Latest #bulimia Podcast Episodes
Hope for the Holidays (& Our First Mailbag!)
Picture Blurrfect - December 11, 2023 02:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi closes out Season 3 by reflecting on the interviews and experiences over the last year and for the first time, shares some questions she's gotten from you--the audience! How does one prepare for the holidays when in recovery? How do you approach someone you fear is struggling with an eatin...
Can AI and Chatbots Help Eating Disorder Treatment?: Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - October 30, 2023 03:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr. Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis joins the podcast to share her vision for how technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to improve accessibility of eating disorder treatments. Naomi and Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft discuss her work with...
Overcoming Food Guilt
Picture Blurrfect - October 16, 2023 02:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsYours truly takes the microphone to share her thoughts on how to overcoming "feeling guilty" after eating certain foods or meals while in eating disorder recovery. Just because you FEEL guilty doesn't necessarily mean there is something you SHOULD feel guilty about. Book Naomi Mentions: 1. The...
The Association Between Adolescent Weight Perception and Disordered Eating: Sam Hahn, PhD, MPH, RD
Picture Blurrfect - September 18, 2023 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr. Sam Hahn of Central Michigan University joins the podcast to discuss one of her recent papers that examines how weight perception--how one personally views themselves in terms of overweight, normal weight, underweight--and its potential changes throughout adolescence could predict disordered...
How the Prefrontal Cortex is Involved in Food-Related Decision Making: Rachel Ross, MD, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - August 28, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTime to geek out a little bit this week because who doesn't love to talk about the brain!? Naomi sits down with Dr. Rachel Ross of Albert Einstein College of Medicine to chat about her latest publication in Physiology & Behavior that examines how a specific receptor in the prefrontal cortex--the...
Eating, Activity, & the Impact of Weight-Related Problems: Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH
Picture Blurrfect - August 07, 2023 01:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi sits down with Dr. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer of the University of Minnesota to chat about how she became interested in weight-related problems among young people, and how this work culminated into her now thriving research lab, "Project EAT" (Eating and Activity over Time). Topics that emerg...
Why Do We Overlook Disabilities in Eating Disorder Research?: Ruth Knight, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - July 03, 2023 01:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi sits down with Dr. Ruth Knight of York St. John University to explore why we often forget to talk about disability when it comes to eating disorder/disordered eating research. As we strive to be more inclusive and representative in our research, are we making the effort to ask individuals ...
A Rant About Our Healthcare System
Picture Blurrfect - June 19, 2023 01:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi lets it rip about her views on the healthcare workforce and their treatment of eating disorders/mental conditions after her recent experience at the doctor. The lack of insurance coverage for mental conditions (and especially eating disorders) and the nonstop news about Ozempic/Wegovy were...
Project Body Neutrality & Scalable Mental Health: Jessica Schleider, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - May 29, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe lovely Jessica Schleider, PhD of Stonybrook University (soon to be Northwestern!) joins the podcast to discuss her latest paper in the International Journal of Eating Disorders that focuses on data from Project Body Neutrality. Results are promising and indicative of the effectiveness of bri...
How the Fear of Being Judged Influences Body Image: Nora Trompeter, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - May 15, 2023 01:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsYou ever how the fear of people's perception of you changes how you see yourself, particularly when it comes to your weight and body image? Naomi sits down with Dr. Nora Trompeter (University College London) to discuss her latest paper on the bidirectional relationship between negative evaluatio...
Lessons from Lived Experience: Brianne Leeson
Picture Blurrfect - May 01, 2023 01:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi sits down with Brianne Leeson to share her story on how she started recovery for anorexia at the age 15 but wasn't diagnosed as autistic and ADHD until much later in life. Brianne sheds light on how autistic individuals often don't experience hunger the same way as others, and her relation...
Finding Your Identity Apart from the Eating Disorder
Picture Blurrfect - April 03, 2023 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe all know how quickly (and dangerously) an eating disorder can strip us of our identity... to the point where we are convinced there IS no life away from the eating disorder. How do you re-establish your sense of self in recovery? How do you become someone that's not defined by the eating dis...
Eating Disorders in Men & LGBTQIA+ Individuals: Tiffany Brown, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - March 15, 2023 03:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi sits down with Dr. Tiffany Brown of Auburn University who studies eating disorders in populations that are frequently overlooked, particularly men and LGBTQIA+ individuals. Turns out, we are just starting to uncover data and trends about these groups. Dr. Brown shares her research on day h...
Let's Talk About Intermittent Fasting: Jordan Schueler, MS
Picture Blurrfect - February 27, 2023 03:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsGrad student spotlight! The first one for Season 3. Jordan Schueler, Clinical Psychology PhD student at Texas A&M University joins the podcast to share her research on intermittent fasting and its relation to binge eating, impulsivity, among other behaviors. Jordan also talks about her dissertat...
Is Orthorexia Another Form of Anorexia? Ft. C. Alix Timko, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - February 13, 2023 01:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr. Alix Timko of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia sits down with Naomi to discuss one of her recent paper how we diagnose and effectively classify orthorexia nervosa, an eating disorder that's characterized by a fixation on food purity and an avoidance of "unhealthy foods." Dr. Timko mak...
Improving Racial & Ethnic Diversity in Eating Disorder Research: Amy Egbert, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - January 30, 2023 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn the second episode of Season 3, Naomi sits down with Dr. Amy Egbert of the University of Connecticut to talk about her research on eating disorders and disordered eating patterns among youth from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds. Importantly, Dr. Egbert discusses her investigatio...
So the New AAP Guidelines Are Out...
Picture Blurrfect - January 17, 2023 03:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome to Season 3! Naomi spends the first episode of season three breaking down the new childhood obesity guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics early this year. The first set of guidelines issued in 15 years, the document states that children as young as 12 can be prescribed ...
Why Do I "Feel Fat"? Ft. Lisa Anderson, PhD, LP
Picture Blurrfect - December 21, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn the final (!) episode of Season 2, Dr. Lisa Anderson of the University of Minnesota joins Picture Blurrfect to share her research exploring the link between "feeling fat," interoceptive awareness, and feelings such as guilt, depression, and disgust. As a fairly new area of study, Dr. Anderson...
When Neuroscience & Clinical Science Unite: Ann Haynos, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - November 14, 2022 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr. Ann Haynos joins the podcast to share all about how her research uses neuroscience to inform clinical interventions. First, Dr. Haynos explains the role of studying "resting state functional connectivity" in eating disorders, and the parts of the brain involved in reward processing; it's esp...
Male Eating Disorders - Prevalence in Preadolescence & Vitamin D Levels: Jason Nagata, MD
Picture Blurrfect - October 17, 2022 02:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJason Nagata, MD, MS, from the University of California San Francisco joins the podcast to share his recent work in examining the prevalence of preadolescent eating disorders in the U.S. Additionally, Dr. Nagata explains the role and importance of vitamin D in eating disorder recovery, sharing r...
Another Day, Another Stigma
Picture Blurrfect - September 26, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi shares what she's been personally going through over the last 1.5 years but has been wary of opening up due to the sheer stigma of the topic... unfortunately, though, so many individuals go through this particular struggle and it is one that has the potential of wrecking your recovery alo...
How Instagram Negatively Affects Mental Health
Picture Blurrfect - September 05, 2022 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi revisits The Wall Street Journal expose on how Facebook was made aware of internal research data showing the negative impacts of its app Instagram on young people and failed to act. What did the expose say and have we made any progress in making social media a positive tool for young peop...
Lessons from Lived Experience: Aggie, Blanca, and Adam
Picture Blurrfect - August 22, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains details about eating and exercises habits related to eating disorders. Please ensure you are in a safe place mentally and emotionally before listening, and seek help if you need assistance (resources below). In a very special episode of Picture Blurrfect, ...
Weight-Based Bullying: Janet Lydecker, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - August 08, 2022 01:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi chats with Dr. Janet Lydecker of Yale University about weight-based bullying: what it is, what it looks like, and how we can begin to address it as a scientific and clinical community. In addition to sharing some of weight bullying's key characteristics, Dr. Lydecker explains the associati...
The Neurobiology Underlying Anorexia: Yong Xu, MD, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - July 25, 2022 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr. Xu of Baylor College of Medicine joins the podcast to share his latest work on how a particular brain circuit contributes to anorexia nervosa, the psychiatric disease characterized by fear of gaining weight and severe food restriction. Dr. Xu explains how dopamine and serotonin neurons in th...
Eating Disorders & Muscle-Building Behaviors in Men: Kyle Ganson, PhD, LICSW, LCSW
Picture Blurrfect - July 11, 2022 01:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi chats with Dr. Kyle Ganson from the University of Toronto about his research on eating disorders in men--why it is under researched and not talked about enough. Additionally, Dr. Ganson shares his research on muscle-enhancing / muscularity-oriented behaviors in the male population by shari...
So What Exactly Is Intuitive Eating? - Blair Burnette, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - June 27, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi chats with Dr. Blair Burnette of the University of Minnesota about her research on intuitive eating and how this framework could be incorporated into treatment/recovery plans for eating disorders and disordered eating. While most people drill this concept down to "eat when you're hungry, ...
Why Body Image Concerns Are Not Just a "Teenage Problem": Katie Thompson
Picture Blurrfect - June 13, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsBack-to-back graduate student spotlights! Naomi chats with the fabulous Katie Thompson, clinical psychology PhD student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill about body image concerns beyond the teenage years--midlife, postpartum, menopause, and more. Along these lines, Naomi and Katie...
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder & EDs, Weight Stigma, & Pursuing Graduate School: Shruti Kinkel-Ram, M.A.
Picture Blurrfect - May 23, 2022 02:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsGraduate student spotlight! Naomi chats with soon-to-be Dr. Shruti Kinkel-Ram (@shrutikinkelram) of Miami University all about her research, including her Master's thesis on the connection between obsessive compulsive disorder and eating disorders as well as her current work on examining the rel...
Eating Disorders: Not Just in Young People! Lisa Kilpela, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - May 02, 2022 01:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPicture Blurrfect tackles yet another eating disorder myth: that these diseases occur only in young people. Dr. Lisa Kilpela of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio joins the show to share how she studies eating disorder pathologies and body image in older women, what she...
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