Recovery Bites

About Marya Hornbacher:
In 1998, Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, to international renown. Her first book, the memoir Wasted, appeared when she was 23, and was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize. This book earned Hornbacher a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, and over the years has become a worldwide classic. Her first novel, The Center of Winter, was published in 2005 to international acclaim. The New York Times named the book an Editor’s Choice, and Booklist called Hornbacher “a master storyteller.” Her third book, Madness: A Bipolar Life, was an immediate New York Times Bestseller, and earned her more praise in the Times, which wrote, “Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer.” Her fourth and fifth books, Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps and Waiting: A Nonbeliever’s Higher Power, both published by Hazelden, have found passionate audiences who are working toward recovery from addictions of all kinds. Waiting, published in 2011, examines the role of spirituality in a non-believer’s life, and was a finalist for both the Books for Better Life Award and the Minnesota Book Award. Marya’s sixth book, We’ve Been Healing All Along: Real Lives and Real Strategies for Mental Health Recovery, tells the personal stories of dozens of people with mental health disorders who are defining and achieving, personal success on their own terms.

Hornbacher’s work is available in more than twenty languages, which has earned her an international reputation. A three-time Morse Fellow at Yale, and a regular speaker on humanism and ethics at Harvard, she has also spoken on the topics of recovery, spirituality, and mental health at Columbia Medical School, Vassar, UC Berkeley, Swarthmore, Skidmore, Wesleyan, Amherst, the University of Michigan, and many others. While she lectures widely in academic settings, she is closely engaged in advocacy for mental health recovery, and is a frequent pro bono visitor to community-based mental health groups of all sizes and kinds, including NAMI, DBSA, and RAISE.

Born in San Francisco, Hornbacher has long made her home in Minneapolis. The recipient of a host of awards for her books, journalism, teaching, and research, including the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and the Fountain House Humanitarian Award for Mental Health Activism, she is a current Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. Marya is hard at work on her seventh book, a collection of essays on the subject of solitude in women’s lives. She teaches creative writing and journalism at Augsburg University and the University of Nebraska.

Connect with Marya Hornbacher:
• Visit Marya official website to learn more
• View Marya’s poetry, nonfiction, journalism publications, current projects, and books
• Study with Marya Independent Study
• Book Marya for your next speaking event
• Follow Marya on Facebook and Twitter
• Listen to more of Marya on/at:
╴This is My Brave Boston
╴Humanist Community at Harvard panel discussion
╴An Evening with Marya Hornbacher for Project HEAL
╴The Drunken Odyssey Podcast
╴Life. Unrestricted Podcast
╴The dunc tanc Podcast
• Check out of all of Marya’s Interviews and Press

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

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ABOUT TALIA DREW:
Talia Drew is a doctoral student at the University of Surrey where she is currently working towards her doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Talia conducts research into eating disorders and also works within the National Health Service (NHS) as a trainee Clinical Psychologist. Professionally, Talia has worked across several settings, including young people's eating disorder treatment (inpatient) and adult community eating disorder services for the NHS and private companies.

Talia is currently working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services for the NHS as students move clinical rotation every six months. Her research is looking into the potential feasibility of an online compassion-focused intervention for young people with eating difficulties. Talia is passionate about the idea and importance of early intervention and accessibility in mental health care, which is why she designed this intervention.

CONNECT WITH TALIA DREW:
• Learn more about Talia’s work by visiting NHS University of Surrey
• Email Talia directly
• Follow Talia on Instagram and Twitter

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

If you enjoyed the podcast, we would be so grateful if you would please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or on RateThisPodcast (non-iOS). Thank you!

Are you interested in becoming a guest on the Recovery Bites podcast? If so, please fill out our brief application form to start the process.

ABOUT LISA DENNING:
While still in recovery from a life-threatening eating disorder, Lisa Denning moved to Hawaii in 1999 to explore her connection with the dolphins and whales more deeply. On her first swim out in the ocean, she was surrounded by a pod of wild dolphins and welcomed into their pod. She felt at home in her body for the first time, ever. From that day on, Lisa swam out to be with that same pod for hours every day. It was there with the dolphins that she found her body, heart, true joy, and finally begin to heal. With the dolphins, Lisa found herself experiencing what hadn’t been safe or possible yet with humans. Her friendship with these ocean beings led her not only deeper into herself and recovery but also to create a life filled with joy that she never imagined existed.

Lisa is also an underwater photographer with dolphins and whales and an ocean guide, co-facilitating seminars in Hawaii and different locations around the world where people come to be with these beings in their ocean homes. Over the years, she has guided thousands of people into the ocean introducing them to the magic of the underwater world. Ocean Eyes Photography started as a way to share her experiences in the ocean with others. It brings Lisa joy to capture the incredible interactions that are happening between humans and our ocean family. Because of the relationships and deep connection felt with dolphins, whales, and sharks, Lisa has been able to witness and capture magical moments all over the world. For her, it’s not about ‘getting the shot’, it is about being with them and seeing the magic that unfolds.

In addition to her work with Light ON, Oceans Within, and Ocean Eyes Photography, Lisa works as a life coach focusing on working with those in recovery with eating disorders. She is currently completing “Oceans Within” her first book about her recovery journey that will share the details of Lisa’s recovery journey both in and out of the water. Through writing, speaking, imagery, and more, Lisa hopes to provide inspiration and the knowledge that real recovery is not only possible but worth every second of what it takes to get there. Lisa believes that “we all have what we need inside to heal and we find these reminders along the way as we are ready.” Lisa believes that recovery is not solely about stopping and managing symptoms but feeling free and joyful in one’s body expressing one’s authentic truth. 

Lisa is also the Co-Founder of Light ON Foundation. Light ON is a 501c3 community organization founded by Lisa and trauma specialist Teri Callaghan. Their mission is to provide alternative and expanded healing opportunities to survivors of sexual abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, and other forms of interpersonal trauma. Light ON’s goal is to become a model for healing the effects of individual and community trauma that can be adapted and used effectively in any location. Inspired by her relationship to the ocean, Lisa created Oceans Within, where she offers weekend retreats, community wellness days, and other gatherings depending on the needs of the community. You can learn more by visiting www.lightonfoundation.com.

CONNECT WITH LISA DENNING:
• Visit Lisa at lisadenning.com or contact Lisa directly to learn more about her services
• Learn more about Oceans Within, Ocean Eyes Photography, and Light ON Foundation
• Follow Lisa on Facebook and Instagram
• Follow Lisa’s Youtube Channel
• Subscribe to Lisa’s blog
• View Lisa’s Professional Photography Gallery
• Visit Lisa’s ETSY store for purchasing options
• Listen, watch, and read more from Lisa by viewing her featured press.

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

If you enjoyed the podcast, we would be so grateful if you would please consider leaving a review here. Thank you!

Are you interested in becoming a guest on the Recovery Bites podcast? If so, please fill out our brief application form to start the process.

ABOUT TABITHA FARRAR:

Tabitha Farrar grew up in Wiltshire, England, in an idyllic (yet rainy) village. Despite being a robust and confident teenager, she developed an eating disorder at the age 17. This devastating illness took sole position in her life until, at age 25, Tabitha finally started her own recovery journey. She successfully recovered from her eating disorder and the complicated matrix of obsessions and habitual eating disorder behaviors that came with it without any professional help.

Since Recovering, Tabitha has worked as an eating disorder recovery coach and coached hundreds (possibly thousands) of people in recovery. She has written numerous eating disorder recovery guides for adults (see below), peer mentored adults with eating disorders and parents/partners of adults since 2009, has advocated for FBT for adults in eating disorder recovery, and was selected to be a Coordinated Specialty Care Grant Advisory Board member. Tabitha was also a founding member of International Eating Disorder Action and World Eating Disorders Action Day and the founder of Active Eating Disorder Recovery for Adults (AEDRA) Meal Support Service. She is the former host of the Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast.

Tabitha has authored four books on eating disorders: Love Fat, an educational memoire on eating disorder recovery and insight, Rehabilitate, Rewire, Recover! — a recovery guide for adults, Neural Rewiring for Eating Disorder Recovery; and Fear of Weight Gain.

CONNECT WITH TABITHA FARRAR:
• Visit Tabitha at tabithafarrar.com
• Learn more about Tabitha’s Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching for individuals
• Book a Coaching session with Tabitha
• Follow Tabitha’s eating disorder recovery blog
• Subscribe to Tabitha’s YouTube Channel
• Read Tabitha’s take on Eating Disorder Awareness Training for Gyms, Yoga Studios, and Fitness Professionals
• Purchase a copy of:
╴Rehabilitate, Rewire, Recover! (Amazon)
╴Neural Rewiring for Eating Disorder Recovery (Amazon)
╴Fear of Weight Gain (Amazon)
╴Love Fat (Amazon)

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

If you enjoyed the podcast, we would be so grateful if you would please consider leaving a review here. Thank you!

Are you interested in becoming a guest on the Recovery Bites podcast? If so, please fill out our brief application form to start the process.

ABOUT HEIDI J. DALZELL:

Heidi J. Dalzell, PsyD, is a Clinical Psychologist, with 25+ years experience specializing in eating disorders, trauma and addictive behaviors. Heidi has a busy private practice and also offers courses/eating disorder online coaching. Heidi is prolific author covering subjects such as eating disorders, addiction, gender identity, mindfulness, racial justice and spirituality and has spoken nationally and internationally on these topics.

Heidi is a featured contributor on She Owns It, and has had articles published on sites including Tiny Buddha, The Good Men Project, and Elephant Journal. She has been quoted in Forbes, My Fitness Pal Blog, Fatherly, Yahoo Style and A Sweat Life. Heidi is a teacher on Insight Timer and has appeared on MLN network’s Minding Men. She has been a guest on podcasts including Peace Meal, The Bubble Hour and The Body Image Podcast.

Heidi is co-author of “A Clinician’s Guide to Gender Identity and Body Image” and is a contributor to professional and consumer publications. She has presented nationally and internationally on topics connected to mental health and wellness.

Heidi works with a broad spectrum of clients, including men and women of all ages. Areas of interest and specialization include eating disorders (especially at midlife), trauma, and working with sexual orientation and gender identity. Heidi practices from a holistic lens, and therapy can include insight-oriented talk therapy as well as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).

CONNECT WITH HEIDI J. DALZELL:
• Learn more about Heidi at talktogrow.com
• Connect with Heidi on LinkedIn and get in touch via email
• Follow Heidi on Facebook and Instagram
• Join Heidi’s Eating Disorders at Midlife Facebook group
• Purchase a copy of “A Clinician’s Guide to Gender Identity and Body Image”
• Read Heidi’s article “10 Grab & Go Mindfulness Exercises for when you’re About to Binge,” written for the Elephant Journal
• Listen to Heidi on:
╴"Midlife Eating Disorders with Heidi Dalzell" for the Emily Program podcast
╴"Dr. Heidi Dalzell on Eating Disorders and Alcohol Addiction" for the Bubble Hour podcast
╴“Midlife Women, ED Recovery & Hope with Heidi Dalzell” for The Body Image Podcast

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

If you enjoyed the podcast, we would be so grateful if you would please consider leaving a review here. Thank you!

Are you interested in becoming a guest on the Recovery Bites podcast? If so, please fill out our brief application form to start the process.

ABOUT SONYA RENEE TAYLOR:

Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body Is Not an Apology, a digital media and education company promoting radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation. Sonya’s work as a highly sought-after award-winning Performance Poet, activist, and transformational leader continues to have global reach. Sonya is a former National and International poetry slam champion, author of two books, "The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love" (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; February 2021), "Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook", thought leader who has enlightened and inspired organizations, audiences and individuals from board rooms to prisons, universities to homeless shelters, elementary schools to some of the biggest stages in the world.

Believing in the power of art is a vehicle for social change, Sonya has been widely recognized for her work as a change agent. She was named one of Planned Parenthood's 99 Dream Keepers in 2015 as well as a Planned Parenthood Generation Action's 2015 Outstanding Partner awardee. Bustle Magazine named her one of the 12 Women Who Paved the Way for Body Positivity and in September 2015, she was honored as a YBCA 100, an annual compilation of creative minds, makers, and pioneers who are asking the questions and making the provocations that will shape the future of American culture; an honor she shared alongside author Ta'Nahesi Coates, artist Kara Walker, filmmaker Ava Duvernay and many more. In 2016, she was named a Champion of Women’s Health by Planned Parenthood and commissioned to write the official poem for Planned Parenthood’s 100-year centennial celebration. In the same year, Sonya was also invited to the Obama White House to speak at their forum on the intersection of LGBTQIAA and Disability issues. In 2017, Sonya was awarded the Quixote Foundation’s “Thank You Note, a $25,000 award for leaders and artists working in the field of reproductive justice. In the fall of 2017, Sonya was named one of 28 global changemakers selected into the inaugural cohort of the Edmund Hilary Fellowship, a 3-year international fellowship of world-leading entrepreneurs and investors, innovating purpose-driven global impact projects from New Zealand.

Sonya’s work has been seen, heard, and read on HBO, BET, MTV, TV One, NPR, PBS, CNN, Oxygen Network, The New York Times, New York Magazine, MSNBC.com, Today.com, Huffington Post, USA Today, Vogue Australia, Shape.com, Ms. Magazine and many more. She is a regular collaborator and artist with organizations such as Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Advocates for Youth 1in3 Campaign, Association for Size Diversity and Health, Binge Eating Disorders Association (BEDA), Greater than AIDS Campaign, Yerba Buena Cultural Art Center and numerous others.

With a B.A. in Sociology and an M.S.A. in Organizational Management, Sonya continues to use her work to disrupt systems of inequity from an intersectional, radical self-love and global justice framework. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Split This Rock, an organization calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors for SisterSong, a pioneering Women of Color reproductive justice collective. Sonya continues to be engaged in issues of racial justice, police brutality, mental health, reproductive rights and justice and much more.

In 2011, Sonya founded The Body Is Not an Apology (TBINAA), as an online community to cultivate radical self-love and body empowerment. TBINAA quickly became a movement and leading framework for the budding body positivity movement. In 2015, The Body Is Not an Apology developed a digital magazine, education and community building platform to connect global issues of radical self-love and intersectional social justice. Today, TBINAA is a digital media enterprise reaching nearly 1 million people per month from over 140 countries with. Sonya resides between the California Bay Area and Aotearoa New Zealand. Sonya continues to tour globally sharing lectures, workshops and performances focused on radical self-love, social justice and personal and global transformation.

"The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love" offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by systems of oppression that thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. In this book, Taylor forges the inextricable bond between radical self-love and social justice.

CONNECT WITH SONYA RENEE TAYLOR:
• Learn more about Sonya at sonyareneetaylor.com
• Get in touch with Sonya directly
• Follow Sonya on Facebook, Instagram, and SoundCloud
• Purchase a copy of "The Body Is Not an Apology; Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love", "Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook: Tools for Living Radical Self-love", or visit Sonya’s online book shop
• Listen to Sonya’s past podcasts including:
╴"Brené with Sonya Renee Taylor on 'The Body Is Not an Apology'" for Unlocking Us
╴“The Body Is Not An Apology” for Body Kindness
╴“How to Cultivate Radical Body Love with Sonya Renee Taylor” for Food Psyche
• Become a supporter of The Body is Not an Apology (TBINAA) Movement, join the Radical Self-Love Community, and download 10 free Tools for Radical Self-Love
• Follow TBINAA on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
• View TBINAA’s workshops and lectures and webinars and online courses

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

If you enjoyed the podcast, we would be so grateful if you would please consider leaving a review here. Thank you!

Are you interested in becoming a guest on the Recovery Bites podcast? If so, please fill out our brief application form to start the process.

ABOUT JAREN SOLOFF :

Jaren Soloff is a Registered Dietitian and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) who has always felt a connection to supporting women in some way professionally. For the longest time, she was stumped on how to find a profession that would allow her to integrate her interest in feminism, social justice, health, law and community. Finding the profession of lactation consulting after Jaren had her daughter was a gift that provided her the opportunity to integrate both her lived experience as a mother and as a recovered professional.

Jaren spent the early portion of her career working as a Registered Dietitian counseling individuals who struggled with eating disorders, disordered eating and chronic dieting. In her counseling, she taught about how as babies we are all born knowing how to eat intuitively. Jaren thought ‘if I could help support mothers in preserving their infants ability to eat intuitively from the beginning when breast or chestfeeding that I could ultimately have a larger impact on how our children navigate their own relationships with food and bodies.’

After having her first daughter, Jaren’s desire to become a lactation consultant hit her with full force after having her own breastfeeding challenges. Now, Jaren’s personal and professional experience have come full circle (the inspiration for the name of her practice!) in helping to support other mothers in her community. FULL CRCL provides nutrition counseling and lactation consultations to help both mom and baby thrive in motherhood. Informed by her own journey and the hundreds of women she has counseled, Jaren’s experience comes full circle to support women in navigating pregnancy, birth and postpartum from a simple and intuitive framework.

Jaren prides herself on blending her experiences as both a nutrition therapist and lactation consultant to provide mothers with expert feeding support and a dose of compassion, listening and empowerment. Jaren also published “The Postnatal Cookbook: Simple and Nutritious Recipes to Nourish Your Body and Spirit During the Fourth Trimester,” for new moms.

CONNECT WITH JAREN SOLOFF:

• Visit FULL CRCL to learn more about Jaren and her practice
• Check out FULL CRCL’s nutrition counseling and virtual lactation consulting services
• Book an appointment with Jaren or email her directly
• Follow FULL CRCL on Facebook and Instagram
• Subscribe to FULL CRCL’s blog
• Read Jaren’s article “What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Eye Loss” written for The Mighty
• Get a free chapter + 5 free lactation boosting recipes from The Postnatal Cookbook
• Purchase a copy of The Postnatal Cookbook on IndieBound, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Powell City of Books, and Bam Books-a-Million

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

If you enjoyed the podcast, we would be so grateful if you would please consider leaving a review here. Thank you!

Are you interested in becoming a guest on the Recovery Bites podcast? If so, please fill out our brief application form to start the process.

This week I welcome Lara Reaves to the show. Lara is a certified Holistic Nutrition Practitioner, specializing in eating disorders, and recovered from her own battle with an eating disorder that nearly destroyed many of her dreams for her future. Since recovery, Lara has worked in residential clinical settings, adolescent mental health facilities, and is well-versed in communicating with a treatment team. She is the Chief Operations Officer and Coach for Rebecca's Eating Disorder Foundation, and a Recovery Coach for the Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. Her mission became to increase awareness and educate the public about eating disorders and the journey of recovery.

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

• The ways in which the journey to recovery can be one of the greatest teachers and source of growth.

• Using behaviors in an effort to soothe the pain form the voices in your head.

• How eating disorder behaviors (falsely) “protect” loved ones from the severity of one’s pain.

• Recovery requires learning how to not negotiate one’s values.

• The idea that one can make space for courage through disallowing fear from paralyzing the process.

• How the courage and self-esteem gained from moving through fear outlive and outlast fear itself.

• Recovery allows one to be “a part” of life as opposed to being “apart” from it.

CONNECT WITH LARA REAVES:

• Visit Lara online to learn more about her services and story
• Learn about Lara’s Coaching and Recovery Philosophies
• Contact Lara to see if working together would be a good fit
• Subscribe to Lara’s personal blog and her blog written for Rebecca’s Eating Disorder Foundation
• Follow Lara on Facebook and Instagram
• Read more about Lara's journey from recovering to recovered
• Listen to “Lara Reaves for Eating Disorder Awareness Week” on the Oversharing podcast
• You can also find Lara on Rebecca’s Eating Disorder Foundation and at Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

If you enjoyed the podcast, we would be so grateful if you would please consider leaving a review here. Thank you!

Are you interested in becoming a guest on the Recovery Bites podcast? If so, please fill out our brief application form to start the process.

ABOUT ELISA MOTT JONES :

Elisa Mott Jones received her Masters of Education and Education Specialist degrees in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida in 2010. While in graduate school, she completed the University of Florida's Arts in Medicine, Elisa obtained a Certificate in Spirituality and Health and Arts in Medicine. She also holds the title of National Certified Counselor from the National Board of Certified Counselors and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida.  

Introduced to yoga in 2000, and after 5 years of practice, Elisa decided to become a yoga instructor. She graduated from Discovery Yoga’s 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program in St. Augustine, Florida in 2005. In 2015, she completed my 500-hour yoga teacher training at Downtown Yoga in Pleasanton, CA, and is a 500-level, Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500) with the Yoga Alliance. Elisa has additional certifications in Restorative Yoga, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, YogaDance, Colorgized Yoga, KarmaKids Yoga, and Pilates. In 2015, she became a Reiki Master and integrate the transformative healing of Reiki into her individualized sessions.

Beyond counseling and teaching, Elisa also writes about body image, eating disorders, and yoga. She co-authored “The Use of Holistic Methods to Integrate the Shattered Self,” a book chapter in the textbook Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the research-practice gap, ( check it out) edited by Margo Maine, Beth Hartman McGilley, and Doug Bunnell. Elisa also authored “Client Perspectives on Strong, Restorative and Partner Yoga Classes”, a chapter in Carolyn Costin and Joe Kelly’s book Yoga and Eating Disorders. (check it out). 

Additionally, Elisa presents nationally on the use of yoga in the treatment of eating disorders and body image issues and utilizes yoga and movement in counseling centers and hospitals with adults, adolescents, and children. At Kaiser Permanente’s eating disorder intensive outpatient unit in Walnut Creek, CA, as well as Center for Discovery's eating disorder and mood disorder intensive outpatient and partial hospitalizations programs in North Palm Beach, FL,  Elisa led expressive movement and therapeutic yoga groups for adults and adolescents. 

Elisa is currently offering Accepting Your Body’s Wisdom: Nutrition, Yoga, and Body Image, a transformational workshop designed for women who want to make peace with their bodies and their relationship with food.

Additionally, Elisa choreographs and performs YogaDance and Acro-Yoga across the country and at national eating disorder conferences. Her pieces express who she is as a woman, partner, daughter, yogi, and dancer, and reflect her own journey to healing. 

Elisa lives in Jupiter, Florida with her husband, Lewis Jones Psy.D , and their two daughters. She offers workshops, groups, and individualized sessions for those seeking freedom from anxiety, trauma, disordered eating, and body image concerns. 

CONNECT WITH ELISA MOTT JONES:
• Visit Elisa online to learn more about her Mindful, Integrative, and Somatic Modalities
• Contact Elisa directly to inquire about her anxiety/stress management, disordered eating/body image, and mindfulness/yoga services
• Follow Elisa on Facebook and Instagram
• Subscribe to Elisa’s blog
• Find out more about Elisa’s online yoga classes
• Enroll in Elisa’s e-course BodyWisdom: A Guide for Eating & Living Intuitively
• Read Elisa’s chapter "The Use of Holistic Methods to Integrate the Shattered Self," in the textbook "Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the research-practice gap"
• Read “Client Perspectives on Strong, Restorative and Partner Yoga Classes” Elisa’s chapter in Carolyn Costin and Joe Kelly’s book "Yoga and Eating Disorders"
• Watch Elisa in "'I MISS ME' - yoga dance by Elisa Mott" featured on Jenni Schaefer’s YouTube Channel

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

If you enjoyed the podcast, we would be so grateful if you would please consider leaving a review here. Thank you!

Are you interested in becoming a guest on the Recovery Bites podcast? If so, please fill out our brief application form to start the process.

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ABOUT CARMEN COOL:

Carmen Cool, MA, LPC is a politicized therapist, educator, speaker, & activist helping people heal their relationships with food and their bodies. For the past 20 years, Carmen has been working to dismantle diet culture, support the next generation of body liberation leaders, and shift the psychotherapy profession toward justice. She has also started and run a nonprofit, created youth programs, and speaks internationally on Health At Every Size ®, feminism and eating disorders, and weight stigma. Carmen served as the Board President of the Association for Size Diversity and Health, was named “Most Inspiring Individual” in Boulder, Colorado, and was the recipient of the Excellence in Eating Disorder Advocacy Award in Washington, DC.

CONNECT WITH CARMEN COOL:
• You can learn more about Carmen at CarmenCool.com
• Learn more about Carmen’s therapy, supervision, and speaking services
• Follow Carmen on Instagram
• Listen to Carmen on:
╴"Anti-Fat Bias and Weight Stigma in Psychotherapy w/ Hilary Kinavey & Carmen Cool" for Embodied and Awake
╴"Moving Past 'The Rebellious Streak' with Carmen Cool" with Summer Innanen
╴"How Anger Can Help in Diet Recovery and Body Acceptance with Carmen Cool" for Food Psyche
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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

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