Find Your Food Voice

Have you been trying to recover from your eating disorder yet constantly slipping back in? Been in and out of treatment? We hope you know you are not alone. Check out this week's featured Dear Food letter and listen to the wise and compassionate wisdom from Corrie Van Horne and Melissa Preston. Episode's Key Points: Special guests: Corrie Van Horne and Melissa Preston, both Licensed Professional Counselors (Corrie is a candidate) and Registered Dietitians, co-founders of Omni Counseling and Nutrition. Many with eating disorders find themselves going in and out of various levels of treatment throughout their recovery journey. Transitioning out of a higher level of care where there is fairly constant support can be challenging in many ways, particularly when it comes to "normalizing" one's relationship with food. Oftentimes, our relationship with food and how we perceive it, mirrors other relationships and forms of oppression in our life. Autonomy and self-compassion are both powerful tools in healing both our relationship with individuals and food. Good self-reminder: Food is essential to life. It is okay (and necessary) to want to and need to eat. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Omni Counseling and Nutrition's Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter--->This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Omni Counseling and Nutrition Blog---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Kristin Neff's Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #4 Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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 been been making steps towards body acceptance, but find yourself stuck when it comes to letting go of certain eating behaviors? Perhaps, you are one of many of those with an eating disorder who has suffered from trauma? Listen to this week's episode with special guest Amy Pershing as she helps guide listeners along their recovery journey so that they can begin their healing process from trauma. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the Love, Food Podcast store. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: *Content Warning: discussion of sexual abuse Special guest Amy Pershing, licensed clinical social worker and founder of the Body Wise binge eating disorder recovery program and the Hunger Wise program as well as author of Binge Eating Disorder-The Journey to Recovery and Beyond. Many individuals who experience eating disorders have a history of trauma. Our culture has not recovered from its own eating disorder. When we are capable of making some steps forward in our culture's recovery from its eating disorder (and acceptance of all bodies), we can begin creating space to process our individual trauma so that healing can happen. Trauma, particularly sexual trauma, makes an individual feel as though their physical being is not okay. We must begin challenging cultural narratives that perpetuate body hate/fat phobia, such as that an individual's size predicts their health (spoiler alert: NOT true), in order to allow this trauma work to be able to take place. Additionally, filter your environment/social media: "If an image makes you feel bad, don't consume it." ~Amy Pershing Healing from an eating disorder includes honoring what the eating disorder/food behaviors has done for an individual's survival as well as adding tools, in addition to food, to one's toolbox for coping. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Dr. Laura Brown's Not the Price of Admission ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Amy Pershing's Binge Eating Disorder-The Journey to Recovery and Beyond---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Amy Pershing's Website #1 and Website #2---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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 struggled with a complicated relationship with food, and all its twists and turns, for way too long? Maybe your family taught you body hate and ways to diet instead of enjoying food and pleasurable movement. This week's letter writer has really tried to heal their relationship with food yet can't stop thinking about food, bingeing, obsessing, and hating on their body. Can things change? Can they show their young family a different way?? Listen now for Season 2 finale with special guest Heidi Schauster, author of Nourish. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the Love, Food Podcast store. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Special guest Heidi Schauster, registered dietitian and eating disorder specialist of A Nourishing Word As human beings, we are designed to think about food--on average, about 200 times per day. When thoughts about food interfere with your relationships and connecting to joy in your life, this is called food preoccupation. A restrictive mindset (and/or actual food restriction) often goes hand-in-hand with food preoccupation, leading to particular foods becoming "charged" and transformed into binge foods. Non-judgmental observation of the thoughts and feelings you have around your daily food choices and interactions with food is an important first step in neutralizing food and healing your relationship with these "charged" foods. If possible, seek out a registered dietitian who specializes in disordered eating. Avoid dietitians that label foods "good" or "bad" or prescribe limitations of foods. Healing from food preoccupation means leaning into your own internal cues and not relying on external methods for food choices. Your body does not need to be fixed. Our culture is what is broken. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Heidi Schauster's Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Heidi Schauster's Blog/Website---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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 experienced a chaotic relationship with food full of diets and shame? Do you struggle with an addiction to alcohol and wonder if abstinence looks the same with food and alcohol? Are you exploring intuitive eating concepts yet feel out of control? Listen to the latest Love Food podcast with special guest Victoria Welsby. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the Love, Food Podcast store. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Special guest Victoria Welsby from BamPowLife. Dieting and making strides to lose weight and change your body in an effort to get the things you want in life (or to just simply be accepted) is the rule in our society rather than the exception Research shows that those who embark on a dieting journey regain a significant amount of the weight lost within the first year and all or most of the weight back at year five. So what does this mean? Diets don't work. Additionally, dieting frequently induces shame. Shame that isn't yours to carry as you don't fail at diets. Rather, the diets fail you and this shame burden belongs to our oppressive society. Sometimes alcohol dependence coincides with one's eating concerns. However, it is important to separate these as while you can be addicted to alcohol, you cannot be addicted to food. You need food to live whereas your survival isn't dependent on alcohol. In addition, while you can have a "normal" physical and emotional relationship with food as you recover from disordered eating, you may not be able to have the same relationship with alcohol moving forward. As you begin to heal, it is important to make space to honor how you've been coping and keeping yourself alive. As you explore Intuitive Eating, it is common to feel like you are constantly battling your brain in the beginning. This is because your body has to learn to trust you again and know food is unconditionally accessible. Be kind to yourself, be patient with yourself, and remove the shame as you begin your Intuitive Eating journey. It is challenging work and takes time. Healing from internalized fat phobia is a huge part of this journey as well and means learning to feel at home in your body as it is now as there are no body size guarantees. Fat bodies are "normal" bodies too. Connecting with those who live in fat bodies is an important step in healing your relationship with food and your body. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Victoria Welsby's Free E-course: Extreme Confidence Makeover  ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Victoria Welsby's Tedx Talk---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Victoria Welsby's Free Webinar: How to Unleash Your Inner Confidence Warrior ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Victoria Welsby's Website, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest Remember: "You can't be addicted to something you need to live"~Amy Pershing, LCSW Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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

How many times have you read about someone curing their diabetes or PCOS with food? Feel frustrated you can't too?? Listen to latest Love Food Podcast episode for ways to move forward while healing your relationship with food and your body. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is now open! You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the whole Love, Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Do you have a long history of dieting in your efforts to control or cure a medical condition or to just feel like you fit in within our society? Many of the medical conditions we experience are blamed on ourselves. You are not to blame! Food is not to blame! These conditions are often genetically-based and incurable. The "Shoulds" imposed on us by society lead to guilt, shame, and distrusting our innate wisdom that we all have for identifying our body's needs Diet seduction/"Should Eat Fantasy Compliance" is commonly experienced upon embarking on a new diet as we feel like we are moving towards meeting societal body standards. However, this distracts us from the destructive nature of dieting. Research shows that diets do not work long-term and they predict weight gain and exacerbate many of the markers of medical conditions. So, why do diets continue to be sought out? Fat Phobia, White Supremacy, and Misogyny. We want to feel accepted, safe, and at home in our own skin. This is completely understandable. However, we don't need to be fixed and our bodies don't need to be fixed. Rather, society needs to be fixed. Connecting with fat activists is an important step in dismantling the "Should Eat Fantasy Compliance" and fat phobia. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Meredith Noble Instagram ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Julie Dillon and Kimberly Singh blog posts---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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 diabetes, high cholesterol, a food intolerance or PCOS and been told to cut something out of your regular eating? Have you finally rejected diet culture and found food peace, but are struggling with gentle nutrition? Are you concerned that changing your food choices due to health concerns might lead you back to restriction and deprivation? Listen now as special guest, Vincci Tsui, and I break down this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is open! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the whole Love, Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Nutrition is NOT an exact science!! It's a fluid concept, and very individual. Vincci Tsui joins us to chat about gentle nutrition and intuitive eating! Finding the balance between gentle nutrition and diet mentality can be so hard. Too much of the nutrition information out there is so tainted with diet culture! What even is gentle nutrition? It's less about food rules, and more about what makes our bodies feel good. It's all about our INTENTION! Nutrition is super individual! Your own experience with certain foods is way more important than what the current research says. There are way too many books out there that claim to be non-diet, but still perpetuate diet culture and the thin ideal. It's so hard to escape it! So be careful with the anti-diet media that you consume, and decide for yourself which parts of these books and films are helpful, and which parts are harmful. Rely on your intuition to tell you which is which! It's about what works for YOU! The research may give us some parameters, but we need to rely on our own body cues to figure out what actually works for us. It's literally about experimenting on ourselves. You can incorporate foods that are typically considered "diet foods" without them being about dieting and weight loss. It's about making choices out of self-care! When the intention is different, it makes ALL the difference. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Vincci's guest episode of the Nutrition Matters Podcast with Paige Smathers "Can Meal Planning and Meal Prep Work with Intuitive Eating?" by Vincci Tsui ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Vincci's Free E-Book, Stop the Food Fight ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Get in touch with Vincci on her website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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 food has way too much power in your life and don't see a way out?  Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is open! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the whole Love, Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: How do we know when food has too much power? It's when we're thinking about it ALL DAY LONG. At night, while you're eating a meal... all day. We as humans are wired to survive, and if we're not getting access to enough food, our bodies are going to send food preoccupation into overdrive. But there are ways to think about food in a calmer way! And it isn't more restriction. Remember, food preoccupation is you being a successful human. We don't want to demonize that! Diet culture and body hatred perpetuate all of these food rules and body rules, but these rules are manmade... they don't actually help us, and they disconnect us from our internal wisdom. Using food to soothe is a SKILL! It's not something to feel shameful about. But maybe this coping skill doesn't suit you anymore, and that's okay. Unconditional permission to eat is KEY to reducing food preoccupation, and as long as you're giving yourself permission, you can explore what I call symbolic hunger. Food also has too little power in our life... but what does this mean? It means that we aren't giving ourselves room within our relationship with food for anything but food as fuel. We also need food for pleasure, and we need to give ourselves true unconditional permission to eat. You don't need to be fixed... the world does! Food is the GREATEST connector. It unites us, and it connects us to ourselves. Our relationship with food is a great window into our relationship with ourselves. When we make peace with food, we make peace with ourselves. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. My guest spot on Don't Salt My Game Podcast The She's All Fat Podcast My blog post, "When Relying on Hunger is Too Scary" ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 My blog post, "What is Symbolic Hunger?" ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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 ever described your relationship with food as an addiction? Do you think that Food Peace™ will never work for you because you're addicted to certain kinds of food? Listen now to get my take on this Food Peace™ challenge. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment is open! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the whole Love, Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Your feelings about being addicted to food are valid... BUT, it's important to investigate WHY we feel that way, and to dig deeper. We live in a world where controlling our food and having a certain body size are thought to go hand-in-hand. We think that if we eat less, we're going to weigh less, and that people in larger bodies just don't have "discipline" when it comes to food. But this just isn't true!! Internalized fatphobia and the desire to find acceptance in our thin-obsessed culture can drive us towards dieting, and the desire to restrict our food. It can also push us towards removing pleasure from our lives, whether it's about food, sex, or anything else! If we were allowed to embrace pleasure, I think that the feeling of addiction around food would change. If we aren't giving ourselves PERMISSION to have pleasure, we are going to subconsciously restrict and deprive ourselves of food. This is not your fault! Our body pushes us to be preoccupied with food when we deprive ourselves of food. Restriction keeps the food-preoccupation going!! Compassion and permission are key, not keeping ourselves "under control." Name the moments when food has too much power!! Our bodies and our brains just want us to stay alive, and the feeling of food addiction is actually how our bodies continue to try and stay alive. Remember, your needs aren't a burden. You are NOT too needy! Redefine your expectations around meeting your needs. Consider how thin privilege plays a role in feeling like we need to fix ourselves. Put the anger and the burden where it belongs! Not on us, but on the fatphobic society in which we live. Strive for embodiment, pleasure, satisfaction, and compassion. Patients with PCOS often experience even more intense feelings about being addicted to food, especially because most doctors encourage people with PCOS to cut out carbs. But carbs are not the enemy! By removing them from your diet, you just increase the need for them, and the feeling of being out of control around them. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Amy Pershing's work Episode 70 of the Love, Food Podcast with Marci Evans Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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 healing your relationship with food and your body and are coming to the point of beginning to crave joyful movement and gentle nutrition, but are worried that delving into this part of the Food Peace™ journey will jeopardize your recovery? Are the people around you still stuck in diet culture, and you're finding your relationship with them increasingly difficult as you move closer to Food Peace™? Listen now as special guest, Sarah Thompson, and I give our take on these Food Peace™ challenges. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment opens TODAY! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the whole Love Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Sarah Thompson joins us to break down this week's letter! Internalized weight stigma and diet culture are challenging to let go of, but it's necessary to find peace with food and our bodies. Fatphobia is SO entrenched in all of us, and it hurts everyone no matter our body size! Everyone is indoctrinated into diet culture, especially those of us who have been socialized as women. Family dynamics can play a big role in how we relate to food and our bodies, especially if as children we're made to act in a parental role. Embracing food and body actions that stereotypically have ties to dieting and restriction can be scary, but we don't have to engage with joyful movement and gentle nutrition in a disordered way! They can be nourishing actions, and they don't have to belong to diet culture. Body changes can be triggering, and weight loss may make us feel like we're betraying the fat-acceptance community. Body changes can also throw our body-acceptance process for a loop, making us have to start the process of embracing our new shape all over again. But body changes are inevitable! Make sure that you're aware of your privilege, and acknowledge it! Make room for marginalized voices. We get to enjoy salads and movement without promising ourselves weight loss and without falling down a disordered rabbit hole. The more that we heal our relationship with food, the less we will feel that foods are "healthy" or "unhealthy." There are people in larger bodies that have an active lifestyle! We DON'T have to be a small body to enjoy movement, and we don't have to pursue movement for the sake of weight loss. Movement belongs to everyone! We're all continually doing our own work and finding our own path. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Be Nourished's e-course, Promoting Body Trust in Your Work (plus the Spanish version!), their Embodied Practitioner retreat, and The Body Trust Provider Certification Training ---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition Find Sarah on her website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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 struggling to find a peaceful relationship with food? Do you just want to feel normal again around food? Do you feel like food is taking up too much of your brain space? Listen now to get tips on how to handle this part of the Food Peace™ journey. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Sign up now to get on the waitlist for the next enrollment period in April, and receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the whole Love Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Food is an ultimate connector! It helps us to define our culture, family, and community. Health at Every Size was started during the late 60s to discuss the mistreatment of people in larger bodies. Mealtime should be pleasurable, but for some of us, it becomes a battlefield. Obsession around food develops from deprivation around food! But this means food starts to develop TOO MUCH meaning, to the point that it interferes with our life. Our relationship with food is often a mirror image to how we're relating to something or someone else in our life. It indicates an unmet need! We have everything within us to meet our needs, and so investigating what those needs are might be the key! What would it be like to no longer fight the power that food has in your life? What if you gave food the power that it wants, and gave yourself permission to spend more time with food? Or to bring new foods home? To eat them and appreciate them? Instead of fighting food, what if you gave it the power that it's been yearning for? Connect with food in a way that gives you space to experiment! Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. The Intuitive Eating Workbook by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. 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