Clarissa Kennedy
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Welcome to the "Food Junkies" podcast! Here we aim to provide you with the experience, strength and hope of professionals actively working on the front lines in the field of Food Addiciton. The purpose of our show is to educate YOU the listener and increase overall awareness about Food Addiction as a recognized disorder. Here we discuss all things recovery, exploring the many pathways people take towards abstinence in order to achieve a health forward lifestyle. Most importantly how to THRIVE rather than just survive. So stay positive, make a change for yourself, tell others about your change, and hopefully...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Careful expert interviews connect food-addiction research with the practical and emotional realities of recovery.
Food Junkies Podcast takes food addiction as its organizing question, then tests that frame through conversations with clinicians and researchers. Dr.
A PET scan gets cross-examined when you want the food addiction debate to show its work.
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A calm map of how trauma, shame, and recovery look from the body up.
Jan Winhall treats trauma, shame, and food addiction as a body level conversation, not a moral failing. Clarissa keeps the focus on the FeltSense Polyvagal Model, which brings polyvagal theory together with FeltSense focusing and puts embodied safety, interoception, and…
A focused take on industrial seed oils and recovery-minded nutrition.
Dr. Vera Tarman and Dr. Kate Shannon make a clear case against industrial seed oils, linking dark calories, vegetable oils, and food addiction to the longer recovery conversation.
A steady body-repair conversation that centers curiosity and a practical first step.
Food Junkies keeps this conversation centered on repairing the relationship with the body instead of treating it like an enemy. Anne Safi Biasetti comes across as a licensed professional counselor, certified eating disorder specialist, and educator whose work stays grounded and…
A practical, recovery-minded look at why a food can feel safe until it no longer does.
Dr. Adrienne Sprouse and Vera Tarman frame cyclic food allergy as a recovery issue as much as a physical one, with the discussion staying close to frequency, amount, and the way symptoms can surface only after a pattern changes.
A grounded recovery story about quieting processed-food obsession and reclaiming daily life.
Christy McCammond's recovery story reads as a calm, hopeful account of what can change when food addiction begins to loosen its hold. The focus stays on processed food, craving, sugar obsession, and the relief of not waking up food obsessed anymore.
A grounded look at making plant-based eating sugar-free and satisfying.
Adina Mullen gives a practical answer to a question that can feel closed off: whether plant-based eating can stay low-carb, sugar-free, and still feel satisfying.
A dental-focused recovery conversation that ties sugar, oral health, and healing together.
The episode presents Dr. Paul O'Malley as a holistic, biomimetic dentist with more than 30 years of clinical experience, and it connects sugar, bacteria, habits, and oral health to a recovery-minded conversation.
A grounded look at hormonal, thyroid, and digestive roots beneath emotional eating.
Amber Romaniuk and the hosts connect emotional eating to hormones, thyroid health, digestion, and the case for more thorough testing. The discussion stays practical, and it leaves space for compassion and lived experience.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Clinical psychologist Ellen Hendriksen discusses her book 'How to Be Enough' on the Food Junkies podcast, exploring how perfectionism drives self-criticism, disordered eating, and the binge-restrict cycle.
Amber Romaniuk joins Food Junkies to talk about emotional eating through a digestive-health and hormone-aware lens.
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Food Junkies Podcast’s "Clinician's Corner - Understanding the Fawn Response" centers on how fawning shows up as "are you mad at me?" thinking, especially in texts, calls, and family relationships.
Ashley Elizabeth says she started dieting at age 7 or 8, reached 338 pounds at 5 foot 6, and eventually found Food Addicts Anonymous after hearing the term “food addict” in 2010.
Food Junkies Podcast Episode 258, “Clinician's Corner – Holidays Edition: Boundaries, Nervous Systems & the Hella-Days,” opens with Molly and the host naming the season as “the 12 days of dysregulation,” “jingle bell burnout,” and “triggermas.” They connect holiday stress to lost routine, massive exposure to people and foods, and the nervous system load of Canadian Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Boxing Day, and Christmas.
Food Junkies Podcast Episode 253, "Clinician's Corner - From Rules to Guardrails: Rewriting the Manual for Recovery," focuses on how food, family, society, and treatment create hidden rules that shape recovery.
Kat describes a lifetime of morbid obesity, starting with a childhood fear that there would not be enough food and an 11-year-old diet clinic that turned into three or four days without eating or drinking.
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Christy McCammond sits down for a recovery story that starts with life before recovery and the changes that followed.
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Food Junkies welcomes back Dr.
Clarissa talks with Jan Winhall about trauma, food addiction, and the FeltSense Polyvagal Model.
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Clarissa sits down with Ellen Bennett.
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Food Junkies Podcast episode 265 features host Dr.
Food Junkies Podcast episode 267, “Clinician's Corner - Can Handle a Crisis, Can't Sit Still,” frames the fixed response as a nervous-system survival strategy rather than a personality defect or a codependency issue.
Food Junkies Podcast Episode 262 centers on Clarissa and Molly asking whether “volume addiction” is sometimes binge eating disorder after ultra-processed foods are removed.
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An interview with a guest sharing her personal journey of recovery from food addiction, focusing on hope and practical solutions.
This episode introduces Clinician's Corner, a segment providing evidence-based insights and practical tools for addressing ultra-processed food addiction, targeting both individuals in recovery and professionals.
This episode discusses strategies for managing ultra-processed food addiction during the holiday season, blending clinical expertise with personal experience.
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This episode introduces Clinician's Corner, a segment providing evidence-based insights and practical tools for treating ultra-processed food addiction, targeting both individuals in recovery and clinicians.
A podcast sharing personal recovery stories and professional insights on overcoming food addiction.