Join me for coffee and chats about everything and nothing at the same time. This is the life of a secret introvert.
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My great-grandfather had to make a sacrifice in order to escape the Nazis. Listen to find out how he survived.
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Would you like to learn how to love yourself more, to be truly kind to yourself, no matter what kind of stress or challenge is happening in your life or in the world? Would you like to get along better with your loved ones? Healers/teachers Diana Zaheer and Sheira Kahn invite you into moments of their lifelong friendship. With its deep conversations -- blending ancient teachings, modern psychology and spiritual wisdom -- this podcast breaks new ground by welcoming you into their relationship ...
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It's Not About Food podcast is about learning how to love and accept the body you have, re-learn how to eat intuitively and to know how to take care of your emotions.
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Feelings come from the deepest part of ourselves and are a guide to what we are learning, who we are as beings plus where we want and long to go. They are here to show us when our boundaries are crossed, how to love and allow ourselves to be loved, how get in touch with our own truth; body, mind and soul and then know how to feel all of it. The aud…
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Visualization to set up a more positive and loving interaction between you and you.
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First, there will be a few moments of a guided meditative exercise. Next, you will be guided towards talking to your body and then listening to your body. Afterwards, you will have tools to better understand your body and its needs and wants. Which will bring you closer to the goal of loving and taking care of yourself- body, mind, and soul. ★ Supp…
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Episode 7B: Eating Disorders are a Cry from our Deepest Soul With Special Guest Carol Normandi
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Episode 173: Trust with Special Guest Wendy Welsher
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Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need. About Wen…
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Episode 8B: Recovery from an Eating Disorder is not a Linear Process w/ Margaret Burton
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Recovery from an Eating Disorder is not a Linear Process. This podcast is looking at true recovery. It requires many layers of learning that unfold uniquely, spontaneously and independently. As we go around the spiral of recovery we often hit a stressor, which takes us back to our behavior. But we learn how to work ourselves out of it and get back …
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Episode 136: Feelings and Diet Thoughts with Special Guest Sheira Kahn
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Sheira Kahn is a Marriage and Family Therapist and fully recovered bulimic. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Ms. Kahn taught in the UC Berkeley Extension certificate program in Eating and Weight Disorders for ten years. In the 1990s, she studied inner critic disengagement with Byron Brown and natu…
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Episode 64: Body Wisdom with Special Guest Chevese Turner
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Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies. With over 25 years of experience, Chevese Turner is an internationally recog…
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Episode 121: Observation with Special Guest Alexia Redner
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Alexa Redner is currently a mentor teacher for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Program, training people from all over the world to become certified mindfulness teachers. She also works a Mindfulness teacher for Cloud Sangha, guiding people in small groups to deepen their meditation practice in community. Alexa holds a BA in V…
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Episode 150: Trusting the Process with Special Guest Dr. Marcella Raimondo
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Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfold uniquely and spontaneously. “Trusting the Process” means that we all work through these experiences and issues in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don’t have to waste precious time comparing ourselves to others. Marc…
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Episode 157: Feelings and Fat Thoughts with Special Guest Carol Normandi
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Fat thoughts are the kind of thoughts we have when we are criticizing our bodies, calling them too fat, too ugly, too big, or too “whatever”. These thoughts are learned from our culture’s fat prejudice and body hatred. Sometimes when we are young and experience shame or uncomfortable feelings, we change them into body hatred. When we begin to under…
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Episode 158: Faith with Special Guest Rex Dubiel
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Faith is trusting that there is a loving source of which you are a part. Having faith means that you can let go of fear and tight control and trust that there is great wisdom within you and around you, allowing yourself to breathe and listen for spiritual guidance. Having faith means that even though the recovery process may become difficult and da…
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Episode 161: Creativity with Artist George Horner
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Creativity is the outward manifestation of who we are as spiritual beings. It is the magical ability to create something out of nothing that is uniquely ours. It is the gift of being able to imagine, to dream, and then to make the dreams come true. Creative expression is essential to feeding our souls. It forced us to go beneath the obsession with …
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Episode 167: Honoring with Special Guest Emily Cox
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Honoring means we understand we are sacred beings and our bodies are sacred. They are not objects to be sculpted and forced to meet cultural ideals. They are not a commodity to manipulate in order to measure our self-worth. By de-objectifying and creating reverence for our bodies, we become free to experience the wisdom, magnificence and magic of o…
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Episode 127: Body Wisdom with Special Guest Jen Powers
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Jen Powers is a local Non-Diet Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Certified Yoga Teacher specializing in eating disorders, healing chronic dieting, HAES, and intuitive eating. She received her Bachelor's in Nutrition at UC Berkeley and Master's in Nutrition at CSU Long Beach where she worked closely with Ev…
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Episode 145: Satisfaction with Special Guest Robyn Goldberg
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Robyn is a nationally renowned contributing author registered dietitian nutritionist. She has been quoted as an expert in various publications including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Diabetes Forecast, Shape Magazine, Fitness, Oxygen, Life & Style, Natural Solutions, Beverly Hills Weekly and Today’s Dietitian. In addition, Robyn has also…
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Episode 168: Expression with Special Guest Karen Louise Scheuner
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Expressing our feelings and ourselves is the only way to live our truth in our bodies, hearts and souls. Many times we have been taught that to express our feelings is harmful to others and ourselves, but if we learn how to express our feelings honestly and constructively it is beneficial to everyone Karen Louise Scheuner is a California based weig…
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Episode 141: Beyond Hunger Peer Educators - The 3 Prongs of Recovery
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In this podcast, I interview three of my fabulous peer educators. Each one will talk about the 3 prongs of recovery from eating disorders and body hatred. These awesome young women get trained to go into classrooms with me all over the Bay Area and present a message of hope, knowledge, prevention, and recovery for students. Whether the students hav…
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Episode 56: 3 Prong Recovery & Prevention Model of Beyond Hunger Presentations of the Peer Educators
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3 prong recovery and prevention model of Beyond Hunger Presentations of the Peer Educators. The 3 prong model we teach is body acceptance, intuitive eating and emotional wisdom. In this show I interview 3 of our recent peer educators about how they go into schools and talk about how to recover from disordered eating and body dissatisfaction as well…
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Episode 49: Spiral with Special Guest Maria Raquel Pandey
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Spiral with Maria Raquel Pandeyhe mrgramajo@gmail.com Recovery process is not linear, but rather like a spiral. As we begin our journey of recovery around the spiral, we will meet many layers of life experiences that trigger disordered eating and body hatred behaviors. Even though we are once again doing these behaviors, we are not at the same star…
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Episode 172: Fullness with Special Guest Lisa Baty
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Fullness is the bodily experience of having just enough to eat…not too much and not too little. When we slow down, stay conscious and go within, we can hear and feel this natural bodily sensation. Every person experiences fullness differently, and some of us have learned to ignore this signal. To experience fullness you may need to practice listeni…
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Episode 171: Compassion with Special Guest Desiree McGunagle
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Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for all the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self-hatred we have carried for so long, and use out compassion to bring love, understanding, and then if necessary, change. Desiree McGunagle has been in recovery f…
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Episode 170: Body Wisdom with Special Guest Kait Greenberg
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Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy out needs and accept our natural bodies. Kait Fortunato Greenberg is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Ea…
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Episode 169: Recovery with Special Guest Margo MaGowan
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This show is about how recovery is not only beneficial to ourselves but to all who come into contact with us. It’s good for us, our neighborhood, our town, our state, our country and our world. Margot Magowan is a writer and commentator. Her blog Reel Girl is dedicated to imagining gender equality in the fantasy world. Reel Girl's posts have also b…
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Episode 166: with Artist Daniela Johnson-Rongstadd
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This show is about finding, discovering, owning, and sharing your art and passion with the world. What ever your niches is there are those who get it, want it and are so so happy to be with your artistic gifts. Let your light shine. Daniela Johnson-Rongstadd Instagram: @calirockchick ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…
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Episode 165: Purpose with Special Guest Jessica Setnick
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Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path to our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listenin…
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Episode 164: with Financial Advisor Lillian Meyers
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This show is about learning how to work with money and financial health. Many people who have addictions, compulsions, and difficulties also have issues with money. Lillian give us very straightforward and much-needed advice on how to navigate the twists and turns of money. Lillian Meyers is both the founder and president of Meyers Financial Servic…
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Episode 163: Divinity with Special Guest Christa Reynolds
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Divinity All that comes through us is divine because we are divine. A long time ago our bodies were considered to be the image of the devine, yet at some point we started seeing our bodies as objects to be sculpted into someone else’s idea of perfection. Every ounce of us is divine. When we start to accept this, just as we accept our bodies and fee…
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Episode 162: Trust with Special Guest Andrea Atherton
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Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need. andreaath…
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Episode 160: Awareness with Special Guest Stephanie Searle
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Awareness is awakening to ourselves exactly as we are in the present moment. In order to heal our struggle with food and weight, we must become aware of eating patterns, emotions, bodily sensations, and diet/fat thoughts. Only by watching and working with ourselves in the moment, can we truly understand what we need. Stephanie Searle Health Teacher…
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Episode 159: Spirituality with Author Margo Maine
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At the heart of every person is a yearning from the deepest part of our souls that must be heard. It is a desire to awaken, embrace our whole selves, and see past the limitations we have put on ourselves. It is the knowing that we are connected with a universal love and spiritual presence that holds the flame of our true essence of love and light. …
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Episode 156: Reflection with Special Guest Elaine Santos
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Reflection is the ability to see your true self mirrored back to you. Unfortunately we spend most of our lives using the mirror as a way to judge the imperfections in our appearance, which is a limited and biased perception of who we are. By changing how we see our reflection, we can expand and transform our vision to include the beauty of our true…
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Episode 155: Trust with Special Guest Starr Kelton-Locke
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Starr Kelton-Locke Trust Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can then listen and unders…
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Episode 154: Trusting the Process with Special Guest Katy Damani
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Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfold uniquely and spontaneously. "Trusting the process" means that we all work through these experiences and issues at our own pace and in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don’t have to waste precious time comparing ourse…
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Episode 153: Body Wisdom with Host of Wining with Nurses Sarah Hijjeh
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Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spirituality. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies. Sarah Hijjeh is a Registered Nurse of 15 years and a whitewater raft guide.…
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Episode 152: Miracles with Host of The Women Waken Podcast Whitney Walker
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In this recovery, there are many miracles. We have the choice to either to embrace the miracles and take part in them, or step around and deny them. As we open our hearts to our recovery and let it guide and teach us, we receive many gifts. We develop compassion for ourselves and others, we create a healthier relationship with our mind, body, and s…
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Episode 151: Inhabit with Special Guest Constance Hart
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Inhabit means to live our bodies, not in our heads. When we learn to be present in our bodies, to move out of the obsessive thinking and into our feelings, we can learn to identify and meet our physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. First, we must be aware that we are in the obsession, in the thinking, in the head. Then we can use our breath to …
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Episode 43: Acceptance with Special Guest Janice Bremis
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Episode 149: Purpose with Special Guest Ashley Thompson
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Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path of our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listenin…
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Episode 148: Creativity with Special Guest Osha Hayden
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Osha Hayden is host and producer of the Aspire With Osha: art, nature, humanity podcast and is a Certified Life Coach who is passionate about empowering positive change. Her background as psychotherapist, mediator, trainer and artist informs her work. She earned an M.A. in Psychology, Couple and Family Therapy. Visit her here: https://oshahayden.co…
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Episode 147: Body Talk with Special Guest Claire Hansen
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Claire Hansen is a Bay Area personal trainer and nutrition coach. Claire uses her knowledge in physical and mental fitness in combination with her personal experience with eating disorders, addiction, and successful recovery to help others lead healthy, happy lives. LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/claire-hansen-89b00469 Instagram @coach.claireh Fac…
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Episode 146: Faith with Comedian Jennifer Mason
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Jennifer Mason is an acupuncturist turned comic in San Diego, California. When she isn’t busy stabbing people, she’s running the Sofa King Funny shows or teaching Stand Up for Scaredy Cat workshops on Zoom. She changes the lives of women and other unlikely comics by guiding them to create a tight 5-minute set from their life that they can drop into…
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Episode 144: Spirituality with Artist Liana Steinmetz
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Liana Steinmetz is a landscape artist, painting often outdoors from life. Liana attributes her connection with nature and expresses that her connection with paint is vital to maintaining a loving relationship with herself and her body. Liana lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California with her son, husband, and quirky dog. ★ Support this pod…
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Episode 143: Creativity with Artist Aislinn Daugherty
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Email: aislinn.daugherty@gmail.com Instagram: @aiz.lin ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By Laurelee Roark
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Episode 142: Nurture with Special Guest Lynne Moquete
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Lynne Moquete, M.P.H. Mom Executive Director, Una Vida - www.una-vida.org Visit smile.amazon.com to support Una Vida ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By Laurelee Roark
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Episode 140: Awareness with Special Guest Margaret Wallace
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Margaret Wallace, is a Recreation Therapist based in San Rafael. She works in Senior Fitness and Travel. More information about her and her work can be found at imakefitnessfun.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By Laurelee Roark
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Episode 139: Reparenting with Special Guest Alana Van Der Sluys
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Alana Van Der Sluys is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, author, speaker, and eating disorder survivor. She is the founder of Freedom with Food and Fitness, an online community dedicated to empowering those who want to heal their relationship with food, weight, and their bodies through intuitive eating and mindset work. Her book, Freedom with…
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In Episode 11, Diana and Sheira invite us into the most uncomfortable territory in our lives -- being in a fight. They offer new understanding and tools for conflict: how to be present for it, without reverting to our history as the default. They introduce us to the best insurance policy for being in a fight -- a safe and compassionate relationship…
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Episode 138: Acceptance with Special Guest Jaclyn Lee
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Jaclyn Lee is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a virtual private practice that focuses on supporting clients heal from disordered eating. Jaclyn holds a masters degree in counseling psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies. She also has extensive experience in the field of eating disorders through internship and trainin…
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Episode 137: Honoring with Author Joe Kelly
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Joe Kelly, BA, NCLC, is an author, educator, advocate, and a Family Coach for Within Health. He’s spent more than a decade helping loved ones of people with eating disorders. A nationally certified life coach, Joe teaches tools and practices to resist the ways eating disorders hijack families. He also teaches treatment professionals how to engage c…
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