Episode 054: Today’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about disordered eating and eating disorders. Clients with issues around food make up a large part of my practice and they are something I’ve been helping women deal with for a number of years. As part of the show we look at the difference between an eating disorder versus disordered eating, why they happen (and it’s not always about managing someone’s weight), how they are passed on from generation to generation, as well as lots of ideas and suggestions to help someone think about their struggles differently and overcome their issues. 

Here’s what I talk about in this podcast episode:

1:00 How I stumbled into working with disordered eating clients

6:50 The difference between an eating disorder versus disordered eating

12:50 You don’t have to be thin to have food issues

15:00 Eating disorders aren’t always about reducing weight

21:00 Issues around food are often passed on from generation to generation

24:00 We should praise girls and women for other things than their appearance

30:40 We need to stop dieting

31:20 Be selective with what you expose yourself in your Facebook/Instagram feed

35:20 How nudity can be helpful

38:35 Food issues are a coping mechanism

42:20 Why changing eating patterns is only part of the recovery process

44:45 Understanding your fears and how to deal with them

48:55 Changing your internal environment

55:00 Food issues can be used as protection

57:00 Accepting what recovery really looks like

59:20 After recovery comes discovery

Links talked about as part of this episode:

Blythe Baird “When The Fat Girl Gets Skinny” Poem

A Hunger So Wide And Deep by Becky Thompson

The Rainbow Machine by Andrew T. Austin

Study on how images affect body size preferences

Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn

Miss Representation

Real Health Radio 029: Intuitive Eating

Quit Dieting email series

The Other One: The Long Strange Trip Of Bob Weir

Harriet Brown’s Brave Girl Eating

Real Health Radio 042: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

Breaking Free From Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth

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