Welcome to another episode of the Understanding Disordered Eating Podcast. I am so grateful that you are here with me as together, we welcome another year. Today we will be retrospecting as we look back to our journey towards food freedom in the course of 2021 . I will also walk you through what to consider putting in your new year’s resolution, should you decide to make some. Join me, and let’s all reflect on our accomplishments, mistakes, progress, and focus on our goals for the next upcoming chapter of our food journey.

Welcome to another episode of the Understanding Disordered Eating Podcast. In this segment, I speak with Sumner Brooks, a registered dietitian (RDN), mom, and eating disorder specialist who spent 15 years working in nutrition. Her involvement includes providing nutrition therapy for adolescents and adults, public speaking, and pursuing advanced training in trauma-informed, weight-inclusive healthcare.

Today, Sumner shares her knowledge working with clients at all levels of the eating disorder spectrum. Which includes the following: Why she decided to divert into intuitive eating, the journey of writing her book, as well as some tips on how to create a supportive environment that helps support children with their food relationships. I hope that this episode will shed light on your food journey.

Welcome to another episode of the Understanding Disordered Eating Podcast. Today we are joined with Rachel Goodman, a registered dietitian, nutritionist, entrepreneur, public speaker, and a full-time mom. Who aims to empower women by helping them to stop their binge eating habits, diet restrictions and have a guilt/stress-free relationship with food.

Today Rachel will navigate the realms of intuitive eating. She is walking us through the guidelines that will help us untangle the chains of food restrictions and false diet culture. She also highlights the importance of eating consistently, recognizing hunger fullness cues, and redefining one’s health to achieve a happier lifestyle. Tune in to this new episode and find out more!

Welcome to another episode of the Understanding Disordered Eating Podcast. Today I teamed up with Catherine Silver, a licensed clinical social worker in private practice who specializes in depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and body image concerns. She was also the previous Senior Team Leader at one of the nation's leading eating disorder treatment centers. 

Join the conversation as we talk about higher levels of care. Catherine shares her insight on diet culture, the different care levels, recovery process, eating disorder red flags to consider, and more. Catherine has a knack for breaking ideas down to be really easy to listen to and understand,  I hope you will learn from this episode!

Welcome to another episode of the Understanding Disordered Eating Podcast. Today, I have the honor to speak with the OG Intuitive Eating Author, Elyse Resch. Elyse is a nutrition therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, with thirty-nine years of experience, specializing in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size. She is the coauthor of Intuitive Eating, now in its 4th edition, The Intuitive Eating Workbook, and The Intuitive Eating Card Deck—50 Bite-Sized Ways to Make Peace with Food (upcoming, 2021) 

In this episode, Elyse walks us through how she was able to overcome her own eating disorder when she was younger without enough resources about intuitive eating. She also shares with us her definition of intuitive eating, the importance of honoring our autonomous wisdom, and how deprivation causes all diets to fail. I had such a fun chat with her, I hope you’ll learn and enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Let’s dive in! 

Dr. Mark Kirshenbaum is a board certified pediatrician based in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Tourocom and sees all types of pediatric pathologies. He is also your go-to guy for any mental health concerns. 

In this episode, we will dive right into how pediatricians deal with eating disorders, how parents can foster healthy relationships and environments for their children, and the importance of consulting a primary care doctor. This is solely Mark’s opinion.

Gila Glassberg is a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and podcast host of Get Intuit with Gila. Gila is very passionate about building a healthy relationship between her body and food, and today she helps other women reclaim the joy in eating and learn to respect and appreciate their bodies. 

With Thanksgiving and Hanukkah just around the corner, we are talking about food and family during the holidays. While this could be refreshing to most people, to some it can be very stressful. Let’s dive right in into navigating the holidays and eating disorders!

Linda Watts is a licensed social worker and a CASAC. She has been practicing for over 25 years and specializes in eating disorders, addiction, substance abuse. She also provides individual, couples, and family therapy. 

In this episode, we dive right in about her background in Gestalt therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS.) We talk about her personal experience and how that has led her to her professional experience and where she is today. Make sure to stay tuned until the end because we will be talking about what true recovery actually looks like and how to get there!

Allie Landry is a non-diet dietitian and she's the owner of Make Life Peachy. Her mission is to help women stop dieting, become confident in their skin, and make healthy eating easy so they can stop dieting and start living their dream life.

In this episode, Allie talks about the idea that a healthy lifestyle doesn't have to be restrictive or complicated and she shares her 4-step framework to being an intuitive eater.

Harriet Frew, also known as The Eating Disorder Therapist, is a therapist and podcaster in the UK.

In this episode, Harriet talks about bulimia, the binge/purge cycle, and how to work through it. The binge/purge cycle also refers to any compensatory behavior like, ahem hem, exercise.

In this episode we have the honor of hanging out with one of New York City's best therapists, named by New York Magazine, Jennifer Glass. Jennifer graduated from NYU with a master's in social work, completed her post grad training in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Training Institute for Mental health, and has a private practice in NYC.

In this conversation, we dive right into how to use curiosity to develop resilience, and how this then provides us with intentional choice. Goodbye harmful comparisons! 

In this episode, Rachel Tuchman shares what health actually means and how it differs for each person. We talk about HAES, anti-diet and body positivity culture, and shares how society has contributed to having poor body image and disordered eating. We take deep dive on how social media has exacerbated these issues. Stay tuned for resources at the end!