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Embodied Recovery Institute

Experiential training for mental health and wellness providers She is trained in Somatic Experiencing and is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS).

Embodied Recovery Institute provides experiential training for mental health and wellness professionals, to support them in their care for patients with eating disorders. Rachel Lewis-Marlow (co-founder) is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed in counseling and therapeutic massage and bodywork. She is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has adv

anced training and 25 + years of experience in diverse somatic therapies

Paula Scatoloni (co-founder) is a somatic psychotherapist trained in North Carolina.

09/01/2026

We believe eating disorder treatment can evolve.

The Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) approach fills in missing details in the picture of what shapes our clients’ relationship with feeding and eating:
• nervous system dysregulation
• sensory and interoceptive challenges
• attachment imprints
• developmental disruptions
• defensive patterns

This training helps practitioners understand these root layers so they can support clients with greater clarity, compassion, and effectiveness.

If you feel called to join a global community shifting the paradigm of ED treatment, we would be honored to have you in the 2026-2027 cohort.

September 4, 2026 – January 18, 2027
Learn more via the link in our bio.

08/26/2026

Our Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders is a 3-day training that introduces the foundational maps, models, and principles of the ERED approach: an integrative lens that weaves together a trauma-informed, attachment-based, and somatically-integrative approach to eating disorder treatment.

🗓 October 16-18 2026 | 📍Chapel Hill, NC | Limited spots remain

Whether you’re new to somatic work or looking to deepen your practice, this training offers both structure and spaciousness, helping you build a comprehensive perspective through exploring evidenced-based behavioral, cognitive, affective and body-based modalities, alongside the latest research in traumatology, interpersonal neurobiology, and early development.

If you’ve felt the call to bring more depth, embodiment, and humanity into your work with eating disorders this is your invitation 💌

The Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders is a reorientation to the body as a wise ally of the healing journey. Together, we learn how to partner with it.

Registration closes soon to join us for this in-person, experiential training.

Link in bio for all the training details.

08/17/2026

Some things that look disordered are actually intelligent adaptations.

Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment, co-facilitated by Rachel Lewis-Marlow, MS, EDS, LCMHC, LMBT, co-founder of the Embodied Recovery Institute, and Kim Clairy, an occupational therapist and autistic adult, won’t just teach you about Sensory Processing Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

👉 Rather, this is an embodied and experiential in-person training that will help you feel what it’s like to live in a world that doesn’t match your sensory experience 👈

You’ll explore:
- How SPD and ASD shape food preferences and the eating process
- How differences in sensory integration impact interoception, executive functioning, and body perception
- How to effectively implement individualize treatment plans
- Ways to increase emotional regulation
- Understand how and why ED behaviours are expressing a state of dysregulation that results from SPD and ASD

📍 October 22–25, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC
🎓 For therapists, OTs, dietitians, bodyworkers, movement therapists, & adjunct ED helping professionals
🔗 Link in bio to register

08/12/2026

For many neurodivergent individuals, especially those with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the eating process isn’t just about food.

It’s about managing sensory input.

Finding stability.

Making nourishment possible.

Join us for Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment: An Exploration of Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Eating Disorders, a powerful 4-day in-person training, that weaves didactic teaching with immersive experiential activities.

Let’s learn to listen from a more embodied place. It’s time we come to our senses — literally and figuratively — about how we approach eating disorder treatment.

📍Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment
🗓 October 22–25, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC
🔗 Open to all interested practitioners! Link in bio to register.

08/06/2026

There are just a few spots left for The Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders — our in-person, experiential training happening in Chapel Hill, NC

📅 Date: October 16-18, 2026
🔹 7 spots left!

Whether you’re a clinician, dietitian, program administrator, bodyworker, or other helping professional, this training offers a grounded, accessible entry point into a somatically integrative, trauma-informed, and attachment-based approach to care. Whether you’re new to somatic work or already weaving body-based modalities into your practice, you will gain skills and language to enhance your current work.

If you’ve been curious about bringing the body more intentionally into your ED work, now’s the time to join us in-person for real-time learning.

Registration closes soon, and we’d love to have you with us.

Link in bio for all the training details.

07/02/2026

Don’t forget to register for Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment 👉 a powerful 4-day in-person training exploring how autism and sensory processing influence food, embodiment, and recovery.

This training begins with an exploration of the human sensory system.

Through a mix of didactic presentations and experiential activities, participants will examine the anatomy and physiology of our near and far senses—and how these systems organize to support both attachment and defense.

We’ll look at eating disorder behaviors through the lens of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and uncover the sensory logic that underlies what is often misunderstood as pathology.

You’ll walk away with:
✔ A neurobiologically grounded framework for ED care
✔ Embodied insight into neurodivergent regulation strategies
✔ Tools for individualized treatment planning
✔ A deeper understanding of sensory perception and interoception
✔ Practices that honor difference instead of pathologizing it

📍 Chapel Hill, NC
📅 October 22-25 2026

For: Therapists, dietitians, medical providers, OTs & adjunct practitioners
Prerequisite: Intro to Embodied Recovery (online or in-person)

🔗 Plan ahead and register now on our website: embodiedrecovery.org 💟

06/30/2026

Eating disorder symptoms are not failures. They are expressions of attempts at establishing safety and protection.

Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment is our Tier 2 training that explores the felt-sense experience of these barriers, why these protective adaptations exist, and how to support clients in transforming them through bottom-up resourcing.

Through participatory embodiment work, participants learn how to:
• Recognize survival-driven patterns in clients
• Support congruency of regulation and actions of eating
• Build the relational container for deeper embodiment
• Work skillfully with resistance and shutdown

If you’re ready to bring theory into felt understanding, step into deeper personal embodiment work, and learn more advanced somatic maps for working with eating disorders—our Tier 2 training is waiting for you.

📍 New York
🗓 March 11-15, 2027 and August 26-30, 2027
🦋🦋🦋 Early Bird discount until Jul 17, 2026 🦋🦋🦋

Open to those who’ve completed Intro to ERED (online or in person). Link in bio to register 🔗

06/23/2026

Our Intro to ERED offerings introduce the core maps, concepts, and experiential practices that define the ERED model 🗺️

Grounded in neurobiology, attachment theory, and somatic awareness, this training offers a clear and applicable framework for understanding trauma and eating disorders beyond behavior—inviting a more relational, body-based lens into treatment 🫀

Our Tier 1 in-person training is an invitation to deepen your understanding of embodied, relational, and neurobiologically grounded eating disorder treatment alongside a supportive community.

Option to all practitioners interested in going deeper into relational, body-based ED care.

In-person means more dyadic somatic process, more time to move through practices together, and more of the relational container on which this work is built ⭕️

Join us October 16–18 in Chapel Hill.

Link in bio to learn more and register.

06/17/2026

Embodied Recovery Institute is expanding—and we’re thrilled to make our foundational training accessible to practitioners around the world.

If you’ve been wanting to train with us but travel wasn’t possible, this is your opportunity.

The updated online format includes:
- 7 live virtual sessions
- Pre-recorded modules
- Downloadable handouts
- Experiential learning and guided discussions
- A global professional community

Designed for therapists, dietitians, body-based practitioners, and any medical or mental health providers working with feeding and eating struggles.

Whether you’re new to somatic ED work or expanding your current skill set, this training offers the maps, models, and frameworks that shape the Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders approach, including:

- The 4 foundational principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and somatically integrative eating disorder treatment
- Developmental and neurologically-based models that explain how embodiment and nervous system regulation support normative eating
- Experiential exploration of attachment patterns and how they influence regulation, feeding dynamics, and recovery
- Evidence-based rationale for expanding the ED treatment team to include specialists in trauma, sensory processing, embodied movement, and CAM
- Opportunities for self-reflection to help providers better understand their own embodied patterns and capacity for co-regulation

Registration deadline August 1, 2026.
Link in bio to learn more.

Hope to see you online!

06/11/2026

Six practitioners. Willing, open, and ready to go deep.

Recently, we gathered for Growing Seeds of Attachment—our Tier 2 training exploring the earliest architecture of how we relate: to our bodies, to caregivers, to the world.

Primitive reflexes and somatic tone are subtle, precise, profoundly developmental work of understanding how the foundations of movement shape the capacity to receive food, care, and connection.

What struck us most was the openness in the room—a willingness to sit with discomfort, to notice what’s held in the body long before words, and to let that understanding inform how we show up with clients.

This work is quiet. And one small, specific shift can change everything.

Stay tuned for future Growing Seeds trainings and all our other 2026-2027 trainings by subscribing to our newsletter via our website (link in bio) 🌱

Address

18 S Circle Drive
Chapel Hill, NC
27516

Telephone

+19199728381

Website

http://www.embodiedrecovery.org/

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