What happens when our cultural systems turn food into a mechanism for emotional control? How do we separate the profound love of our culinary traditions from the toxic cycles of disordered eating?

In this deeply vulnerable, eye-opening episode of the Black and Diagnosed Podcast, host Gerron Scott welcomes social worker and mental health therapist Shatera Hillyer into the Sanctuary. Together, they take off the clinical mask to confront a topic that media representations consistently ignore: how disordered eating manifests within the Black community, specifically among Black women and girls.

Shatera draws on her unique professional evolution—from a VCU theater performance graduate and professional actress to a certified personal trainer at a young adult mental health center, and ultimately to a clinical therapist. She systematically dis ...