Are you working hard, caring deeply, and still feeling like it's not enough? You're not alone, and this episode is for you.

This week, Molly and Clarissa sit down with Dr. Ellen Hendriksen, clinical psychologist, core faculty at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, and author of How to Be Enough and How to Be Yourself. Ellen brings warmth, science, and radical compassion to one of the most common, and most quietly painful, struggles in recovery: perfectionism.

In this conversation, we explore:

🔹 Where perfectionism actually comes from — genetics, family of origin, AND the culture we're swimming in 🔹 Why shame fuels the binge-restrict cycle and how to begin replacing self-punishment with self-kindness 🔹 The crucial difference between rules and values — and how that distinction can transform your recovery 🔹 Why procrastination is never really about time (and what it's actually telling you) 🔹 How to build a stable, grounded sense of self-worth that isn't constantly up for evaluation 🔹 Why comparison is hardwired — and what to do with it instead of fighting it 🔹 The "already enough" practice that rewires how we see ourselves

Whether you're navigating food addiction recovery, disordered eating, or just the exhausting weight of never feeling like you measure up — this episode offers real tools, real grace, and real hope.

ABOUT DR. ELLEN HENDRIKSEN Dr. Ellen Hendriksen is a clinical psychologist specializing in anxiety and perfectionism. She is core faculty at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) at Boston University and author of two books: How to Be Enough (perfectionism) and How to Be Yourself (social anxiety). Find her newsletter How to Be Good to Yourself When You're Hard on Yourself on Substack.

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Have you ever left a session feeling smaller than when you walked in? In this episode of Food Junkies: Clinician's Corner, Clarissa and Molly explore one of the most important — and least talked about — dynamics in eating disorder, food addiction, and substance use treatment: what happens when the clinician's model gets in the way of the client's healing.

🔑 What We Cover in This Episode:

⬡ The Rosenhan Experiment — how psychiatric patients were misdiagnosed and then had their normal behavior interpreted as worsening symptoms, and what it reveals about clinical bias today

⬡ Epistemic dismissal — the active or passive rejection of a person's own knowledge and lived experience by the very professionals meant to help them

⬡ How diagnosis can be a flashlight or a floodlight — illuminating patterns vs. erasing the person

⬡ What happens when clients start performing recovery instead of living it

⬡ The role of ego in clinical practice — and why it doesn't always look like arrogance (sometimes it looks like certainty)

⬡ Why ambivalence is not pathology — and why allowing clients to explore moderation can be clinically sound

⬡ The difference between recovery and discovery, and why one may feel more alive than the other

⬡ How behaviors that look like symptoms are often solutions — and why treating the smoke instead of the fire keeps people stuck

⬡ Why autonomy predicts engagement and long-term change — and what that means for how we design treatment

⬡ Whose anxiety is actually driving the treatment plan?

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Can you eat plant-based and still avoid sugar, carbs, and ultra-processed foods? In this episode of Food Junkies, Dr. Vera Tarman is joined by Adina Mullen, plant-based chef, author of Vegan Flavors of the World, and founder of Adina's Delicacies, to explore whether vegetarian or vegan eating can truly support food addiction recovery, low-sugar living, and even plant-based keto—without deprivation or rebound eating.

Adina brings a deeply grounded, real-world approach to plant-based cooking rooted in whole foods, cultural traditions, flavor, and satisfaction. This conversation goes beyond diet rules to focus on nourishment, satiety, and sustainability, especially for people healing their relationship with food.

🌱 What You'll Learn in This Episode

✔️ Is plant-based keto actually possible? ✔️ Why many people fail on plant-based diets (and how to avoid rebound eating) ✔️ The difference between vegetarian, vegan, and whole-food plant-based ✔️ How to feel satisfied without sugar or ultra-processed foods ✔️ Best plant-based protein sources, including options for people on GLP-1s ✔️ Why preparation and texture matter more than restriction ✔️ How culture, memory, and comfort foods support long-term recovery ✔️ Common mistakes that leave people hungry, depleted, or triggered

🧠 Key Topics Covered

🥑 Plant-Based Keto & Low-Sugar Eating

Adina explains how low-carb, low-sugar plant-based eating can work using whole foods like vegetables, avocados, olive oil, coconut oil, tofu, and seeds—while also naming why keto isn't sustainable for everyone.

🥦 Why "Vegan" Doesn't Always Mean Healthy

Removing animal products and replacing them with ultra-processed vegan foods often leads to hunger, instability, and relapse. Whole foods, structure, and adequate fat and protein matter—especially in food addiction recovery.

🍲 Flavor, Texture & Satisfaction

Roasting vs boiling, crispy textures, homemade dressings, sauces, and slow cooking are key to making vegetables feel grounding and satisfying—not like deprivation food.

🌍 Culture, Memory & Healing

Food isn't just fuel. Adina shares how honoring cultural and traditional meals—without animal products—helps people feel emotionally nourished and connected.

💪 Protein for Plant-Based & GLP-1 Users

Includes discussion of:

• TVP (textured vegetable protein)
• Tofu & tempeh
• Nuts and seeds (chia, flax, hemp, pumpkin)
• Smart prep for digestion and satiety

📘 About the Guest: Adina Mullen

Adina Mullen is a plant-based private chef and founder of Adina's Delicacies, specializing in gourmet vegan cuisine inspired by global flavors, heritage, and memory. She is the author of Vegan Flavors of the World, featuring plant-based adaptations of traditional dishes from 12 countries, with a second volume coming soon.

✨ Key Takeaways

• Healing doesn't come from fighting food—it comes from letting food support you
• Steadiness matters more than perfection
• Satisfaction, fat, protein, and flavor are not optional in recovery
• You don't need more rules—you need nourishment, warmth, and trust

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In this powerful episode of Food Junkies, we're joined by Amber Romaniuk, emotional eating and digestive health expert, to unpack the real drivers behind binge eating, food addiction, and the relentless restrict–overeat cycle.

Amber shares her personal recovery journey from binge eating, bulimia, and food addiction—and explains why lasting healing requires more than another diet or food plan. Together, we explore how hormones, thyroid function, nervous system stress, and shame shape our relationship with food in ways most people are never taught.

This conversation is especially important for women who feel like they "know better" but still struggle—and wonder why nothing seems to stick.

🎯 In this episode, we cover:

• Why emotional eating is communication, not a lack of willpower
• How cortisol, thyroid dysfunction, and low progesterone can drive cravings and binge cycles
• Why fasting, restriction, and over-exercise often worsen food addiction patterns
• How shame keeps people stuck—and what actually helps dissolve it
• What "Body Freedom" really means beyond weight loss
• First steps to identify emotional eating triggers without self-blame
• Why healing your relationship with food must come before hormone repair can work

This episode is for you if: ✔ You struggle with binge or emotional eating ✔ Diets and food rules keep backfiring ✔ You suspect hormones or stress are part of the picture ✔ You're exhausted by shame and ready for a deeper, kinder path forward

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🌐 Website & free resources: https://amberapproved.ca 🎙 Podcast: The No Sugarcoating Podcast 📱 Instagram & YouTube: @AmberRomaniuk

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Is there a built-in "fat switch" in our genes—something nature designed to help us store fat for survival? And if so, what does that mean for food addicts living in a world saturated with ultra-processed food?

In this episode, Dr. Vera Tarman sits down with Dr. Richard Johnson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, former Chief of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, author of The Sugar Fix, The Fat Switch, and Nature Wants Us to Be Fat, and a researcher with 700+ scientific papers to his name.

Dr. Johnson explains how fructose (from sugar and high-fructose corn syrup—but also produced inside the body under certain conditions) can activate a powerful metabolic pathway that increases hunger, lowers cellular energy, and shifts calories toward fat storage. He connects this to uric acid, salt, high-glycemic carbohydrates, and the modern "perfect storm" of ultra-processed foods engineered to intensify cravings.

Together, they explore the evolutionary logic of fat storage, why visceral fat may have had survival value, why "calories in/calories out" fails to explain the whole picture, and what practical steps can help people restore metabolic flexibility—including carbohydrate reduction, movement that supports mitochondrial health, and the emerging role of GLP-1 medications as a tool (not a replacement) for nutrition change.

What You'll Learn

🔥Why Dr. Johnson argues sugar isn't "just a calorie," and how fructose changes metabolism differently

🔥The role of uric acid in blood pressure, metabolic disease, and the fructose pathway

🔥How salt + starch + fat can amplify the "fat switch" (and why chips and fries are a perfect example)

🔥Why the body can make fructose from glucose, even if you aren't eating fructose directly

🔥The survival biology behind fat storage—and why visceral fat may have had an adaptive purpose

🔥How insulin resistance can be a short-term protective mechanism (and how modern life turns it chronic)

🔥Why low-carb approaches may "reboot" sugar absorption and cravings in as little as 7–14 days

🔥What Dr. Johnson believes is a major dietary driver of Alzheimer's risk

🔥How to support mitochondria through movement and nutrition

🔥Dr. Johnson's perspective on GLP-1s: benefits, limits, and relapse risk after stopping

Resources Mentioned

Dr. Richard Johnson's books: The Sugar Fix, The Fat Switch, Nature Wants Us to Be Fat

About Our Guest

Dr. Richard Johnson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, a former Chief of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, and the author of The Sugar Fix, The Fat Switch, and Nature Wants Us to Be Fat. His research explores how sugar—particularly fructose—drives kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, and obesity, and how modern food environments may overactivate ancient survival pathways.

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In this month's Clinician's Corner, Molly and Clarissa take a deep dive into the fix response—a lesser-named but incredibly common nervous-system survival strategy that shows up as over-functioning, urgency, problem-solving, and "doing something" to make discomfort go away.

This episode explores why fixing isn't a personality flaw, control issue, or codependency—but a biologically wired, trauma-informed self-preservation response that once helped keep us safe.

Together, we unpack how the fix response shows up in food addiction recovery, relationships, work, parenting, and even helping professions—and why it so often leads to burnout, resentment, and cycles of shame when left unexamined.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What the fix response is (and what it's not)
• Why fixing feels regulating in the moment, but often backfires long-term
• How fixing differs from healthy problem-solving
• Common fix patterns in food addiction recovery (constant plan changes, "starting fresh Monday," adding rules after lapses)
• Over-functioning, hyper-responsibility, and lawn-mowing other people's problems
• Why fixers struggle with rest, delegation, and asking for help
• How ADHD, dopamine, urgency, and novelty-seeking intersect with fixing
• The developmental and trauma roots of the fix response
• How fixing pairs with fawn, hyper-independence, and people-pleasing
• Why optimization culture and biohacking can reinforce dysregulation
• The cost of living in constant "fix mode"—burnout, resentment, disconnection, and relapse risk
• How to recognize fix mode in the body (jaw clenching, shallow breath, tight chest, restless urgency)
• Why the goal isn't to eliminate fixing—but to update it
• How to build awareness, pause, discern responsibility, and bring choice back online

This conversation is especially relevant for clinicians, coaches, caregivers, helpers, parents, and anyone in recovery who feels exhausted from always being the one who "handles things."

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In this episode, Molly and Clarissa welcome back Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti for a rich, grounded conversation on body forgiveness and why it can be a turning point in embodied healing. Drawing on her clinical work, research, and lived experience, Ann shares that "forgiving your body" isn't a mental exercise or forced positivity—it's a felt shift that helps move people from control and correction toward listening, trust, and reconciliation with the body as an ally.

Ann also introduces themes from her upcoming book, Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm: A Somatic Guide to Forgiving and Healing Your Relationship With Your Body, and revisits the foundation of her work from Befriending Your Body—offering an informed, non-pathologizing approach for anyone healing from disordered eating, chronic dieting, trauma, shame, illness, or body distrust.

What you'll hear in this episode

• How Ann's postpartum autoimmune illness became a doorway into deeper embodiment—and body advocacy
• The difference between interoceptive awareness (noticing signals) and standing up for your body when you're dismissed
• Why embodiment is a psychospiritual construct—and how "being beside your body" can be a practical starting point
• How to tell the difference between mind fear-stories and what your body is actually communicating
• Entry points for people who feel body connection is inaccessible: curiosity, regulation, and "giving your body a chance"
• What it means to find your center—and why being "off-center" fuels critical thoughts and body war
• How diet culture targets predictable times of day when people feel more vulnerable in body image
• A clear breakdown: body forgiveness vs body acceptance vs body neutrality
• Why pushing the body to "comply" before safety and trust are built can feel re-traumatizing
• The clinical risk of "behavioral recovery" without embodiment—and why unresolved embodiment work can look like "relapse" or "symptom swapping."
• Ann's powerful reframe for "my body failed me" (and the deeper words that often live underneath that phrase)

Memorable takeaways

• Body forgiveness is not forced forgiveness. It's a mind–heart shift that often arises from understanding, regulation, and compassion rather than effort.
• Curiosity is an access point. It creates space where judgment collapses and new options become possible.
• Words land in the body. Shifting language (from "failed me" to "became unwell," "changed," "declined," "disappointed," "let me down") can soften the adversarial stance and open an embodied conversation.

Mentioned in this episode

• Befriending Your Body (Ann's book and the evidence-informed compassion-based program)
• Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm (Ann's forthcoming book on somatic body forgiveness)
• Embodiment as a "container" for recovery (not just behavior change)
• Self-compassion components (mindfulness, common humanity, kindness) as supports for body repair

For listeners who want to go deeper

If you've ever felt like your body is the problem—or you've done everything "right" and still feel distrust—this conversation offers a different path: not fixing the body, but rebuilding relationship with it. Ann's approach emphasizes safety, steadiness, and the kind of compassion that can hold grief, regret, and shame without getting stuck there.

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Why is it so hard to lose weight—and even harder to keep it off?

In this episode, we explore groundbreaking research showing that fat cells can retain an epigenetic "memory" of obesity, even after significant weight loss. This emerging science helps explain why weight regain is so common and why willpower alone is not the issue.

We're joined by Ferdinand von Meyenn, Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, where he leads research on nutrition and metabolic epigenetics. Prof. von Meyenn has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers, with work featured in top scientific journals including Nature and Cell.

Together, we unpack what "obesogenic memory" really means, how epigenetics allows fat cells to adapt—and remember—past environments, and why long-term exposure to excess calories can biologically prime the body to regain weight faster in the future.

In this conversation, you'll learn:

• What epigenetics is and how it differs from genetics
• How fat cells adapt to chronic overnutrition—and why those changes can persist after weight loss
• Why short-term weight changes are easier to reverse than long-term weight gain
• How this research challenges the idea that weight regain is a personal failure
• What current data suggests about bariatric surgery, GLP-1 medications, and long-term outcomes
• The role of inflammation, adipose tissue signaling, and the brain in body-weight regulation
• Why prevention matters—and why compassion matters even more for those already affected
• What researchers hope to uncover next about rewriting epigenetic memory

This episode offers a powerful, science-based reframe: difficulty maintaining weight loss is not about weakness—it's about biology adapting to past environments. Understanding this may open the door to more effective, humane, and sustainable approaches to metabolic health in the future.

🎧 Whether you're a clinician, researcher, or someone who has lived through the frustration of weight regain, this conversation brings clarity, validation, and a forward-looking perspective on where the science is headed.

If you found this episode helpful, consider subscribing on YouTube and sharing it with someone who could use a science-grounded reminder that their struggle is not a moral failing.

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In this episode, Dr. Vera Tarman spoke with Adrienne Sprouse, MD, a Columbia-trained physician with extensive experience in emergency medicine, toxicology, and environmental medicine, as well as more than four decades of stable food recovery.

Adrienne reflected on how growing up in an alcoholic family system shaped her early coping strategies and how food became a primary source of comfort and regulation. Over time, she began to notice that certain foods didn't simply soothe emotional distress but instead triggered a predictable cycle of cravings, symptoms, and relapse. This realization led her to distinguish between compulsive overeating as a behavioral response and food addiction as a physiological reaction to specific foods.

A central focus of the conversation was Adrienne's Prouse Rotational Eating Plan, a structured four-day rotation approach rooted in the concept of cyclic food allergy, originally described by Dr. Herbert Rinkle. Adrienne explained the difference between fixed food allergy—where symptoms occur every time a food is eaten—and cyclic food allergy, where symptoms depend on frequency and amount. She described how repeated exposure to the same foods, common in modern eating patterns, can "stack" in the body and contribute to escalating symptoms such as bloating, edema, headaches, joint pain, and the familiar experience of temporarily "getting away with it" before relapse.

Adrienne also outlined the 24-day home food-testing process described in her book, which was designed to help individuals identify their "sober foods," clarify which foods destabilize them, and create a rotation that supports long-term stability without relying on willpower alone.

The conversation extended beyond biology into emotional and spiritual recovery. Adrienne shared why she believed that a food plan alone was insufficient for many people and how 12-step recovery supported her ability to cope with stress, trauma, and relational dynamics that previously fueled her eating. She described 12-step principles as a stabilizing force that helped her maintain honesty, accountability, and resilience alongside her eating structure.

Adrienne's book, 50 Years of Twelve Step Recovery, was discussed as a synthesis of lived experience, physiology, and recovery practice, offering both individuals and clinicians a broader framework for understanding relapse cycles, abstinence, and whole-person healing.

• How Adrienne differentiated compulsive overeating from food addiction physiology

• What she meant by "sober foods" and why identifying them reduced chaos and cravings

• Why cyclic food allergy patterns are often overlooked

• How the four-day rotation was intended to reduce food "stacking" and stabilize symptoms

• An overview of the 24-day food testing approach outlined in her book

• How certain foods might be reintroduced medically, while acknowledging psychological and spiritual considerations

• Why chemical exposures and non-organic foods were discussed as potential contributors to craving

• Adrienne's perspective on GLP-1 medications, including their limits in teaching coping skills

• How 12-step recovery complemented biological interventions and supports long-term maintenance

Adrienne Sprouse, MD, graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and trained in emergency medicine at Bellevue Hospital, toxicology at the New York City Poison Center, and Nutrition/Allergy/Detoxification/Clinical Ecology with the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. She later served as faculty for the Academy, educating physicians internationally for 17 years. She was Medical Director of Manhattan Health Consultants for decades and was featured in major media outlets including ABC, NBC, Fox Good Day New York, and The New York Times.

She is the author of 50 Years of Twelve Step Recovery, drawing on both long-term personal recovery and decades of clinical practice.

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What if the biggest breakthroughs in mental health didn't start with more effort—but with better timing?

In this deeply grounding and wide-ranging conversation, we're joined by Ignacio Cuaranta, a board-certified psychiatrist whose work sits at the intersection of psychiatry, chronobiology, metabolic health, and lifestyle medicine. Trained in Argentina and working internationally, Dr. Cuaranta brings a refreshingly non-dogmatic, biology-forward lens to mental health—one that prioritizes rhythm, regulation, and compassion over blame or biohacking extremes.

Together, we explore why sleep and light exposure may be the most powerful psychiatric interventions we have, how ultra-processed foods disrupt not just metabolism but emotional regulation, and why afternoon crashes, anxiety, impulsivity, and insomnia are often rhythm problems—not personal failures.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why morning light and nighttime darkness are foundational for mood, impulse control, and nervous system regulation
• How ultra-processed foods hijack reward pathways, especially when the brain is already fatigued
• The overlooked role of chronobiology in psychiatry—and why timing matters as much as content
• Afternoon crashes, cortisol dysregulation, and the myth of "low motivation"
• Time-restricted eating as a clinical tool, not a rigid rule
• Why consistency often matters more than perfection—especially for sensitive nervous systems
• Sleep as a keystone habit that makes every other change more accessible
• Practical, harm-reduction strategies for winter, shift work, and modern screen-heavy life
• Sauna, temperature, and seasonal rhythms—what actually helps and when
• Why reducing physiological "noise" can ease cravings, emotional volatility, and mental fatigue

This episode is especially supportive for anyone:

• Early in recovery from ultra-processed food use
• Living with anxiety, insomnia, or mood instability
• Feeling exhausted by self-optimization culture
• Curious about nutritional psychiatry, metabolic mental health, and nervous system regulation
• Wanting evidence-informed strategies that honor individuality, sensitivity, and real life

Dr. Cuaranta reminds us that regulation is not weakness, sensitivity is not pathology, and recovery doesn't require hacking yourself into submission. Often, the most meaningful change begins by restoring order to the basics: sleep, light, food quality, and rhythm.

If you've ever felt like your nervous system is doing its best in an environment that's working against it—this conversation is for you.

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