Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul is an new podcast launching in June 2026, hosted by world-renowned eating disorder expert Carolyn Costin M.A, M.ED, MFT. This deeply insightful show explores what it truly means to move beyond survival mode and into full, lasting recovery—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 seven influential books on recovery including The 8 Keys to Recovery from and Eating Disorder, draws from decades of experience helping thousands heal their relationship with food, their bodies, and themselves.
Each episode features candid interviews with individuals who have fully recovered from eating disorders, alongside leading experts in the field. Featured guests include Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, world-renowned medical expert, author and founder of the Gaudiani Clinic; Jen Landon, acclaimed actress from Yellowstone and Lee Harris, a globally recognized energy intuitive. Carolyn will also be sharing her own wisdom and expertise through solo shows.
Whether you’re at the beginning of your journey or seeking deeper healing, Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul offers a compassionate, empowering space to remind you that full recovery is possible. Please take a moment to subscribe to this new podcast and tune in each week so that you never miss an episode!
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For more information about Carolyn Costin and her work, go to: https://www.carolyn-costin.com/
From Illness to Impact: How Traits Once Used to Fuel an Eating Disorder Become Useful Assets
In this important conversation, I talk with Kristina Saffran, a young woman who took the passion she used in her own recovery and turned it into helping others, when she founded and became CEO of Project HEAL. Kristina left Project HEAL and is now co-founder and CEO of Equip, a virtual eating disorder treatment company, bringing specialized eating disorder treatment into the home. We discuss her own recovery journey and how the traits that once fueled her eating disorder; determination,...
30 Sept 2026
From Binge Eating to Freedom: Recovery, Hope & Helping Others Heal
Binge Eating Disorder BED is the most common eating disorder, affecting approximately 3.1 million adults in the US in a given year...and it is substantially under-diagnosed. Our guest this week struggled with binge eating disorder and not only recovered but went on to help others do the same. In this inspiring conversation CCI coach, Connie Bowers, talks honestly about her own journey, from the struggles and patterns that kept her stuck to the experiences and insights that helped her break fr...
23 Sept 2026
3 Australian Coaches: Moving Beyond Managing an Eating Disorder to Becoming Recovered | Part 2
We are back this week sharing part 2 of a special conversation with 3 Australian eating disorder recovery coaches who are inspiring examples that becoming fully recovered is possible and sometimes hearing from someone who has been there can help you believe it. In this episode we dive deeper into the mindset shifts, strategies and everyday actions that can help someone move forward when their eating disorder self is keeping them stuck. We talk about ways to challenge old patterns, and h...
16 Sept 2026
3 Australian Coaches: Moving Beyond Managing an Eating Disorder to Becoming Recovered | Part 1
People with eating disorders consistently report that working with others who have recovered was one of the most significant factors in helping them get well. In this special two-part conversation, I sit down with 3 Australian eating disorder coaches who have walked their own difficult road from illness to recovery, and now dedicate their lives to helping others become recovered. Here, in part one, Olivia Soha, Mia Findlay and Millie Thomas share pieces of their personal journey, including be...
10 Sept 2026
Becoming Recovered: Body & Soul | Our Season 1 Highlights
From the very beginning of Becoming Recovered: Body & Soul to the end of Season 1, we’ve had the privilege of sharing so many honest, powerful, and deeply personal conversations. We’ve heard from actors, former cult members, athletes, clinicians, and several of our incredible CCI coaches, with each guest bringing a different perspective on what recovery can look like and what it means to truly reconnect with yourself. The response to this season has meant so much to us, and we’re incred...
2 Sept 2026
Healing the Soul, Not just the Symptoms: Carolyn Discusses the 8th Key
This episode draws from Key 8 of Carolyn Costin’s book, 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder, and explores one of the most foundational ideas in her approach to healing: care of the soul. Recovery is about more than changing eating disorder behaviors. In this episode, Carolyn explores what it means to care for the soul and why lasting healing requires more than meal plans, symptom management, or body image work alone. Carolyn describes the soul as the deepest essence of who we are—the p...
26 Aug 2026
Battle Scars and Body Wars, a Former Senior Navy Chief Discusses Eating Disorders and the Military
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 s...
19 Aug 2026
Fit or Fanatic? An Elite Runner Discusses When Determination, Perseverance, and Willpower Go Wrong
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,...
12 Aug 2026
Black Women are Under Diagnosed and Under Treated, a Coach who is Making a Difference
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 e...
5 Aug 2026
From Client to Coach: Jenny, a Dancer, Coach and Author Shares her Story of Turning her Recovery into Helping Others
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 “hea...
29 Jul 2026
"Sick Enough" Author Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani on Personalizing Eating Disorder Medical Care
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 ...
22 Jul 2026
Your Recovery is Possible. What are the Keys to Eating Disorder Recovery?
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 oft...
15 Jul 2026
Energy Intuitive Lee Harris Opens Up about his Recovery from Bulimia and Soul-Level Healing
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 ...
8 Jul 2026
A Former Cult Member Discusses How Recovering From an Eating Disorder is like Escaping a Religious Cult
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 thinnes...
1 Jul 2026
Yellowstone Actress Jen Landon, Reunites with Her Former Therapist to Discuss her Eating Disorder Recovery
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. ...
1 Jul 2026
It's Never Too Late to Recover from Anorexia: From Near Death to a Full Life
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 Caro...
1 Jul 2026
Full Recovery from an Eating Disorder is Possible: Carolyn Costin's Journey From Patient to Professional
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 recov...
15 Apr 2026
Welcome to Becoming Recovered: Body and Soul
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...
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