#81: How to Honor Your Body and Recover from Disordered Eating with Rachel Cole, Body-Image 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

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🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Body image coach Rachel Cole shares why we lose touch with our bodies in times of distress, how to start coming back into embodiment, why the 2016 election has caused so much pain for people struggling with food and body issues, how she recovered from eating disorders and embraced body positivity, why feminism and social justice are so integral to making peace with food, and lots more!

Rachel Cole is a certified life coach, celebrated teacher, and women’s empowerment expert. She has spent ten years guiding women to identify, understand and feed their truest hungers – at and away from the table. As an eating disorder survivor herself, Rachel speaks with great wisdom, sensitivity, and authority about what it takes to live as a well-fed woman in the modern world. She has traveled across the United States and internationally speaking and teaching to sold-out gatherings of women on how they too can find ease and fulfillment in their lives simply by honoring their own hungers. Rachel holds a Masters Degree in Holistic Health Education and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. Find her online at RachelWCole.com, and read her full blog post, "Stay."

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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.
0:15.3	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 everyone, welcome to episode 81.
0:39.0	My guest today is Rachel Cole, a certified life coach who specializes in helping women
0:44.9	identify and understand and feed their truest hungers.
0:49.8	As an eating disorder survivor and body positive activist, Rachel has so much wisdom to share
0:55.0	and a can't wait to share it with you in just a moment.
0:58.4	But first, a couple of announcements.
1:00.6	If you're ready to make peace with food, you can join my intuitive eating online course,
1:05.5	which is a 13 week program designed to help you ditch diets and learn to trust your
1:09.8	body again.
1:11.4	The course is chock full of multimedia content to help you work through the principles
1:15.4	of intuitive eating, and it also includes a monthly Q&A podcast from me and a private
1:21.1	Facebook group exclusively for course participants.
1:24.5	As one participant said recently, the Q&A podcasts are great.
1:28.4	They make the course feel more like one-on-one counseling.
1:31.4	It's also nice to hear the commonalities and concerns that so many people share.
1:35.8	And that is very true in the Q&A podcast and in the Facebook group, people are so supportive
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