In this opening episode of Spoken Season 8, titled Hunger Isn’t Holy, poet and nurse practitioner Kate Earley introduces a new season centered on the lived experience of eating disorders—beyond the stereotypes, beyond the numbers, beyond the aesthetics.

With raw honesty and lyrical precision, Kate explores how disordered eating can become a language—especially for those whose pain was never translated, whose needs were silenced, and whose hunger was treated as something shameful. This season holds space for the complexities of recovery, body memory, trauma, and the quiet courage it takes to want something soft.

These are not polished recovery stories. They are survival stories.

Trigger Warning: This season contains themes related to eating disorders, starvation, religious imagery, childhood trauma, and medical neglect. Please listen with care.