Episode 10: This Week’s Digest
On This Week’s Digest, Catherine and Francis reflect on their conversation with Ethan and Kian from Trans Folx Fighting Eating Disorders, and the impact chosen families can have on recovery from an eating disorder.
On This Week’s Digest, Catherine and Francis reflect on their conversation with Ethan and Kian from Trans Folx Fighting Eating Disorders, and the impact chosen families can have on recovery from an eating disorder.
Awareness Is Not Enough. Implicit bias makes it acceptable to discriminate against people for race but also for size, sexual orientation, age, and abilities. You may have a hard time identifying with bias based on skin color, but maybe you’re in one of the other groups that have been discriminated against. Remember, if there isn’t justice for all, there won’t be justice for any.
Catherine and Francis reflect on the three part episode with Andrew Walen, Founder of the Body Image Therapy Center.
Andrew discusses gender ambivalence among eating disorder clinicians and shares his personal experience with an eating disorder, providing insights to those struggling with eating disorders and seeking recovery.
Andrew discusses what to look for in males experiencing eating disorder symptoms, and how eating disorder clinicians can better address the needs of black and non-black people of color struggling with eating disorders.
Andrew talks about the impact of the pandemic on eating disorder treatment, the surprising benefits of telehealth, and his passion for helping males with eating disorders.
In this episode, you will learn:
How impulsive behaviors around food are driven by deeper needs.
Why your journey to healing is sacred.
How do you build resilience?
How does your family’s dynamic affect your current food and body image issues?
In this video you will learn:
Four techniques to help yourself stabilize and avoid unwanted behaviors during stressful times
What makes Americans a beautiful people.
Why your experiences during this time can take you deeper into the work of your own recovery.
This week, Catherine interviews Francis to hear his perspective on the ways systemic racism impacts eating disorder assessments, diagnoses, and interventions.
Francis and Catherine cover a range of topics with VCU Psychologist Suzanne Mazzeo, including ways to manage anxiety around the pandemic and racial violence, eating disorders in communities of color, developing culturally competent assessments, and shifting to personalized medicine