Mark Farley has been active in the recovery fellowships for almost 30 years. Mark found his Spiritual connection and his sobriety through the Salvation Army ARC program in 1991. They helped him to get back on his feet and begin putting his life back together. Mark wound up going back to school to get his Drug and Alcohol Counseling Certificates and went through the Salvation Army’s Adjutant program to earn a Pastoral certification. He worked at the Salvation Army for 3 years running their Drug and Alcohol Rehab program and managing the homeless shelter in Sacramento California. Mark has a passion for helping others to overcome their addictions and afflictions as well as working with the homeless.
Food Junkies Summit ~ David Wolfe!
Food Junkies Summit Day 13!!
Dave has been working as a Registered Dietitian (RD) since 2013. He started in hospital care, then became a Certified Nutrition Support Clinician to better support patients unable to eat by mouth. After moving, he began working in a bariatric clinic, addressing Weight Management, Emotional Eating, and Sugar Addiction.
Dave has been the consulting RD for Renascent, a drug, alcohol, and now food treatment program in Toronto for Canadian women since 2015.
He is a Board Member for The Food Addiction Institute (FAI) and serves as Co-Chair for its Webinar Committee, editing and managing bi-monthly food addiction webinars for the FAI YouTube Channel.
Graduating from the first class of the International School for Food Addiction Counseling and Treatment (INFACT), Dave became certified as a Food Addiction Counselor (FAC) through the Nordic-Baltic Regional Certification Board. He has studied under Phil Werdell M.A; Bitten Jonsson RN; Marty Lerner PhD; H. Theresa Wright MS, RD, LDN; Vera Tarman MD; and school founder, Esther Helga Guðmundsdóttir MSc. Dave is a co-founder of SUGARx Global. ~ Vera Ingrid Tarman
Food Junkies Summit ~ Chef AJ!
Food Junkies Summit Day 12!!
Chef AJ has been devoted to a plant-exclusive diet for over 43 years. She is the host of the television series Healthy Living with CHEF AJ which airs on Foody TV. A chef, culinary instructor, and professional speaker, she is the author of the popular book Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and Your Ideal Weight, which chronicles her journey from an obese junk-food vegan faced with a diagnosis of pre-cancerous polyps, to learning how to create foods that nourish and heal the body. Her latest bestselling book The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss: A Revolutionary Approach to Conquer Cravings, Overcome Food Addiction and Lose Weight Without Going Hungry has received glowing endorsement by many luminaries in the plant-based movement.
Chef AJ was the Executive Pastry Chef at Santé Restaurant in Los Angeles where she was famous for her sugar, oil, salt, and gluten-free desserts which use the fruit, the whole fruit, and nothing but the whole fruit. These recipes can be found in her upcoming book A Date With Dessert. She is the creator of the Ultimate Weight Loss Program, which has helped hundreds of people achieve the health and the body that they deserve, and is proud to say that her IQ is higher than her cholesterol. In 2018 she was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame.
- Learn more about Chef AJ at www.chefaj.com
Food Junkies Summit ~ Theresa Wright, MS, RD, LDN
Food Junkies Summit Day 11!!
Day 11 means we are bringing you Registered Dietitians and Nutritionists in the field of Food Addiction! First up we have Theresa Wright.
Theresa Wright, MS, RD, LDN, is the founder and Director of Renaissance Nutrition Center, Inc. near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
AS NUTRITION THERAPIST, registered and licensed dietitian and nutritionist, Theresa has worked with people struggling with compulsive eating, obesity, eating disorders, weight loss, and food addiction and helped them deal sanely and effectively with their food, eating, and body weight issues for more than 36 years.
Most acclaimed for her individual and global success with thousands of clients who have improved their lives after working with her to create and maintain successful eating and recovery programs, often in consultation with their own physicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals.
Under her direction, Renaissance Nutrition Center, Inc. was developed to provide programs and services to help people develop the skills, tools, and lifestyle changes that lead to freedom from self-destructive food behaviors. These programs include both in-person and virtual seminars and workshops that encourage a sane approach to eating and living.
Theresa holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Nutrition Science from Drexel University and continues to be a formal presenter at many regional and national conferences, treatment facilities, and professional organizations.
In 2013, Today’s Dietitian magazine named Theresa one of “10 Incredible Registered Dietitians Who Are Making a Difference” in its annual showcase.
Her published works include Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook a book by Kelly D. Brownell and Mark S. Gold (Oxford University Press) for which she authored a chapter and the three-part cookbook series titled Delicious Recovery and Your Personal Food Plan Guide. A publisher is pending for her newest book, The Sane Food Solution.
The Third Edition of Overeaters Anonymous, published by the twelve-step organization, includes special pages authored by Theresa because of her expertise and work with those with eating disorders. Theresa also serves as a Committee Member of Behavioral Health Nutrition, a dietetic practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and on the Board of Directors of the Food Addiction Institute.
Food Junkies Summit ~ Tony Vassallo!
Food Junkies Summit Day 10!!
Tony has an inspiring recovery journey with Food Addiction. At one point in his life, he experienced a multitude of metabolic issues such as Type II diabetes, hypertension, gout, acid reflux, sleep apnea, constant joint pain. In 2010, he began his life-changing journey of losing 130 pounds and has successfully maintained his weight loss.
A Man on a Nutrition Mission, he is the founder of MODA Nutrition and he has a passion for helping others achieve healthy, sustained weight loss by using his famous mantra JERF: Just Eat Real Food.
Salmon Salad with a Mustard Vinaigrette
Roasted Apple Crumble
Food Junkies Summit ~ Siobhan Harris!
Food Junkies Summit Day 9 !!
Siobhan Harris is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Podcast Host of “Unsweetened Sio” and certified in The Emotion Code. Siobhan started her recovery from sugar addiction in January 2018 and now that she is free is dedicated to helping others get free too. She shares her journey, both its victories and its challenges, plus interviews other addicts in recovery, sugar addiction coaches, and experts on her podcast. Most recently she became certified in The Emotion Code, a powerful method of finding and releasing trapped emotions in the body that are often at the root of many physical ailments, depression, anxiety, and just plain old feeling stuck. She also offers group coaching around sugar addiction and incorporates The Emotion Code! You can visit her website at www.unsweetenedsio.com for more information. ~ Vera Ingrid Tarman
Food Junkies Summit ~ Marty Lerner!
Food Junkies Summit Day 8 !!
Dr. Lerner is the Executive Director of the Milestones in Recovery Eating Disorders Program located in Cooper City, FL.
A graduate of Nova Southeastern University, Dr. Lerner is a licensed and board-certified clinical psychologist who has appeared on numerous national television and radio programs that include The NPR Report, 20/20, Discovery Health, and ABC’s Nightline, as well as having authored several articles related to eating disorders in professional publications, national magazines, and newspapers including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Miami Herald, Orlando, and Hollywood Sun-Sentinels. Dr. Lerner has written a book, “A Guide to Eating Disorder Recovery”.
- The free eBook is available at milestonesprogram.org
- Dr. Lerner’s Contact information: milestonesprogram.org
~ Vera Ingrid Tarman
Food Junkies Podcast Episode 41: Dr. Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke is medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, program director for the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford and has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
Today we talk to Anna about Food Addiction. She not only believes in Food Addiction she feels that in our modern day scientifically hijacked, excessively accessible food world that it is likely EVERYONE has a disordered relationship with eating and food. How could we not?? She believes these foods are drugs and she validated the withdrawal and detox that comes with removing these foods and choosing to abstain from them when we start to seek Food Addiction recovery.
Food Junkies Summit ~ Bitten Jonsson!
Food Junkies Summit Day 7 !!
Bitten is a close personal friend and colleague to our whole podcast team. She is a registered nurse, addiction specialist, a contributor to the Diet Doctor website AND She is the founder of Bitten’s Addiction. She has been helping people recover from sugar/flour/processed food addiction for nearly 30 years.
Inspired by her own story about addiction, she developed a passion to help others become aware of their relationship with these drug foods and now shows people the way to heal and recover from sugar addiction.
Her mission is to spread knowledge about sugar addiction and to teach and train professionals how to screen, assess, evaluate and diagnose sugar addiction using the SUGAR tool she helped develop. Through this process, professionals can help individuals detox from their “drug foods” and find long-lasting recovery. Through her Facebook Group Sugarbomb in your brain, she has connected those struggling with Sugar Addiction, and now over 9,000 members support each other through the daily struggles with sugar addiction AND celebrate the victories that come along with recovery. ~ Vera Ingrid Tarman
Food Junkies Summit ~ Dr. Vera Ingrid Tarman!
Food Junkies Summit Day 6 !!
Dr. Vera Ingrid Tarman is a world-renown food addiction expert, who writes, speaks, and treats people who suffer from sugar addiction, food addiction, and who seek food recovery.
Dr.Tarman’s main goal is to put food addiction ‘on the table’ of services offered to people suffering from addictions. Food addiction is often dismissed or neglected, leaving many people without the necessary help and compassion they need to get well.
As a recovering food addict herself, Dr. Tarman knows that freedom from food addiction is food serenity. Freedom from food addiction tastes great!
Food Junkies Summit ~ Esther Helga Gudmundsdottir, MSc
Food Junkies Summit Day 5 !!
Esther Helga Gudmundsdottir, MSc. is founding Founding Director of the MFM Food Addiction Treatment Center, a treatment center for food addictions and eating disorders in Reykjavik, Iceland. As the Director of INFACT, the International School for Food Addiction Counseling and Treatment she has offered training and clinical supervision to many new and veteran food addiction counselors. Her specialties include sugar, food addiction, eating disorders, codependency, and other addictions like love, work, and debt. Esther is also a certified Hypnotherapist that focuses on trauma-based regression and therapy for addictions, trauma, and anxiety. As an FAI board member, she works to engage the international community while developing effective food addiction counseling educational curriculum for professional development and training courses.
Food Junkies Summit ~ Phil Werdell and Mary Foushi
Food Junkies Summit Day 4 !!
Mary Foushi holds a degree in Human Services with a specialization in Addiction Studies. She is a certified relapse-prevention specialist, a certified food addiction professional, and facilitates groups, workshops, and weeklong food addiction recovery intensives in the United States and abroad. Mary is co-founder of ACORN Food Dependency Recovery Services, currently SHiFT Recovery by Acorn (foodaddiction.com), and has helped thousands of late-stage food addicts move toward abstinence and recovery. As a recovering food addict, she is maintaining a 195-pound weight loss for over 27 years. Ms. Foushi is coauthor of Food Addiction Recovery: A New Model of Professional Support—The ACORN Primary Intensive.
Phil Werdell, MA, was a college teacher and innovator in liberal arts and graduate education for 25 years. After finding recovery from late-stage food addiction, he became a lead counselor at Glenbeigh Psychiatric Hospital of Tampa’s residential food addiction program and Rader Institute of Washington’s outpatient eating disorders program. Mr. Werdell is cofounder of ACORN Food Dependency Recovery Services and the Food Addiction Institute. He has written eight books on food addiction including “Physical Craving and Food Addiction: A Review of the Science.” Phil’s most recent writing is a second edition of the Disease Concept of Food Addiction. He is currently working on a summary of outcome evaluations of food addiction treatment and a three-volume set of books on food addiction denial.
