Episode 69: Phil Werdell & Mary Foushi
As members of the Food Addiction Institute's International Advisory Board, we are passionate about supporting Food Addiction recovery for everyone, most especially children. The Food Addiction Institute (FAI), founded in 2005, is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to support the healing of all food addicts. To accomplish our mission FAI works towards the following:
Advocating widespread acceptance of food addiction as a disease of substance abuse and the availability of effective, abstinence-based solutions.
Helping to identify and expand knowledge about food addiction.
Providing professional and public education about food addiction as a treatable chemical dependency to physicians, dietitians, therapists, counselors, and allied health professionals, internationally.
Offering information about promising new practices for the treatment of food addiction.
Supplying resources for those who may be food addicted.
Creating a forum for the development and dissemination of innovative and effective public health strategies related to the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of food addiction.
It is out of this passion to help individuals with Food Addiction find recovery that we are asking you to consider donating $100 during the "Giving Challenge," which takes place April 26 - 27, noon to noon ET. During this time, the Food Addiction Institute can TRIPLE donations with the help of both the Community Foundation of Sarasota County (Florida) and the Patterson Foundation. Any money you donate will provide individuals with Food Addiction with information about recovery. This is a chance to help those who need it most.
To be tripled, all donations must go through the Giving Challenge website on April 26-27 12p-12p ET.
Mary Foushi holds a degree in Human Services with a specialization in Addiction Studies. She is a certified relapse-prevention specialist, a certified food addiction professional, and facilitates groups, workshops, and weeklong food addiction recovery intensives in the United States and abroad. Mary is co-founder of ACORN Food Dependency Recovery Services, currently SHiFT Recovery by Acorn (foodaddiction.com), and has helped thousands of late-stage food addicts move toward abstinence and recovery. As a recovering food addict, she is maintaining a 195-pound weight loss for over 27 years. Ms. Foushi is the coauthor of Food Addiction Recovery: A New Model of Professional Support—The ACORN Primary Intensive.
Phil Werdell, MA, was a college teacher and innovator in liberal arts and graduate education for 25 years. After finding recovery from late-stage food addiction, he became the lead counselor at Glenbeigh Psychiatric Hospital of Tampa’s residential food addiction program and Rader Institute of Washington’s outpatient eating disorders program. Mr. Werdell is cofounder of ACORN Food Dependency Recovery Services and the Food Addiction Institute. He has written eight books on food addiction including “Physical Craving and Food Addiction: A Review of the Science.” Phil’s most recent writing is a second edition of the Disease Concept of Food Addiction. He is currently working on a summary of outcome evaluations of food addiction treatment and a three-volume set of books on food addiction denial.
Website: Food Addiction Institute
Books:
Food Plans for Food Addiction Recovery
Treating Food Addiction: The Basics
Bariatric Surgery and Food Addiction
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