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The Rebuilding Trust With Your Body podcast helps people make peace with food and their bodies using various tools, strategies, and mindset shifts. In the latest episode, Katy Harvey welcomes Erin Kearns Vazquez, a reflective member of her Intuitive Eating Made Easy Facebook group and a writer in the anti-diet space, to discuss her personal and professional journey.

Erin Vazquez is a writer who grew up in a larger body and is now working to heal her relationship with food and body image while breaking generational trauma for her children. She uses her platform to help parents raise confident and kind children, writing children’s books featuring diverse characters. Her latest book, “Your Body is Never Bad,” addresses body shaming and has been well-received within the intuitive eating community. Erin has a background as a copywriter for anti-diet dieticians and now balances a corporate job with her family life.

Key Topics

• Intuitive Eating and Healing
• How to Help Kids Navigate Body Image Issues

Today, We discuss: 

• Erin Vazquez’s therapist introduced her to intuitive eating, a concept she initially found skeptical but transformative after reading “The Fuck It Diet.”
• Growing up, Erin experienced dieting from a young age, feeling constant pressure to lose weight and battling food obsession and guilt.
• Her body image issues intensified after having children, especially during the early COVID-19 pandemic.
• Erin’s mother, despite being well-meaning, perpetuated diet culture, influencing Erin’s negative relationship with food and body.
• Erin’s journey toward intuitive eating began with recognizing the detrimental impact of dieting on her life and her children’s lives, leading her to abandon diet culture.

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