Eating Disorders: Disrupting Diet Culture

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Her first binge felt like a trance. Normally uninterested in her family’s boring snack drawer, Dr. Regina Lazarovich had been restricting her food and her body took over while she ate everything in sight. Then Regina’s shame set in. Although she was desperate and sought help for her eating disorder during her twenties, she white-knuckled her way through more restriction and binging for a decade.
Regina's turning point and the beginning of her true healing and eating disorder recovery was stumbling onto the book Intuitive Eating. This book changed her life and helped her understand that her relationship with food was not sustainable. She found a new lens on society--that we live in a "diet culture." It clicked that it is not our fault we want to control our food and bodies, but that bodies are not supposed to be controlled.
This learned philosophy ultimately shaped Regina’s path to becoming a clinical psychologist specializing in OCD, eating disorders—and, in particular, binge eating disorder, as well as the critical role of Intuitive Eating as a pathway to healing.
I learned so much from Regina and I am fascinated by her counter-culture views that would make the world a better place for our bodies and minds. She even helped me take a look at my own past with disordered eating from a warm, compassionate perspective.
Enjoy Regina’s heartfelt approach to recovery and encouragement for everyone to find peace with food.

Resources:
Dr. Regina Lazarovich
The Binge-Restrict Cycle Explained
Find Food Freedom by Divesting From Diet Culture
Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison

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Music composed and performed by guitarist, JD Cullum
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Chapters

1. Healing From Binge Eating (00:00:00)

2. Understanding the Cycle of Eating Disorders (00:09:54)

3. Navigating Eating Disorder Diagnoses & Treatments (00:20:27)

4. Embracing Body Positivity and Advocacy (00:37:44)