Hi friends! This podcast is a little different today. The first 6 episodes were more "professional" sounding and "containerized" if you will. But I didn't quit my clinical job to continue being containerized. You see, the standardized practice of care doesn't let practitioners go below the surface of "what are you eating?" And yet, all of the things that cause disordered eating and negative body image are found below the surface of "what are you eating?" Because disordered eating and negative body image is never about the food. It's about your individual life experience and the thoughts, feelings, and childhood conditioning that you bring into the conversation of food and body. In childhood you may have learned that you were responsible for everyone else's emotions. Your emotional needs perhaps weren't met and/or they were invalidated. In the child's mind this lays the ground for a negative self image. This negative self image is the foundation on disordered eating is born. The constant seeking of approval is the only way you may have learned to deserve love. And this is the seeking that you will continue to mutilate yourself for until you fill that void within yourself. So in this episode, I let the fire come out a little stronger. There are expletives and tough love, and also a hell of a lot of inspiration to start becoming more self confident and self assured in who you are, right now, in the body that you are in, in this very moment.   Find my services here: https://embodiednourishment.net/