Embodiment in eating disorder recovery and mental health treatment with Rachel Lewis-Marlow

How do you incorporate embodied healing into eating disorder treatment? Why is it important to have a bottom-up approach for body-to-brain communication in recovery? What is the role of the provider’s embodiment in eating disorder recovery? MEET RACHEL LEWIS-MARLOWRachel Lewis-Marlow is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed as a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Massage and Bodywork Therapist. She is also a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has advanced training and 30 + years of experience in diverse somatic therapies. Rachel is also the co-founder of the https://embodiedrecovery.org/ (Embodied Recovery Institute), which provides training in a trauma-informed, relationally oriented, and somatically integrative model for eating disorders treatment. Recently, she authored a chapter on the application of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to eating disorders treatment in the book, https://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Informed-Approaches-Eating-Disorders-Seubert/dp/0826172644/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TF25XZMWUQKD&keywords=Trauma-Informed+Approaches+to+Eating+Disorders&qid=1647446980&sprefix=%2Caps%2C480&sr=8-1 (Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders). Visit the https://embodiedrecovery.org/ (Embodied Recovery Institute) and connect with them on https://www.facebook.com/embodiedrecoveryinstitute (Facebook) and https://www.instagram.com/embodiedrecovery/ (Instagram). IN THIS PODCAST:Reconnecting the mind and body - (06:11) Why somatic approaches help treat eating disorders - (07:10) Embodied recovery for eating disorders - (10:00) The role of the provider’s embodiment in eating disorder recovery - (22:15) Reconnecting the mind and body [Stitching is about] how we allow that new felt-sense experience to build cognition, and how do we allow [our minds] to make meaning from that present moment, new somatic experience to build the belief about who we are and what the world is like for us to be in. (Rachel Lewis-Marlow) The concept of stitching is abo