How did the eating disorder field become what it is today—and where does it still need to go? In this episode of the Align33 Media Clinical Roundtable, Robyn Shumer sits down with five leaders who helped shape modern eating disorder treatment, prevention, advocacy, and recovery. Together, they reflect on the early days of the field, the ideas that changed treatment, what clinicians understand differently today, and the gaps that still remain. The conversation also explores prevention, lived experience, family involvement, body image, culture, and why continuing to challenge old assumptions matters. This episode is both a celebration of how far the field has come and an honest look at the work still ahead. How did the eating disorder field become what it is today—and where does it still need to go? In this episode of the Align33 Media Clinical Roundtable, Robyn Shumer sits down with five leaders who helped shape modern eating disorder treatment, prevention, advocacy, and recovery. Together, they reflect on the early days of the field, the ideas that changed treatment, what clinicians understand differently today, and the gaps that still remain. The conversation also explores prevention, lived experience, family involvement, body image, culture, and why continuing to challenge old assumptions matters. This episode is both a celebration of how far the field has come and an honest look at the work still ahead. Meet the Panel Beth Hartman McGilley, PhD, FAED, CEDS is a psychologist specializing in eating disorders, athletes, trauma, grief, and body image. She has worked in the field for more than three decades and has written, taught, supervised, and helped train generations of eating disorder professionals. She also co-edited Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap Margo Maine, PhD, FAED, CEDS is a clinical psychologist, author, and longtime eating disorder advocate whose work has helped transform conversations around women, body image, aging, culture, and eating disorders. She is a founder and former adviser of NEDA and a founding fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders.Learn more about Margo Maine Michael P. Levine, PhD is a psychologist, researcher, author, and pioneer in eating disorder prevention whose work has helped establish prevention, media literacy, and community education as essential parts of the field. His scholarship has also examined prevention within families at elevated risk for eating disorders. Carolyn Costin, MA, MEd, LMFT, CEDS, FAED is the founder of Monte Nido and The Carolyn Costin Institute. After recovering from anorexia herself, she devoted her career to helping others become fully recovered and created one of the first residential eating disorder treatment programs in the United States.The Carolyn Costin InstituteBecoming Recovered Body & Soul with Carolyn Costin Love, A Stranger provides free peer support by phone and text for people struggling with eating disorders and body image concerns, as well as support for families and loved ones. The organization describes itself as the nation’s only eating disorder helpline that can be reached by text.Love, A Stranger Balancing Act: Life and Struggles of a Teenage Girl, created and hosted by Moorea Friedmann, is a mental health and wellness podcast made for teens, by a teen, covering topics including anxiety, depression, body image, eating disorders, friendships, social media, and the pressures of growing up.Listen to Balancing Act If this conversation resonates with you, please subscribe, share the episode, and help us continue creating thoughtful conversations around eating disorders, body image, mental health, and recovery. Align33 Media is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and donations are tax-deductible. Learn more or make a donation Presented in Partnership WithSupport Align33 Media4 Likes
