Dr. Marianne-Land: An Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

Food rationing and scarcity fears can show up in eating disorders in surprising ways. You might save the last few bites even though you’re still hungry, carefully make favorite foods “last,” become anxious when safe foods run low, or hesitate to eat something because you’re worried you won’t have it later.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne explores how food scarcity anxiety can affect people with anor...

What happens when years of hearing that you talk too much turn into the belief that you are simply too much?

In this episode, Dr. Marianne welcomes back eating disorder therapist Stacie Fanelli for a conversation about hyperverbalism, ADHD, autism, and eating disorders. They discuss why some neurodivergent people process thoughts and emotions through talking, why hyperverbal communication is often misunderstood, and how repeated me...

Why does eating feel easier, more appealing, or more intense at night for some neurodivergent people?

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne explores Night Eating Syndrome (NES), ADHD, autism, and neurodivergent eating patterns through a neurodivergent-affirming lens. Rather than assuming nighttime eating comes from a lack of willpower, she looks at what may be happening across the entire day.

ADHD and autism can affect interoception, ...

What happens when you’ve spent years working on eating disorder recovery, but anorexia or bulimia still shows up?

Long-term eating disorder recovery can feel exhausting, especially when you understand your patterns but still struggle with restriction, bingeing, purging, compulsive exercise, or persistent food and body image thoughts. Knowing why something happens doesn’t always make it easy to change.

In this solo episo...

What if binge eating isn’t a willpower problem at all?

Dr. Marianne welcomes back nutritionist and eating disorder specialist Marcelle Rose @marcellerosenutrition, author of The Binge Freedom Method, for a conversation about binge eating recovery without dieting. Marcelle works with people experiencing binge eating, bulimia, restrictive eating, and emotional eating, and her approach looks beyond food to understand what may ac...

Why can eating feel so calming, stimulating, or grounding? For many autistic people, ADHDers, and people with eating disorders, food does more than satisfy hunger. Eating can provide sensory input, emotional regulation, predictability, stimulation, and nervous system support.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne explores food as self-regulation, co-regulation, and stimming, including why chewing, crunching, sipping, familiar foods, a...

Can you have anorexia in a larger body? Yes. Yet weight stigma and stereotypes about what an eating disorder "looks like" can make it difficult to feel believed, receive appropriate anorexia treatment, or talk about your experience with others.

In this solo episode, Dr. Marianne discusses anorexia in larger bodies from both a clinical and...

How can harm reduction support eating disorder recovery when full recovery feels complicated, nonlinear, or far away?

Dr. Marianne welcomes back journalist, professor, and author Mallary Tenore Tarpley, MFA, for a conversation about eating disorder harm reduction, anorexia recovery, long-term eating disorder recovery, and the pressure to achieve full recovery. Mallary is the author of Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Rec...

How do you support weight restoration when your autistic child needs nutrition, but pressure around food makes eating even harder?

For autistic children, teens, and adolescents with a PDA profile (Pathological Demand Avoidance or Pervasive Drive for Autonomy), weight restoration for ARFID, anorexia, and other restrictive eating disorders can become especially complicated. Parents may know that their child urgently needs more nutrit...

What happens to eating disorder recovery when the culture around you starts celebrating weight loss again?

In this deeply personal solo episode, Dr. Marianne continues sharing her eating disorder recovery story and talks about something that has surprised her: the return of body insecurities during the Age of Ozempic. After recovering from a decades-long history of anorexia, binge eating disorder, orthorexia, and bulimia, she rarel...

When does trying to be healthy cross the line into rigid or disordered eating?

Healthmaxxing focuses on optimizing nutrition, protein, exercise, sleep, steps, and other health metrics. But for someone with an eating disorder or history of disordered eating, healthmaxxing can become another way to follow rigid rules, compulsively track behaviors, and disconnect from the body.

In this episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, Dr. Marianne talks ...

Does it matter whether your eating disorder therapist has personally recovered from anorexia or bulimia?

In this solo episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, I explore that question from two perspectives: as an eating disorder therapist and as someone who spent about 25 years navigating anorexia, binge eating, orthorexia, bulimia, compulsive exercise, and the long road to recovery.

Lived experience does not replace professional training, and...

Many people with eating disorders get labeled as perfectionists. Sometimes that's accurate. Sometimes it's only part of the story.

In this episode of the Dr. Marianne-Land Podcast, I explore the overlap between OCD and eating disorders, perfectionism, anxiety, autism, ADHD, and the cognitive effects of malnutrition. I explain why similar behaviors can have very different underlying causes and why understanding those differences can...

What happens when years of eating disorder treatment reduce symptoms but never fully address the trauma underneath? In this episode of the Dr. Marianne-Land Podcast, I welcome Jennifer Lancaster, LCSW, for a conversation about complex trauma treatment for eating disorders, including the role of EMDR therapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), attachment trauma, nervous system healing, and shame recovery. Whether you're recoveri...

If the idea of ARFID treatment feels just as overwhelming as ARFID itself, you're not alone. Many people avoid seeking help because they worry treatment will involve pressure, forced food exposures, or having their sensory experiences dismissed.

In this episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, Dr. Marianne Miller explains what neurodivergent-affirming ARFID treatmentactually looks like. She discusses why understanding the function of food avo...

If eating still feels overwhelming after years of living with anorexia or bulimia, you're not alone. Long-term eating disorders often make every meal feel mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausting, even when you're deeply committed to recovery. In this episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, eating disorder therapist Dr. Marianne Miller shares five practical, compassionate strategies to help reduce eating overwhelm, manage food anxiet...

Why do so many autistic and ADHD girls grow up believing they're simply "too much," anxious, or broken? In this episode, I sit down with licensed marriage and family therapist, author, and neurodiversity advocate Jamie Roberts @neurodivergenttherapist to talk about why autism and ADHD so often go undiagnosed in girls, how masking hides neurodivergence, and what changes when people finally receive answers later in life. We also expl...

Have you ever looked at a plate of food, known you needed to eat, and still felt like your brain and body simply couldn't do it?

Many people assume this experience reflects a lack of willpower or motivation. In reality, sensory overload, trauma, ARFID, and food restriction can all make eating feel genuinely inaccessible. When your nervous system stays in survival mode, even choosing, preparing, and tolerating food can become overwh...

Why do some people with ADHD feel like no amount of food is ever enough? Why can you finish a satisfying meal and still find yourself searching the pantry, thinking about dessert, or feeling like something is missing?

In this solo episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, I explore the often-overlooked connection between ADHD and binge eating disorder (BED). I explain why many ADHDers describe feeling like a "bottomless pit" around food, why s...