5 How to take care of your Mental Health and find Food- and Exercise Freedom – with Davida Lederle

I am so excited to share this interview with you because I know you will love it so much!

In today’s episode I am chatting with my friend Davida Lederle, who is the creator behind The Healthy Maven, a multi-channel health- and wellness platform dedicated to making healthy living easier and sustainable.

Davida’s content is diverse, ranging from recipes, to travel, to self-care with a focus on how to live healthfully, rather than living for your health. When Davida isn’t in the kitchen, she is travelling, hiking with her dog and husband or teaching yoga.

If you don’t follow Davida already, you should absolutely go check her out and follow her on Instagram and her Blog, she is such an amazing human being!

It was so great talking to her for the second time (after being a guest on her podcast on this episode). She is such a wealth of wisdom and knowledge on all things intuitive eating, body image and – my favorite thing to talk about these days – mental health.

Just like me, she is a huge advocate for normalizing medication for mental health struggles, because it saved her in her recovery journey.

You are going to absolutely LOVE this episode and walk away with a lot of food for thought on recovery from an eating disorder, transitioning into intuitive eating, taking care of your mental health in whichever way serves YOU and so much more.

A few of my favorite things we touched on:

- Why Davida shifted her mindset to seeing health as a means to extend the QUALITY of your life, not the years of your life necessarily

- Davida’s recovery from her eating disorder, while also getting help with her mental health

- How Davida and I overcame our exercise addiction and healed our relationship to exercise

- What it means to be a “high functioning depressive” and why both me and Davida resonate with that

- How anxiety and depression can feel in our body and where it manifested in her behaviors

- Why holistic self care practices can coexist while being on medication for anxiety and depression

- Why reaching out for help is a sign of strength, not shame

- Why a lot of people turn intuitive eating into another diet and how to avoid doing that for your own journey

- The hardest part in Davida’s recovery from her disordered eating- and exercise patterns

- How mindfulness helps Davida have more self compassion, a positive body image and a peaceful relationship to food

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Links and Resources mentioned in this Episode

Davida’s Website: https://www.thehealthymaven.com

Davida’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehealthymaven/

That’s So Maven Podcast: https://www.thehealthymaven.com/2016/12/the-healthy-maven-podcast.html

Further Resources

Find a Therapist online: https://www.betterhelp.com