EP79 - Finding Self-Worth Outside of Your Body w/ Jennifer Rollins of The Eating Disorder Center
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm speaking with the fantastic Jennifer Rollin, who is a Clinical Psychotherapist and Eating Disorder Specialist based in the US. We’re sharing loads of information about eating disorders, who gets them and why, we’re blowing some stereotypes out of the water, and talking about dos and don'ts if you’re supporting someone with an ED. Then we go on to talk more specifically about body image; how body bashing is a coping mechanism and ways to develop self-worth and value independent of your body which is a super important conversation regardless of whether or not you’ve experienced an eating disorder, so listen up!
In this episode we cover:
✨What having an ED is like
✨What EDs are and why people get them
✨Why stereotypes of EDs are so harmful and add to the stigma surrounding EDs
✨Warning signs of EDs and how to get help
✨ How best to support people in recovery
✨ How body bashing is a coping mechanisms for dealing with a deeper issue
✨ How to find self worth independent of your body
✨ Finally, we answer some listener questions, including, how can you lose weight while recovering from binge eating disorder
Show Notes
{Jennifer's Website}
{Jennifer on Instagram | Twitter | HuffPo}
{Podcast Episode with Not Plant Based on their experience living with an ED}
{BEAT warning signs poster}
{BEAT GP letter}
{Dieting and disordered eating behaviors from adolescence to young adulthood: Findings from a 10-year longitudinal study}{Project Heal Healer's Circle}
{The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris}
{Landwhale - Jes Baker}
{Find a ED counsellor in the UK}
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | She's got the expert guests to help you feel your best. |
| 0:06.4 | Shats down what diet shit? |
| 0:08.4 | You shouldn't bother wet. |
| 0:10.4 | Get all the real talk from the plant-based talk. |
| 0:14.5 | Feeling good's in the frame. |
| 0:16.4 | Now on Don't Salt My Game. |
| 0:20.1 | No, don't salt my game. Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. No, don't salt my game. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm Laura Thomas. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm a registered nutritionist, specializing in intuitive eating weight inclusive |
| 0:29.2 | and non-diet nutrition. |
| 0:31.1 | We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, food, |
| 0:35.0 | body positivity, and some other stuff thrown in for good measure. |
| 0:38.5 | So just a reminder that this is the last podcast before we switch to our summer short series, |
| 0:43.5 | which are little mini bite-sized pods that just get straight to the fucking point. |
| 0:48.0 | There will be a fresh episode every Friday like normal, but they will only be around 20 minutes a pop. |
| 0:55.8 | Some of you have been asking for dates for the next round of Food Fight, which is my online Intuitive Eating course and for my |
| 1:02.4 | CPD training course in Intuitive Eating for professionals. Both of these courses will start up again |
| 1:08.4 | in September and I'll let you know more about them closer |
| 1:11.7 | to the time. Just one quick little announcement. If I have done things correctly, then you should |
| 1:18.9 | now be able to get Don't Salt My Game on Spotify. Some of you have been asking about it. So hopefully |
| 1:24.0 | that makes it easier to listen to these episodes. |
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