Figuring It Out: Getting Real about Diet Culture, Eating Disorder Recovery, Body Positivity, Health at Every Size, and Intuitive Eating with Jennifer Rollin
Jennifer Rollin is a therapist and founder of The Eating Disorder Center in Rockville, Maryland. She specializes in working with adolescents and adults with eating disorders, including, anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder, and body image issues, anxiety, and depression.
Jennifer has been named as one of the top eating disorder experts in the world by Balance Eating Disorder Treatment Center. She has a certificate in Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders and a certificate in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor.
She served as the chairwoman of Project Heal's national network of eating disorder treatment providers. She was on The Junior Board of Directors for The National Eating Disorders Association. She gives talks about eating disorders at national eating disorder conferences, therapy centers, retreats, and colleges.
If you’ve ever struggled with body image or an eating disorder, just know you’re not alone. SO FAR from it, and I hope my conversation with Jennifer will help. If this triggers you, this might not be the episode for you but I hope to see you back here soon.
Our own personal journeys and struggles with body image, specifically how Jennifer’s journey with anorexia led her to finding her passion and working with people with eating disorders so they can discover self-compassion, food freedom, and body appreciation.
The media’s impact on body image and misrepresentation of people with eating disorders
The fatphobia that exists within the eating disorder community including support practitioners
The underlying or root cause for many eating disorders
Strategies for developing mindful awareness, recognizing our thoughts, and regulating our self-talk as steps for managing our relationship with food
That eating disorders are not vanity, they are a mental illness that you CAN recover from
She also shares her belief in Health at Every Size
Try to listen to this episode without judgement of yourself and instead, with an open mind of how you can improve your self-talk or identify where you may be struggling and proceed with compassion.
Jennifer Rollin Website