Hello everyone and welcome to Saturn Returns with me Kagi Dunmark.

This is a podcast that aims to bring clarity during transitional times where there can be confusion and doubt.

If you're thinking about food and kind of like doing this elaborate equation of what you can and can't eat based on what you've already eaten and how much you've exercised that day.

That's messed up.

My guest today is nutritionist and intuitive eating specialist Laura Thomas.

After an undergraduate degree and a PhD, Laura set up her own private nutrition practice.

She soon realized that while clients were coming to her asking for meal plans and structure,

what they really needed was some help in trusting their own instincts and intuition around food. Intuitive eating has been something that's

fascinated me for quite a long time and it involves learning to understand and recognize

internal hunger and fullness cues but it also requires a lot of unlearning of old

unhelpful food rules and habits that we picked up throughout our lives so that we

can reprogram our relationship to food.

As you'll hear from this conversation,

I have had a bit of a rocky relationship with food

and my body, and this is why I wanted to talk to Laura because it was during my own Saturn Returns experience

when I really decided it was time to address these issues and face them head on.

I'm very conscious of never speaking about this stuff on

social media or I don't very often because I think it can be a dangerous landscape

to start giving out or dishing out, no pun intended advice on food or nutrition

when someone might not be totally healed themselves. So just as a caveat by no means

are my own expert in any capacity in this field or have I got it completely figured

out.

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