Purity Culture and Eating Disorders w Amee Severson

About this episode

Joy and Adam discuss the impact of religious traditions on eating disorder recovery with guest Amee Severson.

Joy and Adam, with returning guest host Amee Severson, share stories of their religious traditions and how those experiences affected their eating disorder recovery. Processing and overcoming religious guilt as well as adapting to one's body after realizing the harms of purity cultures are discussed. Our hope is for those religious and non-religious among the survivor community to better understand each other, and, though we may have similar histories, the outcomes of those stories may be sta...

People in this episode

Hosts: Joy, Adam

Guest: Amee Severson

Topics covered

• purity culture
• eating disorders
• religious traditions
• recovery
• guilt
• body image

Keywords

• religion
• survivor community
• mental health

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