85 | How to trust your body and food with an autoimmune disease with Sarah Keal

Sarah Keal is a nutrition coach and digestive specialist for vegans with celiac disease and also works with women struggling with their relationships with food and their bodies. That’s a mouthful, right? She’s on a mission to help women recovering from autoimmune disease that directly impacts their connection to food, despite many restrictions. She helps them to expand and enjoy their diets while supporting their digestion, to trust and feel connected to their body and food, and to finally feel free to focus on what really matters because you don’t have to choose between your health and your heart. Her goal is to show women how to regain respect, love and trust of their bodies and the food they eat after years of damage.

On today’s episode we’re chatting about:

Sarah’s personal health journey with mysterious symptoms that led to a celiac diagnosis and an unhealthy relationship with food

How to feel comfortable and free with a restrictive, therapeutic diet (when it is necessary or a moral choice)

How to work on digestive health as a vegan/vegetarian and celiac, because a lot of the recommendations for digestive aids with real food involve meat, fish, broths, and collagen

Finding the middle ground between serious digestive issues and necessary food restrictions to feel good, and learning how to not be so restrictive in our relationship with food, and help us heal our relationship with their bodies

A big reason a lot of us struggle with our relationship with food and our bodies is because we’ve learned not to trust them over the years. Sarah talks about some of the biggest reasons she sees that we don’t trust ourselves.

How we can start to regain respect, love and trust of our bodies, when we feel like our bodies are betraying us with an autoimmune disease

Resources Mentioned:

* Freebie: the Top 3 Myths about healing a Celiac gut that every Vegan should know! 

* Boneless Broth Recipe

* Byron Katie: the Work

* Book: In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollen

* Book: You are a Badass at Making Money, by Jenn Sincero

Hang out with Sarah!

* Instagram: @sarah_keal

* Website: www.sarahkeal.com