It's Not About Food Podcast with Laurelee Roark

Today we are discussing the idea the eating disorder is a cry from our deepest soul. Something is trying desperately to get our attention. And it is our own self. We are spiritual beings trying to live in a body. So at the heart of every eating disorder is the desire to awaken, embrace our whole selves and experience our spiritual truth. Creativity, passion and our soul's desire will lead us to our true selves. Carol Norma...

Trust is the 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.

About Wendy Welsher

Wendy is a fat-positive personal trainer who specializes in fun...

Recovery from an Eating Disorder is not a Linear Process. This podcast is looking at true recovery. It requires many layers of learning that unfold uniquely, spontaneously and independently. As we go around the spiral of recovery we often hit a stressor, which takes us back to our behavior. But we learn how to work ourselves out of it and get back to recovery with more self-knowledge. Stress will always happen but we can h...

Sheira Kahn is a Marriage and Family Therapist and fully recovered bulimic. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Ms. Kahn taught in the UC Berkeley Extension certificate program in Eating and Weight Disorders for ten years. In the 1990s, she studied inner critic disengagement with Byron Brown and natural eating with Judy Wardell. These discourses became the pillars of her met...

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. 

With over 25 years of experience, Chevese Turner is an internationally recognized eating disorders, weight discrimination and social justice activis...

Alexa Redner is currently a mentor teacher for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Program, training people from all over the world to become certified mindfulness teachers. She also works a Mindfulness teacher for Cloud Sangha, guiding people in small groups to deepen their meditation practice in community. Alexa holds a BA in Visual Arts and an MA in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University. Alexa ...

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 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. 

Marcella Raimondo

For a decade in my teens and early twenties I battled with ...

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 learned, then we can take th...

Faith 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 great wisdom within you 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 that you will also find the grace and the light. 

Rex D...

Creativity is the outward manifestation of who we are as spiritual beings. It is the magical ability to create something out of nothing that is uniquely ours. It is the gift of being able to imagine, to dream, and then to make the dreams come true. Creative expression is essential to feeding our souls. It forced us to go beneath the obsession with food and weight and access the part of ourselves that passionately hungers f...

Honoring means we understand we are sacred beings and our bodies are sacred. They are not objects to be sculpted and forced to meet cultural ideals. They are not a commodity to manipulate in order to measure our self-worth. By de-objectifying and creating reverence for our bodies, we become free to experience the wisdom, magnificence and magic of our bodies. 

Emily Ireland Cox is an event planner, body liberation motivator,...

Jen Powers is a local Non-Diet Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Certified Yoga Teacher specializing in eating disorders, healing chronic dieting, HAES, and intuitive eating.  She received her Bachelor's in Nutrition at UC Berkeley and Master's in Nutrition at CSU Long Beach where she worked closely with Evelyn Tribole, one of the co-authors of the book Intuitive Eating, on her Ma...

Robyn is a nationally renowned contributing author registered dietitian nutritionist. She has been quoted as an expert in various publications including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Diabetes Forecast, Shape Magazine, Fitness, Oxygen, Life & Style, Natural Solutions, Beverly Hills Weekly and Today’s Dietitian. In addition, Robyn has also served as an eating disorder specialist on the nationally televised sho...

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

Karen Louise Scheuner is a California based weight-inclusive, anti-diet dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Coach with o...

In this podcast, I interview three of my fabulous peer educators. Each one will talk about the 3 prongs of recovery from eating disorders and body hatred. These awesome young women get trained to go into classrooms with me all over the Bay Area and present a message of hope, knowledge, prevention, and recovery for students. Whether the students have eating or weight issues themselves I have found we can all learn how to ta...

3 prong recovery and prevention model of Beyond Hunger Presentations of the Peer Educators. The 3 prong model we teach is body acceptance, intuitive eating and emotional wisdom. In this show I interview 3 of our recent peer educators about how they go into schools and talk about how to recover from disordered eating and body dissatisfaction as well as preventing disordered eating and body dissatisfaction. Using a interacti...

Spiral with Maria Raquel Pandeyhe mrgramajo@gmail.com 
Recovery process is not linear, but rather like a spiral. As we begin our journey of recovery around the spiral, we will meet many layers of life experiences that trigger disordered eating and body hatred behaviors. Even though we are once again doing these behaviors, we are not at the same starting point in the spiral. As we take each experience and use it as a bui...

Fullness is the bodily experience of having just enough to eat…not too much and not too little. When we slow down, stay conscious and go within, we can hear and feel this natural bodily sensation. Every person experiences fullness differently, and some of us have learned to ignore this signal. To experience fullness you may need to practice listening to your body.

Lisa grew up in South Sacramento and moved to the Ba...

Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for all 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 out compassion to bring love, understanding, and then if necessary, change.

Desiree McGunagle has been in recovery from my eating disorder since October 2018 (bulimia nervosa). She work...