Find Your Food Voice

Do you feel like you've done everything to tackle your struggle with binge eating? Is there a constant battle in your head over cravings? Listen now to hear some solutions on how to overcome this food peace struggle. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my FREE roadmap: Your First 3 Steps Towards Food Peace with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Join our Facebook group to get extra support! Episode's Key Points: The recovery process is NOT linear, and it takes TIME. Isabel Foxen Duke joins to talk about dieting, bingeing, and more! Physical restriction is NOT THE SAME as emotional and psychological restriction... even if you're eating "enough," bingeing can still occur if you feel mental restriction. Diet mentality is the bigger thing to break down when trying to break free from bingeing! Cravings are neutral things!! We don't need to feel shame about them. Emotional eating and binge eating are two different things! Emotional eating is when we eat something in order to make ourselves feel better. It's a coping mechanism to distract, comfort, soothe or avoid a feeling. Binge eating, on the other hand, is a reaction to the diet mentality. Isabel calls is reactionary eating! For example, when you tell yourself you can't have "x" food, all you want is "x" food, and then it results in a binge. Food is never black and white! Just because we think we're eating "enough," we actually may not be because we live in a restrictive, diet-culture world. Diet mentality tells us that there's a right and wrong way to eat. Giving up dieting is giving up an attitude around food that categorizes certain food behaviors as safe and others as unsafe. "The Don't Binge Eat Diet:" when you're desperately trying to avoid and overcome the urge to binge, which only perpetuates a binge. Think about a bow and arrow... the farther back you pull the bow and the more tension your build, the farther that bow will fly in the other direction when you inevitably let go! There's NOTHING wrong with emotional eating!! The only reason why people fear emotional eating is because we fear getting fat. Emotional eating turns into a binge when we decide that the action we're doing is not okay and feel shameful about it. Quitting dieting doesn't just mean you've put down the calorie counts and the weight loss goals... it means we leave behind the "right" and "wrong" with food. When we struggle with food, we have to ask, where is the restriction happening?? Where is the diet mentality hiding? Not dieting is a physical AND emotional issue! 90% of recovering from dieting is about the diet mentality and diet attitudes, and only 10% of it is about the physical. If you are clinging to ANY kind of wagon, you will inevitably fall off! Permission to binge is step one!! It's time to overcome emotional restriction. You have permission to be where you are right now, and to meet your needs in however you need to. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Isabel's video training series, Stop Fighting Food ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #1 Isabel's blog ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #2 Connect with Isabel by getting on her email list! Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you trying to make peace with food, but still trying to lose weight? Do you want to know if there is a way to pursue weight loss AND heal your relationship with food? Are you struggling with what you see as an addiction to food? Listen now to hear my insights on this complicated food peace issue. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my PCOS summer series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This series and our Facebook group will be with you every step of the way. Episode's Key Points: The pursuit of weight loss CANNOT be combined with making peace with food... so now what?? Thinking about food addiction leads to issues with food preoccupation. We NEED food to survive and thrive! We shouldn't pathologize the desire for food. There isn't ONE diet that, for most people, can help maintain weight loss for more than two years. In fact, most dieters regain all their lost weight, plus more, within five years. Dieting predicts weight gain!! Ancel Keys' Minnesota Starvation Experiment: strong and fit men were fed half of the amount of nutrition they needed. Eventually these men became depressed and food preoccupied, and experienced a decrease in libido and in interest in extracurricular activities. Weight loss pursuits promote restriction, and restriction leads to food preoccupation... so we can't pursue weight loss without it resulting in food preoccupation. Remember, even if you decide to leave dieting and intentional weight loss behind, it will still take TIME to end your struggles with food preoccupation. Make sure you have a team behind you to support your healing! We live in such a fatphobic world! It's important that we break down our own internal biases related to fatness, and face our own fat discrimination. What is really behind the fear of fat? Explore that to figure out what's really behind the obsession with weight loss, and to discover what's keeping you stuck in disordered eating patterns. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Marci Evans' Love, Food Podcast episode Ancel Keys' Minnesota Starvation Experiment Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you embraced body trust, but are suddenly up against a trigger such as body changes? Are you concerned about relapse, and are trying to maintain recovery through a stressful time? Listen now for some advice on navigating this part of the food peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my PCOS summer series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This series and our Facebook group will be with you every step of the way. Episode's Key Points: Our bodies are ALWAYS changing, especially as women. We go through pregnancies, menopause... so how do we engage in body trust when our bodies keep changing?? Sometimes pregnancy can help grant a reprieve from an eating disorder. Weight gain fears with pregnancy are so common! Stressful transitions can trigger a relapse... Ellie Herman from Eating Recovery Center in Denver, Colorado joins to talk about how to keep us safe in these difficult times. Anxiety about body changes is normal! Take a breath, and remind yourself that it's going to be okay. Eating disorders feel so isolating, but the truth is that you are not alone. Sometimes people with a history of food and body struggles will place the stress and blame of new life changes on the body. We fixate there because that's familiar! But the truth is that this body anxiety might be about something else entirely. Find an eating disorder therapist or dietitian to help you on this journey. Investigate what body discomfort means to you! Does it tend to come up with strong emotions, or with the stressors of life? Sit with that discomfort and fear and be curious about it. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): If we try to push discomfort and fear away, it only brings on more discomfort and fear! Try connecting with your values, and continue living towards those values while still making space for that discomfort. Post-pregnancy can be a big trigger for relapse... for new moms, remember that nourishment for yourself is also nourishment for your child! Focus on taking care of yourself, along with taking care of your new baby. Start a gratitude practice to help ground you in your recovery. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Ellie's new podcast, Mental Note ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #1 Eating Recovery Center ---> This week's Food Peace syllabus addition #2 Contact Ellie at alumni@eatingrecovery.com Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you ready to leave dieting behind, but are too afraid to make that final leap and embrace intuitive eating? Are you looking for a way out, but aren't sure where to turn? Listen now to hear some great tips to transition into this part of the food peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my PCOS summer series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This series and our Facebook group will be with you every step of the way. Episode's Key Points: Diets don't work, and losing weight doesn't actually fix any of our problems! Dieting = MISERY! Healthy eating includes pleasure! If a certain eating pattern HURTS, then it's definitely a diet, and it's definitely not health promoting. We give food way too much power and brain space... we should only really have to think about food when it's meal time! Food preoccupation can lead to unhealthy eating behaviors. Compassion is key! It's super common to avoid "healthy" or "diet" foods like fruits and veggies, or to overeat when you first abandon dieting and restriction, all in an effort to overcompensate and make sure you don't fall back into disordered behaviors. So if you catch yourself engaging in these behaviors, just be kind and understanding to yourself. This is all a part of the mess of figuring out your own internal hunger, fullness, and satiety cues. And it won't last forever! This is a PROCESS! Food peace isn't a fast journey. Be curious about your eating behavior rather than judgmental. This will allow you to uncover the root of your food preoccupation! You may have to think about food a lot when you first start the intuitive eating journey, but this won't last. Think about learning how to drive or riding a bike... you have to think about it at first, but once you get it, it's intuitive. If jumping into intuitive eating still feels too scary, try experimenting with check-in times instead! Set an alarm so that you can check in with your hunger every three-ish hours throughout the day, every day. Make sure your check-in times go all the way until you're asleep, and do an intentional body scan to check in with your hunger, fatigue, and other bodily needs. Eventually, this will get you into the habit of checking in with yourself consistently, but not obsessively. Making peace with food is HARD, especially because we live in a world that hasn't recovered yet. Find a dietitian and/or therapist, group therapy, or an online course to help you on this journey! Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Evelyn Tribole's Love, Food Episode Paige Smathers' Nutrition Matters Podcast, Love, Food Episode, and online course Erica Leon's Love, Food Episode and online course Christy Harrison's Food Psych Podcast, Love, Food Episode, and online course Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you worried about your ability to raise a normal eater, when maybe you've never been one yourself? Do you worry about raising children in larger bodies because you fear they will live a life filled with eating issues and judgment? Listen now for some suggestions for navigating this difficult part of the food peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my PCOS summer series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This series and our Facebook group will be with you every step of the way. Episode's Key Points: Being in a larger body in this world is HARD. From clothing choices to fitting in chairs, fat bodies face oppression EVERY day. It IS possible to prepare children for this fatphobic world by telling them that you love them at ANY size. Leslie Schilling joins to talk solutions! Our culture is one of diet culture, and so it's not uncommon to have these fears when thinking about having children. Understanding our own development around food is a HUGE step in learning how to raise children with a healthy relationship with food. Sometimes we have to recognize that the way we were raised was super disordered! Use your nutrition intuition. Be ASSERTIVE about the way you raise your children. Remember that you are your child's protector! It's a parent's responsibility to teach body peace, rather than body hate, and to stand up against other adults who perpetuate body shame. Honesty builds bridges. It's not our job to change other people's minds, but it IS our job to be assertive about our own safe spaces. Values upheld by the family help a child to be self-protective. Make sure your kid knows that THEY are in charge of their own body. Kids have to be able to FAIL. As long as they have a safe home to come back to, we can't protect them from all of diet culture all of the time Baby-led weaning: use family food to wean kids off of the bottle. We are born as experts of our own body! Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch "Helping Your Large Child Thrive in a Fat-Phobic World" by Julie Duffy Dillon Born to Eat: Whole, Healthy Foods from Baby’s First Bite by Leslie Schilling and Wendy Jo Peterson ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Dr. Katja Rowell, The Feeding Doctor 10 Ways Born to Eat Parents Handout excerpt from Born to Eat ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Leslie's Instagram, website, and book website Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  Do you feel like you have to follow diet rules related to when you're allowed to eat? Have you experienced nighttime eating, and feel ashamed, or don't like that it interrupts your sleep cycle? Listen now for some experiments to help you along on this part of the food peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you the new PCOS summer series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey! Episode's Key Points: Our body has no idea when the sun sets or rises... so why do we have these harsh rules about when we can and can't eat?? Uninterrupted sleep is an important part of self-care! We're giving food WAY more power than it deserves. The word "lifestyle" is often used to normalize eating disorders or disordered eating. Eating disorders LOVE to rationalize and minimize the impacts of eating disorder behaviors. Low-energy availability: when someone's moving their body more than the calories they're giving it. When we restrict heavily, the body will eventually try to save itself by EATING! Emotional eating, binge eating, etc. are all really common reactions to not getting enough calories. This is the way the human species ensures its survival in times of famine. Your body didn't fail you; it did it's job! Food RESTRICTION leads to food OBSESSION. Food insecurity: when someone can't obtain food on a consistent basis, possibly due to financial difficulties. When this happens, it's very common for people to not eat according to hunger and fullness, and instead to eat whenever food is around. This can lead to eating past fullness. It's SO important to remember that we must fix ACCESS to food, before we can consider health. Healing your relationship with food and having unconditional permission to eat is the MOST important part of healthy eating! Do you feel like you have unconditional permission to eat? If not, you might want to explore intuitive eating with a registered dietitian. Waking up in the middle of the night to eat is REALLY common for someone who's not eating enough for many days at a time! Be sure that you're eating enough during the day (along with unconditional permission to eat)! This will help with the nighttime eating that wakes you up mid-sleep. TRUST YOUR HUNGER! Hormones are a big part of our hunger signals... if you consistently eat food in the middle of the night, your body will start to think that's meal time. And there's NOTHING wrong with that! But if you want to be sure that you have high quality sleep, experiment with changing your circadian rhythms. Work with a non-diet RD to help troubleshoot these different suggestions! Try having something ready made for you, so that if and when you DO wake up in the middle of the night, you're good to go! Anxiety and stress are often are part of this issue. Investigate how these factors play a role in your night eating! Try turning off all your electronics an hour or so before sleep, and develop a nighttime routine. This CAN include a nighttime snack!! Your body is NOT failing you! Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment Ellyn Satter's food hierarchy of needs Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you struggle with body image? Are you trying to find body peace, and to let go of body expectations? Listen now for some experiments to get through this part of the food peace journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye? Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Episode's Key Points: Making peace with food comes down to accepting ourselves! This includes accepting our needs and accepting the space we take up in the world. Our bodies are NOT meant to be controlled!! They will change constantly as we get older. Rosie Molinary joins to talk about body image! We ALL have something unique to offer the world. So much of our pain is related to our lack of awareness around our own self-worth. We are all fighting for our worth! Remember, our worth isn't rooted in our appearance. So how do we find our worthiness outside of our earth suit? We must remind ourselves that we are worthy simply by EXISTING! We pour energy and money into how we physically look in order to feel accepted... but this removes resources from experiences in our lives that might have the potential to EMPOWER us instead of disempower us. Diet culture and the beauty ideal PROFIT off of our insecurities. Self-acceptance is a journey!! All experiences are moments of information, rather than moments for judgment. Get curious! Unpack the internalized messages we have been taught about appearance and self-worth. We have to accept that our bodies ALWAYS change... so we can't attach our worth to one stagnant version of our bodies, because that will always be in flux. Imperfect cannot exist if there's no "perfect" in the first place... resist messaging around "effortless" perfection! The images we see of our world in the media are NOT REAL! We have to anchor our faith and belief in ourselves to how we FEEL, rather than how we look. Shaming ourselves NEVER works! It's actually very damaging, and it's not health promoting... we have to operate from a place of self-acceptance instead. Remember, self-acceptance doesn't mean that you don't want to grow in some way. But it does assert your worthiness RIGHT NOW, no matter what growth you achieve down the line. We're the experts of our own bodies! Self-acceptance is a super ACTIVE process. How do we give ourselves what we need every single day? Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Anna Guest-Jelley's Curvy Yoga Program and book, Curvy Yoga ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Body of Truth by Harriet Brown ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #4 Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #5 Rosie Molinary's website Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Have you dieted for you whole life? Are you looking for a way to help manage your health or a health condition, are being told that dieting and weight loss are the answer, but don't feel that's the right path for you? Listen now for some new options for better health. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Episode's Key Points: Dieting leads to bingeing! Diets don't work... but doctors still prescribe dieting to "help" with all kinds of health conditions. What gives? Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS): A super common endocrine disorder that often is "treated" with dieting. But there are other ways! Dieting is the GREATEST predictor of weight gain and developing an eating disorder. There seems to be some connection between eating disorders and PCOS... but there isn't enough research out there to figure out why! PCOS symptoms: Hormonal disregulation that affects ovulation, hunger/cravings, hair growth changes, central adiposity, high insulin levels, weight gain. Many of these symptoms impact body image in a negative way! People in fat bodies can suffer from anorexia!! Symptom changes/increases means intervention is needed... but it's not the time to blame the individual! It's time to manage the PCOS differently. Be aware of the more uncommon side effects of PCOS (eating disorders, ADD, constipation etc). PCOS is HIGHLY genetically influenced, and there are individuals with PCOS in smaller bodies... so what do doctors tell clients with PCOS to do when they are in a smaller body?? (This question applies to ALL medical intervention suggestions.) Healthcare providers can be extremely fatphobic... advocate for yourself!! If you have PCOS and your cravings are increasing, look into changing up your medication or increasing that amount of protein in your diet. Keep an eye on which foods energize you and which foods drain you! Try incorporating movement into your life, and make sure you have enough food fueling your body to support that movement. Get enough sleep!! Sleep is SO important for an all-around health-promoting routine. Turn off your screens! Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Love, Food Podcast Episode #31 Check out the PCOS Series! Dieting predicts weight gain and eating disorders. Evelyn Tribole’s helpful video on the research behind dieting. PCOS is not a pamphlet disease. Women with PCOS: Don’t touch diets with a 10 foot pole Dieting and PCOS can promote eating disorders Stop the Yo-Yo! Diets behind weight cycling negatively impacts PCOS How to eat with PCOS without dieting Monika Woolsey RD and her InCyst Network Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you feel shame around your relationship with food and your body? Are you worried about disclosing your eating behavior to a current partner or loved one? Do you find yourself thinking about food all the time? Listen now for some concrete solutions to overcome these barriers to food peace. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye? Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Episode's Key Points: Shame is so common in the eating disorder experience!! Antonia Hartley joins to help tackle this letter writer's struggles... Eating disorders make us feel so alone and isolated, but there are many people dealing with the same issues. Insight and awareness are vital to finding recovery and healing, but it can only take you so far. It's important to work with a dietitian or other eating disorder professional to find lasting recovery and make changes! Finding a Health at Every Size dietitian to work with is SUPER important to make sure you're in a safe environment to find help. If you're thinking about food all day long, definitely inquire if you're eating enough! Sometimes restriction is physical or mental, and adequacy with food is very important!! If you're bingeing, it's likely that you're NOT getting enough, no matter what size you are. It's NOT as simple as calories in, calories out. Our metabolism is MUCH more complicated than that! Sometimes there is fear in letting go of our eating disorder because there is a small part of us that feels these diet rules are serving us in some way... but they're not! "Honesty is the antithesis of eating disorder behavior." - Antonia Relationships are SO important in eating disorder recovery! Be honest with those you love, and set the boundaries around triggers. Eating behaviors can be a messenger for our emotions or our needs... listen to them! If you're in a situation where someone in your life is consistently triggering you, don't be afraid to bring them into a therapy session with you to parse out exactly what you need from them as a loved one. Remember, we live in diet-culture world, so give your loved ones some time to adjust to this new way of life! Be aware of your own internalized fat stigma when exploring recovery. You weren't born with food rules!! These are LEARNED behaviors and "truths." Checking back in with your treatment team post-recovery is SO important! Remember, we live in a world that hasn't recovered from its own eating disorder, so having a supportive community around you is essential for maintaining recovery. On feminism: Feminism is for everyone, not just women! Ending sexism is good for everyone. Ending weight stigma helps everyone! Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass. Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor mentioned in this episode Jessica Setnick Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Find Antonia on Instagram and Twitter! Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Do you deal with binge eating? Did you experience bullying, specifically within your own family, that relates to your body shape or size? Have you experienced sexual abuse, and feel that it has impacted your relationship with food and your body? Are you trying to set a healthy example for your own children after having a difficult relationship with food in your past? Listen now for some expert advice on how to cope with these body trust struggles. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds.   Check out this summer's special blog post series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. It aims to help you understand PCOS, improve your relationship with food, and advocate for better care. You will be hearing from nutrition grad student Kimberly Singh and her experiences with PCOS as well as evidenced based info to help arm yourself with the most up-to-date research. Find it here now: JulieDillonRD.com/PCOSseries Episode's Key Points: Sometimes our family environments can be just as toxic as this culture that we live in... remember, we ALL live in diet culture!! But that doesn't make our family's actions okay. Abuse, physical or mental, can have a profound impact on our relationship with food and our body. Lindsay Stenovec of The Nurtured Mama joins to talk about the complex interactions of motherhood and our relationship with food! Processing this kind of trauma is essential... find a therapist to work through these difficult emotions and to help you cope with your past! Sometimes we use food to cope with our emotions... this is totally understandable, but we can take steps to help heal this part of our relationship with food if we find it interfering with us living our lives. We are all doing the very best that we can under our own circumstances! This doesn't make us a failure or a fraud. How do we feed others when we've had such a fraught relationship with food and body ourselves? As parents, we do our best to shield our children from pain, especially from pain that we have experienced ourselves. Many mamas are trying to shield their children from the pain that they themselves experienced in relation to food and body... but sometimes this backfires when parents do so by trying to get their children to lose weight or to eat in a "perfect" way. Feeling acceptable is SO important to finding body peace and body trust! Instead of repeating the same cycle of trying to control your own child's food intake or body shape, focus on the unconditional acceptance you have for your child and help them to foster this body acceptance in themselves, no matter the outside influences. We should ALWAYS feel safe at home, even if we live in diet-culture world! We're all just doing the best that we can!! What does it mean to eat in a "healthy" way? How do we make peace with food and our bodies? Ellyn Satter's definition of normal eating is a helpful resource!! Healthy eating is more about being connected to life, not about what we put in our bodies. Our relationship with food and our bodies is about very complicated, difficult, and personal truths. It has to do with the food, but it also doesn't! Our past has a HUGE impact on all of this, and it's SO important to find support around figuring all of this stuff out. Find a trauma, Health at Every Size, and eating-disorder-trained therapist or dietitian to help you along this journey!! Raising children brings up the difficult parts in ourselves that still need more work. Going to therapy is a BRAVE choice! It is hard, but it gives us the tools to move forward in our lives and find healing. Stress, discomfort, and feeling like a fraud are messages from our body! These emotions mean there is something that needs to be addressed within. Secretive eating, shame, and hiding of food is an understandable reaction to growing up in an environment that body and food shamed you! The important question is not, "How do I stop," but, "What do these actions tell me about my needs?" Sometimes we don't learn sustainable coping skills as a child... therapy can help us bolster our toolbox of coping mechanisms as adults! Normal eating is FLEXIBLE!!! Normal eating is trusting our body to make up for our "mistakes" in our eating, and being compassionate about our choices. In the end, it is JUST food. When you trust your body to take care of yourself, it'll do the best that it can. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Check out the Empowering Your PCOS Journey Series. Lindsay Stenovec's first episode on the Love, Food Podcast Ellyn Satter's definition of "normal eating" Secrets to Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #1 The Nurtured Mama Program & Community with Lindsay Stenovec ---> This week's Food Syllabus addition #2 Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy