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Jewish Eating Disorder Professional (JEDPRO) Conference 2026

Returning to Ourselves: Teshuva as a Framework for Eating Disorder Recovery

Rebekah Bardwell Doweyko, LPC, CEDS-C
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe the central elements of teshuvah—reflection, return, accountability, repair, and renewed action—and explain their relevance to eating disorder recovery.

  • Explain how an eating disorder may appropriate concepts such as atonement, self-denial, discipline, and moral responsibility in ways that reinforce shame, perfectionism, restriction, and other symptoms.

  • Differentiate a compassionate teshuvah-based approach from self-punishment and the moralization of food, weight, appetite, and bodies.

  • Identify at least three ways weight supremacy and weight bias can influence eating-disorder development, recognition, assessment, treatment, and access to care.

  • Apply at least two teshuvah-informed strategies to promote more weight-inclusive, culturally responsive, and psychologically safe care within clinical or Jewish community settings.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase participants’ understanding of teshuvah as a culturally responsive framework for conceptualizing eating disorder recovery and to strengthen their ability to identify and address ways that Jewish values, clinical practices, and community systems may be distorted or unintentionally contribute to eating disorder symptoms, weight stigma, and barriers to recovery.

Description

This presentation explores "teshuvah", the Jewish concept of return, as a compassionate framework for understanding eating disorder recovery. Participants will examine how eating disorders can distort values such as reflection, discipline, and accountability into perfectionism, self-blame, and harmful food or body beliefs. The session also considers how clinicians, treatment systems, families, and Jewish communities can engage in meaningful repair. Integrating Jewish wisdom with contemporary eating disorder practice, participants will learn strategies for fostering recovery rooted in dignity, compassion, inclusion, and authentic return.

Target Audience

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

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Financially Sponsored By

  • Reasons Eating Disorder Center