The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

The scale: To weigh or not to weigh in recovery

In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to Bridget Whitlow about weighing in recovery

 

Bridget Whitlow, MS, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist that provides psychotherapy for adolescent and adult individuals, couples, families, and groups. Bridget has clinical expertise in the treatment of anxiety, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, LGBTQ, and self-criticism. To learn more about her

please visit: http://www.bridgetwhitlow.com/about/

HAES Series: Going deep with Deb Burgard

Deb Burgard, PhD, FAED* is a psychologist and activist from the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in concerns about body image, eating, weight stigma, and relationships. She is also one of the founders of the Health at Every Size(r) model, the original BodyPositive.com website, and the Show Me the Data listserv, building communities where people can find each other and the resources to resist weight stigma, especially in medical and psychological treatment.  Her activism includes working with healthcare providers to integrate an understanding of the social determinants of health and creating interventions that address structural oppression and support stigma resistance.  She can be found at conferences sparking impromptu dance parties in the pool. 

 

Fellow, Academy for Eating Disorders

 

Links: 

 

Poodle Science video                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H89QQfXtc-k

Review of HAES lit paper:          https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobe/2014/983495/

 

 www.sizediversityandhealth.org The Association for Size Diversity and Health.

 

"What Is Wrong with the War on Obesity?"   http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018772888

Why my eating disorder turned me into a grocery thief

Personal story time!

 

Not everyone who is suffering from long-term malnutrition turns to stealing, but I think it is a lot more prevalent than most people assume it is. It makes sense why a brain that believes resources are scarce would feel the need to take without giving anything away. 

In this podcast, I talk about my personal experience with kleptomania. 

Recovery Stories: Recovering despite weight stigma in eating disorder treatment

In this podcast Tabitha talks to Sarah Thompson about her recovery, and her journey into body positivity. We also discuss:

• Being queer and having an eating disorder
• Weight stigma in eating disorder treatment
• The Be Nourished retreat and certification 
• Recovery in an environment that encourages restriction and weight loss

Sarah Thompson is an eating disorder recovery coach, certified Body Trust® advocate, consultant and speaker.  As a recovery coach, she supports you on your eating disorder, disordered eating, and/or body image recovery journey. This includes if you want to ditch dieting. She supports you in healing your relationship with food and body in the ways that you want, at the pace that you want. Sarah will hold space for hope in your healing even if you can't imagine it yet. Sarah has a particular interest in the intersection of gender, sexuality, size, and eating disorders. 

 

For info about working with me, the group I mentioned, and my blog: www.resilientfatgoddess.com 

For the retreat I did: https://benourished.org/events-classes/ 

For the certification I did: https://benourished.org/trainings-post/body-trust-provider-certification-program/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/resilientfatgoddxss/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/resilientfatgoddess/ 

Dr Laura Hill: Motivation to Change in Anorexia Recovery

In this podcast Tabitha talks to Dr Laura Hill about motivation to change in anorexia recovery. But this time we're talking about motivation to change on the side of the clinician, rather than the patient. 

 

Link to Dr Laura Hill's book,"A Brain-Based Approach to Eating Disorder Treatment" --> http://www.brainbasedeatingdisorders.org/

 

About Dr Laura Hill

Dr. Laura Hill is the President & CEO of The Center for Balanced Living, a free standing not-for-profit organization that specializes in the education, treatment and research of eating disorders. Dr Hill is the recipient of Muskingum University Distinguished Service Award in 2014, the National Eating Disorders Association 2011 Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness and was a TEDx Columbus speaker in 2012. She is an original founder of the Academy for Eating Disorders in 1993 and was Director of what is now known as The National Eating Disorder Association from 1990 to 1994.

She is the lead author of the Family Eating Disorder Manual, 2012; and has conducted research and spoken internationally over the last 35 years.  She is a recipient of the national Feeding Hope award by NEDA, in collaboration with UCSD Eating Disorder and Research.

 

Find out more about Dr Laura Hill here: http://www.centerforbalancedliving.org/laura-hill/

 

 

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Dr G: Tummy Troubles in Eating Disorder Recovery

Tabitha talks to Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani about all things gastrointestinal in eating disorder recovery! We talk about bowel movements, irritable bowel syndrome, delayed gastric emptying, and so much more! 

 

 

Medical Minute Videos: 

Gastroparesis: https://youtu.be/ANke8zW_Uu8

Bloating: https://youtu.be/XAMplGpuO2Q
Metabolism: https://youtu.be/i27GwLaE3PQ

Blog Posts: 

The Unmeasurables of an Eating Disorder: http://www.gaudianiclinic.com/gaudiani-clinic-blog/2017/1/11/the-unmeasurables-of-an-eating-disorder

 

Cave Person Brain, Part 1: http://www.gaudianiclinic.com/gaudiani-clinic-blog/2017/7/31/cave-person-brain-part-1

 

Cave Person Brain, Part 2: http://www.gaudianiclinic.com/gaudiani-clinic-blog/2017/7/27/cave-person-part-2

 

Unzip Your Digestive Tract FromYour Emotional State: http://www.denverhealth.org/medical-services/acute-center-for-eating-disorders/acute-medical-mondays/article/unzip-your-digestive-tract-from-your-emotional-state-20328

Why Do I Swell Up?: Dehydration, Edema, and the Effects of Purging (Vomiting, Laxatives, and/or Diuretics): http://www.denverhealth.org/medical-services/acute-center-for-eating-disorders/acute-medical-mondays/article/e2809cwhy-do-i-swell-upe2809d-dehydration-edema-and-the-effects-of-purging-vomiting-laxatives-andor-diuretics-23148

 

How starvation works against metabolism: http://www.denverhealth.org/medical-services/acute-center-for-eating-disorders/acute-medical-mondays/article/test-article-18548

 

Gastroparesis: An often painful and dangerous eating disorder complication: http://www.denverhealth.org/medical-services/acute-center-for-eating-disorders/acute-medical-mondays/article/gastroparesis-an-often-painful-and-dangerous-eating-disorder-complication-18626

 

AED Guidelines: 

https://www.aedweb.org/index.php/education/eating-disorder-information/eating-disorder-information-13

Going Sane — exposing malpractice in the mental health industry

Lisa Sabey is the woman behind the documentary "Going Sane." In this podcast we talk about:

• Malpractice in the field of mental health
• Lack of accounability and assessment
• Low standards of care for patients
• The importance of using evidence based therapy and evidence based practice
• The importance of rapport, but the great importance of effective treatment
• The ways in which the mental health field has to change in order to catch up with the medical field. 

Watch Going Sane: http://goingsane.org/  (only $2.99 to buy and all proceeds go towards the making of documentaries like this!)

Over the last thirty years America has more than quadrupled its mental health spending and significantly increased the number of mental health professionals, yet many of the most common mental illnesses are on the rise. It seems strange that increased spending on mental health treatment is correlated with the growth of mental illness. But what if it’s not just a surprising correlation? What if the mental health industry is part of the problem?

 

We interviewed three families dealing with mental illness and many of the world’s leading experts to discovered that most mental health patients are receiving outdated and disproven treatments. Witness the state of mental health care in America through our new 65 minute documentary Going Sane.

Challenging intake guidelines — Dr Graham Redgrave

Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr Graham Redgrave about the research done at Johns Hopkins looking into higher weights and a faster rate of refeeding patients with Anorexia in an inpatient hospital setting. The conversation includes:

• Refeeding intakes, traditional expectations versus new developements
• Problems with low target weights
• Relapse prevention programs
• Lower rate of relaspe for patients who reach higher BMIs in treatment
• The case for higher caloric intakes once the risk of refeeding syndrome is past
• What refeeding syndrome is, and research around this
• How and when treatment fails patients. 
• Why we need to challenge the current guidelines pertraining to refeeding intakes

 

 

Link to the orginal study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25625572

 

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Dear Dietitian ... what we want you to know about treating Anorexia

In this podcast we hear from adults with Anorexia, parents of people with Anorexia, and dietiticans treating adults and children with Anorexia about their experiences with dietiticans in the field of eating disorders. This podcast is a mixture of Tabitha Farrar reading out notes sent in from listeners, and audio files from listeners that have been sent in. 

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Cynthia Bulik: Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa

In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to professor Cynthia Bulik about the research underpinning the genetic locus for Anorexia Nervosa. In this podcast we discuss:

• Past and present research on the genetics behind Anorexia Nervosa and other eating disorders
• Implications for treatment
• Anorexia Nervosa and OCD links
• History of Anorexia Nervosa back to the starving saints
• Importance of parents and family support in eating disorders
• Anorexia and energy deficit
• Anorexia and money
• Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa

Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., FAED, is Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is also Professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and founding director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders. She is also Co-Director of the UNC Center for Psychiatric Genomics. Dr. Bulik is also professor of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. She is passionate about translating science for the public.