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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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“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!

"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.

My new one-woman play “faith” about EDs and recovery - 1/5 in NYC!!!

faith - January 5, 2012

What: “faith“ - a brand new one-woman play written and performed by Caroline Rothstein! It’s debut staged reading will be part of the Poetic License festival as part of the $5 at 5 reading series.

When: Thursday, January 5 @ 5:00 p.m.

Where: Wild Project - 195 E. 3rd Street (Btwn Avenues A & B)

Who: Written and performed by Caroline Rothstein, Directed by Alex Mallory

How: $5 at the door, or online: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9458295

Why (Show description): 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.

Facebook event link: http://www.facebook.com/events/189944841101007/

The full production of “faith” will run on April 3rd and 4th as part of the Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival!!!

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?”)

“Freedom and Renewal (Body Empowerment 43)” - Originally posted July 4, 2011.

In honor of recording and posting this video on July 4th, I discuss the notions of freedom, growth, and renewal. I relate it to this series itself - after several years, it is time to revamp and renew aspects of this series to better reflect my own growth in my freedom from my past and my movement forward at this stage in my life.

I will post all the videos from my YouTube series “Body Empowerment,” in order, until I am up to date with my most current videos.

“Healthy Recovery Routines (Body Empowerment 42)” - Originally posted June 27, 2011.

This video discusses the benefits of empowering recovery with healthy, positive, and nurturing routines as opposed to the destructive habits that cloud eating disorders.

I will post all the videos from my YouTube series “Body Empowerment,” in order, until I am up to date with my most current videos.

“Feeling vs. Looking Good (Body Empowerment 41)” - Originally posted June 20, 2011.

This video is about feeling versus looking good!

I will post all the videos from my YouTube series “Body Empowerment,” in order, until I am up to date with my most current videos.

“To Internalize, Or Not To Internalize (Body Empowerment 40)” - Originally posted June 13, 2011.

This video addresses the choice we have to or not to internalize experiences we have, or things that are said to us by others that have negative affects.

I will post all the videos from my YouTube series “Body Empowerment,” in order, until I am up to date with my most current videos.