*Trigger Warning*
This is a heavier episode as we speak of eating disorders, habits of binging and restricting, triggers, diet culture, and recovery. If you are suffering or recovering from an eating disorder or body dysmorphia, please listen with caution or skip this episode entirely. The last thing I would want is for hearing these things to set you back in your healing journey or trigger negative thoughts or emotions. 

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Rachel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 12 years of experience treating Eating Disorders at both an inpatient treatment center and in private practice where she focuses on guiding adolescents and women to break free from diet culture and stop evaluating their worth by the number on the scale. Rachel is also the co-host of Mom Genes The Podcast, where she and colleague Tina LaBoy, RD, teach parents to understand their genes so they can love the jeans they are in.

In this episode, as an Eating Disorder Specialist, Rachel unpacks what struggling with an eating disorder entails and what healing one's relationship with food and their body may look like. She helps me dissect diet culture and the many harms and issues it creates for everyone in society but especially those struggling with an eating disorder, disordered eating behaviors, or body dysmorphia. 

She goes over the following:

• Defining and explaining the differences between eating disorders -- anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating
• Stigmas or misconceptions around eating disorders
• Warning signs or symptoms to look out for
• Assessing your relationship with food & your body
• How to approach & support someone with an eating disorder
• What recovery might look like
• Explaining what diet culture is and how to challenge it
• How diet culture can be triggering & harmful
• Intuitive & mindful eating

Tune in to hear from Rachel Coleman!!

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Song: Try by Colbie Caillat

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Resources:

• Book: Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
• Website: intuitiveeating.org
• Book: Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

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Connect with Rachel & her work:

• Websites:
  • rachelcolemanceds.com
  • momgenesthepodcast.com
• Instagram:
  • @rachelcolemanmft
  • @momgenesthepodcast

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