It's Not About Food Podcast with Laurelee Roark

Our relationship with food, body size, and sexuality are complex. By exploring the link between negative body image and sexual shame, we can begin to respect and love our own unique beauty and then hold our bodies and sexuality as sacred. We can then reclaim our sexuality for ourselves as the pure, precious, and honorable force it is.  ArielWhitlockMFT@gmail.com 775-351-9411   Ariel is a Licensed...

Our relationship with food, body size and sexuality are complex. By exploring the link between negative body image and sexual shame, we can begin to respect and love our own unique beauty and then hold our bodies and sexuality as sacred. We can then reclaim our sexuality for ourselves as the pure, precious, and honorable force it is.  Nicola Chan is a Body Confidence coach. She helps women and gir...

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 be seeing ourselves as clearly and honestly as possible can we start to understand our behaviors.  For Real-Time Quick Decoding Proceds, click here Barbara Birsinger, ThD, MPH, RDN,...

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 heats, 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...

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 divine, 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 our feelings, then we can stop fighting with ourselves and all...

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 of the physical, emotional and spiritual parts of ourselves. Holistic means we move beyond the goals of having a certain body type and into the inte...

Overeating and undereating are both ways to cope with overwhelming feelings. They can become a tool to calmed down, numb the pain or get away from the feelings. Once we become aware of our overeating or undereating in the moment, we can then look beneath the behaviors at the underlying feelings and explore what might have caused them.  Sondra Kronberg, MS, RD, CEDRD-S  Founder and Executive Direct...

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. Ellyn Silverman-Linnetz is a Regis...

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...

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. Guest name, bio & contact info Sheila Rubin Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT Co-Dir...

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 be seeing ourselves as clearly and honestly as possible, can we start to understand our behaviors. Guest name, bio & contact info Deb Malkin radicalbeingbodywork@gmail.com Deb Ma...

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 wha...

Body wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own 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 our needs and accept our natural bodies.  Patricia Ravitz, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist, in private practice in Marin County for over 25 years. She is a former P...

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, and...

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 o...

Diet thoughts are the kind of thoughts we’re having when we think we “should” only eat certain kinds or qualities of foods, count calories and carbs or fat grams, or other eating rules that are restrictive and based on losing weight. These thoughts are learned from our diet culture. Dieting is an obsession that allows us to focus on something very tangible and concrete, giving us the feeling that...

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 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.     Alexis McIsaac has been a volunteer and a peer education pr...

This show explores the idea that 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 passion, opinions and experiences were ignored, rejected or just not encouraged. When we can relearn to identify what our own truth is, we are...

This is a show about going back to basics…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 carried for so long, and use our compassion to bring love, understand and then, if necessary, change.   Constance Hart Color Therapist Constance Hart is the...

Today we are talking about faith which 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 a great wisdom within 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 t...

In this show we talk about recovery from an eating disorder and or body hatred. We explore what is it, what does it look like, how to do it and how do we know we need it. Hilarity Ensues along with some serious deep truths.   Carol Normandi MS, LMFT, Co-founder of Beyond Hunger                 (415) 488-1104 Carol Normandi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice since 1992....

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 lea...

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 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 truth is, we are able to put into action what our h...

Purpose 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...

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 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 o...