Welcome back to The Eating Disorder Diaries! This episode focuses on building a vision board to kick off a year of setting goals to drive success in your recovery journey. Join your host Amy Goeckel as she shares her journey from 2024, including her wedding, navigating grief, career changes, and setting the tone for the new year. 

In This Episode:

• Life Updates: 2024 was crazy - Amy talks marriage, love, loss, and growth.
• January Goal: Why creating a vision board is transformative for recovery and mental wellness, with insights into the science behind visualization.
• Special Guest: Merrit Elizabeth, a recovery coach, shares how vision boards can empower recovery and how to create one.

Key Takeaways:

1. Why Vision Boards Work: Learn about the neuroscience of visualization, including the Reticular Activating System and how it enhances focus and motivation.
2. Practical Steps: Tips for designing a vision board tailored to your goals in recovery, mental health, and life.
3. Building Momentum: Questions to reflect on as you pursue this month’s goal and how to stay accountable throughout the year.

Follow Along:
Join the journey on Instagram @theeatingdisorderdiaries for updates, inspiration, and to share your progress. Follow Merrit on Instagram @merritelizabeth

Next Steps:

• Build your vision board and share it with Amy on Instagram!
• Reflect on this month’s goal: What have you learned, and how will you incorporate it into your life moving forward?

Welcome back to Season 2 of The Eating Disorder Diaries. Host Amy Goeckel is back to set 10 transformational monthly goals with you in 2025, helping you reset and move forward in your recovery journey. She'll be reflecting on her monthly goal progress alongside with you, helping keep you accountable and excited about uncovering your untapped potential in eating disorder recovery.

Follow along on Instagram @theeatingdisorderdiaries

If you want someone to talk to or are interesting in collaborating, email Amy at [email protected]

This episode is in memory of my dad, Chris Goeckel. He was taken from us unexpectedly at 64 years old, right before my wedding.

I don't know where I would be in this grief journey without the tools I have acquired in my eating disorder recovery, so in this episode I discuss what's helped me and what I've learned about grief these past few months.

I also give a tribute to my dad. My wonderful and larger than life dad who loved his family with every fiber of his being. While he will be deeply missed, we will always carry him with us and his parenting, legacy, and love lives on through his family.

We love you forever dad, and forever never ends.

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The Season Finale of Season 1 of The Eating Disorder Diaries is upon us. Sit down with Amy in Entry 22 and hear clips from her favorite entries: Ones she learned from, ones she loved, and hear about themes she picked up along the way. 

Entries referenced in today's episode:

• Entry 3 with Amy's parents
• Entry 4 with Amy's therapist, Cindy White
• Entry 6 with Lydia and Sabrina of The Eating Disorder Foundation
• Entry 7 with Chris Castellani
• Entry 13 with Merrit Elizabeth and Sarah Lee
• Entry 15 with Registered Dietitian, Caroline Thomason
• Entry 16 with Lucy Sayah of Project BLACKBIRD
• Entry 18 with holistic nutritionist and cancer survivor, Cindy Spratt
• Entry 19 with holisitic nutritionist, Angela Magill
• Entry 21 with the CEO of BALANCE, Melainie Rogers

If you want someone to talk to or are interested in collaborating, email Amy at [email protected].

Thank you to Conquering Bulimia for sponsoring today's episode. Sign up for Sarah Lee and Merrit Elizabeth's Conquering Bulimia course at www.conqueringbulimia.com

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In Entry 21, meet Melainie Rogers: the founder and CEO of BALANCE Eating Disorder Treatment Center, Melainie Rogers Nutrition LLC, and Redefining Wellness LLC. Melainie is here to talk about her own personal journey with eating disorder recovery and how that led her to dedicate her life to supporting others and helping them achieve long term recovery. Amy and Melainie dive into her company BALANCE and how this eating disorder treatment center distinguishes itself by focusing on smaller treatment groups, implementing Inuitive Eating and Health at Every Size approaches, and really focus on the individual and their unique treatment.  Their team is passionate about helping you find ways to recover on your terms and using the most cutting edge techniques and research to help you get there.

Links from today's episode:

• Discover more about BALANCE at https://balancedtx.com/ and on Instagram @balancedtx
• Find Melainie online at https://www.melainierogers.com/ and on Instagram @melainie_rogers_nutrition
• Melainie's recommendation is the book Peace of Mind: Becoming Fully Present by Thich Nhat Hanh

If you want someone to talk to or are interested in collaborating, email Amy at [email protected].

Thank you to Conquering Bulimia for sponsoring today's episode. Sign up for Sarah Lee and Merrit Elizabeth's Conquering Bulimia course at www.conqueringbulimia.com

Sign up to start your own podcast today and get a $20 credit with Buzzsprout (and support the show!) here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=2092163

Join Amy for a solo episode in Entry 20 to talk about ways to combat binge eating during the holiday season. Amy walks you through a day in the life of her recovery - starting with sharing a meditation and journal sesh together and spending the day together fighting any thoughts that come up. She shares tools and tricks that help her fight any negative thoughts that pop into her head, and also shares some of her favorite Thanksgiving recipes. Happy holidays everyone!

Links from today's episode:

• Guided Meditation for Overthinking ~ You Are Not Your Thoughts (Great Meditation)
• Do some MadFit pajama workouts with me here.
• Watch Jason's short film Lenny here and follow him on Instagram @birthmarkproductions.

If you want someone to talk to or are interested in collaborating, email Amy at [email protected].

Thank you to Conquering Bulimia for sponsoring today's episode. Sign up for Sarah Lee and Merrit Elizabeth's Conquering Bulimia course at www.conqueringbulimia.com

Sign up to start your own podcast today and get a $20 credit with Buzzsprout (and support the show!) here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=2092163

In Entry 19, Holistic Nutrionist Angela Magill joins Amy for a journal sesh to talk about her 18 year battle with bulimia and her life in recovery. She offers 1-1 nutrition & lifestyle support, guidance to help alleviate stress, depression, and anxiety, and knowledge and empowerment to help you go from feeling overwhelmed and hopeless to feeling in control, confident, and energetic. Angela emphasizes that eating disorders aren't about food and that food can be used as a major tool and catalyst in eating disorder recovery. She shares her experience with supplements, studying as a nutrionist, and her break down to break through moment to help her get to a point of recovery.  

Links from today's episode:

• Follow Angela on Instagram @nutrition_with_angela
• Angela's website: https://www.nutritionwithangela.com

Articles referenced in the episode:

• Hopkins Medicine
• ANAD.org

If you want someone to talk to or are interested in collaborating, email Amy at [email protected].

Thank you to Conquering Bulimia for sponsoring today's episode. Sign up for Sarah Lee and Merrit Elizabeth's Conquering Bulimia course at www.conqueringbulimia.com

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In Entry 18, Amy sits down with Cindy Spratt, a holistic nutritionist who is real food based, specializing in eating psychology, eating disorders, body image, and culinary & functional nutrition. Cindy's story is fascinating and inspiring: now a mom to a 15 year old son living her purpose to serve others who have struggled with disordered eating and body image, Cindy talks about her own past with growing up with an obsession of being thin that quickly turned into a full-fledged eating disorder. After being diagnosed with cancer in her early 30s, she turned a completely new leaf and started her journey of non-stop learning, healing, and teaching others what she has learned. She's also celebrating 13+ years being cancer free, and is an absolute gem of a human to listen to and learn from.

Links from today's episode:

• Follow Cindy on Instagram @cindysprattnutrition
• Cindy's website: https://www.cindyspratt.com/

If you want someone to talk to or are interested in collaborating, email Amy at [email protected].

Thank you to Conquering Bulimia for sponsoring today's episode. Sign up for Sarah Lee and Merrit Elizabeth's Conquering Bulimia course at www.conqueringbulimia.com

Sign up to start your own podcast today and get a $20 credit with Buzzsprout (and support the show!) here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=2092163

Meet Julia Parzyck: an eating disorder recovery coach who has a passion to educate others to live a life outside of diet culture, to be aware of media manipulation, and to embrace their true selves. Julia sits down with Amy to talk about her own personal experience with eating disorder recovery, the eating disorder recovery support groups she runs, and how she manages to stay true to herself in stressful times - even going through a public break up. We absolutely love her!

Links from today's episode:

• Follow Julia on Instagram @fitfatandall that
• Email Julia to learn more about her support groups at [email protected]
• Julia's website: fitfatandallthat.com
• Julia's recommendation: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris

If you want someone to talk to or are interested in collaborating, email Amy at [email protected].

Thank you to Conquering Bulimia for sponsoring today's episode. Sign up for Sarah Lee and Merrit Elizabeth's Conquering Bulimia course at www.conqueringbulimia.com

Sign up to start your own podcast today and get a $20 credit with Buzzsprout (and support the show!) here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=2092163

In Entry 16, Amy sits down with Lucy Sayah of PROJECT BLACKBIRD to discuss the project. From touring and screening the BLACKBIRD film (a short video about life in eating disorder treatment centers) throughout colleges in the United States, to providing a platform for those to discuss eating disorders and mental health conversation within underrepresented communities, their mission is to connect audiences of different communities to rid themselves of shame surrounding mental health. Lucy also discusses her personal experience with overcoming anorexia while attending Northwestern University and shares her own recovery tips.

Links from today's episode:

• Follow Lucy on Instagram @lucysayah
• Following Project Blackbird on Instagram @ProjectBlackbirdFilm
• Follow Project Blackbird on their website here. 

If you want someone to talk to or are interested in collaborating, email Amy at [email protected].

Thank you to Conquering Bulimia for sponsoring today's episode. Sign up for Sarah Lee and Merrit Elizabeth's Conquering Bulimia course at www.conqueringbulimia.com

Sign up to start your own podcast today and get a $20 credit with Buzzsprout (and support the show!) here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=2092163