02: Food Addiction and Eating Disorders with Janet Whitney
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The more we learn about the addicted mind, the more we can begin to understand how trauma, disorders, and addictions really are interrelated. Today, we are thrilled to take that exploration to a personal level through the eyes of Janet Whitney. Janet is a Licensed Family and Marriage Therapist, but she is also a devoted mother. No mom would ever want to walk with their child through a life-threatening illness, even less so when it is something as slippery as an eating disorder.
Since she was very young, Janet’s daughter, Hannah, has battled anorexia and eating disorders in a slow fight to recovery. By supporting her daughter through a long healing journey, Janet now wants to share her unique insight into the inner-workings of recovery and therapy.
Recovery from eating disorders and addiction is similar: so similar that Janet has used her own life experiences to inform and shape her own practice. Today, it is time to get out of the theoretical exploration and into the personal. The insights to be learned here are not to be underestimated.
- Exploring the similarities of food disorders and other addictions.
- Janet shares her daughter’s story and struggle with an eating disorder.
- Changing the narrative around eating disorders.
- The time it takes to get through a disease like eating disorders.
- The role of trauma in addiction.
- A close look at the Conscientious Dissenter study to see the effects of starvation in the body.
- Self-care and dealing with your own anxiety while being a safety zone for loved ones.
- The factors that played a role in Hannah’s recovery.
- A call for parents to help their child while they can! Tough love can save their life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I am excited to launch this podcast off with this next guest. |
| 0:13.0 | Her name is Janet Whitney. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a practice in Newport Beach. |
| 0:19.0 | She is also the author of the book Facing Your Fears, Following |
| 0:22.5 | Your Dreams, and Finding Success, which I highly encourage you guys to check out. She has a great |
| 0:29.4 | story to share with us today. And I'm really honored to have her be the first guest on this |
| 0:34.9 | podcast. She and I met approximately 12 years ago when we |
| 0:39.5 | were working together training to treat sex addiction. And since then, Janet has gone on to build |
| 0:45.3 | several recovery programs for sex addiction as well as eating disorders. What's great about today |
| 0:50.9 | is that she's going to share her personal story of helping her |
| 0:54.6 | daughter, Hannah, overcome an eating disorder and really fight for her daughter's life. |
| 1:00.6 | I hope you guys enjoy this first episode and I hope it's really helpful. |
| 1:05.1 | So here you go. |
| 1:07.0 | So welcome everybody to the Addicted Mind podcast. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm really excited today to have our guest, Janet Whitney, come on. |
| 1:14.3 | And she's going to share her story about her and her daughter and their struggle with her eating disorder |
| 1:22.2 | and how she was able to get recovery and continue to maintain some recovery. |
| 1:28.7 | So Janet, do you want to introduce yourself a little bit? |
| 1:31.6 | Sure. |
| 1:32.1 | Thanks, Dwayne. |
| 1:33.1 | I'm a licensed therapist, but more than that, I'm a mother of somebody who has an eating |
| 1:38.1 | disorder, and I'm an author of a book called Facing Your Fears and Following Your Dreams. |
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