Dialogue: Can food be addictive?
This is our first dialogue episode on the podcast. In it, we have Libby Supan, a therapist and certified intuitive eating counselor and David Wiss, a registered dietitian with a PhD in public Health. ...
26 Juni 20251h 3min
Psychoanalysis In The Age of Manualized Treatment
When I studied psychology, I learned about psychoanalysis as the id, ego, and superego, the mind depicted as an iceberg, with the subconscious submerged beneath the surface. We covered psychosexual de...
12 Juni 20251h 11min
Can Intentional Weight Loss Be Body Positive?
Perhaps the single most charged issue in eating disorder recovery is intentional weight loss. In the general population, we know based on research that the long-term success rates of intentional weigh...
5 Juni 20251h 15min
Harm Reduction: Colluding with the Eating Disorder or Connecting with the Person Beneath It?
Many traditional approaches to eating disorder treatment focus primarily on behaviors such as meal plan compliance, and strategies that aim to support and reinforce these behaviors. In higher levels o...
29 Maj 20251h 6min
I Spent 15 Years in Overeaters Anonymous—Here’s Why I Left
Food addiction: does it exist or not? Is it helpful or harmful? Does science support it or disprove it? These questions have become so polarizing, especially in the eating disorder and substance abuse...
22 Maj 20251h 5min
Ultra-Processed Food Addiction: What It Is, What It’s Not, and Why It Matters
Does food addiction exist?This question is the topic of heated debate within the eating disorder recovery community.We know that binge eating and compulsive overeating can share some characteristics w...
15 Maj 20251h 19min
Meeting What's in the Room: Dietician Trained in Internal Family Systems and Somatic Experiencing
In the West, medical treatment tends to be highly specialized. In eating disorder recovery, dietitians are typically responsible for specifying and monitoring clients' food intake. Therapists are resp...
15 Maj 20251h 7min
GLP-1s: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
GLP-1s, such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, are a class of medications originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes. More recently, they've become a hot topic in the mainstream for their weight lo...
2 Maj 20251h 6min
