[Letter] Trauma and Find Your Food Voice with Meg Bowman

Find Your Food Voice

Julie Duffy Dillon RDN

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Find Your Food Voice podcast, host Julie Duffy Dillon and guest Meg Bowman discuss the complex relationship between trauma, dieting, and intuitive eating. They explore how trauma impacts food choices and the importance of understanding the nervous system in the context of eating disorders. The conversation emphasizes the need for safety and connection in food relationships, the significance of finding 'glimmers' of safety in daily life, and the release of Meg's upcoming book, which addresses these themes. The episode provides valuable insights for those struggling with their relationship with food and offers practical steps for navigating the challenges of intuitive eating amidst trauma.

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Keywords: trauma, dieting, intuitive eating, nervous system, nutrition, mental health, food relationships, polyvagal theory, resilience, safety

Outline:

00:00 Introduction

03:54 Listener letter

09:11 Conversation with Meg

10:55 Polyvagal theory and diet culture

16:04 Connecting to your hunger cues

24:40 Adding glimmers to your day

26:28 Meg’s new book

36:51 Goodbye!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 421 of the Find Your Food Voice podcast. Today we are breaking down how to move away
0:08.1	from dieting while impacted by trauma with special guest Meg Bowman. Let's get to it.
0:17.8	Hey there, VoiceFinder. I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and your host.
0:23.9	Today is a letter episode.
0:27.0	What does that mean?
0:28.0	Well, since I started this podcast way back in January of 2016, yes, we are almost 10 years old here,
0:35.4	but this podcast was founded on letters from people just like you.
0:41.7	I had letters written by listeners that would address the letter to food.
0:47.4	And we would have you break down all the nitty gritty, like get into what's really tough
0:54.0	about your relationship
0:54.9	with food. And then me and sometimes a guest would explore and hopefully give you some pointers
1:00.5	to help you get unstuck, some first steps forward. And what I'm using today is an archive
1:07.6	letter. This is a letter that I have answered before, but I'm pulling out again
1:12.4	because it was so impactful to me and to listeners. And I have a special guest today. Her name is
1:18.7	Meg Bowman. And Meg is the author of the forthcoming book, This Is Your Body on Trauma,
1:25.2	How to Nourish Safety, Resil resilience, and connection with polyvagal
1:29.6	informed nutrition.
1:31.0	I'm so excited for this book.
1:32.8	And I love that, like, Meg and I have very similar ways of helping people and really just
1:41.0	use a different language.
1:42.2	And so you're going to see this polyvagal informed nutrition
1:46.3	combined with finding your food voice. And I hope it adds another tool for you. So a little bit about
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