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#173: (Transcript) Why Food Freedom Isn’t Just About Food—The 4 Missing Pieces You Need

February 24, 2025

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A Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian (CEDRD) with a master's degree in dietetics & nutrition. My passion is helping you find peace with food - and within yourself.

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Hey, I’m Katie Harvey, a non-diet dietician. If you’ve spent years battling food in your body, I’m here to show you the path to healing here on the Rebuilding Trust. With your Body podcast, I teach you how to find your own freedom with food through tools, strategies, mindset, shifts, and heartfelt discussions around what it means to make peace with food and your body while still existing in diet culture.

I believe that all bodies deserve respect and that health is so much more than a number on the scale. It’s about connecting with our true selves and learning that our relationship with food is more important than the food itself. So if you’re ready to discover the freedom of rebuilding trust with your body, grab a seat and maybe a snack and let’s do this.

Welcome

back to rebuilding trust with your body. I am Katie Harvey, your host, and today on the show, we’re going to be talking about why food freedom and intuitive eating. Aren’t just about food the intuitive eating journey starts with food, but it does not end there and Understanding food freedom beyond just letting yourself eat the foods that were off limits when you were dieting It’s so important because it’s also about honoring your health needs without it being a rigid all or none type of thing.

And it’s about having just as much freedom to say no to food when you’re not hungry or when you’re already full as it is to have the freedom to say yes to that cupcake that looks delicious. And we have to be able to connect with our bodies. And of course, be able to recognize, you know, those hunger and fullness signals, but we’ve also got to be able to connect with what else our bodies are telling us because our bodies communicate so much wisdom, whether it be some type of medical need and some symptoms that we might be having.

Or whether it be our emotions, our emotions show up in our bodies in so many ways. And so you’ve got to be able to connect with your body and to trust your body through this process. And the challenge with that is that diet culture very much focuses all on the external. It’s all about these external rules.

The calorie limits, the points, the times of day that you’re allowed to eat, the lists of food that you’re allowed to have and not have. While food freedom and intuitive eating, it’s all about internal wisdom, and that of course is going to also include medical data and feedback that you get from your doctor and feedback that you’re getting from your body in various ways, and intuitive eating is just the starting point for that, and if we don’t go deeper with it, and We’re missing some of the pieces that we need to truly have freedom with food and peace with our bodies and to honor our health.

Diet culture tricks us into thinking that controlling our food is the answer to everything. And the more we try to control, ironically, the more out of control we end up with food. It’s that vicious cycle where you can be good and be in control and eat healthy for certain periods of time. But eventually, there’s going to be the backlash.

You’re going to find yourself face first with a package of Oreos at 11 p. m. You’re going to find yourself thinking about food all day long and eventually giving in and going and hitting the vending machine or the drive thru. Because that’s what happens when we’ve been depriving ourselves. It kills your body.

And your brain revolts against this. And so diet culture says, well, you just need to be more in control. But the problem is those attempts at controlling are exactly what’s leading you to feel out of control with food. And I really want you to hear me when I say this. You 1 million percent can honor your health without having to restrict and cut out food groups or diet for the rest of your life.

There is absolutely a way that you can eat the foods that you truly enjoy. Without destroying your health and yes, I get that you’re like somebody who has allergies, but whenever I talk about this people always look for the caveats people always look for the loopholes and I think that secretly what’s happening there is we’re looking for a reason why that’s not true for us and why yeah, everybody else can eat the cupcakes or the ice cream or they can have chocolate in their house, but I’m the special unicorn and I can’t unless you are straight up allergic to that food and it is going to give you anaphylaxis or something then we can determine And we can create neutrality with that food and strategies with that food to where it no longer has that control over you to where you no longer feel like you have to restrict it where you can go, Okay, I know my health needs, and I can include these gummy worms or this cheeseburger or french fries and I know how to do that in a way that honors the craving honors my taste buds.

and honors my health. And that’s what we’re aiming for here. The real goal is not just eating freely, being like, Oh, I have food freedom. So I’m gonna eat all the things all the time. The goal is to have enough freedom to also be able to have some of those gentle boundaries with the food and to be able to say no to certain things when it’s not going to make you feel good or when you’re not actually hungry in that moment.

And then beyond all of this, the point of it all It’s also living freely and not being bound to all the rules and the judgments that diet culture imposes upon us, all the rules and judgments with food and about our bodies and about exercise. Because when that’s what our thoughts center around all the time, it makes life really small.

Like, we might be technically, physically present at that birthday party, or the social get together, or watching TV with your partner, or on the vacation. Like, you’re physically there. But when you’re stuck in your head all the time, thinking about, Okay, how many calories did I eat? Or what am I going to have at that restaurant next weekend?

Gosh, I don’t know if I got in enough workouts this week. All of that background noise in our brain is so distracting from being able to truly be present in our life and fully living life. And we tend to have so many unhealed wounds around body image and emotions that we’ve been avoiding and suppressing through the act of dieting, or we’ve been stuffing them down with food.

These unhealed wounds with exercise that might go all the way back to gym class in elementary school. And it keeps us trapped in this cycle. And that’s what we’re going to look at here in the rest of this episode. Yes, food freedom is about food, and yes, you have permission to eat any food, but it’s not about just eating whatever you want.

It’s about being able to listen to your body and honor its nutritional needs while enjoying satisfying food without feeling guilty. And that’s exactly where I start with my clients when I’m working with them one on one and inside NDA. We create some flexible structure with food and some balance with food while taking those principles of intuitive eating and applying them to their everyday life.

But that alone isn’t going to get you to where you want to be. That’s not enough. There are four other pieces that we must look at and those missing pieces are what we’re going to cover in this episode. Before we dive into those four missing pieces, you know what time it is. We’ve got some Wellness Woo to talk about.

Wellness Woo is the stuff that diet and wellness culture tells us we should do in the name of health, but it’s really based on pseudoscience, exaggerated claims, or just nonsense. Today’s Wellness Woo is Stale Cheese as Keto Popcorn. Yes, you heard that correctly. This apparently is a trend on TikTok where people are taking cubes of cheese, they’re leaving it out at room temperature for 48 hours or more, and then they’re eating it and calling it keto popcorn.

I mean, I’m gagging thinking about it. I like cheese, I like popcorn, but I don’t need them to try to pretend to be the same thing, and I certainly don’t want to eat stale cheese that’s been sitting out for two days. And really, when we look at, okay, why is this woo, it ties back to the way that diet culture tells us to be afraid of carbs.

The notion that popcorn has too many carbs and therefore you should make keto popcorn out of stale cheese is absolutely absurd. First of all, like if we just get very practical here, one cup of popcorn only has six grams of carbohydrate. You could eat multiple cups of popcorn and it’s still not an excessive amount of carbs.

And fun fact, popcorn is actually a whole grain and a decent source of fiber. Funny enough, diet culture’s fear of carbs is rooted in the fear of weight gain, and trying to limit and avoid calories. And that’s why we tend to see these social media trends like everything bagel cucumbers and using bell peppers instead of bread for your sandwiches.

We’re trying to avoid the carbs to avoid the calories, right? But if you are subbing in cheese for popcorn, that’s actually a lot more calorie dense. And not that I think you should be afraid of calories, but it just goes to show the level of nonsense wrapped up in this thinking, and we can so easily poke holes in it.

And frankly, I find this type of thing to be pretty disordered. It’s appealing to the type of person who is afraid to let themselves eat popcorn, who would feel guilty for eating popcorn. Let me be clear when I say this. You can eat popcorn without feeling guilty. You can eat popcorn while honoring your health.

You do not need to sub nasty, stale cheese for popcorn. If you want to eat cheese, eat cheese. If you want to eat popcorn, eat popcorn. You don’t have to try to turn one into the other. So there you have it. If you have an example of wellness woo, send it my way. You can email me, it’s rebuildingtrustwithyourbody at gmail or DM me on Facebook or Instagram.

Alright, that’s enough of that. Moving on to today’s main topic. Why food freedom isn’t just about food. The four missing pieces you need. The first one, body image healing. We’ve got to make peace with that reflection in the mirror. We got to make peace with how you feel in your body and in your own skin.

And When I talk about body image healing, I think people initially in this process assume that what we are aiming for is body positivity. Like, woohoo, I love my body. And people are like, I’m never going to get there, so why even bother trying? Or they operate under the faulty assumption that the only way they could ever feel that way is when their weight is lower.

And when they look differently so that therefore they’re allowed to feel confident and comfortable in their body. And the thing is, body positivity is not necessarily the goal. In fact, I think it’s kind of problematic in the sense that we’re still putting a lot of emphasis on how you feel about your body, and we’re building house of cards.

And what I mean when I say that is that If you’re aiming for body positivity, and you might get there for temporary periods of time, but then if something changes about your body, now it might crumble. That house of cards crumbles because we pulled one card out, the whole thing falls down, and now you no longer feel positive.

But if we can aim for neutrality, then there’s not so much pressure for you to feel a certain way. The goal is to just say, look, it is what it is. This is my body. And this is the only body that I will ever have, so it’s probably worth coming to terms with it, learning how to exist in harmony with it.

Maybe even being grateful for some of the things that it does. But you don’t have to like or love your body to heal your body image. You can learn to just be neutral about it and accepting about it and to treat the body that you have with kindness and respect on any given day, even on the days that you wish that your weight were lower.

Diet culture weaponizes body shame against us to keep us stuck. And the reason is, it’s not because diet culture actually cares about your health. I mean, they love to couch it that way because that’s such a virtuous goal, right? We’re told that, oh, it’s just about health. And of course that’s a noble thing to be wanting for ourselves.

But really the quiet part, the unspoken part is that body shame makes that industry billions and billions of dollars a year, almost a hundred billion dollars a year because body shame leads us to do all of the diets and the programs and the detoxes and the supplements and all the things. That are aimed towards shrinking our bodies.

Nobody’s really profiting off you feeling content with your body or neutral about it. Because then you’re not going to buy things to be changing it. And so I want to give you some strategies here to start to decouple your self worth from your body size. The first thing is, let’s get in touch with who you are as a whole person.

And I have a challenge for you. I want you to open up the Notes app in your phone. And I want you to jot down 10 traits or qualities that you have. That describe you that aren’t about your appearance. So if somebody, you know, if you’re like, okay, who is Katie? Okay, Katie is a mom. She is a wife. She’s a sister.

She’s a daughter. She’s a dietitian. You know, my job. I’m an amateur pianist. Emphasis on the amateur part. I can play a Disney song here and there. And these traits, it’s not about the external appearance. And I want you to start to describe yourself and some of your traits. So it could be, you know, just about roles that you have, like I was giving those examples.

But I would love for you to also describe some traits. Are you curious? Are you compassionate? Are you big hearted? Are you intelligent? Are you a go getter? Are you a go with the flow type of person and just describe yourself and this can be so uncomfortable and nobody else has to see it. But so many of us have a hard time saying things about ourselves that might be perceived as kind or as bragging.

But what I want you to get in touch with here is that there is more to who you are as a whole person than the size and shape of your body or what size of jeans you wear. The next thing that is going to help you decouple your self worth from your body size Is to spend some time each day practicing body gratitude for what your body does.

There is research to support this. That if each day, you can think about your body and think, Okay, even if I don’t love the way I look, Can I at least be grateful that my body is alive and breathing? I mean, if nothing else, you can at least be grateful that your heart is still beating, And your lungs are still breathing air, And your kidneys are still filtering, And, you know, your organs are doing all their jobs.

Maybe you can be grateful for your arms that allow you to give hugs to the people that you love or your hands that allow you to pet your dog or your cat, for your eyes that you could see that gorgeous sunrise this morning, for your ears to listen to your favorite song on the radio. Maybe you could be grateful for your legs that allow you to move around and walk through life and do the things that you have to go out and do every single day.

And I don’t want this part of the conversation to sound ableist, like it’s okay if your body has limitations and it can’t do some of those things. But what can you be grateful for? The next strategy that is going to help you detach yourself forth from your body size is taking a break from the scale.

That chunk of metal is not doing anything to measure how worthy you are as a person. All it is measuring is your gravitational pull. It is really not that exciting. And for most people who are struggling with body image, getting on the scale, that number holds too much power over how you think and feel about yourself, and then it has so much influence over the way that you’re eating.

So, if you’re working on healing your body image, I encourage you to take a break from the scale. There is a time and a place for knowing your weight and exposing yourself to that number, and working to neutralize your reaction to the number. It’s kind of like de charming the scale, if you’ve heard me talk about de charming foods.

There’s a time and place for that. It’s usually farther along in the process. Because we ultimately want you to be able to see your weight, and it doesn’t send you into a complete spiral. During the earlier phases of this process, having that break forces you to stop dwelling on that number. And at first, it may be very anxiety provoking, but most people report that in the long run, They’re so relieved to not be weighing themselves routinely.

Okay, the fourth strategy to detach yourself from your body size is to wear clothes that fit. Wear clothes that fit your here and now body, even if you don’t like your here and now body. One of my clients recently shared with me, she went shopping for some new clothes, and she said when the salesperson asked me what size I was, I said, I don’t know, bring me a few sizes and we’ll see which one fits.

And she didn’t even look at the size while trying on her jeans. Instead, she just put them on and focused on which pair fit the best and felt the best. That is such a great tip where you can get clothes that fit your here and now body if you need to go get some. and to not dwell on the size of the clothing.

Another tip that one of my clients gave me is the website ThredUp. So she’ll just send in her clothes or she does it with her kids clothes because they’re always growing, you know. She’ll send in clothes she doesn’t want anymore or things that don’t fit and then you get like a credit to buy gently used clothes that do fit.

And she’s like, it’s so fun because I can always be refreshing my wardrobe and I don’t have to stress about if my body changes and I need a different size. Oh my gosh, now it’s going to cost me so much money. It’s this great way to just constantly be swapping things out so that she can have things that are, you know, in season, whether it’s winter, summer, whatever, and that fit her body.

And I really want to hammer home here that you deserve, as a matter of respect towards your body, to have clothing that fits your body as it is right now. And I get that that’s hard and it can be stressful to have to spend money on new clothes. And that’s where, you know, maybe selling some of your old clothes or having a garage sale or doing something like thread up that can at least get you a little cash for it.

But also remember, you don’t have to go buy an entire new wardrobe all at once. Maybe you just buy a few pieces that are kind of versatile, because this is so, so important for your body image. So really fast, those four strategies for body image, getting in touch with who you are as a whole person.

Spending some time each day practicing body gratitude and body neutrality, taking a break from the scale, and wearing clothes that fit. Okay, the next missing piece of lasting food freedom, so the first piece was the body image piece, right? The second piece is emotional resilience. And I’m talking about finding ways to cope with your emotions without turning to food and without creating food rules for yourself.

So let’s start here. Emotional eating itself is not inherently bad, but if it’s your only coping tool, it can be problematic. So we want to imagine a basket of coping tools and coping options. Okay, food is in there. We all eat in response to emotions sometimes. It’s fine. But that can’t be the only tool that you have, or you’re going to be overdoing it in a way that doesn’t align with what your body needs.

It’s kind of like if your only coping tool is going on Amazon and having a shopping spree. Occasionally, it’s fine. We might all do that or go to Target or whatever. But if that’s the only way you cope with emotions, then yeah, you’re going to be in massive credit card debt and you may have to file bankruptcy.

So we need a variety of coping strategies. And we want to pay attention to when are we wanting to turn to food for reasons that don’t have to do with hunger, and to get curious about what are those emotions. I also want to point out how Emotional restriction can be just as harmful as food restriction.

What do I mean by that? Emotional restriction means not letting yourself feel things. You’re avoiding Or numbing or distracting yourself from those emotions. That can be just as harmful in your life as food restriction. Because your emotions are messages from your soul. Your emotions are communicating to you what you are needing.

If we are ignoring what you are needing, you’re walking around like a robot. You’re not a robot. You have needs. You have feelings. And when we have all these unfelt feelings that get bottled up inside, eventually things boil over like a volcano, and that’s when you find yourself shoveling fistfuls of potato chips in your mouth, and you’re like, I don’t know what I’m doing here, I’m not even hungry.

So, when emotions show up, and food feels like the answer, when you’re just like, that’s, I am having this impulse and this urge to eat, and I know that I’m not hungry, I know this is emotional, here’s what to do. I want you to pause. That’s the first thing. We just got to notice what’s happening and pause.

Slow it down because in the pause we have now created a gap of time for you to choose what you were going to do. You’re going to respond instead of just reactively or impulsively eat. And while you are pausing, you are going to ask yourself, What do I need outside of food? And you might be like, Katie, that is BS.

I don’t need anything in that moment. I need the food. I hear you. I want you to go deeper. And I want you to ask yourself, Okay, what, what is it that I’m thinking? What am I feeling? What am I avoiding right now? What am I hoping this food will do for me? And then I want you to set a timer on your phone for 20 minutes.

And if after 20 minutes you still want to eat, go for it. But during that 20 minutes, I want you to see if you can get in touch with what the emotion is and what the need is, and if there is a way that you can directly address what it is that you’re needing. So, that is our second missing piece of lasting food freedom.

So we’ve got the body image piece, we’ve got the emotional coping piece. The third one, joyful movement. And I want to think about movement through the lens of doing it for pleasure, not punishment. And I get that this can be hard. There’s a lot of you who have come to me, a lot of my clients have come and said, Katie, I don’t like exercise and I don’t think I ever am going to.

And that can be for a lot of really deeply rooted reasons. And then there are other people who hear the term joyful movement, it’s like the light bulbs go off, they’re like, oh my gosh, I never thought of it as something that could be joyful, but when I think of it that way, it, that just feels so freeing and so refreshing.

So that, that just kind of resonates with some people, but for other people, they’re like, no, I’m never going to feel that way. And in that case, what I think about is, can we at least move towards movement that doesn’t feel like hatred and punishment towards yourself? And can we maybe explore movement in some ways that is for about just connecting with your body, or maybe it’s about lubricating your joints, or maybe it’s about taking care of your heart as a muscle.

Or maybe it’s about improving your energy or mental focus. So if we can connect it with like what’s the purpose of it, besides punishing yourself, maybe we can start to create some reasons to move that feel very aligned with your values and then we can approach the movement itself in a way that doesn’t have to feel so daunting and extreme and overboard.

You don’t have to go do 30 minutes at a time. What if you did 5? Or I said to a client the other day, what if you do 2 minutes? And she’s like, I can do that. She emailed me later. She goes, Katie, I didn’t do two. I did five. And I was like, yes, you know, cheering you on. So, you know, I want to look at exercise the same way we look at the relationship with food.

Because there is, for a very good reason, people tend to have this tumultuous relationship with exercise. And part of it is that it often has gone hand in hand with dieting in your past. And so when exercise has always been part of that dieting process, of course you’re having just like a revulsion towards it, or you’re not wanting to do it when you’re trying not to diet.

So what we get to do is reclaim movement from that toxic grip of weight loss culture. Movement does not have to be no pain, no gain. Movement does not have to be about burning calories and losing weight. Movement gets to be something that you do. As a way to connect with your body and take care of your body and as a way to engage in the world and in life.

That is why in the exercise module inside of NDA, the very first thing we do is switch the language from exercise to movement. That language shift alone signals and cues to your brain, hey, we’re thinking about this differently. Because exercise, I don’t know about you, for me it conjures up these images of going to the gym, of people pumping iron, of having to get really sweaty, it kind of smells weird.

And for me, that’s not enjoyable. I know some people love the gym, totally fine, you know, to each their own. But like, that’s the image that comes to mind for me. And I don’t think, oh, I would love to go do that. But when I think of movement and I start to think, oh my gosh, I could take my dog for a walk through our neighborhood on a nice day.

I could go for a hike. It could be a bike ride. I could play basketball with my kids. I could turn on some Taylor Swift music and dance. There’s so many things I could do some yoga if I really want like that stretch or more of that slow mindful movement I could lift some weights. I have little hand weights in my basement if I want to feel strong There’s so many ways to do movement Sometimes it’s just I’m gonna go run errands and I’m gonna do that thing where I park farther away which I know is like a diet culture tip, but I’m reclaiming that as a way for me to just Get some more steps in while I’m out and about and building that into my life.

There’s so many things you can do to find movement that you actually enjoy. And if nothing else, if you can’t enjoy it, to find movement that you’re like, you know what, I can do this and it’s fine. I don’t hate it. And sometimes that is just simply not hating it might be the place we have to start. And we may just have to start small with, can you do one minute of something?

Can you do two minutes of something? And you start to show yourself that you can, that you are capable. We build that trust. So I want you to play around with moving for pleasure, not for punishment, and thinking of exercise as movement instead. Okay, that’s our third missing piece. Recap again, body image is the first one.

Emotional resilience and coping is the second one. Joyful movement is the third one. Fourth, community and support. These are the hidden key to success in my experience. Because going at this alone will make it ten times harder. I know this very well because I did this alone, myself, on my own journey for many years.

And it is a very lonely process, especially when everyone in the world around you is dieting, and is talking about dieting, and especially when the job that you’re working in is all about putting people on diets, you know, like I could go on and on about the cognitive dissonance there that led me to where I am and why I do this work, but that’s not what this is about.

Going at it alone, it not only makes it harder, it makes it lonelier, it makes it take longer. It’s also so easy to get lost or to talk yourself in circles, or to just kind of give up and throw in the towel, because you don’t have that camaraderie to get you through those days where it’s harder, or you don’t have that Sort of mirror back.

That’s kind of showing you where your diet mentality is still what’s in charged. So I want you to look for ways to surround yourself with like minded people. And it’s awesome if that can be in your real life. If you have a friend or a sister or people in your community, maybe you start a book club around the intuitive eating book, that would be kind of cool.

Or you could do like a podcast listening club where you guys all listen to an episode and then you come and talk about it. That would be fun. It’s awesome when it can be in real life. Sometimes we don’t have those people in our real life though because this is sort of countercultural and so you might have to find community online.

And you might have certain creators on social media that you really enjoy their content and so you comment on a lot of it, and maybe you recognize other names in their comment section so you kind of become friendly with them, maybe you could even have a DM conversation. I think Facebook groups are a great place because the group can be centered around that community, that’s why I created a Facebook group.

And there’s something about having a space to come to, to be able to say, Oh my gosh, this thing happened, like someone came into my Facebook group the other day and she was like, Oh my gosh, you are not going to believe what the doctor said in front of my daughter at her appointment. And we were able to jump in and offer her support, feedback, ideas, guidance, empathy, compassion, validation, all the things.

People in her everyday life might not have gotten that. They’d be like, what’s the problem? That’s what doctors are supposed to do. Sometimes people come in and they’re like, I just have to share with you guys that I got rid of my scale today and this is such a big deal. And again, it’s like if they go and told their co workers that, they’d be like, okay, good for you.

Or somebody who’s like, I just ate a cookie, I didn’t binge on it, and it was so satisfying. And we get to cheer you on because we get it. We understand why that is so significant. And so, it’s important to have a place where people get it. And I want you to think about some ways that you can either engage with community that you’re already part of, or find or create.

a community. And sometimes even listening to podcasts like this, I know the podcasts I listen to, sometimes I just feel like part of a community by being a listener. And sometimes it’s like, I almost am like imaginary friends with the hosts, which is obviously I’m not, that’s not a real relationship, but there’s something about just feeling that connection with somebody that is so helpful and can be such a beautiful thing.

So I want you to think about where do you have community and support. within your process. Okay, so let’s recap. We’ve got all four pieces we just covered. The first one is body image healing. The second one is creating emotional resilience. The third one, joyful movement. And the fourth one, community and support.

These missing pieces, if you don’t have them, your food freedom journey, your intuitive eating journey is going to be incomplete. So as we wrap up, I just want to say thank you so, so much for listening to this episode. I’m beyond honored that you are here for allowing me to be in your ears. And if you’re looking for more support on your intuitive eating journey and you want to put all these pieces together, that’s exactly what I’ll be doing with you inside NDA.

So if you’re thinking about joining Run Don’t Walk, the doors close on February 27th, and if you’re listening in the future, feel free to DM me about my next cohort and current coaching options that might be available to you to support your journey. And in case nobody has told you today, you are worthy just as you are.

We’ll talk again soon.

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