Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul

Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussions of childhood sexual assault, suicide, and suicidal ideation. Please listen with care and consider whether this content feels right for you at this time.

In this episode of Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul, Carolyn Costin sits down with retired Navy Senior Chief Leah Stiles for a powerful conversation about eating disorders in the military, the culture that can allow them to remain hidden, and what it takes to choose recovery after years of shame and secrecy.

Leah shares how an eating disorder that began before her military...

In this episode of Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul, Carolyn Costin sits down with Rachael Steil, author of Running in Silence and founder of the organization by the same name, to explore the complicated intersection of athletics, eating disorders, compulsive exercise, and recovery.

Rachael shares her personal experience as a competitive runner, including how disciplined training and a desire to improve gradually became entangled with food restriction, calorie counting, body image concerns, binge eating, and secrecy. Together, she and Carolyn discuss why eating disorders can be especially difficult to recognize in athletes, particularly when harmful behaviors are...

In this episode of Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul, Carolyn Costin sits down with recovered coach, educator, and advocate Giva Wilkerson to discuss the often-overlooked experience of eating disorders among Black women.

Giva shares her personal journey through grief, perfectionism, restriction, bingeing, and the realization that her struggles with food and body image were serious and deserving of support. Together, she and Carolyn explore how harmful stereotypes about what someone with an eating disorder “looks like” can prevent people—especially Black women and those in larger bodies—from being recognized, diagnosed, and treated.

They also discuss...

In this episode of Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul, Carolyn Costin reconnects with her former client, Jenny Mullaney, who is now a CCI Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach and co-author of My Child Has an Eating Disorder.

Jenny shares her 15-year journey from disordered to recovered , including the practical and deeply personal steps that helped her move from fear and control toward joy, connection, and self-acceptance. She and Carolyn explore the “eating disorder self” versus the “healthy self,” the importance of self-compassion, and Jenny’s soulful approach to healing.

Jenny also offers an honest look at what it...

In this episode, Carolyn Costin sits down with Dr. Jen Gaudiani, author of Sick Enough, for a thoughtful conversation about eating disorder recovery and what compassionate care can really look like through a medical lens. 

Together they talk about why so many people struggle with feeling “not sick enough,” how physical and emotional health are deeply connected, and why recovery often takes a more individual, collaborative approach than standard medical systems allow.

Dr. Gaudiani shares insights from her work in eating disorder medicine, including the importance of looking beyond weight and lab results to understand the f...

In this episode, host Carolyn Costin outlines the first seven keys, drawn from her world-renowned book, 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder. She shares a compassionate, practical framework for understanding healing as more than just food—it's also about motivation, patience, self-integration, emotional awareness, reaching out to others and strengthening one’s healthy self. Carolyn explains how recovery can unfold over time, even when motivation fluctuates, and why long-term healing often depends on small, consistent behavior changes and individualized care. . Carolyn briefly describes her philosophy of Conscious Eating, explained in Key 5, which includes, knowledge, awareness and intuition, helping clie...

In this powerful episode of Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul, Carolyn Costin is joined by spiritual teacher, energy intuitive, author, and channeler Lee Harris for a deeply honest conversation about eating disorder recovery, soul-level healing, and what it really means to become whole again.

Together, they explore the connection between emotional healing, self-worth, body image, intuition, and the deeper parts of ourselves that often get pushed aside in the pursuit of thinness, control, or comfort. Lee and Carolyn reflect on how so many people living with eating disorders are not just struggling with food, but with disconnection...

Most people don’t realize how being trapped in an eating disorder is like being trapped in a cult.  

— both offer a sense of control, belonging, and identity at a dangerous cost. In this eye-opening episode, Carolyn Costin welcomes Megan Elizabeth, a survivor who has escaped both worlds and studied their surprising similarities. 

Meagan is co host of "Trust Me", a podcast all about cults and has a lot to share about the mindset involved  revealing how the obsession with thinness and perfection mirrors cult-like control, and how shame, rituals, and identity shape both struggles. You'll...

In the premiere episode of Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul, Carolyn Costin shares the personal recovery story that shaped her career as one of the most influential voices in the eating disorder field.

Throughout her career Carolyn has championed the concept that people can be fully recovered from an eating disorder. Due to her own experience and consequently helping thousands of others, Carolyn continues to challenge the widely held idea that, even when people get better, they are “in recovery” or “recovering” forever with this illness.  

Carolyn continues to say, “If I did it, so can you”, a...

In this candid and moving conversation, Yellowstone and Grey's Anatomy actress Jen Landon opens up about the hidden complexity of eating disorders, childhood trauma, recovery, and the surprising ways identity, perfectionism, and performance can intertwine. Host and previous therapist to Jen, Carolyn Costin, brings her expertise as an eating disorder therapist to a raw and compassionate discussion about what it really takes to heal — not just physically, but emotionally and relationally. 

Jen shares how her relationship with food became a coping mechanism for overwhelming feelings, a sense of responsibility she carried from childhood, and the pressure of bei...

Most people with an eating disorder see recovery as a distant, even impossible goal, especially after trying many times. But Rivka Levin's story proves otherwise: after over a decade of relapses, treatment, and despair, she fully recovered- and shares how she did it. Rivka's journey from near-death moments to a thriving, soulful life is an inspiring testament to hope, resilience, and the transformative power of inner work.

In this deeply personal episode, Rivka joins her former therapist Carolyn Costin to explore the real dynamics behind full recovery and lasting healing. They break down how understanding the split...

Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul is a new podcast launching in June 2026 hosted by world-renowned eating disorder expert Carolyn Costin M.A, M.ED, MFT FAED CEDS. This deeply insightful show explores what it truly means and how people accomplish  moving beyond survival mode or symptom control  into becoming fully recovered: body, mind, and soul.

Designed for individuals navigating eating disorder recovery as well as the loved ones, clinicians, and professionals who support them—this podcast brings together real stories, expert perspectives, and transformative conversations. Carolyn Costin, clinician and founder of the Carolyn Costin Institute and author of s...