This is a podcast about eating disorder recovery.
We’re two people with a lived experience who want to share their journey with others.
We’re doing this in the hopes that we can inspire others to seek help, encourage carers to help understand what their loved one is going through and to provide clinicians with further insight into what it’s like for their patients who live with eating disorders.
Our hope is that by sharing lived experiences, one day eating disorder treatment will be as diverse as the people who live with them.
Our hosts
Ash M
Ash lived with an eating disorder for over 5 years and has been fully recovered for a number of years. She’s a greyhound mum, a wife to her amazing husband, an advertising dork, a pro-wrestling lover, and an advocate and lived experience champion for InsideOut Institute. She sought help after someone was brave enough to share their own experience online so she wanted to start this podcast to give back and hopefully return the favour by helping someone else. She is here to share her own experience while gently needle the monster that is diet culture and continue learning about eating disorders and recovery. Her hope is to break the stigma surrounding eating disorders, change the way they are treated but most importantly help reduce the impact eating disorders have on lives in the the future.
Callie Ann
Callie is a survivor/warrior and has fully recovered from Chronic and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa, a feat that she never thought to be possible after a long 16 year battle. She is a supermum to gorgeous daughter Blake, a loving partner and mental health practitioner. She is a regular contributor for EDQ as a lived experience speaker as well as a fierce advocate and trained mentor for mental health and as a domestic violence survivor. She is the founder of CA Support - a coaching and support service for those living with eating disorders and mental illness.
She regularly shares her lived experiences online however she wanted to start this podcast to give hope to those that might feel alone in it all. In addition, she hopes to bring awareness to the prevalence of neurodivergency and the role it plays in mental health treatment as well as the impact motherhood can play in mental health and eating disorders.
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Why we’re called Paved with Gold
Our name Paved with Gold was inspired by is the traditional Japanese practice Kintsugi. It is the art of repairing broken, chipped and cracked pottery using lacquer and gold. which as a result highlights the breakages and repair as opposed to disguising or hiding them.
We believe that what you go through, whether it be trauma, misadventure or the ardous task of recovery, makes you stronger. While no one chooses to go through hardship, we’re not afraid to take it in our stride and we can allow it to shape us into who we are. We believe that the path to recovery is Paved with Gold.