Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders: A Primer

 

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Rachel Lewis Marlow offers us a primer on her paradigm, Embodied Recovery for trauma, eating disorders, and dissociation. We'll discuss the basic principles of Embodied Recovery, which offers an intersectional, non-pathologizing paradigm blending polyvagal theory, attachment theory, and ecological approaches to identity.

Learning Objectives

• Name the 4 basic principles of Embodied Recovery
• Identify connections between disordered eating behaviors and attachment injuries
• Explore how our threat-response and connection-seeking neural networks are impacted attachment at individual, family, and institutional levels
• Distinguish safety from protection.

Meet Our Guest

Rachel Lewis Marlow is the Director of the Embodied Recovery Institute which provides training to interdisciplinary eating disorders treatment teams in trauma-informed, attachment-based and somatically integrative approaches to eating disorders recovery.  Rachel is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.  She is also a Licensed Bodywork and Massage therapist with advanced training and 30+ years of experience in diverse somatic therapies. Rachel has extensive experience as a teacher and presenter, focusing on accessing the body’s unique capacity to give voice to the subconscious and to lay the foundation for healing and maintaining psychological and physical health. In her private practice in Chapel Hill, NC, Rachel specializes in working with people exploring recovery from trauma, eating disorders, and dissociative disorders

 

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