Recovery Bites Podcast

The Recovery Bites podcast welcomes voices in the field and voices of experience, to get real about eating disorder and mental health recovery.

Join host Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS clinical expert and founder of the Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center, in a catalogue of past episodes featuring candid interviews with experts in eating disorder and mental health recovery.

Listeners can look forward to new perspectives, meaningful conversations, diverse connection, and compelling personal narrative that make a powerful difference in how we live.

Episodes focus on life beyond recovery — the good and the not-so-good, the successes and the challenges, and the authentic accounts of recovered lives. Not their whole story…just bites!

BIPoC Eating Disorders Conference 2023 with Whitney Trotter and Angela Goens

May 22, 2023 Karin Lewis

This week, Karin welcomes Whitney Trotter and Angela Goens, in, "BIPoC Eating Disorders Conference 2023."

“Black, Brown, and Indigenous People of Color have often been excluded from eating disorder treatment, employment, advocacy, and research. If treatment is able to be accessed it often leaves out the intersection of one’s identity, culture and trauma.”

Designed to disrupt and dismantle the status quo for eating disorder care, Whitney Trotter and Angela Goens will be hosting the second BIPoC Virtual Eating Disorder Conference July 19th through July 22, 2023, for Black, Indigenous, and any Person of Color (PoC).

Peeling Back the Layers of Suffering with Jules Xenakis

December 12, 2022 Karin Lewis

This week, Karin welcomes Jules Xenakis, transformational recovery coach, to the show for our newest episode, “Peeling Back the Layers of Suffering.”

Tune in to learn about how suffering can be a launch pad for personal growth, finding meaning in suffering, pressures to “grow up” in a competitive environment, allowing space and time to process difficult emotions, the use of psychedelics for healing and creating new neuropathways, and the importance of trust between clients and treatment providers.

The Psychedelic Renaissance with Dr. Adele LaFrance

June 21, 2021 Karin Lewis

Join Karin alongside Dr. Adele Lafrance, clinical psychologist, research scientist, author and co-developer of emotion-focused treatment modalities, including Emotion-Focused Family Therapy for Eating Disorders in this week’s episode of Recovery Bites.

Together, Karin and Adele discuss caregiver blame, emotion processing, the Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Model, the benefits of psychedelic medicine, inner healing intelligence, creating neuropathways, activating the “stuck” inner healer to move towards health and wellness, creating embodied experiences of one’s essential qualities, the healing power of love and spirituality, and much more.