A lot of people have complicated relationships with food and money and it is something that definitely affects people’s mental health and finances. For some people this can cause disordered eating, such as anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, and more.
Eating disorders are psychological conditions and affect all kinds of people but are more commonly diagnosed in women. Find out how someone may get into this disordered state and its connection to money behaviors as I chat with Rachelle Heinemann.
Rachelle is a licensed mental health counselor and trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She specializes in the treatment of eating disorders and emotional eating as well as exercise addiction and body image struggles.
In this episode, Rachelle talks about diet culture, eating disorders and the effects on mental health. Learn when and how to seek help if you’re suffering from eating disorders. Discover what to do to eliminate the triggering effects of social media and how to love and/or accept our body.
Listen to this episode if you want to improve your relationship with food and money.
What You Will Learn From This Episode
- Symptoms and causes of eating disorders
- Why diet culture is pervasive and its influence on people’s health
- How to realize that you’re in disordered eating behavior and how to get help
- Mental health and relationship issues associated with eating disorders
- What to do to eliminate the triggering effects of social media
- How to improve your relationship with food and money
“The goal is maybe not to love our body if that feels like it’s not feasible for someone but that, I can be okay with it, I can accept it. And everybody knows for themselves what is a realistic goal for them.” – Rachelle Heinemann
“We are so much deeper than what meets the eye and it’s such a shame to keep focusing on what we look like.” – Rachelle Heinemann
“Talking is so important. Once we break through the shame and the secrecy about what’s going on with our relationship with money or relationship with food, then and only then can we start to heal.” – Rachelle Heinemann
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Timestamps
2:22 – List of similarities between the way people are managing their food and money
3:59 – How people get into disordered eating
6:21 – Eating disorders and how it’s manifested
8:33 – What is diet culture, why it’s pervasive, and how it creates problems for people
13:13 – Common mental health and relationship issues associated with eating disorders
16:21 – The first steps to getting help if you’re suffering from an eating disorder
19:00 – When you need to seek help for eating disorders
20:12 – The different factors that cause eating disorders
22:15 – Empowering women to love their body and combat disordered eating
26:29 – What to do to eliminate the triggering effects from social media
27:50 – How to improve our relationship with food and money
Resources
- The Lola Retreat
- Study Finds TV Alters Fiji Girls’ View of Body
- Melissa Burton
- National Eating Disorders Association
- Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness
- Open Path Collective
Connect with Rachelle
Connect with Melanie
- mentalhealthandwealth.com
- melanielockert.com
- Contact: mentalhealthandwealthshow@gmail.com
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