168: Overcoming Panic Attacks and Getting to a Place of Peace with Finding Vegan’s Kathy Patalsky
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We’ve admired her for a long time and we’re so glad to have her on the show! Kathy Patalsky was inspired by her love of animals and her struggles with an eating disorder to start the vegan food blog HealthyHappyLife over a decade ago.
But as we know, being a successful eco-entrepreneur isn’t always easy. Too much work, no socializing, no time to process emotions. Invariably this affects our physical health. For Kathy, this manifested as asthma flare-ups, exhaustion, depression, and panic attacks. Doctors and naturopaths couldn’t diagnose anything specific. The cause: repressing emotions. Pretending everything is ok. Basically, faking it.
Can you relate? We can! And we need to stop. It’s natural not to want to be judged for feeling sad, or being unable to cope with a crazy workload, or not being “perfect.” But, plastering a smile on your face and saying, “I’m fine” only makes it worse. You need to be vulnerable sometimes, to be gentle with yourself, to reach out to a friend, to give in to what your body is calling out for, whether that’s a hug, a walk in nature, a massage, meditation, or healthy plant-based food.
Kathy’s websites HealthyHappyLife and FindingVegan are the perfect places to get inspired to add more vegan goodness to your life. And with the app, you can literally veganize any dish (there are over 116,000 recipes!!). If you’re a plant-based food blogger, head to Kathy’s Facebook Group to connect with and get support from like-minded people. If you have a question about veganism or panic attacks, reach out to Kathy via her FB or Twitter.
Kathy has also written the best-selling books 365 Vegan Smoothies (where you’ll find smoothies for your every wellness need) and Healthy Happy Vegan Kitchen (which groups together Kathy’s favorite and most popular recipes).
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| 0:00.0 | Food Heels Podcast, episode 168. |
| 0:03.4 | The Six Dimensions of Wellness are emotional, social, spiritual, environmental, intellectual, and then physical. |
| 0:12.5 | Holistic Voice presents the Food Heels podcast with your hosts, Alison Melody and Susie Hardy. |
| 0:19.3 | Join the Food Hills Nation and learn the secrets to go from feeling unwell to healing yourself. |
| 0:25.4 | Warning, side effects of this podcast may include increased health and vitality, thoughts of living longer, |
| 0:29.4 | an increase in sexual activity, feelings of joy, cravings for kale and chemo, and a spike in Tinder matches. |
| 0:34.2 | In real cases, women have experienced a strong desire to stop asking their boyfriends if they look fat and stressed. If you experience any of these symptoms, post a |
| 0:40.2 | selfie to Instagram immediately. Welcome, Food Heels Nation. Thanks for joining us. I'm Alison |
| 0:45.3 | Melody. And I'm Susie Hardy. Today's guest is Kathy Patowski. She's the creator of the vegan |
| 0:50.5 | food blog, Healthy, Happy Life, and author of the cookbooks, 365 vegan smoothies, and |
| 0:57.0 | Healthy, Happy Vegan Kitchen. |
| 0:59.3 | Kathy is also the founder of the popular website, FindingVegan.com, which launched the |
| 1:04.3 | Finding Vegan app in 2015. |
| 1:07.0 | Kathy graduated with a degree in health promotion from American University in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:12.1 | She also spent a year studying art at Otis School of Art and Design. |
| 1:15.9 | Her blog is emerging of her favorite things. |
| 1:18.3 | Art, food, wellness, a love of animals, one of our favorites, and the environment and people. |
| 1:24.1 | Those are like all my favorite things. |
| 1:27.2 | Wine. Oh, and wine. Yeah, Kathy got all my favorite things. But first... |
| 1:27.7 | Wine. Oh, and wine. Yeah, Kathy got to write about wine. |
| 1:31.5 | But first, have you tried and tried and tried... |
| 1:35.0 | And tried? And tried. To lose weight. But even if you make some progress initially, |
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