Author Caroline Adams Miller will be presenting a talk titled “A Pioneer in the Eating Disorder Field Reflects on Her 30 Years of Recovery: What Worked and What Didn’t” on Sunday, March 1, at 2 p.m. in Goucher College’s Kelley Lecture Hall.
The presentation is being sponsored by the Eating Disorder Network of Maryland to commemorate the Ninth Annual National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. The event is free and open to the public and will also include vendor sales and a book signing.
Miller is well-known coach, author, speaker, and educator in the fields of empowerment, change, and well-being. She developed an eating disorder early in her life and suffered from bulimia for eight years. During this time, she attended Harvard University and then found a job with the Wall Street Journal. None of her family, including her husband, was aware of her eating disorder.
In February 1984, she sought help, began therapy, and eventually overcame her disorder. She chronicled her fight in the memoir My Name is Caroline, the first major autobiography by a bulimia survivor
Her newest book, Positively Caroline picks up where My Name is Caroline ended and includes a detailed look at how the science of flourishing can assist others with long-term addiction recovery.
Additionally, she has written two spiritual meditational books, Feeding the Soul and Bright Words for Dark Days. She also ghostwrote a self-help book for a major organization and has contributed chapters to an eating disorder anthology and a psychology textbook.
Her fifth book, Creating Your Best Life was the first to connect the science of happiness with the science of goal-setting. It explains how the new science of positive psychology intersects with the science of goal-setting and includes research on such topics as priming, social contagion, positive interventions, and grit, which also play important roles in creating and sustaining healthy emotions and sustained success.
Miller’s writing has been published in The New York Times and U.S. News & World Report and has been featured on dozens of media outlets, including CNN, CBS and The Montel Williams Show.