Recovery Bites

In this episode, Karin welcomes guest Lindley Ashline, photographer, author, cat mom, entrepreneur, musician, and activist. Lindley creates photographs that celebrate the unique beauty of bodies that fall outside conventional "beauty" standards. She fights weight stigma by giving fat people a safe place to explore how their bodies look on camera and by increasing the representation of fat bodies in photography, advertising, fine art and the world at large. Lindley is also the creator of Body Liberation Stock and the Body Love Shop.

Join Karin and Lindley for a discussion on the science of bodies, the fat acceptance community, exclusion of larger bodies in the photography industry, body activism, aspirational verse realistic photography, beauty standards as power and currency, the expressive and oppressive methods in pursuing beauty standards, how power shifts often lead to shifts in beauty standards, the effects of removing the diet industry’s profit, reframing our body stories, and much more.

• Discover Lindley's work
• Follow Lindley on Facebook and Instagram
• Sign-up for your free, weekly Body Liberation Guide
• Visit Body Liberation Photos, Body Liberation Stock, and Body Love Shop
• View Lindley’s portfolio and book your free consultation
• Subscribe to Lindley’s blog
• View Lindley’s portfolio

In this episode, Karin welcomes Amy Gardner, MS, CEDRD, RYT, registered dietitian with over twenty years of clinical experience and personal recovery experience with her psychology, mindfulness and yoga training to help her clients move into full recovery. She is creator of the iMove™ program based on her book, “iMove, Helping Your Clients Heal from Compulsive Exercise.” Amy is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian through IAEDP and a Registered Yoga Teacher practicing in the Boston area. She is the founder of Metrowest Nutrition, LLC, a multi-disciplinary practice centered on healing relationships with body and food.

Join Karin and Amy for a discussion on body connection through joyful movement, trauma induced states for survival, healthy versus compulsive exercise, the importance of slowing down, safe exercise in the recovery process, Amy’s book “iMove, Helping Your Clients Heal from Compulsive Exercise,” the iMove™ program, and much more.

• Get to know Amy and follow her on Facebook and Instagram
• Purchase "iMove, Helping Your Clients Heal from Compulsive Exercise" and download a free copy of the accompanying workbook
• Join the iMove™ community
• Sign-up to become an iMove™ provider
• Visit Metrowest Nutrition online to view their counseling services

In this episode, I am joined by Jennifer Kreatsoulas, PhD, C-IAYT, certified yoga therapist specializing in eating disorders and body image, founder of Yoga for Eating Disorders, creator and host of Real Body Talk, an online interview talk show, and author of the book “Body Mindful Yoga,” and an international speaker. Through her virtual school, Yoga for Eating Disorders, Jennifer offers individual yoga therapy, groups, yoga classes, and continuing education and mentoring for professionals. Jennifer’s writings about her personal journey of eating disorder recovery and professional experience as a passionate yoga therapist has been featured widely in the media and her next book, “The Courageous Path to Healing,” (April 2022).

Join Karin and Jennifer for a discussion on relapsing as a mother, contributing risk factors that come with postpartum, dangers of keeping disordered behaviors (no matter the severity), difference between yoga classes and yoga therapy, how yoga therapy directly challenges common eating disorder behaviors, accepting your inner struggle and moving towards healing, the impact of healing with COVID-19, and more. 

• Get to know Jennifer
• Purchase “Body Mindful Yoga”
• Pre-order a copy of “The Courageous Path to Healing”
• Learn about Yoga For Eating Disorders

In this episode, I am joined by father and daughter Mike and Mary Polan. After “an extremely long and painful process with many twists and turns, detours and crashes along the way,” Mary recovered from a 10 year battle with anorexia, which nearly took her life. Mike’s personal experience supporting Mary’s recovery led him to shift his passion to support parents navigating the eating disorder treatment and recovery process. He believes that, "Recovery is possible. Even in the darkest times, never lose hope. There is a fighter within all of us."

Join Karin, Mike, and Mary for a discussion on how abnormal eating patterns are not always “a phase,” the importance of caregiver support and therapy, researching treatment facilities, whole family involvement in the recovery process, choosing recovery as opposed to being forced into treatment, residential treatment as a starting point to the recovery journey, and much more.

Read Mike and Mary’s featured articles below:
• “NEDA Helped Me Realize That I Am Not Alone”
• “Stories of Hope” for NEDA’s Hope for Parents series
• “Anorexia Can Strike and Kill as Early as Kindergarten” for ABC News
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In this episode, Karin welcomes authors, parents, and advocates, Linda and Jack Mazur to the show. After losing their daughter Emilee in 2016 at the age of 35 years old to her eating disorder, Linda and Jack embarked on the heartbreaking journey of sharing Emilee’s story. After publishing “Emilee: The Story of a Girl and Her Family Hijacked by Anorexia,” they began to advocate for eating disorder funding, education, and research. Their advocacy work includes spreading awareness, understanding, and compassion, for individuals who suffer from anorexia, eating disorders, alcohol use disorder, substance use disorder, and all mental illnesses has become Linda and Jack's passion. In addition, Linda and Jack host the podcast Once Shattered: Picking Up the Pieces and run the Family Member Support Community.

Join Karin and the Mazurs for a discussion on the loss of their daughter Emilee to her eating disorder, their memoir “Emilee,” ed mortality rates, the financial cost of eating disorders, the importance of getting to know the whole client, how society could improve their approach to eating disorders and mental illness, how HIPAA can do the opposite of protecting clients, recognizing the time it can take to recover, and much more.

• Get to know the Mazur family
• Purchase a copy of “Emilee”
• Learn about Linda and Jack's Eating Disorder Family Member Support Community
• Listen to Once Shattered: Picking Up the Pieces podcast
• Follow the Mazurs on Instagram and Facebook

In this episode, Karin welcomes Heather Hower, MSW, LICSW, ACSW, QCSW, Faculty Research Associate at Brown University School of Public Health and Faculty Associate at the University of California San Diego School (UCSD) of Medicine Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research to the show. Heather is a grant reviewer, faculty member, conference presenter and proposal reviewer, manuscript reviewer, research assistant, blog writer, and advocate. Heather’s current research interests include capitalizing on eating disorder traits as strengths, promoting temperament-based treatments, and defining recovery.

Join Karin and Heather for a discussion on mental health/sanity as a motivation to recover, the void that exists between intrusive thoughts and anxious thoughts, the role of nature vs. nurture in eating disorder development, “joyful movement” for body connection, how assuming that recovery is linear is a set-up for failure, and much more!

CONNECT WITH HEATHER:
• Get to know Heather by visiting Google Scholar, PudMed, and Brown
• View Heather’s research activities and funding and her featured publications
• Learn more about Heather’s contributions to the field here
• Follow Heather on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram
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In this episode, I am joined by writer, educator, and mentor Connie Sobczak. She founded The Body Positive in honor of her sister, and to ensure that her daughter Carmen and other children would grow up in a new world—one where people are free to focus on the things in life that really matter. Connie is also the author of “Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body,” her book in which she skillfully and lovingly reconnects readers to their essence and life force.

Join Karin and Connie for a discussion on Connie’s experience while writing her novel, “Embody,” the ways children absorb body-shaming messages, the impact of bonding over body hatred, the role diversity plays in preparing children to navigate a diet-obsessed culture, tips for becoming an expert of your own body, Connie’s motivation for co-funding The Body Positive non-profit, the 5 Competencies of the Be Body Positive Model, and much more!

CONNECT WITH CONNIE:
• Get to know Connie, view her workshops and press by visiting her online
• Follow Connie on Facebook and Instagram
• Learn about, read testimonials, and purchase your copy of “Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!)”
• Watch Connie’s TEDx Talk “Embracing Your Critical Voice: The Gateway to Self-Love”
• Learn about The Body Positive
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In this episode, I am joined by Harriet Brown, journalist, advocate, mother, and accomplished author of numerous books including “Body of Truth” and “Brave Girl Eating.” Inspired by the experience chronicling her daughter’s eating disorder descent and recovery while writing “Brave Girl Eating,” Harriet has become an advocate for better eating-disorders treatment. She has edited two anthologies and has written for the New York Times Magazine, O, Prevention, and many other publications. Harriet is currently a professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University where she continues to write, research, and teach about eating disorders and body image as well as other issues, including family estrangement.

Join Karin and Harriet for a discussion on Harriet’s experience while chronicling her daughter’s eating disorder and recovery in “Brave Girl Eating,” how the education provided in school propagates food issues, the damage of “fat shaming” as a motivation to lose weight, how a starved brain does not discriminate based on body size and/or weight, how our diet obsessed culture’s body centric focus dehumanizes individuals, looking at the diet-industry’s worth to understand its lies, and much more.

CONNECT WITH HARRIET:
• Get to know Harriet Brown by visiting her online
• Follow Harriet on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
• Learn more about Harriet’s books including:
￮ Body of Truth
￮ Brave Girl Eating
￮ Shadow Daughter
￮ Feed Me
• View the reading guide for Brave Girl Eating
• Read Harriet’s featured magazine stories
• Take a look at Harriet’s future events, speaking events, and featured press

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In this episode, Karin is joined by Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, Board Certified psychiatrist, mom, writer, and clinician who uses a bio-psycho-social model to help patients with all types of mental health conditions and a variety of undiagnosed health problems, move onto a pathway for a healthful, creative, and meaningful life. A leader in the field of eating disorders, Dr. Oliver-Pyatt, has developed innovative eating disorder treatment programs, served as the AED Advocacy Committee Chairman, and Co-authored AED Guidelines for Obesity Prevention. She is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorder and Fellow of International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp). She founded Galen Hope Treatment Center in April of 2021. On October 2, 2021, Wendy publicly announced the launch of Within Health, an accessible, expert driven, comprehensive, clinical treatment program with a mission to “cure all forms of eating disorders by making the very best treatments available.”

Join Karin and Wendy for a discussion on shifting perceived “weakness”, attunement in the client relationship, upholding expectations and accountability as an expression of hope, Within Health’s approach to eating disorder care, using exposure therapy to make peace with food, changing the mindset of treatment refractory to healing experiences, and much more!

CONNECT WITH WENDY:
• Get to know Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt
• Learn about Within's Virtual Care Treatment and Care including:
￮ Approach
￮ Technology
￮ Cost and Coverage
• View Within’s eating disorder resources
• Meet the Within team
• Subscribe to Within Health’s blog
• Contact Within Health
• Follow Within on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
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In this episode, Karin is joined by Holly Toronto, certified Master Level Coach, group facilitator, and podcaster with years of experience helping highly driven women stop dieting and build resilience to toxic beauty messages. Holly uses an intuitive and spiritual approach that guides her clients towards self trust, confidence and sovereignty over their entire being; body, mind and soul. From this place, her clients are able to make self guided decisions and finally live the life they desire in the body they live in today.

Join Karin and Holly for a discussion on the body ideals of the fashion industry, the evolution of objectification, the exclusivity of the sizing in the fashion industry, prioritizing self-expression over self-consciousness when choosing what we wear, how shame cannot beget sustainable change, the intangibility of self-worth versus the intangibility of the human body, and much more!

CONNECT WITH HOLLY:
• Learn more about Holly by visiting hollytoronto.com
• Follow Holly on Instagram
• Listen to Holly’s podcast “Return to Wholeness
• Learn about Holly’s group coaching programs:
◦ Homecoming: Make Peace With Your Body, Play Big in Your Life
◦ Anti Diet Health Coach Camp
• Learn about the "Feminine Freedom Coaching Experience"
• Get your copy of Holly’s Free Body Gratitude Meditation + Journal
• View to Holly’s featured interviews and podcasts
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