Lisa explains how we got where we are today with our relationship to food and eating from a mind-body perspective and what we can do to begin to heal.

Topics Include:

Brain Science 101

The connection between stress and our relationship to food and eating

Food and addiction

Eating Disorders vs Disordered Eating

Moving away from shame and blame and into understanding and compassion

[2:53] A general overview of how our brains operate in order to heal our mind-body system and how our brains attempt to achieve balance

[4:50] Understanding stress

[9:39] The role of “The Happiness Cocktail” (Dopamine, Serotonin, Endorphins, and Oxytocin) and how it relates to your relationship to food and eating

[15:05] Past client stories - a look at the brain science with real life examples

[19:00] ACES and the consequent health risk behaviors around food and eating are not your fault, and how we can move from “What’s wrong with you?” to, “What happened to you?”

[24:15] The Reward Pathway: How emotional eating and overeating and restriction and dieting can serve the same purpose in the brain and addiction

[33:00] Grieving dieting and/or emotional eating and how body size tells us very little about our relationship to our feelings around food and eating

[37:22] The spectrum of behaviors and feelings around food eating from the “Eat to Live” People → “Eating Disorders” and how you don’t need to have a diagnosable eating disorder to benefit greatly from support

[41:30] Letting go of self-blame and the notion that one day we’ll just “be done” with struggling about food, eating, and body image and the four things that will always be true about being human

[45:00] How your thoughts impact your reality

[46:50] So, what do we do?

[49:50] It’s not your fault but it is your responsibility

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Resource(s):

Gabor Maté Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cYcSak6nE