#78: Healing from Trauma & Learning Intuitive Movement with Lauren Ezell Minear, Eating-Disorders Therapist

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

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🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Therapist and yoga teacher Lauren Ezell Minear shares why embodiment is so important to healing from trauma, how feminism and yoga helped her recover from an eating disorder, how she's learned to listen to her bodies cues for movement and rest, and lots more. Plus, Christy shares an aspect of her story publicly for the first time.

Lauren Ezell Minear is a psychotherapist and yoga instructor with a private practice in New York City. She specializes in the treatment of eating and body image problems from a feminist relational perspective grounded in mindfulness-based interventions. Lauren also offers integrative body image workshops and yoga therapy for anxiety, depression, exercise compulsion, and traumatic stress. She is the creator of InBodied Yoga, a body positive method of movement as self-care.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every
0:06.2	size.
0:07.2	I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified
0:11.2	intuitive eating counselor, specializing in weight-inclusive wellness.
0:15.4	Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships
0:19.3	with food.
0:20.3	Hey, welcome to episode 78.
0:38.4	I am really having a hard time with this intro.
0:41.5	I've recorded and re-recorded it five times.
0:45.8	And I'm recording it on Wednesday, November 9th.
0:51.0	We all know what happened today.
0:53.2	I'm really sad about it, and I have been through so many emotions today.
0:57.8	Right now I'm feeling kind of numb, kind of emotionally hungover from all the feelings.
1:04.5	And I was just on retreat with the folks from Be Neurished, Dana Sturdavan, who is my
1:08.7	guest a couple weeks ago on Food Psych and Hillary Knavy.
1:12.5	There's such wonderful people, dietitians and therapists in this body positive, health
1:18.7	at every size space.
1:21.2	And the retreat was for providers who do this work on how to become more embodied for
1:27.8	ourselves and how to teach our clients to become more embodied.
1:31.1	And this concept of embodiment is being rooted in your body, being at home in your body,
1:37.9	feeling okay in your body, you know, and trusting your body.
1:40.8	Where concept of body trust is really central to this work.
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