Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center

Resilience, how we build it, hold it, and return to it, has always been at the heart of my work, shaped not only by my professional path but by my own life experiences, and I’m currently in the process of creating something deeply meaningful.

I put together a short survey with the hopes of understanding the landscape better and greatly appreciate the feedback and support! Your input means so much as I continue to shape this work. Thank you in advance for taking a few moments to share your thoughts.

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New Business Survey After twenty years as an eating disorder therapist, and most recently as the owner of the Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center, I am exploring an expansion of my work into the areas of Resilience and Growth. This center would focus on helping people move through shame, personal challenges, and life ad...

This week, Karin welcomes Gloria Lucas, eating disorder awareness activist and founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride, to the show for our newest episode, "Harm-reduction Education Isn't Optional."

Tune in to for a discussion on how the BIPOC community is left out of ED treatment and access, the strategies of harm-reduction aimed to reduce negative consequences, how harm-reduction offers safety, challenging the realities of one’s political and values system, harm-reduction as a tool for radical love for and from the community, reducing the stigma of harm-reduction through medical literacy and advocacy, and more!

You can listen to Gloria’s episode below, at karinlewisedc.com/podcast/episode133 and on all podcast streaming platforms. As always, thank you for listening!

Recovery Bites #133 - Harm-Reduction Education Isn't Optional with Gloria Lucas Gloria Lucas is an eating disorders awareness activist that specializes in intersectional eating disorders education and resources that transform the lives of BIPOC individuals and expand eating disorders treatment models. Being the founder and CEO of Nalgona Positivity Pride, she is able to raise a

We hope that you can tune into the newrest episode of Recovery Bites, "Recovering For Our Lives," with guest Meg of Megsy Recovery.

Join Karin and Meg for a conversation on the focus of CBT-E vs. CBT therapeutic models, pushing past physical discomfort, Meg’s use of mantras to quiet the ED voice, mindfulness practice for slowing impulsivity, facing grief and suffering during the recovery journey, navigating body changes during pregnancy, the importance of understanding body diversity, and much more.

You can listen to Meg’s episode below, at karinlewisedc.com/podcast/episode116 and on all podcast streaming platforms. As always, thank you for listening!

Recovery Bites #116 - Recovering For Our Lives with Megsy Recovery Meg, of “Megsy Recovery,” is an eating disorder recovery advocate, YouTuber, and mother residing in the UK. After battling an eating disorder for fifteen years of her life, Meg decided to share her recovery process, what’s she learned from therapy and from her own healing, beginning on YouTube...

We hope you can tune into the newest episode of Recovery Bites, "Unconditional Support with Don Blackwell."

Join Karin and Don for a conversation on the intimacy of the father daughter relationship, turning fear to empathy, beliefs of un-lovability, the harm of a loved one becoming the “identified patient,” the healing essence of letter writing, how father’s vulnerability, Don’s impact on the eating disorder recovery community, and much more.

You can listen to Don’s episode below, at karinlewisedc.com/podcast/episode115 and on all podcast streaming platforms. As always, thank you for listening!

Recovery Bites #115: Unconditional Support with Don Blackwell Don Blackwell is a trial lawyer, whose daughter, Ashley, fought and overcame an eating disorder. Don’s resulting journey to greater self-awareness led to the publication of a book entitled, “Dear Ashley: A Father's Reflections and Letters to His Daughter on Life, Love and Hope.” This led him t...

Hope you can tune into the newest episode of Recovery Bites, “Stepping Out of Silence with Bérénice Mertens”

Join Karin and Bérénice for a conversation on oscillating between different ed behaviors, rediscovering yourself on the yoga mat, letting go of beliefs that no longer suit you, surrendering rather than waiting to “hit rock bottom,” the marriage of talk therapy and yoga therapy, and much more.

You can listen to Berenice’s episode below, at karinlewisedc.com/podcast/episode114 and on all podcast streaming platforms. As always, thank you for listening!

Recovery Bites #114: Stepping Out of Silence with Berenice Mertens, RYT Berenice Mertens, RYT is a certified yoga & meditation teacher and a yoga therapist specialized in eating disorders based in France. After her personal healing journey with yoga, she decided that she wanted to help other people heal too. In 2020, Berenice pivoted her yoga business online and now

Hope you can tune into the newest episode of Recovery Bites, "Diets Don't Work with Jacqueline Adan."

Join Karin and Jacqueline for a conversation on the dangers of dieting, especially regarding children, weight stigma, uncovering the deeper issues before fixing behaviors, the harm of weight-loss praise, fighting for fair medical treatment in a larger body, utilizing the “little moments” for full recovery, the problem with societal norms, and much more.

You can listen to Jacqueline’s episode below, at karinlewisedc.com/podcast/episode112, and on all podcast streaming platforms. As always, thank you for listening!

Recovery Bites #112: Diet’s Don’t Work with Jacqueline Adan Jacqueline Adan is a self love and mental health advocate who hopes, that by sharing her experience of eating disorder recovery, to help other people going through similar situations. She encourages everyone to believe in themselves, their dreams, and to live life as their most authentic self.