In the episode Aimee Clements-Hadfield shares her story of how her experience with addiction in her family and great loss lead to her to make a big career change to become a therapist. Aimee talks about her passion for experiential therapy which gets clients out of their heads and into their bodies in order to heal. Aimee helps clients use creativity and spontaneity to help them live their most authentic lives. Aimee is quirky and real and fun. 

In this episode we learn from expert Amy Harman who talks about the difference between eating disorders and disordered eating. Amy shares how the small culturally acceptable comments about dieting and weight can be really harmful. We discuss how to ask friends and family for support in healing from eating disorders and poor body image. I ask Amy how to decrease the amount of mental and emotional real estate disordering eating and poor body image take up. She shares the process of digging deeper to find what the negative thoughts and disordered eating are really about. Amy shares about her online body image course: https://courses.therapynutshell.com/p/body-image-course/?affcode=514306_lm9hjutl

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In this episode I have a conversation with Jen Cope, LAMFT about her personal experience as a highly sensitive person (HSP), managing OCD and trichotillomania (hair pulling) and healing from trauma. Jen is an expert at looking at all the layers that effect mental health and she allows her personal experience to inform how she practices. I came away from this interview understanding myself better and feeling like I have a new friend, which is how I'm sure many of her clients feel!