Dr. Marianne-Land: An Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

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Welcome to this mental health and eating disorder podcast by Dr. Marianne Miller, who is an eating disorder therapist and binge eating and ARFID course creator. In this podcast, Dr. Marianne explores the ins and outs of eating disorder recovery. It’s a top podcast for people struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID (avoidant restrictive food intake disorder), and any sort of distressed eating. We discuss topics like neurodiversity and eating disorders, self-compassion in eating disorder recovery, lived experience of eating disorders, LGBTQ+ and eating disorders, as well as anti-fat bias, weight-neutral fitness, muscularity-oriented issues, and body image. Dr. Marianne has been an eating disorder therapist for 13 years and has created a course on ARFID and selective eating, as well as a membership to help you recover from binge eating disorder and bulimia. Dr. Marianne has been in mental health for 28 years. Dr. Marianne is neurodivergent and works with a lot of neurodivergent folks. She has fully recovered from an eating disorder that lasted 25 years, and she wants to share her experience, knowledge, and recovery joy with you! Her interview episodes with top eating disorder professionals drop on Tuesdays. You can also tune in on Fridays when Dr. Marianne’s SOLO episodes that come out. You’ll hear personal stories, tips, and strategies to help you in your eating disorder recovery journey. If you’re struggling with food, eating, body image, and mental health, this podcast is for you!

  1. 22h ago

    Misophonia: Why Chewing Sounds Feel Unbearable & How to Cope With Dr. Tom Phelan

    Do chewing, crunching, or slurping sounds make you feel anxious, overwhelmed, disgusted, or desperate to leave? In this episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, Dr. Marianne welcomes clinical psychologist and author Dr. Tom to explore misophonia, sound triggers, and their impact on eating, relationships, and everyday life. Drawing on his personal experience with misophonia and his book, Stop That Chewing, Dr. Tom shares coping approaches and discusses how families can respond with understanding and compassion. What Is Misophonia? Misophonia involves strong emotional and physical reactions to specific sounds. Chewing sounds and other mouth noises are common triggers, but reactions vary. Some people experience anxiety or disgust, while others feel anger, overwhelm, or an urgent need to escape. Dr. Marianne and Dr. Tom discuss how recognizing these experiences can help people explain their needs and reduce shame. Misophonia, ARFID, & Sensory Sensitivities When eating sounds feel unbearable, sharing a meal can become overwhelming. Dr. Marianne and Dr. Tom explore how misophonia can complicate mealtimes for some people with ARFID—avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. The conversation also touches on autism, ADHD, and sensory sensitivities, including the distinction between specific misophonia triggers and broader sensitivity to sound. Misophonia in Kids & Teens: Supporting Families Without Blame A child or teen who avoids family dinner may be struggling with sound triggers they cannot easily explain. Parents may feel rejected, while their child feels misunderstood. These experiences can create tension and disconnection around meals. Dr. Marianne and Dr. Tom discuss a collaborative, blame-free approach that includes family education, flexible meal arrangements, background sound, and communication. The goal is to support sensory needs while strengthening family relationships. Misophonia Coping Strategies & Treatment Approaches Dr. Tom introduces his ABCD approach and “five-second plan” for responding to misophonia triggers. He describes environmental adjustments, breathing, muscle relaxation, and ways to address self-critical thoughts or assumptions that others are making sounds intentionally. The conversation also explores cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), carefully paced exposure, and possible medication as topics to discuss with qualified providers. Dr. Marianne emphasizes the value of choice, including knowing you can pause or leave an overwhelming situation. Self-Compassion When Chewing Sounds Feel Overwhelming A strong reaction to eating sounds does not make you a bad person. Understanding your triggers and responding to yourself with compassion can help reduce the shame that often accompanies misophonia. Dr. Marianne and Dr. Tom explore how families can acknowledge distress without blaming either the person experiencing misophonia or the person making the sound. About Dr. Tom Phelan & Stop That Chewing Dr. Tom Phelan is a clinical psychologist with more than 40 years of experience working with children, families, and adults. He is the author of a widely read parenting book called 1-2-3 Magic. Stop That Chewing is his recent book, which explores misophonia and approaches to support individuals and families. Learn more at StopThatChewing.com. Contact Dr. Marianne for Misophonia Support Are sound triggers affecting your meals, relationships, or daily life? Contact Dr. Marianne to discuss misophonia support and explore your needs, sensory experiences, and options for care. You deserve space to talk about what feels overwhelming and support that takes your experience seriously. Explore Dr. Marianne’s ARFID & Selective Eating Course If you or someone you support struggles with ARFID or selective eating, explore Dr. Marianne’s ARFID and Selective Eating Course. The course offers deeper education about ARFID, sensory experiences, and neurodivergent perspectives on eating. Visit Dr. Marianne’s website to learn more about the course and contact her for support.

  2. 3d ago

    Why Certain Foods Become Binge Foods: ADHD, Autism, Bulimia, & Binge Eating Disorder

    Certain foods can become closely connected to binge eating because they provide more than taste or energy. For people with ADHD or autism, these foods may offer sensory stimulation, predictability, emotional regulation, comfort, or relief after a demanding day. Dr. Marianne explains why binge foods are not random and why removing them rarely addresses the full problem. She examines the connections among ADHD and binge eating, autism and eating disorders, bulimia, binge eating disorder, sensory processing, interoception, executive dysfunction, and food restriction. ADHD, Executive Dysfunction, and Binge Eating ADHD can make consistent eating difficult. Time blindness, hyperfocus, decision fatigue, appetite changes from medication, and the many steps involved in preparing food can lead to delayed meals or inadequate nourishment. By evening, intense hunger may combine with a need for stimulation and immediate energy. Crunchy, sweet, salty, creamy, cold, or strongly flavored foods can provide rapid sensory input. These foods may help an ADHD brain feel more alert, focused, soothed, or engaged. What appears to be a lack of self-control may actually reflect hunger, executive-function challenges, and a nervous system seeking regulation. Autism, Sensory Regulation, and Binge Foods For autistic people, familiar foods can provide sensory safety and predictability. Packaged foods often offer the same flavor, texture, and appearance every time. That consistency may feel especially regulating after sensory overload, masking, social demands, or unexpected changes. Repetitive eating may also function as stimming. Specific textures, temperatures, and flavors can help an autistic person feel grounded or organized. Interoception differences may make it harder to recognize hunger and fullness until those sensations become intense. Bulimia vs. Binge Eating Disorder Bulimia and binge eating disorder both involve recurrent binge-eating episodes and significant distress. Bulimia also includes compensatory behaviors such as vomiting, fasting, excessive exercise, or laxative misuse. People with binge eating disorder may not use regular compensatory behaviors, but they may still diet, skip meals, or restrict food between binges. Restriction, scarcity, and labeling foods as forbidden can increase preoccupation and intensify the binge-restrict cycle. Understanding the Function of Binge Eating Instead of asking only, “How do I stop eating this food?” Dr. Marianne encourages listeners to ask what the food is helping them do. It may provide energy after under-eating, interrupt racing thoughts, soothe emotional distress, support a transition into rest, or meet a sensory need. Recovery may include mechanical eating, low-effort foods, executive-function accommodations, sensory support, regular nourishment, and less moral judgment around food. Understanding the function of binge foods does not minimize the distress or medical risks of bulimia and binge eating disorder. It creates a more compassionate and effective place to begin. Who This Eating Disorder Recovery Episode Is For This episode is for autistic people, ADHDers, and other neurodivergent adults who experience binge eating, bulimia, binge eating disorder, food restriction, delayed eating, sensory-seeking eating, or difficulty recognizing hunger and fullness cues. Eating disorder therapists, dietitians, and other providers may also benefit from this neurodivergent-affirming perspective. Work With Dr. Marianne Dr. Marianne provides neurodivergent-affirming, sensory-attuned, trauma-informed, and weight-neutral eating disorder therapy for clients in California and Washington, D.C. She also offers virtual coaching and parent consultations worldwide. Learn more at drmariannemiller.com. This podcast provides education and cannot replace individualized medical, nutritional, or mental health care. Bulimia and other eating disorders can cause serious medical complications. Seek medical support if you are purging, severely restricting, or experiencing concerning physical symptoms. Related Episodes ADHD & Binge Eating: Why You Feel Like a Bottomless Pit (And Why Traditional CBT Often Fails) on Apple and Spotify. ADHD & Bulimia: Dopamine, Impulsivity, & the Hidden Link to Binge Eating With Kirsten Book, PMHNP-BC on Apple and Spotify. Why Eating Feels So Chaotic With ADHD: Binge Eating, Bulimia, & Executive Function Challenges on Apple and Spotify. Autism, Food Rigidity, & Eating Disorders: How Autistic Traits Can Help & Hinder Recovery on Apple and Spotify.

  3. 5d ago

    Chronic Pain Challenges With Eating Disorders: When Pain, Fatigue, & Food Collide

    Chronic pain can make eating disorder recovery more complicated. Pain, fatigue, brain fog, medication side effects, nausea, limited mobility, and sensory overload can interfere with shopping, preparing food, recognizing hunger, and eating consistently. In this solo episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, Dr. Marianne explains why these challenges reflect real barriers to nourishment, not a lack of motivation or commitment to recovery. Drawing from her clinical experience and more than two decades of living with lower back pain, she discusses how chronic pain can become intertwined with food restriction, binge eating, purging, compulsive movement, and body-image distress. Interoception, Hunger, and Fullness Cues Chronic pain can affect interoception, or the ability to notice and interpret signals from inside the body. When pain remains loud and persistent, quieter hunger and fullness cues may become harder to recognize. Hunger may feel like nausea, shakiness, irritability, anxiety, or general physical distress. Fullness may be confused with pain, bloating, or sensory discomfort. Someone may know that something feels wrong without knowing whether they need food, rest, medication, hydration, or another form of support. Dr. Marianne explains why relying entirely on hunger cues may not provide enough structure during a pain flare. Flexible mechanical eating, reminders, and predictable eating opportunities can support nourishment when internal signals feel inconsistent or confusing. Chronic Pain, Food Restriction, and Binge Eating Eating disorder behaviors can serve understandable functions when someone lives with persistent pain. Restriction may create numbness or a temporary sense of control. Binge eating may offer comfort, stimulation, distraction, or emotional regulation. Purging may feel like a release, and compulsive movement may continue despite pain because rest triggers fear or guilt. Understanding what a behavior provides can help identify the unmet need underneath it. That understanding does not make a harmful behavior safe, but it can create a more compassionate and effective path toward change. Medical Weight Stigma and Chronic Illness People in larger bodies often receive weight-loss advice before healthcare professionals fully investigate their pain. For someone with an eating disorder history, restrictive medical advice can reactivate food rules, obsessive thoughts, compensatory behaviors, and body shame. Dr. Marianne discusses why people deserve pain treatment that looks beyond body size and why intentional weight loss is not a neutral recommendation in eating disorder recovery. Accessible Eating During Pain and Fatigue Recovery may require practical accommodations. Frozen meals, packaged snacks, nutrition drinks, prepared ingredients, repetitive foods, and delivery all count as nourishment. Creating options for lower-pain, moderate-pain, and severe-pain days can reduce the physical and executive-function demands of eating. Keeping food near the bed, couch, or desk can also make nourishment more accessible. The goal is not to create an ideal meal. The goal is to make eating possible. Who This Eating Disorder Podcast Episode Is For This episode is for people navigating chronic pain, chronic illness, fatigue, disrupted hunger and fullness cues, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, compulsive movement, or long-term eating disorder recovery. It may also help therapists, dietitians, caregivers, and medical professionals understand why conventional recovery advice does not always fit people living with pain. This content provides general education and support, not individualized medical, nutritional, or mental health care. Seek support from qualified professionals who understand your specific medical and eating disorder needs. Work With Dr. Marianne Dr. Marianne provides eating disorder therapy for clients in California and Washington, D.C., along with virtual coaching for people worldwide. She specializes in ARFID, binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, neurodivergence, chronic pain, sensory needs, and long-term eating disorder recovery. Learn more about therapy, coaching, the self-paced ARFID and Selective Eating Course on her website, drmariannemiller.com. Related Episodes Chronic Illness, Wellness Culture, & Eating Disorder Recovery: Taking an Anti-Diet Approach With Abbie Attwood, MS, @abbieattwoodwellness on Apple and Spotify. Anti-Fat Bias in Healthcare & Chronic Illness: Healing Body Image in a Marginalized Body With Ivy Felicia @iamivyfelicia on Apple and Spotify.

  4. Oct 5

    Eating Disorder Recovery in an Anxious World: Finding Safety With Food & Connection With Vanessa Scaringi, PhD & Kathryn Garland, LCSW

    Attachment patterns can shape how we seek comfort, respond to uncertainty, and relate to food. Dr. Marianne welcomes back Vanessa Scaringi, PhD, and Kathryn Garland, LCSW, to discuss eating disorder recovery, emotional eating, and finding connection when the world feels unsafe. The co-owners of CALM Counseling share insights from their book, Hungry for Connection: Heal Your Relationships with Food and People in an Insecurely Attached World. Together, they discuss how supportive relationships, self-compassion, and repair can help us build greater trust with food and ourselves. ATTACHMENT STYLES & EATING DISORDERS Learn about secure, anxious, avoidant, and fearful-avoidant attachment patterns and how they may show up in relationships with food and people. Vanessa and Kathryn explain why attachment styles can change and why a particular eating behavior does not automatically correspond to one attachment pattern. EMOTIONAL EATING, FOOD ANXIETY & SAFETY Eating behaviors can serve different functions, including seeking comfort and avoiding distress. The conversation considers how isolation, societal uncertainty, and disconnection can intensify food anxiety and disordered eating. Understanding what a behavior does for you can create space for curiosity and additional ways to meet your needs. INTUITIVE EATING, DIET CULTURE & SELF-TRUST Diet culture and wellness messaging often encourage people to question their bodies and fear food. The guests discuss intuitive eating, health optimization, and the moral judgments embedded in “clean eating.” Their alternative, “messy eating,” makes room for flexibility, imperfection, and a more compassionate relationship with food. GLP-1s, FOOD NOISE & UNMET NEEDS Dr. Marianne, Vanessa, and Kathryn discuss GLP-1 medications and the complexity of “food noise.” They consider biological hunger, cultural messaging, and emotional needs while encouraging ongoing conversation about food and eating, including when medication changes someone’s appetite. EATING DISORDER RECOVERY THROUGH CONNECTION & REPAIR Secure relationships allow room for disappointment, conflict, and reconnection. Vanessa and Kathryn explain how rupture and repair can support healing and why sustainable change takes time. Recovery can include building community, expanding coping strategies, and practicing a kinder internal voice. WHO THIS CONVERSATION IS FOR People navigating eating disorder recovery, emotional eating, food anxiety, or a difficult relationship with food may find this conversation helpful. Eating disorder therapists, dietitians, and loved ones can also gain insight into an attachment-informed approach to support. CONTENT CAUTIONS Discussion includes restrictive eating, compulsive exercise, orthorexia, diet culture, food insecurity, food fear, GLP-1 medications, weight-loss messaging, and purity culture. No specific weights, calorie counts, or instructions for eating disorder behaviors are provided. CONNECT WITH VANESSA & KATHRYN Learn about CALM Counseling and Hungry for Connection at keepcalmatx.com. Follow them on Instagram @keepcalmatx. CONNECT WITH DR. MARIANNE Visit drmariannemiller.com to learn about eating disorder therapy in California and Washington, D.C., global virtual coaching, and additional recovery resources. Find her on Instagram at @drmariannemiller. If this episode resonates with you, follow Dr. Marianne-Land on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or wherever you listen. Share it with someone who could use a more compassionate perspective on food, relationships, neurodivergence, and recovery. RELATED EPISODES Attachment Theory & Our Relationship With Food, Eating, & Body Image With Dr. Vanessa Scaringi & Kathryn Garland, LCSW-S on Apple & Spotify.

  5. Oct 2

    When Your Fear of Being Fat Is About How Others Will Treat You: The Desire for Thinness As Social Safety

    Fear of weight gain is not always about appearance. For many people, the desire for thinness reflects a fear of rejection, medical weight stigma, dating discrimination, family criticism, workplace bias, or losing social acceptance. In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne examines how anti-fat bias can make thinness feel like protection. Fear of fatness is real, and people in larger bodies often receive worse treatment in healthcare, relationships, employment, clothing spaces, and everyday life. Recognizing that reality does not mean accepting an eating disorder’s claim that changing your body is the only way to stay safe. THE DESIRE FOR THINNESS IN EATING DISORDER RECOVERY Dr. Marianne discusses how anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, orthorexia, and compulsive exercise can become attempts to gain approval or avoid weight-based discrimination. She also explains why receiving compliments at a lower or medically unsafe weight can complicate eating disorder recovery. For autistic people, ADHDers, and other neurodivergent people, body control may become another form of masking. When you already feel pressure to monitor your behavior, communication, sensory needs, or emotional responses, thinness may seem like one more way to appear socially acceptable. WEIGHT STIGMA, BODY IMAGE, AND SOCIAL SAFETY You’ll learn how to identify the social fear beneath body-image distress, separate discomfort from danger, and build safety without restriction, purging, bingeing, or compulsive exercise. Dr. Marianne also offers practical ways to respond to body comments, advocate for weight-neutral healthcare, find clothes that fit your current body, and develop relationships that do not require you to shrink. Eating disorder recovery does not require perfect body acceptance. It can begin with naming the deeper truth: “I am not only afraid of being fat. I am afraid of how people may treat me.” SPECIAL THANKS Special thanks to Stacie Fanelli, LCSW, @edadhd_therapist, for the topic idea that inspired this episode. WORK WITH DR. MARIANNE Dr. Marianne Miller is a neurodivergent-affirming, fat-positive eating disorder therapist with nearly 30 years of experience as a therapist. She offers eating disorder therapy for anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, body-image concerns, autism, and ADHD in California and Washington, D.C. Learn more about therapy, global coaching, and the ARFID and Selective Eating Course, at https://www.drmariannemiller.com. Follow Dr. Marianne on Instagram: @drmariannemiller

  6. Sep 30

    Autism, ADHD, & Food Struggles: Why Eating Is So Hard in Systems Not Built for You

    Autism, ADHD, and other forms of neurodivergence can make eating far more complicated than simply recognizing hunger and choosing food. Sensory sensitivities, executive dysfunction, time blindness, interoception differences, demand avoidance, decision fatigue, and neurodivergent burnout can all interfere with regular nourishment. Dr. Marianne explains the hidden work behind eating and why many common food environments were not designed for neurodivergent people. Schools, workplaces, healthcare systems, diet culture, and eating disorder treatment programs often expect people to tolerate noisy spaces, rigid meal schedules, complicated preparation, unfamiliar foods, and standardized treatment plans. When someone cannot meet these expectations, they may be labeled resistant, lazy, difficult, or unmotivated. A neurodivergent-affirming approach asks a different question: What barriers are making food inaccessible? WHAT YOU’LL LEARN Learn how autism and ADHD can affect hunger cues, food choices, meal preparation, transitions, sensory processing, and the ability to eat consistently. Dr. Marianne discusses why autistic people may depend on safe foods, why ADHD can make planning and initiating meals difficult, and why AuDHD can create competing needs for familiarity and novelty. You will also hear how demand avoidance, chronic illness, fatigue, pain, financial limitations, workplace expectations, and inaccessible eating disorder treatment can make food struggles worse. Convenience foods, repeated meals, grocery delivery, body doubling, external reminders, and sensory accommodations can provide meaningful access to nourishment. AUTISM, ADHD, AND EATING DISORDERS Neurodivergent eating does not always look conventional. Eating alone, separating foods, relying on screens during meals, repeating familiar foods, or using packaged meals may support regulation and adequate nourishment. These patterns should not automatically be treated as eating disorder behaviors. Effective treatment for ARFID, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and other eating concerns must distinguish between harmful restriction and accommodations that help an autistic or ADHD person eat. The goal is not to make someone’s eating appear more typical. The goal is medical safety, adequate nourishment, sustainable flexibility, and support that respects sensory needs and autonomy. WHO THIS EPISODE IS FOR This episode is for autistic people, ADHDers, AuDHD adults, and anyone whose neurodivergence affects food, meal preparation, hunger cues, or daily functioning. It may also help parents, caregivers, eating disorder therapists, dietitians, occupational therapists, and other providers seeking neurodivergent-affirming approaches to food struggles. CONTENT CAUTION This conversation includes food restriction, inconsistent eating, binge eating, ARFID, eating disorders, shame, medical risk, and harmful treatment experiences. If you are eating very little or experiencing rapid weight loss, fainting, chest pain, severe weakness, dehydration, or other concerning symptoms, seek medical support. Inadequate nutrition can become medically serious at every body size. KEY TAKEAWAY Food struggles are not always evidence of poor motivation or a lack of discipline. They often reflect real barriers involving sensory processing, executive functioning, interoception, transitions, demands, energy, access, and environment. Instead of asking why you cannot eat "normally," ask what is making nourishment inaccessible right now. Your needs provide information about the support and accommodations that may help. RELATED EPISODES Autism, Food Rigidity, & Eating Disorders: How Autistic Traits Can Help & Hinder Recovery on Apple & Spotify. ADHD, Autism, & Eating Disorders: When Feeling “Too Much” Makes You Want to Be Smaller With Stacie Fanelli, LCSW on Apple & Spotify. WORK WITH DR. MARIANNE Dr. Marianne Miller is a neurodivergent-affirming eating disorder therapist specializing in ARFID, binge eating, anorexia, and bulimia, as well as ADHD and autism. She provides therapy in California and Washington, D.C., along with virtual coaching for clients worldwide. Her virtual, self-paced ARFID and Selective Eating course offers a sensory-attuned, trauma-informed, and autonomy-affirming approach for adults with ARFID, parents and caregivers, and providers.  Learn more at https://www.drmariannemiller.com.

  7. Sep 28

    Eating Disorder Recovery Without Food Rules: A Dietitian’s Approach With Lauren Hofstee, RD

    Food rules can make eating feel like a test you have to pass. Dr. Marianne talks with registered dietitian Lauren Hofstee about eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, and building a steadier relationship with food without judgment or guilt. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN Lauren explains how “what I eat in a day” videos, body checks, and the thin ideal can shape food choices and body image, especially for teens and young adults. She describes what a first appointment with an eating disorder dietitian can look like and why trust and a workable eating routine matter. Dr. Marianne and Lauren also discuss fear of carbohydrates, anxiety about weight gain, and the belief that enjoyable food must be “bad” for you. Lauren shares how nutrition education and gradual, collaborative steps can help people question food myths. They discuss why meal plans help some people while others need a different kind of structure. WHO THIS EPISODE IS FOR This conversation is for anyone navigating eating disorder recovery, questioning rigid food rules, or feeling nervous about seeing a dietitian. Parents and providers may also find it useful. CONTENT CAUTIONS This episode discusses eating disorders, food restriction, fear of weight gain, social media body checks, and diet culture. TAKEAWAYS Supportive eating disorder nutrition care starts with a person’s history, fears, and goals. Lauren’s approach makes room for nourishment, pleasure, and connection while helping each client find practical support that fits. Lauren offers virtual dietitian services in Ontario. Find her on Instagram at @laurenhofstee.rd or visit laurenhofstee.me. For eating disorder therapy with Dr. Marianne in California or Washington, D.C., visit drmariannemiller.com. RELATED EPISODES Family Food Rules & Body Image Issues: How Diet Culture Gets Passed Down Through Generations on Apple & Spotify. OCD & Eating Disorders: Why Food Rules, Rituals, & “Not Feeling Right” Take Over on Apple & Spotify.

  8. Sep 25

    Can I Trust This Nutrition Advice? Eating Disorders, Food Safety, & Misinformation

    Nutrition misinformation can make eating disorder recovery feel increasingly confusing. Social media warnings about sugar, carbohydrates, seed oils, processed foods, toxins, inflammation, and “clean eating” often sound scientific, even when they rely on fear, exaggeration, or missing context. In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne discusses how nutrition myths and conflicting food advice can intensify food anxiety, orthorexia, ARFID, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and the binge-restrict cycle. She explains why people with autism, ADHD, OCD, health anxiety, sensory sensitivities, and interoceptive differences may feel especially vulnerable to rigid or fear-based nutrition claims. What You’ll Learn Learn how to distinguish legitimate food-safety concerns from eating disorder rules disguised as wellness advice. Dr. Marianne examines the different meanings of “safe,” including medical safety, sensory safety, emotional safety, and the moralized version of safety promoted by diet culture. You will also hear common warning signs of nutrition misinformation, including claims that one ingredient causes many unrelated health problems, promises that eliminating a food will transform your health, and advice that becomes increasingly restrictive. Dr. Marianne explains how algorithms, personal testimonials, AI-generated nutrition advice, and wellness marketing can make unsupported claims feel credible. Food Safety, ARFID, and Neurodivergent Eating For autistic people and individuals with ARFID, packaged foods, familiar brands, frozen meals, snacks, and nutritional drinks may provide sensory predictability and reliable nourishment. Labeling these foods as toxic, fake, or unhealthy can remove foods that already feel accessible. Real food-safety guidance addresses specific concerns such as allergies, contamination, food recalls, refrigeration, cross-contact, and cooking temperatures. Fear-based nutrition advice often turns a limited risk into a universal warning and leaves people afraid to eat. Eating Disorder Recovery in an Age of Food Confusion Dr. Marianne offers practical ways to evaluate nutrition advice without strengthening compulsive checking or dietary restriction. She discusses creating a small circle of trusted sources, pausing before eliminating foods, identifying conflicts of interest, and noticing whether advice increases flexibility or makes your relationship with food more fearful. Eating disorder recovery does not require perfect nutritional certainty. Adequate nourishment may matter more than following constantly changing wellness rules. Food can support you through pleasure, culture, convenience, affordability, predictability, and sensory comfort. Content Cautions Nutrition misinformation, food contamination, food allergies, vomiting, choking, restrictive eating, orthorexia, binge eating, purging, and compulsive exercise. Related Episodes Nutrition Myths Exposed: Protein Obsession, Processed Foods, & Eating Disorder Recovery With Kathleen Meehan, RD @therdnutritionist on Apple & Spotify. ARFID & Nutrition with Callie Holbrook, RD on Apple & Spotify. Work With Dr. Marianne Dr. Marianne provides eating disorder therapy for people in California and Washington, D.C., including support for ARFID, binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, autism, ADHD, and long-term eating disorders. She also offers global coaching, a self-paced ARFID and Selective Eating course, and a Binge Eating Recovery Membership. Learn more at https://www.drmariannemiller.com and follow Dr. Marianne on Instagram @drmariannemiller.

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Welcome to this mental health and eating disorder podcast by Dr. Marianne Miller, who is an eating disorder therapist and binge eating and ARFID course creator. In this podcast, Dr. Marianne explores the ins and outs of eating disorder recovery. It’s a top podcast for people struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID (avoidant restrictive food intake disorder), and any sort of distressed eating. We discuss topics like neurodiversity and eating disorders, self-compassion in eating disorder recovery, lived experience of eating disorders, LGBTQ+ and eating disorders, as well as anti-fat bias, weight-neutral fitness, muscularity-oriented issues, and body image. Dr. Marianne has been an eating disorder therapist for 13 years and has created a course on ARFID and selective eating, as well as a membership to help you recover from binge eating disorder and bulimia. Dr. Marianne has been in mental health for 28 years. Dr. Marianne is neurodivergent and works with a lot of neurodivergent folks. She has fully recovered from an eating disorder that lasted 25 years, and she wants to share her experience, knowledge, and recovery joy with you! Her interview episodes with top eating disorder professionals drop on Tuesdays. You can also tune in on Fridays when Dr. Marianne’s SOLO episodes that come out. You’ll hear personal stories, tips, and strategies to help you in your eating disorder recovery journey. If you’re struggling with food, eating, body image, and mental health, this podcast is for you!

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