On May 29, join Jenni Schaefer for a Facebook Live, “We Can’t Afford to Wait,” as she talks with Jean Collins, Executive Director of the Rio Retreat Center at The Meadows. You can even learn about an upcoming Life Without Ed retreat in July! For details about the Live at 6 pm Central (US time), click here.
A Senior Fellow with The Meadows and an advocate for its specialty eating disorders program, The Meadows Ranch, Jenni Schaefer is the author of Life Without Ed, Almost Anorexic, and Goodbye Ed, Hello Me (now available in audio!). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will release Jenni’s next book, which is about fighting through posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD. For more information: https://jennischaefer.com/
I would not be alive today if I hadn’t found peer support for both my eating disorder as well as PTSD. – Jenni Schaefer Light from a bonfire broke through the dark of night. Thunder loomed in the distance as a young man approached a microphone standing in an open Texas field where hundreds of people..

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The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) Radio 774, in the Conversation Hour on January 13, discussed the effects of food shortages due to the pandemic. I describe the impact on people with eating disorders.
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