Dani, the founder of Bello Mind and Soul, specializes in Art Therapy and is dedicated to supporting individuals and groups through creative art-making and meditation. Her approach centres on creating therapeutic spaces where participants can process emotions through multimedia and sensory art, utilizing recycled and natural materials. Dani offers one-on-one and group sessions, corporate wellness workshops, and specialized community programs to empower participants to manage stress, explore emotions, and work towards their well-being goals in a safe environment.

In this episode be discuss

• How Dani’s relationship with food has been impacted by supporting her friend through treatment for anorexia as a teenager, her Jamaican heritage and experience of ADHD
• What is art therapy and how is it different to creating a piece of art at home?
• Navigating individual needs and trauma in art therapy

Please note: Spotify AI has created 'chapters' one of which is called "validating the medical system". In the podcast we have discussed how the medical system can be INVALIDATING to individuals experiences and how a more person-centre approach could be more beneficial.

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Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery.

⁠⁠https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Dani

https://www.bellomindandsoul.com/

https://www.instagram.com/bello_mind_and_soul/

https://www.facebook.com/bellomindandsoul/

In this episode I'm joined by Ciandra Birnbaum a dedicated eating disorder recovery coach and nutritional advisor, driven by her own journey of overcoming an eating disorder.

We discuss

• Ciandra's relationship with food and her body while growing up.

• Her experiences of travelling and how it aided her recovery
• Potential benefits and challenges of travelling while struggling with an eating disorder and during recovery
• Our top tips for maintaining recovery while travelling and when returning home

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

⁠https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/⁠

⁠https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/⁠

⁠https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

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With compassionate, down-to-earth approach, Ciandra helps individuals navigate the complexities of recovery, offering guidance rooted in both professional expertise and personal experience.

 Based in the UK, she is passionate about fostering a supportive, non-judgmental space for her clients to rebuild their relationship with food and themselves.  Outside of her work, Ciandra finds joy in travel, connecting with nature through flowers, and indulging in good food. She values time spent with family and friends, believing in the importance of nurturing meaningful connections. Her mission is to inspire others to live fuller, more balanced lives, free from the constraints of disordered eating.

https://flourishwithciandra.com/

https://www.instagram.com/flourishwithciandra/

In this episode I speak with Anne Richardson, a Registered Nutritional Therapist who has been practicing for more than ten years and who exclusively works in the field of disordered eating. She shares her experience of anorexia in her teens and path to recovery. Anne now draws from her lived experience to blend her knowledge of nutrition with her CBT skill

In this episode we discuss: 

• Perfectionism and anorexia 

• Impact of an eating disorder on your life

• Defining yourself as more than a body

• Using self-talk as a tool

• What is biohacking 

• How biohacking can be detrimental

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

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Anne is a Registered Nutritional Therapist who has been practicing for more than ten years and who exclusively works in the field of disordered eating. She suffered with anorexia in her teens and now draws from her lived experience to blend her knowledge of nutrition with her CBT skills. She works with people all over Europe to help them achieve food freedom. She is also invested in helping other practitioners work with disordered eaters as she recognises that general nutritional advice can be extremely damaging to disordered eaters. Anne is also a mum, a maker of all things and especially a keen baker.

https://www.theeatingdisordernutritionist.co.uk/

https://instagram.com/theeatingdisordernutritionist/ 

This episode was recorded in January 2023! I’m joined by Kelsey Gilbert a fifth-year doctoral candidate in clinical psychology.  Her dissertation focused on the impact of weight stigma in eating disorder treatment for individuals with "atypical" anorexia nervosa. One of Kelsey's aims in her clinical work and research is to amplify the voices of clients silenced by weight stigma and enhance healthcare professionals' understanding of "atypical" anorexia as a significant eating disorder deserving of treatment. 

In this episode we discuss: 

• Weight stigma

• Atypical anorexia

• Difference between anorexia and atypical anorexia 

• Advice for clinicians working with atypical anorexia 

• Limitations of the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

Resources mentioned:

Sick Enough Book https://www.sickenough.com/ 

Maintenance Phase podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-body-mass-index/id1535408667?i=1000530850955 

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-obesity-epidemic/id1535408667?i=1000532253037 

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

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Kelsey Gilbert is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in clinical psychology and has nearly 8 years of experience in eating disorder treatment and research. She has worked in the residential, partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and clinical research programs for eating disorders. Kelsey has researched weight bullying, healthcare providers’ communication regarding recovery to their clients, and the impact of weight stigma on intuitive eating and eating disorder symptoms. Kelsey's is currently completing her predoctoral internship at the University of Connecticut's Health and Wellness Center. She will move on to complete her postdoctoral fellowship in the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

https://www.instagram.com/atypicalanresearch/ 

Meg Mccabe is a coach, educator, writer and mental health advocate and recovered ED warrior obsessed with podcasts, dancing and stand-up comedy.  She’s the proud creator of Baby Got Back Recovery, a coaching and recovery blog that has touched thousands. Meg is also the host of the Full and Thriving Podcast which is designed to support your recovery while helping you re-discover your radiant life outside of your eating disorder.

In this episode we discuss:

• The Recovery Collective and group support for eating disorder recovery
• Meg’s experience as a teen in the modelling industry
• Honouring your body size
• 5 of the most common hang-ups in recovery
• Getting honest about intuitive eating and eating disorder recovery

Resources

Photographer reacts to America's Next Top Model episodes https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaKobeissi 

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Meg.

Meg Mccabe is a coach, educator, writer and mental health advocate and recovered ED warrior. She supports others to recover while helping them to helping you re-discover their radiant life outside of your eating disorder.

http://www.meg-mccabe.com

http://recoverycollective.mykajabi.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/full-and-thriving-an-eating-disorder-recovery-podcast/id1518417774

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC96kAmcX93xG0msyDX4roZA

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Renee McGregor is a leading Sports and Eating disorder specialist dietitian with 20 years of experience working in clinical and performance nutrition. She is the founder of Team Renee McGregor, where she leads a team of practitioners within a clinic environment, specialising in supporting individuals and athletes of all levels and ages, coaches and sports science teams to provide nutritional strategies to enhance sports performance and manage eating disorders. When not inspiring others with her incredible work, Renee can be found running the mountains and chasing the trails, most likely training for a crazy ultra-marathon!

In this episode we discuss:

• Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Goes Bad
• How an eating disorder distorts your thinking
• The toxic narrative that social media creates around worth
• How a hungry brain is a negative brain
• Relationship between orthorexia and perfectionism
• Wellness as a disguise for orthorexia
• Taking a holistic approach to recovery

Resources

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219609

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Renee.

https://reneemcgregor.com/

https://www.instagram.com/r_mcgregor/

This week I am joined by Hope Virgo, Suzanna Samaka and Sharon White; three inspirational women involved in the development and promotion of The Eating Disorder Toolkits for school nurses, educators and carers. In this episode we discuss the Toolkits as well as ...

• the latest research on trends in eating disorder development
• why there can still be a taboo around eating disorders and what we can do to remove it
• empowering society to be able to speak about eating disorders
• how school nurses and other staff can have the right conversations around eating disorders
• the impact of social media on eating and body dissatisfaction
• campaigning and change at a political level

Resources:

Download the toolkit - https://saphna.co/homepage/toolkits/eating-disorder-toolkit/

https://www.change.org/p/amend-the-social-media-law-to-label-content-that-has-been-digitally-edited-or-filtered

https://www.change.org/p/eating-disorders-are-not-just-about-weight-dumpthescales

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

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instagram.com/protectyouthmentalhealth/

https://www.instagram.com/hopevirgo_/

Elle Mace is an eating disorder and body dsymorphia therapeutic coach. She supports and guides those struggling with their relationship to food, their body and themselves to help them live a free and fulfilled life.

In this episode we discuss:

• Elle’s experience recovering from 17 years of eating disorders including anorexia and bulimia
• Using the 'lifeline' activity to understand your eating disorder 
• The relationship between self-worth and an eating disorder
• Perfectionism as a catalyst for food and body image struggles
• A trick for getting rid of comparison

Resources

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/2020/09/29/how-to-stop-comparing-food-on-instagram/

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Elle.

https://www.ellemace.com/

https://www.instagram.com/iamellemace/

https://www.facebook.com/memyselfher

Hannah Hickinbotham is the host of the Full of Beans podcast. She uses her personal, clinical, and educational experience to raise awareness and reduce the stigma associated with eating disorders. In this episode she shares her current experience of a relapse. 

In this episode we discuss

• Growing up in a family that diets and being modelled an unhealthy relationship with food
• Feeling like a failure in recovery
• Feeling stuck in relapse
• How eating disorders behaviours can escalate
• Acceptance as key in recovery
• Hierarchy of eating disorders with regards to praise and a fatphobic society
• Dealing with comments about weight changes
• Finding the motivation to recover
• Why the key to recovery is wanting to recover for yourself

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Hannah.

Hannah Hickinbotham is the host of the Full of Beans podcast. She uses her personal, clinical, and educational experience to raise awareness and reduce the stigma associated with eating disorders. In this episode she shares her current experience of a relapse.

www.fullofbeansed.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/thefobpodcast/

Carly is an Author, Substitute Teacher, and Freelancer specializing in writing, editing, and marketing. As an adolescent, Carly struggled with an eating disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia, and Exercise Addiction) which has contributed to her passion for mental health and overall wellbeing. Carly has been recovered five years and recently worked in a residential treatment facility with those aiming to recover. She gives talks and leads events and workshops throughout Oregon. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Impact of growing up with food scarcity and being forced to finish your plate as a child
• How school sports can spiral into an eating disorder
• Purging with exercise and laxatives
• Dealing with people's comments about body changes
• What a self-recovery journey looks like
• Cultivating confidence to share your story and experience of an eating disorder
• How sharing your story can create a new narrative
• Using social media to find a likeminded community in recovery
• Carly's new book, Good Enough

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Carly.

Carly is an Author, Substitute Teacher, and Freelancer specializing in writing, editing, and marketing. As an adolescent, Carly struggled with an eating disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia, and Exercise Addiction). She has been recovered five years and recently worked in a residential treatment facility with those aiming to recover. She gives talks and leads events and workshops throughout Oregon. To hear her full story, read or listen to Carly's memoir, Good Enough: Believing beautiful through Trauma, through Life, through Disorder.

https://www.sincerelycarly.com/

https://www.instagram.com/_sincerelycarly/

https://www.facebook.com/sincerelycarly/

Renae Saager is certified health & life coach and emotional eating expert who teaches women around the world how to start living a powerful, authentic life free from food and weight obsession. Tapping into her own unique journey with disordered eating and alcoholism, Renae supports her clients through the process of rewiring their brain with her no-BS approach. Through this serious work, Renae is able to help clients challenge their mindset and begin healing, using her own sense of humour and unparalleled perspective. Undoing the crazy you feel around food is Renae's specialty, the confidence and clarity gained is the guilt free icing on the cake.

In this episode we discuss:

• Renae's exprerience of an eating disorder and using alcohol.
• The link between alcohol consumption and eating disorders.
• Alcoholism and drunkorexia
• Do you need to work on the alcohol or food first to recovery?
• What Renae would do differently if she was starting her recovery journey again

Connect with Rachel.

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery. Rachel helps ambitious women to stop restricting, bingeing and purging. and to feel comfortable in their body.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.evans.phd/

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.evans.phd

Connect with Renae.

Renae Saager is certified health & life coach and emotional eating expert who teaches women around the world how to start living a powerful, authentic life free from food and weight obsession. Renae connects with her clients on a deeper level, supporting them through the process of rewiring their brain with her no-BS approach.

https://www.renaesaager.com

https://www.instagram.com/renaesaager/

Podcast - ditch the binge (rebranding soon)