Happy New Year, Shallow Squad! Matt and Tara are freshly recovered from the holidays and excited to bring you something really special: their first guest! Joining your usual hosts for this episode is Dr. Stephanie Waitt, a licenced professional counselor who specializes in addressing anxiety, eating disorders and sexual childhood trauma. Besides her clinical work, Stephanie—or “Dr. Steph,” as she’s known—posts a series of blogs and YouTube videos discussing mental health subjects in a fun, frank and accessible manner.

In the course of this interview, Dr. Steph helps you understand how eating disorders develop, discusses a healthy way to talk to your kids about healthy eating, and reveals how New Year’s resolutions as they’re typically approached can actually be stressful or even harmful to one’s mental health.