The Eating Disorder Diaries

In Entry 16, Amy sits down with Lucy Sayah of PROJECT BLACKBIRD to discuss the project. From touring and screening the BLACKBIRD film (a short video about life in eating disorder treatment centers) throughout colleges in the United States, to providing a platform for those to discuss eating disorders and mental health conversation within underrepresented communities, their mission is to connect audiences of different communities to rid themselves of shame surrounding mental health. Lucy also discusses her personal experience with overcoming anorexia while attending Northwestern University and shares her own recovery tips.
Links from today's episode:

• Follow Lucy on Instagram @lucysayah
• Following Project Blackbird on Instagram @ProjectBlackbirdFilm
• Follow Project Blackbird on their website here.

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Thank you to Conquering Bulimia for sponsoring today's episode. Sign up for Sarah Lee and Merrit Elizabeth's Conquering Bulimia course at www.conqueringbulimia.com

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Welcome Caroline Thomason, the first registered dietitian to be featured on The Eating Disorder Diaries. Amy and Caroline discuss the association between trauma and eating disorders/disorded eating and draw parallels to Amy's story and Caroline's day-to-day that she sees with her clients. We pick Caroline's brain on all the things - should I be fasting? Can that even help? Why do I get so bloated sometimes and what should I do about that? How can I get out of the cycle of disordered eating? Tune in to hear more!
Find Caroline at:

• Her website: https://carolinethomason.com/
• Instagram: @dieticiancaroline_

Caroline's recommendations:

• The Body Image Workbook
• Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

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It's been a minute since we've introduced ourselves. In Entry 14, Amy gives you a peek into her diary as a person in eating disorder recovery. From reading an actual entry from 3 years ago to spilling all of the life details: her upcoming wedding, half-marathons, Halloween parties, travel, you name it...she's dishing. Life as a recovered person isn't always easy, but even in the chaos, it's 100% worth it.

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Get ready to be moved and encouraged by Merrit Elizabeth and Sarah Lee, two inspiring Certified Eating Disorder Coaches who not only have fully recovered from bulimia themselves and help others in their individual practices do the same, but have partnered up to create a first-of-its-kind intensive, private, online course called Conquering Bulimia. Merrit and Sarah openly share their friendship, healing stories, and many tips, like visualization and overcoming the urges of bulimia, that will help you in your recovery journey.
Links from today's episode:

• Find/Follow Merrit at https://merritelizabethrecovery.com/ and on Instagram @merritelizabeth
• Find/Follow Sarah at https://sarahleerecovery.com/ and on Facebook @sarahleerecovery
• Learn more about their online course at www.conqueringbulimia.com
• Take the pledge now at www.purgepledge.com
• Discover Sarah's Headway recommendation here.
• Find Merrit's Open app recommendation here and use code MERRITRECOVERY30 to get one month free!

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Join us for the fourth entry of The Eating Disorder Diaries where Amy interviews her therapist, Cindy White. In this sit-down interview, Amy and Cindy discuss how critical therapy can be to managing a more healthy life for yourself to how healing your trauma can help you heal your eating disorder. Cindy gives insights into EMDR, CBT, among other treatment methods, and touches on how therapy can and is becoming more accessible to wider audiences. They discuss how to best "break up" with a therapist you're not getting along with, to what therapy looks like for first-timers, to how critical and useful it can be to have therapy goals to get the most out of your sessions.

You can follow the podcast on Instagram @theeatingdisorderdiaries
If you want someone to talk to or are interested in collaborating, email Amy at [email protected].

The online services that connect therapy seekers with mental health care providers who accept insurance discussed in the episode are found here:

• Headway
• Sondermind

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