Earlier this week, I was coaching some of the women I work with inside of the Food Freedom

Online program and we were having a conversation around some of the revelations that they

were beginning to have as they were working through course material and the modules.

And one of my clients said to me, you know what I'm beginning to realize?

I'm beginning to realize that my struggles with food have far less to do with the food

and far more to do with my negative body image. And when she said this, it gave me chills because

these types of revelations are incredibly powerful. And for many, many individuals who are

struggling with disordered eating, it's tied to a negative body image. We believe that

our bodies are not good enough. We don't like the way they look. We're insecure in our bodies.

And our thought process is that if we control food, then we'll be able to control our body and we'll be

able to control the way we feel about our body. But what's so ironic is when we start to control

food or we try to

control food, it ends up controlling us. And what we're going to talk about today is six

tips to improve body image because body image is so tied into disordered eating. And I want to talk

about how when we improve our body image, how that begins to improve our relationship with food.

And a lot of times we think we need to focus on the binge eating and the emotional eating as a

mechanism to feel better about our body.

But when we begin to look at how we can feel better about our body right now, just the way

it is, it has this ripple effect in our

relationship with food. We begin to feel less impulsive with food. Now, we tackle the binge

and emotional overeating and body image kind of simultaneously and holistically inside of the

Food Freedom Online program. But today, specifically what I want to talk

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