It's Not About Food Podcast with Laurelee Roark

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 everyone.     Marybeth Weinstock, PhD, BC-DMT  Dance/Movement Therapist, BC-DMT-565 Previous Member at Lar...

Feelings are the emotions that come from the core of our being that are an essential part of knowing our needs and taking care of ourselves. Our feelings tell us when we are hurt, when we need to stop or set a boundary, what makes us happy and what feeds our soul. When we can learn to go beneath the body hatred and diet thoughts and experience our feelings fully, we can begin to take back our abil...

Nurture means to provide true nourishment for our bodies, minds and souls. When we become more present and aware of our needs, it is easier to define what feels good to our bodies and selves, and what is nourishing to us. When we stop hating ourselves and start practicing loving kindness, it is easier to take care of ourselves in nurturing ways. Shari Botwin, LCSW has been counseling survivors in...

This show is about how to recover from eating disorder, stop feeling not good enough and go through the grief of losing your person and still have a life of joy. Aidan Park originally from South Korea is a Los Angeles based stand-up comedian headliner, bestselling author, public speaker, certified life coach and creator of The Art of Being Yay brand; your funny guide to yay-ful living . The compan...

Hunger is our strong desire to meet our own needs. Many of us have forgotten how to differentiate between our physical, emotional and spiritual hunger. When we relearn to listen to our bodily wisdom and internal cues, we can begin to understand this difference and meet each hunger with the appropriate response. We can then be satisfied and content. Ashley McIntosh has led workshops on personal awa...

Being a Support Group Leader and Clinical Director for Beyond Hunger “nurture” should be her middle name. This show talks about working in the field of eating disorders as well as deep grief. When we practice the idea of nurturing it means to provide true nourishment to our bodies, minds and souls. When we become more present and aware of our own needs, it is easier to define what feels good to ou...

As Beyond Hunger Board Member and Volunteer extraordinaire Marie talks about what holistic recovery from eating disorders and body hatred look like. 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...

Volunteering as peer educator in her teens Meg has first-hand knowledge of the idea of nurture. The Body Love Card “Nurture” means to provide true nourishment for our bodies, minds and souls. When we become more present and aware of our needs, it is easier to define what feels good to our bodies and selves, and what is nourishing to us. When we stop hating ourselves and start practicing loving kin...

Carol and I talk about what this book is about, why we wrote this book and why every teenager and parent should read it. And listen to this podcast. Carol Normand, 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...

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, versus who we really are. Often times 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...

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 a 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...

Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self-hatred we have caried for so long, and use our compassion to bring love, understanding and then, if necessary, change.   Connie Sobczak connie.sobczak@gmail.com Connie Sobczak is the author of Embody: Learning to L...

Acceptance means to honor and respect our body and our self exactly as we are right now , in this moment. When we step into acceptance, we stop struggling and fighting and we begin to make peace with ourselves. This empowers our body and our self to be who we really are in this moment. It takes us out of the obsession of “wanting to be different” and allows us to be more present with ourselves, an...

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 cultures’ 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 lea...

Reparenting is the action of taking care of the small child within all of us who has feelings and needs. Many times the pain beneath the struggle with food and weight is linked to emotional needs that weren’t met when we were children. This is understandable since it is impossible for a parent to meet every emotional need a child experiences. However, as an adult we can learn to meet our own needs...

When we stop dieting and obsessing about food and weight, we set a boundary that allows us to start living our lives and meeting our own needs. Setting boundaries is a way to protect our integrity. By setting limits or saying no we are able to make choices based upon our own unique truth, instead of what we believe we “should” do or “should” eat or “should” weigh. Kathleen Bishop is a Licensed Cli...

Reparenting is the action of taking care of the small child within all of us who has feelings and needs. Many times, the pain beneath the struggle with food and weight is linked to emotional needs that weren’t met while we were children. This is understandable since it is impossible for a parent to meet every emotional need a child experience. However, as an adult, we can learn to meet our own nee...

Expressing our feeling 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 everyone. M Reim Ifrash MAAT, REAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPC, NCC, RMT, CLAT M (they/them) is a fat, non-binary, A...

Body talk is how we communicate with our bodies. Communications with our bodies are often full of negative, critical comments with are not only unproductive, but make us feel worse and lead to destructive behaviors. When we are aware of how we talk to ourselves, we can learn to stop the mean body talk or at least slow it down, and create room for more positive, loving nurturing and inspirational c...

Acceptance - What the actual hell is going on? The apocalypse? . Which means "lifting of the veil. Finding the secret deep inside. For many of us, our life has been turned upside down. Financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. We are afraid and anxious. WE have seen the systems we have set up fall apart…fragile and weak…completely unjust, horrifying, and brutal. But in this time of re...

In this episode I talk about recovery from an eating disorder is doable and completely possible. There is hope and you can and will recover. ★ 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 can use our breath to bring our awareness into our body and explore wh...

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 an...

Observation is the ability to observe and question our behaviors. When we can do this with a sense of detachment, curiosity, and no judgement, like a scientist we can then be safe enough to see our true behaviors. Only by seeing ourselves as clearly and honestly as possible can we start to understand and then change our behaviors.  Jasmine holds a Bachelor's Degree in Health Science and Biology, a...