What’s the impact of disordered eating and diet culture on mental health? Today’s guest, Cara Cifelli, explains how to shift your mindset, choose recovery, and make change in your life to finally break free of toxic diet culture. Cara is a coach and provides the tools to help women leave behind dieting, disordered eating, and body shame so they can show up more fully in all areas of their life. After struggling with an eating disorder for 10 years, she took her daily pain and turned it into her life's work. She inspires others to leave behind society’s expectations so they can live the life they’ve always dreamed of. She is a self-taught chef and self-published author, so she knows the definition of hard work and figuring it out. Cara is also the host of the podcast, Love Your Bod Pod, where she talks about intuitive eating, female empowerment, body acceptance and rising above diet culture. 

In this episode we discuss: 

• How to shift your mindset around food and recovery
• The impact of perfectionism and negativity in recovery
• The effects of disordered eating on mental health
• Diet culture’s role in body shame + idolized ‘thinness’ 
• Emotional restriction with food and how to overcome it
• Vitamin P: returning pleasure to food
• The scarcity to abundance mindset
• Overcoming food rules and trends
• How to balance health with recovery 

Connect with Cara: www.instagram.com/caraskitchen/ or her site at https://www.caraskitchen.net/

Connect with me: 

www.instagram.com/emilyfeikls/