Eating Disorders Unfiltered

Loving someone through an eating disorder can leave you exhausted and second-guessing every meal, every word, every move.

Eating Disorders Unfiltered is here, and this opener is your welcome. Candace David, a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist Consultant, introduces the show, who belongs here, and how it works. No clinical jargon. No lectures. Just an honest look at what's really driving an eating disorder, and how the people around it can help without adding more fear.

In this episode:

• The three people this show is for: parents, anyone wrestling with their own relationship with food and body, and the providers who support them

• A truth every parent needs to hear: this is not your fault, and your steady presence matters more than you know

Wherever you are with all of this, you don't have to sort it out alone.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to provide mental health treatment, therapy, or professional advice. Listening to this podcast does not establish a therapeutic relationship. If you are in need of mental health support, please reach out to a qualified professional in your area or contact your local crisis line.

If you’ve ever entered summer hoping it would feel slower, lighter, or more present… only to realize a few weeks later that you’re already overwhelmed again, this episode is for you.

Candace unpacks the specific moment many busy brains hit in early summer: when the school-year chaos ends, everyone exhales for a second, and then summer logistics immediately take over. Camps. Schedules. Work. Projects. Family expectations. Suddenly the season you imagined starts slipping away before it even begins. 

In this episode, Candace explains why the “feeling” you had about summer isn’t enough to guide your decisions, why busy seasons default to whatever already has momentum, and why so many women end up feeling disconnected from the summer they actually wanted.

You’ll also hear this week’s Do-Over, a simple reset to help you create a summer that feels more intentional — even if life stays busy.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to provide mental health treatment, therapy, or professional advice. Listening to this podcast does not establish a therapeutic relationship. If you are in need of mental health support, please reach out to a qualified professional in your area or contact your local crisis line.

030 If you’ve ever sat down to work, spent hours trying, and still walked away feeling like you got almost nothing done… this episode is for you.

Candace shares a real-life moment of trying to work on a course module while interruptions, unfinished tasks, and mental tabs quietly piled up in the background. The problem wasn’t distraction. It was that her brain never fully arrived at the task in the first place.

In this episode, Candace unpacks the difference between being distracted and being mentally held back, why unfinished tasks keep pulling at your attention, and why “just focus” doesn’t work when your brain is still carrying the rest of the morning. 

You’ll also hear this week’s Do-Over, a simple reset designed to help your brain stop holding everything at once so you can actually transition into the work in front of you.

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029 If you’ve ever felt like late April and May quietly become survival mode, this episode is for you.

Candace sits down with Joanna for an honest conversation about the stretch of the year when everything starts stacking at once. School events. Emails. Teacher gifts. Summer planning. Work deadlines. Emotional kids. And the invisible mental load moms are usually carrying underneath all of it.

Together, they talk about the moments where it really hit them, the pressure to keep everything moving, and what happens when the season starts feeling heavier than anyone around you seems to notice.

This conversation is not about fixing May.
It’s about finally naming why it feels so hard.

If you’ve been feeling behind, stretched thin, or like you’re barely holding the moving pieces together, this episode will make you feel less alone.

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028 If you’ve ever reached the end of a completely normal day and felt like you had nothing left to give… this episode is for you.

Candace shares a real-life moment after a full but not overwhelming workday, where something as simple as leaving a voicemail suddenly feels like too much. Not because anything went wrong, but because her brain had quietly used up everything it had.

In this episode, Candace unpacks why this kind of exhaustion feels so confusing, why your brain starts looking for something to blame, and how “volume” can drain you even when nothing looks hard on paper.

You’ll also hear this week’s Do-Over, a simple reset designed to help you protect a little bit of energy before your tank is completely empty.

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027 If you’ve ever felt like May hits harder than any other month… this episode is for you.

Candace shares the familiar feeling of everything piling up at once. School events, teacher gifts, summer planning, work deadlines, and emotional needs at home — all landing in the same few weeks and all feeling equally urgent.

In this episode, Candace unpacks why May feels so overwhelming, why your brain treats everything like it deserves the same level of effort, and why you end up running out of energy before the things that matter most even happen.

You’ll also hear this week’s Do-Over, a simple reset to help you spend your energy differently so you don’t burn out trying to give everything your best.

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026 If you’ve ever had one off day and immediately thought, “This isn’t working,” this episode is for you.

Candace shares a real-life moment of building a thoughtful, well-researched schedule… only to feel like it completely fell apart after one interrupted day filled with appointments, errands, and real life.

In this episode, Candace unpacks why busy brains turn interruptions into evidence, why one imperfect day can feel like a verdict on the whole plan, and how quickly we go from “this is a hard day” to “this isn’t working.”

You’ll also hear this week’s Do-Over, a simple reset that helps you adjust expectations in real time—so one interrupted day doesn’t turn into giving up entirely.

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025 If you’ve ever been asked a simple question — like where to eat — and felt completely overwhelmed by it, this episode is for you.

Candace shares a real-life moment of being offered a kind, generous lunch… and still feeling dread at having to choose. Not because anything was wrong, but because her brain had already spent its decision-making energy for the week.

In this episode, Candace unpacks why small decisions can feel so heavy, why busy brains hit a limit faster than we expect, and how decision fatigue quietly builds throughout the day.

You’ll also hear this week’s Do-Over, a simple reset that helps you reduce the number of decisions your brain has to make — without needing more discipline or willpower.

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024 If you’ve ever had one thing go wrong… and suddenly felt like the whole thing needed to be thrown out and restarted, this episode is for you.

Candace shares a real-life moment of discovering that multiple videos she had worked hard on were unusable due to a recording mistake. Her first instinct was not to fix it. It was to delete everything and start over.

In this episode, Candace unpacks why busy, high-capacity brains often jump from “this is off” to “this is unsalvageable,” why starting over can feel like progress, and how perfectionism quietly redirects your energy away from what’s still working.

You’ll also hear this week’s Do-Over, a reset designed to help you pause before tearing everything down and make a more intentional decision about what actually needs to change.

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023 If you’ve ever put off a quick text, email, or small task… and then waited so long it started to feel weird to do it at all, this episode is for you.

Candace shares a real-life moment that starts with borrowed winter clothes sitting in a bag, fully washed and ready to return. The only thing left was sending a quick message. But days turned into weeks, and suddenly something that would have taken ten seconds felt awkward to restart.

In this episode, Candace unpacks why small delays can turn into emotionally heavy moments, why your brain starts doing “gap math,” and why restarting can feel harder than the task itself.

You’ll also hear this week’s Do-Over, a simple reset to help you reopen the loop without overthinking or spiraling.

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