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How Childhood Trauma Shapes Eating Disorders & Body Shame (Content Caution)
Content Caution:
This episode discusses childhood trauma, eating disorders, and body shame. Please listen with care and take breaks if needed.
Episode Overview:
Eating disorders are not about willpower or personal failure. They are survival responses rooted in trauma, body shame, and environments where safety or acceptance were missing.
In this episode of Dr. Marianne-Land: An Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast, I explore how childhood trauma and eating disorders are connected, and why understanding this link is essential for true healing. We’ll talk about how early emotional invalidation, conditional love, medical or religious trauma, anti-fat bias, racism, ableism, and other forms of oppression shape our nervous systems and our relationships with food and our bodies.
Key Topics in This Episode:
How Childhood Trauma Shapes Eating Disorders
Trauma is not only abuse or neglect. It includes emotional neglect, growing up where love felt conditional, being shamed for your body or identity, and living in oppressive environments. These experiences teach the nervous system that the world is unsafe, leading to food-based coping strategies like restriction, binge eating, or obsessive control.
Why Eating Disorders Are Survival Strategies
Eating disorders are intelligent adaptations to trauma and distress. They are not choices or flaws but protective responses from a body trying to survive unsafe conditions.
The Role of Shame and Oppression
Shame reinforces eating disorders by convincing people they are weak or broken. Systems like fatphobia, racism, and ableism magnify this shame, making recovery harder. Understanding how body shame and systemic oppressionintersect with trauma is crucial for healing.
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Recovery
Recovery is not about force or willpower. It is about compassion, safety, and nervous system regulation. Healing involves body liberation, trauma-informed care, and neurodivergent-affirming practices that honor each person’s story and needs.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
The connection between childhood trauma and eating disorders
Why eating disorders are survival mechanisms, not failures
How shame and body image distress perpetuate disordered eating
The impact of oppression, fatphobia, and ableism on body shame
How trauma-informed eating disorder therapy supports healing
Related Episodes:
Work With Me:
If you’re ready for support, I offer trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming eating disorder therapy in California, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Learn more and schedule a consultation at www.drmariannemiller.com.
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Content Caution:
This episode discusses childhood trauma, eating disorders, and body shame. Please listen with care and take breaks if needed.
Episode Overview:
Eating disorders are not about willpower or personal failure. They are survival responses rooted in trauma, body shame, and environments where safety or acceptance were missing.
In this episode of Dr. Marianne-Land: An Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast, I explore how childhood trauma and eating disorders are connected, and why understanding this link is essential for true healing. We’ll talk about how early emotional invalidation, conditional love, medical or religious trauma, anti-fat bias, racism, ableism, and other forms of oppression shape our nervous systems and our relationships with food and our bodies.
Key Topics in This Episode:
How Childhood Trauma Shapes Eating Disorders
Trauma is not only abuse or neglect. It includes emotional neglect, growing up where love felt conditional, being shamed for your body or identity, and living in oppressive environments. These experiences teach the nervous system that the world is unsafe, leading to food-based coping strategies like restriction, binge eating, or obsessive control.
Why Eating Disorders Are Survival Strategies
Eating disorders are intelligent adaptations to trauma and distress. They are not choices or flaws but protective responses from a body trying to survive unsafe conditions.
The Role of Shame and Oppression
Shame reinforces eating disorders by convincing people they are weak or broken. Systems like fatphobia, racism, and ableism magnify this shame, making recovery harder. Understanding how body shame and systemic oppressionintersect with trauma is crucial for healing.
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Recovery
Recovery is not about force or willpower. It is about compassion, safety, and nervous system regulation. Healing involves body liberation, trauma-informed care, and neurodivergent-affirming practices that honor each person’s story and needs.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
The connection between childhood trauma and eating disorders
Why eating disorders are survival mechanisms, not failures
How shame and body image distress perpetuate disordered eating
The impact of oppression, fatphobia, and ableism on body shame
How trauma-informed eating disorder therapy supports healing
Related Episodes:
Work With Me:
If you’re ready for support, I offer trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming eating disorder therapy in California, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Learn more and schedule a consultation at www.drmariannemiller.com.
INTERESTED IN HANGING OUT MORE IN DR. MARIANNE-LAND?
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