Recovery Bites

In this episode, Karin is joined by Betsy Brenner, author, high school tennis coach, eating disorder recovery speaker, peer support mentor, and support group co-leader. Betsy’s recovery story has been shared widely on many eating disorders blogs and websites. She recently published her memoir, “The Longest Match: Rallying to Defeat an Eating Disorder in Mid-Life”

Join Karin and Betsy as they discuss the components of an eating disorder “perfect storm,” coping with the reemergence of buried, internalized experiences, the importance of self-care, vulnerability as an acceptable and necessary practice, changing the role of movement from obsessive to healing, the challenges of meeting one’s needs, the deeper level of healing that comes with sharing one’s story, the evolution of Betsy’s recovery story, the process of publishing her memoir, “The Longest Match: Rallying to Defeat an Eating Disorder in Mid-Life,” and much more.

CONNECT WITH BETSY:
• Learn more about Betsy by visiting betsybrenner.com
• Follow Betsy on Facebook and Instagram
• Purchase a copy of “The Longest Match: Rallying to Defeat an Eating Disorder in Mid-Life” on Amazon
• Read the book excerpt “Divorce: The End of Innocence and its Impact on the Elementary School Years“
• View Betsy’s recent speaking events
• Read Betsy’s featured publications and writing
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In this episode, Karin is joined by Asher Pandjiris, MA, LICSW, psychotherapist, group facilitator, queer-identified parent, activist, podcaster, living with chronic health issues. Asher has years of experience working with issues related to trauma and its impact on the body and is a scholar of critical, psychoanalytic and mindfulness-based theories.

Join Karin and Asher for a discussion on trauma’s effect on the body, how eating disorder behaviors can communicate trauma, how treatment exclusion heightens gender dysphoria, gender binarism’s role in body adherence, gender expression changes during the recovery process, the risk of chronic illness “quick fixes,” Asher’s podcast “Living in this Queer Body,” and much more.

CONNECT WITH ASHER:
• Learn about Living in this Queer Body project’s group workshops, one-on-one coaching sessions, and program intensive
• Subscribe to “Living in this Queer Body”
• Follow Asher on Instagram
• Purchase a recording of the virtual webinar: “Pandemic Fatigue From a Disability Justice Perspective” (two purchase options)
• Read Asher’s article “Tenuous Embodiment: In Queer Communities, Disordered Eating Has Complex Roots” for Bitch Magazine
• Listen to Asher in “Chronic Illness, Body Acceptance, and Breaking Free from the Wellness Diet with Asher Pandjiris” for Food Psych
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In this episode, I am joined by Kerrie Baldwin, recovered editor and writer with twenty years' experience in areas ranging from adult and children's trade books to pharmaceutical training material. She is the author of “I, Dragonfly: A Memoir of Recovery and Flight,” which chronicles the physical and psychological transformations of Kerrie’s eating disorder recovery at thirty-three years old, while managing a freelance career as an editor as well as caring for her three young children.

Join us for a discussion on culture’s normalizing of health and wellness, treading the line of being “health conscious” and having disordered eating/thoughts/behaviors, recovering while parenting, the risks of trying to appear “put together,” sitting in the discomfort of recovery, countering and reframing diet culture’s messages to your children, internalized fatphobia in children, Kerrie’s book “I, Dragonfly: a Memoir of Recovery and Flight,” and much more!

Connect with Kerrie:
• Learn more about Kerrie by visiting her online
• Follow Kerrie on Instagram
• Read Kerrie’s featured writing in:
￮ “The Hardest Part About Dating After Anorexia” for She Knows
￮ “Sweet Surrender: The Empowering Gift of Recovery” for the ED Institute
￮ “Tossing Eating Disorder Goggles” for the Bald Eagle Editorial
• Listen to Kerrie on “Meet Kerrie” on the New Plates podcast
• Purchase a copy of “I, Dragonfly: A Memoir of Recovery and Flight” (paperback and eBook) on:
￮ Amazon
￮ Barnes & Noble
￮ Chapters
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In this episode, I am joined by Nicole Farnsworth, MS, RD, CSSD, LDN, CPT. Nicole works as a dietitian for the Sports Medicine Team and the Female Athlete Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is additionally a clinical dietitian at Laura Moretti Nutrition and the consulting sports dietitian for Wheaton College. Nicole is a member of the Female Athlete Conference Planning Committee and served as co-chair for the 2021 Female Athlete Conference. Nicole’s interest in working with athletes stems from her experience as a track and field pentathlete and heptathlete as an undergraduate student at Harvard. Nicole is dedicated to educating athletes on the importance of adequate fueling for health and performance and regularly lectures for local and regional athletic teams and organizations.

Join Karin and Nicole for a discussion on the mental and physical energy required for collegiate athletes, cultural and ritualistic competition preparation risks, “race weight,” the Female Athlete Triad and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (REDS), the prevalence of eating disorders in certain sports, athletic character traits, and much more!

CONNECT WITH NICOLE:
• Learn more about Nicole by visiting her bios on the Female Athlete Program, Boston Children's Hospital and Laura Moretti Nutrition
• Follow Nicole on Twitter and Instagram
• View details from this year’s Virtual Female Athlete Conference and register for their next conference
• Read Nicole’s article, “Specific dietary practices in female athletes and their association with positive screening for disordered eating” published on BioMed Central
• Learn more about the Female Athletic Program's research, services, specialties, and health guides
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In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Janean Anderson, licensed psychologist, author, and host of The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast. Janean holds the Certified Eating Disorder Specialist designation from the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP). She is the Founder and Director of Colorado Therapy & Assessment Center, an outpatient treatment center in Denver, Colorado. She is personally recovered from an eating disorder and wholeheartedly believes in recovery.

Join us for a conversation about integrative therapeutic healing, the fundamentals of Action Commitment Therapy (ACT) therapy, the fragmented nature of one’s true values vs eating disorder values, the self-propagating nature of an eating disorder’s set of values, how (and why) diet culture equates thinness to goodness, approval, and success, the path that led Janean to start her own eating disorder recovery podcast, how motivation to recover puts you one step closer to full recovery, and much more!

Connect with Janean:
• Learn more about Janean at coloradotherapyassessment.com
• Visit Colorado Therapy Assessment to view their therapy services
• Follow Janean on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram
• Listen to more from Janean on “The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast”
• Learn about Janean’s books “Recover Your Perspective,” and “Meditations for Eating Disorder Recovery: A Recover Your Perspective Book,” both available for purchase on Amazon.
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In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Colleen Reichmann, licensed clinical psychologist working in private practice at Therapy for Eating Disorders and Body Image. Recovered from an eating disorder herself, Colleen is an advocate for intersectional feminism, body liberation, fat positivity, and Health At Every Size®. Colleen is the co-author of "The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery: Advice from Two Therapists Who Have Been There.” You can also find Colleen at colleenreichmann.com and on Instagram at @drcolleenreichmann.

Join us for a conversation about sense of humor, Colleen’s book “The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery,” how action steps serve as a catalyst to change, shedding toxic labels, finding patience and empathy as a provider, misconceptions that sabotage recovery efforts, and more!

CONNECT WITH COLLEEN:
• Learn more at colleenreichmann.com and view Therapy for Eating Disorders and Body Image's eating disorder services
• Follow Colleen on Instagram at @drcolleenreichmann
• Subscribe to Colleen’s blog
• Read Therapy for Eating Disorders and Body Image’s “Statement of Beliefs”
• View Colleen's press including media interviews, podcast appearances, articles, recent presentations, and awards and recognitions
• Listen to more from Colleen in:
○ “The Slippery Slope of Wellness Culture” for the Nutrition Matters podcast
○ “Colleen Reichmann on Eating Disorders, Recovery, Hope, Body Image & Self-Esteem” for the Body Image podcast
• Learn more about Colleen’s book “The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery” and purchase a copy on Amazon or Routledge Publishing
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In this episode, I am joined by Kristina Saffran is the cofounder and CEO of Equip Behavioral Health, co-founder and active board member of Project HEAL, Ashoka Fellow, Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneur, and Harvard College graduate.

Join us for a conversation about the motivation for Kristina to begin Project HEAL as a teenager, stereotypes as they relate to access to care, the ways in which Kristina’s work has proven that recovery is possible (and worth it), the role of crisis in the family system, virtual treatment vs. standard treatment, honoring the difficulties of navigating the transition from higher level of care, and much more!

CONNECT WITH KRISTINA:
• Learn more about Kristina and her recovery story her vision for Equip.
• Visit equip.health to view Equip’s virtual eating disorder programing
• View Equip’s treatment research, including evidence based care, patient outcomes, and resources
• Reach out to the Equip team at [email protected]
• Follow Equip on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
• Subscribe to Equip’s blog “Food for Thought
• Discover Kristina and Equip featured in:
◦ “Optum-Backed Telehealth Startup For Eating Disorder Treatment Raises $13 Million” in Forbes Magazine
◦ "In many ways it's been disastrous": COVID pandemic provides perfect storm for Americans with eating disorders” by CBS News
◦ “San Diego startup Equip nets $13M for telehealth platform to treat eating disorders” in San Diego Tribune
◦ “Eating Disorders Are on the Rise During the Pandemic—Here’s How To Get Help if You’re Struggling” in Well + Good
◦ “Most People With Eating Disorders Never Get Treatment—This New Online Platform Makes Support More Accessible” in Vogue
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In this episode, I am joined by Brianna M. Campos, LPC, fat-positive, Health at Every Size® provider, mental health counselor, therapist, and body image coach. Bri is passionate about helping others maneuver through their body image journey and heal the relationship that her clients have with their bodies. You can find her on Instagram at @bodyimagewithbri.

Join us for a conversation about the intersection of one’s relationship to body, food, and movement, the normality of body negativity vs the taboo nature of body positivity, separating the act of overeating and living in a larger body, the Poodle Science theory, the health-focused paradigm of the Health at Every Size® (HAES) approach, addressing weight bias and stigma in individuals living in larger bodies, HAES in the context of a weight neutral, public health approach, the dangers of a $72 billion weight loss industry, fears of living in a fat body, the physical and mental before and after effects of weight loss surgery, and much more!

CONNECT WITH BRI:
• Get to know Bri here and by visiting her website bodyimagewithbri.com
• Learn about Bri’s services here
◦ Body Grievers Group - save your spot on the waitlist
◦ Body Image Supervision Cohort - reserve your spot on the waitlist
◦ 90-min Intensives for Providers
◦ Guest Coaching & Q&A Presentations
• Follow Bri on Instagram (@bodyimagewithbri)
• Listen to the “Body Image with Bri” podcast
• Listen to more of Bri in:
◦ “Body-Image Healing and Body Grief with Brianna Campos” for the Food Psych Podcast
◦ “Everyone is Welcome in the Intuitive Eating Community with Brianna Campos” for the Intuitive Bites Podcast
◦ “How To Stop a Bad Body Image Day in Its Tracks w/ Brianna Campos” for the Listen to Your Body Podcast
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In this episode, I am joined by Gena Hamshaw, MS, RD, recovered food blogger, recipe developer, cookbook author, and registered dietitian with nearly ten years of experience in nutrition counseling. Through her blog “The Full Helping,” Gena has created a space to find nourishing vegan recipes, reflections on mindfulness and self care, and resources to help you explore an informed and compassionate relationship with food. It’s Gena’s hope that this online space will offer permission to celebrate your appetites, one recipe at a time.

Join us for a conversation about Veganism and values, the non-linear recovery journey, the short term challenges and long term benefits of recovery, how Veganism can mask eating disorder behaviors, eating paradigms as an expression of motivation, flexibility in “balanced eating” (like cake for breakfast), and much more!

CONNECT WITH GENA:
• Get to know Gena by visiting her website thefullhelping.com
• Email Gena directly to inquire about her Nutrition Counseling Services approach and rates
• Take a look at Gena’s published works
• Follow Gena on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
• Check out Gena’s blog “The Full Helping” and view categories below:
╴Recipes
╴Nutrition
╴Well Being
╴Food & Healing
╴Weekend Reading
╴Lifestyle
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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. Visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center to learn more. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

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In this episode, I am joined by Jaclyn Bendt, CPT, a non-diet Registered Dietitian to be and a certified personal trainer studying medical dietetics at The Ohio State University. After struggling with an eating disorder herself, Jaclyn is passionate about using what she has learned in recovery to help others find freedom with food, peace with their bodies, and how to pursue enjoyable movement without obsession. Along with her schooling and coaching, Jaclyn is also the host of the “Bits of Balance” podcast.

Join us for a conversation about navigating potential triggers when entering the eating disorder field as a newly recovered person, how genetic factors predispose one to engage in eating disorder behaviors, approaching disordered thoughts with curiosity (as opposed to judgement), aligning thoughts and actions with values, vulnerability, finding healthy motivation for movement in recovery, making room for joyful movement, and much more!

CONNECT WITH JACLYN:
• Learn more about Jaclyn here
• Discover Jaclyn’s “1:1 Fitness and Nutrition Coaching”
• Subscribe to Jaclyn’s email list
• Follow Jaclyn on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram
• Listen to “Bits of Balance” on Apple and Spotify

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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. Visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center to learn more. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

Interested in being a guest on the show? If so, please fill out our brief application form to start the process.