Recovery Hope & Healing

Recovery Hope & Healing

A Recovery Podcast for Eating Disorders, Food Addiction and Emotional Pain Melissa Groman is a psychotherapist in private practice since 1995. Her specialties include relationships, healing emotional pain, and eating disorders. She is the author of Better is Not So Far Away: Decide to Recover from Bingeing, Starving or Cutting, 2015, McGraw Hill Education.

Episodes

December 3, 2015 40 mins

Melissa delves into the physiology of trauma.

Guest: Dr. Reggie Melrose - Psychologist and Author of The 60 Seconds Fix

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Melissa discussed EFT, also known as "tapping" and how it can be used to access and tolerate difficult feelings.

Guest: Michele Vallone, LCSW - Success Coach and EFT Practitioner

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December 3, 2015 47 mins

Melissa talks about writing for relief - claiming ourselves and our privacy.

Guest: Kathleen "Kay" Adams, LPC - Psychotherapist, visionary and author of Journal to Self. 

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Melissa explores solutions to out of control food addiction and binge eating.

Guest: Gerri Helms - Life coach and author of Trust God and Buy Broccoli

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Melissa discusses the biogenetics of refined food addiction, the associated shame and the hope of breaking free.

Guest: Kay Sheppard - Licensed mental health counselor, certified eating disorders specialist and author of Food Ad...

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December 3, 2015 35 mins

Melissa explores how shame shapes us and how we deal with it to change shame based thinking.

Guest: Janice Gaunt - Counselor and author of The Shame Game

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Melissa discusses finding inner peace in the wake of tragedy and explores Reiki, an ancient Japanese relaxation technique.

Guest: Eileen Alexander - Certified Grief and Personal Empowerment Life Coach, Certified Reiki Master Teacher, Meditation Teacher and Registered Yoga Teacher

Eileen has used these techniques to deal with great personal hardship including the violent death of her 26 year old daughter.

 

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December 3, 2015 48 mins

Melissa gives listeners an intro to ACT Therapy (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)  - Is fat a feeling?, peace vs. happiness and body shame.

Guest: Dr. Emily Sandoz, University of Louisiana - Lafayette Assistant Professor of Psychology and author of Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate

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December 2, 2015 39 mins

Melissa explores how to find your inner voice and creativity by overcoming fear and self attack. 

Guest: Jennifer Hamady - singer/recording artist (Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera), voice coach/therapist (American Idol, The Voice) and author of The Art of Singing

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Melissa explores mother daughter relationships, personal integrity, body image and how we choose to present ourselves. And is being "lady like" old fashioned?

Guest: Gwen Gistarb - Educator and author of Responsibility and The Lesson Plan

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