#56: Eating Disorder Recovery & Becoming a Recovered Clinician with Melainie Rogers of BALANCE Eating Disorder Treatment Center
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2016
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week marks three years that we've been making the podcast! To celebrate, Christy talks with her colleague and mentor Melainie Rogers, founder of Balance Eating Disorder Treatment Center in New York City. Melainie shares how growing up in a farming family influenced her relationship to food, how she developed and recovered from an eating disorder, why she began sharing her recovery story with clients, and lots more. Plus hear how the podcast and Melainie helped change the course of Christy's career!
Melainie Rogers, MS, RD, CEDRD is a registered dietitian and Founder of BALANCE Eating Disorder Treatment Center in New York City. BALANCE offers a variety of outpatient programs including a day treatment program, an evening intensive outpatient program, an adolescent program, nutritional counseling, and a men’s group. Melainie is a nationally recognized expert on eating disorders and has spoken at national and international professional conferences on various topics related to the research and treatment of eating disorders. She works extensively to support the eating disorder community and specializes in the treatment of binge eating disorder (BED).
Melainie is the co-creator of the Reframing Recovery treatment model, uniquely designed to treat clients suffering from BED. Among her many affiliations, Melainie Rogers is the founder and recent past president of the New York City Chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) and an Executive Board Member of the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia (CSAB). She is also an IAEDP Approved Supervisor in the treatment of eating disorders. Melainie has appeared on television and radio including the Today Show, The Early Show, MSNBC, and others. Find her on Twitter @MelainieRogers and online at Balancedtx.com.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 56. |
| 0:17.6 | This is a very special episode because this week is actually the three year anniversary |
| 0:22.1 | of when I started working on the podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | It's really amazing how much things have changed since then because when I first started out |
| 0:28.5 | I still had a lot of unexplored corners of my own relationship to food and I was really |
| 0:33.7 | curious about other people's experiences because I knew that we all have our own journey |
| 0:38.7 | and our own struggles and some of us struggle more than others. |
| 0:42.0 | So my own struggles in my 20s had made me feel very alone and ashamed and when I started |
| 0:48.1 | to listen to interview podcasts where people revealed dark secrets about themselves and |
| 0:54.0 | parts of their history including issues with food I started to feel a lot less alone and |
| 0:58.6 | that's kind of what sparked the idea for foodseic. |
| 1:01.3 | So when I came up with the idea the aim was just to explore people's relationships to food |
| 1:06.1 | in all their various forms and to show listeners who might be struggling that they're not alone. |
| 1:11.0 | But something really interesting happened because of that. |
| 1:13.6 | On episode 13 which I recorded in the summer of 2013 I spoke to two guests who both had |
| 1:19.6 | eating disorders that went under the radar and were never really given an official diagnosis |
| 1:24.0 | or formal treatment. |
| 1:25.0 | I called that episode anorexish and I recognized that my own history was very much the same |
| 1:30.6 | as theirs and I started really reflecting on what I had gone through and you know realizing |
| 1:36.7 | though a lot of people silently struggle with eating disorders and never receive a diagnosis |
| 1:41.2 | or proper treatment because they don't quote look sick enough or don't reach a weight |
| 1:46.4 | that's considered medically unstable and I recognized that I had actually been one of those |
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