Food Shrinks
tekijä: Clarissa Kennedy, Molly Carmel, Molly Painschab
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Episode 54: Closing With a Bow: Healthy Endings, New Beginnings
Episode 54: Closing With a Bow: Healthy Endings, New Beginnings
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Welcome to Food Shrinks, where your hosts— Molly Carmel, Clarissa Kennedy and Molly Painschab - offer candid, compassionate conversations about the realities of food addiction, recovery, and finding freedom with food. In each episode, we dive deep into the challenges people face in their relationship with food, share what we've discovered through years of clinical experience, and provide practical tools to help you along your journey.
This isn't just expert advice—it's real talk among friends. We believe in navigating recovery with honesty, self-compassion, and empowerment, while acknowledging that healing is rarely a straight line. Whether you're working through diet trauma, learning to trust yourself with food again, or figuring out what eating approach feels right for you, we're here to support you every step of the way.
Tune in for heartfelt conversations, actionable insights, and a safe space to explore what recovery looks like—for you.
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- Episode 54: Closing With a Bow: Healthy Endings, New Beginnings · 26 min · Kausi 1 Jakso 54We end as we lived: real, funny, and unfiltered. In our finale, we model how to end something good in a healthy way. We talk about capacity, courage, and why saying "yes" to the…
- Episode 53 - Too Tired to Talk About Sleep Hygiene · 27 min · Kausi 1 Jakso 53This week, the Food Shrinks are just plain tired—and they're talking about it. Not the kind of tired that a nap or a sleep hygiene checklist can fix, but the deeper exhaustion…
- Episode 52: Soft Serve, Sadness, and Starting Over - Grief in Recovery · 21 minToday, we answer a listener who writes: "I'm grieving the foods I don't eat anymore—social stuff and celebrations are hard." The Food Shrinks open that door wider: grief in…
- Episode 51: Am I Too Much or Not Enough? Healing the Inner Battle Beneath the Food · 22 minIn this deeply relatable episode, the Food Shrinks— tackle one of recovery's most persistent companions: the belief that we are not enough… or sometimes too much. From early…
- Episode 50: When Sugar Feels Like Oxygen · 21 minThe crew normalizes why sugar becomes the go-to "tool" for anxiety, boredom, and stress—and offers harm-reduction pathways that build capacity without shame. You'll hear personal…
- Episode 49: Traveling in Recovery · 26 minIn this episode of Food Shrinks, Molly Carmel, Clarissa Kennedy, and Molly Painschab sit down to unpack what it really takes to live—and thrive—in recovery while on the move…
- Episode 48: Triggers, Envy & Growth in Recovery · 22 minIn this candid Food Shrinks conversation, Molly Carmel, Clarissa Kennedy, and Molly Painschab explore why being in community—whether recovery groups, professional networks, or…
- Episode 47: Breaking Free from "Day One" · 22 minIn this episode of Food Shrinks, Molly Carmel, Clarissa Kennedy, and Molly Painschab unpack the obsession with "Day One" in recovery. Why do so many of us cling to Mondays, fresh…
- Episode 46: Kids, Food, and Family Fears · 23 minIn this episode of Food Shrinks, Molly Carmel, Clarissa Kennedy, and Molly Painschab tackle two heartfelt listener emails about food, weight, and grandchildren. The questions…
- Episode 45: Overwhelm, Fawning, and Boundaries · 24 minIn this episode of Food Shrinks, Molly Carmel, Clarissa Kennedy, and Molly Painschab open up about the everyday struggles of saying no, setting boundaries, and navigating the…
- Episode 44: Unpacking the Shame- Recovery, Laxative Abuse, and Grace in Healing · 25 minIn this raw and courageous conversation, Molly C, Molly P, and Clarissa shine a light on one of the most hidden and stigmatized struggles in eating disorder recovery: laxative…
- Episode 43: Sick, Guilty, and Learning to Rest - Choosing Self-Compassion in Recovery · 22 minWhat happens when getting sick stirs up shame, fear, and old recovery patterns? In this vulnerable and heartfelt episode, Molly, Molly, and Clarissa open up about how illness…
- Episode 42: When "Help" Hurts · 24 minIn this raw, unfiltered episode of Food Shrinks, Molly Carmel, Clarissa Kennedy, and Molly Painschab dive deep into the experience of chronic invalidation—how it shapes us in…
- Episode 41: Am I Addicted to Dieting… or to Food? · 24 minIn this powerful listener-inspired episode, Molly Carmel, Clarissa Kennedy, and Molly Painschab dive deep into one of the most confusing questions in recovery: Is it food…
- Episode 40: Family Systems, Cinnamon Buns, and the Art of Self-Care: A Mid-Summer Reckoning · 19 minIn this raw and revealing episode, the Shrinks dive deep into the complexities of family dynamics, emotional regression, and how recovery shows up when you're trapped on a cruise…
- Episode 39: Let's Talk About Weight Loss—For Real This Time · 20 minIn this honest, heart-centered conversation, Molly P and Molly C tackle one of the most sensitive and frequently tiptoed-around topics in recovery spaces: weight loss. After…
- Episode 38 - Telling a New Story: Our First Conversation on Spirituality in Recovery · 20 min · Kausi 1 Jakso 38In this soulful and vulnerable episode of Food Shrinks, Molly C and Molly P sit down for a heartfelt conversation about spirituality, what it means, how it manifests in recovery…
- Episode 37: Self-Compassion Isn't Woo - Finding Your Voice After Shame, Trauma, and Diet Culture · 20 minThe Food Shrinks open up about their personal journeys with self-compassion—from eye rolls and resistance to finding voices that finally felt true. They explore how trauma…
- Episode 36: Knowing Better Isn't Doing Better - Ambivalence, Ego, and Compassionate Change · 21 minIn this heartfelt and hilarious episode, the Shrinks dive into one of the most relatable recovery challenges: the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Whether…
- Episode 35: The Fourth Week - Patience, Pain, and the Miracle That Follows · 20 minIn this raw and reflective episode, Molly C, Clarissa, and Molly P dive into the messy, beautiful work of staying with the hard stuff, especially when it would feel easier to…
