Just Eat Normally: Eating Disorder Recovery24 Jul 2025

Ep 62: Empowering Black Clients with Eating Disorders, with Charlynn Small and Paula Edwards-Gayfield

A culturally sensitive approach to eating disorder treatment is sorely need for the often underdiagnosed, forgotten, and marginalized Black woman. Not only do they face barriers to treatment due to unjust healthcare systems, but the unique factors that contribute to the development of eating disorders in Black women, including racism and systemic oppression, are not broadly considered by eating disorder clinicians.

In this episode I speak with eating disorder experts Charlynn Small and Paula Edwards-Gayfield about their new book Black Women with Eating Disorders: Clinical Treatment Considerations .This episode is aimed at clinicians working with Black clients as-well-as individuals who are seeking support navigating an eating disorder and recovery.

Buy the book: wwnorton.com/bwed

Connect with Rachel

Dr. Rachel Evans is a psychologist, hypnotherapist and eating disorder survivor. She brings together academic knowledge and theories, therapeutic skills and personal experience for a unique perspective on eating disorder recovery.

https://eatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Connect with Charlynn Small, PhD.

Charlynn is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Director of Health Promotion, at the University of Richmond. She received her PhD from Howard University. Dr. Small is based in North Chesterfield, Virginia.https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlynn-small-65951932/

Connect with Paula Edwards-Gayfield, LCMHCS, LPC, CEDS-C.

Paula is regional assistant vice president and diversity an inclusion cochair for The Renfrew Center, with twenty years of experience treating eating disorders. She is based in Edmond, Oklahom⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedwards-gayfield/ ⁠

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Ep 67: Questioning Control & the Truth in Eating Disorder Recovery with Dr Rachel Evans

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Ep 65: Real Talk - 3 Recovery Mistakes I Made (and How You Can Avoid Them) – with Kait Moresi

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Ep 64: Three Triggers to Binge Eating & What to do About Them, with Nicole Gaviria

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Ep 63: Identifying "Wonky Thoughts" and rewriting the narrative with Gemma Bishop

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