Body Peace Collective

Intuitive Eating can seem like a scary prospect when you've been measuring, weighing, counting, and restricting for most of your life. What if all my body wants to eat is ice cream? What if I do it wrong? What if I can't do it all? What is Intuitive Eating anyway?

This podcast dives into three of the most common concerns that keep women from trying out Intuitive Eating and talks about how re-learning to be intuitive can influence more than just your relationship with food.

Positive body image is a complex and nuanced subject, but it doesn't have to be. How we see and feel about our bodies directly affects how we treat them and often times we withhold thinking positively about our bodies until we wear a certain size or weigh a certain amount. Then, once we have reached that place, we will finally be "worthy" of having a positive body image. However, studies have shown that changing our bodies in order to have a better body image is not the answer. In fact, if we want to engage in more healthy behaviors, the best way to get started is to change what we think about our bodies and develop a more positive body image FIRST. This episode discusses three principles that you can apply to help improve your body image and move forward with your goals.

It is important that you know that a peaceful, guilt-free, healthy relationship with food is possible! Many women express concerns that they cannot trust themselves to be around certain kinds of food without feeling like they have lost control. While it may seem counterintuitive, letting go of all the restrictions and food rules that you have learned over the years is critical in re-establishing a healthy relationship with food. While "unlearning" all food rules may seem like a daunting task, know that it is possible! It is done through small, simple steps that are designed to empower you and help you reconnect with, and trust, your intuition. You already have everything you need to be the expert of yourself and your body! In this episode, we dive into three of seven helpful principles that are necessary in order to learn to trust yourself again and re-establish a healthy relationship with food. Show notes Certified Therapists and RD's specializing in eating disorders Emily Fonnesbeck https://emilyfonnesbeck.com/services/ Tiffany Roe https://mindfulcounselingutah.com/ National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) practitioner guide https://map.nationaleatingdisorders.org/ Brene Brown: The Anatomy of Trust https://brenebrown.com/videos/anatomy-trust-video/

Have you ever committed to a new diet and worked so, so hard only to find yourself back at the same place you started? Our natural reaction is to feel shame and to blame ourselves for a lack of willpower and self-discipline. However, what if the problem never was you at all? What if your diet was designed to fail before you even started?

In this episode, you and I are going to explore the science behind why diets fail. We are also going to talk about what other things you can do to be healthy if you decide to leave dieting behind for good.