Guest: Hannah Schuster | Attorney, Mediator & Nonprofit Founder
In this raw and wide-ranging conversation, Gila sits down with Hannah Schuster, a Lawrence, NY-based attorney, mediator, and nonprofit founder, to talk about her lifelong relationship with food, her body, and herself.
What starts at the childhood dinner table ends up covering eating disorder treatment, divorce, breast cancer, and the unexpected moments that changed everything.
What You'll Hear
- Growing up between two extremes, a father who showed love through food and a mother with a highly controlled approach to eating, and how both shaped Hannah's earliest experiences
- The shame and secrecy around food that started young, and how restriction laid the groundwork for years of struggle
- Her mother's breast cancer diagnosis in ninth grade, and how crisis in the family shifted Hannah's relationship with food
- Inpatient treatment at Renfrew Pennsylvania, what helped, and what didn't
- Moving through seminary, a young marriage, and law school with an eating disorder that kept pace with every life change
- The two things that genuinely shifted her brain, ketamine infusion therapy and unexpectedly, her own breast cancer diagnosis and bilateral mastectomy last year
- What it felt like to finally eat freely, maybe for the first time
This is Part One. Part Two is coming, we had way too much more to say in the best possible way!
If anything in this episode resonated and you're struggling, the Alliance for Eating Disorders Helpline is available at 1-866-662-1235.
Get Into It with Gila is hosted by Gila Glassberg, MS, RD, CDN, intuitive eating dietitian and counselor.
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