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!

Episode 112 - Diet’s Don’t Work with Jacqueline Adan

by Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS

In this episode, Karin welcomes Jacqueline Adan, influencer, self love and mental health advocate to the show for the newest episode of Recovery Bites, “Diet’s Don’t Work with Jacqueline Adan”

Join Karin and Jacqueline for a conversation on the dangers of dieting, especially regarding children, uncovering the deeper issues before fixing behaviors, the harm of weight-loss praise, fighting for fair medical treatment in a larger body, utilizing the “little moments” for full recovery, the problem with societal norms, and much more.

Jacqueline Adan is a self love and mental health advocate who hopes, that by sharing her experience, to help other people going through similar situations. She encourages everyone to believe in themselves, their dreams, and to live life as their most authentic self.

Jacqueline has always struggled with her weight, body image, and her relationship with food. After major weight loss, resulting in national media attention, Jacqueline learned that her journey with eating and weight was far from over. With an eating disorder diagnosis, Jacqueline began recovery for the thing she had been so widely praised for. Sharing the her victories and defeats, Jacqueline hopes that by sharing her experiences, she can help other people who are going through similar situations. You can learn about Jacquline’s eating disorder journey at www.jacquelineadan.com. You can also follow her on Instagram @jacquelineadan44 and on YouTube.