Hello, welcome back. Before we dive in today's episode, I just want to take a couple of moments to set the context about why we're re-releasing a conversation that was forever ago. I had this conversation with Sarah Spears January 2020, and we're bringing it back with a couple of shifts. So this episode stayed with me for the last

couple of years, not because it's about food specifically, but because it really explains

something that so many women feel, but they can't quite put into words. It's really that

sense that food isn't actually the problem, that no matter how many plans you follow,

how disciplined you are, or how many things you want to change within your body, something

deeper keeps pulling you back into these same patterns. So when I first recorded this episode

with Sarah, it cracked something open for me and I had so much good feedback. So at the time,

I was deep into the world of nutrition and metabolic health and yet I kept seeing women who were

doing everything right and still struggling with binge eating, emotional eating, constant battle

with food. So this conversation will help you understand why that's the case. And what Sarah explains so

beautifully is that eating behaviors don't exist in isolation. They are shaped by restriction,

stress, trauma, nervous system patterns, emotional wounds, and even the energy that we carry from

our past or from other people around us.

So food becomes a coping mechanism, not because someone is weak, but because their body is

really trying to protect them.

So if you're listening to this and you've ever felt like shame around food or frustrated

with yourself or confusion about why your quote unquote willpower doesn't seem to work

right. I want you to hear this clearly before we begin that you're not broken, that so many of

us experience this, that your body is not betraying you. And your struggle makes sense in the

context of your life. So this episode introduces the concept of

five bodies of health, physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and soul. So it's a framework

that helps explain why healing requires so much more than just changing what you eat. It's about

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