Rebuilding Your Relationship with Your Body to Thrive with guest Alison Acerra, RDN.

Do you ever feel like you have to push your body past what it wants to do, or ignore symptoms to get through? Do you feel burnt out, anxious or exhausted?

We all know what it’s like to wish we didn’t have limits, but today on the Period Chats podcast, we’re chatting with a coach who helps people reconcile their relationship with their bodies in order to thrive within their human capacity. I’m so excited for you to learn from all of the wisdom and insight that my guest shares on this episode.

Alison Acerra MS, RDN has been a functional and integrative registered dietician-nutritionist for almost 20 years. She founded her consulting and coaching agency, Strategic Nutrition Design, to help brands develop high quality health products and individuals balance their nutrition.

Her one-on-one consulting focuses on hormone health, gut flora and restoring energy levels, and she loves working with women in all phases of the life cycle, helping them restore balance so they can live the life they love.

We can get so busy in life that we ignore our bodies when they begin to tell us they need something. In this episode, Alison shares how she’s learned to tune in to her body and support it, practicing cyclical self-care and holistic nutrition. These practices helped her recover and rebuild after some serious health issues, so don’t be afraid to feel a little hope if you’re experiencing a health setback in this season.

Alison had to adjust her relationship to movement, food, and her schedule in order to support her body’s recovery. We talk about why that’s hard to do, how society doesn’t teach us to heal intuitively, and how to reconnect with our whole selves.

Alison also describes her use of Internal Family Systems theory to get in touch with her own needs, and the benefits of this method in her healing process.

We chat about rest, routines, lifestyle, and intuitive eating during different parts of our cycle, and Alison shares some of her more recent scheduling and eating practices now that she’s recovered.