Exploring Body Image and Eating Through an LGBTQ+ Lens (with Sydney Williams, LCSW)

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In the new OPEN Up episode, Charlie Bird and Ben Schilaty sit down with Sydney Williams, LCSW, a therapist and eating disorder specialist, to explore the complex relationship between body image and the LGBTQ+ community.They share insights into the cultural and historical factors shaping body ideals and offer practical advice on loving and trusting your body as a gift from God.

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0:00.8	Welcome to All Out in the Open.
0:02.2	I'm Ben Shalati here with my friend Charlie Bird.
0:04.4	We're so excited for this episode.
0:05.6	This is part of our open up series.
0:07.3	And today we have Sydney Williams on.
0:09.2	She is a therapist and an eating disorder specialist.
0:12.2	And we had the coolest conversation about bodies, food, and how that kind of like relates to the LGBTQ plus population.
0:20.0	Yeah.
0:20.3	And I just really appreciated the way that she used her expertise as a therapist,
0:23.4	she works with people who have eating disorders,
0:25.5	and shared some really beautiful insights,
0:27.3	both just from a clinical perspective and also from a gospel perspective.
0:30.6	And I found myself having insights that I just really appreciated.
0:33.6	Yeah, I think everyone should listen to this.
0:35.7	This is,
0:36.0	I really enjoyed this conversation, and I think you will too.
0:48.2	Sydney, we are so excited that you're here with us today.
0:50.6	To start off, could you just give some background about who you are and kind of like the
0:54.2	space that you work in? Sure. So my name is Sydney Williams. I'm a licensed clinical social worker.
0:59.9	I'm also a certified eating disorder specialist. I've worked in eating disorders for ever, I think,
1:07.6	about 15 years probably more. And it's a passion to work with people with body image issues and eating disorders
1:16.1	and all of the communities that kind of encompass that too, which is quite a few broad communities.
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