Em and Mom Podcast Episode 9 - Everyone has insecurities about the way they look. This episode is for all of us. Emily talks about her struggles with negative body image - starting for her at age six and continuing throughout her life. We touch on diet culture (we aren’t born hating our bodies!) and continue talking about how her negative body image impacts her today and also give listeners suggestions on how to help get past negative body image. You don’t have to ever love your body (after all, it is the absolute least interesting thing about you), but learning to respect it for all it does for you is important in living a full and happy life! This one really is for everyone. We hope you give it a listen.

Trigger Warning: This episode does mention numbers and weight. Welcome to Episode 8! In this episode

Em and Mom welcome their first ever guest to the pod. It was an absolute honor and privilege to welcome Grace Toth to the episode. We appreciate her being completely vulnerable and open about her experience with binge eating disorder. We also discussed the eerie similarities and the glaring differences between Em and Graces experiences with an eating disorder. Em and Mom have no experience with binge eating disorder so we learned so much and hope you do too. We are so proud of Grace for her success in recovery and for her willingness to share her story with us.

Welcome to Episode 7 of the Em and Mom Podcast. We asked you to submit questions to our @emandmompodcast Instagram via polls and direct message and you came through! As a result this is part two with answers to even more of your questions. Some of the questions listeners asked that we covered in part two were about how friends can support friends with an eating disorder, how dance has affected Emily’s relationship with her body, how she stays healthy without using numbers and even a question submitted by Dad! We sincerely appreciate everyone who took time to answer questions and hope you enjoy and learn from our answers this episode.

Welcome to Episode 6 of the Em and Mom Podcast. We asked you to submit questions to our @emandmompodcast Instagram via polls and direct message and you came through! As a result this will be a part one with another question and answer episode still to come. Some of the questions listeners asked which we covered in part one were about what residential treatment was like from both of our perspectives, what it was like for Mom (and Dad!) to maneuver and sort through treatment options and what are some suggestions for how schools can help support students with eating disorders. We sincerely appreciate all of the questions and hope you enjoy and learn from our answers this episode.

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Em and Mom podcast.  Because of Moms recent visit to the doctor last week where she was offered a diet pill because of her recent weight gain, we talk about our experiences with doctors offices over the past four years - good and bad. Doctors 100% saved Emily’s life. And some go out of their way to accommodate requests to not be weighed. But doctors offices have also become a place where Emily gets triggered. The place that is supposed to make her feel better is actually sometimes not safe at all and almost puts her into relapse.

Harvard study referenced: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/bmi-a-poor-metric-for-measuring-peoples-health-say-experts/

NEDA statistics and resources referenced: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg2ggFtlk44/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==  

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We put a poll on our Instagram of topics to do and eating disorder voices was the top vote, so here you go! Em gives examples of everyday situations where the eating disorder voice is present. Figuring out what to eat for breakfast, resting, feeling full, eating desserts, etc. Mom talks about how she has had to help Em throughout these times where the voices are loud and strong. But Mom is also shocked about the ed voice and how crazy it can be sometimes.

In this episode Mom was super vulnerable talking about the parent side of the first year of Emily’s eating disorder, understanding the symptoms, what it was like to deal with dropping her off at residential treatment and how difficult it was trying to maneuver insurance and affording such an extended stay. Her and Em also discuss resources, eating disorder podcasts and instagram accounts that have been helpful and, most importantly how she tries to implement self care into her life.

In this episode Emily is telling her story, maybe more of a testimony. Mom is in the episode talking with Em about her experiences in her life both struggles and accomplishments.

Guys!!! This is our first episode!! We decided to record this so spontaneously so it might be a mess haha. Today we talk about something that recently triggered Emily’s eating disorder more than it has in years. Em and Mom talk about how they got through it together and independently.