What You're Craving with Molly Carmel
187 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 82 ratingsAre you in an unhealthy relationship with food - caught in the cycle of binge eating, diet culture, and obsessive food thoughts? Molly Carmel, author and leading eating disorders and addictions therapist, is here to help. Each week, you’ll hear from folks who’ve overcome their struggles with food and weight. You’ll learn how to heal your relationship with food and ditch diets once and for all. Molly Carmel is fiercely devoted to your freedom so that you can show up for yourself and the life you deserve.
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The Surprising Similarities between Surfing and Addiction
June 30, 2021 10:30 - 42 minutes - 97.5 MBIn this episode, I dive into a discussion with author Thad Ziolkowski about the interesting and unexpected parallels between surfing and addiction, and his discoveries from his new book The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery. Thad explains why it makes sense that he turned back to his first love - surfing - to get away from an unsustainable life of alcohol and drugs, the importance of finding joy to fill the void where addiction once lived - even...
18. The Surprising Similarities between Surfing and Addiction
June 30, 2021 10:30 - 42 minutes - 97.5 MBIn this episode, I dive into a discussion with author Thad Ziolkowski about the interesting and unexpected parallels between surfing and addiction, and his discoveries from his new book The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery. Thad explains why it makes sense that he turned back to his first love - surfing - to get away from an unsustainable life of alcohol and drugs, the importance of finding joy to fill the void where addiction once lived - even ...
Why Cutting Out Sugar is NOT a Diet
June 23, 2021 10:30 - 27 minutes - 64.4 MBIn this episode, I’m getting real about what it’s like to be in my world, in my relationship with food. The great paradox that I get asked about all the time is how in the world I’m anti-diet AND don’t eat sugar and flour. It’s such a great question given all of the diet drama and trauma we’ve struggled with and how easily we can turn anything into something unhealthy. And for those of you who have broken up with sugar yourself, you know just how often people misunderstand sugar-free to mean...
17. Why Cutting Out Sugar is NOT a Diet
June 23, 2021 10:30 - 27 minutes - 64.4 MBIn this episode, I’m getting real about what it’s like to be in my world, in my relationship with food. The great paradox that I get asked about all the time is how in the world I’m anti-diet AND don’t eat sugar and flour. It’s such a great question given all of the diet drama and trauma we’ve struggled with and how easily we can turn anything into something unhealthy. And for those of you who have broken up with sugar yourself, you know just how often people misunderstand sugar-free to mean ...
How Our Breath Can Heal Just About Everything with Dr. Belisa Vranich
June 16, 2021 10:30 - 41 minutes - 95 MBIn this episode, I have a conversation with my friend, breath teacher, and clinical psychologist Dr. Belisa Vranich. We discuss her path to discovering the power of the breath, some of the cues you might be breathing wrong, and how you can effectively re-train your breath to work for you, not against you. We get into how breath can help us let go, stay present, and feel our emotions in a cathartic and healing way. Learning proper breath is SUCH an act of self love and self care - truly, if y...
16. How Our Breath Can Heal Just About Everything with Dr. Belisa Vranich
June 16, 2021 10:30 - 41 minutes - 95 MBIn this episode, I have a conversation with my friend, breath teacher, and clinical psychologist Dr. Belisa Vranich. We discuss her path to discovering the power of the breath, some of the cues you might be breathing wrong, and how you can effectively re-train your breath to work for you, not against you. We get into how breath can help us let go, stay present, and feel our emotions in a cathartic and healing way. Learning proper breath is SUCH an act of self love and self care - truly, if yo...
15. I Broke Up with Sugar: A Story of Hope and Overcoming Food Addiction
June 09, 2021 10:30 - 39 minutes - 90.7 MBToday's episode is a real TREAT (pun intended) - I'm chatting with Carrie C, who works as a substance use disorder counselor and also happens to be an incredible part of our BUWS Warrior community. She's one of many who has found freedom and peace after breaking free from food addiction and some maaaaajor diet drama and trauma. We get into the real talk about the value in the “gift of desperation,” why the number on the scale does not define you, and the misconceptions about having to do thi...
I Broke Up with Sugar: A Story of Hope and Overcoming Food Addiction
June 09, 2021 10:30 - 39 minutes - 90.7 MBToday's episode is a real TREAT (pun intended) - I'm chatting with Carrie C, who works as a substance use disorder counselor and also happens to be an incredible part of our BUWS Warrior community. She's one of many who has found freedom and peace after breaking free from food addiction and some maaaaajor diet drama and trauma. We get into the real talk about the value in the “gift of desperation,” why the number on the scale does not define you, and the misconceptions about having to do th...
14. Michael Moss on How the Food Industry is Keeping Us Hooked
June 02, 2021 10:30 - 39 minutes - 90.6 MBIn this episode, I have a conversation with Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, to discuss his newly released book Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions. We talk about how food is designed to unknowingly keep us hooked and addicted and how free will (and maybe even intuitive eating!) isn’t as useful as we think. We also get into exactly how the multi-billion diet industry seriously has us *HOOKED* and some awesome and simple solutions...
Michael Moss on How the Food Industry is Keeping Us Hooked
June 02, 2021 10:30 - 39 minutes - 90.6 MBIn this episode, I have a conversation with Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, to discuss his newly released book Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions. We talk about how food is designed to unknowingly keep us hooked and addicted and how free will (and maybe even intuitive eating!) isn’t as useful as we think. We also get into exactly how the multi-billion diet industry seriously has us *HOOKED* and some awesome and simple solution...
Intuitive Eating: Who is it For? with Elyse Resch
May 26, 2021 10:30 - 40 minutes - 93.9 MBI'm not shy about my thoughts and feelings on Intuitive Eating, so when I had the opportunity to sit down with Elyse Resch, author of the book, Intuitive Eating, and founder of the movement, I jumped at the chance. Well, I got really nervous and overwhelmed and then I jumped at the chance… Intuitive Eating is an approach that rejects the diet mentality, embraces listening to our own internal wisdom, and supports keeping all foods “on limits.” As a therapist specializing in a harm reducti...
13. Intuitive Eating: Who is it For? with Elyse Resch
May 26, 2021 10:30 - 40 minutes - 93.9 MBI'm not shy about my thoughts and feelings on Intuitive Eating, so when I had the opportunity to sit down with Elyse Resch, author of the book, Intuitive Eating, and founder of the movement, I jumped at the chance. Well, I got really nervous and overwhelmed and then I jumped at the chance… Intuitive Eating is an approach that rejects the diet mentality, embraces listening to our own internal wisdom, and supports keeping all foods “on limits.” As a therapist specializing in a harm reduction...
How I Broke Free From Diet Culture
May 19, 2021 10:30 - 30 minutes - 70.5 MBIn this episode, I’m taking about how I broke free from diet culture - the drama and the trauma to create a new, loving, peaceful *relationship* with food. So many people are unwittingly trapped in this diet drama - feeling it’s impossible to ever ever ever have anything else but the cycle. Like they don’t even know there is something else - and there IS. I’m talking all about the how and the why of it today. A loving relationship with food is so much different that a diet - It’s about unco...
12. How I Broke Free From Diet Culture
May 19, 2021 10:30 - 30 minutes - 70.5 MBIn this episode, I’m taking about how I broke free from diet culture - the drama and the trauma to create a new, loving, peaceful *relationship* with food. So many people are unwittingly trapped in this diet drama - feeling it’s impossible to ever ever ever have anything else but the cycle. Like they don’t even know there is something else - and there IS. I’m talking all about the how and the why of it today. A loving relationship with food is so much different that a diet - It’s about uncov...
11. Why It’s So Hard to Ask for Help with Harry Cunnane
May 12, 2021 10:30 - 40 minutes - 93.8 MBHarry Cunane shares his journey from the darkness of addiction - drinking recreationally with friends to blowing cocaine in the bathroom of his high school to scoring opiates in northern Philadelphia stealing money for his drugs and foregoing food - to his incredible yet super normal life today. We talk about why it’s so hard to ask for help, how fighting for our lives is the greatest gift we give ourselves, and how being enough and having enough is more than enough for him. Harry is an ...
Why It’s So Hard to Ask for Help with Harry Cunnane
May 12, 2021 10:30 - 40 minutes - 93.8 MBHarry Cunane shares his journey from the darkness of addiction - drinking recreationally with friends to blowing cocaine in the bathroom of his high school to scoring opiates in northern Philadelphia stealing money for his drugs and foregoing food - to his incredible yet super normal life today. We talk about why it’s so hard to ask for help, how fighting for our lives is the greatest gift we give ourselves, and how being enough and having enough is more than enough for him. Harry is a...
10. Why Self-Compassion and Slip-Ups are Essential for Change with Annie Grace
May 05, 2021 10:30 - 37 minutes - 85.4 MBToday I’m talking with my friend, colleague and sober-curious pioneer, Annie Grace. We get into why there’s no one solution for everyone, why slip-ups and lapses are essential for change, how self-compassion is the most important tool in your toolbox, and why knowledge, emotion, and action may be the key to breaking your bad habits. Annie Grace is the author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life and The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Alco...
Why Self-Compassion and Slip-Ups are Essential for Change with Annie Grace
May 05, 2021 10:30 - 37 minutes - 85.4 MBToday I’m talking with my friend, colleague and sober-curious pioneer, Annie Grace. We get into why there’s no one solution for everyone, why slip-ups and lapses are essential for change, how self-compassion is the most important tool in your toolbox, and why knowledge, emotion, and action may be the key to breaking your bad habits. Annie Grace is the author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life and The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Al...
Why Toxic Positivity Doesn’t Work (and Can Even Make Things Worse) with Dr. Alec Miller
April 28, 2021 10:30 - 35 minutes - 81.2 MBIn this episode, I have a conversation with my friend Dr. Alec Miller. He’s pretty big time in the field of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) having co-developed the DBT treatment for adolescents. Alec has always been someone who I learn a LOT from - he’s both brilliant and easy to talk to - and today is no different. We talk all about invalidating ourselves, emotion phobia, why toxic positivity doesn’t work - and even make things worse - and how sensitivity is a true superpower. D...
9. Why Toxic Positivity Doesn’t Work (and Can Even Make Things Worse) with Dr. Alec Miller
April 28, 2021 10:30 - 35 minutes - 81.2 MBIn this episode, I have a conversation with my friend Dr. Alec Miller. He’s pretty big time in the field of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) having co-developed the DBT treatment for adolescents. Alec has always been someone who I learn a LOT from - he’s both brilliant and easy to talk to - and today is no different. We talk all about invalidating ourselves, emotion phobia, why toxic positivity doesn’t work - and even make things worse - and how sensitivity is a true superpower. Dr....
8. Let Go of Scale and Body Obsession, You Are Enough with Genevieve Angelson
April 21, 2021 10:30 - 40 minutes - 93.2 MBI’m talking with actor, writer and friend Genevieve Angelson. Two girls in eating disorder recovery taking their hearts out, putting them on the table, and seeing what happens. Spoiler alert: it’s a lot of laughs and a lot of truth. We get into learning from our slip ups - falling forward as Genevieve calls it, scale and body obsession and the beauty of learning how to just be enough. My heart is still full from this conversation - hope it can warm yours up too. Also if you want to read the u...
Let Go of Scale and Body Obsession, You Are Enough with Genevieve Angelson
April 21, 2021 10:30 - 40 minutes - 93.2 MBI’m talking with actor, writer and friend Genevieve Angelson. Two girls in eating disorder recovery taking their hearts out, putting them on the table, and seeing what happens. Spoiler alert: it’s a lot of laughs and a lot of truth. We get into learning from our slip ups - falling forward as Genevieve calls it, scale and body obsession and the beauty of learning how to just be enough. My heart is still full from this conversation - hope it can warm yours up too. Also if you want to read the ...
7. Why Trauma is Even More Normal Than We Think with Kimberly Johnson
April 14, 2021 10:30 - 36 minutes - 84.1 MBI got my hands on an early copy of Kimberly Johnson’s new book, Call of the Wild, and basically lost my mind. So much insight into the cultural impacts on women and their bodies, why the most intense solution isn’t the best, and why trauma is even *more* normal than we think… and may be very much in the way of understanding what we’re really craving. Kimberly Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher trainer, postpartum advocate and single mom. ...
Why Trauma is Even More Normal Than We Think with Kimberly Johnson
April 14, 2021 10:30 - 36 minutes - 84.1 MBI got my hands on an early copy of Kimberly Johnson’s new book, Call of the Wild, and basically lost my mind. So much insight into the cultural impacts on women and their bodies, why the most intense solution isn’t the best, and why trauma is even *more* normal than we think… and may be very much in the way of understanding what we’re really craving. Kimberly Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher trainer, postpartum advocate and single mom...
6. Meditation is the Key to Your Cravings and Happiness with Bob Roth
April 07, 2021 10:30 - 50 minutes - 116 MBBob Roth is a renowned transcendental meditation teacher for people like Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Roberts, Tom Hanks and.. me! He’s someone who has changed my life big time and he’s also one of the kindest, smartest, most giving and CALMEST people I know. Bob discusses why mediation is the key to so much of our cravings and happiness, why our monkey minds have trouble sitting quietly, if loving yourself is possible (spoiler alert: it is), and if mediation teachers ever get angry. Bob Roth i...
Meditation is the Key to Your Cravings and Happiness with Bob Roth
April 07, 2021 10:30 - 50 minutes - 116 MBBob Roth is a renowned transcendental meditation teacher for people like Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Roberts, Tom Hanks and.. me! He’s someone who has changed my life big time and he’s also one of the kindest, smartest, most giving and CALMEST people I know. Bob discusses why mediation is the key to so much of our cravings and happiness, why our monkey minds have trouble sitting quietly, if loving yourself is possible (spoiler alert: it is), and if mediation teachers ever get angry. Bob Roth...
5. Giving Up Isn't an Option: Turn Your Pain Into Something Powerful with Tracy Coval
March 31, 2021 10:30 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MBMy friend, writer, artist, dancer, and disability advocate, Tracy Coval is here to share her incredible story with us today. Let me say that I left this conversation feeling so full - the intimacy and truth sharing was just what I needed and I hope what you're looking for too. After being wheelchair bound after an accident at the age of 27 (and that’s the short story), Tracy adopted the idea that “giving up isn’t an option” - she shares with us how she’s been able to turn her pain into someth...
Giving Up Isn't an Option: Turn Your Pain Into Something Powerful with Tracy Coval
March 31, 2021 10:30 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MBMy friend, writer, artist, dancer, and disability advocate, Tracy Coval is here to share her incredible story with us today. Let me say that I left this conversation feeling so full - the intimacy and truth sharing was just what I needed and I hope what you're looking for too. After being wheelchair bound after an accident at the age of 27 (and that’s the short story), Tracy adopted the idea that “giving up isn’t an option” - she shares with us how she’s been able to turn her pain into somet...
4. How Race and Sugar Addiction Intersect with Shun Foreman
March 24, 2021 10:30 - 37 minutes - 52.2 MBShun Foreman is a pal of mine and a registered nurse. Perhaps most important, she’s a fierce advocate for sugar addiction and for improving the health of people and communities of color. Shun’s journey from nurse to activist is fascinating - all originating from a trip to the plantations of Sugarland, TX, where she had an aha moment that the sugar industry continues to keep her community enslaved. Shun shares how her personal journey in breaking up with sugar led her to start a movement calle...
How Race and Sugar Addiction Intersect with Shun Foreman
March 24, 2021 10:30 - 37 minutes - 52.2 MBShun Foreman is a pal of mine and a registered nurse. Perhaps most important, she’s a fierce advocate for sugar addiction and for improving the health of people and communities of color. Shun’s journey from nurse to activist is fascinating - all originating from a trip to the plantations of Sugarland, TX, where she had an aha moment that the sugar industry continues to keep her community enslaved. Shun shares how her personal journey in breaking up with sugar led her to start a movement call...
The Importance of Being Selfish with Dr. Brad Reedy
March 17, 2021 10:30 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBDr. Brad Reedy is a friend, mentor, and pretty awesome therapist, public speaker, author, podcaster and beyond. Brad and I get real on craving authentic connection, why we shouldn’t fix other peoples’ problems, the art of being selfish, and why shame and guilt doesn’t work in healing. He’s the kind of person I can sit and listen to and nod my head with and feel super nurtured for hours - and he can make me cry at the drop of a hat. Dr. Brad Reedy is a Co-owner and Clinical Director of ...
3. The Importance of Being Selfish with Dr. Brad Reedy
March 17, 2021 10:30 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBDr. Brad Reedy is a friend, mentor, and pretty awesome therapist, public speaker, author, podcaster and beyond. Brad and I get real on craving authentic connection, why we shouldn’t fix other peoples’ problems, the art of being selfish, and why shame and guilt doesn’t work in healing. He’s the kind of person I can sit and listen to and nod my head with and feel super nurtured for hours - and he can make me cry at the drop of a hat. Dr. Brad Reedy is a Co-owner and Clinical Director of ...
1. How I Overcame An Eating Disorder and Took Control of My Life
March 10, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 68.5 MBWelcome to What You’re Craving! In this get-to-know-you first date episode I explain the ins and outs of me - I’m a long time eating disorder and addiction therapist who has had a pretty gnarly journey struggling in a destructive relationship with food. I was trying everything I could get my hands on to heal and living a double life as an eating disorder therapist with a serious eating disorder. Now I have had this really amazing recovery where I've changed my life and helped lots of others ...
Finding Your Own Voice and Path When It Comes To A Relationship With Food with Jessica Cording
March 10, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MBIn this episode, I’m talking with my friend Jessica Cording - a registered dietician, health coach and writer. We had a whole list of things to talk about and then the night before the podcast we pivoted to talk about (among other things) cyber bullying in the world of wellness (and how it impacts us as helpers), the stigma around speaking out against intuitive eating, being conditioned by diet culture to doubt our choices, and finding our own voice and path when it comes to a relationship w...
How I Overcame An Eating Disorder and Took Control of My Life
March 10, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 68.5 MBWelcome to What You’re Craving! In this get-to-know-you first date episode I explain the ins and outs of me - I’m a long time eating disorder and addiction therapist who has had a pretty gnarly journey struggling in a destructive relationship with food. I was trying everything I could get my hands on to heal and living a double life as an eating disorder therapist with a serious eating disorder. Now I have had this really amazing recovery where I've changed my life and helped lots of others ...
2. Finding Your Own Voice and Path When It Comes To A Relationship With Food with Jessica Cording
March 10, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MBIn this episode, I’m talking with my friend Jessica Cording - a registered dietician, health coach and writer. We had a whole list of things to talk about and then the night before the podcast we pivoted to talk about (among other things) cyber bullying in the world of wellness (and how it impacts us as helpers), the stigma around speaking out against intuitive eating, being conditioned by diet culture to doubt our choices, and finding our own voice and path when it comes to a relationship w...
What You're Craving Trailer
March 03, 2021 11:00 - 1 minute - 4.91 MBCheck out What You're Craving, hosted by Molly Carmel - coming March 10th to Dear Media! Produced by Dear Media.