Um, can you help us break down a little bit, like some of the myths that maybe still circulate around this population in eating disorders and how eating disorders maybe actually impact, um, our BIPOC folks?

Yeah, I think the myths really do a lot of harm, and, you know, providers aren't immune to those myths.

Like, we have had, and I know, Laura, you've probably experienced this, and Zamie too, we have had patients and clients for who the eating disorder started in their PCP's office, where they were kind of, you know, experiencing some f- form of body shaming or kind of health shaming and left the PCP's office kind of feeling really unsafe in medical settings.

And that kind of extends to treatment centers and treatment settings.

And so really the myth around eating disorders and who is affected by eating disorders is reinforced through so many different systems, that we really see our clients that struggle with these behaviors come in and be like, "Well, I didn't know I could have an eat disorder.

I just assumed that was like something that happens to this population or that identity." And so really kind of peeling back the layers and talking about systems and reflecting on, well, at its core, an eating disorder is your way of dealing with these really difficult emotions and kind of avoiding these really difficult emotions.

When you kind of look at racial trauma, acculturation, all of these, like, systemic traumas that individuals are experiencing and kind of present eating disorder in that way and be like, "Of course you're looking for ways to cope with these systems that harmed you," um, it kind of helps people understand that an eating disorder isn't something they did, isn't their fault, but it's something that's perpetuated through these systems they exist in.

How do we as providers integrate those, those concepts into treatment?