Embodied Recovery Institute

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

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

💟 final chance to register 💟There comes a point in any practitioner’s journey when new tools aren’t enough.What’s needed...
10/13/2025

💟 final chance to register 💟

There comes a point in any practitioner’s journey when new tools aren’t enough.

What’s needed is a deeper shift in how we relate to ourselves, our clients, and the body itself.

Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment is a 2-module, in-person training for providers who have completed an Intro to ERED course and are ready to deepen their embodied presence.

Through embodied somatic exploration of neurological regulation and attachment theory, we’ll explore relational experiences that shape our sense of self and behavioral patterns associated with taking in nourishment.

This training explores clinical applications of foundational concepts, theoretical models, therapeutic maps and skills introduced in Tier 1 courses.
You’ll dive deeper into a nuanced and refined understanding of:
➤ Polyvagal theory + the Window of Tolerance
➤ The Action Cycle + Barriers to Action
➤ The Relational Cycle of attachment and defense
➤ How trauma lives in the body — and how to support healing from the inside out

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

What if ED recovery treatment looked more like?Discover how treatment can be somatically-integrative, relationally-orien...
10/09/2025

What if ED recovery treatment looked more like?

Discover how treatment can be somatically-integrative, relationally-oriented, trauma-informed, and body-first.

Our Tier 2 ERED training, Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment is a 10-day, 2-module, in-person training designed to support just this kind of experiential learning.

Through hands-on, 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 embodying the recovery process.

If you’re ready to deepen your somatic understanding into practice, our Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment training is for you.

✨ there’s still time to register and join us ✨

This training is open to all who have completed the Intro to ERED course.

📍Chapel Hill, NC
🗓️ October 23–27, 2025 & March 26–30, 2026
👀 a few spots still remain! Last chance to join us. Link in bio 🔗

Our Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment training is an opportunity to explore how attachment, trauma, defense, and reg...
10/06/2025

Our Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment training is an opportunity to 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.

This 2-module Tier 2 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.

Cultivate embodied wisdom and self-trust in your professional work, and help bring forward a new paradigm for treating eating disorders.

📍Chapel Hill, NC
🗓️ October 23–27, 2025 & March 26–30, 2026

This training is open to all who have completed the Tier 1 ERED courses.

Head to the link in bio to register and get training details.

How do you feel when you connect with this image? What words spring to mind? Support? Organization? Repair? Boundaries? ...
10/01/2025

How do you feel when you connect with this image? What words spring to mind?

Support? Organization? Repair? Boundaries? Clarity? Differentiation? Co-regulation? Welcoming? Safety?

Share in the comments below what comes up for you! 🤗

If you have completed our ERED Tier 1 training, we invite you to explore this inquiry deeper with us.

In the Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment 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.”

Through somatic practices and group learning, you’ll learn how to identify and work with the truncating experiences that have interrupted these cycles and the resulting adaptations that maintain ED behaviors, whilst supporting your clients move towards greater balance.

🛎️ There is still time to register for this training! Only a few spots remain 🛎️

🗓️ Oct 2025 & March 2026 | Chapel Hill
🔗 Link in bio to register

Our Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) is a training that invites us to see more possibilitie...
09/29/2025

Our Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) is a training that invites us to see more possibilities 🌌

This foundational, in-person course introduces a somato-psycho-social approach of care that centers safety, connection, and nervous system regulation to support and enhance embodiment and recovery, impacting relational, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

This 3-day 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.

You’ll leave with:
✔️ A trauma-informed, somatically integrative, and attachment-based framework
✔️ Tools to support “normative eating” through bottom-up approaches
✔️ A clearer understanding of your own embodiment

There’s still time to join us 🐞

📍 NYC, October 17–19
🔗 Details in bio

Our Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders in-person training is designed for providers who want more th...
09/26/2025

Our Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders in-person training is designed for providers who want more than protocols.

Rather than asking someone to change, we explore how we can co-create in changing the process of recovery altogether so that transformation can emerge on its own.

This training are for those seeking depth, clarity, and a more human-centered approach to eating disorder care.

Join us in NYC this October to explore:

- The 4 Foundational Principles of ERED
- Developmental maps and neurological models that reframe disordered eating through a bottom-up lens
- Scientific grounding in nervous system regulation, interoception, and embodiment as support for normative eating
- Experiential activities that illuminate how sensory and somatic experiences shape behaviors and relational dynamics
- The provider’s own embodiment as a vital therapeutic resource
- Connection with like-minded community of professionals committed to embodied recovery

… and so much more!

This is where the journey begins.
🗓️ October 17–19
🔗 Register now via link in bio

What if the “eating disorder voice” isn’t irrational or defiant?What if it’s the nervous system’s attempt to self-organi...
09/22/2025

What if the “eating disorder voice” isn’t irrational or defiant?

What if it’s the nervous system’s attempt to self-organize in a world that feels unpredictable or overwhelming?

When we stop treating behaviors in isolation and start exploring the sensory systems underneath them new possibilities emerge.

📍 Join us in NYC 17-19 Oct for our foundational Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED).

There is still time to enroll with us!

This is embodied and experiential in-person training that will help you understand how eating disorder behaviors may be the body’s best attempt at regulation.

🎓 For therapists, OTs, dietitians, bodyworkers, movement therapists, & adjunct ED helping professionals

🔗 Link in bio to register

📣 Tier 1 course and open to all who are ready to start their ERED learning journey.

You take people as far as you’ve gone yourself. The more embodied you are, the more you are able to co-create safety, tr...
09/19/2025

You take people as far as you’ve gone yourself.
The more embodied you are, the more you are able to co-create safety, trust, and change with your clients from within.

📍 final call to enroll 📍

Our Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment is a Tier 2 ERED training that supports you becoming the embodied practitioner your clients need.

You’ll explore the edges of your comfort zone, deepen your nervous system capacity, and refine your ability to attune to what the attachment, defense, and sensory processing systems are communicating through eating disorder behaviors.

It’s not just about sharing interventions, it’s about who you are while offering them.

Join us for this 10-day, in-person immersive experience in the ERED approach.

Open to those who have completed the Intro to ERED training.

📍Chapel Hill, NC
🗓️ Module 1: October 2025 | Module 2: March 2026
🔗 Link in bio to join us.

In the ERED model, eating disorder behaviors are not seen as pathologies to eliminate but as survival strategies rooted ...
09/18/2025

In the ERED model, eating disorder behaviors are not seen as pathologies to eliminate but as survival strategies rooted in the nervous system, relational history, and sensory experience.

These intelligent adaptations deserve to be listened to, heard and responded to.

Join us this October for our foundational Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders.

This 3-day in-person training in NYC invites clinicians to explore a bottom-up, body-first framework that helps make sense of disordered eating in the context of a somato-social-psycho lens.

Rethink what recovery can look and feel like.
Reground your work in safe attachment, somatic safety and regulation.
Recover the story that is longing to be heard.

🗓️ October 17–19 in NYC
🔗 Registration closes soon — link in bio to sign up and to receive course details

Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment is our Tier 2 training, designed for Intro to ERED alum ready to deepen into e...
09/12/2025

Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment is our Tier 2 training, designed for Intro to ERED alum ready to deepen into embodied experience 🤲

📌 Registration closes in a few days! 📌

Through experiential learning, didactic processes, and somatic mapping, we’ll explore the layers that shape the embodiment of our attachment, defense and digestive systems and how to work with them.

What you’ll experience 👇
- Advanced somatic maps and models for working with eating disorders
- Experiential exercises that bring theory into felt understanding
- Personal embodiment work that enhances effective clinical presence
- A supportive, relational learning environment in which to explore the edges of your comfort zone.

If you feel the call to go deeper, to integrate and transform your presence and practice, we hope you’ll join us in our upcoming advancing training.

📍 Chapel Hill, NC | Oct 23–27, 2025 & March 26–30, 2026
🗓️ Registration closes Sept 15
🔗Join us — link in bio
Open to those who’ve completed the Intro to ERED training.

Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment is our Tier 2 training, designed for Intro to ERED alum ready to deepen into e...
09/12/2025

Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment is our Tier 2 training, designed for Intro to ERED alum ready to deepen into embodied experience 🤲

Through experiential learning, didactic processes, and somatic mapping, we’ll explore the layers that shape the embodiment of our attachment, defense and digestive systems and how to work with them 🌀

What you’ll experience:
- Advanced somatic maps and models for working with eating disorders
- Experiential exercises that bring theory into felt understanding
- Personal embodiment work that enhances effective clinical presence
- A supportive, relational learning environment in which to explore the edges of your comfort zone.

If you feel the call to go deeper, to integrate and transform your presence and practice, we hope you’ll join us in our advancing training 🙏

📍 Chapel Hill, NC | Oct 23–27, 2025 & March 26–30, 2026
🗓️ Registration closes Sept 15
🔗Join us — link in bio
Open to those who’ve completed the Intro to ERED training.

What if the eating disorder isn’t the problem to be fixed, but a story waiting to be understood?The Introduction to Embo...
09/08/2025

What if the eating disorder isn’t the problem to be fixed, but a story waiting to be understood?

The Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders invites helping professionals to approach eating disorder treatment with fresh eyes and a beginner’s mind 👁️

Instead of jumping to behavior change, we learn to listen to the body’s language, and to honor it.

Through a trauma-informed, attachment-based, and neurobiologically grounded lens, this training helps you integrate somatic tools into ED care in meaningful, sustainable ways.

This training is intended to introduce, inspire, and orient providers to the maps, concepts, and embodiment practices of the ERED approach 🗺️

If you feel the call to approach ED recovery from a different lens, our Intro to ERED might just be for you *️⃣

🗓️ October 17–19 | New York, NY
🔗 Early bird ends Sept 15 — 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.