Latest / The Trauma Therapist / Episode 754: Disembodied Eating with Michelle Cleary
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- 0:10Or welcome back to the Trauma Therapist Podcast. My name is Gaming Person.
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- 0:37the Trauma Therapist Project dot com. Let's get started. So five or three,
- 0:45two and one, right, folks, welcome back to the podcast.
- 0:48Very excited to have us. My guest today Michelle Cleary. Michelle welcome,
- 0:52Hi, How are you all right? So? Michelle Cleary is a licensed
- 0:56psychotherapist who has trained in MDR, holds a certificate get in Somatic Experiencing or
- 1:02se asia SE training throughout the year as a former adjunct professor for Sunny Stoneybrook
- 1:07School of Social Welfare, and maintains full time practice that focuses on treating trauma
- 1:12and eating disorders. Why someone's learning and work, you might ask, well,
- 1:18because after decades of her own life saving nurturing therapy, she still struggled
- 1:23with strong eating disorder behaviors, regular bouts of depression, mood shifts, anxiety,
- 1:27and overwhelm. Challenging experiences were interspersed during a time she was also succeeding
- 1:34building healthy relationships, learning and creating. She was happier and healthier than ever,
- 1:38but was still living with a lot of challenging experiences. She's now dedicated
- 1:44to discovering, understanding and teaching others the way our nervous system and brain body
- 1:49development contributes to our moods, behaviors, relationships, mental health, and productivity.
- 1:56A lot there, but really well said. Welcome to the podcast,
- 2:00Thank you, thank you, glad to be here. So before we get
- 2:04going here, Michelle share with the listeners where you're from originally and where you
- 2:07are currently, both Brooklyn originally and currently. Nice you been out, yeah,
- 2:17to get out. Yeah, there was a time I went to school
- 2:23in Ireland for a little bit. I lived in the city briefly Manhattan.
- 2:30I grew up in Staten Island, So born in Brooklyn, raised in Staten
- 2:32Island, back to Brooklyn, back to stet Island, back to Brooklyn between.
- 2:38All right, so your your by was very interesting because I feel it
- 2:46was very honest about the way things happen and how we experienced things. How
- 2:52did this all start for you? And by this, how the heck did
- 2:54you get into this field? The field MHM. Super long story short is
- 3:07had a very strong, powerful tendency to focus on caring for others to a
- 3:17detriment, really a result of a lot of childhood development stuff, hyper focused
- 3:24on the external, being the caregiver, and also have a very natural tendency
- 3:32towards empathy and being sensitive and compassion. And then through a very twisty long
- 3:38road, ended up going to school and getting my MSW and started out teaching
- 3:46autistic children and loved it, and then switched over to clinical work because I
- 3:55loved it in the beginning, and then it's a tough profession working that in
- 4:00that world. I knew that my body was finishing up with it and it
- 4:05wasn't the best place for me anymore. And at the time I had overlapped
- 4:09and started doing clinical work and started learning how to be a therapist, and
- 4:15then that took me in my first journey chapter of my journey, and then
- 4:21the second half of that was moving into trauma work. So the first half
- 4:28was for traditional talk therapy. You know, I was a young therapist and
- 4:34also still very much in that needing to fix and needing to help, and
- 4:41you know, all of that, and then the transformation over to my own
- 4:48trauma healing, which happened simultaneously throughout my career over the last twenty years or
- 4:56really always, I guess, but and and two thousand and fifteen I started
- 5:04my EMDR training, which led me to my somatic experiencing training, which changed
- 5:14everything, everything inside of me and deeply transformed my practice. You mentioned early
- 5:26on that you had proclivity for kind of empathy and where did that come from.
- 5:33I think there's a genetic component to people who are sensitive. I think
- 5:40that's naturally who I am, and defense mechanisms and personality development are built with
- 5:53the pre existing temperament and genetics we have, so it becomes a very personalized
- 5:58little stew and you know, mixed with who I am naturally, and then
- 6:03mixed with childhood experiences and circumstances, that natural part of me to be really
- 6:13hyper, to be really sensitive and compassionate became a way of sensing myself was
- 6:19through other people, and which wasn't the healthiest. Well, let me rephrase
- 6:29that it was a wonderfully life saving set of defense mechanisms. So the work
- 6:36was over time parsing out that which was organically naturally me and my talent versus
- 6:46what was the defense mechanisms. You mentioned that throughout your learning experience, throughout
- 6:56your career learning, there were some struggles going on, and similarly, your
- 7:01healing was going on. Talk to us about that, how what was what
- 7:05was going on? Yeah, learning is not a healing is not linear,
- 7:11as we know. And I would say that my relationship, just to speak
- 7:16specifically of one struggle with eating and my relationship to food was just a really
- 7:25powerful experience throughout my childhood and throughout my various levels of healing and so very
- 7:34again, long story short is my relationship with my binge eating disorder and my
- 7:42bingeing behaviors was really pretty powerful throughout various stages of my life and during my
- 7:49career. And what happened was while I was working with my clients earlier on
- 7:55and I had been in therapy since I started therapy when I was thirteen,
- 7:59Thank goodness, because it pressed that so much, not so much for for
- 8:05ed stuff, but more for just family stuff that was going on in relational
- 8:11things that were happening, which was again just a bub blessing, and I
- 8:16thankfully continued finding therapists throughout the course of my life that were, you know,
- 8:22life saving. And that's why when I wrote that bio it was a
- 8:24little bit hard, because I don't want to discount the work that I did,
- 8:26because it was life saving, literally, and the therapists that I've worked
- 8:31with over the course of my years have been just such powerful lighthouses and so
- 8:41but when I was doing my own work as a therapist, I kept hitting
- 8:46all these walls with my clients and in my own work. So there was
- 8:48all this movement and growth and awareness happening, but there were these really persistent
- 9:00behaviors that kept happening. And not until I moved into the world of trauma
- 9:07renegotiation and trauma work through somatic experiencing did things start to really change. And
- 9:15that was, like I said, it started in twenty fifteen, twenty and
- 9:18sixteen, and then it's you know, all I do now, not all
- 9:24I do. I do a lot of other things. But so talk to
- 9:28us about what changed for you when you were introduced to see how did it
- 9:33change, What was it about SA that facility. Did that change for you?
- 9:46It's such there's it's such a rich experiential answer that it's so hard to
- 9:52give it a cognitive narrative. But the best answer I could give is that,
- 10:01well, the question you us was what changed and what changed for me?
- 10:05I think I got that right. Was it was a non verbal experience
- 10:15when I first received when I first experienced se as A as A as a
- 10:22client. Really it's like a long story, but my consultant was an S
- 10:28person. My EMDR consultant wasn't se person, and he I was having a
- 10:33lot. I was very disregulated and having a really hard time doing EMDR because
- 10:41MDR has a protocol to it and there's a's to and it's it's really about
- 10:45sitting back in your chair and letting the body do the work, which was
- 10:48so foreign for me. And I knew I needed more than the skills I
- 10:52had. I knew I needed, I knew I needed more. My clients
- 10:56needed me to need more. My clients needed me to have more, and
- 11:00I needed me to have more. So when I did my EMDR training,
- 11:05I was moved and loved it, but I couldn't do it because my nervous
- 11:09system was still too disregulated to sit back. I was still trying to save
- 11:18and when I was doing my work, trying to do it, my mentor
- 11:26said, you're not ready, not directly like that, but you need se
- 11:33is what the words actually were? You need s? And I'm like,
- 11:37oh my god, what is this? La la la? And I okay,
- 11:43okay, sure I'll take that train. Yeah, okay, sure,
- 11:46okay and everything. And every week I would go in with him and I
- 11:50would and he would just sit quietly, and I would be like, what
- 11:58is this? What is this magic? And I would start to talk and
- 12:01talk and he just wouldn't let me talk. He wouldn't let me talk,
- 12:07and I was like, and what was he doing? He was directing me?
- 12:15Was this your therapist? It's he was my consultant, but while I
- 12:18was trying to be he was consulting me on MDR. But because I couldn't
- 12:24do the MDR because my body was so just regulated, he would pop into
- 12:28these moments of what's happening, Notice what's happening in your body? And so
- 12:33like like Abby talked about in your previous episode, he was teaching me to
- 12:39track my own body. He was bringing me into awareness of my own and
- 12:43he was trying to he was supporting me. And again, trying and doing
- 12:50are very interesting words when we talk about somatic experiencing. So it wasn't that
- 12:52he was doing or trying anything. He was being and inviting me to be
- 12:58with me. And so there's a way that's done in trauma renegotiation or in
- 13:03sematic experiencing, where you're inviting your client's body into its own awareness, and
- 13:13that's what was happening. But it was so different than anything I had ever
- 13:18done before, experienced before, and it was a very strange at the time,
- 13:30but powerful and impactful and positive experience that I just finally it hit me,
- 13:37and I signed up for the training and in the training, you know,
- 13:43it's a three year of training and you have to do your own say
- 13:45in the middle of that. So then I found a separate sematic experiencing therapist
- 13:48and continue with him as my mentor. And I was just having all of
- 13:52this like really rich therapy that was based not in talking, not in narrative,
- 13:58not in store. Hang on here because I want to I want to
- 14:05really highlight this. So you said this was such a unique, profound That's
- 14:11what I'm hearing experience for you different than anything you had experienced previously. Talk
- 14:18more about that and how it hit you, the differences, or yeah,
- 14:24well while this will this consultant was, you know, inviting you to experience
- 14:31your body in a way that you had never done before. You said,
- 14:35it was very different for you. Talk more about that. What were you
- 14:37feeling or experiencing or sensing? And yeah, it glitchy, It was glitchy.
- 14:46So my way was to always talk in a disregulated, disembodied way,
- 14:56and the talking was taking me away from what was happening in my body,
- 15:07you know, and again unconsciously, non consciously, subcortically. But when I
- 15:11was directed to slow down, you become all of a sudden, you become
- 15:22aware of a level of activation that you didn't ever know was there because you
- 15:28didn't know to stop and look for it. Because the world doesn't function that
- 15:33way. We function in words and cognitions and symbols and all that. We
- 15:39don't you know, we don't privilege the body at this point in society.
- 15:41I mean, we're moving more towards it, but it's just still new.
- 15:46And so when I was being directed and supported supported, I was being supported
- 15:52and slowing down. I became so aware of the draw in me to just
- 16:03keep reaching out and reaching out and extent and being like just moving forward.
- 16:11And this was this very real, like gentle but noticeable, energetic, like
- 16:19no sit back like and then become aware and I was like what is and
- 16:30it was me? Wow, it was me? And I was like what
- 16:40who was like what's going on? And there was no language for it for
- 16:42so long and it took five years of that, like that was the beginning
- 16:48and then I, you know, the training, but so that was the
- 16:51experience, Like those were the actual moments. I remember one time I walked
- 16:59into his office. Had been late, the train was late, and I
- 17:03was anxious and I was all over that. I was so anxious and I
- 17:07walked in and I just wanted to just explain it and talk about it and
- 17:10explain it and happened and make sure he knew that I wasn't bad. And
- 17:15he was like whoomp, like just like what are you doing? And I
- 17:21was like and it was just such a beautiful experience and it was it was
- 17:26like magic. It felt like magic. And at the end of every forty
- 17:30five minutes, I was like, that's it. He's like, Okay,
- 17:37I guess I gotta go. And then I said, how do I take
- 17:41this with me? How do I take this with me? And he said,
- 17:44just take ten percent, Just take ten percent, if you can take
- 17:48ten percent. And then my other somatic experience and practitioner, same thing,
- 17:53talk talk talk talk talk talk talk, and she was like, WHOA like
- 18:00and just kept bringing me back to my own awareness, kept bringing me back
- 18:04to my own awareness and inviting me to notice, inviting me to notice,
- 18:10And and it was hard because I was attached to the story. I wanted
- 18:18to tell them the stories I wanted them to know, and I had to
- 18:26trust that for both the two people I'm referring to, they already knew.
- 18:37They already knew me, like they knew me in a way that I didn't
- 18:40know myself yet, because they saw me as a human right, they saw
- 18:45me as a person. But before that I had only really recognized myself via
- 18:49how I could influence people, or how I could help them or save them
- 18:53or perform for them or make them like me or value me in some way.
- 18:57And when that shifted very much in this new way of treating which is
- 19:04just very, very different than psychoanalytic or CBT or you know traditional psychodynamic talk
- 19:15therapy that all has value again life saving, but this, ah, it
- 19:27was different. All right, let's just pause here for a second to thank
- 19:32our sponsors. All Right, we are back. You have a wonderful way
- 19:41of describing your own experience with it's in relation to AS and this idea of
- 19:51like feeling needing to tell them the story, get the story out, and
- 19:56then just saying talk about so let's let's jump a little you. Well,
- 20:03you said you then you started studying SE and what was that like for you?
- 20:11Hm, that's such a great question because it's now that I'm an assistant
- 20:18and I support the faculty and teaching other students, other professionals. I see
- 20:25it happened to so many people, that so many students go through this,
- 20:29and I had the same experience. Is that I start. I started,
- 20:33and there it was I like, I'm here, let me get it right.
- 20:41So much I remember my first day and the h the anxiety of of
- 20:51being getting it right, and ah, I don't think I heard thirty percent
- 21:00of what my faculty member said. And in the beginning, like especially in
- 21:06the beginning, and then over the course of the module. So there's other
- 21:10ways see works is that there's three beginner modules, three four day beginner modules,
- 21:15and then three four day intermediate modules and then two six day advanced modules
- 21:19over the course of three years. So I'd say by intermediate one, I
- 21:26started to like I could feel, I could feel the activation coming and then
- 21:34I could start to shift and find the shift. I could start to shift
- 21:41into a more embodied place, deepening my awareness, noticing all the information was
- 21:48starting to kind of I was starting to hear a little bit easier it was,
- 21:56and I was taking an information. My executive functioning was starting to come
- 21:59back was I don't know if it ever was, but it was starting to
- 22:02turn on. The executive functioning with starting to I was like my notes and
- 22:07I at the end of Intermediate three, yet this is what I shared at
- 22:10the end. I showed my notes from Beginner one and my notes from Intermediate
- 22:15three, and my handwriting was different. My taking notes and beginner one was
- 22:22like, I have to get all of it, and I have to know
- 22:23where it is, and I would just write it down and I was so
- 22:26overwhelmed with trying to consume it all, which is a whole thing that could
- 22:33be another whole conversation, but by intermediate three, because my body had started
- 22:41to really settle, I could I could take in information differently, I could
- 22:49sense myself different I could sense myself period where I didn't have that ever ever.
- 22:56And so that was that, That was the experience. And then of
- 23:02course all the usual you know, wanting to get it right, wanting to
- 23:06know what I'm doing, wanting to know it right from the beginning, and
- 23:08then that whole like break, that whole slowing down like oh I don't have
- 23:15to know all of it right away, and learning how to let things unfold
- 23:18and not go get them. It was the biggest, you know, one
- 23:25of the biggest shifts. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that
- 23:27I'm not still a kook, you know, and a little bit of like
- 23:30a yeah, I'm still a very I'm still me, you know, but
- 23:34I just have access. I'll have access to me now. So that first
- 23:42consultant, that initial consultant, that person sounded pret experienced. So yeah,
- 23:52I mean, I think you're really fortunate encountered that person. So this ship
- 24:00that you're so eloquently describing and the way you're like saying, you know,
- 24:07you were like this and needed to tell them the story, but it was
- 24:11just slowing down. Why is that beneficial? How is that beneficial? And
- 24:22how was that beneficial for you? There's so many answers to that, But
- 24:33I mean there's like a spiritual level answer, there's a cognitive answer, there's
- 24:37a you know, social emotional answer. Well, let me let me ask
- 24:45you directly. You are someone who was experiencing. You said, binge eating.
- 24:51How did that help you with that? Yeah? So yeah, big
- 24:56big answer. There is precede somatic experiencing and a lot of the work I
- 25:03was doing with my previous client therapist rather who again incredible, I finally how
- 25:12it helped me. And I've reframed the word binge eating as disembodied eating.
- 25:18So with Find the Shift, which is the community that I launched two months
- 25:22ago, it's designed to support people to break free from disembodied eating. And
- 25:29I reframed it or rebranded it, if you will, in that way to
- 25:33explain that binge isn't a behavior. Binging is a Binging is an experience that
- 25:42happens when you are disembodied, when you are when your nervous system has shifted.
- 25:48Because with all this education and all this work and all this learning preceding
- 25:53that everybody I thought, and many people thought and still think, that binge
- 26:00eating is a behavior that has to be controlled, will powered away, it
- 26:11supplened away. You have to want it, you have to want it,
- 26:17And I can tell you I wanted it, but I couldn't stop doing the
- 26:22behavior. And it wasn't until I started to understand the nervous system and the
- 26:26sub cortical complex mechanisms that mammals have that cause, or at least deeply influenced
- 26:37so many of the explicit behaviors like binge eating. Until that became once I
- 26:49became aware of that, and I finally and I remember the day. I
- 26:52remember the day I got it. I figured it out. It was in
- 26:56the middle of the SC training, the end of the SE training, and
- 27:00I was just understanding. I was learning polyvagel theory and deepening my understanding of
- 27:07dorsal vagel and ventual vagel and sympathetic activation and all the different types of nervous
- 27:11system settings. And it finally dawned on me. I was like, Oh,
- 27:21I'm dissociated. I'm dissociated. Holy I don't know what the cursing rules
- 27:33are here. So Holy moly, I am dissociated. I'm not here.
- 27:40I'm not doing this. There's something that happens. It just happens so frequently
- 27:45and so automatically. It has been happening so long. I didn't know.
- 27:49I thought it was a behavior, and it's not. I mean, it's
- 27:53a behavior, but it's a behavior that's happening as a result on top of
- 28:02a nervous system shift that keeps happening and has been happening since I was two,
- 28:08and so that's and then when I figured that out, it just was
- 28:17like, oh, so over the last three to four years, I've been
- 28:26working towards and learning, you know, with everything that's going on, and
- 28:30it's not simple, and it's it's it's very it's certainly it's complex. But
- 28:36my goal and my hope, my drive for find the shift, more than
- 28:41anything, is I don't want people to live with the shame. I know
- 28:48what that shame feels like. I know what it feels like to wake up
- 28:52the next morning and think a zombie took over and you did these things and
- 28:59you ate this food and and you don't know why it happened, and the
- 29:03shame, And I want people to know that they're not bad. They're not
- 29:11bad, they're not lazy, they're not sabotaging themselves, they're not not wanting
- 29:18it enough. But something's likely. I'm not saying everybody, because humans are
- 29:22complex beings. There's so many factors involved in this, but I want people
- 29:27to know that struggle with this disembodied eating experience and again binge eating, emotional
- 29:32eating, stress eating times when you think that the experience of not being able
- 29:37to stop eating when you wish you could, the experience of not being able
- 29:40to access decision making, the experience of not being able to feel fullness until
- 29:47you can't not feel the fullness, that all those that spectrum of experiences very
- 29:53likely has more to do with nervous system and shifts. And now the nervous
- 30:00system states then the fact that you're lazy, that's not what it is.
- 30:07You're an Let me just remind everyone. I'm speaking with Michelle Cleary. The
- 30:12website is find the Shift dot com. So the disembodied eating has its origins
- 30:22in nervous system just regulation yea which has its origins in trauma. Yes,
- 30:33most of the time, if not all the time. I would say a
- 30:37very large percentage of the time. The key is understanding the definition of trauma,
- 30:45because so many people think trauma is big tea, this thing happened to
- 30:51me. But chronic stress is also traumatizing to the body. So many people
- 31:02lived in chronic stress environments that don't means stress, like oh, and I
- 31:06know this, but oh the lights are going to get shut off, meaning
- 31:08stress if you didn't get enough of the emotional attunement that you needed. So
- 31:17that's so, Yes, the answer to your question is yes, it is
- 31:19my belief and evidence supports that trauma or chronic stress or those situations. Again,
- 31:26you have to you have to broaden your understanding what trauma is is a
- 31:32huge component to the development of disordered eating. Well, so let's talk specifically
- 31:41about who you work with and how you work with these individuals, what kind
- 31:45of programs you offer, etc. Sure, Currently, the current version of
- 31:51Find the Shift is focused primarily for people who struggle with disembodied eating. If
- 31:57you identify as some one who has struggled with that experience where you feel like
- 32:02you've lost control, you don't know why it keeps happening. All the things
- 32:06I said before, Find the Shift is not appropriate for people who need to
- 32:12be inpatient or need to be in residential. You know, it's not comprehensive
- 32:17enough for that, but it is designed for folks who struggle with that and
- 32:22are able to function in their lives and their medical situation is stable. And
- 32:29the way it works is it's a community based program. It's educational based.
- 32:35It's not therapeutic. It's educational and the goal is to there's an eleven step
- 32:40process that I teach people how to increase their introception, how to define what
- 32:49their signal experiences are, help them understand what a disembodied experience feels like for
- 32:53them, tools on how to shift from disembodied to embodied. And I created
- 33:00a nervous system tracking app that helps people to track their nervous system in a
- 33:07very specific way to help them keep to help them do something. It offers
- 33:14them some structure, you know, like, oh, if I joined this
- 33:19gym, I would go to these you know, it gives them something to
- 33:21do, right, It gives them let me rephrase that. That sounds a
- 33:25little bit like it gives them something to do. It gives them a structure
- 33:30to keep checking and I call it the daily return to keep checking into their
- 33:34bodies. So that's the bulk of it. But because this is complex work,
- 33:39there's also supportive experiences that help support this process. As a member of
- 33:45the community, I do something called the Daily Return. Every day at six
- 33:50forty five am, I go live and we do like we practice into reception.
- 33:55We have intentions, setting ceremonies we have every Monday night, we get
- 34:00together as a community and just work on the steps together. So this program
- 34:07is it live as opposed to a Yeah, there's live and on demand.
- 34:14It's a mix of both, so there's on demand components to it. But
- 34:17it's evergreen. It's a membership. It's I might June first, I'm launching
- 34:22a smaller version of it as well, so in the next couple of weeks
- 34:27there's going to be continued changes and evolution. But as it stands right now,
- 34:32it's a membership. That membership gives you access to the Nervous System tracking
- 34:37app. You can't get it on the app store. Cannot get it on
- 34:42the app store. And because there's so much education involved and so much support
- 34:50needed, because it's not as simple as I'm just going to do this thing,
- 34:53you know, So, yeah, what are some of the common misconcern
- 35:00options about disembodied eating, that our culture has that its behavioral, that if
- 35:07they wanted to, they would stop just stop eating. The idea that you
- 35:19can wrangle and tie up a behavior and lock it in the closet for your
- 35:24entire life and think it's not going to come out, because it will.
- 35:30Yeah, the belief that people think folks are lazy. And I'm not even
- 35:43going to finish that. That's a whole other conversation. But I was going
- 35:45to say something else because this is we're talking about disembodied eating, but really
- 35:50we could talk about name it hoarding, like so many behaviors that humans struggle
- 35:57with, substance abuse, addictions to shopping, name it anger issues, Like,
- 36:02there's so many behaviors that we as a species are trying to navigate from
- 36:10this two dimensional behavioral space and they're all lying on top of the nervous system
- 36:19and that's where we have to be focusing. Wow, the program sounds amazing.
- 36:28How can people learn about this? Yeah? Finds the shift dot com
- 36:34uh and it's men women you know working is growing, so just naming.
- 36:45We just launched it March first. It's still small, but the vision is
- 36:50that we're going to have I have it set up, but we don't have
- 36:53that many members yet, so same circles. So folks that have special specif
- 37:00lived experiences, like black, Indigenous and other people of color, there's going
- 37:04to be a same circle for them. Men LGBTQ plus ia people who live
- 37:08alone have specific challenges around disembodied eating. So you know, as we grow
- 37:16and we build, because again we're less than two little over two and a
- 37:22half months in, the goal is for the community to really thrive right right,
- 37:29And you don't have to be an active member of the community because some
- 37:31people are like, I don't need another but to just be in it and
- 37:37to see it and to know and even see the posts and people are talking
- 37:40about their struggles. There's something really powerful about seeing that. When you were
- 37:49going through your own shift with these sc consultants, did you have access to
- 37:55any of this kind of support yourself. No? No, I just I
- 38:04hate to say it that way, because see was the support. Oh and
- 38:07you know what else I really want to mention, which is amazing, is
- 38:09embodied recovery for eating disorders. So it's this wonderful Paula Scatalone and Rachel Lewis
- 38:17Marlowe have created a protocol for eating disorders that is literally based in this and
- 38:24I just started taking their training. Minds blowing like mindlow I've had her on
- 38:31the both of them on the podcast. Really yeah, I'll link up to
- 38:36them. They're awesome, so so good. So I found them recently when
- 38:44I was doing research for Find the Shift. I found the chapter that they
- 38:46wrote in the textbooks Trauma Informed Approaches for Eating Disorders I think is the text.
- 38:52And then when I found them that chapter, I looked up and looked
- 38:54them up and was like, oh, I need that training. So awesome,
- 39:00awesome or Michelle, you are incredible. I really really appreciate sharing your
- 39:09process in your story and your vulnerability. I mean, it's it's really what
- 39:15I want this podcast to be about. And i'd love to have you back.
- 39:20I'm excited. I'm excited about your program. I think it's awesome.
- 39:23Thank you. We're gonna keep going, all right, We'll be in touch.
- 39:29Yes, thank you so much. Guy, You're welcome. Take care. Hi