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Meredith O’Brien runs a private practice, Meredith O’Brien & Affiliates, LLC, in Red Bank, New Jersey, where she specializes in treating those with eating disorders. She also manages an Eating Disorder Coaching business, Recovery from Anorexia, LLC. Meredith is a New Jersey Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and a Carolyn Costin Certified Eating Disorder Coach. She writes her blog at www.recoveryfromanorexia.com. Her debut memoir, Opening the Door: My Journey Through Anorexia to Full Recovery, published by Koehler Books in July 2022 is available. In her free time, you can find her playing with her golden doodle, Mavic. Her beacons of hope are her four nephews. Meredith is fully recovered from anorexia and her then black-and-white life is now in color. 

We discuss topics including:

• The development of “Opening The Door”
• Meredith’s journey to being recovered
• You are sick enough to get help 
• The importance to connect with people in recovery
• Her relationship with her four nephews
• Providing meal support to her clients

SHOW NOTES:

• (book): Opening The Door
• www.recoveryfromanorexia.com
• www.meredithobrienlcsw.com
• https://www.instagram.com/ED_recovery_mo/

Libby Supan LMFT is a certified intuitive eating coach and works full time in her virtual telehealth private practice seeing individuals and groups.  She sees all genders; people who want to heal their relationship with food, their body depression, anxiety and codependency.

We discuss topics including:

• What is restriction?
• What is mental restriction?
• How to recognize that you restrict
• What is the “observer” mindset?
• What is the “chatter” exercise?
• The importance of making decisions all day long

SHOW NOTES:

• https://linktr.ee/foodandbodyspecialist

Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RD, CDN, is a nutrition therapist, meditation teacher, and author of five books. Her work combines intuitive eating, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, polyvagal theory, and other embodied modalities. Her latest books include Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life and Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain Your Intuitive Eating Practice. Her work has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Self, Health, Lion’s Roar, Mindful, Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Women’s World, and U.S. News & World Report. 

We discuss topics including:

• How sobriety and recovery helped Jenna establish connections with intuitive eating and mindfulness
• The four noble truth of having a body
• There has to be a somatic piece to address recovery
• Our natural tendency as humans is to focus on what’s wrong with us instead of celebrating what is right
• Not to have expectations when you begin a meditation practice
• The importance of developing language to offer compassion to oneself

SHOW NOTES:

• www.jennahollenstein.com
• https://www.instagram.com/jennahollenstein/
• (book) Intuitive Eating for Life

Mollie Birney is a Clinical Coach in private practice providing life coaching with an eye towards mental health to over-thinkers seeking efficient, authentic transitions and behavioral change. 

Her clinical perspective draws upon her years as therapist in various treatment settings, and as a private consultant and interventionist for families in crisis. These clinical underpinnings are now the foundation of her coaching curriculum addressing anxiety, emotional evolution, relationships and self-destructive patterns. 

We discuss topics including:

• Anxiety is about trying to obtain control
• Understanding the relationship one has with anxiety
• Anxiety has a mind of its own
• The importance of developing a relationship with anxiety
• Anxiety is happening without our permission
• Imagination is about speaking with anxiety

SHOW NOTES:

• www.molliebirney.com
• www.instagram.com/molliebirney

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Erin Harrop, (they/them), LICSW, PhD, is an assistant professor at University of Denver and licensed medical social worker. Erin’s research focuses on eating disorders, weight stigma, and patient-provider communication.

Erin’s clinical work also involves trainings at the provider level, introducing interprofessional clinicians to weight inclusive practices that honor patients’ unique intersecting identities.

We discuss topics including:

• Understanding what is “atypical anorexia nervosa”?
• What makes the conversations go well and poorly when communicating with a provider?
• Weight stigma and atypical anorexia nervosa
• How the eating disorder is encouraged
• The word “fat” is a neutral descriptive term

SHOW NOTES:

• (Facebook group) Recovery at Large
• https://socialwork.du.edu/about/gssw-directory/erin-nicole-harrop
• http://erin.harrop@du.edu
• https://socialwork.du.edu/about/gssw-directory/erin-nicole-harrop
• https://www.facebook.com/erin.harrop.3/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-harrop-b6029680/

Hayley is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Registered Dietitian . She is originally from Pennsylvania so she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from Marywood University and her Master’s degree in Clinical and Counseling Psychology from Chestnut Hill College. She is trained in Phase 1 of Brainspotting as well as Cognitive Processing Therapy for people with PTSD. She is also a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Supervisor.   

She has a special interest in working with people with eating disorders and trauma.

She works from a Health At Every Size framework which means she does not treat people differently based on size and believes people are healthy at every size. She rejects diet culture mentalities and helps people to nourish their bodies without shame or guilt. She loves working with people on improving their relationships with food and their bodies. She combines cognitive behavioral approaches with somatic approaches to help those achieve their goals while also noticing what the body is trying to tell them. She connects with you on goals you would like to achieve

while also noting any barriers that may come up.Hayley feels called to this work because of her belief that everyone can recover from an eating disorder with a little

help and support from providers. Hayley is the owner of Hayley Miller Counselingserving LA and NYC.

We discuss topics including:

• What is brainspotting?
• What is cognitive processing therapy and how is it different from cognitive behavioral therapy?
• Understanding the big “T” trauma
• Grounding Techniques

SHOW NOTES:

• www.hayleymillercounseling.com
• https://www.instagram.com/hayleymillercounseling/
• www.brainspotting.com
• (interview) https://youtu.be/8UTftmibLqo

JD Ouellette is a Lived Experience Expert in eating disorders, and the Director of Lived Experience for Equip Health, and she maintains a private peer coaching practice. 

Prior to her current role, JD built and ran Equip’s Mentorship Program. JD has worked full-time in the eating disorder field since leaving her career as an educator in 2018 to provide mentorship and coaching for other families whose loved ones are impacted by an eating disorder.

JD came to this work after the youngest of her four children developed anorexia nervosa in 2012. Grateful that her family benefited from early, aggressive intervention with evidence-based care, she channeled her gratitude and personal and professional skill sets into ensuring all families have access to the same psychoeducation, skills coaching, and support that made the difference for her family and enabled her to daughter to achieve full, robust, long term recovery.

We discuss topics including:

• Understanding what a “lived experience” expert is?
• The importance of motivational interviewing with peer coaching
• Connecting with Men of FEAST (so they can be apart of the team)
• The importance of parents and kids to begin writing
• Recognizing that your perspective is valuable as a parent and client

SHOW NOTES:

• www.jdouellette.com
• www.equip.health
• www.theprojectheal.org
• www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
• www.feast-ed.org

Charlotte Markey, Ph.D., is a world-leading expert in body image research, having body image and, eating behaviors.  

She is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping people to develop a positive body image.

Charlotte loves to share her body image wisdom with others, and is an experienced book author, blogger, and professor at Rutgers University, Camden. 

We discuss topics including:

• The knowledge of body image amongst scientist, professionals and the general public
• Understanding Body Dissatisfaction
• Recognizing that body image issues can start at a young age and discussing careful and thoughtful ways in how to approach the topic
• The importance of adults being positive influences around kids
• Boys struggle with body image too

SHOW NOTES:

• www.charlottemarkey.com
• www.thebodyimagebookforboys.com
• www.thebodyimagebookforgirls.com
• www.instagram.com/char_markey

Claire St John, MPH, RDN, CEDRD-S is a registered dietitian in private practice, working with clients who want to improve the relationship they have with their body and food. She works with clients to tackle fear around food, mitigate shame and work towards body respect. 

She has worked in residential and partial treatment and is the the Director of Operations and Research of treatment center.

We discuss topics including:

• The challenges that clients face when they are in residential
• The hardest step of stepping down when in treatment
• Making Treatment the focus
• How to know when someone is ready to step down
• The importance of the outpatient team knowing and understanding where the client is coming from
• Remembering what the outside world is like

SHOW NOTES:

• www.clairestjohn.com
• www.instagram.com/clairestjohn_rd

Dr. Mazella Fuller is a clinical associate on staff at the Counseling and Psychological Services of Duke University. Dr. Fuller provides clinical services, consultation, and training for social work and psychology interns. She has worked in education for many years as a high school teacher, adjunct instructor, consultant, and clinician. Dr. Fuller is an integrative health coach, and graduate of Duke Integrative Medicine. She is a certified member and approved supervisor (CEDS-S) of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp™) and completed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program through the Duke Integrative Medicine/Duke University Medical Center. Her clinical focus areas are brief therapy and young adult development, couples, gender and social justice, equity and inclusion, and women’s leadership development. Dr. Fuller received her MSW from Smith College for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Fuller has served as a member of the advisory board for the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD). She is the Co-Editor of Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Clinician Guide. She is also the Co-Founder and Principal of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity.

Dr. Charlynn Small, PhD, LCP, CEDS-S is Assistant Director for Health Promotions at the University of Richmond’s Counseling and Psychological Services in Virginia. She received her PhD from Howard University’s School of Education. Dr. Small is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation (iaedpTM) and is a certified member and Approved Supervisor (CEDS-S) of iaedpTM. She co-founded the Foundation’s African-American Eating Disorders Professionals (AAEDP) Committee and has also served on the Advisory Board for the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD). She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on the treatment of eating disorders in college populations. Dr. Small is co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity and also is the co-editor of Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide, Routledge, Taylor & Francis (July, 2021).

We discuss topics including:

• Understanding Cultural Humility
• The importance of having a sense of belonging
• Learning to be uncomfortable with having conversations that make you feel uncomfortable
• Doing your own work and not being judgmental
• Learn about your own culture, ethnicity and values

SHOW NOTES:

• https://www.antiracismandequity.com/
• (book) Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Clinician Guide
• csmall@richmond.edu
• mazella.fuller@duke.edu
• www.membershare.iaedp.com (African-American Eating Disorders Professionals (AAEDP) Committee and People of Color  (POC-AAEDP) Subcommittee