This special episode of IMPOWERED welcomes back the wonderful Sophie Smith to discuss navigating Christmas in recovery from an eating disorder. Tune in on how to cope with guilt after meals, body image, diet-culture chat around the dinner table, and challenging eating disorder behaviours during the festive season.
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Connect with Sophie!
Sophie's Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/sophie_beyondrecovery/
Coaching:
https://www.uncovery.com.au/contact
Sophie's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/sophieclare1103?lang=en
Connect with Imogen:
Podcast Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en
IM_POWERING:
https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en
Support Services:
• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au
• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
In this empowering conversation, I chat to Cami Nelsen, an eating disorder survivor, advocate, and CEO of The Recovered Project.
We take a deep dive into the differences in seeking treatment and barriers associated with doing so between Australia and the USA. We chat about varying ways in which the treatment system fails people living with eating disorders, Cami’s personal journey to recovery, lessons learned on the road to healing, her role as an advocate, and SOOOO much more <3
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Connect with Cami:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/camirecoversss/?hl=en
Spilling Lemonade Podcast:
https://spilling-lemonade.captivate.fm
Connect with me:
Podcast Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en
IM_POWERING:
https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en
Support Services:
• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au
• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
In this episode, Emily shares her experience with Bulimia and navigating a treatment world that reflects a complete misunderstanding as to the honest nature of her suffering. She details the ins and outs of her experience and offers the lesser spoken perspective of someone who’s eating disorder is not food or body centric. Emily is insightful, inspiring, and speaks words the world needs to hear.
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Connect with Emily:
https://www.instagram.com/emilysamama/?hl=en
Connect with me:
Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en
IM_POWERING: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en
Support Services:
• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au
• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
When you look back upon the time you spent living with an eating disorder, do you tend to see it through rose tainted glasses? You won’t for long.
In this weeks episode, I read aloud YOUR description of what it’s like to live with an Eating Disorder and reveal how truly miserable it is to sustain such an illness.
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Connect with me:
Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en
IM_POWERING: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en
Support Services:
• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au
• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
Questions about my eating disorder recovery: you asked, I answered.
In this episode:
This is a happy, filter free ramble that I hope finds your ears <3
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Connect with me:
Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en
IM_POWERING: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en
Support Services:
Questions about my eating disorder recovery and mental health: you asked, I answered.
In this episode:
This is a happy, filter free ramble that I hope finds your ears <3
// Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED
Connect with me:
Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impowered_pod/?hl=en
IM_POWERING: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en
Support Services:
In this episode, I had the true joy of speaking with Dr Gennifer Gaudiani, or doctor G. For those who might not know, Dr G offers expert medical care for eating disorders and is deeply passionate about supporting adolescents and adults who have a complicated relationship with food and their body. Dr G founded the Gaudiani Clinic in 2016, which offers unique, expert outpatient eating disorder treatment for disordered eating of all shapes and sizes. On top of this groundbreaking work, Dr G is the renowed author of SICK ENOUGH, a guide to the medical complications of eating disorders, which provides patients, families and treatment providers with easy to understand information on medical issues involved in an eating disorder.
Dr G is a wealth of information and is truly revolutionising the treatment of eating disorders.
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Connect with Dr G:
Dr G: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaudianimd?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gaudianiclinic.com
The Gaudiani Clinic: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=dr+gennifer+gaudiani&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Sick Enough: https://www.sickenough.com
Gaudiani Clinic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaudianiclinic/
Support Services:
• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au
• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
You don't have to shrink to feel fulfilled, happy or healthy!
Emma Clarke is an Accredited Sports Nutritionist and all around LEGEND who reclaimed her life from the grips of diet culture. She has now dedicated her work and world to supporting others to do this same. She's one of a kind. Emma's super passionate about fuelling to thrive and be mentally, physically and emotionally strong vs small. In this pod we discuss Emma’s experience dancing with diet culture and healing her relairtonshop with food, movement and her body.
In this episode:
Harsh truth:
“It’s not a healthy lifestyle if it takes away your health” - Emma Clark.
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Connect with Emma:
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Support Services:
• Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
• Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
• The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au
• Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
• Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
• Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
• General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
In this solo episode, I tell my OCD story from my heart. I divulge all the way in which OCD manifested itself in my life and wrecked havoc on my existence. Through my story, I dismantle the myths and misconceptions that surround the concept of OCD and shed light on the embarrassing, sometimes ridiculous ways in which it can dictate your existence. I also share how I have overcome my OCD and become stronger in the face of my Eating Disorder doing so.
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Connect with Me:
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/im_powering/?hl=en
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Katie Parrott joins me in this episode to discuss what it’s like to be a person living shamelessly in a larger body, her story with an eating disorder, the struggle of having your experienced be illegitimised when you don’t fit the BS eating disorder mould, fashion, activism and everything in between.
In this episode:
- Katie’s eating disorder story
- Having your struggle invalidated
- Body acceptance
- Normalising diverse bodies
- Why “fat” is not a bad word
- Passion for fashion
- Decoupling exercise from weight loss and thinness
- Living a normal life
- Fat-positive activism
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In this podcast, I interview Mark Forbes, cofounder of endED, a Sunshine Coast non-for-profit community organization who collectively support growth and expansion through the journey of eating disorder recovery. As a father of two daughters living with eating disorders, Mark is dedicated to increasing hope, understanding, compassion and allyship in the eating disorder realm. As you’ll hear, endED came to be after Mark and his wife Gail opened up their home to Parents and Carers navigating the trenches of recovery. Since then, endED has transformed lives all over the country.
In this episode:
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EndED: https://www.ended.org.au
The Butterfly Foundation: https://butterfly.org.au
Wandi Nerdia: https://wandinerida.hothealth.com
EndED Podcast: https://www.thepodspot.com.au/podcasts/end-eating-disorders/
Support Services:
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It's been a hot minute since we caught up! I thought I'd take the opportunity to give a little update on my own life, my work, my study and my general life goals. In this solocast, I spontaneously answer your frequently asked questions related to my personal life and eating disorder/mental health recovery.
In this episode:
Support Services:
Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673)
https://butterfly.org.au Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):
https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
Jessie is about to make you laugh whilst also delving deep into the world of toxic dance culture, body image, movement, eating disorders and SO much more. Jessie is flourishing, in every sense of the word and will inspire you to do the same!
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Contact Jessie!
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/flourishingjessie/?hl=en
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Support Services:
Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673)
https://butterfly.org.au Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):
https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
Stuck in recovery? Is your motivation blunted? This podcast episode is for you!
I teamed up with 4 incredible girls, Madeline, Madi, Sophie and Jas to create a resource you could use in the instance your recovery motivation is lacking. Together, we draw upon lived experience navigating the "nitty gritty" of full recovery and the blissful moments that make all the intense effort and intent worthwhile. We explore what day to day life is like in fully recovery, the "little" (but really significant) moments that make recovered life magical, what anguish full recovery relinquishes and the prospect of speaking to our formally ambivalent selves.
This will be what you need to reinvigorate your drive to unconditionally heal.
Get in touch with podcast contributors!
Madeline:
https://instagram.com/mindfulwithmads_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Madi:
https://instagram.com/eatthe_food?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Sophie:
https://instagram.com/sophie_beyondrecovery?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Support Services:
Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673)
https://butterfly.org.au Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):
https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
Tim's raw vulnerability is about to make you feel seen, heard, validated, loved and above all, not alone. Tune in to to hear of Tim's lived experience with mental illness, the barriers he personally had to break down to seek support, and his road to recovery. This is the most profoundly unfiltered conversation I've had to date and oh how I long for Tim's voice to be projected for all to hear.
In this episode:
Plug in and prepare to be IMPOWERED
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Connect with Tim!
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/bonyay29/?hl=en
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Support Services:
Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673)
https://butterfly.org.au Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
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General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):
https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
Varsha Yajman is a human you're going to feel so privileged to be sharing the planet with. Varsha's a mental health and climate justice advocate with a ceaseless degree of passion to facilitate enduring awareness, equity, equality and ethicality for all. Tune in to hear Varsha personally recall her lived experience with mental health, how being a person of colour can add complexity to the experience that is suffering from a mental illness, stigma and so much more.
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Connect with Varsha!
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/varsha.yajman/?hl=en
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/varshayajman
Not to be Controversial Podcast:
https://www.instagram.com/n2bcpod/?hl=en
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Support Services:
Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673)
https://butterfly.org.au Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):
https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/
So I went to residential treatment for my eating disorder. In this podcast, I answer some of the most frequently asked questions related to my treatment experience!
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// Support Services: Lifeline Australia: Call 13 11 14
Beyond Blue Support Service: Call 1300 22 4636
The butterfly foundation: Call 1800 HOPE (1800 33 4673) https://butterfly.org.au
Kids helpline: Call 1800 55 1800
Eating disorders Victoria: 1300 550 236 https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au
National Eating Disorders Collaboration: https://nedc.com.au
Eating Disorders Queensland: https://eatingdisordersqueensland.org.au
General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines): https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/ -
Welcome to IMPOWERED season 2! I'm so excited to be bringing you a brand new season centred around empowering people with empowering stories doing empowering things.
In this trailer:
- An update on where I've been
- My intention for 2022
- What IMPOWERED season 2 has in store for all of us!
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Support Services:
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General Mental Health Support Services (Helplines/Hotlines):
https://www.mentalhealthhelp.com.au/service-directory/helplines/