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Eating Disorder Recovery Is Not About the Food. It’s a Mental Health Issue - with Jackie Goldschneider | EP219

June 11 · 48 min · Episode 219 · 46.8 MB

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REPLAY! This conversation is too important to hear only once, and Jackie Goldschneider is exactly the reason why. Eating disorder recovery is not about food, and she wants you to understand why.

On this episode of Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman sits down with Jackie Goldschneider, author, activist, and Real Housewives of New Jersey former cast member, to talk about something rarely discussed with this level of honesty. Jackie lived with anorexia for nearly two decades before finding her way to health in her mid-forties, and her story is a reminder that eating disorder recovery can happen at any stage of life.

Her memoir, The Weight of Beautiful, was born from the experience she wished she'd had when she was searching for answers. She opens up about what it felt like to live inside an illness that nobody around her truly understood, why eating disorders in women so often go unrecognized, and what she wants families to know about eating disorder mental health. Telling someone to just eat does not work, and this conversation explains why.

Jackie also reflects on the relationship between mental health and body image, the role compulsive movement played in her disorder, and the moment she finally decided to ask for help. For anyone who has struggled personally or watched someone they love struggle, eating disorder awareness starts with honest conversations like this one.

She shares what life looks like now, from friendships and writing, to therapy and learning that good enough is sometimes exactly enough.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Jackie Goldschneider on Eating Disorder Recovery and Advocacy

01:28 Weekly Highs With Amy and Jackie

03:29 How Anorexia Took Hold and What No One Talked About

06:02 What People Get Wrong About Eating Disorder Mental Health

08:32 The Rock Bottom Moment That Changed Everything

13:00 Going Public on Real Housewives and the Fallout

18:00 Writing The Weight of Beautiful and Why It Had to Exist

25:00 Eating Disorders in Women and the Silence Around Them

32:00 What Recovery Actually Looks Like Day to Day

38:00 Beauty Favorites and Product Picks