Recovery Bites

This week, Karin welcomes Whitney Trotter and Angela Goens, in, "BIPoC Eating Disorders Conference 2023." “Black, Brown, and Indigenous People of Color have often been excluded from eating disorder treatment, employment, advocacy, and research. If treatment is able to be accessed it often leaves out the intersection of one’s identity, culture and trauma.” Designed to disrupt and dismantle the status quo for eating disorder care, Whitney Trotter and Angela Goens will be hosting the second BIPoC Virtual Eating Disorders Conference July 19th through July 22, 2023, for Black, Indigenous, and any Person of Color (PoC). Register here and follow @bipoc.eatingdisorders for updates. Whitney Trotter, MS, RDN/LDN, RN, RYT is a Registered Dietitian and RN, Anti-racism Educator/Consultant and Human Trafficking Activist. With a mission to develop BIPoC-centered care, Whitney offers consultations and training for those looking to become more informed in their treatment and support for BIPoC clients suffering with disordered eating/eating disorders & trauma. Angela Goens, MS, RDN, LD works with clients to explore their relationship with food in connection with their body as they navigate systems of oppression via years of experience, education and understanding, by using a whole-person, weight inclusive, body positive lens.

This week, Karin welcomes Kaitlin Shimer, MSW, LCSW, eating disorder therapist at KLEDC, to the show for, "Acting Towards Our Values." Join us as we explore the false belief that multiple treatment stays are an indicator of helplessness, the intersection of eating disorders, ADHD, and substance abuse, peer-to-peer healing, the complexities of eating disorder recovery and food allergies, the function of avoidance, “symptom swapping,” the benefit of Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT), and much more. Kaitlin Shimer, MSW, LCSW is an eating disorder therapist at the Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center, located in Boston, MA. She has worked in the eating disorder field for over nine years, with experience as a residential counselor, group leader, and recovery coach for eating disorder clients from all backgrounds. Kaitlin uses the insight gained in her past work combined with her own lived experience to compassionately show up for her clients. Kaitlin strongly believes in every individual's ability to recover and live a life they genuinely value. She works with clients of all ages, though does have a special place working with adolescents. Kaitlin is passionate about trauma-informed care, ACT, DBT, and body-based interventions. Learn more about Kaitlin. Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Kate Kendall, one of Australia’s most well-respected yoga teachers, to the show for, "The Space Between." Join us for a discussion on the ways eating disorders weave through one’s life, little T trauma vs big T trauma, how shame can leave one imprisoned, the healing that comes with sharing shame, the difference between being “well” and being “healthy,” the innate need for support and connection, and much more. Passionate about teaching the art of slowing down through yoga, meditation and writing, and one of Australia's most well-respected yoga teachers, Kate Kendall is the Co-Founder and Director of Yoga at Flow Athletic in Sydney. She's also the author of, "Life in Flow: Inspiration, Sequences and Poses to Bring Yoga into Your Everyday Life," where Kate shares her advice and experiences here about the vast benefits of "living in the flow." Outside of teaching classes at her studio and internationally, Kate, having survived a 27 year-long eating disorder, feels most recently pulled to sharing her own experience with others facing self-esteem and body confusion in the hope that we can heal together. Learn more by visiting @activeyogi on Instagram. Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, MEd, psychotherapist, international, award-winning 8-book author, and popular blogger, to the show for, "Words to Eat By." Join us for a discussion on courage and perseverance in recovery, external motivators and internal motivators, the notion of “wanting” and the challenges it can pose for those with eating disorders, the concepts of “reality” and “recall,” the importance of finding a sense of self in recovery, self-care versus self-caring and much more! Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is a psychotherapist, international, award-winning 8-book author, and popular blogger. Her books and blogs are known for their humor and practical wisdom. She has 30-plus years of experience in the field of eating psychology, teaching chronic dieters and emotional, binge, and over-eaters to become “normal” eaters through using a non-diet, non-weight focused approach to eating intuitively and creating joyous, healthy, meaningful lives. Her media experience includes scores of TV, radio, print, and podcast interviews. Karen lives and practices in Sarasota, Florida, where she provides in-person and online therapy. Learn more at karenrkoenig.com. Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Jessica Grosman, MS, RD, LDN, RYT-500, Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Yoga Teacher, to the show for, "Dropping Into Your Body." Tune in for a discussion on the shift from disordered eating to an eating disorder, the challenges that arise when disengaging from dieting, identifying disordered eating in a diet-focused culture, how yoga is more than a physical practice, the importance of self-compassion, the BYB model, and more! Jessica Grosman, MS, RD, LDN, RYT-500 is an experienced weight-inclusive Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Yoga Teacher. Her patient-focused nutrition therapy centers on helping individuals re-establish a comfortable connection with food and body, most often after years of living in Diet Culture. Jessica is a member of ASDAH and uses HAES principles in her compassionate care. Jessica is a faculty member of Yoga for Eating Disorders and Befriending Your Body Certified Professional; where she guides the virtual group recovery program helping individuals recover from the traumas of years of disordered eating behaviors. Passionate about disentangling Diet Culture from yoga, Jessica’s mission is to help practitioners preserve the sanctity of yoga. Click here to view Jessica’s offerings. Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Emma Moody, eating disorder recovery coach, to the show for, "The Art of Untangling." Tune in for a discussion on choices rooted in self-hatred and limitations versus choices rooted in healing, disambiguating your illness from yourself, self-empowerment goals, sifting through the messiness in recovery, how body standards create mistrust in ourselves, the entertainment industry’s body standards, acting and art in recovery, and more! Emma Moody, of SonderSelf Recovery, guides those struggling with their soul embodiment to see themselves, and their journey and open their mind to find compassion for their body and soul. Emma is a CCI certified Eating Disorders Coach with over three years of coaching experience working with clients all over the world. After struggling with eating disorders for more than half of her life, Emma eventually leaned into her gifts of empathy, and intuitive guidance to take it a step further by integrating her recovery lessons with clients of her own. Through lived experience and a humanistic lens, Emma helps hold space for the humanness of others while offering a place to feel safe and seen. Click here to learn more about working with Emma. Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Courtney Gioia, mindset and body image coach, to the show for, "Joyful Movement." Tune in to learn the meaning of Loyobo, taking off the pressure of fitness, the ways poor body image messages are relayed to children, exercise as “punishment,” the notion that being smaller makes one desirable, defining body positivity, how movement is not “one size fits all,” and more. Inspired by her own health journey and struggles around body image, Courtney Gioia became an ACE Certified Fitness Professional where she learned how broken views are towards women's bodies and how the formula the fitness industry presents as "the answer" keeps us stuck in a cycle of shame, guilt and self-blame. Making it her mission to help others learn that they are more than a body and have the power to define health for themselves, she created Loyobo, a virtual community dedicated to helping women ditch diet culture, find joy in movement, and learn to love their body. She recently launched Love Your Body, a 12-week coaching program to help others create a vision of health and wellness that works in real life, right now. Join the waitlist here Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Melissa A. Fabello, PhD, sex and relationships educator, to the show for, ”Skin Hunger.” Tune in for a discussion on the intersection of eating disorders and sexuality, how a woman’s sexuality is “stolen” from them, restricting sexuality, understanding the full-scope of sexuality in client work, the Five Circles of sexuality, touch at all ages, the concept of Skin Hunger, political values, and more! Melissa A. Fabello, PhD is a board-certified life coach who specializing in sex and relationships, as well as author and digital creator, who uses her backgrounds in educational development, holistic life coaching, and sexology to help one be in right relationship to themselves and others through clarifying one’s values, building new relational skills, and owning one’s truth. As a queer-femme, Melissa believes in the power of community care, which her work is rooted in. In Melissa’s various educational work, through social media, workshops and support groups, writing, and coaching, she makes it her goal to warmly, but firmly invite others into conversations around sexual and relational wellness that prioritize values alignment within a liberationist, abolitionist framework. Learn about "Appetite: Sex, Touch, and Desire in Women with Anorexia" Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Jennifer DAmato, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and coach, to the show for, ”The Intuitive Eating Mama.” Tune in for a discussion on how diet culture imprisons society, the dangers of marketing healing as “health and wellness”, eating disorders and sex drive, raising intuitive eating children, the implications of the “clean your plate” method, allowing unconditional permission to eat, removing food and diet talk, especially around children, and much more. Jennifer D'Amato is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and coach specializing in helping others reconnect with their body, make peace with food, and redefine their health to allow one to walk away from diet culture and embrace all life has to offer. This includes relearning what your body needs, reconnecting with your body's biological signals, and redefining what health is on your terms. Jennifer offers both private and group coaching from an anti-diet approach and also incorporates the principles of Health at Every Size® (HAES) into her practice to help implement the principles of intuitive eating and heal your relationship with food and body. You can also listen to Jennifer on her podcast, “The Intuitive Eating Mama." Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Rachel Harvest, MS, RDN, CDN, registered dietitian, behavioral health specialist, personal coach, and Pilates apparatus instructor, to the show for, ”A Recipe for Loving Yourself.” Listen to a discussion on the four pillars of “self” that comprise The Harvest Method, the role of connecting to and understanding self on the healing journey, shifting from “not/either” to “both/and” to achieve balanced living, self-empowering through “I don’t know,” Project: Love, Me, one mindedness versus multitasking, growing up in ballet and the culture that comes with, and much more. Rachel Harvest, MS, RDN, CDN is a registered dietitian, behavioral health specialist, personal coach and Pilates apparatus instructor practicing in NYC. A former professional ballet dancer, Rachel danced through most of her 20s, becoming a certified Pilates Apparatus in 2007, to support her transition out of the dance world. Both ballet and Pilates taught her a keen understanding of anatomy and physiology and movement. She awakened a reverence for her body and its capabilities. Rachel got trained in functional nutrition, dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, incorporating mindfulness and mind-body practices into behavioral health coaching for her clients. Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Jacquelyn Ekern, MS, LPC, founder and licensed therapist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, to the show for, ”Eating Disorder Hope.” Tune in for a discussion on finding meaning in suffering, what happens when one’s external image does not align with their internal sense of self, feeling “whole,” treating eating disorders and substance abuse simultaneously, the changing family dynamic, how to recognize strides towards recovery, and more! Jacquelyn Ekern, MS, LPC is the President of Ekern Enterprises, Inc and licensed therapist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. After recovering from her eating disorder, Jacquelyn found herself driven by a profound desire to help those struggling, she founded Eating Disorder Hope, and later, Addiction Hope. Jacquelyn holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services from The University of Phoenix and Master’s degree in Counseling/Psychology, from Capella University. She has extensive experience in the eating disorder field including advanced education in psychology, participation, and contributions to additional eating disorder groups, symposiums, and professional associations. She is a member of the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED), the Eating Disorders Coalition (EDC) and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp). Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Virgie Tovar, author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity, to the show for, ”You Have the Right to Remain Fat.” Tune in for a discussion on fat discrimination and oppression from diet culture, dissecting the meaning of fat phobia, weight discrimination facts, the ways body size shapes gender roles and stigma, self-hatred as a barrier to finding self-love, recovering from fat phobia in a culture steeped in stigma, behind-the-scenes of her 2018 TedX talk, and more! Virgie Tovar is an author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity. She holds a Master’s degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. She is a contributor for Forbes where she covers the plus-size market and how to end weight discrimination at work. In 2018, she gave a TedX talk on the origins of her #LoseHateNotWeight campaign. Virgie is the author of "You Have the Right to Remain Fat", "The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color", "The Body Positive Journal", and host of "Rebel Eaters Club". Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, Karin welcomes Gloria Lucas (she/her), eating disorder awareness activist and founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride, to the show for our newest episode, "Harm-Reduction Education Isn't Optional." Tune in to for a discussion on how the BIPOC community is left out of ED treatment and access, the strategies of harm-reduction aimed to reduce negative consequences, how harm-reduction offers safety, challenging the realities of one’s political and values system, harm-reduction as a tool for radical love for and from the community, reducing the stigma of harm-reduction through medical literacy and advocacy, the Eating Disorder Harm-Reduction Course, and more! Gloria Lucas is an eating disorders awareness activist that specializes in intersectional eating disorders education and resources that transform the lives of BIPOC individuals and expand eating disorders treatment models. Being the founder and CEO of Nalgona Positivity Pride, she is able to raise awareness through digital media, public speaking, and grassroots activism. Enroll in Gloria’s "Eating Disorder Harm-Reduction Course," a comprehensive EDHR course for eating disorder and care providers, to gain tools, inspiration, and support while adopting a harm-reduction framework that suits you and the communities you serve. Begin your healing journey with KLEDC

This week, join Karin for Bite No. 4 where she speaks to listeners about New Year’s Resolutions. “Resolve. Relapse. Repeat. Continue. Sounds like an eating disorder, doesn’t it?” Have a question to ask Karin? Submit a bite: • Direct Message us on Instagram* • Email us directly* We also wanted listeners to know that we will be taking a break from new releases during the month of January. We will be returning with new episodes, great guests, more bites, beginning Monday, February 06, 2023. Begin your healing journey with Karin and her team now!

This week, Karin sits down with Andy Williams, LMFT, MBA in our newest episode, ”Person-Centered Recovery.” Tune in to for a discussion on receiving care from a provider without lived-experience, the influence of a male provider, harnessing one’s inner power, finding balance in recovery, and human first, therapist second therapy practice. Begin your healing journey with Karin and her team now!

This week, Karin sits down with Vanessa Scaringi, PhD, CEDS and Kathryn Garland, LCSW-S, co-owners of CALM Counseling, in our newest episode (and first sprinkle), ”Relational Ramblings.” Visit keepcalmatx.com and follow @calmcounselingatx on Instagram for more. Begin your healing journey with Karin and her team now!

This week, Karin welcomes Imogen Barnes, social work student and advocate, to the show for our newest episode, “Empowered Recovery.” Tune in to learn about the OCD and eating disorder “perfect storm,” social media triggers, the fat phobic messages regarding weight and medication use, ways to be an active participant in your recovery, finding wholeness outside of the vessel of an eating disorder, overcoming weight biases from a treatment provider, and much more! Throughout her childhood, Imogen Barnes lived with debilitating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. At the 16, Imogen’s obsessive behavior pivoted away from contamination fears and towards food and body, marking the beginning of her eating disorder journey. During a treatment stay, Imogen began producing social media content that inspired her to pursue recovery and, before she knew it, she was motivating an entire community to heal their relationship with food and body. Since then, Imogen has engaged in various treatment interventions, finding a steady place of lasting recovery, while discovering her passion for connecting people with authenticity and empowering others to pursue life beyond suppression. Begin your healing journey with Karin and her team now!

This week, Karin welcomes Jules Xenakis, transformational recovery coach, to the show for our newest episode, “Peeling Back the Layers of Suffering with Jules Xenakis.” Tune in to learn about how suffering can be a launch pad for personal growth, finding meaning in suffering, pressures to “grow up” in a competitive environment, allowing space and time to process difficult emotions, the use of psychedelics for healing and creating new neuropathways, and the importance of trust between clients and treatment providers. Jules Xenakis' is the Director of Partnerships and a Transformational Recovery Coach for the coaching company Being True To You. Jules works primarily with teenagers and young adults who have previously been diagnosed with things such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and substance use, all of which were components of her own healing journey. Jules draws on her own experience of eating disorder recovery, which she struggled with for ten years before gaining food freedom and learn to love herself, using it as an asset in her current work. Her mission is to help people transform out of the addictive attachments keeping them tethered to suffering, with the belief that suffering holds valuable life lessons.

This week, Karin welcomes Tamie Gangloff, MA, MFT, marriage and family therapist and recovery coach specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, addiction and trauma, to the show in, “Healing Journey(s).” Tune in to learn about the intersection of eating disorders, trauma, chronic pain, and substance abuse, the freedom that can come with a diagnosis, sobriety’s role in recovery, the importance of safe space to work through trauma, the difference between “body image” and “body image disturbance,” and more! Tamie Gangloff, MA, MFT is a marriage and family therapist and marketing professional with a specialty in the treatment of eating disorders, addiction and trauma. She is an advocate with the Eating Disorders Coalition, President of Southwest Philly IAEDP (International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals) and is on the board of SOSORT (International Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment). Tamie earned her Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, and has held many positions in the eating disorder field including private practice, outreach, clinician in residential treatment and is currently the Director of Field Marketing and Events at Monte Nido. Tamie utilizes her personal and professional experience to help others and advocate for change and offer support to others.

Join Karin for Bite No. 3, from her Q&A series, “Behind the Recovery Bite” where she addresses listener questions about recovery fatigue and long-term recovery. “It’s hard sometimes to remain hopeful for full recovery when recovery isn’t linear, and it can go on for over 10, 15, or more years. Advice on why a person shouldn’t give up? Please speak to the fact that some people never recover fully. How does one know when it’s time to settle for semi recovery?” “What is your advice for people who have been struggling with an eating disorder for 10 or more years?” “Can you speak about recovery fatigue?” Have a question to ask Karin? Submit a bite: • Direct Message us on Instagram* • Email us directly* Begin your healing journey with Karin and her team now! *Please include “Bite” in the first/subject line