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The "Body Empowerment" series features videos by writer, performer, and eating disorder recovery advocate Caroline Rothstein. This blog includes her personal work and related links by others that promote eating disorder prevention and recovery, and positive body image. After having an eating disorder for 10 years, Caroline has been recovered since 2004. She has been sharing her experience as a public speaker and advocate for over a decade.

Caroline began the "Body Empowerment" video series on YouTube in 2008 to expand dialogue and conversation about eating disorder recovery and positive body image.

The "Body Empowerment" series airs at www.YouTube.com/Cavernchick. Caroline welcomes viewer requests and questions from any of the social media outlets with which she is connected. Join the conversation and journey! Eating disorder recovery is possible, real, and important!

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“Remaining Intuitive (Body Empowerment 79)“

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“Support Systems (Body Empowerment 52)” - Originally posted February 20, 2012, on YouTube.com.

This episode of “Body Empowerment” is about the importance of support systems when working on recovery from an eating disorder, or any addiction, trauma, illness, or struggle.

It features discussion and interviews with Caroline’s close friends Susannah Grossman and Chloe Frankel, as the three recount their experiences in college while Caroline began her recovery process from a decade-long eating disorder. They describe the ways in which they participated in a positive, efficient, and lasting support system, that facilitated in Caroline’s recovery, and supported all three of them beyond college.

Please feel free to engage in this discussion by sharing your own support system stories, questions, comments, concerns, and experiences.

Thanks!

I was recently interviewed and featured in New York Film Academy student and filmmaker Rodrigo Urriolagoitia’s first semester social issues film. Take a look. Feel free to pass around and along.

"Filling the Space the Eating Disorder Filled" - by Arielle Bair →

Awesome video by recovery advocate Arielle Lee Bair!

For those who missed last week’s “Body Empowerment” episode - check it out! Happy Monday!!!

"faith" - a new play by Caroline Rothstein and EDs and recovery →

FAITH - written and performed by Caroline Rothstein
directed by Alex Mallory

Thursday, 1/5 at 5PM
Part of the $5 at 5 Reading Series

Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9458295

Seven years into full recovery from a decade-long eating disorder, writer and performer Caroline Rothstein reflects on navigating the medical world’s deadliest mental illness while coming of age in the 1990s. Through monologue, poetry, and performance art, she unleashes her inner and outer turmoil, discovers the depths of her spirit and self, and triumphs when she realizes how much is at stake - not just her physical body, but her soul.

Men with anorexia - check out this interview with on ABC News!the amazing Matt Wetsel →

“Binge Eating Disorder (Body Empowerment 45)” - Originally posted November 7, 2011, on YouTube.com.

This video discusses Binge Eating Disorder, particularly the ways in which it affects both men and women, and also offers resources available to help provide prevention and treatment options.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 is Greater Washington GIVE TO THE MAX Day!

As a longtime eating disorder recovery advocate, I encourage you to consider giving to the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA). As a newer organization, BEDA has accomplished amazing things and made a name for itself as a leading national organization for BED and eating disorders. Binge eating disorder is the most common eating disorder affecting 1 - 5 % of men and women in the United States. BEDA is raising funds to support their mission and raise awareness about, provide support and resources for, and spread prevention and recovery for binge eating disorder.

Please help support this amazing cause and spread the word as we prepare for GIVE TO THE MAX Day on November 9!!!

To join BEDA’s mailing list, send your email address by text BEDA to 22828.

The problem I keep seeing is that recovery and recovered are social constructs, not an essentialist gesture towards something with inherent meaning – thus when we talk about things by a “word” we get into identity politics rather than a conversation about what someone’s every day life is like.

Rachael Lauren Stern of the Eating Disorder Activists Network (quote first featured in “…Until Eating Disorders Are No More” blog post “Defining Recovery?”)