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Robyn Cruz is a mental health and addiction advocate, speaker, and author. She is a National Recovery Advocate for Eating Recovery Center (ERC.) and ERC’s online Facebook host within two online communities: Eating Recovery and Binge Eating Connection. Robyn helps individuals and their loved ones who are in recovery or attempting to recover from an eating disorder and body image issues. Robyn is the co-author of Making Peace with Your Plate, with Espra Andrus, LCSW, and the author of a children’s affirmation book Lovely Dreams (self-published.) She is a popular keynote speaker and educator, covering topics of; body image, eating disorder recovery (including comorbidity of substance use), and aging in an unrealistic body culture.
Today we talk about Robyn’s journey through eating disorders and addiction, how she overcame it, and how she is using it to fuel her life’s purpose.
Highlights from the episode:
- Where addictive patterns come from in the brain
- How the words good, bad, healthy or unhealthy play a part in how we view food
- How soothing the self rather than fighting the eating disorder fits into recovery?
- Mindfulness techniques to help with addiction and recovery
- Why willpower is not enough and how dieting will make are you HUNGRy and GAIN Weight
- Overcoming negative thoughts and patterns
- The hardest thought pattern for people to give up
- The “levels’ to eating disorders
- Some signs that you or someone you know might have a poor relationship with food
- The first steps to taking control of this
- How we can foster the right thought patterns and the healthy thought patterns in these young girls
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