A continuation from last week, as 2019 comes to a close, we interviewed a number of people and asked them for eating disorder advocacy messages for 2020. We hope you can take these messages and spread them throughout your community, and share your own messages as well because even if your message only reaches one person, that is one more person who may not have been reached.

As 2019 comes to a close, we interviewed a number of people and asked them for eating disorder advocacy messages for 2020. We hope you can take these messages and spread them throughout your community, and share you own messages as well because even if your message only reaches 1 person, that is 1 more person who may not have been reached.

Welcome to ED Matters episode 168. Today, Kathy welcomes Dina Cohen, MS, RDN, CEDRDS, and they have a conversation that focuses on developing confidence with food. Eating disorders and anxiety go hand in hand, and Dina talks about how when you are confident with food, anxiety goes away and you trust yourself to nourish yourself.

Today, Kathy welcomes Dr. Tiffany Brown, and their topic is eating disorders in sexual minority males. Data shows that sexual minority males have higher rates of eating disorders and body dissatisfaction than heterosexual males, and Dr. Brown gives us some information on treatment options and why seeking help is so important.

Today, Kathy welcomes Dr. Julianna Gorder, and they have a conversation on applications of RO DBT at higher levels of care in eating disorder treatment. Dr. Gorder talks about excessive overcontrol in relation to eating disorders and how RO DBT can help.