Vanessa Kredler on Food Junkies Podcast: Recovery, Trauma, and Internal Family Systems

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Listen to Vanessa Kredler’s interview on the Food Junkies podcast, where she shares her food addiction recovery story, insights on trauma...

I’d like to invite you to listen to my recent interview with Dr Vera Tarman and Clarissa Kennedy in the Food Junkies podcast. In our conversation, I shared my personal recovery story and some of my biggest AHA moments in recovery, and how my recovery influenced my training and work as a therapist.

I’m also sharing about how addiction and trauma are connected, speak about the differences between PTSD and complex trauma, and how the Internal Family Systems approach is a compassionate way of engaging with our addictions.

Internal Family Systems brings a fresh, curious and heart-filled view on addiction and recognises the good intentions of our addictive parts. This is so refreshing from our usual way of thinking about ‘battling’ addiction or eating disorders.

Of course it is true that extreme behaviours around food such as addictive eating and purging or starving are behaviours that we want to ‘get rid of’ in therapy. But before we can consider modifying these behaviours sustainably, there is so much value in getting to know the parts that have us do the behaviours. Because there are many good reasons why we do them. Over time, when we meet those parts of us, we can build trusting relationships with them and help them to relax their roles.

If you are interested in learning more about how to work with your own addictive system of parts, be sure to check the Courses page for more information on courses, live workshops and groups. 

Categories: : Food Addiction, Internal Family Systems, Speaking, Trauma