067 - HER STORY - Your Past Doesn’t Define You With Molly

The Dear Body Podcast

Jessi Jean

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Food Freedom Online Program Client, Molly shares her incredible story. Her struggles with food and body began at a young age after her father went to prison. Like many of us, she began using food to cope and numb out. Molly walks us through how she processed many challenging events in her life and ultimately found the courage to rise above and pursue healing. Molly encourages all women who have faced trauma in the past to not let your past define you. In this episode: Where + why her struggles with food started Hurtful comments that were made about her body when she was younger How food became her coping mechanism for comfort and to numb out How challenging it is to process challenging events when we are children How what our parents do with food can affect how we view food How her body image struggles started as early as nine years old How society wants us to associate beauty with thinness The problem with celebrating and praising someone's weight loss How being sexually assaulted exacerbated her struggles with food + body Where her relationship with food + body is at now How she tried multiple things by herself to heal her struggles How community and belonging was a key aspect of healing her relationship with food How we need to lean into fear and overcome our struggles How your past does not define you and you CAN come out on top Links: Body Image Breakthrough Intensive Free Morning Routine Challenge Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again! 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	Before we dive into this episode, I do want to preface with a little bit of a trigger warning.
0:04.4	Obviously, much of my podcast is talking about food and body image disorders.
0:09.2	We will talk about that in this podcast, but my guest also talks about being sexually assaulted.
0:15.1	She also mentions some weight that she has lost.
0:18.0	I try to minimize sharing numbers on the podcast because I know
0:21.6	that can be very triggering, but I did want to preface with she mentions how much weight she lost
0:25.8	at one point. So if any of that talking about sexual assault, talking about eating disorders,
0:31.1	talking about weight loss, weight gain is triggering for you, please know that that is in this
0:35.5	episode. However, this episode is a very encouraging story of a woman
0:40.2	who has overcome so much adversity. So dive in and enjoy. Hello and welcome. This is Jesse
0:47.1	Gene and you're listening to the Dear Body Podcast. 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.
1:01.0	And what I discovered in my journey to food freedom, radical self-love, and becoming an eating psychology coach is this.
1:07.5	You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it.
1:13.0	And that is what this podcast is all about. We get real, we get raw, and we hold nothing back.
1:20.7	So if you're ready to learn how to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to the show.
1:37.4	Hello, lovely ladies, and welcome back to another episode of the Dear Body podcast.
1:41.5	Today, I am joined with a really, really special guest.
1:46.1	This woman has been inside the Food Freedom Online program for a number of months now. I have gotten to know her. I've gotten to see her journey evolve. And
1:51.3	she reached out and had this desire, this compelling desire to share her story on the podcast
1:56.9	because her story is important. It's powerful. This sweet client of mine who name is Molly.
2:03.3	And her father went to prison when she was seven years old. And that's when she turned to food
2:08.5	to begin comforting her and being the sense of security. And it kind of spiraled into something
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