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You're listening to 3 and 30 takeaways for Mom's episode 164.

Three ways to heal your relationship with food this year.

Welcome to 3 and 30, a podcast for moms who want to create more meaning and motherhood.

Each 30 minute episode will feature three doable takeaways for you to try at home with your family this week.

I'm your host Rachel Nielsen. Thank you so much for being here.

For hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, January is the month of the new diet.

I'm sure most of us have been there with the New Year's resolution to cut out all sugar, do a whole 30 or lose 20 pounds.

If you currently have a New Year's resolution like this, that's okay.

I don't want this episode to shame you or make you feel like you're doing something wrong.

I just want to give you additional perspective on ways you can care for your body that seemingly have nothing to do with food,

and yet have everything to do with food.

If you've listened to 3 and 30 from the beginning, you may know that I have a long history with eating disorders.

It started for me when my mom was dying of cancer when I was in college, and I used harsh food restriction and excessive exercise to deal with my grief and try to find some control in my life.

A few years later when I was going through infertility, I started binge eating, again trying to use food to numb my pain, but this time trying to shove it down through excess.

After we adopted my son Noah, my disorder to eating patterns only worsened due to the stress of new motherhood, and I knew it was time for me to seek some professional help.

That's when I first started seeing a counselor, and I have been utilizing counseling as a tool to support my mental health fairly consistently in the almost 10 years sense.

That's a lot of therapy my friends, and it has done me a world of good.

My relationship with food and my body is still occasionally a struggle for me, but overall I'm in a completely different place than I was before I started counseling,

with so many more tools for emotional resilience, so much more perspective on the value of my body beyond just what it looks like, and so much more self assurance in who I am.

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