Part 4: Wellness Check

This episode contains references to mental health challenges, including eating disorders.

Joanna Lopez, the high school senior we met in our first episode of Odessa, has turned inward: staying in her bedroom, ghosting friends and avoiding band practice. But playin ...

This week the girls get personal and open up a conversation about eating disorders. Chelsey shares her own personal experience, they discuss questions from listeners, talk about how and where to get help, and read beautiful stories of recovery.

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This episode takes a sobering look at the mental health of U.S. medical students and trainees, in an era when the pressures can be intolerable but the culture still treats depression as weakness.

A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.105 ...

in this episode of "empty inside", i talk with my friend (and soon-to-be clinical psychologist) talia mann about where we're at in our eating disorder recovery - plus diet culture, thin privilege, and the sensitivity of the ED community. episode recorded pre-covid.