The Damaging Duo: Eating Disorders & OCD with Kate Huffman
Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser
Dr. Ron Kaiser
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🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The world we’re living in has taught us all that part of our value is based on what our body looks like.
This unfortunate and untrue teaching has caused more people to suffer from a wide array of disordered eating. Eating disorders aren’t as simple as looking unhealthily thin; they can consume people of all body types and genders. Recognizing that eating disorders go beyond food and are a component of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues is a key step in understanding them.
In today’s episode, I am joined by Kate Huffman, an award-winning actor, writer, and certified body image coach. Kate helps people to reclaim the time, energy, and money wasted on the endless war with their bodies so they can live freely and confidently. Her life changed when she told her story of 20 years of secret eating disorders, OCD, and chronic body pain in her award-winning show, I Am Too Fat For This Show.
Tune in to Episode 62 of Rejuvenaging to better understand eating disorders from someone who is currently in recovery and how you can spread body positivity.
Some Questions I Ask
- Do you still act and write? (3:46)
- What do you think caused your eating disorders? (11:03)
- Does the OCD go away when you’re recovered from an eating disorder? (15:25)
- What was your medication for? (20:33)
- Did part of you ever think you were harming your body? (21:39)
- Any particular advice you have for older listeners? (29:04)
- How has chronic pain impacted you? (31:27)
- What does working with you look like? (35:51)
In This Episode You Will Learn
- About Kate’s show - I Am Too Fat For This Show (4:52)
- The journey of Kate’s eating disorder recovery (7:17)
- How OCD and eating disorders correlate (14:23)
- How meditation has impacted Kate’s life (17:32)
- Why the number on the scale doesn’t measure health (22:08)
- Kate’s recommendations for fostering more body positivity (25:20)
- The great comparison of body positivity with trees (27:34)
- Kate’s surprising diagnosis of Lyme Disease (33:40)
Connect with Kate:
Free Offer From Kate:
Useful Rejuvenaging Resources:
- Website: https://www.thementalhealthgym.com/
- Book: Dr. Ron Kaiser -Rejuvenaging: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm
- Email: ron.kaiser@thementalhealthgym.com
- TEDx Talk: Aging Enthusiastically to Make the World a Better Place
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. |
| 0:22.0 | This is a podcast designed to help you live your life enthusiastically. |
| 0:27.0 | Today, tomorrow, and every other day. |
| 0:30.0 | I am your host, Ron Kaiser, I'm a positive health psychologist |
| 0:34.0 | and also author of the award-winning and best-selling book, |
| 0:39.0 | Rejuvenaging the Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm. |
| 0:44.0 | My website is the Mental Health Gym. |
| 0:47.0 | It's the source of information for all things related to positive psychology, |
| 0:52.0 | our concept of goal achieving psychology, rejuvenaging, and wellness in general. |
| 0:59.0 | Listeners to the podcast know that most of our episodes feature individuals |
| 1:05.0 | who not only lead their own lives enthusiastically, |
| 1:09.0 | but have different spins on helping us to lead our lives with greater enthusiasm, |
| 1:15.0 | greater wellness, and hopefully greater longevity. |
| 1:20.0 | Today, we are especially fortunate, I'm really proud to have Kate Huffman with us. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm really looking forward to talking with her, finding out some of her answers to questions I have. |
| 1:35.0 | Kate is an award-winning actor and writer and certified body image coach. |
| 1:42.0 | Seems like quite an interesting combination just off the bat. |
| 1:47.0 | Kate helps people to reclaim the time, energy, and money wasted on the endless war with their bodies |
| 1:55.0 | so that they can live freely and confidently in alignment with their purpose. |
| 2:00.0 | After a decade of professional work as an actor, her life changed when she told her story of 20 years |
| 2:08.0 | of secret eating disorders combined with OCD and body chronic pain. |
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