It’s a Real Recovery first! George gives his first, and maybe last, movie review, as he fills us in on the movie, Son of God.
Bill Arnold and George Fraser cover another recovery step and tie it into this episode’s topic of food addiction and eating disorders.
Dr. Rhona Epstein joins the guys to talk about her book, Food Triggers, and shares her own, personal story of recovery, and she shares how she went from growing up in a traditional Jewish family to becoming a follower of Christ.
Rhona Epstein began her recovery journey at seventeen years old after battling binge eating and bulimia from childhood. Affected so deeply by the recovery process, she determined to devote the rest of her life to helping others out of the same insanity with food abuse and weight obsession.
She completed her master’s in counseling psychology in 1986 from Temple University of Philadelphia, and worked with individuals and families facing drug and alcohol addictions in both inpatient and outpatient treatment centers. Her goal was simple: To learn from chemical dependency treatment practices, and apply those ideas to treating addictive eating issues. To address the underlying emotional and relational aspects of addiction-things such as healing past wounds, learning assertiveness, how to set healthy boundaries, forgive, and communicate in open, healthy, honest ways-she studied and completed a marriage and family therapy training program through the Council for Relationships at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1988.
Since 1994, Rhona provides individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy at Life Counseling Services in Paoli, Pennsylvania. While she’s expanded her practice to reach people with a wide range of issues, she specializes in treating addictions and eating disorders. Depending on the client, Rhona integrates either twelve-step recovery principles or biblically-based spirituality in therapy.
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