You are listening to the Blond Files podcast and I am your host Arielle Lori. I am currently in the process of redoing my intro for the podcast.

I really want to capture the essence of what this show is about and my mission so

Bear with me as I just dive right into it like this with no music and you know none of the frills. Anyway that doesn't make

this any less of an amazing episode. It's actually one of my favorites. It is

with Meg Newman who is a licensed marriage and family therapist.

Full disclosure she's also been my therapist for the past six years. In this

episode we talk a lot about trauma about survival mechanisms, eating disorders, and

disordered eating because there is a difference.

Perfectionism and anxiety.

And then we also talk about solutions and

becoming friends with ourselves and with our bodies

and how to support ourselves through these issues. So we don't really talk about

anything specific, but we do talk about trauma and she talks a bit about her training with sexual assault victims and so if any of these things are triggering for you consider this a trigger warning.

I don't really know what that encompasses, but I see that things come

with trigger warnings now. So I figured, why not? We talk about these things, so if you're sensitive to any of that, now you know.

Proceed with caution, but it really isn't, you know, like I said, we don't get into nitty gritty.

We just talk more about

the different types of trauma and different ways it manifests and how to cope with it and

how to seek help and what disordered eating might look like and what it could be a

symptom of and same with perfectionism and different modalities of treating these things.

So again, no specifics.

A little bit about Meg, she's like I said a licensed marriage and family therapists.

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