Bleep Midlife Bulimia

Send us Fan Mail It was so fun to meet Mike Allen, known as "the sugar-free man," to discuss his journey into sugar-free living and his work helping others with food addiction. Mike shared how he became the sugar-free man during the pandemic after growing up in a family where sugar was heavily consumed as a form of "love," and how his recovery from alcohol addiction at age 28 l...

Send us Fan Mail Quick recap LaurieAnn interviewed Lee Atherton, founder of Phoenix Rising and a psychiatric service dog advocate, for her podcast "Bleep Bulimia." Lee shared her personal journey with bulimia and how her service dog Shadow helped her through depression and anxiety after losing her brother to a drug overdose. They discussed the potential for training service dogs to assis...

Send us Fan Mail This was a podcast interview between LaurieAnn, the host of "Bleep Bulimia," and Sherry Shaban, the creator of the Make Peace With Food method and an anti-diet health coach. Sherry shared her journey from a chemistry master's student to a health and fitness professional, explaining how her disordered eating patterns emerged after years of following various diet tren...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast episode featured Kamy Moussavi, founder of Step Together, sharing his personal journey with eating disorders and how he transitioned from engineering to helping families address similar issues. Kamy described how his eating disorder began at age 13 when his mother taught him purging techniques, and how he struggled with binge eating and purging throughout his teenage...

Send us Fan Mail Russell Van Brocklen, a New York State Senate-funded dyslexia researcher, discussed his method for overcoming dyslexia using the University of Chicago's "The Craft of Research." He shared his journey from overcoming his own dyslexia through law school's Socratic method to creating a successful dyslexia program, achieving significant improvements in students&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Mallary and I discussed an upcoming Zoom event focused on eating disorder recovery, particularly exploring the "middle place" between being actively sick and full recovery.  I shared my personal experience of how recovery brought color back into my life after experiencing black-and-white dreams during my struggle with bulimia.  Mallary confirmed the event details about h...

Send us Fan Mail Honest and crazy things we do when we have an eating disorder... this we share in this episode!!  Seriously, I know my listeners would engage with this story... Overview is "facts", this Podcast is more than that... it's about feelings... and where, how far we go with them when we have an eating disorder... in a kind and relatable way. An overview... I spoke with Ro...

Send us Fan Mail How safe do you feel in your body?  GazitChaya tells us how to find the way to do that. This is a really great conversation about finding safety in our bodies.  What does that mean?  Listen and find out.  I really enjoyed this conversation.  How to take care of your body.  About self-inquiry.  About basic needs.  Movement, mindfulness, creativity, and tasting safety.  About breaki...

Send us Fan Mail Christine Trimpe is a Christian Health and Wellness Coach and Sugar Addiction Specialist. Ten years ago, Christine and her husband were celebrating their 25th anniversary going to the mountains, and were going on a 1/2 mile trail.  She didn't make it through.  She told her husband to keep going, and she sat at the side of the mountain.  It was that moment in her life that was...

Send us Fan Mail Stanley Bronstein is an Attorney, CPA turned Life Coach. Stanley's "relationship" with food started when he was 8 years old.  His mother died when he was 8, and he lived with his father, who was morbidly obese, and their eating habits were not healthy. At 50 years old, he asked himself where he would be in five years if he kept doing what he was doing.  He said he w...

Send us Fan Mail Nan Saysana is a Weight Loss Coach speaking on relationship with food. Nan was a binge eater for 30 years, and she said it was the pain of binge eating that led her through her journey.  She tried so many things that didn't work.  She promised that if one day she did find something that worked, she would share it with the world. She felt food was the problem.  It was listenin...

Send us Fan Mail Just a quick episode celebrating my 15 years of being free of bulimia.  Some people prefer to use "recovery" as a term.  If I were to be imprisoned and be let go, that means freedom, and this is how I see my getting out of prison, food jail.  And coming out of it, I found solace and learned to be friends and enjoy each other's company without being archenemies.  Foo...

Send us Fan Mail Fitz is a Floridian.  She has been teaching fitness since she was fourteen, which is a bit of a twist.  A twist, because when you listen to her story, you will understand. She said her major missteps when she was younger, and she is six years cancer-free! Being a Floridian, she was in good shape yet small and scrawny.  Yet she was bullied by her older sister.  (Who does that to th...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Matt Johnson.  As a Hypnotherapist and NLP coach, he helps people overcome challenges and emotional scars. What inspired him to follow this path was, first, his head injury and his inability to be around light and sound.  He lived in the basement, in darkness. He searched for healing.  Some helped; however, the drugs he was given were not the full solution to brain damage.  H...

Send us Fan Mail Grow to love yourself! I like what Bianca shares.  Honesty.  She is a licensed Mental Health Counselor and Co-Founder of The Evolve Ventures Podcast and Business.  She is also the Director of Therapy for Evolve Ventures Technologies LLC. She speaks to the relationship with self.  Growing up in a chaotic home and being a scapegoat led Bianca to pursue this path.  She shares that sh...

Send us Fan Mail What a lovely story Ethan shares.  I think one thing that came out of this that really moved me was his being there and listening to a friend who had bulimia before he even knew how to help.  The big thing!  He listened even if he wasn't quite sure what to do.  He was present even if he didn't know what to do.  That speaks volumes to who he is. Ethan, himself, struggled...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome Caroline Kobylinsky, Trauma Therapist, and fluent in cussing, crying, and ice-coffee fueled break throughs. Four years old and having an eating dismorphia?  As her "kiddo" this should never have been. Caroline has been in recovery since 2020.  She has a very supportive husband, understanding that her marriage was in jeopardy because of her eating disorder. Caroli...

Send us Fan Mail Raj Khedun is the inventor of the 3:3 insomnia hack.  I asked what his inspiration was to follow this path.  He tells the story of when he was three years old.  It was in a library.  Two books he picked guided him more than any other books.  One book was about dinosaurs.  He explains about how he was fascinated with evolving.  The other about planets.  He was fascinated by the col...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Betsy is so special.   Triple Board Certified Physician specializing in menopause and andropause.  I don't know why my typing adds a weird thing to the andro, but let's go with it.. I learned about stress, yeast, addictions, probiotics, from a very sweet and fun person. She's so delightful and worth listening to.   You can find her at www.pauseinstitute.com It&a...

Send us Fan Mail Emma Lyons is a trauma informed healer and founder of the Trauma Matrix. Emma was very depressed as a child, the invisible kind of depression that nobody really sees unless they really look.  All her life she thought she was the problem. She says she was brought up with this idea there's something wrong with her. It wasn't until much later in life that she started lookin...

Send us Fan Mail "A lot of times CEOs will just let a person go and not really kind of think about it and just kind of see what happened.  I let them know what's the cost of really digging in to see if there was a problem because man, if you can help them figure out what that problem is, that loyalty and that brand recognition of you were there for them at their lowest really stands out....

Send us Fan Mail Hilary Momberger Powers wants to send a message to this audience.  Recovered bulimic, but more so not leading with your wounds as a motivational speaker, life coach, and author. Hilary's mother was an anorexic, alcoholic, and drop-dead good-looking, and a Jackie Gleason girl. Now, with that being said, the daughter of the "Jackie Gleason Show" had to deal with this...

Send us Fan Mail Conscious Love.  What is it all about? Christian grew up in Cuba and moved to the US, where he spent his time working on relationships and working with women's empowerment as well. What was his calling for this?  He felt he had had that feeling since he was a child.  He wanted to be a priest at a young age.   Shift in consciousness is how he sees his work.   His empowerment o...

Send us Fan Mail What a wonderful time spent with Kerry.  Emotional and intriguing.  We shared our experiences.  I have to say, as a Podcast host, it's about my guest, and in this case, I felt such a connection that it was about "us".  "US" as a whole, who sometimes wonder if we had the wisdom when we were younger, if it would have made a difference. I don't usually h...

Send us Fan Mail This episode invites my special guest, Mallary Tenore Tarpley, who is a Journalism Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and Author of the memoir Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery. Mallary became anorexic after the death of her mother when she was twelve shortly after her mother passed away from breast cancer.  She didn't know how to deal with her...