I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting

that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.

I could touch but never hold.

Hello there.

You're listening to the Soberfall podcast, and I would like to welcome Brittany Davis to the show.

Hi, Brittany.

Hello.

Thanks for having me.

Now, Brittany is the senior regional director

of the Emily program. And I'm going to ask you about the Emily program. Well, why don't you

tell us what it is? The subject of today's podcast is the relationship between eating disorders

and substance use and addiction. So tell us about the Emily program.

Yeah, the Emily program is an eating disorder treatment organization throughout the country.

It originated in Minnesota and now is located in Ohio, Washington State, Minnesota,

North Carolina, and Georgia.

We treat individuals with eating disorders

throughout all levels of care from standard outpatient where you would see a therapist or a

dietitian weekly, maybe an hour, or even less all the way up to inpatient treatment,

where folks are in 24-7 support may require things like feeding tubes,

are seeing medical providers very frequently, and then we step down through all of it.

So we often would say we just treat eating disorders. And a reason why we're talking about

we're talking about today is that's not the case. Everyone struggles with a lot of things

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