It's Not About Food Podcast with Laurelee Roark

Margaret Wallace, is a Recreation Therapist based in San Rafael. She works in Senior Fitness and Travel. More information about her and her work can be found at imakefitnessfun.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alana Van Der Sluys is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, author, speaker, and eating disorder survivor. She is the founder of Freedom with Food and Fitness, an online community dedicated to empowering those who want to heal their relationship with food, weight, and their bodies through intuitive eating and mindset work. Her book, Freedom with Food and Fitness: How Intuitive Eating is the Key...

Jaclyn Lee is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a virtual private practice that focuses on supporting clients heal from disordered eating. Jaclyn holds a masters degree in counseling psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies. She also has extensive experience in the field of eating disorders through internship and training at Center For Discovery, one of the nation's top...

Joe Kelly , BA, NCLC, is an author, educator, advocate, and a Family Coach for Within Health . He’s spent more than a decade helping loved ones of people with eating disorders. A nationally certified life coach, Joe teaches tools and practices to resist the ways eating disorders hijack families. He also teaches treatment professionals how to engage clients’ male loved ones as allies in treatment a...

Jen Sheira Kahn is a Marriage and Family Therapist and fully recovered bulimic. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Ms. Kahn taught in the UC Berkeley Extension certificate program in Eating and Weight Disorders for ten years. In the 1990s, she studied inner critic disengagement with Byron Brown and natural eating with Judy Wardell. These discourses...

Kimberly Adamis is an LA-based Photographer/Artist whose work has been exhibited in many galleries around the world including Rome, Venice, London as well as here in the US. View her gallery and current projects here: www.kimberlyadamis.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Lindsey Wert, LMFT, CEIP-MH She/Her/Hers Psychotherapy, Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, EMDR and Ecotherapy  318 Western Avenue Petaluma, CA 94952 EDRS Past President  Edrecoverysupport.org Website: selflovetransformations.com Phone: 707-780-2496 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Amy Ferraro started Kick ED’s Butt on Jan 2020 as a way to provide positive support for individuals with eating disorders. Kick ED’s Butt is on Facebook as a page and a support group, Instagram, Twitter, and a webpage with a blog. Amy Ferraro began having an eating disorder in high school and continued in private for 30 years before she went to treatment at the Renfrew Center in 2018 for binge eat...

Deborah Reidy Kelch is a poet, writer, and spiritual seeker. In 2020, she retired after 40 years as a health policy researcher, advocate and consultant to the California Legislature. Deborah has a grown daughter and lives with her husband in Elk Grove, California. www.deborahkelch.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Angelica Rowell is a singer, actress, writer, and arts educator based in Los Angeles, California.  She is adamant about the power art has to change perspectives, and strives to create works that open doors for marginalized peoples while educating others in hopes of creating a more understanding and just world. Angelica has created workshops for youth and adults alike on creating original works tha...

Mindy Gorman-Plutzer brings 2 decades of experience to her private practice as a Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and Eating Psychology Coach. Mindy’s life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body science; introducing a compassionate resolution to physical and emotional challenges resu...

Katy Byrne has been a licensed psychotherapist for over 35 years.  She’s written two books : The Courage to Speak Up and The Power of Being Heard. She’s been a columnist in two papers for over 20 years, recently in The Sonoma Sun: What’s Up With That? Her website is: ConversationswithKaty.comb ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

McKenzie Cerri is a co-founder of Graydin . Graydin’s mission is to revolutionise the ways we support, empower and connect with our next generations so they can thrive at school and at home. Together with more than 220 schools and Universities worldwide, Graydin has been at the forefront of the coaching movement in education since 2011.    McKenzie has over 15 years of experience in coaching, teac...

Tessa Gordon, MA, LMFT, RYT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, certified Nia Instructor, Advanced Pole Instructor, and certified Body Project facilitator, member of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, the Academy of Eating Disorders, Facial Pain Association, Diversability Leadership Collective, ReAuthoring Teaching Community, and Yoga...

Ever since becoming a mom in 2019, breaking the cycle of dieting and body-image ancestral trauma has been a priority for Claire Schwartz. After finding Laurelee in her early 20s and starting her healing journey from bulimia, Claire noticed destructive relationship patterns to food and weight in her mother and grandmother.  She’s doing her best each day to model and teach intuitive eating, food neu...

My name is Eslly Hernandez. I’m 25 years old- and I live in Marin County, CA. I will be graduating from San Francisco State University this May. I’ll be receiving a BA in Business Administration with a concentration in Management. I first joined BH when I was a sophomore in High School because I was initially going to focus on psychology as my major. I absolutely love and am grateful to still part...

Megan Botel was born and raised in Marin County, CA, and is now a journalist and radio producer in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on mental health and the environment, particularly on the West’s current fire crisis. Her work has appeared in the LA Times, the Guardian, USA Today, the Washington Post (The Lily), PBS American Experience, HuffPost and more. Currently, she's a podcast producer for Princ...

Andrea Kanelopoulos, an Author, Motivational Speaker, and Retreat Facilitator for over 2 decades founded Anam Nostos House to combine all her gifts into leading Holistic Wellness Retreats & Workshops. She creates, builds, and offers her teachings and hands on life tools based on her own journey through healing her body image after a 14yr battle. Her vision always is to help others live a full...

Kaitlin Geenen is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area and more specifically in person in Livermore. Kaitlin specializes in the treatment of eating disorders and substance use disorders using an intuitive and integrative approach to therapy that includes a blend of mindfulness practices, harm reduction principles and trauma-informed therapy. Kaitlin is...

Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt is a world-leading expert on treating eating disorders. With more than 25 years of clinical experience, she has developed four separate treatment programs, all grounded on a strong bio-psycho-social foundation, and incorporating intensive psychotherapy, with behavioral foundations, and high medical standards. Wendy received her specialty training at New York University-Belle...

Holistic means looking at ourselves in a way that includes our entire being, taking each part of ourselves into consideration. When we stop measuring ourselves by how we look, how thin we are, or how much weight we’ve lost we can begin to embrace all of the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of ourselves. We move beyond the goals of having a certain body type an into the integrity and magic...

In this recovery, there are many miracles. We have the choice either to embrace the miracles and take part in them or step around and deny them. As we open our hearts to our recovery and let it guide and teach us, we receive many gifts. We develop compassion for ourselves and others, we create a healthier relationship with our mind, body, and spirit, we free ourselves from the oppression of self-h...

Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self hatred we have carried for so long, and use our compassion to bring love, understanding, and then, if necessary, change.  Regina Powers is a western trained family nurse practitioner who has worked in both emergenc...

Reflexion is the ability to see your true self mirrored back to you. Unfortunately, we spend most of our lives using the mirror as a way to judge the imperfections in our appearance, which is a limited and biased perception of who we are. By changing how we see our reflection, we can expand and transform our vision to include the beauty of our true selves.  Amber Rice is a Licensed Marriage and Fa...

Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies.   Jennifer Briscoe, RN, Certified Health Guide and 200 RYT works with women over 40 who are struggling with aging to reconnect...