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Find Your Food Voice

Julie Duffy Dillon RDN

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

I still remember the first time I called a therapist to ask for help. These moments are painful yet so brave. Are you wanting to make peace with food yet stuck on your own? Or, are you meeting with a therapist yet needing more intensive treatment? How do you know what is the best next step? Listen to the latest Love Food Podcast for ideas to help you decide.

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Dear Food,
My wish every single morning is to just have one day...one day where I do not eat you, enjoy you, and then panic and get rid of you. It has been 6 years and I have not gone one day without engaging in X behaviors. I am tired. I am sick. I am 36 years old and have no friends, no children of my own, and also have almost no hope that I will be able to stop this terrible cycle. I have osteoporosis, low potassium, anemia, dental problems, low vitamin d, a damaged retina, and many other medical complications from what I do with you everyday. It’s so weird. I love you- flavor, texture, the artistry of flavor combinations, the creativity...but I am terrified of you too. Terrified of what effect you will have on my body...terrified that I will love you so much, that I won’t be able to stop...terrified because I am using you as a distraction to stop thinking about extensive childhood trauma. I am 36 and our relationship is no longer so helpful. I use you for the wrong reasons...I wish I could use you for nourishment and not as a means of unhealthy coping. I am faced with the need to attend treatment but I am so scared. We have to meet 6 times a day. We have to sit together and just “be.” I have to use you to help heal me even though currently I hate me. You will be my medicine and hopefully we can become true friends. 
I am faced with the decision, Food. Do I go? Do I hope that together we can work through this? Can we do it? Do I even matter enough to try? 
I do know that I can’t keep doing this Food. I just can’t. I need to hear from you that you will be there for me in the right ways. That I can learn to exist with you in a healthy way. I am so ashamed, lonely, and really just desperate to have a new relationship with you. I just need a little hope, a little reassurance that things will get better. I can’t see a way out out of this now, but hopefully with your promise that this is possible, I can be more things than I am now.
I can be strong. I can be recovered. I can be a mother. I can be a friend. I live instead of just  existing. I can be proud. 
Sincerely, Wanting Something More

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everything secure. Say goodbye to the food police and hello to peace. Welcome to the Love Food

1:01.3

podcast hosted by dietitian and food behavior expert Julie Duffy Dillon. This authentically

1:08.2

engineered series is in the form of a love letter welcoming you to reconnect with food.

1:13.7

Now pour a cup of coffee or a margarita and let's begin.

1:26.9

Hi and welcome to episode 211 of a love food podcast.

1:33.7

I'm Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and partner on your food peace journey.

1:40.0

I am so glad you're here.

1:42.6

Thank you for connecting today.

1:54.2

I still remember how scary it was to pick up the phone and make an appointment to see a therapist.

2:04.2

Now, I had already trained at this point to be a mental health counselor. And I'd already been to therapy a little bit in college and done some like short-term stuff, but I knew this time was different. I was so much

2:12.5

more aware of what I needed and how deep we needed to go. I was a mom of two children at this point,

2:21.7

and my youngest was either a newborn

2:24.5

or pretty early on in that first year.

2:27.1

And I had gone through four years of infertility,

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