64: Healing from Trauma, PTSD, and Struggles with Food: #DontMissIt with Jenni Schaefer
Nutrition Matters Podcast
Paige Smathers
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Happy Eating Recovery Day! May 2 is a day where we shed light on signs and symptoms of eating disorders to help increase awareness to ensure that friends, family and healthcare professionals don't miss the chance to help someone who is struggling.
This year's theme for Eating Recovery Day is #dontmissit. This theme is SO great because it can mean different things to different people. To some, that means don't miss the chance to recover, for others, it means don't miss out on life and all of its precious moments. No matter how you interpret the don't miss it theme, it's an important message to keep in mind as you navigate creating a healthier relationship with food and your body.
I brought the fabulous Jenni Schaefer on the podcast to talk about her own experience of missing out on signs and symptoms of PTSD for many years during her eating disorder recovery. Jenni is an internationally known writer and speaker whose work has helped shape and change the face of eating disorder recovery. She has written many books including Life Without Ed, Almost Anorexic and Goodbye Ed, Hello Me.
In this episode we talk about Jenni's journey of discovering that she had PTSD and her path toward healing. She talks candidly about trauma and how she put her healing first. Her story is an important example of this year's theme of #dontmissit.
Even if you don't identify as struggling with an eating disorder or PTSD, this episode is a must-listen!
Links mentioned:
- Jenni's website: https://www.jennischaefer.com/
- Eating Recovery Day information
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| 1:03.9 | Hey everyone. Thanks so much for joining me for another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast. I'm Paige, |
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| 1:13.0 | So today, if you're listening to this on the day that it is being released, today is |
| 1:19.4 | Eating Recovery Day. So this year's theme is don't miss it, which encourages suffers of eating |
| 1:26.7 | struggles to seek treatment so they don't miss out |
| 1:29.5 | on pursuing goals in life and experiencing rewarding accomplishments that their disorder |
| 1:35.0 | would otherwise prevent them from enjoying. |
| 1:37.8 | And in today's episode, we talk about this theme in depth and we kind of take some different |
| 1:42.8 | approaches on what don't miss |
| 1:44.8 | it might mean for different people out there. So I think that you're going to really enjoy this |
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