84: Navigating Two Worlds—A Story of Body Image & Food Struggles Across Cultures
Nutrition Matters Podcast
Paige Smathers
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Melissa Carmona, LPCA is passionate about helping Spanish-speaking people have access to support and resources for mental health concerns. As a Colombian-American woman and mental health therapist, she is helping so many in their journey toward a more peaceful relationship with food and their body through her advocacy and professional work.
In this episode of NMP, she shares her very personal story of her own struggle with body image and food and sheds light on how difficult it can be to navigate two worlds. We talk about growing up in Colombia and what it was like to move to the US at age 16, we talk about her feelings about motherhood, and she even takes some time to express her message in Spanish.
Listen for an inspiring story of resilience and perseverance!
- Melissa's professional Facebook page
- Melissa's practice website
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| 1:02.8 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is Paige Smathers |
| 1:08.1 | and I'm your host and as always I'm really excited to share this conversation with you today. |
| 1:15.2 | Today I'm sharing my conversation with Melissa Carmona, who is a mental health professional and a counselor, therapist in North Carolina. |
| 1:25.0 | And what makes Melissa's story unique and interesting and helpful to all of us to listen to |
| 1:33.2 | is the fact that Melissa was born and raised in Columbia, and then I'll let her tell you |
| 1:38.6 | her story. |
| 1:39.1 | But at age 16, she moved to the United States. |
| 1:42.3 | So she has a unique perspective on some cultural differences between the two countries |
| 1:48.2 | in terms of how that affected her relationship with food and her body, |
| 1:53.2 | how that relates and affects her current work that she does with her clients. |
| 1:58.5 | She's especially passionate about creating a space for |
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