Changing the Conversation about EDs Liron Cohen
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Changing the Conversation about Eating Disorders is a monthly podcast from Liron Cohen and Karin Eli. Combining our professional and personal perspectives, we're aiming to create a new discussion about a subject matter that touches so many lives and yet still puzzles most of us. New episodes are posted on the first Tuesday of every month. Subscribe to us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/changing-the-conversation-about-eds/id1446935444
Karin Eli is a medical anthropologist whose research focuses on eating disorders and obesity. Karin approaches eating disorders and obesity as multi-level conditions, and studies how they manifest both in individual experiences and among populations. http://academia.edu/
Liron Cohen is the creator and cohost of the feminist blog/Vlog/podcast Lady Parts TV. She mentors and supports individuals and families affected by eating disorders, anxiety disorders, chronic illness, and issues relating to the LGBTQ community, as well as consults with doctors, students and professionals in these fields. She is currently working on her first book, based on her experiences overcoming anorexia nervosa. Born and raised in Israel, she now lives in New York with her wife and their two cats. LadyPartsTV.com
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ED Podcast #15 - Eating Disorders Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic Ft. Rachel Bachner-Melman
In this episode, we host leading eating disorders specialist Professor Rachel Bachner-Melman, for a discussion of how the Covid-19 pandemic is changing eating disorders treatment, and what people with eating disorders and their relatives can do to cope during this difficult time. (The second part, which deals with coping, starts at 21:00.)
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Podcast #14 - OCD and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this episode, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic might affect people who live with anxiety, and explore some ways of managing stress in this time of uncertainty.
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ED Podcast #13 - Tipping Points and Recovering
In this episode, we explore critical moments that prompt the decision to recover from an eating disorder, and the everyday actions that maintain the recovery process.
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ED Podcast #12 - OCD and Shame
In this episode, we explore how experiences of obsessive-compulsive disorder link with eating disorders, and discuss how stigma and shame silence stories of obsessions and compulsions.
The excerpt from Erin Van Der Meulen's "View from a body: Situating the lived experience of painful obsessions and compulsions" was used with the author's permission. -
ED Podcast #11 - Parents and Siblings
In this episode, we explore eating disorders in the context of the family, turning our attention to the experiences of parents and siblings, and reflecting on the support they may need.
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ED Podcast #10 - Rebellion and Abundance
In this episode, we zoom out from the individual plate to the dinner table, and from the dinner table to the cafe and supermarket, to explore how food, as a social and cultural product, informs and interacts with eating disorders.