Ep 144 - How Embodiment Can Help Us Feel More At Home In Our Bodies w/ Nicola Haggett
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
It’s that time of the week again folks! This week, I’m bringing back one of my all-time favourite episodes with one of my equally favourite people, Nicola Haggett. We recorded this episode back in January 2021 alongside the launch of my second book, How To Just Eat It. If you haven't already heard this episode, then I think it will have a lot to offer you. And even if you have already listened, I bet you'll get something new and different listening to it a second or even a third time around.
Nikki is body liberationist coach and mentor, professionally trained and experienced life coach, certified Body Trust provider and Open Heart Project meditation instructor. Nikki is also a mid-large, fat human whose lived experiences navigating the world as a fat person are a super important part of her work. In this episode, we dive into the world of embodiment, covering things like:
- How writing our body story can be an act of reclaiming the narratives of our bodies
- What exactly embodiment is and how we can find examples of it in our lives (babies, kids, cats!)
- The difference between embodiment and more ‘performative’ or ‘hustle’ self-care
- How embodiment can help us to feel connected to our bodies without necessarily ‘loving’ or feeling ‘positive’ about them
- Reclaiming pleasure, appetite, autonomy and more
- Finding spaces that feel safe to reconnect with your body
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Show notes:
- Follow Laura on Instagram | Twitter
- Follow Nikki on Instagram
- Follow Don’t Salt My Game on Instagram
- Laura’s Website
- Nikki’s Website
- Sign up for the Raising Intuitive Eaters Workshop
- Book in for a complimentary 15-minute Discovery Call with Laura
- Buy an Intuitive Eating friendly guide to managing different health concerns
- Sign up for a Learn with LCIE Course
- Buy a copy of Just Eat It | How to Just Eat It
- Edited by Joeli Kelly
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When we explore this within the construct, we really look at this place when we move from being aware that we have desires, like that we have wants, and we might have a crush, and that feels like a really dreamy, nice place, to a place of being desirable. really starting to notice like who gets to have |
| 0:24.9 | their desires celebrated or named or centered. |
| 0:32.1 | Hey team, welcome back to Don't Salt My Game where we are having conversations with game changers who are |
| 0:38.2 | flipping diet culture on its head. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist who specializes |
| 0:43.7 | in intuitive eating and anti-diet nutrition and I'm the author of Just Eat It and How to Just Eat |
| 0:49.0 | it. Today I'm rebroadcasting an older episode that I did with my friend Nicola Haggett, |
| 0:55.6 | where we really dig into exactly what embodiment is and how it can help us begin to reclaim |
| 1:02.2 | a sense of comfort and connection and ease in our body, especially if the idea of loving your |
| 1:08.0 | body or having so-called positive body image feels really hard. |
| 1:13.2 | It's an episode that I am constantly referring clients to and if you've been struggling with how |
| 1:19.9 | you feel about your body, then this is a truly special episode and I think it will leave you |
| 1:25.9 | with a lot to think about. |
| 1:35.5 | But before we get into the episode, I just wanted to give you one last reminder about the Raising Intuitive Eaters Workshop on the 28th of June where we will cover the fundamentals |
| 1:40.7 | of raising kids who are resilient to diet culture and body shame, we'll look at |
| 1:45.8 | breaking the intergenerational transfer of dieting, disorder eating and body hate, and think about |
| 1:51.8 | how we can protect kids innate, embodied wisdom around food and support a positive relationship |
| 1:58.3 | with food and bodies. So in this workshop, we're going to cover |
| 2:02.1 | why we need to throw the rulebook out the window when it comes to feeding kids and let them have |
| 2:08.1 | ice cream before broccoli and how we can build trust in our kids to get what they need. We'll talk |
| 2:13.8 | about a framework that can help you feel more relaxed about mealtimes while encouraging kids to have more autonomy. We'll talk about a framework that can help you feel more relaxed about meal times while |
| 2:18.3 | encouraging kids to have more autonomy. We'll cover how providing supportive structure can |
| 2:24.1 | encourage children to remain in touch with their internal cues for hunger and satisfaction, |
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