers our body and our self to be who we really are in this moment. It takes us out of the obsession of “wanting to be different” and allows us to be more present with ourselves, and therefore better able to meet our needs.
Rob Nelson, author of Hacking Reality, is director of Tapping the Matrix Academy, offering EFT training and certification and instruction in the advanced Hacking Reality technique. Rob has trained hundreds of practitioners and works with clients worldwide via Zoom and Skype. His website is tappingthematrix.com
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Fat thoughts are the kind of thoughts we have when we are criticizing our bodies, calling them too fat, too ugly, too big or too “whatever.” These thoughts are learned from our cultures’ fat prejudice and body hatred. Sometimes when we are young and experience shame or uncomfortable feelings. We change them into body hatred. When we begin to understand that our fat thoughts and body hatred are learned, then we can take the blame off our body, and process the deeper feeling in far more constructive and fulfilling ways.
Julie Norman, BS (nutrition/dietetics), E-RYT (Experienced, Registered Yoga Teacher), ES (Equine Specialist), CHC (Certified Health Coach)
Julie delights in guiding others in experiences that foster growth and healing from a place of self-love. She believes this is essential for both individual and collective peace. Her career as a registered dietitian in eating disorders treatment and her own recovery inspired the creation of Body Karma Healing (BKH), her signature yoga program that guides women to peace with their bodies and food for authentic empowerment. Julie has two book offerings; Poems From The Path of Peace, Volumes 1 & 2 that share musings from her own healing journey. She's available for public speaking engagements, coaching and consulting on yoga, horses as healers, creativity, eating disorders, body image, mindful eating, stress management and wellness.
Julie Norman, BS, E-RYT, ES, CHC
Wellness and Equine Specialist
https://JulieNormanYoga.com
Phone: 330-524-9448
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Reparenting is the action of taking care of the small child within all of us who has feelings and needs. Many times the pain beneath the struggle with food and weight is linked to emotional needs that weren’t met when we were children. This is understandable since it is impossible for a parent to meet every emotional need a child experiences. However, as an adult we can learn to meet our own needs and be our own parent. We do this by being compassionate, loving, attentive and responsible to ourselves.
Janna Barkin, jannabarkinyoga@gmail.com
is an author, educator, and mother. Her youngest is transgender. She has worked as a
preschool teacher/director and is now a certified yoga instructor with over a decade of experience.
Janna currently supports transgender youth and their families as facilitator of parent support group at
The Spahr Center in Marin County, Ca, as a workshop presenter, and as a parent coach. Her book
“He’s Always Been My Son” (August 2017 Jessica Kingsley Publishers) was a #1 bestseller on Amazon and continues to be a valuable resource.
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When we stop dieting and obsessing about food and weight, we set a boundary that allows us to start living our lives and meeting our own needs. Setting boundaries is a way to protect our integrity. By setting limits or saying no we are able to make choices based upon our own unique truth, instead of what we believe we “should” do or “should” eat or “should” weigh.
Kathleen Bishop is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Gorski-trained Relapse Prevention Specialist. In private practice, she specializes in eating and body image problems. Kathleen is also a body-positive and size diversity activist who promotes Health At Every Size(R) principles to end stigma and mistreatment associated with weight in our culture. Follow her on Instagram.com/body_peace_liberation. Email-bodypeace@outlook.com
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Reparenting is the action of taking care of the small child within all of us who has feelings and needs. Many times, the pain beneath the struggle with food and weight is linked to emotional needs that weren’t met while we were children. This is understandable since it is impossible for a parent to meet every emotional need a child experience. However, as an adult, we can learn to meet our own needs and be our own parent. We do the by being compassionate, loving, attentive, and responsible to ourselves.
Marcella Cox LMFT, CEDS-S
Marcella Cox is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in treating eating disorders in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the Founder of Kindful Body, a collaboration of seasoned eating disorder professionals who provide online therapy and nutrition counseling throughout California. She is also Co-founder and Executive Director of the IFS Telehealth Collective, a multi-state mental health group practice dedicated to providing high quality-Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy.
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Expressing our feeling and ourselves is the only way to live our truth in our bodies, hearts and souls. Many times, we have been taught that to express our feelings is harmful to others and ourselves, but if we learn how to express our feelings honestly and constructively it is beneficial to everyone.
M Reim Ifrash MAAT, REAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPC, NCC, RMT, CLAT
M (they/them) is a fat, non-binary, Art therapist and eating disorder specialist who own Rainbow Recovery, a queer owned and operated healing collective committed to the recovery of the LGBTQ+ community. They believe in the power of authenticity, being real and creating safe spaces for all in the world. M is also a board of directors member for Project HEAL and the founder of Eating Disorder Therapists for Intersectional Social Justice. When not working they enjoy spending time with their cats, dogs and bunnies, creating art and working on their tattoo project called The Tattooed Goddex.
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Body talk is how we communicate with our bodies. Communications with our bodies are often full of negative, critical comments with are not only unproductive, but make us feel worse and lead to destructive behaviors. When we are aware of how we talk to ourselves, we can learn to stop the mean body talk or at least slow it down, and create room for more positive, loving nurturing and inspirational communication with our bodies.
Jill Berling
Jill Berling is a practicing Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who works predominantly with teens and their families. Jill has a passion for supporting women of all ages who struggle with body image and body acceptance. Through her own struggle and recovery, she hopes to inspire others to make a change. For more information go to www.therapywithjillb.com
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Acceptance - What the actual hell is going on?
The apocalypse?
. Which means "lifting of the veil. Finding the secret deep inside.
For many of us, our life has been turned upside down.
Financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
We are afraid and anxious.
WE have seen the systems we have set up fall apart…fragile and weak…completely unjust, horrifying, and brutal.
But in this time of revelation, we all have a chance to embrace the change or refuse.
Guess which one I think we should try and do?
Will we move in the direction of change and growth? Or will we stubbornly refuse to budge?
Bruce Springsteen said whatever we don’t let go of will be torn out of our hands. The letting go feels like hell but a lot easier than the tear.
What can come out of these ashes?
Whoever saw any of this coming?
Well of course the docs and scientists.
But the rest of us slobs on the bus trying to get home as the song says
We did not see it coming.
As most big life-changing events.
They take us by surprise.
What will you do with the surprise? I hope you will accept it and use it well.
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In this episode I talk about recovery from an eating disorder is doable and completely possible. There is hope and you can and will recover.
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Inhabit means to live in our bodies, not in our heads. When we learn to be present in our bodies, to move out of the obsessive thinking and into our feelings, we can learn to identify and meet our physical, emotional and spiritual needs. First, we must be aware that we are in the obsession, in the thinking, in the head. Then we can use our breath to bring our awareness into our body and explore what we are experiencing in our bodies.
Gaby Kogut has an M. Phil. in art history from CUNY Graduate Center and teaches art history courses at various institutions in New York City and Pennsylvania. She is passionate about a wide variety of issues including teaching art history to everyone in an understandable and engaging way, practicing fat acceptance and fat activism, and sharing her extensive knowledge of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. She writes about these issues and more at gaby471.substack.com. She lives in Upper Manhattan with her wife, Jon, and their four cats. You can reach her at gpkogut@gmail.com.
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Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path of our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves.
Linda Shanti McCabe is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, expressive arts therapist, recovery coach, and imperfect mom. She loves helping women recover, uncover, and discover their authentic selves. She has written two books: one for new moms recovering from disordered eating and one for people learning to carry grief with grace.
You can find her at: DrLindaShanti.com
Instagram: @DrLindaShanti
Facebook: Recoverymama
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Observation is the ability to observe and question our behaviors. When we can do this with a sense of detachment, curiosity, and no judgement, like a scientist we can then be safe enough to see our true behaviors. Only by seeing ourselves as clearly and honestly as possible can we start to understand and then change our behaviors.
Jasmine holds a Bachelor's Degree in Health Science and Biology, a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher Certificate, a Level II attunement and certification in Reiki Universal Life Force Energy, a certification in Therapeutic Hypnosis and a passion and deep knowledge of all layers of the being. She's in a year-long mastery program in Human Design, a system to understand your unique energy management and decision-making process. She blends her spiritual gifts and fuses tools for self-discovery and self-liberation, to guide others to step into a life that is more aligned with who you truly are and not who we were conditioned to be.
Website: https://www.soulperspective365.com
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Our relationship with food, body size, and sexuality are complex. By exploring the link between negative body image and sexual shame, we can begin to respect and love our own unique beauty and then hold our bodies and sexuality as sacred. We can then reclaim our sexuality for ourselves as the pure, precious, and honorable force it is.
ArielWhitlockMFT@gmail.com
775-351-9411
Ariel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in Trauma and Eating Disorders. She most loves helping those who have been harmed with sexual abuse restore and redeem their souls and bodies back. She is currently the co-founder of EDC and works in Roseville CA
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Our relationship with food, body size and sexuality are complex. By exploring the link between negative body image and sexual shame, we can begin to respect and love our own unique beauty and then hold our bodies and sexuality as sacred. We can then reclaim our sexuality for ourselves as the pure, precious, and honorable force it is.
Nicola Chan is a Body Confidence coach. She helps women and girls to feel more confident in their bodies through Size Inclusive Fitness and Mindset. With over 16 years of severe body hatred while working in the industry, she found her own recovery. Afterwords, instead of leaving the industry, she decided to stay and help others learn the truth about Diet Culture and Weight Stigma and help them find TRUE Body Confidence.
waisheecoaching.co.uk
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Observation is the ability to observe and question our behaviors. When we can do this with a sense of detachment, curiosity and no judgement, like a scientist we can then be safe enough to see our true behaviors. Only be seeing ourselves as clearly and honestly as possible can we start to understand our behaviors.
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Barbara Birsinger, ThD, MPH, RDN, CEDRD-S
Creator, The Behavior Decoding Method™ & The Food and Body Code™
Co-Principle Investigator, Stanford Study on the BDM™/HAES®
www.BarbaraBirsinger.com
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Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. WE all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path of our heats, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves.
Jennifer Lombardi, LMFT, CEDS, Behavioral Health Manager, Eating Disorder IOP in Sacramento, CA.
Ph. 916-561-4147
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All that comes through us is divine because we are divine. A long time ago our bodies were considered to be the image of the divine, yet at some point we started seeing our bodies as objects to be sculpted into someone else’s idea of perfection. Every ounce of us is divine. When we start to accept this, just as we accept our bodies and our feelings, then we can stop fighting with ourselves and allow ourselves to freely express our own divinity.
Check out Whitney Walkers website at womenwaken.com
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Holistic means looking at ourselves in a way that includes our entire being, taking each part of ourselves into consideration. When we stop measuring ourselves by how we look, how thin we are, or how much weight we’ve lost, we can begin to embrace all of the physical, emotional and spiritual parts of ourselves. Holistic means we move beyond the goals of having a certain body type and into the integrity and magic of the recovery process itself.
Deborah Brenner-Liss, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in San Francisco. She is in private practice, specializing in treating eating disorders and trauma. She is also the Director of the Association of Professionals Treating Eating Disorders, which has existed in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1985.
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Overeating and undereating are both ways to cope with overwhelming feelings. They can become a tool to calmed down, numb the pain or get away from the feelings. Once we become aware of our overeating or undereating in the moment, we can then look beneath the behaviors at the underlying feelings and explore what might have caused them.
Sondra Kronberg, MS, RD, CEDRD-S
Founder and Executive Director, Eating Disorder Treatment Collaborative, and consultant to the Carolyn Costin Institute. she has been treating patients and teaching professionals for over 35 years. She is a founding member of the National Eating Disorders Association, (NEDA). She is author and recipient of many ED treatment awards
This year Sondra created the Chats in the Living Room weekly live online Covid support group, newsletter, and website where she live hosts experts in the field. Www.chatsinthelivingroom.com
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Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfold uniquely and spontaneously. “Trusting the process” means that we all work through these experiences and issues at our own pace and in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don’t have to waste precious time comparing ourselves to others.
Ellyn Silverman-Linnetz is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian Supervisor (CEDRD-S). Her expertise covers a wide area of practice from integrating nutritional healing into addiction and recovery care to nutrition therapy in eating disorders. She practices an integrative approach to nutrition intervention which includes helping clients improve their relationship with food and their find peace in their bodies so they can show up for what is most important in life. Ellyn considers herself to be a non-diet Registered Dietitian and is committed to supporting clients reach their goals through self-exploration and self-trust. She is an Intuitive Eating practitioner and comes from the philosophy of weight inclusive wellness. Ellyn has a Bachelor’s of Science in Nutrition from Rutgers University and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of South Carolina. She also completed a Fellowship at USC in Metabolic Dysregulation as well as her Physician’s Assistant degree. She is a member of IAEDP (International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals) and The International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians. She has authored many publications, written chapters on a variety of topics and is a national speaker on nutrition health. She currently lives in Long Beach California with her family which includes her husband Burt and her dogs Hailey and Charlie and is the proud mom of two adult daughters and a wonderful grandson. She loves to paint and travel and is currently working on her first book on eating disorders and substance treatment.
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Inhabit means to live in our bodies, not in our heads. When we learn to be present in our bodies, to move out of the obsessive thinking and into our feelings, we can learn to identify and meet our physical, emotional and spiritual needs. First, we must be aware that we are in the obsession, in the thinking, in the head. Then we can use our breath to bring our awareness into our body and explore what we are experiencing in our bodies.
Debra Benfield is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist (RDN), as well as a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian, and IAEDP-approved Supervisor (CEDRD-S) with over 30 years of experience in the field. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified in Curvy Yoga, Accessible Yoga, and Trauma-Sensitive Yoga. Debra also participated in 2 years of training in Presence-Based Coaching which she integrates into her offerings. Debra is committed to offering respectful, compassionate care with the intention to create a partnership with you as the expert of your own body. She has discovered the transformative power of somatic practices and yoga along with embodied/intuitive eating principles. With a focus on trauma-informed care and nourishing your inner child, she offers individual and family nutritional therapy, as well as group programs, workshops and retreats. Debra will start where you are and believes in small steps to support your whole-person well being. Debra supervises her RDN associates with the same philosophy and intention. She also provides professional supervision, coaching and professional development. Debra is committed to supporting best practices in both preventing and treating disordered eating for health and behavioral health care providers and founded the Winston-Salem Eating Disorder Coalition. She also is creating community for those who are on the path of Body Liberation by offering a free monthly Book Club that is open to the public. Debra’s professional background includes providing medical nutrition therapy as a clinical nutritionist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine for many years and was a faculty member of the School of Medicine for 10 of those years. While at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, she was responsible for a wide range of tasks: nutrition education of medical professionals and patients, clinical nutrition services, research, and administration. She was also in private practice part-time during those years with a transition to full time private practice in 2005. Debra’s experience also includes being a chief clinical dietitian in a clinical setting, a clinical nutritionist for North Carolina School of the Arts, and RDN in an addiction treatment center as well as a behavioral health center.
Debra@bimnutrition.com
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Awareness is awakening to ourselves exactly as we are in the present moment. In order to heal our struggle with food and weight, we must become aware of eating patterns, emotions, bodily sensations and diet/fat thoughts. Only by watching and working with ourselves in the moment, can we truly understand what we need.
Guest name, bio & contact info
Sheila Rubin
Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT
Co-Director Center For Healing Shame
and Private Practice of Psychotherapy, Drama Therapy, Somatic Therapy, AEDP, EFT
830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102
Berkeley, Ca 94110
Tele- therapy on zoom during Covid time
www.SheilaRubin.com
www.HealingShame.com
(415) 820-3974
Sheila@healingshame.com
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Observation is the ability to observe and question our behaviors. When we can do this with a sense of detachment, curiosity, and no judgement…like a scientist…we can then be safe enough to see our true behaviors. Only be seeing ourselves as clearly and honestly as possible, can we start to understand our behaviors.
Guest name, bio & contact info
Deb Malkin radicalbeingbodywork@gmail.com
Deb Malkin a 51 year old massage therapist and TMS pain recovery coach. I had a transformative recovery from knee pain in 2019 after starting work with the Curable app and reading The Mindbody Prescription from Dr. Sarno. I love helping clients recover from all kinds of physical and emotional pain (including migraines, back pain, fibromyalgia) using the tools of pain science education, life coaching, radical self acceptance, self compassion and my 20 years as a fat activist. I am dedicated to the belief that all people are born with inherent worth and value and help them to find their reconnection to that wholeness. I have been trained in mindbody methods by Dr. Schubiner and Charlie Merrill, PT and the PPDA. I can be found posting videos on Instagram at instagram.com/movewithdeb and more information about my 8 week pain recovery program can be found at debmalkin.com.
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Inhabit means to live in our bodies, not in our heads. When we learn to be present in our bodies, to move out of the obsessive thinking and into our feelings, we can learn to identify and meet our physical, emotional and spiritual needs. First, we must be aware that we are in the obsession in the thinking, in the head. Then we can use our breath to bring our awareness into our body and explore what we are experiencing in our bodies.
Dr. Deah (Day-uh) Schwartz Ed.D, M.S. M.A., CTRS, has extensive experience using Therapeutic Arts, Music, Drama and Recreation techniques in a variety of clinical and educational settings with clients ranging in age from 5 to 80+. Dr. Deah began her work in Body Acceptance and Eating Disorders in the 1980’s and was a pioneer in the field as evidenced by her co-authoring and and being an original cast member of “LEFTOVERS: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A COMPULSIVE EATER," and the “LEFTOVERS Workbook/DVDset.” Dr. Schwartz was a professor at San Francisco State University for 10 years, preparing students for careers in Recreation and Expressive Arts Therapies. Her passion for self-acceptance and expressive arts is put to good use in her latest book, Dr. Deah's Calmanac, an interactive monthly guide for cultivating a positive body image. Available on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles and her website at drdeah.com, she hopes her words and suggestions will provide assistance in defining one’s own standard of beauty and finding ways to make peace with one's body.
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Body wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies.
Patricia Ravitz, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist, in private practice in Marin County for over 25 years. She is a former President of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. She works with individuals, couples, and families, and specializes in treating people with eating disorders.
PatriciaRavitz.com
415-328-4141
Patricia@patriciaravitz.com
She holds degrees in:
- Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies
- Master’s Degree in Community Program Development from San Francisco State University
- Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from San Francisco State University
Professional Associations
- President - California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
- Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA)
- Association of Professionals Treating Eating Disorders (APTED)
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Acceptance means to honor and respect our body and our self exactly as we are right now in this moment. When we step into acceptance, we stop struggling and fighting and we begin to make peace with ourselves. This empowers our body and our self to be who we really are in this moment. It takes us out of the obsession of “wanting to be different” and allows us to be more present with ourselves, and therefore better able to meet our needs.
Carolyn Costin is a world renowned, highly sought-after eating disorder clinician, author, and international speaker. Recovered from anorexia in her twenties, as a young therapist Carolyn recognized her calling after successfully treating her first eating disorder client.
After 15 years in private practice and running hospital programs, Carolyn was determined to improve the relapse rate and recognized a gap in the eating disorder field. She opened Monte Nido, the first residential facility in a home setting, surrounded by nature, where standard treatment was combined with meditation and yoga and clients were “retrained” to shop for, prepare and cook food. Carolyn’s contributions to the field are extensive. Her six books, service in every major eating disorder organization, three decades of training professionals worldwide, free study groups and the outstanding success of Monte Nido all spurred Carolyn to international acclaim. In 2016, Carolyn left Monte Nido and created The Carolyn Costin Institute. The Institute offers Continuing Education for clinicians, Eating Disorder Coach Certification, Mentor Training, and Educational support for families of those with eating disorders. Through the Institute Carolyn also offers speaking engagements, consultations and supervision. Carolyn is an active, passionate, inspiring force in the eating disorder field. To learn more, visit Carolyncostin.com or email: Carolyn@carolyncostin.com
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Truth is our own internal wisdom that defines who we are. Finding our own truth means figuring out the difference between what we’ve been told we should be, versus who we really are. Often times in the past our true feelings, passions, opinions and experiences were ignored, rejected or just not encouraged. When we can relearn to identify what our own truth is, we are able to put into action what our heart and soul desires.
Guest name, bio & contact info
Nancy Ellis-Ordway, LCSW, PhD, is a psychotherapist with thirty years' experience, specializing in treating eating disorders, body image issues, stress, anxiety, depression and relationship issues. She offers individual, couple, and family therapy through her private practice in Jefferson City, MO. In addition to a Master of Social Work degree from Washington University, she has completed the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training program at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. She has written chapters for four books, as well as numerous articles for professional and general publications. Her book, "Thrive at Any Weight; Eating to Nourish Body, Soul and Self Esteem" was published in 2019. She also teaches classes for professional continuing education. She has a Ph.D. in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Missouri.
Nancy Ellis-Ordway, PhD, LCSW
author of "Thrive at Any Weight:
Eating to Nourish Body, Soul, and Self-Esteem”
She, her, hers
neomsw@mindspring.com
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Diet thoughts are the kind of thoughts we’re having when we think we “should” only eat certain kinds or qualities of foods, count calories and carbs or fat grams, or other eating rules that are restrictive and based on losing weight. These thoughts are learned from our diet culture. Dieting is an obsession that allows us to focus on something very tangible and concrete, giving us the feeling that we are in control. When we understand that diet thoughts can sometimes be a response to underlying feelings, we can begin to use diet thoughts as a red flag to explore these feelings.
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Sarah Kirby
Sarah is a Bay Area native. Like many of us, she spent much of her teens and into her 30s brain-washed by popular culture, believing her body wasn’t good enough and that her job was to perfect it (read: be thin). Sarah is currently in graduate school at the University of San Francisco pursuing a degree in Counseling Psychology and hopes to help others make peace with their minds and bodies.
Sarahlena2008@gmail.com
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Trust is knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need.
Alexis McIsaac has been a volunteer and a peer education presenter for our school-based program since she was a senior in high school. She is now at Sonoma State working her way to her Masters in Psychology. Alexis.mcisaac@yahoo.com
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This show explores the idea that truth is our own internal wisdom that defines who we are. Finding our own truth means figuring out the difference between what we’ve been told we should be, versus who we really are. Often times in the past our true feelings passion, opinions and experiences were ignored, rejected or just not encouraged. When we can relearn to identify what our own truth is, we are able to put into action what our heart and soul desires.
Emelina Minero is the creative director of the Self-Love Diet, a framework for nurturing self-awareness and creating a loving relationship with your spirit, body, thoughts, emotions, relationships, culture, and the world. She has worked alongside her mom, Michelle Minero, the founder of the Self-Love Diet, since 2009. Through e-courses, workshops, and talks, Emelina and Michelle have given people the tools to let go of self-doubt and body dissatisfaction and learn to accept and love themselves. You can find Emelina at www.theselflovediet.org, on Instagram at @self.love.diet, on the Facebook Page Self-Love Diet: The Only Diet That Works, and on the Love Warrior Community Facebook group.
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This is a show about going back to basics…Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self-hatred we have carried for so long, and use our compassion to bring love, understand and then, if necessary, change.
Constance Hart
Color Therapist Constance Hart is the founder of Conscious Colors, a color therapy modality that supports emotional wellness and the developer of color aroma, an innovation that combines color therapy with aromatherapy. Constance has over 30 years’ experience in the holistic healing arts and offers guidance, training courses and mentoring. www.consciouscolors.com
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Today we are talking about faith which is trusting that there is a loving source of which you are a part. Having faith means that you can let go of fear and tight control and trust that there is a great wisdom within and around you, allowing yourself to breathe and listen for spiritual guidance. Having faith means that even though the recovery process may become difficult and dark, you can trust that you will also find the grace and light.
Sarah Lowenthal, M.D.
Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Iaedp-Approved Supervisor (CEDS-S)
655 Redwood Highway, Suite 364
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Phone: 415.569.4918
Fax: 415.888.8344
drsarah@sarahlowenthalmd.com
https://sarahlowenthalmd.com
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In this show we talk about recovery from an eating disorder and or body hatred. We explore what is it, what does it look like, how to do it and how do we know we need it. Hilarity Ensues along with some serious deep truths.
Carol Normandi MS, LMFT, Co-founder of Beyond Hunger
(415) 488-1104
Carol Normandi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice since 1992. She is a co-founder of Beyond Hunger, Inc. and co-author with Laurelee Roark of two books developing Beyond Hunger’s approach: It’s Not About Food: Ending Your Obsession with Food and Weight (Putnam 1998), and Over It: A Teen’s Guide To Getting Beyond Food and Weight (New World Library 2001) as well as the Body Love Cards. Carol works with adults, children, couples and families, specializing in eating disorders and body image disturbances. She has facilitated support groups, led workshops, and lectured about eating disorders for more than twenty years. Carol provides clinical consultation for Beyond Hunger. She is also the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Amrita Eating Disorder Treatment www.amritat.com
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Fat thoughts are the kind of thoughts we have when we are criticizing our bodies, calling them too fat, too ugly, too big or too “whatever”. These thoughts are learned from our culture's fat prejudice and body hatred. Sometimes when we are young and experience shame or uncomfortable feelings, we change them into body hatred. When we begin to understand that our fat thoughts and body hatred are learned, then we can take the blame off our body, and process the deeper feelings in far more constructive and fulfilling ways.
Ragen Chastain is a speaker, writer, Certified Health Coach, and thought leader in the fields of Health at Every Size, Fitness, Weight Stigma in Medical Care, and Corporate Wellness. Ragen has brought her captivating mix of humor and hard facts to stages including Google, CalTech, and national and international medical conferences. Author of the popular blog danceswithfat, the book Fat: The Owner's Manual, and editor of the anthology The Politics of Size, Ragen is frequently featured as an expert in print, radio, television, and documentary film. Ragen is a three-time National dance champion, and two-time marathoner who holds the Guinness World Record for Heaviest Woman to Complete a Marathon, and co-founded Fit Fatties on Facebook. Ragen lives in LA, with her partner and their two adorable dogs.
ragen@danceswithfat.org
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Truth is our own internal wisdom that defines who we are. Finding our own truth means figuring out the difference between what we’ve been told we should be, verses who we really are. Often times in the past our true feelings, passions, opinions and experiences were ignored, rejected or just not encouraged. When we can relearn to identify what our truth is, we are able to put into action what our heart and soul desires.
Camerin Ross PhD
Mindful Eating & Body Acceptance Coaching
(415) 937-0403
info@CamerinRoss.com
CamerinRoss.com
I’m dedicated to helping people heal their tangled relationship with food, eating and their bodies
through education, awareness and community building.
When we relate to ourselves with respect and appreciation, we come home to our bodies.
Establishing a fearless, natural relationship with food and eating is possible.
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Purpose
Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path of our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves.
Mary Fiumara, LCSW, received her BSW from Rutgers University in New Jersey and MSS degree from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. In 1985 she was part of a team that opened up the first free-standing residential facility for eating disorders. She earned her PA LCSW, and worked in the field of eating disorders and behavioral Health. Mary lived in Philadelphia PA for twenty years, and worked in various settings such as acute, residential, afternoon treatment and partial hospitalization programs. Marymoved to California in 2003, worked at an IOP for eating disorders, Creekside Behavioral Health as the Manager for Social Services and Rehabilitation for 13 years, and earned her CA LCSW in 2008. She also was an active board member on EDRS (Eating Disorders Recovery Services0 beginning in 2004.
Mary joined Kaiser Permanente in July 2020 and is working as a provider on the Child and Family Services Team, and with the EDO program. She has a part-time private practice (www.maryfiumara.com)
Outside of work Mary enjoys taking her dog Chloe for walks, hanging out at home with her many cats, cooking, gardening, motorcycling, bicycling, playing pool and square dancing.
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Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies.
With over 25 years of experience, Chevese Turner is an internationally recognized eating disorders, weight discrimination and social justice activist who founded the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) in 2008. Turner carries these messages to audiences around the US and abroad in schools, healthcare settings, trade organizations, associations, professional conferences, corporations, and governmental agencies. Turner is the co-author of the recently published book: Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery & Beyond and contributes regularly to podcasts and the media. Turner attended Temple University in Philadelphia where she received a BA in Political Science. Her professional background includes public policy and government relations, non-profit management, programming, strategy and communications. Instagram:@turnunder Facebook:@bedadvocate
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Truth is our own internal wisdom that defines who we are. Finding our own truth means figuring out the difference between what we’ve been told we should be verses who we really are. Often times in the past our true feelings, passions, opinions and experiences were ignored, rejected, or just not encouraged. When we can relearn to identify what our own truth is, we are able to put into action what our heart and soul desires.
Marcella Raimondo, PhD, MPH is a passionate and spirited clinical trainer speaking from her heart on social justice and eating disorders since 1995. In 1997, Marcella worked with About-Face, a nonprofit organization that addresses media impact on body image serving as the Director of Media Literacy until 2005. Today, she is on the About-Face Board of Founders and a consultant. She is also on the Advisory Board for the Association of Size Health and Diversity (ASDAH), on the Board of Eating Disorder Recovery Support (EDRS) as Past President and serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Eating Disorders Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee. Marcella currently serves as a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY# 27037) in Kaiser Oakland’s eating disorder clinic as well as in private practice. Marcella, herself, recovered from Anorexia Nervosa over 20 years ago. Marcella trains in Kajukenbo at Hand to Hand Kajukenbo Self Defense Center in Oakland. She holds a second degree black belt and enjoys the exploratory path her training gives her. Her recovery and her martial arts training inspire her dedication to multicultural body nurturance and community celebration. For more info, visit marcellaedtraining.com
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The recovery process is not linear, but rather like a spiral. As we begin our journey of recovery around the spiral we meet many layers of life experiences that trigger disordered eating and body hatred behaviors. Even though we are once again doing these behaviors, we are not at the same starting point in the spiral. As we take each experience and use it as a building block in our healing, we move ourselves along the spiral. When we are consciously working on our recovery, every experience teaches us, giving us more strength and wisdom. Eventually we develop more effective coping tools to deal with these life experiences and the disorder eating and body hatred behaviors are no longer necessary. Chevese Turner is the founder and former CEO of the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) which merged with the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) in 2018. As part of NEDA’s executive leadership team, she developed the organization’s key policy initiatives and strategy, and directs its partnerships, programming and communications programs. Turner currently is working as a consultant guiding advocacy organizations and corporations in the mental health space to make their environments and policies discrimination-free for higher weight individuals. Turner is passionate about changing the conversation around weight and body size. She is dedicated to moving beyond the current dominant weight-focused paradigm to one that is weight inclusive and promotes well-being free from weight stigma and discrimination. She carries these messages to audiences around the US and abroad in schools, healthcare settings, trade organizations, associations, professional conferences, corporations, and governmental agencies. Turner is also the co-author of the recently published book: Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery & Beyond and contributes regularly to podcasts and the media. Cherevese.turner@bedaonline.com, insta@turninder:FB:facebook.com/chevese-turner★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Body talk is how we communicate with our bodies. Communications with our bodies are often full of negative, critical comments which are not only unproductive, but make us feel worse and lead to destructive behaviors. When we are aware of how we talk to ourselves, we can learn to stop the mean body talk, or at least, slow it down and create room for more positive, loving, nurturing and inspirational communication with our bodes. Christine Isotalo Christine Isotalo is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology emphasizing in Pediatric Behavioral Health Care. Volunteering as a Peer Educator with Beyond Hunger with Laurelee Roark ignited her passion for the prevention and intervention of disordered eating. In addition to her work with Eating Disorders, she has since expanded her interests to Autism Spectrum Disorder and neurodiversity in the realms of both research and her clinical practice. Although she takes an integrated approach to her practice, she highlights the benefits of mindfulness for her clients. In her spare time, she has been working toward the completion of a Certificate in Yoga for Mental Health Care providers. www.linkedin.com/in/christine-isotalo★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Sarah Hijjeh is a Registered Nurse of 12 years, a whitewater rafting guide, and a host of Wining With Nurses podcast. Facebook.com/winingwnurses Wwnurses@gmail.com Instagram.com/winingwithnurses Boundaries When we stop dieting and obsessing about food and weight, we set a boundary that allows us to start living our lives and meeting our own needs. Setting boundaries is a way to protect our integrity. By setting limits or saying no we are able to make choices based upon our own unique truth, instead of what we believe we “should” do, “should” eat, or “should” weigh.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Truth is our own internal wisdom that defines who we are. Finding our own truth means figuring out the difference between what we’ve been told we should be verses who we really are. Often times in the past our true feelings, passions, opinions and experiences were ignored, rejected, or just not encouraged. When we can relearn to identify what our own truth is, we are able to put into action what our heart and soul desires.
"Kimberly Adamis is an LA-based Photographer/Artist whose work spans over multiple medias. During the recent summers she's been traveling with the band HEART as their tour photographer. Once she's home she spends her time exploring other aspects of the art world. If she's not photographing other musical artists or shooting art portraiture you can find her tucked away in her studio painting, drawing or exploring new mediums. Her work has been displayed at "LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR DIGITAL ART" where she had a Solo Show as well as other showings throughout the years. Many of her pieces are currently on her website: kimberlyadamis.com as well as the major social media platforms.”★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
How to use your recovery from an eating disorders to help others with Alexis McIsaac This program with one of our long time Peer Educators goes over the idea that when we help others with our struggles and tryumpts we change and grow in a deeper way. U★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
satisfaction is knowing exactly what you need in the moment and giving this to your self. When you can identify exactly what your body hungers for and give this to yourself without restriction and judgment, then you will e[experience satisfaction. What your body is hungry for may be different than what our mind think you should eat or what you are emotionally craving. Stephanie Brooks, MS, RD, CEDRD-S Stephanie Brooks, MS, RD, CEDRD-S is the founder of Bay Area Nutrition, LLC, a group of registered dietitians who provide individual, family and group evidence and practice based nutrition therapy. She founded the Wellness Program with Ingrid Higgins, LMFT, from Campbell Teen & Family Therapy. She is passionate about how nutrition affects the body and brain and loves working with clients of all ages and families to optimize their health through nutrition. Stephanie is trained in FBT (Family Based Therapy), is a Certified Eating Disorders Dietitian and Supervisor from IAEDP and serves as the co-chair for AED’s Nutrition SIG. Stephanie is a nationally recognized expert in the field of disordered eating and pediatric feeding problems. In addition to her work with individuals, groups and families, she provides training and supervision for dietitians and other professionals Stephanie earned her BS in nutrition from UC Berkeley, her MS in nutrition from San Jose State University, and a certificate in eating disorders from John F. Kennedy University. eating disorders, various nutrition topics and business development.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
3 prong recovery and prevention model of Beyond Hunger Presentations of the Peer Educators. The 3 prong model we teach is body acceptance, intuitive eating and emotional wisdom. In this show I interview 3 of our recent peer educators about how they go into schools and talk about how to recover from disordered eating and body dissatisfaction as well as preventing disordered eating and body dissatisfaction. Using a interactive power point students learn what the problem is, where it came from and what to do. Body Acceptance:In this culture, individuals learn to value an unrealistic and unattainable “perfect body” and equate thinness with being “good, attractive, and worthy”. Feelings of low self-worth and self-doubt become misplaced upon bodies, creating a very negative and sometimes abusive relationship with their bodies. People can recreate their relationship with their bodies by healing the body shame and developing acceptance for their natural bodies. Intuitive Eating: People struggling with food and weight issues are usually out of touch with the physiological cues that signal hunger and satisfaction. The restrictive nature of most diets leads to feelings of deprivation and can actually worsen compulsive behavior, leading to the diet/binge cycle. By re-learning to eat intuitively, people can base their food choices on internal bodily signals of hunger, satisfaction, and fullness. Emotion Wisdom: (The symptoms or behaviors of eating disorders (overeating, under-eating, and the obsession with food and weight) are often developed by people as ways of coping with psychological stress. In order to create alternative ways to meet their emotional and spiritual needs, it is first necessary to develop emotional wisdom: the ability to identify, express and process emotions. The Peer Educators are: Zoe Hamblett Hanna Vogel Brianna Thompson Kayla Rodriguezz★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Reparenting with Maurine Killoough Reparenting is the action of taking care of the small child within all of us who has feelings and needs. Many times the pain beneath the struggle with food and weight is linked to emotional needs that weren’t met when we were children. This is understandable since it is impossible for a parent to meet every emotional need a child experiences. However, as an adult we can learn to meet our own needs and be our own parent. We do this by being compassionate, loving, attentive and responsible to ourselves. In this show we meet the inner child and learn what and how to take care of her. About Maurine Killough Maurine Killough, BS, CH is a certified Guided Imagery Practitioner and Clinical Hypnotist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She weaves imagery techniques with hypnosis and other approaches to help clients overcome challenges such as stress, trauma, performance anxiety, and self-esteem issues. She is known for her guided visualization recordings, many found free on her website and her Head to your Heart youtube channel, her "Introducing a New Medicine" recording has been published by Healing Journeys and translated into Spanish, to be distributed internationally. She leads a FREE weekly meditation group each Monday on Zoom. In addition to her practice, she is the Administrator for Imagery International and on the Advisory Board for the Inner Mammal Institute. More information at: https://www.headtoyourheart.com/.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Trusting the process with Stephanie White Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfold uniquely and spontaneously. “Trusting the process” means that we all work through these experiences and issues at our own pace and in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don’t have to waste precious time comparing ourselves to others.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Miracles with Janet Kere Kripal jk.kripal@gmail.com In this recovery there are many miracles. We have the choice to either to embrace the miracles and take part in them, or step around and deny them. As we open our hearts to our recovery and let it guide and teach us, we receive many gifts. We develop compassion for ourselves and others, we create a healthier relationship with our mind, body and spirit, we free ourselves from the oppression of self-hatred and limited self-perceptions, and most simply, we learn to love ourselves.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Fullness with CathyAnn Intemann Fullness is the bodily experience of having just enough to eat…not too much and not too little. When we slow down, stay conscious and go within, we can hear or feel this natural bodily sensation. Every person experiences fullness different and some of us have learned to ignore this signal. To experience fullness you may need to practice listening to your body.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Observation with Toni Toledo www.thepathpod.com and on Instagram @thepathpod PATH Positive Approaches To Health Observation is the ability to observe and question our behaviors. Without judgment and with compassion. Doing this opens the door to lasting changes.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Holistic with Special Guest Elaine Santos, MA, NBC-HWC Wellness Coach www.wellnessasart.com IG: @wellness_as_art Board member of Imagery International https://imageryinternational.org/
Holistic means looking at ourselves in a way that includes our entire being, taking each part of ourselves into consideration.
When we stop measuring ourselves by how we look, how thin we are, or how much weight we’ve lost we can begin to embrace all of the physical emotional and spiritual parts of ourselves. We move beyond the goals of having a certain body type and into the integrity and magic of the recovery process itself.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Spira withl Maria Raquel Pandeyhe mrgramajo@gmail.com Recovery process is not linear, but rather like a spiral. As we begin our journey of recovery around the spiral, we will meet many layers of life experiences that trigger disordered eating and body hatred behaviors. Even though we are once again doing these behaviors, we are not at the same starting point in the spiral. As we take each experience and use it as a building block in our healing, we move ourselves along the spiral. When we are consciously working on our recovery, every experience teaches us, giving us more strength and wisdom. Eventually we develop more effective coping tools to deal with these life experiences and the disordered eating and body hatred behaviors are no longer necessary.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Emily Ireland Cox is a nonprofit event manager, body liberation motivator, community builder and sunshine cadet based out of Sacramento, CA.In recovery from B.E.D. Since 2009 IG & FB @luckybombshell
Inhabit means to live in our bodies, not in our heads. When we learn to be present in our bodies, to move out of the obsessive thinking and into our feelings, we can learn to identify and meet our physical, emotional and spiritual needs. First, we must be aware that we are in the obsession, in the thinking, in the head. Then we can use our breath to bring our awareness into our body and explore what we are experiencing in the bodies.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Nurture Anna Bohbot azulaica@linkedin.com www.linkedin.com/in/annabohbot Nurture means to provide true nourishment for our body, minds and souls. When we become more present and award of our needs, it is easier to define what feels good to our bodies and selves and start practicing loving kindness, it is easer to take care of ourselves in nurturing ways.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Feelings and Eating With Bee Uytiepo
www.beeuytiepohealingisgiving.com Overeating and under-eating are both ways to to cope with overwhelming feelings. They can become a tool to calm down, numb the pain or get away from the feelings. Once we become aware of our overeating or under-eating in the moment, we can then look beneath the behaviors at the underlying feelings and explore what might have caused them.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Jenner Musser with Trusting the Process jennermusser@gmail.com Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfold uniquely and spontaneously. “Trusting the Process” means that we all work through these experiences and issues at our own pace and in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don't have to waste precious time comparing ourselves to others.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Compassion with Shannon Myers www.shannonmyers.com
Shannon embodies the idea and tool of Compassion. The foundation of all recovery of any type. Shannon explains how she used the idea of compassion for not only about her own losses but for her own life on life's terms. Listen to Shannon as she talks about how to have compassion for all in all ways.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Acceptance with t Janice Bremis Janice@edrcsv.org https://centerfordiscovery.com/
Acceptance means to honor and respect our body and our self exactly as we are right now, in this moment. When we step into acceptance, we stop struggling and fighting and we begin to make peace with ourselves. This empowers our body and our self to be who we really are in this moment. It takes us out of the obsession of “wanting to be different” and allows us to be more present with ourselves, and therefore better able to meet our needs.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Faith with Special Guest Rose Poulsen www.rosepoulson.com Faith is trusting there is a loving source of which you are a part. Rose talks about learning to let go of fear and control will open us up to breathing though worry about things we can do nothing about. Having faith and trust in ourselves, in our recovery even if times are dark and lonely we can know we will also find grace and light.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Compassion with Special Guest Tameen Faridi info@tameenfaridi “Invisible Treats: Poetic Delicacies for the Hungry Heart" This show is about Compassion. The foundation of all recovery. Tameen talks about going through her own eating disorder as well as grief and sadness when things change and times are sad. Having compassion for your self and your life will get you through the hardest times.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Intuitive Eating This show is an interview with one of the originators of intuitive eating. With clarity and wisdom she shows the paradigm shift of moving away from the diet culture into a more healing and gentle way of eating and taking care of our bodies and our selves. www.elyseresch.com Books By Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole Intuitive Eating, An Anti-Diet Revolutionary Approach. The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens The Intuitive Eating Workbook★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Awareness with JoAnn Saccato JoAnn@MindfulAndIntentionalLiving.com Books: Companioning the Scared Journey: A Guide to Creating an Compassionate Container for Your Spiritual Practice Mindful and Intentional Living, A Path to Peace, Clarity, and Freedom.
On this podcast we will talk about awakening to ourselves exactly as we are in the present moment and what that means when we are struggling with our food and weight. Or whatever we are struggling with, especially now and the worry of getting sick, being quarantined and having enough. Learning how to watch and work with ourselves in the moment will help us understand what we really need. Joann guides us to a mindful place of consciousness and compassion.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Trusting the process with Eric Osborne www.mycomeditations.com This show is learning how to trust the process as we go through this virus hitting us from all sides; body, mind and soul. And how we can open up to the the teaching of a power greater than ourselves: the earth, the collective unconscious, each other and our true selves. My guest Eric, is someone who has been working with this concept for many years and has helped hundreds of people to connect to the greater good within.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
This show is about taking really good care of yourself, having compassion, what to do if old or new behaviors come up as you try to cope with the uncertainty and fear of the Corona Virus.
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Compassion with Franco Melli EZTooRemember@twitter.com Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self hatred we have carried for so long, and use our compassion to bring love, understanding, and then, if necessary, change. EZTooRemember@twitter.com★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Spirituality with guest Liz McCann Elizgracemccann@gmail.com
At the heart of every person is a yearning from the deepest part of our souls that must be heard. It is a desire to awaken, embrace our whole selves, and see past the limitations we have put on ourselves. It is the knowing that we are connected with a universal love and a spiritual presence that holds the flame of our true essence of love and light. When we begin to accept that each one of us was born with divine spirit, then we can stop the struggle with defining ourselves as good or bad by our body size or the food we eat. We can then move on to simply expressing out true selves.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Satisfaction with guest Anita Johnston http://www.dranitajohnston.com Eating By The Light Of The Moon Light of the Moon Cafe: Transform your relationship with food
Satisfaction is knowing exactly what you need in the moment and then giv8ng it to yourself. When you can identify exactly what your body hungers for and give this to yourself without restriction and judgement, then you will experience satisfaction. What your body is hungry for may be different than what your mind thinks you should eat or what you might be emotionally craving.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Truth with guest Patti Breitman Eatplants@earthlink.net BOOKS: “Even Vegans Die” “Never Too Late To Go Vegan”
Today we talk about Truth and the fact it is our own internal wisdom that defines who we are. Finding our own truth means figuring out the difference between what we’ve been told we should be versus who we really are. Often times in the past our true feelings, passion, opinions and experiences were ignored, rejected or just not encouraged When we can relearn to identify what our own truth is, we are able to put into action what our heart and soul desires.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Divinity with guest Nubia Teixeira Yoga Teacher Trainer Author of “Yoga and the Art of Mudras” Www.nubiateixeira.com
This weeks program looks at all that comes through us is divine because we are divine. A long time ago our bodies were considered to be the image of the divine, yet at some point we stated seeing our bodies as objects to be sculpted into someone else’s idea of perfection. Every ounce of us is divine. When we start to accept this, just as we accept our bodies and our feelings, then we can stop fighting with ourselves to freely express our own divinity.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Awareness with guest Christa Reynolds Breath-work Facilitator, Chakra Meditation Teacher, Life Coach/Vedic Astrology. Author of Will and Mysteria: Two Inseparable Yogis www.willandmysteriathebook.com Awareness This show is about awaking to ourselves exactly as we are in the present moment In order to heal our struggle with food and weight, we must become aware of eating patterns, emotions, bodily sensations and diet/fat thoughts. Only by watching and working with ourselves in the moment can we truly understand what we need.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Compassion with Guest Frank Bohan frankbohan@aol.com Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self hatred we have carried for so long, and use our compassion to bring love, understanding, and then, if necessary, change.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Boundaries with guest Susan Schultz. Instagram: sus.a.n Facebook : Susan Schultz
When we stop dieting and obsessing about food and weight, we set a boundary that allows us to start living our lives and meeting our own needs. Setting boundaries is a way to protect our integrity. By setting limits or saying no we are able to make choices based upon our own unique truth, instead of what we believe we “should” do, “should“ eat, or “should” weigh.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Reflection with guest Carol Normandi, LMFT www.amritaedt.com
Reflection is the ability to see your true self mirrored back to you. Unfortunately, we spend most of our lives using the mirror as a way to judge the imperfections in our appearance, which is a limited and biased perception of who we are. By changing how we see our reflection, we can expand and transform our vision to include the beauty of our true selves.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Acceptance with guest Paula Capocchi Acceptance means to honor and respect our body and our self exactly as we are right now, in this moment. When we step into acceptance, we stop struggling and fighting and we begin to make peace with ourselves. This empowers our body and our self to be who we really are in this moment. It takes us out of the obsession of “wanting to be different” and allows us to be more present with ourselves, and therefore better able to meet our needs.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Purpose - with guest Monika Pumberger Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path of our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves. Laurelee Roark, MA, CCHT Co-founder of Beyond Hunger 415-497-8910 cell www.beyondhunger.org www.laureleeroark.com★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Spirituality with guest Debbie Glander LMFT www.debbieglander.com 1503-304-5920
At the heart of every person is a yearning from the deepest part of our souls that much be heard. It is a desire to awaken, embrace our whole selves, and see past the limitations we have put on ourselves. It is the knowing that we are connected with a universal love and a spiritual presence that holds the flame of our true essence of love and light. When we begin to accept that each one of us was born with divine spirit, then we can stop the struggle with defining ourselves as good or bad by our body size or the food we eat. We can then move on to simply expressing our true selves.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Feelings & Eating with guest Beth Baugher www.truelovephoto.com Beth Baugher on FaceBook/truelovephoto Feelings & Eating: Overeating and under eating are both ways to cope with overwhelming feelings. They can become a tool to calm down, numb the pain or get away from the feelings. Once we become aware of our overeating or under eating in the moment, we can then look beneath the behaviors at the underlying feelings and explore what might have caused them.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Awareness with guest Elizabeth Scott
Awareness is awakening to ourselves exactly as we are in the present moment. In order to heal our struggle with food and weight, we must become aware of eating patterns emotions, bodily sensations and diet/fat thoughts. Only by watching and working with ourselves in the moment, can we truly understand what we need.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Purpose with guest Connie Sobczak Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express those gifts. To find our calling is to find the path of our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Acceptance with guest Emily Ireland Cox Instagram & Facebook: @LuckyBombshell Acceptance means to honor and respect our body and our self exactly as we are right now, in this moment. When we step into acceptance, we stop struggling and fighting and we begin to make peace with ourselves. This empowers our body and our self to be who we really are in this moment. It takes us out of the obsession of “wanting to be different” and allows us to be more present with ourselves, and therefore better able to meet our needs.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Spiral with guest Susan Budding The recovery process is not linear, but rather like a spiral. As we begin our journey of recovery around the spiral, we will meet many layers of life experiences that trigger disordered eating and body hatred behaviors. Even though we are once again doing these same behaviors we are not at the same starting point in the spiral. As we take each experience and use it as a building block in our healing, we move ourselves along the spiral. When we are consciously working on our recovery, every experience teaches us, giving us more strength and wisdom. Eventually we develop more effective coping tools to deal with these life experiences and the disordered eating and body hatred behaviors are no longer necessary.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Carsynn Costa on Instagram @notsoeasytofindnow
Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self-hatred we have carried for so long, and use our compassion to bring love, understanding, and then, if necessary, change.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Carol Normandi amritaedt.com beyondhunger.org
“This podcast is about creativity and how we use it to get out of our obsession minds and get into our hearts and souls. Creativity is the outward manifestation of who we truly are as spiritual beings. It is the magical ability to create something out of nothing that is uniquely ours. It is the gift in being able to imagine, to dream, and then to make those dreams come true. Creative expression is essential to feeding our souls. It forces us to go beneath the obsession of food and weight and access the part of ourselves that passionately hungers for self-expression. “★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Vajra Farnsworth, www.alkaviva.com This show is about Feelings. They are the emotions that come from the core of our being that are an essential part of knowing our needs and taking care of ourselves. Our feelings tell us when we are hurt, when we need to stop or set a boundary, what makes us happy, and what feeds our soul. When we can learn op go beneath the body hatred and diet thoughts and experience our feelings fully, we can begin to take back our ability to live fully.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Claire Schwartz, clairgschwartz@gmail.com Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Erica Chaney, www.bigblissyoga.com Today we look at how complex our relationship to food, body size and sexuality are. By exploring the link between negative body image and sexual shame, we can begin to respect and love our own unique beauty and then hold our bodies and sexuality as sacred. We can then reclaim our sexuality for ourselves as the pure, precious and honorable force it is.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today's guest Sabine Haake, www.healthwithoutdiets.com Todays Program is reparenting which is the action of taking care of the small child within all of us who has feelings and needs. Many times the pain beneath the struggle with food and weight is linked to emotional needs that weren’t met when we were children. This is understandable since it is impossible for a parent to meet every emotional need a child experiences. However, as an adult we can learn to meet our own needs and be our own parent. We do this by being compassionate, loving, attentive and responsible to ourselves.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Lindsey Wert, Selflovetransformation.com This show is about Body Wisdom and the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies. Selflovetransformation.com★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today's guest Ashley Gallagher Today we will talk about trusting the process. Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfolds uniquely and spontaneously. “Trusting the process” means that we all work through these experiences and issues at our own pace and in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don’t have to waste precious time comparing ourselves to others.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Laurelee Roark, www.laureleeroark.com In this program I will explain the Body Love Cards and how to use them as well as talk about miracles. In any recovery there is always the choice either to embrace the miracles, take part in them or to step around and deny them. As we open our hearts to our recovery and let it guide and teach us, we receive the many gifts. We develop compassion for ourselves and for others, we create a healthier relationship with our mind, body and spirit, we free ourselves from the oppression of self-hatred and limited self-perceptions and most simply love ourselves.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Complete Recovery from an Eating Disorder is Possible
Now we are at the part where we know complete recovery from an eating disorder is possible Letting go of the diet mentality and integrating intuitive eating and trusting your body is recovery. Letting go and realizing fat thoughts, diet thoughts are messages to help us listen to our feelings more deeply. If we are able to listen to our truth we can stay in recovery and use the red flags that signal a need for more self-care. !
On todays show I am interviewing Michelle Minero the author of Self Love Diet, The Only Diet That Works. Here are our Facebook links:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/LoveWarriorCommunity/
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Living our Truth Living our truth is what we are talking about today. Finding others on the path and setting limits is a way to recover using self-expression. To get there we know that each obsessive thought and each disordered eating behavior is a thread that, if followed, can lead us back to our own truth. Barbara Murphy, Psy.D, www.feat2eat.com★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Recovery from an Eating Disorder is not a Linear Process. This podcast is looking at true recovery. It requires many layers of learning that unfold uniquely, spontaneously and independently. As we go around the spiral of recovery we often hit a stressor, which takes us back to our behavior. But we learn how to work ourselves out of it and get back to recovery with more self-knowledge. Stress will always happen but we can have faith we will work through it. Margaret Burton★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today Laurlee will start the topic of Recovery from an Eating Disorder is not a Linear Process★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today we are discussing the idea the eating disorder is a cry from our deepest soul. Something is trying desperately to get our attention. And it is our own self. We are spiritual beings trying to live in a body. So at the heart of every eating disorder is the desire to awaken, embrace our whole selves and experience our spiritual truth. Creativity, passion and our soul's desire will lead us to our true selves. Carol Normandi, MFT, www.amritaedt.com, FB- Amrita Eating Disorder Treatment★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today Laurlee will start the topic about Eating Disorders are a Cry from our Deepest Soul★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Go Beneath the Body hatred, Diet Thoughts, and Disordered Eating Behaviors. If it’s not about the food and it’s not about weight…what is it about? Feelings. That means when we go beneath the body hatred, diet thoughts, and disordered eating behaviors, we learn to experience our feelings fully and therefore live fully. We have feelings. This is what makes us different from other living things, like trees, rocks and ice cubes. Our feelings are connected to r fat thought and our diet thoughts. We use those thoughts to get away from our true feelings…like loneliness, envy, and anger and overwhelm…all those feeling we don’t like. Robin Chandler★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today Laurlee will start the topic Recovery from an Eating Disorder is not a Linear Process.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today's discussion is on how important it is to remember feelings come from the core of our being and are essential parts of understanding our needs and taking care of ourselves. No matter who we are and what we’ve been through we all know what a good parent is. We can be our own support system and re-parent our selves. This allows us to show up for ourselves emotionally in the moment and know our true feelings and meet our own emotional needs. This is full recovery and when we are able to do this most of the time it will end all the behaviors.
Grace Rico-Pena, www.theherbnurse.net★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today Laurelee will start the topic Today We Will Feel our Feelings.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today we’re looking at accepting our bodies exactly as they are right now which will allow us to make peace with our bodies, thereby empowering us to take better care of our bodies. The culture we all live in objectifies our bodies which causes us to internalize shame and guilt, especially for women. It’s our path to realize why we have body hatred, not take it on and push back on a society that makes money on our lack of self-esteem. We got this.
Meg Tinsley, MFT, www.megtinsleymft.com FB Her Calm Body.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today Laurelee will start the topic of Accepting our Bodies Exactly as they are right now.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today we’re discussing about returning to our innate wisdom by eating intuitively. This is eating when hungry, stopping when full, eating what is satisfying. Intuitive eating is how children and natural eaters eat. And even though it might take us a long time to relearn how to do it…know it will reconnect your physical integrity that lies buried beneath the diet mentality. And how not to go on the “eat when you’re hungry stop when your full diet”. Which is something so many of us do.
Paula Capocchi★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today Laurelee will start the topic of The Return to the innate wisdom by eating intuitively.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
This podcast is about becoming conscious of our behavior, thoughts, and feelings. If we can do that in the moment without judgment it will open the door to understanding our struggle with food and weight. The non-judgmental observer can replace the critic inside which tells us are lazy, stupid and a weak-willed person. This is not true. There is a very good reason why you have issues with your food, your body and yourself. We will talk today about finding out what that is.
Helen Shamis, MFT, www.helenshamis.com★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today Laurelee will start the topic of Becoming Conscious of Behaviors★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Today we are going to talk about how to become conscious of what we do with food and weight. It’s often too painful unless you have compassion, self-love and respect. This will create the most fertile ground for change. And we need to remember to acknowledge or progress in terms of holistic growth. In other words this is not a diet. This is a transformation. Body, mind and spirit.
Carol Normandi, MFT, www.amritaedt.com, FB Amrita Eating Disorder Treatment★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★