#59: Why Weight Loss Won't Make You Happy with Simi Botic, Intuitive Eating Coach

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Christy talks with Simi Botic, a corporate attorney turned body-positive health coach, who shares the fascinating story about her journey from body negativity to disordered eating and finally to recovery—and the massive career change that followed. We discuss the myths equating weight loss with happiness, the perils of external validation, and lots more.

Simi is obsessed with coffee, beach vacations, & the 90s. A corporate attorney turned intuitive eating health coach, she now works with women privately & through Finally Free. Simi helps women learn to nourish & nurture their bodies + lives, so they can live FULLY! Get instant access to her free three-part Breaking Up With Binges video series here & hang with her at SimiBotic.com or @simibotic for more.

To learn more about Food Psych and our guest, visit christyharrison.com/foodpsych

Ready to make peace with food? Join Christy's intuitive eating online course!

How healthy is your relationship with food? Take the quiz and get free resources at christyharrison.com/quiz!

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0:00.0	You're listening to Food Psych, a podcast about nutrition, eating disorders and body image.
0:04.6	I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified
0:08.8	intuitive eating counselor, specializing in health at every size. Join me as I talk with interesting
0:14.2	people from all walks of life about their relationships to food.
0:30.1	Hey guys, welcome to episode 59. I have an amazing guest for you today.
0:37.5	Simea Bodich is my guest. She is a corporate attorney turned health coach and she works with
0:43.6	women to help guide them toward intuitive eating and accepting their bodies and breaking up with
0:48.4	diets. And she's just so fantastic. We had such a great conversation and this conversation was
0:53.4	actually the first time we ever connected. Our mutual friend Katie Dalebout connected us. So we
0:58.2	kind of knew already we would like each other because Katie is wonderful and has great friends.
1:02.5	So we connected right away, but I hadn't met her in person until the live podcast episode recently.
1:09.1	So it was really cool to meet her in person and to connect IRL as it were. But you'll be hearing
1:15.5	our first conversation here in just a moment. So I can't wait to share that with you guys.
1:20.5	But first, I want to point you to a couple of great resources for helping improve your relationship
1:26.4	with food. The first is my free quiz to assess your relationship with food and see how healthy it is.
1:31.9	I'll send you your results via email along with more than a dozen personalized, individualized tips
1:37.7	to help you make peace with food wherever you might fall in the spectrum right now.
1:41.7	Take the quiz and get your results today at chrisdiharrison.com slash quiz. That's chrisdiharrison.com slash quiz.
1:49.7	The second resource I want to share is my intuitive eating online course. It's a 13-week
1:55.2	program that I created to help you work through all the principles of intuitive eating and depth.
1:59.9	I'm really demystify and troubleshoot the common areas where people tend to get stuck.
2:05.2	I'll show you how to recognize the diet mentality, even in its subtle forms,
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