Once Shattered: Picking up the Pieces

Sarah Rzemieniak is a Carolyn Costin Institute Certified eating disorder recovery coach. Since 2018, she has provided one-on-one recovery coaching to individuals worldwide, working alongside her small team of other CCI-certified coaches in private practice. Before this, Sarah worked as an eating disorder dietitian until she realized that her true passion was in the coaching and counselling aspect...

Don Blackwell is a trial attorney in Miami, Florida. He is and, for the past 20 years, has been an outspoken advocate on mental health issues within and outside the legal profession, which has made him a sought after speaker, and a regular contributor on webinars and podcasts tackling this increasingly critical subject matter. Don has written and spoken extensively on the need for a heightened deg...

Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-C, FAED Dr. Jen Gaudiani is the founder and medical director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board certified in internal medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale. Dr. Gaudiani served as the medical director at the ACUTE Center for Eating...

Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo is a neuropsychiatrist and eating disorder specialist who draws on decades of clinical experience to examine the realities of modern-day eating disorder treatment. His insight on the evolution of ED treatment is derived from working at all levels of care, including hospitalization, residential, PHP, IOP and private practice. He discusses the evolution of treatment professionals...

An enlightening, uplifting, honest conversation about the power of community, peer support, and compassion. Linda, Jack, and Ellen discuss how they got here, what they've learned, what is working, what is helpful, and the things that need to change to help those struggling with mental health issues, and help those who are supporting a loved one on their healing journey. Recorded at ROC Vox Recordi...

Jason MacKenzie is a husband, father, and business owner.   After losing his first wife Cindy and his 19-year-old daughter Chloe, he’s on a mission to educate men, and the people who love them, about grief and healing. He writes about loss, grief and healing at his  Substack .  https://improvingman.substack.com/    Our Hosts, Linda and John Mazur, and Ellen Bennett, discuss various mental health i...

Jason Wood turned his battle with orthorexia into a mission to break the stigma around men’s mental health by publishing his memoir Starving for Survival. He is proud to serve on the board for Running in Silence, Michigan Eating Disorder Alliance, and SoulPaws Recovery Project. Jason is also the Director of Community Engagement at ANAD and facilitates the organization’s new men’s peer support grou...

Sally McQuillen, LCSW, CADC , is a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in addiction recovery, grief and trauma healing. An avid reader with a double major in writing and dance criticism in college, she began working in public relations and marketing prior to obtaining her master’s degree in social work.  Reaching for Beautiful is Sally’s first book. She and her husband live on the nor...

Mehek Mohan is a Stanford Graduate School of Business student and the co-founder of  Kahani , a personalized recovery platform for individuals navigating eating disorders. Prior to Stanford, Mehek led AI and automation initiatives at Genentech within the Early Clinical Development team. She earned her undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley and has experience in early-s...

Dr. Wisniewski (she/her) is an internationally recognized leader in eating disorder treatment and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), with almost 30 years of clinical, research, and training experience. An Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Wisniewski has taught hundreds of workshops and continuing education seminars around the world and h...

Julie Fingersh is a writer, freelance journalist, and most recently, the author of Stay: A Story of Family, Love & Other Traumas (Rowman & Littlefield), which was named one of the best memoirs of 2024 by People Magazine and called “Rich, wise, funny, and hard to put down” by NYT bestselling author Anne Lamott. Julie’s personal essays, editorials, and reported stories have appeared in The N...

Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-C, FAED , is the founder and medical director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board certified in internal medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard Medical School at Boston University School of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale.    Dr. Gaudiani served as the medical director at the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders pr...

Shari Botwin, LCSW, has been counseling survivors in recovery from all types of traumas in her Philadelphia based private practice for over twenty-eight years. Her second book, “ Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing, Rowman & Littlefield,” (Rowman & Littlefield, November 8, 2019) deals with overcoming trauma including physical and sexual abuse, war-related injury, loss due...

Today, our hosts Linda Mazur, Jack Mazur, and Ellen Bennett will provide valuable insights on mental health and eating disorders derived from their experience conducting 40 podcast interviews with experts and individuals with lived experience on "Once Shattered: Picking Up the Pieces." Additionally, they will share their personal journeys and discuss the significant initiatives of their non-profit...

Jennifer Collins, author, is a retired professor and physical therapist whose professional career spanned forty years. She held many titles during those years, but “Mom” was the one that brought her the most joy; her close-knit family was the center of her universe. Her debut novel, Comfort in the Wings, emerged from Jennifer’s devastating experiences with the loss of several immediate family memb...

Rachel Presskreischer is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is a mental health policy and services researcher with primary interests in leveraging health and social policies to improve outcomes for people with mental illness, health insurance coverage and des...

Dr. Anita Federici is a Clinical Psychologist and the Owner of The Centre for Psychology and Emotion Regulation. She serves an Adjunct Faculty position at York University and is a distinguished Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED). From 2019 - 2022, Anita served as the elected Co-Chair for the Suicide and DBT Special Interest Group (SIG) for the AED and currently sits on the SIG Oversi...

Lexi Matthesen is originally from Atlanta and was a professional ballet dancer for 9 years in two different professional ballet companies. She has been teaching yoga since 2015 and taught hip hop dance for 5 years. She is 200 hours certified and has Eating Disorder Informed Yoga certification. Lexi has led yoga therapy groups in eating disorder treatment centers at the residential, partial hospita...

With lived experience in bulimia nervosa and BED (binge eating disorder), Makailah Dowell recovered while facing many treatment accessibility barriers and, through that journey, discovered a passion for pursuing healthcare equity. Makailah graduated from Johnson & Wales University with a bachelor’s degree in biology with an emphasis on microbiology research and continues her work with Equip as...

Craig Bullock (Isha Das) is an accomplished teacher, writer, lecturer, practicing psychotherapist, and spiritual director of The Assisi Institute in Rochester, New York. A former pastoral administrator at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Rochester, Isha Das earned graduate degrees in Religious Studies from the University of Notre Dame and Clinical Psychology from the University of Duquesne. ...

Tim Mattice is a father of three and husband to his wife Trish. He is the owner and operator of TPM Tile and Marble, specializing in kitchen and bathroom tile installation. Tim is a 1980 graduate of East High School and also a Monroe Community College alumnus. An avid golfer and bowler, he recently acquired his motorcycle license and enjoys “Wind Therapy” whenever the weather allows. Tim is an act...

Seema Khaneja graduated from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and completed her pediatrics residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. During medical school and after residency, she studied various complementary healing modalities including Ayurvedic nutrition, mind-body medicine, yoga, and meditation. For ten years, Seema practiced holistic medicine, caring for childre...

Brooke is a Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor, who has grown up and lived in the Finger Lakes region her whole life. She has recently delved into neurodiversity after finding out her own neurodivergence in the fall of 2022. As she was navigating what it meant for her, she expanded her practice to specialize in neurodivergent couples and trauma therapy. This is an expanding and needed space. B...

Robyn Shumer: Communication Aficionado, Storyteller, Advocate—Leading Us to Action Robyn Shumer is a dynamic force in the world of change management and communication. She brings a unique blend of expertise to her endeavors, finds the bright spots amidst disorder and can make an audience laugh and cry but most importantly, lead them to action. A certified yoga teacher and ICF trained coach, Robyn...

Laura (she/her) is the founder of MindfulMatters585, LLC, offering mindful education, counseling and coaching for anyone looking to find balance, focus and peace in their lives. Working as an educator for many years, Laura became interested in how life can inherently create stress and anxiety, leading to burnout and chronic health challenges. She has counseled, coached and advised thousands, integ...