We are finally back with another episode, and this one is such a meaningful conversation with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, founder of the Gaudiani Clinic and author of Sick Enough. Dr. G brings so much compassion, clarity, and nuance to understanding eating disorders, undernourishment, and the medical realities through a weight-inclusive lens. This conversation is full of reminders that eating disorders make sense, bodies are not broken, and healing requires support, nourishment, attunement, and deep respect for someone’s lived experience.

What we talk about with Dr. G:

  • The connection between weight stigma and eating disorders
  • The cave person brain and how the body and mind respond to food restriction
  • Why feeling “out of control” around food isn’t a lack of willpower or a sugar addiction
  • How someone’s ability to sustain restriction can change over time 
  • Fears about letting go of eating rules and post-restriction primal eating 
  • How weight stigma reinforces restriction 
  • The different genetic variations in how someone’s body responds to under-eating
  • The different layers of the concept of Sick Enough
  • Developmental needs and how they connect to EDs
  • How an ED makes sense and we need to honor someone’s lived experience
  • The importance of attunement and learning how to self-attune and self-regulate in recovery
  • Menopause, ageism, body changes throughout life, and the common ED fear that someone needs less food when recovering later in life 
  • How the metabolism actually works
  • The normalization of under-eating in our culture


Buy the book: Sick Enough 2nd Ed.

https://www.amazon.com/Sick-Enough-Jennifer-L-Gaudiani/dp/1041036485


Link to The Gaudiani Clinic's website:

https://www.gaudianiclinic.com/


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Disclaimer: The content in this podcast reflects our own experiences and opinions and our guests and should not be taken as mental health or medical advice.

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