Food, Body & Love: Overcoming Binge Eating Disorder.
Dr. Kari Anderson, author and therapist, will share her recovery story
and 3 decades of experience transforming fear based eating disorders
into love based living. Book signing will follow.
Binge Eating Disorder, not recognized until 2013 as an eating disorder,
and yet, the most prevalent of all the eating disorders. Largely
unrecognized, misunderstood, and undertreated.
Dr. Kari Anderson, author and therapist, will share her recovery story
and 3 decades of experience transforming fear based eating disorders
into love based living.
Book signing will follow
Has positioned herself as a respected clinician and leader in the field of eating disorders. Her career spans over three decades of leading treatment teams in all levels of care, Kari has developed several treatment models, most recently for the treatment of binge eating.
Kari earned her Doctor of Behavioral Health with her research project _The Mindful Eating Cycle: Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder_ at Arizona State University in 2012. Co-creator of the Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating for Binge Eating Program, Kari also co-authored the acclaimed book, _Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating: A Mindful Eating Program for Healing Your Relationship with Food and Your Body. _Her memior, _Food, Body and Love: but the greatest of these is love_ was released in 2021. This work digs deeper into the science behind effective treatment and uses a compassionate and embodied framework.
She is an adjunct faculty for the University of New Hampshire and trains graduate students in treatment methods for eating disorders. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Supervisor (CEDS-S) and volunteers as the Certification Supervision Chair for the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.
People suffering from an eating disorder are often referred to as “super-feelers” or as Highly Sensitive People. They experience the environment and other people’s emotions very intensely; they usually are super intelligent deep thinkers who become very aware of the problems in the world. This increased intensity of the inner experiences, anxiety, and deep empathy (feeling what others feel) coupled with our highly pressured world makes Highly Sensitive People more prone to eating disorders.