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April 22, 2025 44 mins

Foster and Cesar bravely share their radically different relationships with disordered eating, trauma, and healing. Foster opens up about living with an undiagnosed eating disorder for 22 years—marked by constant food obsession and internalized body shame—before receiving a diagnosis that finally brought relief and a path forward. Cesar shares his story of childhood hunger and neglect, and how that scarcity shaped his adult relationship with food. Together, they explore how trauma lives in the body and how healing requires listening within. 

If you’re sitting with a complex relationship to food or your body, whether it’s anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, orthorexia, binge-eating, or a more nuanced disordered eating fed to you by diet culture, this episode is designed to be the first step in your healing process. You are not alone. 

In this episode: 

  • Foster reveals her 22-year struggle with food and eating—and the diagnosis that set her free
  • The shocking truth of what her inner voice sounds like
  • Foster takes us inside the mind of someone with an eating disorder
  • Cesar shares the lasting imprint of childhood hunger including scarcity and shame
  • The foods Cesar gives himself full permission to indulge in
  • The household phrase that still haunts Foster—and how she’s learning to reject diet culture
  • What intuitive eating looks like in real life—and why Foster calls herself a toddler in recovery
  • Cesar’s powerful reminder that eating—and healing—isn’t about rules

Also mentioned: 

Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

Our episode on How to Spot a Gatekeeper

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Created & Hosted by: Cesar Cardona and Foster Wilson

Executive Producer: Glenn Milley

Editor: Bessie Fong

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