How Much I Was Missing: Navigating Trauma and Eating Disorder Recovery

In this special "Lived Experience" edition of Unmasked, host Dr. Courtney Ward sits down with Julia Giltner, CRPS, a former music teacher from Zionsville, to share her personal journey through an eating disorder. Julia opens up about the origins of her struggle, revealing how a traumatic experience with sexual harassment in high school—rather than a desire to be thin—triggered her restriction.

Together, they discuss the vital importance of building a support system, the startling realization of how much life is lost to an eating disorder, and the reality that recovery is a choice one must make every single day.