Today, Kathy welcomes Dr. Dena Cabrera and their topic is 3 essentials every eating disorder residential therapist needs to know. While this topic is geared towards professionals Dr. Cabrera provides insights that are important for our entire audience to hear, so we ask everyone to listen to the entire episode.

Today, Kathy welcomes Dr. Jessica Baker and their topic is current research on the potential genetic overlap between eating disorders and substance use. Dr. Baker explains some of her findings which including how certain subsets of eating disorders and certain subsets of substance use disorders are more likely to overlap, as well as how certain eating disorder behaviors or symptom levels are more likely to be present.

Welcome to ED Matters episode 142. Kathy welcomes back Brenda Sigall, Ph.D., CEDS, and they continue their conversation on gender literacy and eating disorder prevention. Today, Dr. Sigall joins the points from part 1 so we can understand them in the context of antecedents to eating disorders and their relationship to the development of eating disorders.

Welcome to ED Matters episode 141. Today, Kathy welcomes Brenda Sigall, Ph.D., CEDS, and their topic is gender literacy and eating disorder prevention. Part 1 of a 2-part episode takes a deep look at gender literacy in the US, while part 2 ties everything together in relation to eating disorders.

Today, Kathy welcomes Ann Kearney-Cooke, Ph.D. and they talk about binge eating disorder treatment through the wellness lens. They discuss how shifting the focus to wellness became easier for their clients when their clients became aware of how much they were gaining in life satisfaction rather than what they had to give up or deprive themselves of.

Today Kathy welcomes back Casey Crosbie, RD, CSSD, and Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD, CEDRD-S, for part two of their deep look into the plate by plate approach. In case you missed part 1, please check out episode 138.

Today, Kathy is joined by Casey Crosbier, RD, CSSD, and Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD, CEDRD-S, and this is part 1 of a two-part episode as they take a deeper look on the plate by plate approach.

Today, Kathy welcomes Beth Harrell, MS, RD, LD, CEDRD-S, and their topic is helping clients to shift to a HAES (Health At Every Size) perspective. They touch on many points including how clients receive information about health at every size and weight bias in research and by medical professionals.

Today, Kathy is joined by Dr. June Alexander and Bharati Lall, and their topic is when 1 plus 1 makes more than 2. They discuss how eating disorders drew them together to collaborate on a project even though they lived half way across the world from each other.

Today, Kathy welcomes Dr. Evelyn Attia, and their topic is meet Evelyn Attia in the context of her commitment to the eating disorders community. Evelyn’s passion for the community comes through in this interview and we thank her for all of the important work she is doing for the field.