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  • Michele is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and sought-after speaker at conferences around the world. Michele’s wide range of ventures include co-founding BiasSync, a science-based technology company designed to enable organizations to effectively assess and manage unconscious bias in the work environment. She is a trusted advisor to senior executives at Fortune 20 multinational corporations and some of today’s highest profile thought leaders and elected officials. Michele’s passions range from mitigating unconscious bias using scientifically validated methodologies to exploring leading-edge technologies. She is widely recognized and sought out as a subject matter expert in empowerment, entrepreneurship, sophisticated communication strategies, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). In addition to her work with BiasSync, Michele leads Ruiz Strategies, a certified minority-owned (MBE) and woman-owned (WBE) business, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with operations in Washington, D.C., and Houston, Texas. The firm specializes in change management and DE&I consulting for large corporations and government agencies.

    We discuss topics including:

    Understanding DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)

    What is DEIA? What is DEIAB? What is DEIAJ?

    Implicit Bias

    What is the beauty bias?

    Examples of unconscious bias?

    Ableism and disability

    Understanding the proximity effect

    Understanding psychological safety

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.micheleruiz.com

    www.instagram.com/micheleruiz

    www.instagram.com/BiasSync

    www.instagram.com/RuizStrategies

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Val Schonberg is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition science from the University of Minnesota. She is Board Certified as a Specialist in Sports Dietetics, a Certified Menopause Practitioner with The Menopause Society (previously known as the North American Menopause Society) and a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

    Val owns a private practice in Atlanta, Georgia where she specializes in midlife health and menopause, recreational and professional sports nutrition, all types of eating disorders and helping individuals break free from dieting and disordered eating. Originally from Minnesota, Val’s experience and expertise come from years of practice in many settings including women’s health, eating disorder treatment, Division 1 college sports medicine, professional dance organizations, and speaking regionally and nationally on numerous nutrition-related topics. In addition to individual nutrition counseling, she is the consulting dietitian for Emory Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Atlanta Ballet, and the Atlanta Dream Women’s NBA team.

    We discuss topics including:

    How compulsive exercise is defined

    Movement can help with brain chemistry

    Understanding that our bodies are changing as we age

    Fitness culture is apart of diet culture

    Break free from comparitis

    SHOW NOTES:

    https://valschonberg.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/v.schonbergrd/

    https://www.facebook.com/Enlightenunutrition

    https://drjengunter.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/drjengunter/

    https://www.menopause.org/

    https://www.imsociety.org/

    https://www.endocrine.org/menopausemap/index.html

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

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    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

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  • Andrew Susskind is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Brainspotting and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Group Psychotherapist and Author based in Los Angeles since 1992 specializing in trauma and addictive, compulsive behaviors. His books include It’s Not About the Sex: Moving from Isolation to Intimacy after Sexual Addiction (Central Recovery Press, 2019), The It’s Not About the Sex Workbook (Routledge Press, 2024) and From Now On: Seven Keys to Purposeful Recovery (2014).

    We discuss topics including:

    The importance of spirituality

    The hunger all of our client have on all levels

    The types of nourishment that are satisfying

    What is “broken heartedness”?

    Understanding compulsive sex addiction

    SHOW NOTES:

    It’s not about the sex (book)

    It’s not about the sex Workbook (book)

    From Now On: Seven Keys to Purposeful Recovery (book)

    www.westsidetherapist.com

    https://westsidetherapist.podbean.com/ (podcast)

    www.instagram.com/andrewsusskind

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Robyn Caruso is a California LMFT. She is licensed in South Carolina, Florida, and Arizona. She currently operates a group practice called AlignED Care Eating Disorder and Mental Health Center. Roby in trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), has completed Level 1 Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy ( RO DBT) and also incorporates psychodynamic, Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodrama/experiential and polyvagal theory approaches.

    We discuss topics including:

    What is Sociometry?

    What is Psychodrama?

    Understanding Interoceptive Awareness

    Having a themed meditation is beneficial with sociometry

    The importance of using “I” instead of “you”

    SHOW NOTES:

    https://www.alignedcarecenter.com/

    https://theactioninstitute.com/upcoming-trainings-workshops/

    https://www.instagram.com/aligned_care/

    https://www.facebook.com/AlignEDCare

    https://www.alignedcarecenter.com/resources

    www.instagram.com/aligned_care

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Dr. Ivy Love Margulies is a licensed clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist and death midwife who specializes in grief, loss, and trauma encompassing the entire spectrum of a woman’s reproductive and maternal mental health. She works with postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, birth trauma, NICU, preterm labor, miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy release, terminations for fetal anomaly (TFMR- Terminations for Medical Reasons), stillbirth, infant death, high risk pregnancy and pregnancy after loss.

    Dr. Ivy hosts her podcast Shattered Conception,which covers an array of interviews about healing grief and trauma- before, during or after- pregnancy, infertility, or pregnancy losses of all kinds.

    We discuss topics including:

    Understanding grief and trauma

    Men can have fertility issues too

    The messages women pick up when going through fertility

    The importance of scheduling an appointment in your life to have fun

    Exploring with women ways to achieve pleasure

    SHOW NOTES:

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Devon Cole is a weight inclusive, trauma informed RDN with private practice in Los Angeles. She received her training at Keck Medical Center and Children's Hospital LA and began her work as an RDN working in eating disorder treatment at all levels of care. She has worked at a variety of mental health facilities and schools, including Occidental's Health Center, providing nutritional counseling and running groups. Now solely in private practice, Devon provides a non-diet approach to nutrition therapy that includes mindfulness, embodiment practices, and the principles of intuitive eating and HAES. She works with both adults and adolescents who struggle with eating disorders, disordered eating and anyone interested in breaking the cycle of dieting and body shame.

    We discuss topics including:

    Working in all levels of care before starting a private practice

    The difference between an RDN working in treatment as opposed to in the outpatient setting

    The importance of working where the client is at

    How treatment provides a certain level of containment

    How to help a client move away from exchanges and counting at meals and snacks

    The importance to validate the client with where they are feeling

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.devoncolerd.com

    www.instagram.com/devoncolerd

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Dr. Nicole Siegfried is the Chief Clinical Officer for Lightfully Behavioral Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in mental health for over 20 years and has served in national leadership positions for the past 10 years. She is an international speaker and has published research, magazine articles, and book chapters in eating disorders, mental health, and suicide. Nicole believes that recovery is possible for all individuals with mental health disorders, and that all individuals are capable and deserving of a life worth living.

    We discuss topics including:

    Understanding what is full recovery

    Having a quality of life is recovery

    The importance of validation

    Developing a different relationship with your thoughts

    Defining the life that feels possible

    Recognizing that hope is hard

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.lightfully.com

    www.suicidology.org

    www.afsp.org

    www.instagram.com/lightfullybh

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Dr. Nicole Siegfried is the Chief Clinical Officer for Lightfully Behavioral Health. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in mental health for over 20 years and has served in national leadership positions for the past 10 years. She is an international speaker and has published research, magazine articles, and book chapters in eating disorders, mental health, and suicide. Nicole believes that recovery is possible for all individuals with mental health disorders, and that all individuals are capable and deserving of a life worth living.

    We discuss topics including:

    The high rate of suicide in eating disorders

    Understanding “The Suicidal Desire”

    The two pillars of “The Suicidal Desire”

    What is burdensomeness?

    How feeling unseen, unknown and misunderstood contributes to the suicide desire

    When to take suicide threats seriously

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.lightfully.com

    www.suicidology.org

    www.afsp.org

    www.instagram.com/lightfullybh

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Dr. Eva Altobelli, MD is the founder of Home-LA. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

    Dr. Altobelli holds accreditation from the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) to administer MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. She has extensive experience in working with MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine.

    Dr. Altobelli is committed to setting the highest standards of safety, ethics and efficacy.

    We discuss topics including:

    What is ketamine assisted therapy?

    Understanding professional assisted therapy/aka: “clinician experiential”

    Psychedelics can increase cognitive and emotional flexibility with eating disorder clients

    How these types of treatments can support personal and spiritual growth

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.home-la.com

    www.instagram.com/homela_drevaaltobelli

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.


    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Mike Hinds is the Clinical Director at Avalon Hills, a residential eating disorder treatment center in Northern Utah, one of very few that are privately owned. He has extensively trained and supervised therapists. For years he was a primary practicum site for students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Utah State University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in human development, parenting, counseling theories, supervision in counseling and psychotherapy, and human sexuality.

    Mike joined Avalon Hills in 2015. Before then he worked in various areas, including couples therapy, domestic violence, sex offender treatment, and family therapy, but his primary specialty had been working with youth and their parents. The fact that he worked extensively with many who needed treatment but didn’t always like being in treatment helped to prepare him to work with eating disorders.

    We discuss topics including:

    Power differences with families

    Helping parents understand patterns develop without getting blamed

    Issues that we all learn from

    It’s ok to not be ok

    Shame and Guilt

    Trends that are noticed in treatment

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.avalonhills.org

    instagram.com/avalonhills

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.


    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Dawn Smith Theodore, MA, LMFT, CEDS is a specialist in the treatment of eating disorders. Dawn has treated eating disorders for over 20 years and is a former professional dancer. She is the author of “TuTu Thin” A Guide to Dancing Without an Eating Disorder. She is also the author of her new book “Mother, Men and Me, A Memoir of Anxiety, Anorexia and Affairs

    We discuss topics including:

    You can have an eating disorder, achieve recovery and have a full and enjoyable life

    Food, fun, friends and passion

    How to find community

    The mother-daughter dynamic

    How to live with the bully in your head

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.dawntheodore.com

    www.tututhin.com

    www.mothermenandme.com

    instagram.com/dawn.smith.theodore

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.


    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Andy Williams helps to bring guidance and healing to people who want more and better out of life. Be it as a white water rafting guide, a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders or a men's coach, Andy’s heart and professional work centers on helping individuals become their most aligned, highest self. Working with clients in a one-on-one framework, Andy listens intently, guides conversations with curiosity, and delivers truth with compassion. His direct approach to this work is layered with humor, warmth, and humility.

    We discuss topics including:

    How to become the best version of yourself

    How to engage in activities that lead to joy

    What is unique about the male eating disorder experience?

    The drive for muscularity

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.forwardmomentum.io

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.


    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Dr. Allison Kawa is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Clinical Director at the Los Angeles Center for Integrated Assessment (LACIA). She specializes in the evaluation of children, adolescents, and emerging adults.

    Dr. Kawa’s approach to assessment is neurodiversity-affirming and informed by decades of work with individuals with neurodevelopmental differences, formal training in object-relations theory, and cutting-edge research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology.

    In more than a decade in private practice, she has honed her expertise in the diagnosis and treatment planning for individuals with learning and processing differences, attention disorders, autism, and anxiety/mood disorders. Dr. Kawa’s areas of subspecialties include ADHD, autism, language-based learning disorders, pre-verbal trauma, medical trauma, and twice-exceptional (2e) individuals.

    We discuss topics including:

    What are sensory processing differences?

    Being a parents who helps to “drop” judgment

    Understanding what is a sensory disorder?

    Different types of brains

    The stigma around ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.la-cia.org

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Greta Angert received a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from California State University Northridge. She completed her two year clinical training at the Maple Counseling Center and is certified in several trauma treatment modalities.

    Greta has worked at numerous outpatient, inpatient and residential eating disorder programs as a primary therapist. Greta holds the highest level of certification for EMDR (level 3). She is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and was a Founding Board Member and Treasurer of the Los Angeles board of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.

    Greta has spoken at local and national eating disorder and mental health conferences. She is a supervisor for marriage and family therapist interns and is committed to helping people understand, accept and nurture their bodies and minds in order to maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

    We discuss topics including:

    How to work with parents when your child has an eating disorder

    Understanding FBT (Family Based Therapy)

    The importance of being realistic and honest with the parents she works with

    Parents supervising meals when their child has anorexia nervosa

    The parents job is to protect their child form diet culture and to not have diet culture in their home

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.gretaangert.com

    https://www.instagram.com/gretaangertmft

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Celisa Flores, PsyD has worked as a therapist, program director, harm reductionist and clinical outreach professional in a wide variety of mental health and substance use disorder treatment setting since obtaining a Master’s in 2007 and Doctorate in 2013 in Clinical Psychology.

    She is now the director of clinical outreach at Lido Wellness Center, a trauma-focused mental health treatment program in Newport Beach.

    With additional training as a trauma-sensitive yoga and meditation facilitator, as well as birth and end-of-life doula, she has been able to draw from a variety of modalities to support self-empowerment and recovery. Celisa is also trained on psychedelic assisted therapy.

    Her role has included national and international training and speaking engagements on psychedelic healing, eating disorders, trauma-sensitive approaches, mindfulness, yoga, body acceptance, and professional wellness, as well as facilitating psychedelic integration groups with PsychedeLiA in Orange County, CA and online.

    We discuss topics including:

    The overlap of trauma and eating disorders

    How the brain is impacted when someone is struggling with an eating disorder

    The difference between complex trauma and PSTD

    What is the “ACES” scale?

    ARFID and sensory issues

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.lidowellness.com

    www.drcelisa.com

    https://www.instagram.com/dr.celisa

    https://www.instagram.com/lidowellness

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Kathryn Hansen recovered from bulimia in 2005; and since then, she has been dedicated to educating and empowering women and men who struggle with all forms of binge eating.

    She is the author of Brain over Binge (2011, 2022), the Brain over Binge Recovery Guide (2016), and the host of the Brain over Binge Podcast.

    We discuss topics including:

    Kathryn’s story of “Brain over Binge”

    The two basic parts of the brain

    What happens when we diet

    Recognizing that starvation can lead to a binge

    Steps to work on when the urge to binge happens

    Incorporating adequate eating

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.brainoverbinge.com

    www.instagram.com/brain_over_binge

    Brain over binge podcast

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Krystyl Wright, LCSW is a co-founder of LOT XI, a community conscious wellness brand based in Compton, CA.

    LOT XI creates body and home self-care goods sourced locally and crafted by hand. They also organize immersive wellness experiences for corporate initiatives and community spaces. With her background as a practicing clinical psychotherapist, Krystyl incorporates sensory perception and organic ingredients to provide practical healing tools in each product.

    We discuss topics including:

    Sensory is a practical tool for healing

    Krystal’s favorite pillars of living

    Clarity

    Community

    Self preservation

    Forgiveness

    Wellbeing

    Social Justice

    How to be in the Now

    Micronutrients of Joy

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.alifeworthliving365.com

    www.nami.org

    www.instagram.com/Lot_XI

    www.secure.helloalma.com

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Kacy is Director of Nutrition and Wellness, Outpatient, for Center for Discovery where she has developed the outpatient dietary program that has been implemented in over 28 facilities nationwide and has been part of the development and implementation of a diagnostic specific Binge Eating Disorder treatment program at Discovery.

    Kacy’s work is a belief in an inclusive not exclusive approach to food and evidence based practices. Kacy is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian Supervisor, has served on the executive committee for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Behavioral Health and Nutrition dietetic practice group 2014- 2018, was the Secretary for the Los Angeles IAEDP chapter and has spoken at national conferences

    We discuss topics including:

    What is flexibility with nutrition?

    What is flexibility in residential treatment?

    What is flexibility in IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program)?

    What is flexibility in PHP (Partial Hospitalization Program)?

    How the eating disorder provides rigidity

    There is less flexibility in residential treatment

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.centerfordiscovery.com

    www.supportinrecovery.com

    www.instagram.com/centerfordiscovery

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Brad is the owner of XChange.fit, a private training gym in Los Angeles. He is best known for training Hollywood celebrities, as well as professional athletes. Brad lectures at many of the fitness based expos and talks as a motivational speaker.

    He uses a “body-mind” approach to his training.

    We discuss topics including:

    The reason that movement may not be fun

    The “what” and “where” do these different movements do with your organisms?

    What is the 80/20 principle?

    Recognizing that “pain” is a negative enforcement

    What is “DOMS”

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.instagram.com/bbose

    www.xchange.fit

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

  • Dr. Schack has been treating teenagers and young adults with eating disorders for more than 20 years. She is one of only a handful of adolescent medicine specialists in the country who sees teens and young adults exclusively in private practice.

    Dr. Schack has supervised the care of patients with eating disorders in outpatient, residential, and hospital settings. She has been an invited speaker at regional, national, and international eating disorders conferences as well as at local teaching hospitals. Dr. Schack is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics Subboard of Adolescent Medicine.

    She is the Medical Director of The Eating Disorders Medical Unit at Torrance Medical Center.

    We discuss topics including:

    What happens in the examination room?

    What does Dr. Schack look for as an eating disorder physician?

    The importance of looking for any self harm on the patient

    The importance of the abdominal exam and abdominal x-ray and understanding digestion function

    Signs of anxiety

    When is someone considered medically stable?

    SHOW NOTES:

    www.drschack.com

    www.torrancememorial.org

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    If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: [email protected]

    You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe.

    Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”.

    Your Recovery Resource, Robyn’s new online course for navigating your loved one’s eating disorder, is available now!

    For more information on Robyn’s book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website.

    “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.