048 - HER STORY - Growing Up Around Addiction With Elizabeth

The Dear Body Podcast

Jessi Jean

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to alcoholism, addiction, 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! For so many people, struggles with food and body can start in the early years of life. In this episode, a FFM client named Elizabeth came on to discuss her struggles with food and body. She opens up about growing up around addiction and alcoholism and how this directly correlated with her eating disorder. She shares how her faith and relationship with God has helped her recovery but how she needed more support and found the FFM. Elizabeth and Jessi discuss the power of connection in the healing journey and how you can sometimes evolve mentally before behaviorally. The two talk about how Elizabeth discovered the FFM, her advice for someone who has a similar journey and expanding your perspective of what you want in life. In this episode: What Elizabeth’s struggles with food and body looked like Having a meltdown before her sister’s wedding and how this affected her The correlation of emotional trauma and how this exacerbated her eating disorder Losing her mom to alcoholism and having to be the strong person in her family How her faith has helped her in recovery and trauma How Elizabeth found Jessi and the FFM Why FFM resonated so heavily with Elizabeth Her experience with the program and finding a community of women The power of connection in your journey to healing How her relationship with food and her body has shifted since joining the program Evolving mentally before you evolve behaviorally Her intentions and why she’s working on changing her own self-identity What advice Elizabeth gives to someone who could relate to her story The fears she’s overcome since joining the FFM How the process of pursuing healing has changed her whole perception of life Focusing on gratitude to help dissipate anxiety Expanding our perspective of what we want from our life Her biggest piece of advice for other women Links: This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life Adult Chair Episode 153 - Binge Eating With Jessi Jean Update** We now offer something EVEN better then 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	What's up, sister? So happy to have you back for another episode. In this episode, I interview an incredible guest. Her name is Elizabeth. And if I could use one word to describe this episode, it would be powerful. When I was interviewing Elizabeth, I started to choke up. So forewarning, I get a little teary, but it's because I can relate to Elizabeth on so many different levels.
0:21.6	She shares openly what it was like for her growing up in a household where her mom struggled
0:27.3	with alcoholism and how that impacted her and how she turned to food as a coping mechanism.
0:32.6	And I relate to her on that level.
0:34.8	That's very similar to what I grew up in. And she just shares openly
0:39.5	and honestly her struggles with food and body and how she's navigated her way out of that.
0:44.8	But if you've ever grown up with or been around somebody who struggles with addiction or you
0:49.9	yourself have struggled with addiction, you know how challenging it can be. You know how chaotic
0:55.1	and how much havoc it reeks in everybody's lives. And I'm just so thankful that she shared so
1:02.3	openly because those of you who, again, are struggling because you have a loved one or you
1:07.9	yourself are suffering from addiction, I want you to know you're not
1:12.0	alone. And I believe that Elizabeth's story will bring you hope. It will bring you an encouragement.
1:17.8	She conquers. She prevails through. And it's a beautiful, she's gotten herself to such a beautiful
1:22.8	place. So I know that you're going to be inspired by her. But this is a forewarning.
1:27.6	We do talk about alcoholism, the effects of addiction.
1:31.0	And we talk about eating disorder.
1:32.8	So if any of those topics are triggering to you, just a forewarning that we are going to be
1:36.8	diving in to those things in this episode.
1:39.6	Otherwise, get cozy, sit back, relax, and enjoy.
1:43.3	Hello and welcome.
1:44.6	This is Jesse Jean, and you're listening to the Dear Body Podcast.
1:50.6	I spent 10 years stuck in the diet binge cycles, hating my body and envying women who seem to have it all because I never felt enough.
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