End Eating Disorders Podcast

Kristina Saffran: Equip - The FBT Game Changer

In this episode Millie chats to Kristina Saffran. Kristina is the cofounder and CEO of Equip, a virtual program that delivers modern eating disorder treatment through family-based care that promises lasting recovery at home.
Prior to Equip, Kristina founded Project HEAL, a leading grassroots eating disorder non-profit dedicated to treatment access. Kristina is an Ashoka Fellow, a Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneur and a Facebook Community Leadership Fellow. They discuss how her own eating disorder journey led her to founding Project Heal, the catalyst for her deciding to start Equip, why Equip’s approach to Family Based Treatment (FBT) is such a game changer and the value of lived experience. 
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730

Dr Jennifer Gaudiani: Sick Enough

In this episode Millie chats to Dr Jennifer Gaudiani. Dr Gaudiani is the Founder and Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical school at Boston University School of Medicine and her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale.
Dr. Gaudiani served as the Medical Director at the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders, the top hospital program in the USA for critically ill adults with anorexia nervosa, prior to founding the Gaudiani Clinic. The Gaudiani Clinic is a Denver based outpatient medical clinic dedicated to people with eating disorders and disordered eating which is a weight-inclusive setting that embraces treating people of all shapes, sizes, ages, and genders.
Dr. Gaudiani has also recently published her first book Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders. They discuss her holistic approach to patient care, the power of a narrative and metaphor in eating disorder recovery, what makes the Gaudiani Clinic unique, the harmful myth of needing to be ‘sick enough’ to receive treatment and the importance of connection and relationships in recovery. 
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730

Elizabeth Cummings: A Carers Journey

In this episode Millie chats with Elizabeth Cummings. Elizabeth is a mental health advocate and writes and speaks about mental wellbeing and health topics including eating disorders. She is also a lived experience expert having been a carer for her daughter during her eating disorder recovery journey. She is currently completing a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy and is researching contemporary literature in the area of eating disorders as well as serving as a co-chair for the AED blog.
They discuss her own experience caring for a loved one with an eating disorder, the importance of self care for parents/carers, why it’s important that parents/carers don’t blame themselves for the development of an eating disorder and the impact that eating disorders can have on siblings.
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730

Dr Warren Ward: Early Intervention

In this episode MIllie chats with Dr Warren Ward. Warren is a psychiatrist who has worked in the area of eating disorders for 20 years. He is Director of the Queensland Eating Disorders Service (QuEDS) and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland. He is Chair of the Queensland Health Eating Disorder Advisory Group and co-author of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Eating Disorders. In 2017 he received the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders (ANZAED) Distinguished Achievement Award.
In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Eating Disorders. He has published more than forty articles and book chapters, most of them on eating disorders. He was recently appointed Medical Director of Wandi Nerida, Australia’s first residential program for eating disorders. They discuss the importance of a multi disciplinary team approach to eating disorder treatment, the value of lived experience in the education and training of clinicians, the importance of early intervention and the impact of COVID-19 on eating disorders.
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730

Olivia Molly Rogers: Miss Universe Australia - Anxiety, Depression and Eating Disorders

In this episode Millie chats with Olivia Molly Rogers. Olivia worked as a model and budding artist for several years whilst she studied to become a speech pathologist. In 2017 she took out the title of Miss Universe Australia. During her time as Miss Universe Australia, Olivia opened up about her own experience with anxiety, depression and eating disorders.
Olivia recently released her first book 'Find Your Light' and continues to use her platform to facilitate discussions about mental health issues with the hope that it will help to reduce stigma and encourage other young Australians to speak up and seek support.
They discuss her own eating disorder battle, how modelling and winning Miss Universe Australia affected her body image, the dangers of social media filters, how she finally found her confidence, courage, and self-belief and why she is so passionate about using her lived experience to raise awareness about eating disorders and mental health in general.
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730

Sandy Lowe: Racial Trauma and Eating Disorders

In this episode Millie chats to Sandy Lowe who is a talent scout in the international fashion industry and runs ‘Brown Skin Mermaids’ a not for profit organisation that offers free safe spaces and empowerment workshops for young black girls in Germany. They discuss her journey with Anorexia and Bulimia and how racial trauma has impacted her mental health. 
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730

Nikki Matthews: Overcoming a Raging Eating Disorder

In this episode Millie chats with Olivia Molly Rogers. Olivia worked as a model and budding artist for several years whilst she studied to become a speech pathologist. In 2017 she took out the title of Miss Universe Australia. During her time as Miss Universe Australia, Olivia opened up about her own experience with anxiety, depression and eating disorders. Olivia recently released her first book 'Find Your Light' and continues to use her platform to facilitate discussions about mental health issues with the hope that it will help to reduce stigma and encourage other young Australians to speak up and seek support. They discuss her own eating disorder battle, how modelling and winning Miss Universe Australia affected her body image, the dangers of social media filters, how she finally found her confidence, courage, and self-belief and why she is so passionate about using her lived experience to raise awareness about eating disorders and mental health in general.
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730

Dr Anita Johnston: The Hidden Meaning

In this episode Millie chats with Dr Anita Johnston Ph.D. Dr Anita is a psychologist, storyteller, eating psychology pioneer and author of ‘Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myth, Metaphor, and Storytelling’. She has been working in the field of women’s issues, eating difficulties and body image distress for over 35 years and is currently the Clinical Director of ‘Ai Pono’ Hawaii which has a residential treatment program and the Executive Director of Eating Disorder Programs for the Integrative Life Centre in Nashville. They discuss her pioneering work in the eating disorder field, the power of metaphors and storytelling in eating disorder recovery and the importance of discovering the hidden meaning behind eating disorders. 
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730

Kate Freeman: The Slippery Slope of Diet Culture

On this episode Millie is interviewed on another podcast called The Daily Dollop with Kate Freeman about the slippery slope of diet culture. Kate chats with Millie about her personal journey with an eating disorder and her role now, as an eating disorder recovery coach. Kate asks Millies to discuss her thoughts on the slippery slope that is dieting and fad diets, that often start off innocently enough with people wanting to lose a few kilos and be healthier but it then becomes unhealthy leading to disordered eating practices and eventually an eating disorder. Here is the darker side of diet culture and how you can get help. 
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730

Emma Louise: ARFID, Anorexia and Emetophobia

In this episode Millie chats to Emma Louise about her journey with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Anorexia and Emetophobia. They discuss the misconceptions surrounding ARFID and the detrimental affect this can have on those that are affected. 
 
You can support endED by making a once off or ongoing donation here. 
Your donation will support endED's ongoing efforts to strengthen community, build connection, celebrate each individual's unique journey, and bring hope for recovery through continuation and expansion of our lived experience-informed and community-based offerings, taking place at our House of Hope on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
endED is a registered CharityABN: 90 611 935 730