The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

I was helping my wife through eating disorder behaviors 5 years ago and was feeling a lot of hopelessness and despair. I had no idea if she’d recover or not. There was one episode I listened to where a couple with the wife in recovery was interviewed, and I hung on every word they said. Change seemed such an impossibility, but it was extremely comforting to hear that anybody could escape from this toxic, horrifying world of body image distortion and “thinspo” etc. I held onto their story a lot. My wife attended a treatment facility, and by what I attribute to a miracle from God, she lost the desire to engage in eating disorder behaviors. She has been living in recovery for about 4 years right now and is mother to a little girl with another child on the way. Thank you for helping me hold onto the hope that my wife could recover. This podcast was super educational and inspirational for me.

I am so thankful for this podcast. Having been in recovery for several months, this podcast has been a tremendous resource for not only education, but for connection as well. I highly recommend this podcast for anyone interested in learning about ED. Dr. Anderson interviews experts in the field with grace and thoughtful, insightful questions.

I am the mother of a 15 year old daughter with anorexia nervosa with a history of purging. She is working so hard through all of her treatment levels, but one of the things that all of them fall short with is educating the parents in a meaningful way. This is where you come in, Dr. Anderson. You and your guests have made me feel empowered, and capable of quietly assessing my child in a compassionate way that has already resulted in more timely care when she needed it. I can’t thank you enough, and it’s gotten to the point where I really can’t listen to you without a notebook at hand to write down things I don’t want to forget. When my daughter relapsed, we had no residential programs with openings nearby, and she was either going to go to Florida or to your program in Denver. Either one was a plane trip for me, so I was really kind of hoping she’d go to Denver, lol. Anyway, she did successfully complete her program in Florida, and she seems to be progressing. but because of your podcast, I understand, there will be relapses in the future. But like you say, the goal is minimizing the amplitude and frequency of those relapses. Thank you so much, you have made a real difference in our lives.

This is my favorite Ed recovery podcast <3 I hope it comes back