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The Recovery Bites podcast welcomes voices in the field and voices of experience, to get real about eating disorder and mental health recovery.
Join host Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS clinical expert and founder of the Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center, in a catalogue of past episodes featuring candid interviews with experts in eating disorder and mental health recovery.
Listeners can look forward to new perspectives, meaningful conversations, diverse connection, and compelling personal narrative that make a powerful difference in how we live.
Episodes focus on life beyond recovery — the good and the not-so-good, the successes and the challenges, and the authentic accounts of recovered lives. Not their whole story…just bites!
This week, we welcome Melanie C. Klein, M.A., empowerment coach, respected thought leader and influencer in the areas of body confidence, authentic empowerment, and visibility to the show for, “A Journey of Purpose.”
Tune in to learn about the role of societal power, what it means to have agency, autonomy, and sovereignty of one’s body, yoga and empowerment, body image resilience, media literacy, diversifying media’s narrative, making room for ageism and ableism, and more.
Read moreIn this episode, Karin welcomes Teresa Schmitz, ACC, coach, blogger, and author to the show for, “It Was Never About the Cake.”
Join Karin and Teresa for a conversation on societal misconceptions of those living in a larger body, the role of internal and external validation, the harm of feeling like one “failed” a diet, why BMI is not an accurate health measurement, simultaneously moving through recovery and menopause, shifting one’s mindset away from traditional eating disorder diagnosis and stereotypes, Teresa’s motivation and process of publishing her first book, “It Was Never About the Cake,” and more!
Read moreIn this episode, Karin welcomes Tara Whitney, published author, podcaster, speaker and coach, to the show for the newest episode of Recovery Bites, “The Price of a Muted Life”
Join Karin and Tara for a conversation on body trust, intuitive eating, diet message’s impact on children, moving from external to internal validation, food neutrality, the importance of slowing down and tuning into your body, weight stigma and the medical community, and much more.
Read moreIn this episode, Karin welcomes back Jennifer Kreatsoulas, PhD, certified yoga therapist, author, educator, advocate, and mother to the show for the newest episode of Recovery Bites, “The Recovery Long Haul”
Join Karin and Jennifer for a discussion on Jennifer’s battle with Long-haul COVID/post-COVID-19 syndrome, recognizing and abstaining from eating disorder behaviors despite long-term illness, the similarities and differences of eating disorders and invisible illness, the healing that accompanies feeling “seen and heard,” how an invisible illness can “look” to others, honoring the grief that accompanies living with a long-term illness, holding gratitude during the hardest times, the importance of connection, and much more.
Read moreIn this episode, Karin welcomes author, advocate, and writing mentor Dr. June Alexander to the show for the newest episode of Recovery Bites, “The Diary Healer.”
Join Karin and June for a discussion for a discussion on recovery later in life, June’s story of her eating disorder and recovery, defining what a “family” is (and is not), understanding fears brought on by motherhood, the healing effects from diary writing, the role of progress in the recovery journey, joining internal and external self to become whole, June’s recent novel, “A Girl Called Tim,” and much more!
Read moreIn this episode, Karin welcomes Betsy Brenner, mentor, eating disorder recovery speaker, and author of “The Longest Match: Rallying to Defeat an Eating Disorder in Mid-Life” to the show for our newest episode, “It's Never Too Late to be a Work in Progress.”
Join Karin and Betsy as they discuss the components of an eating disorder “perfect storm,” coping with the reemergence of buried, internalized experiences, the need for self-care, vulnerability as an acceptable and necessary practice, the challenges of meeting one’s needs, changing the role of movement from an obsession to a healing mechanism, the deeper level of healing that comes with sharing one’s story, the evolution of Betsy’s recovery story, the process of publishing her memoir “The Longest Match: Rallying to Defeat an Eating Disorder in Mid-Life,” and much more.
Read moreIn this episode, Karin welcomes Kerrie Baldwin author of "I, Dragonfly: A Memoir of Recovery and Flight," which chronicles her perilous journey to remission from anorexia, to the show for our newest episode, “Recovery in Flight.”
Join us for a discussion on culture’s normalizing of health and wellness, treading the line of being “health conscious” and having disordered eating/thoughts/behaviors, recovering while parenting, the risks of trying to appear “put together,” sitting in the discomfort of recovery, countering and reframing diet culture’s messages to your children, internalized fatphobia in children, Kerrie’s book “I, Dragonfly: a Memoir of Recovery and Flight,” and much more!
Read moreIn this episode, Karin is joined by Jaclyn Bendt, CPT, a non-diet Registered Dietitian to be and certified personal trainer for “Vulnerability is Strength,” our newest episode of Recovery Bites.
Together, Karin and Jaclyn discuss navigating potential triggers when entering the eating disorder field as a newly recovered person, how genetic factors predispose one to engage in eating disorder behaviors, approaching disordered thoughts with curiosity (as opposed to judgement), aligning thoughts and actions with values, vulnerability, finding healthy motivation for movement in recovery, making room for joyful movement, and much more!
Read moreAs we get closer to end of our first season of Recovery Bites, we decided to share a previous episode that listeners may have missed. It is an honor to announce the re-release our twenty third episode, “Wasted and the Phenomenon of the Trainwreck Girl with Marya Hornbacher."
Join us as Marya candidly reveals the motives and controversy behind the raw, graphic nature of "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia." In addition, Marya and I discuss the invasiveness and unintentional/intentional “glamorization” of eating disorders in the media, the line between being “triggered” and being an educated consumer, how recovery is “messy,” the roles of self in the process of healing, how Marya incorporates the Twelve Step model in her recovery and current life, and much more. This is a must-listen!
Read moreI am thrilled to welcome Heidi J. Dalzell, PsyD to the show for our newest episode of Recovery Bites, “Midlife Journey.” Join us as we discuss eating disorders in midlife, shame around “not fitting-in” for having a perceived “young girl’s disorder,” the societal standards that impact those in midlife, the inauthenticity of social media, gender identity and the body image continuum in recovery, body acceptance as a state of neutrality, non-judgment, and body ownership, and much more.
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