Dr. Marianne-Land: An Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

AI chatbots can offer quick answers and a sense of support, but they can also reinforce food rules, reassurance seeking, and eating disorder behaviors. Dr. Marianne examines how AI use can complicate eating disorder recovery and where these tools might provide limited, practical support.

AI & Eating Disorder Recovery: Benefits and Risks

Learn how chatbot responses can reinforce restriction, exercise compensation, and weight sti...

Eating disorder recovery happens within your daily life. For autistic people and ADHDers, sensory overload, executive functioning challenges, masking, and demanding schedules can make consistent nourishment harder. Building a life that fits your brain means taking those needs seriously and creating support that makes recovery more accessible.

Dr. Marianne shares how neurodivergent-affirming eating disorder recovery can include chan...

Do chewing, crunching, or slurping sounds make you feel anxious, overwhelmed, disgusted, or desperate to leave? In this episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, Dr. Marianne welcomes clinical psychologist and author Dr. Tom to explore misophonia, sound triggers, and their impact on eating, relationships, and everyday life.

Drawing on his personal experience with misophonia and his book, Stop That Chewing, Dr. Tom shares coping approaches and ...

Certain foods can become closely connected to binge eating because they provide more than taste or energy. For people with ADHD or autism, these foods may offer sensory stimulation, predictability, emotional regulation, comfort, or relief after a demanding day.

Dr. Marianne explains why binge foods are not random and why removing them rarely addresses the full problem. She examines the connections among ADHD and binge eating, autis...

Chronic pain can make eating disorder recovery more complicated. Pain, fatigue, brain fog, medication side effects, nausea, limited mobility, and sensory overload can interfere with shopping, preparing food, recognizing hunger, and eating consistently.

In this solo episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, Dr. Marianne explains why these challenges reflect real barriers to nourishment, not a lack of motivation or commitment to recovery. Drawin...

Attachment patterns can shape how we seek comfort, respond to uncertainty, and relate to food. Dr. Marianne welcomes back Vanessa Scaringi, PhD, and Kathryn Garland, LCSW, to discuss eating disorder recovery, emotional eating, and finding connection when the world feels unsafe.

The co-owners of CALM Counseling share insights from their book, Hungry for Connection: Heal Your Relationships with Food and People in an Insecurely Attach...

Fear of weight gain is not always about appearance. For many people, the desire for thinness reflects a fear of rejection, medical weight stigma, dating discrimination, family criticism, workplace bias, or losing social acceptance.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne examines how anti-fat bias can make thinness feel like protection. Fear of fatness is real, and people in larger bodies often receive worse treatment in healthcare, rel...

Autism, ADHD, and other forms of neurodivergence can make eating far more complicated than simply recognizing hunger and choosing food. Sensory sensitivities, executive dysfunction, time blindness, interoception differences, demand avoidance, decision fatigue, and neurodivergent burnout can all interfere with regular nourishment.

Dr. Marianne explains the hidden work behind eating and why many common food environments were not desi...

Food rules can make eating feel like a test you have to pass. Dr. Marianne talks with registered dietitian Lauren Hofstee about eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, and building a steadier relationship with food without judgment or guilt.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Lauren explains how “what I eat in a day” videos, body checks, and the thin ideal can shape food choices and body image, especially for teens and young ...

Nutrition misinformation can make eating disorder recovery feel increasingly confusing. Social media warnings about sugar, carbohydrates, seed oils, processed foods, toxins, inflammation, and “clean eating” often sound scientific, even when they rely on fear, exaggeration, or missing context.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne discusses how nutrition myths and conflicting food advice can intensify food anxiety, orthorex...

ADHD and eating disorders often overlap in ways that treatment misses. For adults with late-diagnosed ADHD, chronic restriction, binge eating, bulimia, ARFID, food inconsistency, and repeated eating disorder relapse may reflect more than fear of food or resistance to recovery.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne discusses how ADHD executive dysfunction, time blindness, hyperfocus, decision paralysis, sensory needs, emotional dysregu...

Binge eating recovery requires more than changing what or how you eat. Chef, eating psychology coach, and author Amber Caudle joins Dr. Marianne to discuss her 30-year struggle with binge eating, restriction, purging, compulsive exercise, and food obsession.

Binge Eating Recovery, Food Freedom, and Self-Trust

Amber shares how she appeared successful while privately living with shame, body dissatisfaction, and a painful relationship...

ARFID and PDA can make eating feel difficult even when no one is telling you what, when, or how much to eat. For autistic and neurodivergent people with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) and a PDA profile, hunger, meal schedules, food preparation, and even personal recovery goals can sometimes begin to feel like demands.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne explains how ARFID, autism, PDA, sensory sensitivities, execu...

Tradwife culture is having a moment, but what happens when traditional femininity, purity culture, the thin ideal, and disordered eating begin to overlap?

In this SOLO episode, Dr. Marianne Miller examines the growing popularity of tradwives and renewed interest in conservative Christianity among some young women. She considers why messages about modesty, discipline, self-denial, homemaking, and being a “good woman” may...

Eating disorder recovery often requires developing a relationship with food, hunger, movement, and body size that differs sharply from what society considers “normal.” In this conversation, Dr. Marianne welcomes back psychotherapist Shira Collings, LPC, to discuss a powerful question: Can eating disorder recovery become its own form of neurodivergence?

Shira describes neurodivergence as a way of thinking, processing inf...

Autism and eating disorders can create a complicated relationship with food rigidity, routines, sensory needs, and predictability. For autistic people recovering from anorexia, ARFID, bulimia, or other eating disorders, repetitive eating patterns aren't always symptoms that need to be challenged. Sometimes autistic food routines and preferred foods make consistent nourishment more accessible.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne expl...

Eating disorder recovery can feel surprisingly scary, even when you genuinely want to get better. Letting go of restriction, binge eating, purging, compulsive exercise, food rules, or body checking can trigger intense fear because eating disorder behaviors often serve functions that go far beyond food and body image.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne explores why recovery from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and o...

Supporting a child or teen with an eating disorder can leave parents caught between the urgency to help them eat and the fear that increasing control will create more conflict around food.

In this episode, Dr. Marianne welcomes psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Tom Wooldridge to discuss how parents can help a child with an eating disorder by replacing control with connection. Drawing from his book, Ending the Food Fight: Replacing...

Can you have anorexia and struggle with binge eating, too? If you find yourself moving between food restriction and binge eating, you may wonder whether your eating disorder has changed or whether you're somehow failing at recovery.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne talks about the binge-restrict cycle, why eating disorder symptoms can shift over time, and what it means when binge eating shows up during anorexia recovery. Binge ea...