End Eating Disorders Podcast
by endED
Across three seasons, endED has captured personal stories of hope and resilience, inviting shared resonance and discourse to dispel the myths and stigma surrounding Eating Issues and Eating Disorders. Each episode highlights conversations with lived and living individuals, families and carers, experts in the field of Eating Disorder support, care and treatment initiatives, and highlights current research initiates, such as the worlds largest Genetic Study, “The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI).”There is hope.Hosted by Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, Millie Thomas.
Episodes
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Katie Mac:Other Specified Eating Disorders
In this episode Millie chats with Katie Mac about her battle with Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder (OSFED) and the stigma she faced fighting an eating disorder that wasn’t as widely recognised. You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. Your donation will...
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Mia Findlay: The Social Media Dilemma
In this episode Millie chats with Mia Findlay about her battle with Bulimia and what led her to developing @whatmiadidnext. Millie and Mia also do a deep dive into social media and diet culture and provide you with strategies for navigating it safely in eating disorder recovery. You can support...
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Jenna Abbasi: Orthorexia
In this episode Millie chats with Jenna Abbasi about her battle with Orthorexia. Jenna talks about having to go through recovery again when she realised that she had fallen victim to diet culture and although she thought she was recovered she was actually in the grips of Orthorexia. You can…
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Mora Family: Impact of families
This episode is about the impact that eating disorder's have on families. Millie sits down with Genevieve Mora (who had Anorexia Nervosa) & her family to discuss how they coped through one of hardest times in their life. You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. Your...
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Luke Chivers: Bulimia
In this episode Millie chats with Luke Chivers about his battle with Bulimia. Luke's eating disorders started when he was 19 and he talks about how his high achieving personality was the driving force behind his eating disorder. You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here....
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Wendy Brocket: Binge Eating Disorder
In this episode Millie chats with Wendy Brocket. Wendy's eating disorder started at the age of 7. You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique...
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Millie Thomas: The Murderer
Millie openly talks abut her eating disorder; an insidious beast that was days away from murdering her. Millie shares stories from her darkest days to where she is now working as an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach at endED. You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. Your...
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Meg McCabe: The Recovery Collective
In this episode Millie chats to Meg McCabe. Meg McCabe is a Carolyn Costin Institute Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach based in Denver, Colorado. She's the Founder and CEO of The Recovery Collective, a global and online eating disorder recovery community focused on healing together…
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Carolyn Costin: The 8 Keys to Recovery Explained
In this episode Millie chats to Carolyn Costin. Carolyn is a world renowned eating disorder clinician, author and international speaker. Recovered from anorexia in her twenties, as a young therapist Carolyn recognized her calling after successfully treating her first eating disorder client.…
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Zoe McBride: World Champion Rower, Elite Sport and Eating Disorders
In this episode Millie chats to Zoe McBride. Zoe is a former World Champion rower, representing New Zealand on the world stage for 9 years. She is a current Psychology student at the University of Canterbury, interested in well-being, personal development, and performance. She has a passion for...
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Dr Erin Parks: The Importance of Research Treatment that Works
In this episode Millie chats to Dr Erin Parks. Erin is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and co-founder of Equip, a virtual eating disorder program that delivers evidence-based treatment for lasting recovery. Erin has over 15 years experience with adolescents and adults in inpatient, partial...
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Nadia: The Role of Identity in Recovery
In this episode Millie chats to Nadia. Nadia battled an eating disorder after graduating from university. Alongside her job in arts administration, she now also acts as a lived experience speaker and peer mentor through Eating Disorders Queensland and is passionate about sharing her story to help...
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Shane Jeffrey: The RAVES Model: An Inclusive Approach to Care
In this episode Millie chats to Shane Jeffrey. Shane is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Accredited Sports Dietitian with 25 years of experience as a dietitian in both the private and public sectors, working almost exclusively in the field of eating disorders. Shane is the current treasurer...
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Kristie Amadio: Recovered Living
In this episode Millie chats to Kristie Amadio. Kristie is the founder of Recovered Living NZ; New Zealand’s first charitable residential eating disorder treatment centre. With a 14 year history of an eating disorder, Kristie sought treatment in three different countries before finding recovery…
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Shannon Calvert: Compassionate Care
In this episode Millie chats to Shannon Calvert. Shannon is a lived experience leader after having a severe and enduring eating disorder for most of her life. Her personal experience inspired her advocacy to support the respect, rights, and appropriate treatment for those affected by eating...
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Hope Virgo: Dump the Scales
In this episode Millie chats to Hope Virgo. Hope is the Author of Stand Tall Little Girl and a multi award winning international leading advocate for people with eating disorders. Hope helps young people and employers (including schools, hospitals and businesses) to deal with the rising tide of...
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Annie Flamsteed: Inspiretek Prevention Through Prediction
In this episode Millie chats to Annie Flamsteed. Annie is the founder and CEO of Inspiretek a Brisbane based tech company that is passionate about individual’s wellness. Through her own experience as an athlete she launched the Inspire sport mobile app in February 2019 and in 2020 she launched…
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Melanie Rogers: Redefining Wellness
In this episode Millie chats to Melainie Rogers. Melainie is the Founder and CEO of BALANCE eating disorder treatment center and melainie rogers nutrition located in New York City. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Supervisor (CEDRD) and is accredited by the…
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Dr James Greenblatt: Nourishing the Brain and Nurturing the Mind
In this episode Millie chats to Dr James Greenblatt. A pioneer in the field of functional and integrative medicine, board-certified child and adult psychiatrist Dr Greenblatt has treated patients since 1988. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham,...
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Sarah Maxwell: Residential Treatment and Community Transition
In this episode Millie chats to Sarah Maxwell. Sarah is a mental health physiotherapist, she is currently back at university studying a masters of counselling. They discuss her Anorexia recovery journey, the impact that receiving residential treatment in the USA has had on her recovery, the...
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Kristina Saffran: Equip - The FBT Game Changer
In this episode Millie chats to Kristina Saffran. Kristina is the cofounder and CEO of Equip, a virtual program that delivers modern eating disorder treatment through family-based care that promises lasting recovery at home. Prior to Equip, Kristina founded Project HEAL, a leading grassroots…
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Dr Jennifer Gaudiani: Sick Enough
In this episode Millie chats to Dr Jennifer Gaudiani. Dr Gaudiani is the Founder and Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical school at Boston University School of Medicine and her internal medicine...
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Elizabeth Cummings: A Carers Journey
In this episode Millie chats with Elizabeth Cummings. Elizabeth is a mental health advocate and writes and speaks about mental wellbeing and health topics including eating disorders. She is also a lived experience expert having been a carer for her daughter during her eating disorder recovery...
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Dr Warren Ward: Early Intervention
In this episode MIllie chats with Dr Warren Ward. Warren is a psychiatrist who has worked in the area of eating disorders for 20 years. He is Director of the Queensland Eating Disorders Service (QuEDS) and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland. He is Chair of the...
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Olivia Molly Rogers: Miss Universe Australia - Anxiety, Depression and Eating Disorders
In this episode Millie chats with Olivia Molly Rogers. Olivia worked as a model and budding artist for several years whilst she studied to become a speech pathologist. In 2017 she took out the title of Miss Universe Australia. During her time as Miss Universe Australia, Olivia opened up about her...
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Sandy Lowe: Racial Trauma and Eating Disorders
In this episode Millie chats to Sandy Lowe who is a talent scout in the international fashion industry and runs ‘Brown Skin Mermaids’ a not for profit organisation that offers free safe spaces and empowerment workshops for young black girls in Germany. They discuss her journey with Anorexia and...
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Nikki Matthews: Overcoming a Raging Eating Disorder
In this episode Millie chats with Olivia Molly Rogers. Olivia worked as a model and budding artist for several years whilst she studied to become a speech pathologist. In 2017 she took out the title of Miss Universe Australia. During her time as Miss Universe Australia, Olivia opened up about her...
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Dr Anita Johnston: The Hidden Meaning
In this episode Millie chats with Dr Anita Johnston Ph.D. Dr Anita is a psychologist, storyteller, eating psychology pioneer and author of ‘Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myth, Metaphor, and Storytelling’. She has been working in the...
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Kate Freeman: The Slippery Slope of Diet Culture
On this episode Millie is interviewed on another podcast called The Daily Dollop with Kate Freeman about the slippery slope of diet culture. Kate chats with Millie about her personal journey with an eating disorder and her role now, as an eating disorder recovery coach. Kate asks Millies to…
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Emma Louise: ARFID, Anorexia and Emetophobia
In this episode Millie chats to Emma Louise about her journey with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Anorexia and Emetophobia. They discuss the misconceptions surrounding ARFID and the detrimental affect this can have on those that are affected. You can support endED by making a...
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Robyn Lawley: Celebrating Body Diversity
In this episode Millie chats with Robyn Lawley an Australian top model based in New York who was the first ‘plus size’ model to be shot for Australian Vogue and who has recently launched a new podcast ‘Every Body with Robyn Lawley: surviving and thriving in a body shaming world’.They discuss her...
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Sophie Smith: OSFED, Orthorexia and Health at Every Size
Millie chats with Sophie Smith about her journey with Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder (OSFED) and Orthorexia and how the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement and intuitive eating helped her to find freedom. You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. Your...
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Jane Hutton: NarrativeTherapy & Equine Therapy
Millie chats with Jane Hutton a mental health social worker whose work has been largely influenced by narrative therapy. They discuss the power of narrative therapy and equine therapy and how the two can be combined. You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. Your…
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Elizabeth Harvey: Navigating Motherhood & Recovery
In this episode Millie chats with Elizabeth Harvey a mother of three who has battled Anorexia, Depression and Body Dysmorphia. They discuss her eating disorder journey thus far, the impact that pregnancy had on her recovery and the impact of eating disorders on families. You can support endED by...
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Megan Bray: Non-Diet Nutrition and Body Acceptance
In this episode Millie chats with Accredited Practicing Dietitian Megan Bray. Megan is a strong advocate for recovery, non-diet nutrition and body acceptance. She believes empathy, compassion and expertise are the foundation of supporting individuals with eating concerns. Megan has undertaken...
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Tabby Galluccio: Continuum of Care
In this episode Millie chats with Tabby Galluccio about her Anorexia journey. They discuss the importance of having a continuum of care in eating disorder treatment, the impact that musical theatre had on her recovery journey and the dangers of social media. You can support endED by making a once...
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Keesha Amezcua: Self Compassion
In this episode Millie chats with Keesha Amezcua who is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Supervisor and a Certified Daring Way Facilitator. She is also trained in EMDR and Cognitive Processing Therapy. She is also the ex Vice President of Clinical...
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Callie Ann: The Power of Recovery Coaching
In this episode Millie chats with Callie Ann Peut about her Anorexia journey and the pivotal role that lived experience recovery coaching played in her recovery. You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen...
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Stacey Louise: Healing Power of Yoga and Meditation
In this episode Millie chats to Stacey Louise. Stacey teaches yoga and meditation and has been teaching yoga in hospital settings with people battling eating disorders for 15 years. They discuss the healing power of yoga and meditation in eating disorder recovery. You can support endED by making…
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Claire Middleton: Founder of The Butterfly Foundation
Millie chats with Claire Middleton who is the founder of The Butterfly Foundation, an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, a Life Coach, an Internal Family Systems Therapy Practitioner and an endED ambassador. They discuss Claire’s journey with binge eating, bulimia and anorexia, how she coped when…
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Genevieve Mora : Anorexia & OCD
Millie chats with Genevieve Mora about her journey with Anorexia and OCD, navigating the modelling industry after an eating disorder and about some exciting projects that she has channeled her lived experience into since recovering. You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation...
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Silke Herwald: The Power of the Unconscious Mind
In this episode Millie chats with Silke Herwald a clinical Hypnotherapist and Master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). They discuss the power of the unconscious, the influence that beliefs have on our lives, how we can change our beliefs and how we can integrate the Eating...
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Holly Ogden: The Voice Yelling at Me Telling Me Not To Eat
In this episode Millie chats with Holly Ogden about her journey with Anorexia, Orthorexia and depression, the influence that sport has had on her eating disorder journey and why she is incredibly passionate about using her lived experience to help others. You can support endED by making a once…
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Stefania Ferrario: Model, discussing ’Plus Size’
Millie chats with Stefania Ferrario an Australian model with Bella management who has worked on many major campaigns both in Australia and around the world. In 2015 she started a campaign to end the use of the term "plus size". They discuss Stefania’s own body image journey, body positivity and...
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Dr June Alexander: The 40 year Anorexia Battle
In this episode Millie chats with Dr June Alexander who battled an eating disorder for 40 years and who now uses her lived experience to make a difference and create change. Amongst other things June has written 10 books on eating disorders including her memoir. June discusses recovering later in...
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Emily Seebohm: Navigating an Eating Disorder as an Olympian
In this week’s episode Millie chats with the incredible Australian Olympic swimming star Emily Seebohm. Emily has achieved so many amazing accolades over the course of her career so far including being a 4 x Olympian, 5 x Olympic medalist and 5 x world champion. At the beginning of this year…
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Carolyn Costin: 8 Keys to Recovery
In this week’s episode Millie chats with the world renowned eating disorder clinician, author and lived experience pioneer Carolyn Costin. They discuss her 40 years of experience in the eating disorder field including the establishment of the very first US residential eating disorder facility…
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Cynthia Bulik: Biology of Eating Disorders
In this episode Millie chats with the renowned Dr. Cynthia Bulik - Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders and Founding Director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders; Professor of Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and Associate Director at the UNC Center...
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Silke Herwald: Hypnotherapy: The Power of Your Unconscious Mind
In this episode Millie chats with Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner and Hypnotherapist Silke Herwald. They discuss the integral role that Silke played in Millie’s recovery from Anorexia and how you can harness the power of your unconscious mind to change your brain. You can...
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Sam Ruff Bigorexia & Gym Culture
In this episode Millie chats with Sam Ruff about his experiences with Bigorexia and Body Dysmorphia. They also discuss the Impact that gym culture has on male body image and how looking within helped Sam to break free from his body image issues. You can support endED by making a once off or…
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About this show
Across three seasons, endED has captured personal stories of hope and resilience, inviting shared resonance and discourse to dispel the myths and stigma surrounding Eating Issues and Eating Disorders. Each episode highlights conversations with lived and living individuals, families and carers, experts in the field of Eating Disorder support, care and treatment initiatives, and highlights current research initiates, such as the worlds largest Genetic Study, “The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI).”There is hope.Hosted by Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, Millie Thomas.
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