My Secret Life With An Eating Disorder

Part 0ne Taking a Moment to just BE - Maureen Kritzer-Lange MSW, LCSW - The Queen Of Self Esteem Please join the "Don't Trust The Mirror MOVEMENT at http://www.donttrustthemirror.com Maureen’s life mission is to help women be all that they can be – by improving self esteem,help them find their voice and find freedom from shame, guilt and negativity. “I change women’s lives by empowering them to tr...

Part 0ne Taking a Moment to just BE - Maureen Kritzer-Lange MSW, LCSW - The Queen Of Self Esteem Please join the "Don't Trust The Mirror MOVEMENT at http://www.donttrustthemirror.com Maureen’s life mission is to help women be all that they can be – by improving self esteem,help them find their voice and find freedom from shame, guilt and negativity. “I change women’s lives by empowering them to tr...

A conversation with Suzanne Blackburn regarding the empowerment of women. You are an inspiration to me and what you do and how you bring such positivity and empowerment to women's challenges which is part of my own movement. Which we all struggle with and I think in many different ways on many different levels.  Suzanne has been a social and political activist for decades. She was a longtime...

I started writing again and wanted to share with you my latest poem. The themes are the same for me now as they were back then, but now I write them from such a different perspective. Back then I was this lost girl suffering from an eating disorder, unsure of my future and lost in a big world trying to figure out how to be an adult. Today when I still write about feelings, it comes from a place of...

I want to talk today about a story that really hit home for me back in 1983. It brought an awareness to my life and it made me feel like I wasn't so alone with my eating disorder. It might date me a bit but, that's OK I've been very open about the fact that my eating disorder started over 40 years ago back when I was in high school. Today I want to share with you how Karen Carpenter impacted my li...

By now you know that when I went to college a long time ago I knew I wanted to be a journalist. I've been scouring through all of my old journals from high school and college. I found attempts at poetry some that were written over 40 years ago while I was in the midst of my eating disorder. This was a really dark time for me. As you listen to this poem can you hear the pain I was in? I was always...

This episode is the solitary girl when I went to college I knew that I wanted to be a journalist. I knew that I wanted to be a journalist and I also wanted to do something with fashion at getting into the new house school of journalism at Syracuse University was going to be my ticket to that career. My journaling had given me confidence that I was a decent writer I could see it all now a great col...

Today's episode is The Big Surprise, So sometimes things happen in your life that even after decades have gone by you still can't believe they really happened. Has that ever happened to you?  Something so bizarre. so Earth shattering that it kind of sounds like fiction. You can't even believe it's true in fact all of these years later I still think if I approached a Hollywood studio to make a...

EP15. Turning Point - Maureen Kritzer-Lange MSW, LCSW At this point after my journal entry I typically fast forward to my therapy office and invite my younger self into my office. I want to share with you a turning point while I was living in Dallas while it became another whole episode of darkness in my life. - Maureen Kritzer-Lange MSW, LCSW - The Queen Of Self Esteem Please join the "Dont Trust...

Ep14. Descent into Darkness! - Maureen Kritzer-Lange MSW, LCSW  This period of my life is dark. I am about to enter one of the darkest time of my life. Have you been at a juncture in your life where you have choices about which road you're going to take or not.  You're not sure which road is the best road for you. You might have an idea, but you just don't quite know. Maybe somehow you g...

EP13 Building Self Esteem with Apparel and Style - In Conversation with Lezli Salz-Bradley Lezli Salz-Bradley opened Willow St. Boutique in downtown Summit, NJ in the fall of 1993. Her dream of bringing NYC and LA fashion styles to the suburban women of NJ flourished into a successful business that has created countless jobs for local women over the last 28 years and she also opened a second locat...

EP9 Body Image and Self Esteem - In Conversation with Dr. Sarah Adams (INTERNATIONAL EDITION from Paris, France) Dr. Sarah Adams, MD is a Pediatrics Specialist in Hudson, OH and has over 28 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine medical school in 1993. She is a Pediatrician; Medical Director, Parenting at Mealtime and Playtime Prog...

 EP. 7 Science Based Intuitive Eating - In Conversation with Victoria Evans Victoria Evans began her career in the corporate world with a prominent Fortune 500 company in the beauty industry in Montreal. During this time, her challenges related to eating disorders, mental health,  extreme dieting, and overexercising became a catalyst for creating a solution to an issue millions of women...

EP. 6 Body Image & Self-Esteem as a Public Figure! In Conversation with Jane Hanson - Emmy-Award Winning Journalist Jane spent almost 3 decades working in front of the camera as an anchor and host for "NBC New York" , hosting "TODAY in New York" and her own show "Janes New York" and more recently "New York LIVE". She has interviewed presidents to prisoners and everyone in between and won 9 Emm...

EP12. Falling Deeper into Darkness! - Maureen Kritzer-Lange MSW, LCSW First and foremost where do I live when I get out? Do I go back to Dallas? Do I move home to my parents and all the dysfunction going on there? Do I go someplace new altogether? I was stuck, there were no obvious answers for me and the more I thought about it the more stuck I got. I started getting even more depressed and strugg...

EP11. Getting to a Safe Place! - Maureen Kritzer-Lange MSW, LCSW Did you ever just need to find a safe place a place to think about a tough decision, sort out difficult feelings? A place that is quiet that gives you comfort where you can let down your guard and just be with yourself? I desperately needed to find that place. I was faced with a major decision at a time when my eating disorder was ta...

EP10. No Where To Go! - Maureen Kritzer-Lange MSW, LCSW Did you ever feel like you had nowhere to go? Did you ever have that unsettled feeling in your stomach, that knot in your stomach, that underlying sense of anxiety? Did you ever have a really tough decision to make and you couldn't find the space or the time to really sit down and quietly think it threw? That was my dilemma. I had nowhere to...

EP8. 5lbs to Happiness If only I lost 5 pounds I'd be more popular,  if only I lost 5 pounds I'd be more confident,  if only I l ost 5 pounds I'd be so much more attractive... You can you fill in the blank how many times you said or heard someone say if only I lost 5 pounds. I said that over and over again to myself the voice telling me to lose 5 pounds was was constant.  - Maureen...

EP5. Relentless Critical Voice Did you ever think about how you talk to yourself? Are you kind and compassionate or critical and mean? Do you say the kinds of things to yourself that you would say to a friend or a loved one? Are you aware of the negative ways you talk to yourself thinking that it will help or motivate you to do a better job? Do you believe you deserve to be talked to in such a har...

This episode is called "Am I going crazy?!" Did you ever feel like you were going crazy? Did you ever feel like things in your life were falling apart and you couldn't quite put your finger on it you couldn't figure out exactly why? Did you ever feel like you couldn't make sense of why you felt like you were going crazy? What does craziness actually feel like? As you will see in this episode, my p...

This episode is called "Flush the Feelings" Have you ever wanted to get rid of all your feelings? Have you ever had that "pit" in your stomach and felt so sick or have you ever had a feeling and then said to yourself.... "I could just throw up", because you felt so sick to your stomach. Have you ever eaten so much because you felt so overwhelmed, stressed or incompetent and hated yourself and want...

Have you ever felt like you were all alone? Have you ever been in a room with a 100 or even a 1000 people or walking down a busy street in a crowded party, restaurant or bar and you felt all alone? Have you ever found yourself chatting with a group of friends where everyone looked happy and sounded animated and engaged in conversation, yet you felt that really sinking empty alone feeling? Have you...

Welcome to My Secret Life With An Eating Disorder with Maureen Kritzer-Lange (The Queen of Self Esteem) and Founder of the Don't Trust the Mirror Movement. Maureen is going to take you on a journey, a journey full of twists and turns as she took on her pursuit of thinness. It was a journey of despair, pain, suffering and sadness. A journey of hope, dreams and perseverance. She will be sharing her...

I'm Maureen Kritzer-Lange ( The Queen of Self Esteem and creator of the Don't Trust the Mirror Movement ). Welcome to my podcast. I hope that you find real value in the stories that I share. I've been a Psychoanalyst in private practice for over twenty five years, specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. Over forty years ago I developed an eating disorder. It took over my life and contro...