It's Not About Food Podcast with Laurelee Roark

This show is about how recovery is not only beneficial to ourselves but to all who come into contact with us. It’s good for us, our neighborhood, our town, our state, our country and our world.

Margot Magowan is a writer and commentator. Her blog Reel Girl is dedicated to imagining gender equality in the fantasy world. Reel Girl's posts have also been featured on, written about, or linked to major sites around the web including The Week (best opinion), Jezebel, HuffPostLive, Shakesville, feministing.com, Blogher (Spotlight Blogger), Forbes.com, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, New York Times, Adweek, Ms., Bitch (best posts of the internet), SFGate, Harvard Political Review, Le Figaro, Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, Feminist Current, Washington Post, Common Sense Media, and many more.Margot's articles on politics and culture have been in Salon, Glamour, the San Jose Mercury News, and numerous other newspapers and online sites. She has appeared on “Good Morning America,” CNN, Fox News, and other TV and radio programs. For many years, Margot worked as talk radio producer creating top-rated programs. In 1998, Margot co-founded the Woodhull Institute an organization that trains young women to be leaders and change agents. Margot’s short story “Light Me Up” is featured in the anthology Sugar In My Bowl (Ecco 2011) and she is currently writing a Middle Grade novel about the fairyworld. Margot lives with her husband and their three daughters in San Francisco.

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3 prong recovery and prevention model of Beyond Hunger Presentations of the Peer Educators. The 3 prong model we teach is body acceptance, intuitive eating and emotional wisdom. In this show I interview 3 of our recent peer educators about how they go into schools and talk about how to recover from disordered eating and body dissatisfaction as well as preventing disordered eating and body dissatisfaction. Using a interactive power point students learn what the problem is, where it came from and what to do. Body Acceptance:In this culture, individuals learn to value an unrealistic and unattainable “perfect body” and equate thinness with being “good, attractive, and worthy”. Feelings of low self-worth and self-doubt become misplaced upon bodies, creating a very negative and sometimes abusive relationship with their bodies. People can recreate their relationship with their bodies by healing the body shame and developing acceptance for their natural bodies. Intuitive Eating: People struggling with food and weight issues are usually out of touch with the physiological cues that signal hunger and satisfaction. The restrictive nature of most diets leads to feelings of deprivation and can actually worsen compulsive behavior, leading to the diet/binge cycle. By re-learning to eat intuitively, people can base their food choices on internal bodily signals of hunger, satisfaction, and fullness. Emotion Wisdom: (The symptoms or behaviors of eating disorders (overeating, under-eating, and the obsession with food and weight) are often developed by people as ways of coping with psychological stress. In order to create alternative ways to meet their emotional and spiritual needs, it is first necessary to develop emotional wisdom: the ability to identify, express and process emotions. The Peer Educators are: Zoe Hamblett Hanna Vogel Brianna Thompson Kayla Rodriguezz

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Fullness with CathyAnn Intemann Fullness is the bodily experience of having just enough to eat...not too much and not too little. When we slow down, stay conscious and go within, we can hear or feel this natural bodily sensation. Every person experiences fullness different and some of us have learned to ignore this signal. To experience fullness you may need to practice listening to your body. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Emily Ireland Cox is a nonprofit event manager, body liberation motivator, community builder and sunshine cadet based out of Sacramento, CA.In recovery from B.E.D. Since 2009 IG & FB @luckybombshell Inhabit means to live in our bodies, not in our heads. When we learn to be present in our bodies, to move out of the obsessive thinking and into our feelings, we can learn to identify and meet our physical, emotional and spiritual needs. First, we must be aware that we are in the obsession, in the thinking, in the head. Then we can use our breath to bring our awareness into our body and explore what we are experiencing in the bodies. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★