Reclaiming Peace and Empowerment in Our Inner Dialogue with Food & Body – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

One thing we learn very early in our journey with food and body is that everyone's got an opinion. We find no shortage of health and nutrition experts offering a variety of strong, and often conflicting, perspectives too.

About healthy eating. About the ideal weight and body shape. About what we're doing wrong.

"But who is right? Will it work for me? What if it doesn't?"

And so we try everything – only to end up feeling overwhelmed, stuck, defeated, and lost.

That's where we meet today's podcast guest. Hara is an accomplished 55-year-old business woman who enjoys confidence in all areas of her life – except in her relationship with food.

Hara first started dieting at age 12 and has felt caught for decades in an unending cycle of perfectionism and restriction, followed by rebellious eating and overeating.

Though she managed to free herself from dieting in recent years, Hara says a peaceful relationship with food still eludes her. In her words, "Loving myself didn't magically make the food conversation go away."

She longs for more comfort and confidence when it comes to food and body, but can't figure out what's in the way.

In this episode, Marc explains and explores how our relationship with food has a way of humbling and humanizing us. It brings us face to face with our imperfections and the reality that perfection is unattainable.

During their conversation, Hara comes to the realization that a hidden perfectionism has been ruling her inner dialogue. She learns that by changing the way she speaks to herself and to her body, she can actually change the game.

"Everything depends on how we speak to ourselves," Marc says.

Follow along as Marc offers powerful insights for how we can reclaim a sense of peace in that inner dialogue. He also shows how shifting that conversation can support a sense of renewed overall empowerment in our relationships with food and body.

You'll learn about:

✅ How our inner dialogue shapes our experiences with food and body
✅ How personal relationships can support us in creating space for a loving inner dialogue
✅ How embracing preferences over perfectionism supports us in having the body we want
✅ Why being present and aware while eating is more effective than following "the rules"
✅ And more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology of Eating podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway into a happier, healthier life.
0:11.0	Now, here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David.
0:29.6	Welcome, everybody. I'm Mark David, found of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
0:35.3	Here we are back in the Psychology of Eating podcast, and I'm with Hara today. Welcome, Hara.
0:41.1	Hi, thank you. Well, you know the idea here. We're meeting for the first time and we get to do a session together and hopefully, you know, I'm going to do my best to
0:48.9	help you get where you want to go so if you could wave your magic wand and if you can get whatever
0:55.7	you wanted with food and body, what would that be for you?
0:59.4	I would not worry about every single thing I eat.
1:06.5	There's a constant dialogue of I don't even know what's healthy anymore.
1:14.7	I don't know how to take care of me because I've heard too many different people say too many different things.
1:22.9	And so there's no peace with eating.
1:24.9	Whether whether it's only health food in my refrigerator or not.
1:29.5	I'm just, I don't know.
1:33.9	So you just want to have some peace and it sounds like you want to know what to eat.
1:39.4	Yeah, but also I think I'm 55 years old and I should know what to eat.
1:45.2	And I have lost all the weight.
1:48.8	I've been skinny and fat my whole life.
1:51.7	And every diet works until it doesn't.
1:55.6	And so I don't want to diet anymore, of course.
1:58.0	And I've had a real freedom last year from diet, but still not a
2:04.1	freedom. There's no food freedom. There's no, there's no peace when I eat. So, so, okay, so no peace when
2:13.2	you eat. And that's, that's, that's, that's completely understandable. But let me just make sure I understand where you're coming from.
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