It's Not About Food

Truth is our own internal wisdom that defines who we are. Finding our own truth means figuring out the difference between what we've been told we should be, verses who we really are. Often time in the past our true feelings, passions, opinions, and experiences were ignored, rejected, or just not encouraged. When we can relearn to identify what our own truth is, we are able to put into action what our heart and soul desires. Dr. Daganzo is an Internal Medicine physician with over 15 years of experience. She holds an MA in Physics from UC Berkeley and an MD from UCSF, bringing a uniquely analytical and integrative approach to patient care. Her advanced training in psychiatry and functional medicine allows her to address health challenges at the intersection of mind and body.Based in Marin County, Dr. Daganzo's clinic specializes in treating complex chronic conditions, eating disorders, and hard-to-diagnose symptoms. She prioritizes identifying root causes over simply treating symptoms—rejecting the "pill for every ill" mindset in favor of promoting long-term vitality and health span.Committed to science-driven, innovative care, Dr. Daganzo utilizes cutting-edge diagnostics and personalized interventions to empower her patients in achieving optimal wellness. She is known for her deep intellect, logical rigor, and genuine curiosity, balanced by compassion and a relentless dedication to her patients. As a tireless advocate, she ensures each patient receives the specialized, comprehensive care they need to reach their health goals. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Expressing ourselves is a way to live our truth in our bodies, minds and souls. Many times we've been taught that to express our feelings, to put up boundaries, to be honest, and to just allow ourselves to be ourselves it might be upsetting to others. The real truth is, if we let ourselves show our “whole self”, it is beneficial for everyone."Expressing Yourself” read by Carol Normandi, page 158.“It's Not About Food” by Carol Normandi and Laurelee Roark.Carol Normandi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice since 1992. She is a co-founder of Beyond Hunger, Inc. and co-author with Laurelee Roark of two books developing Beyond Hunger's approach: It's Not About Food: Ending Your Obsession with Food and Weight (Putnam 1998), and Over It: A Teen's Guide To Getting Beyond Food and Weight (New World Library 2001). Carol works with adults, children, couples and families, specializing in eating disorders and body image disturbances. She has facilitated support groups, led workshops, and lectured about eating disorders for more than twenty years. Carol provides clinical consultation for Beyond Hunger. She is also the Executive of Amrita Eating Disorder Treatment. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

If you know the word divine means holy or sacred, then you have a clue to the meaning of divinity, which can be a god or other religious being. Anything very holy is full of divinity. Divinity is also the subject of religion itself: divinity students are studying theology. But if you're not into religion, don't worry — you can still enjoy divinity, a type of white, creamy fudge made with egg whites that probably goes well with angel food cake.The definition above was something I could totally get behind. I  found it by googling divinity on the website, “vocabulary.com.” Loved it. Especially because there are other god-like-angelic things that are divine could also taste good…like…Yummmmmy white creamy fudge and Angel food cake. Yes please. When I was able to recover from my addictions, my disorders and my need to control everything frigging thing in my life, but also let go of the idea that being divine was something outside myself, I was able to truly step into who I really was.  What I learned was all parts of me and every thing else in the universe was already divine. We all are body, mind and spirit. We may forget that fact but there it is. No matter who, what or where we are on our journey we are the essence of love, acceptance, peace and joy. Of course we can choose to deny our divinity and go towards a much darker place but we will never really be happy or successful because it's not our true self. As I've been writing about some of the profound things my brother and I talked about as he lay dying was the idea of grace and being pure love as a much easier way to live our lives. One night as I sat with him we talked about how hard our childhood had been. We'd been abused, abandoned, and hurt by the grown ups in our lives. And the pain of it was, for no other reason, than it was probably the way they had been treated by their caretakers. So it was generational, and we eventually we had the power to stop that cycle of suffering ourselves as did they, even though they did not. So the discussion was why? My brother said with tears rolling down his cheeks,” It was so easy to do the right thing. Much much easier than the hard thing which is the wrong thing.”Now I have to say he said this as he was dying of Alzheimer's, as he had not eaten in days and as he was so very sick. If this is not the definition of being in the divine, of experiencing divinity, of being in the state of grace, I don't have any idea what would be. My takeaway is we all have a choice. To realize all parts of us are divine because we are pure divinity just by existing. Or, of course, we can step aside our true nature and force ourselves to not be divine. But where's the fun in that? No where. That's where. Here is a wonderful article and obituary about my wonderful brother Keith St Clare from Cynthia Laird of the Bay Area Reporter Newspaper. So grateful to the LBGT community for their support and dedication to the truth. Kelsy Keenan, NDTRDirector of Outreach, Nutrition CounselorWilla Wellness CenterDirect: 707-755-1174Office: 707-780-5323Fax: 707-780-5322 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Author and Founder/CEO, Certified Business Archetype Coach™, Certified Money Coach (CMC)®Deborah Price is the Founder and CEO of the Money Coaching Institute, which provides money coaching services and training to individuals, couples and families.Deborah Price is the Founder and CEO of the Money Coaching Institute and the pioneer of the field of Behavioral Money Coaching. The Money Coaching Institute provides money coaching services and training to individuals, couples, families and business owners.  A former financial advisor for over twenty years with firms such as Merrill Lynch, Mass Mutual, AIG and London Pacific Advisors, Deborah left the financial industry in 2001 to create an entirely new field dedicated to helping people more deeply understand and change their underlying money patterns, emotions and behaviors around money.Coping with money issues, both practically and psychologically, continues to be a major life   struggle for millions of people and yet, there is very little help available. As a result, people often manifest money patterns, beliefs and behaviors that can prevent them from experiencing their full financial potential. Deborah has developed a unique, step-by-step coaching program that helps clients move beyond barriers to their personal and financial success. As a result, client's experience renewed hope, restored relationships, increased confidence, and enhanced personal and financial success.Through education and awareness, Deborah is committed to empowering others both personally and financially. She is the author of Money Therapy: Using the Eight Money Types to Create Wealth and Prosperity; Money Magic: Unleashing Your Potential for Wealth and Prosperity; and her latest book, The Heart of Money: A Couples Guide to Creating True Financial Intimacy. She is considered one of the foremost experts in her field and speaks and teaches globally. She has trained thousands of Certified Money Coaches (CMC)® in over 36 countries around the world including the USA, Canada, Singapore, England, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, South Africa, Holland, and New Zealand and more. dprice@moneycoachinginstitute.com (415) 895-1069 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The audio podcast on this newsletter today is read by Carol Normandi from our first book, “It's Not About Food”. It's about getting in touch with your spiritual path and you can find it written out on page 137.Carol Normandi ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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 cause our breath to being our awareness into our body and explore what we are experiencing in our bodies. The podcast today is me interviewing me about living in the bodies we have, taking care of the bodies we have and loving the bodies we have. I get asked all the time by those who are recovering from disordered eating and body dysmorphia, "how the hell am I supposed to do that?"I agree it seems impossible because so many of us have been told never to accept the weight we have, or the body we have, or the image we have, if it's not perfect. So we didn't and it has caused untold damage.  But we can change. We can accept our weight, no matter what it is right now, as a starting point. And then we can work to be satisfied with our natural weight. Which brings up the other question I also get asked all the time. “What is my normal weight? And when will I get there and how will I know that's it?”The answer is…When we consistently eat when we are hungry, consistently eat what our bodies want to eat and we consistently stop when full…we will go to a weight ourbodies want to be at. When we exercise in a way our bodies want to exercise, get enough sleep, cut down on stress, follow our path and love ourselves body, mind and spirit, no matter what, we will be at our normal size. And of course we have to consider it all at this age, with this DNA, with this life style and with this life…for the rest of our lives. Subject to change cause if we don't die, we'll get older. Right? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This show is about using the example of a spiral as a recovery mechanism from disordered eating, body disturbances, addictions, depressions, anxieties and so many other coping mechanisms people suffer from. The progress towards health when followed by the non linear idea of a spiral allows for the development of new and more effective coping strategies used to achieve complete wellness. Taylor Houston Taylor of The Golden Yarrow is a Holistic and Functional Nutritionist, Clinical Herbalist and Flower Essence Practitioner, Health-Supportive Chef, Personal Trainer, and Reiki Healer. As a third-generation wellness practitioner and entrepreneur, Taylor comes from a long lineage of women in the health space, carrying forward a deep-rooted passion for whole foods, healing plants, the earth, and joyful movement. Taylor helps others reconnect with their bodies and nature to cultivate balance, vitality, and self-nourishment. Taylor's journey—from the fast-paced culinary world to holistic wellness—shaped her unique approach, blending nutrition, delicious meals, herbalism, and movement to support lasting transformation. Through one-on-one integrative health coaching, herbal consultations, and private chef services, Taylor empowers others to trust their innate wisdom and live in harmony with themselves and the natural world.  Ways to connect with Taylor: Email I Website I Substack I Instagram ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This show is about finding and following our purpose. We are all here to share our gifts and our experiences as we walk our many paths of discovery. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves.Erin Byous, MFT has been working with individuals and families since 2010. She's worked in private practice and for a large healthcare organization as a therapist and also a mental health educator. Erin currently works at Willa Wellness Center in Petaluma where she facilitates groups and teaches classes focused on building helpful skills to replace eating disorder behaviors (and other harmful long term coping strategies). In addition to the treatment of eating disorders, Erin also has experience in the treatment of anxiety, depression, substance use problems, and perinatal mood disorders ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Spiritual Being Visualization by Carol Normandi from our book, “It's Not About Food”. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Laurelee and Carol talk about what is true recovery and how to get there. Carol has been working with eating disorder recovery since 1988 when she co-founded Beyond Hunger with Laurelee Roark, a non-profit that provides support groups and eating disorder prevention education. In 1998 they published their first book It's Not About Food, based on their own recovery and their work with eating disorder clients. They later published Over It: A Teens Guide to Ending the Obsession with Food and Weight, and Body Love Cards. For more information about Carol or Amrita Treatment Center please contact her below. Carol Normandi, LMFT, Lic. #29505, 30 N. San Pedro Road, Ste. 265, San Rafael, CA 94903, (415) 488-1104  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Trust is knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn't work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need. Jenny Sederholm, LCSW While I have been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for 14 years, life quieted and expanded for me eleven years ago when I was intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. I co facilitated a DBT Yearlong program for three years at Kaiser Permanente while training clinicians in DBT skills and principles.  Through DBT, my perceptions were blown to pieces as I practiced intentional awareness, mindfulness and ever present dialectics. I also came to appreciate the functional power of life skills and understanding the purpose of our emotions.My life journey has since brought me to the Willa Wellness team. Here, I am honored to share with and grow alongside those whom are struggling with eating disorders. Through our work together, we strive to uncover the worn out stories that keep us from the freedoms that are our birthright. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This week's offering is about creativity. It's a recording Carol Normandi and I made. It's on our CD of several visualizations found in our book, It's Not About Food. We talk about using Creativity as a way to recover from disorder eating and body disturbances. I hope you have as much fun listening to it as we did making it.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Today's podcast is about the many miracles of recovery and remembering we are at choice to either accept the miracles or to step around them. Recovery is about opening our hearts to life, to health and to love for ourselves. Melanie Larson MA, RDNNutrition DirectorWilla Wellness Center Email: melanie@willawellness.com (mailto:marie@willawellness.com) Website: www.willawellness.com (http://www.willawellness.com/)Pronouns: she/her/hers ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This show is about learning how to set boundaries and being at choice about our own needs. By setting limits or saying no we protect our integrity based on our own truth. Kari Floberg is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Northern California. She holds degrees from New York University and the California Institute of Integral Studies.  In her private practice, she works with individuals and groups, offering paths to come home to their true selves and find freedom from food and weight obsession. Bringing 12 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings, plus her lived experience of recovery from an eating disorder, she understands the nonlinear nature of change, with reverence and compassion.  She draws upon expressive arts, attachment theory, parts work, mindfulness and somatic practices for healing. Her previous career as a performing artist, in theater and dance, informs how she shows up in the world; trusting the emergent and creative process. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Carol Normandi and I recorded this visualization about healing the spiritual wound within us. It is found on Pg 128 of our book, It's Not About Food, 2010, Penquin Putnam, NY, NY. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Carol Normandi and I recorded this visualization about healing the spiritual wound within us. It is found on Pg 128 of our book, It's Not About Food, 2010, Penquin Putnam, NY, NY. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Holistic means looking at ourselves in a way that includes our entire being, taking each part of ourselves into consideration. When we stop measuring ourselves by how we look, how thin we are, or how much weight we've lost, we can begin to embrace all the physical, emotional and spiritual parts of ourselves. We move beyond the goals of having a certain body type and into the integrity and magic of the recovery process itself. Sheira Kahn is a Marriage and Family Therapist and fully recovered bulimic. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Ms. Kahn taught in the UC Berkeley Extension certificate program in Eating and Weight Disorders for ten years. In the 1990s, she studied inner critic disengagement with Byron Brown and natural eating with Judy Wardell. These discourses became the pillars of her method on ending disordered eating. Later, she trained in couples counseling, where the research on attachment provided the final pieces to the puzzle of understanding disordered eating and how to heal it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This weeks audio has the visualization on reparenting from the CD Carol Normandi and I recorded after our book, It's Not About Food” came out. I hope you'll listen to it and find peace for your own precious child who lives in you still. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Creativity is the outward manifestation of who we are as spiritual beings.It is the magical ability to crest something out of nothing that is uniquely ours. It is the gift of being able to imagine, to dream, and then to make the dreams come true. Creative expression is essential to feeding our souls. It forces us to go beneath the obsession with food and weight. To access the part of ourselves that passionately hungers for self expression. Maneva is an intern working on her certification in eating disorder coaching at the Carolyn Costin Institute. Drawing on her own lived experience and full recovery from an eating disorder she volunteered for two years as a peer mentor and a peer support group leader to help others in their recovery. She combines practical skills, keen empathy, and an uplifting sense of humor to create lasting and positive change in people's lives. As an adjunct provider in eating disorder treatment, she will offer food behavior coaching, meal support, and more through her private practice. Maneva holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Finance from Sonoma State University and has a professional background in banking and financial technology. She is also a certified Reiki level 2 practitioner. For coaching or reiki inquiries please reach out to manevagill@yahoo.com. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

FeelingsSo when the peer educators go in the classrooms to present our 3 prong prevention and recovery program from disordered eating (body acceptance, intuitive eating and emotional intelligence) the students are interested and engaged. But as we move into talking about feelings, everyone goes into a coma. No one wants to hear about their own or anyone else's feelings. They're often too yucky, too messy, too uncomfortable and hard. But we have to. It's what makes us human. Cause, if it's not about food, and it's not about weight…what is it about?Everything else. Especially feelings.Feelings are the emotions that come from the core of our being. They are an essential part of knowing our needs and then getting those needs met.Our feelings tell us when we are hurt and when we need to set a boundary. They let us know what makes us happy, and what feeds our soul.When we can learn how to go beneath the body hatred and diet thoughts  we will experience our feelings fully.This lets us take back our own lives and experiences in order to be present in the moments we have on the earth. It is a privilege and a miracle to be here and feel what we feel, love who we love, be who we are.Expressing Feelings CDVisualization on page 113 of Its Not About Food….blah, blah, blah.After doing the visualization above try this to put into action what you learned:1. Practice letting yourself feel whatever you feel. No matter what.2. Bring your awareness to the feeling and be present for it. No matter what.3. Try not to change the feeling. No matter what.4. Observe and accept the feeling. No matter what.5. Stay connected with yourself and your feeling. No matter what.The feeling will move, dissipate, change and fade. No matter what. Like magic! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Today's podcast presents the Beyond Hunger Peer Educators talking about who they are and what they do in our program. These 3 young women are leaving to go away to school. Below is why they have donated so much of their time and themselves to the program. Grace 4 years peer educator. Going to Chicago being part of the peer education program has taught me not only practical skills such as public speaking, leadership, and teamwork but also to approach every situation with compassion. knowing I've made a difference in my community and potentially helped those who are silently suffering leaves me eternally grateful for the program and the people I've met within it.Anna 2 years peer educator. Going to Boston“Volunteering with Beyond Hunger has allowed me to take an experience that was difficult and ugly and turn it into something beautiful: helping others love themselves and their bodies. I know that in every classroom we present to, there is at least one student who is resonating with our lesson and, if not convinced to seek professional help, is at least learning new strategies in approaching their relationship with food and realizing they are not alone in their struggle”.Vee Ly 3 years peer educator. Going to UC Berkeley “Being in Beyond Hunger for the past three years has truly shaped my character and approach helping my peers. I have learned so much through the peer education program such as public speaking, how to deal with hardship, and how to help people in their own specific way. This program has not only helped me through my own journey with mental health and disordered eating, but allows me to help others in situations similar to my own, which creates an important safe space in schools.” ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Feelings come from the deepest part of ourselves and are a guide to what we are learning, who we are as beings plus where we want and long to go. They are here to show us when our boundaries are crossed, how to love and allow ourselves to be loved, how get in touch with our own truth; body, mind and soul and then know how to feel all of it. The audio mediation below will help you go through feelings as well as how to stay with them and come out the other side ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

First, there will be a few moments of a guided meditative exercise.Next, you will be guided towards talking to your body and then listening to your body.Afterwards, you will have tools to better understand your body and its needs and wants. Which will bring you closer to the goal of loving and taking care of yourself- body, mind, and soul.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn't work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need.About Wendy WelsherWendy is a fat-positive personal trainer who specializes in functional strength and conditioning. She teaches the foundations of functional movement, weightlifting, and power training, including safe practices and recovery methods, which my clients use in their everyday lives to improve their activities of daily living greatly. She lives with ADHD, depressive disorder, and anxiety while in recovery from an eating disorder. She has experienced fatphobia and weight bias first-hand and understands how traumatic this is in a movement space.  She can empathize with how it can affect one's self-esteem, confidence, and body trust. This is why Wendy created My Joyous Adaptive Momentous Movement and Joyful Inclusive Movement. She is creating movement spaces that are truly authentic, accessible, inclusive, safe, and effective. It's important to me to connect with her community through movement to show them how much fun it can be moving their body!Website: https://www.myjamm.rocks/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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 and feel this natural bodily sensation. Every person experiences fullness differently, and some of us have learned to ignore this signal. To experience fullness you may need to practice listening to your body.Lisa grew up in South Sacramento and moved to the Bay Area to go to college, first attending UC Santa Cruz, and then San Francisco State University. While working as a social worker in affordable housing in Sacramento and SF for 13 years, she gained experience in community organizing, program management, and advocacy for low-income residents of Mercy Housing California. Lisa has always been passionate about empowering people, women and girls in particular, which led her to Beyond Hunger, where she took the position as board president and volunteered to be an advocate for teens and adults struggling with weight issues. She decided to leave social work and become an educator. She attended SFSU and earned a Master's in Special Education. Worked at Oakland Military Institute for 4 years, then moved back to the Sacramento area where she worked with TK- high school students receiving special education services. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for all the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self-hatred we have carried for so long, and use out compassion to bring love, understanding, and then if necessary, change.Desiree McGunagle has been in recovery from my eating disorder since October 2018 (bulimia nervosa). She works in communications supporting survivors of sexual assault at our local rape crisis center. Desiree loves talking to others about recovery and learning from all the unique experiences people have in getting closer to their most authentic selves. In her spare time (whatever that is) she loves reading (currently anything Sarah J. Mass), being cat-obsessed, and taking care of her two horses.TikTok: Desiree.Michellee ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy out needs and accept our natural bodies.Kait Fortunato Greenberg is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian at The BeginWithin Center in Redbank NJ, specializing in restrictive eating disorders, binge eating disorder, and emotional eating. She individualizes her approach to help clients form a healthy relationship with food and to not let food get in the way of what truly matters in their life, her personal mantra being “count memories not calories”. She works closely with clients and their loved ones to make eating less stressful by developing meal plans and guidelines with compassion and understanding, and providing activities and skills for a successful recovery.Kait completed her undergraduate program and Registered Dietitian internship at the University of Maryland in College Park and worked for 7 years as a Registered Dietitian with the Empowered Eating Program at Rebecca Bitzer and Associates in Maryland, before moving to New Jersey to be closer to family. She is also active in the eating disorder community as a volunteer for Mothers Against Eating Disorders (MAED) answering nutrition questions for families who have a loved one suffering from this disease. Kait is a member of the Association for Size Diversity and Health and The International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation (iaedp), where she was invited to give a talk at their annual Symposium.  Kait was awarded Outstanding Young Registered Dietitian of the Year in 2014 by The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.Kait loves working with clients who suffer from this terrible disease as she finds her clients to be some of the brightest and kindest people she has ever met. Sometimes things happen for a reason and she loves helping clients make a full recovery and come out stronger on the other side. Kait aims to balance the science and education, sharing her knowledge so each person can understand what is happening each step of the way. Combined with heartand respect she works with her clients to learn to love and listen to their body and begin to trust it. She will be there toprovide the structure and support to help fight against the eating disorder. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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.margot@magowan.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Expressing our feelings and ourselves is the only way to live our truth in our bodies, hearts and souls. Many times we have been taught that to express our feelings is harmful to others and ourselves, but if we learn how to express our feelings honestly and constructively it is beneficial to everyoneKaren Louise Scheuner is a California based weight-inclusive, anti-diet dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Coach with over 16 years of experience under my belt!I'm passionate about freeing folks from the oppressive force of diet culture so they can reclaim their birthright to live and eat with pleasure, peace and freedom.Since 2005,  I've helped hundreds of folks break free from the dieting cycle and create a healthy and peaceful relationship with food and their bodies.My philosophy is rooted in anti-diet and Health at Every Size frameworks, as well as Intuitive and Mindful Eating. I will soon be a Certified Body Trust Provider. I believe that everyone is the authority of their own bodies; I'm just here to help you to “get out of your head and back into your body.”- Karen Louise Scheuner,  MA, RDN, (she/her)Certified Intuitive Eating Coach~ Anti-Diet Dietitian 510-409-9615http://www.mindful-nutrition.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Honoring means we understand we are sacred beings and our bodies are sacred. They are not objects to be sculpted and forced to meet cultural ideals. They are not a commodity to manipulate in order to measure our self-worth. By de-objectifying and creating reverence for our bodies, we become free to experience the wisdom, magnificence and magic of our bodies. Emily Ireland Cox is an event planner, body liberation motivator, community builder, and uplifter based in Sacramento, CA. Co-founder of Fat Positive Sacramento and Sacramento Chunky Dunk swim parties. In recovery from binge eating disorder since 2009.  IG & FB @luckybombshelllinktr.ee/luckybombshell ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This show is about finding, discovering, owning, and sharing your art and passion with the world. What ever your niches is there are those who get it, want it and are so so happy to be with your artistic gifts.Let your light shine.Daniela Johnson-Rongstadd Instagram: @calirockchick ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path to our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves. Jessica Setnickjessica@understandingnutrition.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This show is about learning how to work with money and financial health.Many people who have addictions, compulsions, and difficulties also have issues with money.Lillian give us very straightforward and much-needed advice on how to navigate the twists and turns of money.Lillian Meyers is both the founder and president of Meyers Financial Services, Inc., and brings a rare combination of an experienced investment advisor and wealth planner along with expertise in tax minimization strategies. From analyzing a divorce settlement to planning for retirement, taxes have a significant impact on your wealth. She is a graduate of the College for Financial Planning and has often spoken at Sonoma Valley company meetings, student workshops, Women in Business seminars, seniors' organizations, church groups, and more. In addition, she has appeared in interviews with newspapers, radio, and magazines, sharing her insight as a financial planning specialist.lillian@meyersfinancial.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Divinity All that comes through us is divine because we are divine. A long time ago our bodies were considered to be the image of the devine, yet at some point we started seeing our bodies as objects to be sculpted into someone else's idea of perfection. Every ounce of us is divine. When we start to accept this, just as we accept our bodies and feelings, then we can stop fighting. With ourselves and allow ourselves and allow ourselves to freely express our own divinity. Www.Christareynolds.comchrista.reynolds@comcast.net ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn't work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need. andreaathertoncoaching@gmail.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Creativity is the outward manifestation of who we are as spiritual beings. It is the magical ability to create something out of nothing that is uniquely ours. It is the gift of being able to imagine, to dream, and then to make the dreams come true. Creative expression is essential to feeding our souls. It forced us to go beneath the obsession with food and weight and access the part of ourselves that passionately hungers for self expression.  For more information about George Horner, you can check out his website at www.georgehorner.com/Email: georgehornerprojects@gmail.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Awareness is awakening to ourselves exactly as we are in the present moment. In order to heal our struggle with food and weight, we must become aware of eating patterns, emotions, bodily sensations, and diet/fat thoughts. Only by watching and working with ourselves in the moment, can we truly understand what we need. Stephanie SearleHealth Teacher & Activities DirectorStay "In The Know"Instagram: @novatohighTwitter: @whats_thebuzzFacebook: Novato High SchoolSign up for weekly NHS emails: www.tinyurl.com/novatohighenews ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

At the heart of every person is a yearning from the deepest part of our souls that must be heard. It is a desire to awaken, embrace our whole selves, and see past the limitations we have put on ourselves. It is the knowing that we are connected with a universal love and spiritual presence that holds the flame of our true essence of love and light. When we begin to accept that each one of us was born with divine spirit, then we can stop the struggle with defining ourselves as good or bad by our body size or the food we eat. We can then move on to simply expressing our true selves. Margo Maine Margo Maine, PhD, FAED, CEDS, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in eating disorders and related issues for over 35 years. A Founder and former Adviser of the National Eating Disorders Association and Founder and Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, her most recent book, Hair Tells a Story: Hers, Yours, & Ours (Toplight Books, 2023), explores women's relationship with their hair, a critical feminist issue and neglected aspect of body image.  Dr. Maine is also author of: Pursuing Perfection: Eating Disorders, Body Myths, and Women at Midlife and Beyond; Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research- Practice Gap; Effective Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Eating Disorders; The Body Myth; Father Hunger; and Body Wars; and Senior Editor Emeritus of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. She received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the  International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp) and is the 2007 recipient of The Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention, the 2014 recipient of the Don and Melissa Nielsen Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2015 NEDA Lifetime Achievement Award. Maine has served on many clinical advisory and community boards and is a 2016 Honoree of the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. She lectures nationally and internationally on eating disorders and maintains a private practice, Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group, in West Hartford, CT. She loves the earth and gets up early every day to celebrate it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Faith is trusting that there is a loving source of which you are a part. Having faith means that you can let go of fear and tight control and trust that there is great wisdom within you and around you, allowing yourself to breathe and listen for spiritual guidance. Having faith means that even though the recovery process may become difficult and dark, you can trust that you will also find the grace and the light. Rex Dubiel is an Army brat, photo-journalist, community activist, long-time blogger, “Rex the Surf Dog“ creator, 3rd grade teacher, 35 year resident of the North Shore of Oahu.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Fat thoughts are the kind of thoughts we have when we are criticizing our bodies, calling them too fat, too ugly, too big, or too “whatever”. These thoughts are learned from our culture's fat prejudice and body hatred. Sometimes when we are young and experience shame or uncomfortable feelings, we change them into body hatred. When we begin to understand that our fat thoughts and body hatred are learned, then we can take the blame off our body, and process the deeper feelings in far more constructive ways. Carol Normandi, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, with over 30 years of experience as an individual therapist, speaker, author, and group/workshop facilitator. She holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from UC San Diego and an MS in Counseling from San Francisco State University. Carol is founder of Amrita Eating Disorder Intensive Outpatient Program and co-founder of the nonprofit Beyond Hunger. She has authored It's Not About Food: End Your Obsession with Food & Weight, and Over It: A Teen's Guide to Getting Beyond Obsessions with Food & Weight. Carol received the Golden Bell Award for her work in developing the Emotional Literacy Program for middle school students ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Reflection is the ability to see your true self mirrored back to you. Unfortunately we spend most of our lives using the mirror as a way to judge the imperfections in our appearance, which is a limited and biased perception of who we are. By changing how we see our reflection, we can expand and transform our vision to include the beauty of our true selves. Elaine Santos, Certified Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) and Founder of Wellness as Art offers one-on-one Health & Wellness Coaching, workshops, and Guided Imagery. She is passionate about helping others reach their wellness goals and live healthier, more vibrant lives. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Starr Kelton-LockeTrustTrust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn't work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can then listen and understand what they need. Starr Kelton-Locke, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in Marin County.  She has been helping people overcome eating disorders, depression, anxiety and relationship struggles for 34 years.  She works with individuals, couples, and families. Starr@keltonlocke.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfold uniquely and spontaneously. "Trusting the process" means that we all work through these experiences and issues at our own pace and in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don't have to waste precious time comparing ourselves to others. Katy Damani has worked with Beyond Hunger, Laurelee, and Carol since 2006. She's a mother of three, a business owner, a consultant, a financial advisor, and an Executive Coach. She's got over 17 years of accounting experience and 15 years in multi-company business management. She has been the Chief Financial and Operations Manager for a company she helped start in 2013 that achieved national recognition on CNN in 2020. She co-created a continuing education course teaching stress management to Wellness Practitioners. She is the business manager and financial analyst for a successful Pool Hall she owns with her husband in Sacramento, Jointed Cue Billiards.  BA in Public Health from UC Berkeley ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spirituality. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies. Sarah Hijjeh is a Registered Nurse of 15 years and a whitewater raft guide. She hosts Wining With Nurses podcast, a show where nurses and other healthcare workers swap stories and worries over wine. Sarah is a self proclaimed joy-seeker and an avid kitty snuggler. You can find the podcast here or anywhere you listen to podcasts.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In this recovery, there are many miracles. We have the choice to either to embrace the miracles and take part in them, or step around and deny them. As we open our hearts to our recovery and let it guide and teach us, we receive many gifts. We develop compassion for ourselves and others, we create a healthier relationship with our mind, body, and spirit, we free ourselves from the oppression of self-hatred and limited self-perceptions, and most simply, we learn to love ourselves. https://www.laureleeroark.com/Whitney Walker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in addiction, eating disorders, trauma, and Spirituality. She also works as a recovery coach and spiritual guide. Whitney opened a private practice in the California Bay Area where she sees clients, couples, and families. She worked for several years  prior in clinic/community settings with extensive recovery experience including acting as the Clinical Manager of Wellness Retreat Recovery Center's  Intensive Outpatient Program. Whitney incorporates spiritual concepts into her work including the return of the Divine Feminine to our world and moving from a place of Fear to Love; releasing self-destruction and rejection to embrace unconditional self love and acceptance. These ideas form the concept of Women Waken, her website and passion project. Whitney created The Women Waken Podcast; A Holistic Guide to Wellness and Abundant Self-Love along with an accompanying Youtube channel, please check it out! YouTube:  https://youtube.com/channel/UCqyxriSmwfLueB3fn-FthWwApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-women-waken-podcast/id1580972247?itsct=podcast_box_badge&itscg=30200&ls=1Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/7BHbXG9uSqxaBz5XrWNJ8z Website: www.womenwaken.com IG: @womenwaken ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Inhabit means to live 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 to our body and explore what we are experiencing in our bodies. Constance Hart is the Founder of Conscious Colors and Color Aroma, a multi-sensory experience of Color Therapy. She has been helping women for over 30 years as a wellness mentor, meditation guide, and Color Therapist. Constance's greatest joy is to provide life support through light support. She also provides intuitive readings and guidance. Visit her at ConsciousColors.comConstance HartFounder/Developer/MentorConscious Colors • Color Aromahttps://www.consciouscolors.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfold uniquely and spontaneously. “Trusting the Process” means that we all work through these experiences and issues in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don't have to waste precious time comparing ourselves to others. Marcella RaimondoFor a decade in my teens and early twenties I battled with anorexia nervosa. As a queer, cisgender, able-bodied woman of color, I struggled in my recovery because my story did not mirror those in mainstream eating disorder textbooks and biographies.After reading the testimonials of women of color and queer women in A Hunger So Wide and So Deep, by Becky Thompson, I found voices that resonated with my own life experiences. I began to realize that a huge gap exists in the treatment services for underrepresented and underserved folks with eating disorders. My life's calling and social justice spirit came out of this experience.Website: https://marcellaedtraining.com/Email: Marcella@marcellaedtraining.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path of our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves. Ashly Thompson is the Founder and CEO of Willa Wellness Center, an eating disorder treatment program for women in Petaluma, California. She's been dedicated to the field of behavioral health for over a decade with a special interest in ED, partly due to her own personal history. Ashly lives with her husband and two children in Sonoma County, CA. http://www.willawellness.com  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★