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Episode 47: Special New Year's This Week's Digest

Catherine and Francis take a moment to reflect on how to approach the new year, and all the harmful language around body, food, and health often associated with it. It’s been a challenging year for many, and whether you are a person who creates resolutions or intentions, as we turn the page on 2020, give yourself permission to create space to offer yourself self-compassion and self-care. Most importantly, be kind to yourself this year – you deserve it.

Episode 45, Part 2: Misti Anderson talks finding support in unlikely places and the intersection of EDs and substance and alcohol use

Welcome back! In Part Two of Catherine and Francis’s conversation with Misti Anderson – a contributor to Catherine’s book Hope for Recovery: Stories of Healing from Eating Disorders – Misti discusses how support in uncommon or unlikely places (in her case, a colleague with their own challenging experiences) can often help remain or get back on the road to recovery; talks about the intersection of eating disorders and alcohol and substance use disorders; and shares her thoughts on what folks seeking recovery should know about the journey ahead. Enjoy!

Episode 45, Part 1: Misti Anderson (she/hers), contributor to Hope for Recovery: Stories of Healing from Eating Disorders joins the podcast

Welcome to Episode 45 of Eating Disorders, Navigating Recovery! As always, we’re grateful for your listenership and interest in this important topic. We’re thrilled to introduce Misti Anderson, who joins the program with a story of struggle, recovery, and hope. Misti is a former chemistry teacher and currently works in science ethics and policy. In her teens she struggled with bulimia and began her recovery while in college. She found a reasonably healthy plateau that sustained her for a decade before meeting a friend who would change her recovery forever and help her continue her journey toward deeper understanding, forgiveness, and a much healthier self-awareness. She continues this work still.

In this first part of our conversation with Misti, she walks us through how her experience with an eating disorder began and what maintained her need to use maladaptive behaviors. She takes time to discuss how eating disorders – as a disease – are not about will power and choice, but about creating more sustainable habits that will help create a foundation upon which to live a meaningful and joyful life. Enjoy!

Episode 44: This Weeks' Digest

In this week’s digest, Catherine and Francis reflect on their conversation with Dr. Kim Daniels, Dr. Kim Daniels, a licensed clinical psychologist and online coach with practices in Hartford, Connecticut. The co-hosts explore further about the differences between “overeating”, emotional eating, and binge eating, and discuss how subjective binges differ from objective binges and ultimately how these experiences may impact the support received. Finally, in an effort to shift the typically negatively-oriented focus on emotional eating, Catherine and Francis share the joy they experience in emotional eating with family and friends — an experience that is allowed to be enjoyed!

Episode 43, Part 1: Dr. Kim Daniels (she/hers), licensed clinical psychologist, breaks down emotional eating, “overeating”, and binge eating

On this episode, Catherine and Francis are joined by Dr. Kim Daniels, a licensed clinical psychologist and online coach with practices in Hartford, Connecticut. In both practices, Kim works with women who are struggling with emotional eating, “overeating”, and binge eating. She has been working with such women for 20 years now, and continues to be passionate about helping women to change their relationship with food, their bodies, and themselves.

Kim talks with EDNR about the nuanced language within the binge/overeating spectrum of disordered eating, the body positivity movement, and provides space to critically think about how emotional eating can be a healthy (and for some a necessary) part of our relationships with food. Enjoy!

Episode 42: This Week's Digest

In this digest episode, Francis and Catherine reflect on their conversation with Marla Mervis-Hartmann about healing from disordered eating and movement to find body acceptance and love. Catherine shares the freeing experience of participating in dance classes outside during the pandemic without mirrors. Francis explores the concepts of body neutrality, body positivity, body acceptance, and body liberation and the ways in which people approach their bodies from within different frameworks. They also discuss the value of using multiple modalities to find healing.

Episode 41, Part 2: Marla Mervis-Hartmann talks about creating Love Your Body Love Yourself, and offers thoughts on the road to recovery

In the second part of this episode, Marla Mervis-Hartmann — founder and creator of the “Love Your Body Love Yourself” speaking series, workshops, and coaching programs — shares how she helps clients through their journeys to learning to love their bodies. She looks beyond low self-esteem to dig deep with clients, helping them tap into their fears, childhood experiences and traumas, and their deep-seated feelings about themselves.

She also addresses the ways in which people feel pressure from social media and other cultural influences and use those influences to justify disordered behaviors. At the end of the conversation, Marla provides guidance for people who are struggling to find a way out of body hatred and unsustainable behaviors.

Episode 41, Part 1: Marla Mervis-Hartmann (she/hers) shares how she learned to listen, love, and care for herself from a loving place

In the first of this two-part episode, Marla Mervis-Hartmann — founder and creator of the “Love Your Body Love Yourself” speaking series, workshops, and coaching programs — shares her journey experiencing a dysfunctional body-relationship and eating disorder, and how surrendering to a higher power and constantly reframing negative thinking (along with other techniques) helped propel her towards a recovered life. Marla describes herself as a woman, a mother, a friend, a sister, a wife, a teacher, a former body and food obsess-er, and present time lover of love and life. We’re grateful she joined the podcast!

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