Episode #91: Celebrating No-Diet Day with Anne Poirier and Kathryn Best

No-Diet Day was started 30 years ago by Mary Evans Young to promote body acceptance and size diversity. 

This is a day to increase the awareness of the harms of dieting and also invite people who have been dieting for most of their life to experiment with giving themselves a break from needing to follow food rules, weigh themselves and feel the pressure of needing to lose weight. 

Dieting does not offer long-term weight loss but instead robs people of mental and physical health. 

On the podcast, I had a panel conversation with Anne Poirier, Eating Disorder Specialist, and Kathryn Best, LCSW about why a non-diet lifestyle is so important, how diet culture impacts people’s relationship with food, and the cost of dieting. 

Learn more here https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/nodietday

You can connect with Anne Poirier here- https://shapingperspectives.com

and on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/annepoirier11/

You can connect with Kathryn Best here- https://www.newmeadowscounseling.com/

And on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/kathryn_best_lcsw/

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Episode #90: Feeling Empowered to Overcome Disordered Eating with Sara Gottfried

Sara Gottfried, LCSW, wrote her memoir, Full: A Memoir of Overcoming an Eating Disorder, to give people a raw view of how hard and challenging it is to be in recovery and how eating disorders hold  people back from living the way they want to live.

On the podcast, Sara shared how seeing other people feel neutral around food really inspired her to want freedom for herself. She also shared how she needed to choose recovery over and over because she didn’t want to go back to feeling isolated from her friends and loved ones. 

Connect with Sara:

www.saraelleng.com

Instagram: @sara_elleng  

To purchase Full: A Memoir of Overcoming an Eating Disorder  https://www.saraelleng.com/store

Episode #87: Passing Through the Discomforts of Eating Disorder Recovery with Karin Lewis

Karin Lewis, LMFT, CEDS, believes that everyone has an essence, an offering, and uniqueness that lives within them. 

On the podcast, Karin shares her story of recovery and why the complexity of eating disorders disconnects people from living from their own potential. 

Karin is passionate about offering those healing from eating disorders comprehensive and compassionate care that includes the integration of the patient's family and treatment team. She also shares how eating disorder patterns are isolating and how healing it is when people know they can ask for help and receive support.  Karin shares her personal stories of recovery and encourages those on their healing journey to know that recovery is hard, but they will pass through to the other side. 

The Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Recovery Center is expanding nationwide. Learn more here- Karinlewisedc.com

Connect with Karin @recoverybitespod @karinlewisedc