Releasing Food Fears & Embracing Your Inner Nutritional Explorer – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

When we're facing a chronic health challenge, one of the great ways to help ourselves is to turn to food and diet. So many of us have had great success when using the "food as medicine" approach.

But what happens when our healing diet routine feels too restrictive?

And how do we reconcile our need to avoid certain foods with our natural desire for freedom and exploration?

These are just some of the questions Cecili's hopes to unpack as Marc's guest on this episode.

Cecili is a nutritionist who's spent more than a decade self-treating her own inflammatory bowel disease. After rejecting conventional treatments, Cecili embraced a food-as-medicine approach which eliminated her symptoms within months.

Now, Cecili seeks support in one area that continues to confound her – fear and anxiety around introducing new foods into her diet, and their potential for causing unwanted symptoms.

Follow along as Marc supports Cecili to reframe her journey, from a focus on fear and anxiety to the development of self-trust.

"As you become more explorative in your life, it's going to be a little bit easier for digestion to relax," Marc says.

And when we pair the experience of safety with the knowledge that we are capable of caring for ourselves amidst unwanted symptoms, then we can finally create a more relaxed and joyful nutritional journey.

Listen now to learn more about:

✅ How mental and digestive processes can mirror each other

✅ Why discerning between trust in body and trust in self creates space for exploration

✅ How to cultivate a relaxed and resilient mindset around trying new foods

✅ The importance of challenging limiting beliefs about what we require to be healthy

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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. Welcome everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the
0:27.2	Institute for the Psychology of Eating. We are back in the Psychology of Eating podcast. I'm with
0:33.2	Cecily today. Welcome, Cecily. Thank you so much. Glad we're doing this. Glad we're here.
0:39.8	So for listeners, if you're new to the podcast, I'm in session and Cecil and I are meeting for the
0:46.1	first time. And the idea is to have a session together and see if we can help move you forward,
0:52.9	Cecily. So if you could wave your magic wine
0:55.6	and get whatever you wanted with food and body, what would that be for you?
1:01.2	Really, it would be freedom, just freedom from anxiety to have around food choices and how it
1:09.2	affects my health specifically.
1:22.0	So freedom from the anxiety or freedom from the symptoms that you would need to protect yourself from?
1:29.9	Well, I mean, I kind of, for me, it's interesting because it's straightforward, but yet it's very complicated.
1:37.9	So I have a digestive disease and, you know, was told, okay, you have to take this medication for the rest of your life. And instead, I chose to try food first.
1:41.3	And when it worked, I think what that did was it sent my brain a message saying
1:46.9	these, you know, specific foods are what you kind of need to stay near and dear to,
1:53.2	in order to maintain a healthy body and, you know, be free from symptoms. And so this has been over a decade ago. And so I, you know,
2:06.6	I know what foods my body rejects just from being in tune with my food, with my body.
2:13.1	But at the same time, there's a whole bunch of foods that are healthy that I have some fear around trying just because, you know, I think it just goes back to that feeling a sense of security.
2:29.3	I mean, I just call it, I call it food fear. Sure.
2:34.3	I have some food fear.
2:36.1	Yeah.
2:36.7	And even though I know that I'm also a nutritionist, I should just throw that in the mix for you.
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