The Eating Disorder Diaries

Meet Julia Parzyck: an eating disorder recovery coach who has a passion to educate others to live a life outside of diet culture, to be aware of media manipulation, and to embrace their true selves. Julia sits down with Amy to talk about her own personal experience with eating disorder recovery, the eating disorder recovery support groups she runs, and how she manages to stay true to herself in st...

In Entry 16, Amy sits down with Lucy Sayah of PROJECT BLACKBIRD to discuss the project. From touring and screening the BLACKBIRD film (a short video about life in eating disorder treatment centers) throughout colleges in the United States, to providing a platform for those to discuss eating disorders and mental health conversation within underrepresented communities, their mission is to connect au...

Welcome Caroline Thomason, the first registered dietitian to be featured on The Eating Disorder Diaries. Amy and Caroline discuss the association between trauma and eating disorders/disorded eating and draw parallels to Amy's story and Caroline's day-to-day that she sees with her clients. We pick Caroline's brain on all the things - should I be fasting? Can that even help? Why do I...

It's been a minute since we've introduced ourselves. In Entry 14, Amy gives you a peek into her diary as a person in eating disorder recovery. From reading an actual entry from 3 years ago to spilling all of the life details: her upcoming wedding, half-marathons, Halloween parties, travel, you name it...she's dishing. Life as a recovered person isn't always easy, but even in th...

Get ready to be moved and encouraged by Merrit Elizabeth and Sarah Lee, two inspiring Certified Eating Disorder Coaches who not only have fully recovered from bulimia themselves and help others in their individual practices do the same, but have partnered up to create a first-of-its-kind intensive, private, online course called Conquering Bulimia. Merrit and Sarah openly share their friendship, he...

Sit down with Amy for a solo episode in Entry 12, where she talks about what she's learned after researching more about anorexia. While her specific struggles in the past have revolved around bulimia, the eating disorders share a lot of commonalities. She talks about different types of eating disorders (from AFRID to OSFED to UFED), anorexia and binge eating disorder statistics and ways that...

Amy's fiancé Brenden enters the chat in Entry 11 of The Eating Disorder Diaries, where they talk about ways to support your partner with an eating disorder. From educating yourself about EDs, to getting support for yourself, to refraining from commenting on behaviors/looks...they talk about what has worked and what hasn't worked for them. They also scoop on their June 2024 wedding! Follo...

Sit down with Amy and Dr. Karl Nadolsky of the Docs Who Lift podcast to hear about Dr. Nadolsky's perspective on his recent posts about childhood trauma relating to subsequent disordered eating.  Amy draws parallels to her own story with childhood trauma and the following years of struggling with bulimia. It's so important for clinicians and patients alike to have a level of awareness so...

Have you ever felt like your eating disorder symptoms flared up significantly during PMS? Join Amy in Entry 9 as she discusses her experience with PMS and birth control and how that impacted her eating disorder.  After getting her hormones measured only to discover her estrogen levels were abnormally high during PMS was she able to deduce that birth controls with high estrogen levels had extremely...

In Entry 8 of The Eating Disorder Diaries, Amy sits down with Kristen Epling, her close friend and longtime roommate. They discuss their time as roommates and talk about what they would've done differently to handle what always seemed like the elephant in the room at the time: Amy's frequent episodes with bulimia. Amy refers to an article titled "5 Tips for When A Roommate is in Eat...

In Entry 7 of The Eating Disorder Diaries, Amy sits down Chris Castellani of Barstool Sports. In December of 2022, Chris posted an article on Barstool titled "I'm Going to Rehab". In the article, Chris articulates his struggles with bulimia and alcohol addiction and let his followers know he was checking himself into rehab. In the time that Chris posted that article to present day,...

In Entry 6 of The Eating Disorder Diaries, Amy sits down with Lydia Rhino and Sabrina Scanga, two Program Directors at The Eating Disorder Foundation (EDF), a non-profit organization that started with a single support group devoted to the families and friends of those suffering from eating disorders. In the 20 years since it's been established, EDF has evolved into much more than a single sup...

In the fifth entry of The Eating Disorder Diaries, Amy discusses her experiences with nearly 2 decades of therapy and how that has helped her heal from her eating disorder.  She talks about the cost of therapy, the frustration at not being able to find a therapist, and talks about some of the things she really has not jived with in sessions (like a therapist calling her manic or telling her that h...

Join us for the fourth entry of The Eating Disorder Diaries where Amy interviews her therapist, Cindy White. In this sit-down interview, Amy and Cindy discuss how critical therapy can be to managing a more healthy life for yourself to how healing your trauma can help you heal your eating disorder. Cindy gives insights into EMDR, CBT, among other treatment methods, and touches on how therapy can an...

In the third entry of The Eating Disorder Diaries, Amy interviews her parents Chris and Cindy Goeckel to get their perspectives on what it was like to have a child with an eating disorder. They get into the details on how they found out Amy had bulimia, what they did to get her help, and what they wish they would have known and done differently in retrospect. Spoiler alert: Eating disorders are se...

In the second entry of The Eating Disorder Diaries, Amy shares statistics about eating disorders, surprising herself with her findings of how many people EDs truly impact. She discusses the shame she felt behind her eating disorder, which is something she knows others have experienced as well. Those with EDs tend to have a shame narrative about themselves, so she talks about how to break that sham...

Welcome to the first entry of The Eating Disorder Diaries. In this episode, host Amy Goeckel talks about her 16 year story of struggling with bulimia. We go back to the beginning: 7th grade was the year before the eating disorder behaviors started, but also the year that the childhood trauma Amy experienced started to make itself known. She talks about the several years she spent struggling and ho...