
Advertise on podcast: Understanding Disordered Eating: Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image Healing
Rating
4.8from
This podcast has
196 episodes
Language
EnglishPublisher
Rachelle HeinemannExplicit
No
Date created
2021/08/08
Latest episode
2026/02/03
Average duration
31 min.
Release period
11 days
Description
This show will explore the deeper meaning of our relationship with food. We dive into issues related to body image, restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise, and eating disorder related behaviors. We utilize ideas from psychoanalysis, the deep work therapy, to bring you answers about why you do the things you do and one step closer to a healthier relationship with food and yourself.
Unlock Understanding Disordered Eating: Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image Healing podcast Email contact info,
Listeners & Audience details
Email contact information
Direct podcast contact details

Listeners
Audience numbers & engagement insights

Audience details
Podcast Insights

Social media
Check Understanding Disordered Eating: Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image Healing social media presence
Podcast episodes
Check latest episodes from Understanding Disordered Eating: Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image Healing podcast
What To Do When Treatment Feels Stuck (For Clinicians) with Jack Heinemann, LCSW-R, BCD
2026/02/03
In this episode of Understanding Disordered Eating, I'm joined by Jack Heinemann for a live, supervision-style conversation that explores what's often happening beneath the surface when therapists feel stuck. Rather than focusing on what to say or do next, we slow the work down and examine how unconscious relational patterns quietly organize the therapy relationship itself, shaping both the client's experience and the clinician's emotional response, often without either person realizing it.
This episode isn't about quick techniques or the perfect intervention. It's about learning how to think differently.
Resources Group Training for Clinicians, led by Jack Heinemann.
Details:
• 6 weekly sessions (75 minutes each)
• Thursdays at 12pm EST
• Begins 2/12
• $85 per session
• Limited spots
Looking for more information? Email [email protected] or [email protected]
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
How to Recover in a Weight Loss and GLP-1 Obsessed World
2026/01/27
Have you ever felt like you're living in a completely different reality than everyone around you? Like you're doing the hard, slow work of healing your relationship with food while the rest of the world seems to be shrinking overnight and talking about it nonstop? Feeling angry, jealous or left out is common, and you aren't alone if you're feeling this way too.
Right now, weight loss medications and GLP conversations are everywhere. They show up at dinner parties, in group chats, on social media, and even in casual neighborhood conversations. And if you're in eating disorder recovery or trying to practice intuitive eating, those moments can feel deeply uncomfortable, and even unfair.
Tweetable Quotes "It can just feel really unfair, like, 'why do these people just get to go on this easy shot and have this quick fix and not me?'" - Rachelle Heinemann
"This idea of the eating disorder fixing our body image issues is the oldest in the book." - Rachelle Heinemann
"I think something that we have to understand is that weight loss doesn't necessarily equal happiness." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Their body is not a cue for me to abandon mine." - Rachelle Heinemann
"I'm allowed to want stability more than thinness." - Rachelle Heinemann
Resources Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
187. Understand Hypothalamic Amenorrhea with Dr. Nicola Sykes, PhD and Gemma Lewis
2026/01/13
You know when someone says, "Oh, that's normal", but something in your body clearly doesn't feel right? Maybe you've lost your period and brushed it off because you exercise a lot. Maybe a doctor waved it away. Maybe you've been praised for your discipline, your control, your "healthy" lifestyle, even while your body has been quietly asking for more.
In this episode, we're having an honest, deeply human conversation about hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA), disordered eating, and the ways diet culture disguises itself as wellness, especially in athletic, high-achieving bodies.
Tweetable Quotes "It is not normal to not have a period." - Dr. Nicola Rinaldi
"I had prided myself on my body because I thought I was very healthy. What I came to realize was that I was not, and I was abusing my body in a lot of ways." - Gemma Lewis
"I told countless people in my life that I didn't have my period, and nobody had ever said that. Nobody had ever asked me, 'Are you not concerned about the long-term implications of this and what you're doing to your body?'" - Gemma Lewis
"Our society really encourages that. Our society encourages exercise more, eat less." - Dr. Nicola Rinaldi
"I Googled 'how can I get my period back without gaining weight'. There is no good answer out there." - Gemma Lewis
"HA can happen to anyone in any body size." - Dr. Nicola Rinaldi
"You are more than your body." - Dr. Nicola Rinaldi
Resources Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
Dr. Nicola Sykes website
Connect with Dr. Nicola Sykes on Instagram
No Period, Now What?
Period Recovery Community
REVEAL Study
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
The Anti-Resolution: Listen to This Before You Make Your Resolutions
2026/01/06
January has a way of making everything feel louder. The pressure to start over, "fix yourself", and come back "better" than before. If you've ever felt that quiet panic underneath all the New Year motivation, this episode is for you.
Instead of making a New Year's Resolution, we're making an anti-resolution.
Tweetable Quotes "When we're under pressure, it's kind of impossible to make deliberate decisions and to really feel calm about it." - Rachelle Heinemann
"You don't need a dramatic reinvention to be worthy of the start of the year or even a 'fresh start'." - Rachelle Heinemann
"A lot of food-related resolutions or like body-related resolutions are rooted very much in shame, guilt, comparison, anxiety, fear of not being in control." - Rachelle Heinemann
"If you're thinking 'I need to change because there is something terribly wrong about me as a person'… even if it is the best resolution in the world, that is never gonna hold up." - Rachelle Heinemann
Resources Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
Emotional Eating at Night
2025/12/23
For so many of us, nighttime feels like stepping into a different version of ourselves. One that feels "fine" all day, but starts to unravel the moment the sun goes down. One who can't stop thinking about snacks, who wanders into the kitchen on autopilot, who feels out of control around food in ways that never show up at noon. It can feel confusing, frustrating, even shameful.
Listen to the full episode for the full unpacking and for the practical steps that can help you finally feel at peace when the night comes.
Tweetable Quotes "Your body might not be confused or just randomly anxious. It might actually be undernourished." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Sometimes we get caught up in what we call healthy habits… and these are like the perfect conditions to breed bingey eating or nighttime food anxiety." - Rachelle Heinemann
"At night, usually that's where all the leftovers emotionally show up." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Emotional hunger is not fake hunger, it's just a metaphoric hunger." - Rachelle Heinemann
"If you're hungry, whether it's metaphoric or otherwise, you're hungry for something." - Rachelle Heinemann
Resources Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
Hope, Healing, and the Bucket List You Didn't Know You Needed with Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo
2025/12/16
Struggling to find motivation in recovery, or trying to make sense of what keeps people pushing through something as painful as an eating disorder, opens a door to a much deeper conversation. This episode steps right through that door.
In this episode, we welcome back a longtime favorite guest: Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo, a neuropsychiatrist and internationally known educator whose work sits at the intersection of brain science, mental health, and eating disorder treatment. If you've heard his previous episodes, you already know that he has a profound ability to make complex neuroscience feel not just understandable, but actionable. This time, he brings something new, something that might seem unexpected coming from a neuroscientist: the science of a bucket list. And no, not the Hollywood version. Not skydiving. Not "visit Paris." Something far more foundational.
Tweetable Quotes "It's okay to be skeptical because that's part of it." - Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo
"Recovery kind of involves helping the brain remember how to feel that, that curiosity, pleasure, connection, and flexibility again." - Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo
"When you go places, and you meet different people with different cultures, the one thing I have learned… it has helped tolerability." - Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo
"We're programmed, and we don't even know we're being programmed to think and, more importantly, to react." - Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo
"Your brain is always changing." - Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo
Resources Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo's YouTube Channel
Dr. Jeffrey DeSarbo's Website
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
How Do I Work With Clients Who Don't Want to Gain Weight?
2025/12/09
Whether you're supporting others or navigating your own process, this episode offers language and perspective to help you sit with the messiness rather than fear it.
In this episode, we slow down to explore why ambivalence exists, what it reveals about our experiences, and why it's a doorway rather than a roadblock. We unpack the deeper meaning behind body goals, what thinness represents, the safety it promises, and why those promises feel so powerful even when they aren't rooted in truth. You'll learn how to face fear without bypassing it, and why sitting with discomfort is often the catalyst for real change.
Tweetable Quotes "When somebody has an attachment to a certain body size or shape, it's because it means something and it represents something." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Ambivalence is when you want two things that contradict each other, where there are opposites at the same time. This is literally the purpose of therapy is to work through ambivalence." - Rachelle Heinemann
"The reason why we get stuck is because of ambivalence. It's because we want two things at the same time, and they're contradicting each other, and we cannot move forward." - Rachelle Heinemann
"What if we stopped treating body goals as something to take apart or dismantle? And if we started seeing them as something to understand, something to explore?" - Rachelle Heinemann
Resources Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
PCOS, Eating Disorders, and GLP-1's with Julie Duffy Dillon, MS, RDN, NCC, LDN, CEDS-C
2025/12/02
If you've ever wondered why PCOS feels so confusing, why the symptoms don't line up, why the advice is contradictory, why the solutions feel like guesswork, you're not imagining it.
That's exactly why I brought back Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, author, and host of Find Your Food Voice, to cut through the noise. Julie has a rare way of talking about PCOS that immediately makes your shoulders drop: it's science-based, deeply compassionate, and totally free of judgment or quick fixes.
Tweetable Quotes " So many people are led to believe that it's just a problem with their ovaries, but really, PCOS is an endocrine disorder that starts in the brain, not in the ovaries. It's something that someone's born with and they're, they die with it too." - Julie Duffy Dillon
"We don't have a lot of research. Doctors don't always have the answers, and there's a lot of weight bias in there, too. And unfortunately, most people just know about the reproductive interventions. They don't know about all the other ones." - Julie Duffy Dillon
"I do feel like with PCOS, you have to advocate for yourself more. It's annoying." - Julie Duffy Dillon
"PCOS is the number one cause of anovulatory infertility." - Julie Duffy Dillon
" If you're eating enough with PCOS, adding movement is something that can really help with your insulin levels. But if you are someone who's painfully tired or your insulin levels are really high, so you have these cravings all the time, adding exercise or movement is just gonna make things worse." - Julie Duffy Dillon
Resources Julie's Website: https://julieduffydillon.com/
Free Tools: https://julieduffydillon.com/voice/
Julie's Podcast: https://julieduffydillon.com/podcast/
Book: https://julieduffydillon.com/book/
Book bonus downloads: https://findyourfoodvoicebook.com
PCOS Membership: https://julieduffydillon.com/pcos-power-course/
Bergen Mental Health Group Inc. is hiring! If you think you'd be a great fit, check it out!
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode!
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
Will I Ever Feel Normal Around Food Again?
2025/11/11
Have you ever looked around and wondered how everyone else seems to have such an easy, peaceful relationship with food? They order what they want at restaurants, stop when they're full, and move on with their day. Meanwhile, you're stuck in your head, negotiating with yourself, worrying about how much you ate, or planning the next meal before you've even finished this one. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone.
Listen to the full episode to learn how you can start to rebuild trust with your body, release food guilt, and finally feel more at ease around eating; one meal, one moment, one connection at a time.
Tweetable Quotes "Eating is not just a means to nourish yourself. It is a means to connect." - Rachelle Heinemann
"The very first thing is you need structure. Because we can't really play around if we're not eating enough. And when we play around with our food, then we play around with our hunger fullness cues." - Rachelle Heinemann
"What we're doing is shifting from our bodies and our meal plans as something to control and shifting to our bodies as something to listen to." - Rachelle Heinemann
"It's not about getting it right, it's about just rebuilding these lines of communication." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Your food choices don't define your worth." - Rachelle Heinemann
Resources Bergen Mental Health Group Inc. is hiring! If you think you'd be a great fit, check it out!
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
Thank you to our sponsors! This episode includes paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services.
Hidden River Healing provides compassionate, residential eating disorder treatment for girls, adolescents, and young women. Their expert clinical team emphasizes family involvement and individualized care in a beautifully designed facility surrounded by nature — a peaceful environment that supports recovery and lasting healing.
Program Highlights:
Specialized care for ages 8 and up, including a dedicated house for Emerging Adults (21+) and Mid-Life Adults
In-network with most commercial insurances
Ability to treat NG tube patients
Learn more: hiddenriverhealing.com/about-us
Follow on Instagram: @hiddenrivertx
179. Trauma and Eating Disorders with Giulia Suro, Ph.D., CEDS
2025/11/04
The holidays are a time of joy, connection, and celebration. But they can also stir up difficult emotions, memories, and patterns, especially if you've experienced trauma or struggled with disordered eating. In this episode, we're diving into the complex and often misunderstood relationship between eating disorders and trauma.
Joining me for this powerful conversation is Dr. Giulia Suro—a psychologist and author in Washington, DC who specializes in the intersection of eating disorders and trauma.
Tweetable Quotes "Being triggered is great. Like there's nothing wrong with being triggered, right? Being triggered means you're having a response and I want you to learn that you can feel that response and get through it because you're resilient, you're strong, you have agency, you have skills." - Dr. Giulia Suro
"All of us are gonna experience traumas over the course of our lifetime. That's baked into the price of being a human being." - Dr. Giulia Suro
"I think for many people with eating disorders, the eating disorder behaviors become avoidance behaviors." - Dr. Giulia Suro
"Doing eating disorder work is doing trauma work. We're learning how to be in our body." - Dr. Giulia Suro
"My biggest fear for anyone with an eating disorder is to sort of settle for three quarters recovery and live a life that's like good enough." - Dr. Giulia Suro
"Your feelings can't hurt you. Your thoughts can't hurt you. Memories can't hurt you. Like the hurt has passed, that has passed." - Dr. Giulia Suro
Resources Dr. Giulia Suro's website
Follow Dr. Giulia Suro on Instagram
Bergen Mental Health Group Inc. is hiring! If you think you'd be a great fit, check it out!
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
Thank you to our sponsors! This episode includes paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services.
Hidden River Healing provides compassionate, residential eating disorder treatment for girls, adolescents, and young women. Their expert clinical team emphasizes family involvement and individualized care in a beautifully designed facility surrounded by nature — a peaceful environment that supports recovery and lasting healing.
Program Highlights:
Specialized care for ages 8 and up, including a dedicated house for Emerging Adults (21+) and Mid-Life Adults
In-network with most commercial insurances
Ability to treat NG tube patients
Learn more: hiddenriverhealing.com/about-us
Follow on Instagram: @hiddenrivertx
How to Quiet the Food Noise
2025/10/28
Have you ever felt like your mind just won't shut off about food? You're in a meeting, at school, or out with friends, and instead of focusing on what's in front of you, all you can think about is what you'll eat next, what you shouldn't have eaten, or what you'll allow yourself later. That constant mental chatter, what many call food noise, can be exhausting.
Tune in to the full episode to uncover what food noise is really telling you, and what steps you can take to finally quiet it.
Tweetable Quotes "Thinking about food and being interested in food is really another sign of physical hunger." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Restriction applies to the actual restriction of food not getting in enough, and it applies to the restriction of kinds of foods, types of foods, and the idea that they're off limits." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Once you start eating adequately and regularly and consistently, and allowing yourself to have a variety of foods, then you'd be surprised how the food noise starts to quiet." - Rachelle Heinemann
"If we still have our good foods and bad foods in different camps, then the food noise will probably be there." - Rachelle Heinemann
"The more you avoid sweets and cakes and all these other kinds of fun foods, it's going to hold that power over you." - Rachelle Heinemann
"The most important takeaway from today is 'Are you restricting? Is there some dieting going on? Are there lots of food rules?' In which case, you have to address that in order to decrease the food noise that is driving you up the wall." - Rachelle Heinemann
Resources Bergen Mental Health Group Inc. is hiring! If you think you'd be a great fit, check it out!
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
Thank you to our sponsors! This episode includes paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services.
Hidden River Healing provides compassionate, residential eating disorder treatment for girls, adolescents, and young women. Their expert clinical team emphasizes family involvement and individualized care in a beautifully designed facility surrounded by nature — a peaceful environment that supports recovery and lasting healing.
Program Highlights:
Specialized care for ages 8 and up, including a dedicated house for Emerging Adults (21+) and Mid-Life Adults
In-network with most commercial insurances
Ability to treat NG tube patients
Learn more: hiddenriverhealing.com/about-us
Follow on Instagram: @hiddenrivertx
What Does Treatment for an Eating Disorder Actually Look Like?
2025/10/21
When it comes to eating disorder treatment, one of the biggest questions people have is simple: What does it actually look like? The reality is that there's no single answer. Every person's story with food, body image, and recovery is unique, which means treatment has to be flexible, supportive, and tailored to the individual. Still, there are common building blocks that show up again and again, and understanding them can make the process feel a little less overwhelming.
The number one goal is eating disorder symptom reduction. That means consistent and adequate nourishment as the first and most important goal.
Tweetable Quotes "No two eating disorders are going to look alike. No two people's stories are going to look alike." - Rachelle Heinemann
"The relationship we have with our people is going to be the catalyst for change." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Just because the numbers are good doesn't mean there isn't still an eating disorder." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Even if somebody starts to show signs of decreased symptoms, it doesn't necessarily mean that the work is over." - Rachelle Heinemann
Resources Bergen Mental Health Group Inc. is hiring! If you think you'd be a great fit, check it out!
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
Body Image with Sydney Greene, MS, RDN
2025/09/30
Ever feel like nothing in your closet feels good, no matter how many outfits you try on? Or maybe you've found yourself spiraling about what people will think when they see you at a reunion, a wedding, or even just in the office.
In this episode of Understanding Disordered Eating, I'm joined by my good friend and colleague, Sydney Green, MS, RD, to unpack the truth about body image: what it really means, how it shows up in daily life, and why it's so intertwined with our relationship to food.
Tweetable Quotes "If you're on outfit seven, nothing's feeling good… can we just go with comfort? Can we just go with, okay?" - Rachelle Heinemann
"Body image is the last to go… which again, I don't even know what that means, although it's true, but it doesn't really mean much without unpacking it." - Rachelle Heinemann
"The successful woman is looking super chic, and she's really thin, and if I don't look like that, then I'm not successful. I'm not driven. I'm not motivated." - Sydney Greene
"A huge salad… our stomach is not meant to digest that. We're not rabbits. It just sits there. We get bloated. It doesn't feel good." - Sydney Greene
"Body image is not a symptom. It's like how we feel about ourselves… there's so much more richness to how we feel about our body." - Sydney Greene
"There's an actual word for some of this in research, it's called fat talk… women get together and talk about, pick apart their body, kind of like that Mean Girls scene." - Sydney Greene
"When somebody is struggling with body image, maybe the point is not to immediately erase it. Maybe we have to see it and acknowledge it and say, you're not alone." - Rachelle Heinemann
Resources Connect with Sydney here: https://www.sydneygreenehealth.com/
Find her on Instagram!: @greenehealth
Bergen Mental Health Group Inc. is hiring! If you think you'd be a great fit, check it out!
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
Real Recovery and How to Get There with Carolyn Costin, MA, MEd., MFT, CEDS, FAED
2025/09/16
What does it really mean to be fully recovered from an eating disorder?
For decades, the conversation has been clouded by vague definitions, conflicting philosophies, and the fear that "recovery" might not even be possible. In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Carolyn Costin, a renowned therapist, author, and pioneer in the eating disorder field, to dig into what recovery actually looks like, why she believes full recovery is possible, and how to strengthen the "healthy self" rather than fight against the eating disorder voice.
Carolyn Costin MA, MEd., MFT, CEDS, FAED, is a world renowned, highly sought-after eating disorder clinician, author, and international speaker. Recovered from anorexia in her twenties, as a young therapist Carolyn recognized her calling after successfully treating her first eating disorder client. Carolyn was first to publicly take the position that people with eating disorders can become fully recovered.
Tweetable Quotes "When you are recovered, you will not compromise your health or betray your soul to look a certain way, wear a certain size, or reach a certain number on the scale." - Carolyn Costin
"We are not born with an eating disorder. We were born with this core healthy soul self in there." - Carolyn Costin
"Instead of getting rid of the eating disorder self, I help strengthen people's healthy self." - Carolyn Costin
"When someone has had an eating disorder, I want to be cautious for a while, but I know so many people now being in this for so long who are recovered and shit's happened in their life… and not slipped back." - Carolyn Costin
"I don't weigh myself. It's like a feminist statement." - Carolyn Costin
"We have to be careful… but my experience is people who are recovered actually navigate it better because we've already been through all that and it's like we have a bit of a shield up for it." - Carolyn Costin
Resources Visit Carolyn's website - www.CarolynCostinInstitute.com
Bergen Mental Health Group Inc. is hiring! If you think you'd be a great fit, check it out!
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
174. Is This An Eating Disorder or Disordered Eating?
2025/09/09
Have you ever wondered where the line really is between disordered eating and a true eating disorder? It's not always as clear as we'd like to think. In fact, so much of what we consider "normal" in diet culture—tracking every bite, stressing over body image, or skipping meals in the name of health—can feel harmless at first… until it slowly starts taking over more and more of your life.
If you've ever asked yourself, "Is this just disordered eating, or is it something more?", this conversation is for you.
Tweetable Quotes "You don't have to have a diagnosable or a life-threatening eating disorder in order to qualify to get help." - Rachelle Heinemann
"Think of it like an iceberg. Disordered eating is the part you can see… but an eating disorder is the entire iceberg—this massive, dangerous thing that's hidden." - Rachelle Heinemann
"With disordered eating, the rules are upsetting if you can't follow them. With an eating disorder, the rules feel like commands, and breaking them feels like a moral failure." - Rachelle Heinemann
"To me, one of the most important pieces to keep an eye out for is how your relationship with food is impacting your life—your work, your friendships, even your ability to leave the house." - Rachelle Heinemann
"No matter if you have a full-blown eating disorder or you struggle with yo-yo dieting, there is help out of it. You don't have to wait." - Rachelle Heinemann
Resources Bergen Mental Health Group Inc. is hiring! If you think you'd be a great fit, check it out!
Grab my Journal Prompts Here!
Looking for a speaker for an upcoming event? Let's chat!
Now accepting new clients! Find out if we're a good fit!
LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.
Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here!
You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at [email protected]
Podcast reviews
Read Understanding Disordered Eating: Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image Healing podcast reviews
beth miller smith 2026/01/13
A “must listen” as a clinician
I love the emphasis on learning, improved awareness of one’s unique issues/challenges and the nature of long term recovery.
Suretolisten 2025/10/28
Best Podcast on ED
I’ve been battling an ED for almost 20 years and have only recently accessed tools to help me recover. This podcast is so clear and engaging and I alw...
MeemersT 2024/06/18
Excellent Content
Just listened to the Judy Krasna episode. I will be recommending this episode to all parents of kids with an ED
fooddocnyc 2024/03/13
Psycho analyst , expert in eating disorders
This is such a smart, thoughtful podcast integrating theory with real day-to-day concerns. Rachelle is fun, inspiring— And will answer the kind of qu...
TianaX 2023/10/08
Learning a lot
Current MSW student, love the podcast so insightful and helpful. Thank you!!
KELKAT97 2022/06/21
Amazing support for recovery
So thought provoking! Grateful for this resource to dive deeper on parts of disordered eating recovery.
The beast123456789012335567890 2022/01/07
Amazing
After listening to one episode I am so hooked. This is the type of thought and conversation we need more of. This completely changed the way I have st...
a listeneer 2021/08/31
Podcast👍👍👍
Wow! This podcast was super informative and intellectual. Rachelle really knows her stuff!
Srivk 2021/08/30
A podcast I didn’t know I was searching for until I found it
Rachely’s voice manages to be so soothing while imparting such pearls of wisdom. This is definitely my new go to podcast! Thank you!
Miss the bus 2021/08/30
Wow!
Wow this is super informative and interesting to listen to! Super easy to understand too! So proud!
Podcast sponsorship advertising
Start advertising on Understanding Disordered Eating: Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image Healing relevant audience podcasts
You may also like to advertise on these Podcasts

4.71152539
Beast over Burden powered by Barbell Logic
Barbell Logic

4.6110142
Brian & Kenzie Podcast
Q101 | Cumulus Media Chicago

4.6177858
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors
SaaStr

4.91120149
Convos Over Cold Brew with Emma Abrahamson
Emma Abrahamson

4.9134163
Headcanon
James Taylor and Marco Sparks

4.5762723
Today in Focus
The Guardian

4.53222963
Federalist Radio Hour
Radio America

4.7235753
The Shannon Joy Podcast
Spreely Media

4.97941086
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Celebrity Fitness Trainer & Longevity Enthusiast Ted Ryce

4.516950
Criterion Cast: Master Audio Feed
CriterionCast
