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Latest Podcasts – 4/2 – 5/16/2023
ARFID Series
5/16/2023
Episode 20: ARFID Series – Jaime Haumesser talks treatment & recovery: “Recovery really needs connection!”
Jaime Haumesser, licensed professional clinical counselor for over 20 years and current Clinical Director at the Hull Institute for Eating Disorders in Cleveland, Ohio discusses ARFID from her professional, clinical, and personal experience. She helps us unravel ARFID’s presentation, symptoms & medical concerns. Additionally, she breaks down intervention, recovery factors and impact on the family system. She insightfully delves into the import of individualized, specialty care and focusing treatment on exposure therapy, distress tolerance and building trust in the therapeutic relationship. The journey her clients take with her starts with being flexible: willingness to be uncomfortable tackling food avoidance which develops into global success strategies which evolve into beautiful hope and the prospect of recovery.
4/2/2023
Episode 19: ARFID Series – Introduction to ARFID
ARFID, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder is a clinical eating disorder. Listen to this introduction to learn how it is not picky eating, its symptoms & types, how to build a treatment team and intervention expectations on the way to a recovery path.
4/2/2023
Episode 18: ARFID Series – Li: “I had to look panic right in the eye and move through it because you can’t go past it.”
Li discovers ARFID: after a choking incident, food became a source of anxiety, panic and resistance. Her thoughts a scary place and her independence & sense of safety threatened. She takes us on an informative & private journey highlighting how her recovery progress demanded she be intentional, do the hard strenuous work, lean on her support group, and challenge entrenched thoughts. Get ready to be moved & educated as she goes from crisis to personal transformation. “I had to look panic right in the eye and move through it because you can’t go past it, you can’t go around it, you have to feel it in order to get past it & recover.”
Anxiety Series
4/2/2023
Episode 17: Anxiety Series – Anxiety & Medication
Discussion about the timing and efficacy of using medication for anxiety management. Identifying providers, assessing for functioning, severity and lethality and how & when to use behavioral interventions included. A good informative first step approach.
Parent Talk Series
1/15/2023
Episode 16: ED Recovery Parent Talk: HZ – “I listened to my intuition in helping my daughter be autonomous while committed to recovery.”
HK is a mother and mental health clinician who watched her now 23-year-old daughter’s anxiety and life transitions turn into debilitating Anorexia. Marvelously, they fought their way into a beautiful recovery state in an outpatient setting. A supportive family culture, trusting parental instincts, a specialized therapeutic team and her daughter’s fierce determination and strong will were beautiful components of this awe-inspiring recovery story!
11/27/2022
Episode 15: ED Recovery Parent Talk: IG – “She was bones wrapped in flesh, a bag of sticks.”
IG shares her daughter’s eating disorder recovery story. She brings invaluable advice & promise as she talks terrible to marvelous aspects of fighting an ED. Discussion includes levels of care, managing exercise, family talk and peer impact. Heartfelt, honest, enlightened and educational. A must listen for ED families!
11/7/2022
Episode 14: EMDR w/Sarah Novak, MSW, LISW-S- ‘Channeling feelings in a new pathway instead of the old automatic one being used.’
Sarah educates on how EMDR works and what to expect. She explores the many settings where it is appropriate and its overall efficacy borrowing from research and her clinical experience. She explains how its global focus is on each person’s rooted self, like a tree trunk with many branches extended out from experiences that shape core beliefs. EMDR helps heal and re-connect those branches in a more adaptive and kind way.
Candid College Series
Episode 1: Candid College: PR – ‘Fun dynamic discussion! But please don’t lick the pop filter’.
Poppy Rose has an experiential, fun and dynamic take on her many years of ED and mental health treatment. Currently symptom free from ED, she talks about challenges in getting care, “not being sick enough”, virtual versus in person support, toxic positivity, boundaries and food myths.
Episode 2: Candid College: ZK – ‘Being Uncomfortable & Being Willing are Power Choices in Recovery.’
ZK has found a symptom free, stable and insightful seat on her recovery path. Learning to be vulnerable, uncomfortable, to trust herself and her team & to play the brain tricks right back are among the bits of wisdom this inspiring human shares.
Episode 3: Candid College: MG- ‘So sick of it I quit looking to my ED to solve my problems’.
MG has seen it all and she’s not afraid to tell you what it looks like. Her scattered journey recently landed with ‘flipping the switch’ and starting to life her real life – boldly and brilliantly!
Episode 4: Candid College: AT- ‘If You’re Pretty F’d Up, Don’t Hide it but Do Dress for Less Stress.’
Asia Taj is straight up in exploring the ED recovery path. Always in the game, even when he was losing, his persistence, steadiness and willingness to allow himself to evolve have had life changing results. A true ED warrior!
Episode 5: Candid College: MB – ‘Be Your True Self Again; But Tai Chi is Optional!’
MB Shares her plans for college adjustment and her honest review of her ED as a sassy, menace and finding resilience, family support and empowerment to “be the happiest I have ever been.”
Episode 6: Candid College: EA – ‘If You’re Brave Enough to Challenge ED, Better to Jump with a Bungee!’
EA Shares challenges in the thick of recovery with college in the near future. Magical moments, peer support, difficult choices and resilience pave her path.
Episode 7: Candid College: SA – “I’m trying to life a life that I’ve never lived before.”
SA brings a candid, honest viewpoint right from the edges of recovery. From the BS and cliche’s to the true value of making hard choices to live a life you never knew and choosing to define what ED has given you.
Episode 8: Candid College: Mallory Tabak RD- ‘It’s about trust, independence, communication.’
Registered Dietician, Mallory Tabak shares over 10 years’ experience in exploring eating disorder nutrition concerns in transitioning to college. She brings us an informed, passionate and refreshing perspective. Fabulously, food is not the main topic!
Episode 9: ED Levels of Care Defined
A quick introduction to levels of eating disorder treatment from outpatient to hospitalization.
Athletes & ED Series
Episode 10: Athletes & ED – HK ‘It’s hard to ignore your body in a leotard’.
HK takes us on a roller coaster ride through her life with ED, sports, injuries, allergies & illness. Looking inward to build self-awareness and adapting traits to her benefit have been pivotal in recovery. Though she still has obstacles, she has strong insights from which to build resilience and spirit.
Episode 11: Athletes & ED – KF ‘Recovery lies in the 2nd thought you choose.’
KF motivates and inspires with her candid exploration of her ED recovery as an athlete. She has worked impressively to turn exercise into something she loves again and is sustainable instead of a dark place where compulsion and a busy mind once took over. She has found a way to build new thinking around her ED narrative; a thought process that is now kind and reflexive. None of this was easy, she shed layers of a role and self she once knew to find the successful and behavior free person she is today. An encouraging and powerful recovery story!
Overshoot Exploration
Episode 12: Overshoot Exploration with Taryn McPherson, RD – ‘Allow your body to build back trust in you!’
Registered Dietician and ED nutrition specialist, Taryn McPherson walks us through the tough and anomalous topic of ‘overshoot’. She educates on the body in famine, re-establishing trust with your body, how the body is meant to change and how all food is nutrition.
Episode 13: Overshoot Exploration, Client Perspective – ‘It’s not body dysmorphia, I’m actually seeing what’s there.’
A client perspective on how overshoot can happen, its impact on recovery and ways to manage body image and health/activity expectations in recovery. Includes trusting the recovery team, real body changes versus dysmorphia and when the ED voice wants to get running too soon!
Episode 14: EMDR w/Sarah Novak, MSW, LISW-S- ‘Channeling feelings in a new pathway instead of the old automatic one being used.’
Sarah educates on how EMDR works and what to expect. She explores the many settings where it is appropriate and its overall efficacy borrowing from research and her clinical experience. She explains how its global focus is on each person’s rooted self, like a tree trunk with many branches extended out from experiences that shape core beliefs. EMDR helps heal and re-connect those branches in a more adaptive and kind way.
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