Welcome back to Real Health Radio. This week's episode is an interview, and today's guest is Ivy Felicia.

Ivy Felicia is a Certified Holistic Wellness Coach and Body Image Expert with a gift for helping people of all body types to embrace body peace and self-love at any stage of life. Her Body Relationship Coaching work is centered on her personal experiences with barriers to body love, and more than a decade of social and professional involvement in the emotional wellness and health education movements.

Here’s what we talk about in this podcast episode:

2:45: What was food like in Ivy's household growing up

4:00: How much was health talked about in her house when she was young?

5:00: When did she go on her first diet and what triggered it?

7:30: What her activity looked like as a kid and how it changed as she got older

9:00: Her PCOS diagnosis

13:45: Why she looks at PCOS as her gift

15:45: What it was like working with a holistic doctor

18:00: How she started to change her relationship with her body

20:00: How she now helps other women with body image

20:45: What is body peace?

22:45: Suggestions for working toward body peace

24:45: How to handles changes in your body

28:30: What was it like for Ivy trying to break into an industry that's predominantly thin and white

33:30: What is the Association for Size Diversity and Health?

34:45: What is flashback forgiveness?

38:20: Why she started the Fat Women of Color Instagram account

41:20: How Ivy thinks wellness could do better