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Each season, Linda Mazur, Jack Mazur, and Ellen Bennett will discuss a variety of mental health issues, from eating disorders, anxiety, suicide, and everything in between. They will interview experts and authors, as well as individuals with lived experience. They will share some of their personal experiences around anorexia, grief, advocacy, and the importance of finding a village of support. They believe we must do better as a community, and that we are stronger because of our connections. ...
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Brooke is a Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor, who has grown up and lived in the Finger Lakes region her whole life. She has recently delved into neurodiversity after finding out her own neurodivergence in the fall of 2022. As she was navigating what it meant for her, she expanded her practice to specialize in neurodivergent couples and trauma…
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Robyn Shumer: Communication Aficionado, Storyteller, Advocate—Leading Us to Action Robyn Shumer is a dynamic force in the world of change management and communication. She brings a unique blend of expertise to her endeavors, finds the bright spots amidst disorder and can make an audience laugh and cry but most importantly, lead them to action. A ce…
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Laura (she/her) is the founder of MindfulMatters585, LLC, offering mindful education, counseling and coaching for anyone looking to find balance, focus and peace in their lives. Working as an educator for many years, Laura became interested in how life can inherently create stress and anxiety, leading to burnout and chronic health challenges. She h…
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Barbara has lived all her life in the Rochester area and has a lakehouse on Keuka Lake. She raised 3 daughters, one who was diagnosed with anorexia at age 11 in 1969. At age 88 Barbara has experienced the impact of alcoholism, mental health issues and anorexia/bulimia, starting when her youngest daughter was 5 years old, all during a time when NO O…
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Shannon Calvert is a Lived Experience Educator and Advisor from Australia after experiencing more than three decades with a severe and enduring eating disorder as well as complex physical and mental health challenges. Her expertise has been working with government and non-government organizations in an advisory capacity, as a peer-work coordinator …
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Kaitlyn Vittozzi of Rochester, NY is a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist who specializes in chronic pain relief, stress-reduction, and perinatal struggles. A SUNY Albany School of Business graduate, she is no stranger to corporate stress and the physical ache that working and striving for the next big thing all the time can leave on a body. Kaitlyn began teach…
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Barb Klein is the author of 111 Invitations: Step into the Full Richness of Life, and the founder of Inspired Possibility.  Barb is a certified recovery coach, life coach, Invitation to Change group facilitator, meditation instructor, retreat leader, and writer. Barb is also mom to two young men, one of whom struggled with substance use disorder, e…
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Sue is the current president of Lilac City Rochester Writers LCRWriters.org, a group that focuses on the craft of writing and publishing for fiction writers. She has a short story published in their No Page Left Unturned anthology. Both books are available on Amazon. Sue Spitulnik was Air Force wife, living in four states and England from 1972 to 1…
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Shari Botwin, LCSW has been counseling survivors of eating disorders, trauma and abuse in her South Jersey private practice for over 27 years. Her second book, Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing was released in an updated paperback in October 2021. Botwin is working on her third book, Stolen Childhoods, which focuses on reclaiming…
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MATT VENUTI is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist composer/performer and music video artist who is known for introducing rare and expressive acoustic and electronic instruments to the world through his concerts and videos. Matt has been the featured performer at multiple TED and TEDx Conferences. Two of Matt’s albums charted in the top 10 of th…
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Brooke Huminski, MSW, LICSW, is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Providence, RI. She specializes in treating individuals with eating disorders, perfectionism, ADHD, and school-related stressors. Brooke has her own eating disorder recovery and is passionate about reducing stigma in the field, especially among professionals. Related to th…
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Scott has been working in media production for over 30 years. In 2017 the planets aligned and he was able to form ROC Vox Recording & Production - the first podcast studio in Western New York and only the second one in the state. He co-wrote and produced a feature film in 2020 titled Bottom Feeders which can be seen on Amazon Prime Video. He's the …
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Jason was born in South Korea in 1970, only 18 years after the end of the Korean War. When Jason was 5 years old, his parents moved their family to the United States. Starting a new life with Jason and his two younger sisters in a foreign country and culture was a struggle for their whole family and Jason’s father developed alcoholism. Throughout J…
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As a lived-experience professional, Kym is passionate to provide siblings who have a brother or sister with an eating disorder the acknowledgment, connection, and resources they have never been afforded. To highlight this need, she has collaborated alongside clinicians, researchers, and organizations for over a decade. In 2018 she co-created a sibl…
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Betsy Brenner is an author, recovery speaker and peer support mentor. In her 2021 memoir, “The Longest Match: Rallying to Defeat an Eating Disorder in Midlife”, Betsy details her life, one filled with blessings and privilege, but also with emotional trauma, profound grief, anxiety, depression and ultimately a diagnosis of anorexia in midlife. Her e…
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Jillian Rigert, DMD, MD has formal training in dentistry, medicine, and oral medicine. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Radiation Oncology at a cancer institution as well as being a life and leadership coach with primary focus on life and career transitions. Jillian is a quality of life, mental health, and eating disorder awarenes…
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Tamie is a marriage and family therapist and marketing professional with a specialty in the treatment of eating disorders, addiction and trauma. Tamie is an advocate with the Eating Disorders Coalition, President of Southwest Philly IAEDP (International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals) and is on the board of SOSORT (International Soci…
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Jackie Patmore's involvement in the eating disorders field spans multiple roles of researcher, educator, clinician and patient advocate. Before occupying these roles, however, it was her personal experience of developing anorexia as an elite volleyball player when she was 14 years old that ignited her desire to enter the field in the first place. A…
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When a trusted physician tells Renée Schuls-Jacobson that he has the solution for her chronic insomnia -- a "tried & true medication without any side effects," she believes him. For seven years, she takes clonazepam exactly as prescribed until, one day, she learns that her doctor is wrong: long-term prescription benzodiazepine use causes all kinds …
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Episode #113 Things I’ve Seen People Do With and Without Food Debra Spector M.S, R.D.N, C.D.N Debra Spector M.S, R.D.N, C.D.N is a Registered and Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist who has upheld a private practice since 1990 on Long Island, New York (Nassau and Suffolk Counties) as a nutritional therapist, mentor, educator, entrepreneur, and consult…
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112 Robyn began her career at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles as the in-patient dietitian in the Department of Cardiology. Over the last twenty-five years she has developed her own private practice in Los Angeles, CA, where she specializes in medical conditions, disordered eating, eating disorders, Health at Every Size, pre-pregnancy nut…
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Dr. Beharry is board certified in both Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. She was born in the Caribbean, grew up in the suburbs of New York City, and attended the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education which was a seven-year pre-med/medical school program and is now CUNY Medical School. Dr. Beharry completed medical school in 2001 at SUNY Dow…
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110 - Jane was born and raised in London, in what can only be described as a very ‘normal’ household, with four siblings, and a mum and dad, who quite simply, adored each other, and still do! There was always a pet of some kind in their household. Nothing remarkable happened, certainly no great traumas, yet, at the age of 11, Jane developed a serio…
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109 - Resilient and determined are two very apt words to describe Tamara MacDuff. After the heartbreak of losing her daughter, Emily, to Fentanyl poisoning in 2018, she founded YOU MATTER: The Be, Do, and Have Path Forward to help people in recovery from addiction, as well as funeral directors and business owners. Her Emily’s Blend coffee, created …
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108 - Clinical psychologist Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., FAED is the Founding Director of the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is also Profe…
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107 - Dr. Janet Schebendach is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. She received a master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition from New York University and a PhD with Distinction in Behavioral Nutrition from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Schebendach has over 40 years of experience in the field of eating disorders. From 197…
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106 - Listen to our enlightening conversation with Jennifer Haefele, In our conversation with Jen, we discussed the benefits of having a dietitian’s guidance and support as individuals heal their relationship with food and discover new ways to stay on their healing path, despite the pervasive, toxic diet culture that surrounds us. Jennifer Haefele …
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105 - In this episode, we interview Dr. Seema Khaneja. Listen to our conversation about her journey as a pediatrician, and as an integrative, holistic practitioner—melding science, compassionate care, and spirituality. She shares heartfelt stories regarding the impact of compassionate care with her patients and their families and what led her to wr…
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104 - In this Episode Linda Mazur, Jack Mazur, and Ellen Bennett will interview Missy Stolfi. Missy is the Area Director for the Western and Greater Central New York Chapters of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She joined the Foundation in 2017 from the American Cancer Society, and prior to that served in the field of college student…
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103 - In this episode, our guest will be psychotherapist Vickijo Campanaro. Vicki will answer our questions about anxiety, how our culture contributes to anxiety, the prevalence of anxiety within mental illness, and the benefits of a spiritual practice. Vickijo Campanaro is a New York Licensed and national certified psychotherapist with graduate de…
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102 - In this episode Linda Mazur, Jack Mazur, and Ellen Bennett discuss the insidious ways an eating disorder can begin and how complex they can become. Awareness and early intervention are critical. Everyone knows someone with an eating disorder. Eating disorder do not discriminate, they affect individuals of every age, gender, sexual orientation…
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101 - In this episode you will learn more about our hosts, Linda Mazur, Jack Mazur and Ellen Bennett, as they share their lived experience with you. They fought for their daughter’s lives when they became sick with anorexia nervosa, the deadliest psychiatric illness outside of opioid addiction. They are fierce advocates; two moms and a dad who are …
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