Episode 14

Honouring the Body: Trauma-Informed Healing for Eating Disorders

Jodie discusses the complexities of eating disorders, highlighting the limitations of a medical model and advocating for a holistic approach that considers trauma. Drawing from her personal experience, she emphasises the importance of lived experience in understanding these issues. We explore the distinction between eating disorders and disordered eating, emphasising the harm of pathologising language. Jodie shares insights into her therapeutic approach, including depth psychotherapy and a compassionate stance, challenging conventional beliefs about love in therapy and advocating against diet culture. Addressing fellow therapists, she promotes Health at Every Size (HAES) principles and stresses the need to remove moral judgments around food. Finally, Jodie dispels myths about eating disorders, offering a nuanced perspective on healing and recovery.

More About Jodie

Jodie Gale is the founder of TraumaWarriors.Online, host of the Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale podcast, an Eco-Psycho-Spiritual Registered Clinical Psychotherapist, Complex Trauma Expert, Mind Body Eating + Plant-Based Nutrition Coach.

She is a leading specialist in women’s emotional, psychological, and spiritual health and well-being. Over the last 20 years, Jodie has helped women to transform and heal their lives from complex trauma, emotional eating, and the trance of unworthiness.

She has a private psychotherapy, counselling, and life-coaching practice in Manly, Frenchs Forest and Allambie on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. Jodie is passionate about helping women befriend, connect, and nourish their whole selves: body, feelings, mind, and SOUL!


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Samantha Sellers

Sam is a registered therapist in Australia; she specialises in Religious Trauma, Deconstruction and the Queer Community. She works locally in Goulburn, NSW and online worldwide (except US & Canada)

She values the privilege that she gets to sit with people, hear their story and share in the highs and lows of the thing we call life. Sam loves nothing more than being a part of someone feeling seen and heard.

Sam is a proudly queer woman and married to the wonderful Chrissy and together they have a sweet Cavoodle named Naya who is a frequent guest in the therapy space.