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Complex Bodies, Complex Care: Chronic Illness & Eating Disorder Recovery

Tamie Gangloff, MA, MFT
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Description

What happens when recovery asks us to trust a body that has changed? What happens when recovery asks someone to trust a body that feels unpredictable, painful, or fundamentally changed? For many individuals living with chronic illness, disability, or the aftermath of complex medical procedures, recovery from an eating disorder does not follow a clear or linear path. The body may not behave the way it once did—or the way we expect it to. Pain, medical trauma, and ongoing health uncertainty can complicate body image, food relationships, and the very idea of “healing.” This keynote explores the often-unspoken intersection of eating disorders, chronic illness, and medical trauma. Through both clinical insight and lived experience, Tamie Gangloff invites audiences to reconsider traditional recovery narratives and examine what it means to rebuild body trust when there is no clear finish line. Participants will explore how grief, identity shifts, and trauma responses shape recovery, and how clinicians can support resilience, compassion, and sustainable healing in individuals navigating complex medical realities.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify and describe at least three strategies to foster resilience and promote adaptive body image in individuals living with invisible disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

  • List at least three evidence-informed strategies to enhance resilience and promote adaptive body image in individuals with invisible disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

  • Describe at least four distinct roles within an interdisciplinary treatment team and outline one example of coordinated care between medical and behavioral health providers.

Educational Goal

This keynote explores the intersection of eating disorders, chronic illness, and medical trauma, challenging traditional recovery narratives that rely on body predictability. Through clinical insight and lived experience, Tamie Gangloff examines how to rebuild body trust and foster sustainable healing when a "clear finish line" doesn’t exist.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Dietitian
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Nutritionist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Tamie Gangloff, MA, MFT
Tamie Gangloff MA MFT is therapist and National Business Development Representative for Healing at Hidden River. She is also an adjunct professor at West Chester University teaching Eating Disorder Psychology. Tamie completed her Master’s in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University in Santa Barbara and has worked at all levels of care for eating disorders and substance abuse. She is an advocate with the Eating Disorders Coalition, Tamie is the Founding President of the Southwest Philly IAEDP chapter, and a former group leader for The National Alliance for Eating Disorders. She is the Medical Trauma Advisor for Root to Branch. Tamie is the author of ‘Chronic Illness and Eating Disorders: Assessment, Clinical Skills and Lived Experiences’

Financially Sponsored By

  • Alsana