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From Eating Disorder to 30 Years in Recovery: Trauma, EMDR & Healing
In this powerful episode, I sit down with Rachel Pappert Docekal, a recovery advocate and executive at the Hanley Center in West Palm Beach. Rachel opens up about her own 30-year recovery journey — starting with an eating disorder in college, the friends who loved her enough to intervene, and the layers of childhood trauma she's worked through over decades of therapy, including EMDR.
We also get into:
Why addiction is a brain disease — and why removing the substance alone isn't enough
How process addictions (gambling, food, phones) hijack the same dopamine system as drugs
The danger of…
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