42: Eating Disorders & Addiction with Adina Silvestri

The Addicted Mind Podcast

Duane Osterlind, LMFT

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Mental Health

4.8 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast, we are joined by a returning guest, Adina Silvestri of Life Cycles Counseling in Richmond, Virginia. Adina’s practice works with individuals battling eating disorders partnered with addictions with the goal of transferring their shame to hope and healing.

The combination of eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating) with substance or other addictions is very harmful to the health and wellbeing of those struggling and can even lead to death in untreated cases. It is common for men and women to struggle with eating disorders and addictions for years, silently suffering due to their shame, before reaching out for help. While there is not much literature available on treating these two disorders together, Adina has found that mindfulness and support and accountability groups are effective and life-changing resources for those struggling.

In these situations, there is always an underlying issue that the individual is trying to heal or escape from, causing them to develop an eating disorder and/or an addiction. Armed with coping mechanisms and the support of family and friends, hope and healing can be found. If you are struggling, reach out for help right now. You are not alone and you do not have to handle this alone.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. This is episode 42. My name is Dwayne
0:11.4	Austerlund and I'm your host and I'm also the founder of Novice Mindful Life Institute
0:16.5	Family Counseling Recovery Center in Long Beach, California. If you or some of you know is struggling with any of life's difficulties, please reach out
0:25.5	to us and see if we can help.
0:27.2	You can find more information about us at theaddictedmind.com forward slash help.
0:33.0	So on today's episode, I have a returning guest.
0:35.8	Her name is Adina Sylvri. And she is going to
0:39.5	talk about the interaction between eating disorders and addiction and how we have to work with both
0:46.9	in order for anyone to get some long-term recovery. I think we have a great conversation about it.
0:53.6	And it's very insightful.
0:55.0	So I hope you enjoy this episode. Before we start, once again, if you're enjoying the
1:00.1	Addicted Mind, please go to iTunes and rate and review us. That really does help get the word out
1:06.2	and get this information out to more people. So I really appreciate it for the people who have done that.
1:11.6	Thank you very much. Okay, let's go ahead and start this episode.
1:20.1	Hello, everyone. Welcome to The Addicted Mind. My guest today is Adina Silvestri.
1:26.3	And it's so great to have you back, Adina.
1:29.5	It's awesome to hear from you again.
1:32.1	And we were kind of talking earlier, just a little while ago, about the topic that we're
1:37.4	going to talk about today.
1:38.4	And that's kind of the combination of eating disorders and addiction treatment.
1:43.7	So I'm great you're coming on because I think this is an issue that a lot of people struggle with.
1:49.6	And you want to reintroduce yourself?
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