Dr. Judi Hollis has been featured on CNN, Extra, Inside Edition, Oprah, Sally, and Leeza among others. Self magazine voted her treatments among the top ten in the nation. As a licensed family therapist she walks what she talks, maintaining her own 70-pound weight loss. Her difficult message of promoting internal spiritual connection and deep personality change is the only valid and lasting approach to weight loss.
Since opening the nation’s first eating disorders unit and authoring best sellers such as Fat is a Family Affair, Fat & Furious, Hot & Heavy, and From Bagels to Buddha, Dr. Hollis has been training professionals internationally and presenting to community groups about family and individual treatments for addictive eating styles and food obsessions. In furthering that effort, she has also produced many workbooks, videos, CDs, and DVDs.
She has been awarded a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars for her classes and workshops at universities, hospitals and community agencies, including the US Navy’s treatment programs, the FBI, Betty Ford Center, Hazelden, Omega and Esalen Institutes. Currently traveling the world and dividing her time between New York City and Palm Springs, California allows her to continue writing, developing vlogs, and exploring a new passion for storytelling.
2019: Role in Gina Carey's Film "Acts of Kindness"
2012: HLN: Jane Velez-Mitchell television show
2012: FROM BAGELS TO BUDDHA released as cd and book, tracing spiritual path to permanent weight loss
2010: Picked as one of Dr. Oz’ ShareCare Experts
2009: Star Dedication on Palm Springs, CA, Walk of Stars
2000: DIVINE DINE released as video teaching mindful eating habits
1999: HOT & HEAVY, (Health Communications) invites readers to be mindful in bedroom and kitchen
1995: KESQ in Palm Springs launches “Dr. Jude’s Ladies Locker Room”
1993: FAT & FURIOUS, (Ballantine) outlines mother-daughter struggles with food obsessions
1987: DARK SECRETS, BRIGHT VICTORY (film) documents one family’s recovery in Dr. Hollis’ treatment centers
1986: FAMILY MATTERS (film) explains family treatment for all addictions
1986: SHAPE magazine votes Dr. Hollis’ treatments in national top ten
1985: Three appearances on Oprah launches TV career
1985: FAT IS A FAMILY AFFAIR (Harper one) becomes a national best seller, generating TV appearances