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Nutrition Matters Podcast

159: The Similarities and Distinctions Between Addictions & Eating Disorders

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Weightloss, Eatingdisorder, Kids & Family, Eating, Nutritionist, Nutrition, Health, Dietitian, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Food, Mindfulness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Amanda E. White is a licensed professional counselor and yoga teacher. She specializes in working with women with eating disorders, substance use disorders and trauma and specifically how they overlap and intersect. She is in recovery from a substance use disorder as well as eating disorder. She owns a private practice in Philadelphia, Therapy for Women. Amanda also leads yoga and mental health retreats, using the physical practice of yoga along with the power of group therapy to allow people to break free from patterns that are keeping them stuck.
 
Amanda shares her personal story of struggling with both substance use disorder in addition to an eating disorder. She explains this intersection and explores the difficult road of recovery both from her personal perspective as well as her perspective as a therapist. She talks about the role that the desire for control played in her struggle with these disorders as well explains how to develop a more healthy relationship with our emotions. Amanda is a big believer in her experiences of pain have been the impetus for deeper purpose and have helped her find meaning in her life.
 
Amanda talks about:
  • Food addiction theory and limitations
  • Her experience of finding healing in the intersection of eating disorders and substance use disorders
  • The role control played in her disorders
  • Emotional granularity
  • The role of emotion in our coping mechanisms
  • Finding Intuitive Eating
  • The wisdom of retrospect: how her painful experiences have brought meaning to her life
 
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You're listening to Nutrition Matters podcast with Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist.

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Nutrition Matters podcast explores how to approach food and your body in a whole new way.

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I interview people who share stories and expertise in rejecting diet culture, making peace with food,

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and discovering a more positive, realistic, and sustainable approach

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to health and well-being. I'm Paige Smathers, registered dietitian, nutritionist, and owner of

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positive nutrition, an in-person nutrition therapy practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. I offer

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1:25.0

Hello, everyone.

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Welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast and thanks so much for

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joining me today. Every once in a while I like to just sit back and think, wow, it's kind of

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amazing that I talk into a microphone and interview someone that I think is really cool and have a

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conversation and then put it out there and real humans, you know, end up,

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end up hearing my voice and end up hearing my guest voice and learning from them and their

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