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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.

12/08/2025

Your presence is the most powerful intervention you have.

How you are in the room matters.

Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment is our seminal Tier 2 training: an immersive, 2-module experience for those who’ve completed the Introduction to ERED and are ready to deepen their embodied understanding of the ERED approach.

This training helps you cultivate a deeper therapeutic presence through your own embodied experience.

Take an exploratory dive into the protective attachment adaptations and behavioral barriers which express themselves through eating disorders symptoms.

Gain a felt sense knowledge of how to identify what enhances and supports clients in their capacity to step into authentic and relationally attuned embodiment, whilst exploring your own patterns, strategies, and capacity to co-regulate and connect.

Expect to leave with more than just new tools — expect to leave with a renewed relationship to yourself and your work.

📍Chapel Hill, NC
🗓️ 2 modules: Oct 2025 & March 2026
🔗 Registration open now. Link in bio

07/08/2025

Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders is training that invites us to shift paradigms.

Rather than pathologizing the body, the ERED approach helps providers understand how disordered eating behaviors are expressions of adaptations for survival, shaped by trauma, sensory processing, and relational experiences.

In a field often dominated by top-down, behavior-focused approaches, ERED offers a model that honors the body’s intelligence — and provides tools for working with it as a resource, ally, and guide.

Join us in NYC for 3 days of in-person learning. It’s hands-on experiential embodied experience.
🗓️ October 17–19
🔗 Link in bio to get course details — early bird ends soon, Aug 15!

04/08/2025

In the Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment Tier 2 ERED training, we deepen our understanding of eating disorder behaviors through the lenses of the action cycle, relational movement cycle, and Polyvagal theory — maps that weave the neurological and developmental steps that support “normative eating.” 🍽️

You’ll learn how to identify and work with the experiences that interrupt these cycles — from early attachment disruptions to sensory overwhelm to dissociation — and the resulting character adaptations that maintain ED behaviors 🌀

Through somatic practices and group learning, you’ll build the clinical confidence to meet these barriers with curiosity and compassion.

Join us for a somatically-integrative, trauma-informed, and attachment-based training!

🗓️ Oct 2025 & March 2026 | Chapel Hill
🔗 Link in bio to register — it’s not too late to register and join us!

31/07/2025

The body is not the problem — it’s the pathway to recovery.

Our Intro 3-day in-person training, Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, is happening in NYC! 🗽

This training introduces a trauma-informed, attachment-based, and somatically integrative approach to ED treatment ⭕️

🕰️ Register now to receive discounted pricing!

Whether you’re new to embodiment work or seeking to deepen an existing practice, this training offers both practical tools and transformative insight 👁️

This experiential training that offers participants the following:
🍎 Overview of the 4 foundational principles, developmental maps and neurologically based models of the ERED approach to treatment.
🍎 Integration of scientific and theoretical models to explain how neurological regulation and embodiment provide bottom-up support for “normative eating”.
🍎 Experiential exploration of the somatic experiences that impact neurological regulation and capacity for normative eating.
🍎 Scientific rationale, including Polyvagal Theory, for expanding the multidisciplinary treatment team to include specialists in trauma, sensory processing, embodied movement and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
🍎 Opportunities for self-reflection of the provider’s own embodiment, which impacts capacity for co-regulation and therapeutic effectiveness.

This is the first step on the ERED learning path.
🗓️ October 17–19, NYC
🔗 Link in bio to get course details — early bird ends soon!

29/07/2025

In Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment, we don’t just talk about embodiment — we practice it.

This 2-module immersive training is designed to help you feel the maps and models of the ERED approach in your own body, so you can bring deeper insight and presence to your work with clients.

We explore how attachment, trauma, defense, and regulation show up in lived experience, in the body, eating patterns, and relationships — and how to meet these strategies of survival with compassion, clarity, and skill.

📍Chapel Hill, NC
🗓️ October 23–27, 2025 & March 26–30, 2026
🔗 Link in bio to learn more

24/07/2025

Our Tier 2 training, Moving through the Barriers to Embodiment, is not just a training — it’s an invitation to change paradigms 🙌

Rather than pathologizing the body, ERED helps providers understand the more subtle forces that shape disordered eating behaviors, see through the dominant narratives that drive traditional treatment, and recognise how EDs are adaptive expressions of survival, shaped by trauma, sensory processing, and relational experiences ❤️‍🩹

In a field often dominated by top-down, behavior-focused approaches, ERED offers a model that honors the body’s intelligence — and provides tools for working with it.

This 10-day, 2-part training offers participants an in-depth exploration of concepts presented in Introduction to ERED including:
- What drives disordered eating behaviors
- How to work with Action Cycle barriers
- Body-based interventions for co-regulation and “normative eating”
- The provider’s embodiment as a clinical resource

If you’re ready to move from theory into lived, somatic practice that changes the how you show up to your clients — we’d love to see you in Chapel Hill.

📍 Chapel Hill, NC
🗓️ Oct 23–27, 2025 & March 26–30, 2026
📣 Registration closes Sept 15

Open to those who have completed the Intro to ERED course

🔗Join us — link in bio

17/07/2025

What if the body isn’t the problem but the answer? 💟

In our upcoming 3-day, in-person training, Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED), you’ll learn how trauma, attachment, and sensory experience shape disordered eating — and how to support recovery through the body’s own wisdom 👁️

This foundational training is the first step on the ERED learning path 👣

Whether you’re new to somatic work or already weaving body-based approaches into your practice, this course offers both depth and accessibility.

This training is ideal for:
🟣 Clinicians, dietitians, and helping professionals seeking new tools for client care
🟣 Providers new to somatic work, or looking to deepen existing integration
🟣 Program directors interested in trauma-informed and body-based treatment models

📅 Oct 17–19 2025 | NYC
✨ No prior somatic experience required
🎓 Open to all providers
🔗 Link in bio to register

15/07/2025

“Some things that look like eating disorder behaviors are actually autism-related. Recovery became possible when I stopped trying to hide who I am and started listening to what my body needed.” — Kim Clairy, co-facilitator for Coming To Our Senses about Eating Disorder Treatment

How can understanding our sensory processing system and neurodivergent thinking help us to more effectively support recovery from eating disorders?

It’s time we expand our understanding of eating disorders and look beneath the surface of behaviors often labeled as “symptomatic.”

Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment begins soon 💫

August 21-24 — and there are now NO PERQUISITES required for this training!

This is your chance to dive into a neurodivergent-informed, sensory-aware, deeply embodied approach to ED treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD).

Co-facilitated by Kim Clairy and Rachel Lewis-Marlow, this in-person blends clinical education with immersive experiential practices — offering a felt-sense of what it’s like to live in a sensory world that doesn’t always align with dominant expectations.

Let’s stop labeling regulation strategies as pathology and create a more inclusive path to recovery.

This training is open to any healing professional in the ED space. No prior ERED training needed 💙

10/07/2025

Our tier 2 training, Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment is a 10-day, 2-module, in-person training designed to support deeper clinical application and personal integration of the ERED approach through a relationally-focused, somatic-based orientation to recovery 🙌

Through immersive, community-oriented, experiential learning, you will:
- Deepen felt-sense understanding of how ED behaviors express attachment adaptations
- Build precision in assessing what drives disordered eating through Action Cycle Barriers
- Learn body-based interventions to support normative eating based on individual barriers
- Strengthen therapeutic presence for co-regulation and clinical attunement
- Join a like-minded community of professionals committed to embodied recovery

We are not meant to walk this journey alone 🫂

Let your learning, healing, and growth, both personally and professionally, be done in the company of others 💐

Join us in October to deepen your embodied understanding and change how you show up — in your work, with your clients and your life, in your body, with other bodies.

📍 Chapel Hill, NC| Oct 23–27, 2025 & March 26–30, 2026
⏳ Registration closes Aug 15
🔗 Join us — link in bio

07/07/2025

What if the routines and rules around food are not about control — but are effective life-style routines congruent with neuro-divergent thinking? 🤔

What if body image distortions and dysmorphia are not errors in thinking — but a difference in perception as a result of sensory incongruencies? 👀

What if the “eating disorder voice” isn’t irrational — but a reflection of a person’s unique sensory processing system doing its best to regulate? 🫁

Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment: An Exploration of Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Eating Disorders is our much-loved in-person training 😇

We’ll explore the anatomy and physiology of our near and far senses, and how they organize around attachment, defense, and nourishment.

This is the nervous system-informed lens ED treatment has been missing.

✨ Join us in Chapel Hill, NC this August, 21-24 2025

🎓 There are no prerequisites for this training! Bring your intro with the Embodied Recovery Institute now!

🔗 Link in bio to register. Limited space.

02/07/2025

How can understanding our sensory processing system and neurodivergent thinking help us to more effectively support recovery from eating disorders? 💟

It’s time we expand our understanding of eating disorders and look beneath the surface of behaviors often labeled as “symptomatic.”
Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment begins soon — August 21-24 — and there are just a few spots left! 🪻

This is your chance to dive into a neurodivergent-informed, sensory-aware, deeply embodied approach to ED treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD).

You’ll explore:

✨How ASD and SPD shape food-related behaviors and body perception
✨Why certain “eating disorder behaviors” may serve as tools for regulation
✨How interoception, executive functioning, and sensory integration impact eating and embodiment
✨How to implement the Ziggurat Model and other supports for individualized treatment planning
✨What it means to truly meet clients where they are — without pathologizing difference

Gain practical tools, transformative insights, and a deeper appreciation for the lived experience of neurodivergent clients.

🔶 Who it’s for: Mental health professionals, dietitians, occupational therapists, medical providers, and adjunct practitioners.

📣 There are no prerequisites for this training! Start your journey with the Embodied Recovery Institute with this inspired training.

📍 Chapel Hill | Aug 21–24
🔗 Register now at the link in bio

30/06/2025

For decades, eating disorder treatment has focused on managing behaviors and correcting cognitive distortions — often leaving the body out of the equation entirely.

But what if disordered eating isn’t about dysfunction — but about adaptation? 🤔

What if the behaviors that are so often pathologized are the body’s best attempt to maximize relationships we need for survival? 🤯

What if healing begins when we stop trying to fix the body — and start learning from it? 🙇‍♀️

Whether you’re new to somatic work or already integrating embodiment tools, our foundational Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) training offers an accessible, experiential entry point into the ERED approach.

Explore how trauma, sensory processing, and attachment shape ED behaviors — and how to support recovery with greater compassion, clarity, and connection.

🌀 This is the first step on the ERED learning path.

🗽 We’re gathering in New York City, October 17–19 2025

🔗 Link in bio to learn more and register

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Paula Scatoloni and Rachel Lewis-Marlow bring together over four decades of experience in the areas of clinical psychotherapy, bodywork, movement education, and dance. Their combined wisdom and creativity has evolved from a shared vision that emerged during their parallel career paths. Paula, had been working at Duke University while also offering mindful movement classes at Carolina House Treatment Center for years before she began her training in Somatic Experiencing in 2013. While Rachel, a dually-licensed psychotherapist and bodyworker, completed her training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy while working at Carolina House around the same time. Together, Rachel and Paula began to collaborate on an innovative treatment model for eating disorders that brings the body, the very stage where the war is being waged, back into the treatment setting. Drawing from the work of pioneers such as Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, and Allan Schore, the Embodied Recovery model weaves together a tapestry of interpersonal neurobiology, traumatology, child development, and sensory processing to explore the connection between eating/digestion and our basic human need for attachment and defense.