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Shelbye is a Carolyn Costin Certified Eating Disorder Coach working with clients both locally in Los Angeles and virtually across the world. She struggled with an eating disorder for years and finally took her life back in 2016. 

Through her own recovery, she realized how crucially important support and connection are. She has worked to become a full time coach helping adolescents to find their voice again. Trust and connection are two things that she values most in her work. While recovery can be very emotional and serious, Shelbye tries to keep it light and remind clients how amazing life can be outside of the eating disorder bubble.

Shelbye’s services include text support, virtual sessions, group support, in person one on one sessions, meal support, grocery shopping, clothing shopping, etc. She also has done live ins where she is with a client for an extended period of time in their home.

We discuss topics including:

• The role of an eating disorder recovery coach
• The benefits of an eating disorder recovery coach
• What is text support?
• When is a client ready to clothing shop with an ED recovery coach?
• Who is a candidate for a “live in”?
• When is a “live in” helpful?

SHOW NOTES:

• https://www.shelbyeschlange.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/shelbyeschlange/

Dr. Ed Tyson is the primary owner of the Medical Center for Eating Disorders in Houston. He also does the medical care for the CFD residential treatment center also with his PA, Jennifer Nagel. He wrote the chapter on medical complications in Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap, and is a co-author of both the medical guide for the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) and the chapter “What Doctors, Dietitians, and Nutritionists Need to Know” in Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders. Teaching about and advocating for eating disorders is a passion of his, and he frequently presents at eating disorder professional meetings, to universities, and to the public. He was also asked to give the briefing on eating disorder legislation to both the U.S.House of Representatives and the Senate in 2015 and 2016. He and his daughter began their podcast on eating disorders in 2021, called “ED on ED.”

We discuss topics including:

• Low glucose levels and people acting “normal”
• What is postprandial glucose level?
• What is a normal fasting glucose level?
• What is an insulin surge?
• Understanding that low glucose levels happen with people who restrict

SHOW NOTES:

• www.med4eds.com 
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ed-on-ed/id1570375498

Sondra Kronberg, MS, RD, CEDRD-S, is a nutrition therapist and recognized leader in the field of eating disorders. Founder and Executive Director, Eating Disorder Treatment Collaborative, FEED: IOP, CONNECT and CONCIERGE programs in New York and vitual throughout the United States.

Sondra is the host of Chats in the Living room weekly live Learning and Support, providing dialog, education and community with experts in the

field. She is a founding member and past Board Trustee of the National Eating Disorders Association, (NEDA). The author of Comprehensive Learning/Teaching Handout Series Manual for Eating Disorders and contributing author to Eating Disorders: Clinical Guide to Counseling and Treatment and Eating Disorders in Special Populations: Medical, Nutritional and Psychological Treatments. 

Sondra received the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, (IAEDP), 2010 Certified Eating Disorder Specialists Award, the NEDA 2004 Excellence in Treatment Award and the 2002 SCAN Excellence in Practice Award. In 2018 Sondra received NEDA’s first Legacy Award.  She is a national speaker, treatment consultant and media spokesperson. She is also a consultant to the Carolyn Costin Institute.

We discuss topics including:

• The harm that is done by dieting
• Understanding what is a cognitive behavioral nutrition therapist?
• The Learning Teaching Handout Series
• The origin of food
• Food is about trauma

SHOW NOTES:

• www.chatsinthelivingroom.com
• www.sondrakronberg.com

Carrie Dennett is a Pacific Northwest-based nutrition therapist, certified Intuitive Eating counselor, journalist, author and speaker. 

She writes a weekly nutrition column for The Seattle Times and contributes regularly to Today’s Dietitian magazine. Carrie is the author of Healthy For (Your) Life: A Non-Diet Approach to Optimal Well-being, which blends intuitive and mindful eating with a non-diet approach, current nutrition science, and a lot of nutrition myth-busting. 

She also brings these principles to her virtual private practice, where she helps women who are struggling with disordered eating or trying to overcome chronic dieting, and who want a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies. She is a second-career dietitian who worked as a newspaper journalist for many years before earning her Master of Public Health in nutritional sciences from the University of Washington.

We discuss topics including:

• Carrie’s passion of being an RDN and a journalist
• The problems with “diet culture” and “wellness culture”
• Understanding what is “diet culture”? And understanding what is “wellness culture”?
• Asking oneself who is my audience?

SHOW NOTES:

• www.nutritionbycarrie.com
• https://www.instagram.com/carriedennett/

Dr. Laura Berenstain is a physician, professional leadership coach, author, and speaker. She is a passionate advocate for equity, social justice, and changing culture through both individual and systemic efforts.

Laura helps her coaching clients navigate life and career transitions, while improving their emotional agility, communication, and negotiation skills.  She guides her clients in identifying their individual definition of success utilizing personal values, increased self-awareness, and principles of positive psychology, mindfulness, and resilience. Laura is also a certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher, enabling her to help clients find and utilize individualized approaches to their well-being.

With over three decades of experience as a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist, Laura currently serves on American Society of Anesthesiologists committees for Physician Well-being, Women Anesthesiologists, Professional Development, and chaired the ASA Workgroup for Long-term Mentoring. She is also an Advisory Board member and Coach for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia’s Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative and Board of Directors member for the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society. Laura also is a Coach for the American Medical Women’s Association ELEVATE program. 

We discuss topics including:

• How she became interested in coaching and mindfulness outside of medicine
• That it is ok to branch out outside of your profession
• How to make yourself a priority and living your life
• Understanding the different forms of mindfulness
• Mindful walks, Mindful Breathing and Mindful Eating all encompass mindfulness

SHOW NOTES:

• www.lauraberenstain.com
• https://twitter.com/LBerenstain

Jayde Barber is the creator and host of the Students of Mind Podcast: a mental health advocate and entrepreneur.

Since she was in grade school, Jayde has been diagnosed and living with several mental illnesses including anxiety, depression, and anorexia. Although she is not a licensed mental health professional, Jayde’s experience as a patient, family member, and friend of individuals with mental illness has driven her to share her experiences and insights. Through the podcast and across social media, Jayde shares her mental health and eating disorder recovery journey.

The Students of Mind Podcast was developed at the start of the COVID-19 quarantine in March of 2020. Jayde covers various mental health related topics through interviews with mental health experts and healers, and in the second season began to include interviews with survivors–people like herself who live everyday with mental illness. When an individual has lived experience with mental illness or managing mental wellbeing, Jayde believes that they are also experts whose voices and stories need to be shared and amplified. Students of Mind aims to

normalize talking openly about mental health, remove the many barriers that exist to receiving mental health education and resources, reduce the stigma and taboo’s that exist around mental health and mental illness, and express that everyone has mental health that needs to be tended to just as our physical health needs to be tended to.

Jayde also started her journey to becoming a Peer Support Specialist in 2022, and has a 1 on 1 service called Sister Sessions where she helps individuals search for and reach out to mental health services and providers

We discuss topics including:

• What led her to develop the “Students of Mind Podcast”
• What is a peer support specialist?
• What are “sisters sessions?”
• Re entering treatment and the struggles with body image
• The importance of support
• What is “pseudo recovered”?

SHOW NOTES:

• Podcast: https://www.studentsofmind.com/episodes
• https://www.instagram.com/Jaydembarber/
• https://www.studentsofmind.com/sistersessions

Dr. Lowenthal is a Board Certified Family Physician specializing in eating disorder care for children, adolescents and adults. Utilizing a social justice, Health At Every Size (HAES) lens, Dr. Lowenthal is in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and cares for individuals of all genders, sizes, shapes and abilities and at any stage of

their recovery.

Dr. Lowenthal completed medical school at the University of Chicago and residency at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is one of few primary care physicians nationwide who has been designated by the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) as a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist (CEDS) as well as an IAEDP-Approved supervisor for other professionals in the field (CEDS-S). 

She is a formerMedical Liaison to and Board Member of the IAEDP SF Bay Area Chapter and a member of the Academy of Eating Disorders.

We discuss topics including:

• The importance of asking lots of questions
• The importance to validate what someone is struggling with
• Going through her own medical conditions has helped her be more humble and compassionate
• A lot of things can look like IBS and SIBO
• Understanding gastroparesis

SHOW NOTES:

• www.sarahlowenthalmd.com

A Diplomat of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, MD, received her medical degree in 1996 from the USC School of Medicine and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Gilberg-Lenz is involved in women’s empowerment and public education and appears frequently as an expert in women’s health and integrative medicine on TV, in print, and online. She is the author of MENOPAUSE BOOTCAMP: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age (Harper Wave; October 11th)

We discuss topics including:

• The importance of developing community with menopause
• What is menopause?
• The importance of women advocating for themselves
• Recognizing how you look and how you feel is “real”
• Giving yourself permission to do whatever you want

SHOW NOTES:

• www.thedrsuzanne.com
• https://thedrsuzanne.com/themenopausebootcamp/
• https://www.instagram.com/askdrsuzanne

David became a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) in 2013 and founded Nutrition in Recovery, a group practice of RDNs specializing in treating eating and substance use disorders. 

He earned his Ph.D. in Public Health with a minor in Health Psychology from UCLA by investigating links between adverse childhood experiences and mental health outcomes among socially disadvantaged men. 

Learn more  about the intersection of nutrition and mental health using his new app called Wise Mind Nutrition.

We discuss topics including:

• What led David to develop the Wise Mind Nutrition App?
• Who is the target audience for his new app?
• Understanding the importance of nutrition and mental health
• The five components of the Wise Mind Nutrition App
• How is this app different from other apps?

SHOW NOTES:

www.wisemindnutrition.com

www.nutritioninrecovery.com

https://www.instagram.com/wisemindnutrition/

https://www.instagram.com/drdavidwiss/

Beth Rosen, MS, RD, CDN is a weight-inclusive Registered Dietitian specializing in GI nutrition and disordered eating. She has been working in the field of nutrition for over 27 years and has a virtual private practice. 

Beth helps clients find relief from digestive disorders such as Irritable Bowel Disease (IBS) and Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), Gastroparesis, Celiac disease, and reflux, as well as shares her knowledge with other health professionals via webinars, seminars, and peer mentoring. 

Beth is currently the vice-chairperson of the Dietitians in Gluten and Gastrointestinal Diseases (DIGID) subgroup of Dietitians in Medical Nutrition Therapy dietetics practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 

Beth has designed techniques and programs to empower chronic dieters, disordered eaters, and those in eating disorder recovery to mend their relationship with food and

their bodies. She has also written for major online and print media publications, such as Practical Gastroenterology, Huffington Post, VeryWell Fit, and FabUPlus Magazine. 

We Discuss Topics Including:

• Understanding the functioning of the gut when you have an eating disorder
• Restriction and purging can cause GI problems
• The importance of diverse microbiome
• Treating disordered eating first then GI issues secondarily
• Small Intestine Bacteria Overgrowth (SIBO) is secondary to other things

SHOW NOTES:

• www.bethrosenrd.com
• https://twitter.com/bethrosenrd
• https://bethrosenrd.com/its-time-you-owned-your-ibs/
• https://www.instagram.com/bethrosenrd/