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 129 - Empowered Recovery with Imogen Barnes

by Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS

This week, Karin welcomes Imogen Barnes, social work student and advocate, to the show for our newest episode, “Empowered Recovery.”

Tune in to learn about the OCD and eating disorder “perfect storm,” social media triggers, the fat phobic messages regarding weight and medication use, ways to be an active participant in your recovery, finding wholeness outside of the vessel of an eating disorder, overcoming weight biases from a treatment provider, and much more!

Imogen Barnes is a social work student, advocate, and podcast host working within the realm of youth mental health. Throughout her childhood, Imogen lived with debilitating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. However, at the age of 16, Imogen’s obsessive and ritualized behavior pivoted away from contamination fears and towards food and body, marking the beginning of her eating disorder journey.

During a treatment stay, Imogen began producing social media content that inspired her to pursue recovery and, before she knew it, she was motivating an entire community to heal their relationship with food and body. Since then, Imogen has engaged in various treatment interventions, finding a steady place of lasting recovery, while discovering her passion for connecting people with authenticity and empowering others to pursue life beyond suppression.