Recovery Bites Podcast

The Recovery Bites podcast welcomes voices in the field and voices of experience, to get real about eating disorder and mental health recovery.

Join host Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS clinical expert and founder of the Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center, in a catalogue of past episodes featuring candid interviews with experts in eating disorder and mental health recovery.

Listeners can look forward to new perspectives, meaningful conversations, diverse connection, and compelling personal narrative that make a powerful difference in how we live.

Episodes focus on life beyond recovery — the good and the not-so-good, the successes and the challenges, and the authentic accounts of recovered lives. Not their whole story…just bites!

A woman with dark, curly hair, wearing a black outfit with red jewelry and boots, is sitting on a grey couch with her arm outstretched on the arm of the couch. Above her reads “Recovery Bites” in red brush font, with “Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS” — Episode 114 - Stepping Out of Silence with Bérénice Mertens, RYT

by Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS

In this episode, Karin welcomes Bérénice Mertens, RYT, certified yoga & meditation teacher and yoga therapist specializing in eating disorders, to the show for the newest episode of Recovery Bites, “Stepping Out of Silence”

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.

Berenice Mertens, RYT is a certified yoga & meditation teacher and yoga therapist specializing in eating disorders. After a decade of suffering in silence, both mentally and physically, Berenice discovered yoga and embarked on her personal healing journey. As challenging as yoga was, it led Berenice to meditate, calm down, to develop awareness, more self compassion, and allowed her to begin to build a relationship with spirituality as well. For Berenice, yoga has been, and still is, a stepping stone in her recovery from anxiety, PTSD and eating disorders.

In her yoga practice, Berenice shares holistic tools to help women overcome their eating disorder. In 2020, Berenice pivoted her yoga business online and now offers a community for beings who struggle with eating disorders. When not sharing resources and empowering others in her private virtual group for overcoming disordered eating, you can find Berenice on the yoga mat delivering 1:1 yoga therapy sessions.

Follow Berenice on Instagram and join her Women Seeking Freedom Facebook Group. View her YouTube channel here.