Stay ConnectedWelcome to Love Your Bod Pod, a podcast all about intuitive eating, female empowerment, body acceptance, and saying goodbye to diet culture. Cara Carin Cifelli is your host, she is a certified holistic health coach, breathwork facilitator, author, speaker, and food lover! Find her @caraskitchen on Instagram or www.caraskitchen.net
Disclaimer* This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and does not substitute individual medical or mental health advice.
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In this episode, I interview prominent researcher, Dr. A. Janet Tomiyama, from UCLA. If you ever tried to diet or lose weight but have struggled to keep it off, this episode will explain why. She specializes in weight stigma, weight science, dieting, stress, eating, and the so-called "obesity epidemic".
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https://twitter.com/DiSH_Lab
www.dishlab.org
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In this episode, I share 11 practical tools, strategies, and items you can implement and put into practice right now to help you feel better in your body.
Share this episode with the people in your life who would also benefit from hearing these practical pieces of advice.
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"The best-known environmental contributor to the development of eating disorders is the sociocultural idealization of thinness"- NEDA. And you can not idealize thinness without the devaluation of fatness. Girls as young as three start to express concerns over their weight and body image.
In this episode, I share the importance of fighting for fat acceptance and fat positivity and why I can not separate my advocacy for recovery from eating disorders, food freedom, and body liberation without also advocating to end weight stigma and discrimination.
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In this episode, I interview Julie Parker, a life coach and mental health clinician who specialized in eating disorders. Growing up, she struggled with her relationship to food and her body, and always found her self turning to food for comfort, and while food does provide comfort eventually she realized that it was not the solution to her problems. With this awareness, she started down the road to recovery, to dealing with her problems head-on, instead of avoiding them through food. Along the way, she utilized self-compassion, spirituality, and connecting to her purpose to find freedom and liberation.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliesuzanneparker/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julesyparker/
Website: https://juliesuzanneparker.com/
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In this solocast, I get real with you about the recovery process. What it's like, what you can expect, and loving reminders about the messy middle.
Recovery is a process of working through and being with whatever it is we try to "diet-away" or avoid through our disordered behaviors.
The freedom, happiness, peace, and confidence that you are seeking is in the work you are avoiding.
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My cookbook: Vegan Buddha Bowls
In this episode, I interview Joey Cifelli, my cousin. He is a competitive athlete, having competed for the USA National Team in diving and a member of the LGBTQ community. For years he struggled with his body image and relationship with food and sought control in those areas to control people's perception of him before he owned his sexuality and came out as gay. We talk about his journey and he shares very candidly what it was like for him over the years finding worth in external validation, whether it was diving, "eating clean" or Instagram likes. Something that he says is very common in the gay community he is a part of. If you struggle with orthorexia, diet-binge cycling, self-worth, identity, or fitting in, you will relate to his story!
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https://www.instagram.com/joey_cifelli/
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Today on the podcast I interview Emily Feikls! We talk about her struggles with anorexia, orthorexia, and exercise addiction. After losing her mom at age 10, she turned to her eating disorder to cope. It became her life-raft helping here navigate the uneasy waters of life. It also changed how she viewed herself, her health, her life, and ultimately the world leading her to trust her gut and forge her own path instead of continuing to people-please and do what others/society told her to do. She has a chronic illness and also shares how she managed both recovery while still taking care of her health.
Topics we cover:
-Questioning your thoughts in recovery
-People-pleasing vs listen to yourself & intuition
- Orthorexia and "pursing health"
-Healing your relationship with exercise
-Eating Disorders as coping mechanisms
-The process of recovery- slow and steady
Find Emily:
@emilyfeikls @letsthrivepodcast
podcast: https://apple.co/32zDl2P
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@caraskitchen
www.caraskitchen.net
Hey friends! Today is a quick little mid-season update. I wanted to share what I am committed to moving forward with this podcast given everything that has been happening in our world and the new rhythm or schedule you can expect moving forward.
I am sending you all love :) Thank you for listening to the Love Your Bod Pod
In this episode, I interview Dr. Anita Johnston, author of one of my all-time favorite eating disorder recovery books, Eating in The Light of The Moon. We talk extensively about how our relationship with food can give us clues as to what we each need in order to heal. As an Eating Psychology Expert, she walks us through the difference between physical & emotional hunger and what we need to do to address all of our needs. Using metaphors and storytelling, Dr. Johnston brings a new perspective to the podcast. We also explore the Masculine & Feminine energies (not to be confused with gender) in our culture and why that is a huge contributing factor for the rampant nature of Diet Culture.
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Learn more about Anita:
Anita Johnston, Ph.D., is a psychologist, storyteller, and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, which has been published in six languages.
She is the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Café, an interactive online women’s circle, book club or “workbook” for Eating in the Light of the Moon.
Dr. Johnston has been working in the field of eating difficulties and body image distress for over 35 years and is currently the Clinical Director of ‘Ai Pono* Hawaii which has a residential treatment program in Maui and outpatient eating disorder programs in Honolulu. And she is the Executive Director of Eating Disorder Programs for the Integrative Life Center in Nashville.
She provides virtual individual consultations and conducts workshops around the world. She is best known for integrating metaphor and storytelling into her training as a clinical psychologist to explain the complex issues that underlie struggles with eating, exercise, and body image.
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@caraskitchen
www.caraskitchen.net
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Yami about fatphobia in the medical field and education system, the role nutrition and movement play in health and disease prevention as well as how to raise children as confident eaters connected to their intuition. As a mom of two and a pediatrician, she has incredible insight for parents who want their kids to maintain intuitive eating as the grow up. She shares the most common mistakes parents make that influence diet culture, disordered eating, and body shame in their kids, often without meaning to or realizing it. She also shares with us the foundational principles that you can start implementing right away in your own home to improve the overall health, well-being, and relationship to food & body for you and your kids. And as a Health At Every Size advocate she explains why so many doctors are fatphobic.
Learn more about Dr. Yami:
Dr. Yami is a board-certified pediatrician, certified lifestyle medicine physician, national board-certified health and wellness coach, author, podcast host and professional speaker. A passionate promoter of healthy lifestyles, especially the power of plant-based diets for the prevention of chronic disease, she founded VeggieFitKids.com where she provides information on plant-based diets for children. She also hosts the podcast Veggie Doctor Radio.
She obtained a certificate in plant-based nutrition, is a certified Food for Life Instructor, and a Jack Canfield Success Principles Certified Trainer. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Yami owns Nourish Wellness, a pediatric micro-practice in Yakima, WA where she lives with her husband and two active sons. Her book is entitled “A Parent’s Guide to Intuitive Eating: How to Raise Kids Who Love to Eat Healthy”
Learn more at DoctorYami.com
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