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].

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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].

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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].

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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

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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

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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

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Welcome Caroline Thomason, the first registered dietitian to be featured on The Eating Disorder Diaries. Amy and Caroline discuss the association between trauma and eating disorders/disorded eating and draw parallels to Amy's story and Caroline's day-to-day that she sees with her clients. We pick Caroline's brain on all the things - should I be fasting? Can that even help? Why do I get so bloated sometimes and what should I do about that? How can I get out of the cycle of disordered eating? Tune in to hear more!

Find Caroline at:

• Her website: https://carolinethomason.com/
• Instagram: @dieticiancaroline_

Caroline's recommendations:

• The Body Image Workbook
• Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

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It's been a minute since we've introduced ourselves. In Entry 14, Amy gives you a peek into her diary as a person in eating disorder recovery. From reading an actual entry from 3 years ago to spilling all of the life details: her upcoming wedding, half-marathons, Halloween parties, travel, you name it...she's dishing. Life as a recovered person isn't always easy, but even in the chaos, it's 100% worth it.  

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Get ready to be moved and encouraged by Merrit Elizabeth and Sarah Lee, two inspiring Certified Eating Disorder Coaches who not only have fully recovered from bulimia themselves and help others in their individual practices do the same, but have partnered up to create a first-of-its-kind intensive, private, online course called Conquering Bulimia. Merrit and Sarah openly share their friendship, healing stories, and many tips, like visualization and overcoming the urges of bulimia, that will help you in your recovery journey.

Links from today's episode:

• Find/Follow Merrit at https://merritelizabethrecovery.com/ and on Instagram @merritelizabeth
• Find/Follow Sarah at https://sarahleerecovery.com/ and on Facebook @sarahleerecovery
• Learn more about their online course at www.conqueringbulimia.com
• Take the pledge now at www.purgepledge.com
• Discover Sarah's Headway recommendation here.
• Find Merrit's Open app recommendation here and use code MERRITRECOVERY30 to get one month free!

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

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