This week, we talk with former FBS - The Academy + Retreat student, Natalie about her 15 year-long struggle with food and her body image, and her journey to healing & her happiest life ever! 
Topics We Cover:

 Extreme restriction & over-exercising
 Binge eating & eating in secret
  The pressure her parents put on her to lose weight
  The many areas of her life impacted negatively by disordered eating
  Her vision and fantasy of being her thinnest on her wedding day
  Finding hope and doing the work to heal 
  How she found compassion for and accepted herself
  How Food Body Soul changed her life (& how it will change yours, too!)
  The power of being in a group program with others 
  What it was like to attend Food Body Soul - The Retreat
  And so much more

It's a raw, candid, and deep episode I know you will love! 
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#131 Real Talk: You Do Not Need to Lose Weight to be Your Happiest with Natalie Sanchez Alvarez

Welcome to Love Your Bod Pod, a podcast all about intuitive eating, female empowerment, body acceptance, and saying goodbye to diet culture. Cara Carin Cifelli is your host, she is a certified holistic health coach, breathwork facilitator, author, speaker, and food lover! Find her @caraskitchen on Instagram or www.caraskitchen.net


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In this final episode of Love Your Bod Pod, I am sharing my experience with chronic pain and how that played a role in my decision to no longer be a coach. I answer the questions you have sent in about why I made this decision. Thank you so much to everyone who has listened to this podcast and supported me over the last 7 wonderful years! I love you always. Please keep in touch. 

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#147 THE FINAL EP. Why I'm retiring from Coaching - Lessons from Chronic Pain

In this solo episode, I share 10 lessons learned from being in recovery for 10 years. 

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#146 - 10 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Recovery

In this episode, I interview Alana Van Der Sluys from Freedom with Food and Fitness, a fellow coach and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. 


We talk about mindset work and how food is only as powerful/scary/dangerous as the story you tell yourself in your head and how lasting freedom with food, fitness and your body requires mindset work. We also talk about how to have a fun and positive relationship with fitness, overcoming "Good Girl Syndrome", letting go of the thin dream and so much more. 


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#145 Mindset for Freedom with Fitness, Food & Body Image, and How to do IE with Health Conditions w/ Alana Van Der Sluys

In this episode, I interview Emily, @yourmentalhealthbff, about her experience with drug-induced anorexia and the very common overlap of substance abuse and eating disorders. She tells her story of asking for help, choosing recovery, and going to a wilderness rehab (something I didn't know existed). She is a licensed Trauma Therapist, so I picked her brain on self-esteem, people-pleasing, and so much more. It's a great episode!


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#144 Self Esteem, People Pleasing, ED & Substance Abuse Recovery with Trauma Therapist Emily @yourmentalhealthbff

In today's episode, I meet with Jaimie Weisberg, your body-positive bestie! She is a fashion queen on social media and a recovery advocate. We talk about her experience growing up, advocating for herself throughout treatment while facing weight stigma, and why recovery is worth it. Of course, we talk about fashion and how to not let the size of your clothes influence your value and how you feel about yourself. She shares her mindset and strategies for overcoming those hard days when you put on clothes that don't fit. We talk about her favorite places to shop and so much more! It's a great episode with a powerful woman living unapologetically as herself! 


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#131 Real Talk: You Do Not Need to Lose Weight to be Your Happiest with Natalie Sanchez Alvarez

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