Anna is an empowerment coach, photographer and circus expert with a strong focus on social justice. She finds creative solutions to help people reclaim their bodies, their energy and their time. In this closing episode of The Body Image Podcast – for some time – Anna shares a warm, caring, authentic and passionate discussion with us. You won't want to miss it.

More specifically, we talk:

• Anna's unique story,
• What is a social circus,
• Embodying your body when it has been weaponized,
• Finding joy in a recovery process in a safe setting,
• Why photos where you feel you "look hot" are helpful,
• Photos' affect on our psychology,
• Fatphobia in our culture,
• Ending generational body harm,
• Why your kids and family need photos of you,
• Social justice and accessibility in work, and
• So much more!

Anna's Website // Anna's Coaching - Self Care School // Anna's Newsletter

• What does it mean to be triggered
• What happens to the body when we are triggered
• Why triggers aren't always negative
• How to feel safe in your body when triggered
• Holding space as the the client and as the provider
• Self-compassion in recovery
• And more

Find her group practice at iLiveWell Nutrition

Learn more about Corinne at https://corinnedobbas.com/

Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD-S, LDN, joins The Body Image Podcast to talk about the intersection of digestive issues, eating disorder recovery, and body image.

More specifically, Marci talks about:

• What makes folks in eating disorder recovery susceptible to digestive issues?
• What's a functional gut disorder?
• The prognosis for digestive issues in recovery
• Self-compassion and GI concerns
• Dealing with pain
• Unhelpful comments around digestive issues
• Some helpful things for GI issues
• What is problematic for recovery and digestive issues
• Gut directed hypnotherapy in recovery
• And so much much more.

Learn more about Marci and her practice here.

Find Marci's online courses here.

Catie Lynch, LCSW, Therapist and Eating Disorder Coach, intimately explores the challenges of recovery from diet culture and an eating disorder in the context of being a new mom.

Inside season 4's final episode, we explore:

• The postpartum experience in eating disorder and diet culture recovery
• Harmful postpartum body image messages
• Healing diet culture wounds
• External pressures women feel after giving birth
• Coping with big feelings
• Advice for mom's struggling in their body after giving birth
• Catie's experience with postpartum OCD
• Advice for new mom's during Covid
• Catie's personal experience of being a new mom
• And so much more

Catie's Website / Instagram / Facebook group: Body Image Healing Group with Catie

Find The Body Image Podcast host, Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD here.

In the second to last episode of season 4, Shira Rosenbluth, LCSW joins The Body Image Podcast to talk about why positive body image isn't just about deciding to love yourself or your body. And in fact, how this notion can feel dismissive to individuals' experiences in the fatphobic diet culture we live in today. In the show, we talk about grief in body image healing work, why recovery isn't linear, and what food freedom really looks like.

More specifically, we discuss:

• What does body image mean?
• Body image V embodiment
• Fatphobia and weight stigma in recovery and ED treatment
• Why healing shouldn't be reliant on the individual
• Why you can't love yourself out of societal oppression
• Grief in body image healing work and in the pursuit of thinness
• Why recovery isn't linear - from an ED or diet culture - and how it's normal to feel hard
• What food freedom really means
• Unhelpful messages in diet culture
• Navigating social media in recovery
• The power of community for food freedom and body image
• And much more

Learn more about Shira here

Find all Body Image Podcast episodes here

Whitney Trotter, MS, RDN/LDN, BSN, RN, RYT, registered dietitian, nurse and yoga teacher shares how trauma impacts our relationship with food and our body.

More specifically, she talks about:

• How she got involved in her work
• Trauma and the dietitian
• Trauma and eating disorders
• How trauma affects our relationship with food
• How trauma affects our relationship with our body
• Food insecurity and food
• How the body holds trauma
• Feelings and trauma
• Breath work around meals
• Grief and trauma in food and body healing work
• Recovery work between client and practitioner
• The importance of autonomy in food and body image work
• And so much more

Learn more about Whitney here.

Find all Body Image Podcast episodes here.

Dr. Heidi Dalzell, a clinical psychologist in the greater Philadelphia area, joins The Body Image Podcast to talk about eating disorder recovery in midlife women. Inside the show we explore eating disorders and trauma, life changes that make midlife women susceptible to eating disorders, a key question in recovery and finding hope.

We also explore:

• Common threads in women recovering from an eating disorder
• How (and why) recovery often feels hard
• Barriers for midlife women in treatment and how to move beyond them
• Media, culture, and the natural aging process
• Why it's never too late to recover
• And so much more

Learn more about Dr. Heidi Dalzell here