The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast #055 - Jessica Flanigan: The Loving Diet, Restrictive Diet Freedom, AIP Fails, Love And Safety For Healing, Exhaustion, Orthorexia, The Language Of The Heart Vs Mind, Finding Joy, And More!
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Aug 20, 2020 Jessica Flanigan, clinical nutritionist and author of The Loving Diet, blends spiritual coaching with nutrition to heal chronic illness. She talks about how safety and the heart shape recovery. Conversations explore restrictive-diet fatigue, food hypervigilance, practical love-based steps, emotions like anger and fear, breathwork, supplements, and reclaiming joy and freedom around food.
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Love Is A Never-Running Resource
- Loving is an inexhaustible inner resource that grows richer as you apply it to hurt places.
- Jessica calls it a 'magic fairy wand' you can use anytime to keep yourself safe.
Limit Restrictive Diets Short-Term
- Use restrictive diets like AIP or low-FODMAP sparingly and short-term.
- Jessica warns long restrictions can lower gut diversity and harm immune tolerance.
Check If Diet Comes From Lack Or Abundance
- Check whether your diet comes from abundance or lack by noticing feelings of safety versus scarcity.
- Jessica tells clients to lean into abundance if food rules feel like emotionally binding safety nets.
