Posts Tagged “Podcast”

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The messages we hear about food, weight, and our bodies can shape how we see ourselves, often long before we realize their impact. And when someone needs eating disorder treatment, financial barriers can make getting the support they deserve feel out of reach.

On this episode of Peace Meal, Dr. Jillian Lampert welcomes Lisa Radzak, Executive Director of WithAll, a national nonprofit working to prevent eating disorders and help people access and remain in treatment. Lisa shares how WithAll helps adults build healthier conversations with young people through its What to Say program and supports people in recovery through grants that help cover essential living expenses.

Together, Jillian and Lisa explore how everyday comments can reinforce harmful body ideals, why even small changes in how we talk about food and bodies matter, and how financial support can help people continue treatment. They also discuss why so many people feel they aren’t “sick enough” to seek help—and why everyone deserves the opportunity to pursue recovery.

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Bullying can leave a lasting mark on how people see themselves, their bodies, and their place in the world. In recognition of National Bullying Prevention Month, Jillian explores the connection between bullying—particularly weight- and appearance-based bullying—and eating disorder risk, from internalized shame and body dissatisfaction to changes in eating and exercise behaviors.

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Social media can shape how we think about food, bodies, and ourselves—but what happens when algorithms actively steer vulnerable young people toward harmful content? On this episode of Peace Meal, Joel Wright, founder of Wright Law Group, joins Jillian Lampert to discuss the legal action seeking to hold social media companies accountable for the ways their platforms can contribute to harm, including eating disorder development and maintenance.

Drawing from his legal work and his personal experience as a parent of a child who has experienced an eating disorder, Joel discusses how algorithms can amplify eating disorder and body-related content, what changes could make social media safer, and why parents and families may need more control over what young people see online. He also shares advice for parents, including the importance of modeling healthy technology habits and recognizing potential warning signs.

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Weight stigma is woven into nearly every part of our society, from healthcare and the media to the design of public spaces and comments made in everyday conversation. Its message to people in larger bodies is that their bodies are wrong, and that the wrongness is theirs to fix. In recognition of Weight Stigma Awareness Week, Jillian follows that stigma into a place it does some of its deepest damage: the development, maintenance, and diagnosis of eating disorders.

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Katelyn Olmsted first joined Peace Meal in 2025 to talk about her eating disorder, her time in treatment, and the book she began writing while in care. Now a year further into recovery, she returns to the show as a college student with a second book out in the world. The Recovery Click started with a single text Katelyn sent to a friend from treatment (“what made you want to choose recovery?”) and grew from there: interviews with people in recovery and the therapeutic assistants who watched them pursue it, and reflections from Katelyn herself on the daily practices that keep her choosing recovery too.

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When a well-known person’s body is suddenly all anyone can talk about, the pull to pile on—or to compare yourself against them—can be strong.

Jillian’s general guidance is simple: we’re typically better off not commenting on other people’s bodies at all. But the real exception is genuine concern for someone in your life, and she models the I-framed language that can help keep a comment from tipping into judgment. She also gets practical for the adults listening, including how to have conversations with kids about what they’re seeing online, why what you say about your own body in front of them matters, and how to talk about comparison itself, which rarely leaves anyone feeling better.

**Content warning: This episode includes discussion of suicidal ideation and a suicide attempt. Please use your discretion when listening and speak with your support system as needed. If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, contact the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by texting or calling 988. LGBTQ+ young people can also reach The Trevor Project 24/7 by calling 1-866-488-7386, texting START to 678-678, or chatting online. 

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Danny Wakefield joins Peace Meal to share his story of recovery from an eating disorder—a “full circle moment,” he calls it, as an alum of The Emily Program. Danny didn’t recognize the earliest signs of their eating disorder until they entered care and traced its roots back to body comparisons with their twin sister that started at age three.

Getting into treatment as an adult wasn’t simple. Seeking any kind of medical care as a transgender person comes with its own barriers. For Danny, that included the internalized belief that eating disorder treatment wasn’t for someone like him. Body-size bias among providers also meant their illness wasn’t taken as seriously as it should have been. It took a mental health crisis and a message sent in desperation before Danny found their way to The Emily Program.

Danny and Jillian talk through what came next: an extended stay in residential treatment, the levels of care that followed, and a recovery that became “so much bigger than just food.” Danny closes with a message for anyone who doesn’t believe recovery is possible: it starts with “a tiny moment of willingness,” and hope borrowed from someone else until you can hold it yourself.

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An estimated 16% of the world’s population lives with a disability. Yet people with disabilities are woefully underrepresented in eating disorder research. As a result, disability often goes underaddressed in eating disorder treatment, and eating disorders often go unrecognized in people with disabilities. 

In this episode, Dr. Jillian Lampert examines that gap and what it costs the people caught in it—and what it looks like when care starts with curiosity and listening instead of assumptions.