67: Food Freedom After Forty—It's Never Too Late
Nutrition Matters Podcast
Paige Smathers
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2017
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Rana Olk is extremely passionate about the work she does in helping women find food freedom. She is passionate about that work because she has been through decades of struggling herself. Today on the podcast, she shares her story of recovery from binge eating disorder after decades of feeling like it was hopeless.
In this episode, Rana talks about her childhood and where the behaviors started. She explains some of the cultural differences she experienced in her youth growing up in Turkey as well as the United States.
Her story is equal parts heartbreaking and triumphant—make sure you make it to the end so you can hear all about how she persevered and overcame her struggles. This powerful story will give anyone hope that recovery is possible and worth it no matter your age.
Links mentioned:
- Rana Olk's website: https://www.ranaolk.com/
- Rana on Instagram
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| 1:02.5 | Thanks so much for joining me for another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast. I'm Paige and I'm |
| 1:08.1 | your host. And let me just take a minute to tell you a little bit about this |
| 1:13.5 | episode today. So today I'm speaking with Rana Olk, who is a certified life coach and she is someone |
| 1:21.9 | who has been through her own healing process with food. And that's what we focus our conversation on today, |
| 1:30.2 | is talking about the fact that, you know, |
| 1:32.5 | she found food freedom after the age of 40. |
| 1:36.6 | And her work revolves around helping women do the same. |
| 1:42.1 | And during this conversation, |
| 1:44.0 | we do have some strong themes. And so I wanted to |
| 1:47.2 | kind of put a little bit of a trigger warning in the beginning. And I know the episode before this |
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