046 - HER STORY - Healing Through Miscarriage and Food and Body Image Struggles with Vanessa

The Dear Body Podcast

Jessi Jean

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to miscarriage, eating disorders and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode! As you overcome the struggles you’ve had with food and your body you may have to start to process emotions and learn to feel feelings that you’ve never felt before. It’s hard, and it’s definitely scary. Today’s guest is someone who has dealt with that and she was astonished by the feelings and emotions that came up that she used to numb out. In this episode, I talk with FFM client, Vanessa. Vanessa’s struggles with food and her body came at a very young age and it was something she navigated throughout most of her life. In this episode, we talk about her devastating experience with miscarriage, how her relationship with food and her body has changed since joining FFM and the power in telling your story. In this episode: Where Vanessa was at with food and her body before finding FFM Navigating through her parent’s divorce and using binging to numb her pain The ups and downs of her food and body struggles The tipping point where she realized she needed to make some changes How she stumbled across Jessi on Instagram The power in telling your own story How her relationship with food changed when she came into the course Learning to feel and process emotions that she’d never felt before Having a whole new network of women to support her How her view on her body image has changed Her experience of going through a miscarriage Giving yourself permission to grieve without numbing out What helped Vanessa get to the point where she liked her body The relationship and trust she’s cultivated with her body How her life has changed as a result of the relationship with her food and body changing Her advice for any woman going through a miscarriage Why it’s worth fighting for yourself Links:Vanessa’s Instagram Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up! Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

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0:00.0	Hello, my love. Before we dive into this episode, I do want to preface with a trigger warning.
0:05.5	Within this episode, we may cover topics related to eating disorders, suicide, other mental health
0:11.0	challenges. Obviously, the entire podcast is about learning to work in sync with your mind.
0:17.6	And we talk about topics ranging from food and body issues all of the time. However,
0:22.3	certain episodes may be more emotionally challenging or emotionally difficult and may cause you
0:28.4	to feel more uncomfortable. And I want to make sure I preface those episodes with a trigger
0:32.9	warning. So here is a little heads up that we will dive a little bit deeper into this in this episode. I appreciate you listening to this morning and listening to what your soul needs. If it doesn't feel right to listen, go ahead and turn off the podcast. Or if you get into the episode and then it starts to feel triggering in any way, turn off the podcast and get the appropriate
0:54.6	help. And please always remember that I am not a doctor or a mental health professional,
0:59.0	but rather an eating recovery coach. Thank you so much and enjoy the episode.
1:05.1	On today's episode, I have the privilege and the great honor of getting to interview a woman
1:09.3	who is going to inspire you
1:11.0	beyond your wildest dream. She is an incredible soul, the sweetest energy, and she has overcome
1:17.2	so much. I know a lot of you women can relate to the struggle of going through a miscarriage.
1:23.6	This is my client, Vanessa, that you are going to hear from. And her story is so deeply powerful.
1:29.6	It is a story of redemption, of overcoming so much pain and so much struggle in her life.
1:34.6	She has conquered her struggles with food and her body and talks very openly, very, very raw and real about what it's like going through the grieving process of a recent
1:45.5	miscarriage. And I'm so grateful that she was willing to share this so openly and
1:50.7	vulnerably on the podcast because I know so many of you women have experienced or are
1:55.7	experiencing this pain. And I know that she is going to bring you so much encouragement, so much inspiration
2:02.0	of what it means to be a warrior, a conqueror, to never give up, to continue moving forward,
2:07.8	to heal your relationship with food and your body, and to grieve in a healthy way, and to know
2:14.3	that your pain is valid. So I know you're going to love her. Get cozy.
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