Reclaiming Her Life: Atara Lasky's Inspiring Tale of Battling Her eating Disorder
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🗓️ 12 August 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Atara (Hermann) Lasky developed an eating disorder when she was in 8th grade.
In this episode we delve into her story of her battle with this awful illness.
She is joined on this episode by her mother, Chani Hermann, Associate Director at Yachad, and her father Daniel Hermann, a clinical psycologist in Bergen County.
We are listing the contact info for Atara, her father and her mother.
If you or someone you know is struggling with this, they are more than welcome to reach out to them for guidance and help.
Atara Lasky - +1 (917) 409‑7790
Chani Hermann - [email protected]
Daniel Hermann - [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | The brain that's starved isn't able to have this kind of rational discussion and realize that it's |
| 0:05.6 | killing itself. And therefore, the primary need is to recover the weight and get back to that |
| 0:13.2 | certain weight point. And since you don't have a willing participant because you can't, the brain |
| 0:18.3 | is completely hijacked, the idea is that the child will, under the direction of the family, |
| 0:23.8 | be guided towards getting this, you know, all of that weekend back, which is a very, very |
| 0:29.6 | challenging process. Essentially, I mean, meant that my husband and I sat for hours and hours on |
| 0:36.0 | ends for every single meal with a Tara, which is very hard to imagine. For them, it's like hard |
| 0:44.1 | to be dealing with that. For me, it's like asking someone to drink poison. That's what I felt |
| 0:48.9 | every second I had to eat. I remember the beginning when I have a memory of like, |
| 0:55.9 | you had a bowl of like, Entomans Donuts and like the pop-up thingies. And most people |
| 1:01.7 | I think loved me for the like, Entomans Donuts. You brought them down and you were like, |
| 1:07.6 | okay, like, you know, nighttime snack, whatever. And I was like, I was screaming and running away. |
| 1:13.9 | It felt like poison. I was like, I cannot put that in my body. |
| 1:17.6 | I feel like I couldn't. I was like, how are you making me eat that? That's how severe it felt. |
| 1:23.2 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Meaningful People podcast. |
| 1:27.6 | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming back for another week, another episode. Just a quick |
| 1:33.2 | trigger warning for this episode. This might be a sensitive topic for you. We discuss eating disorder |
| 1:39.8 | and other, you know, mental health-related topics in this episode, but specifically eating disorders. |
| 1:45.3 | So just wanted to put that out there. We sat down with Otara Lasky and her parents, |
| 1:49.9 | Daniel and Honey Herman. Incredible people. You'll hear all about it in this episode. I really do |
| 1:55.0 | think and believe that this episode will help many, many people around the world. So hit that share |
| 1:59.6 | button and share this episode with a friend. The big thank you to our friends at Albert and |
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