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The Psychology of Eating Podcast

The Soul's Call to Release Our Health Anxieties – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7586 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ever hear the phrase "health is wealth?" 

For many people, we don't quite recognize how valuable our health is until we find illness or injury knocking.

Enjoying robust health is truly the foundation of a happy, fulfilled, and connected life.

But it's also true that worrying about our health, or being vigilant about every aspect of our diet and lifestyle, can actually take us in the opposite direction of vitality – as Marc David explores with 53-year old Daniela. 

Daniela's health anxieties – like many people – were born at a young age. 

As a child, Daniela had always thought she was pretty – gorgeous, even. But at the age of 15, her father told her she was overweight, and in that single instant, her whole world flipped. She began to have constant intrusive thoughts that she was fat, and that something was wrong with her – something that she just had to figure out how to fix.

Now almost 40 years later, Daniela has endured a series of serious health challenges: a pituitary tumor, thyroid dysfunction, knee surgery, and more. 

The more health challenges that develop, the more she worries. 

And her doctors do little to alleviate her concerns – with all their talk of visceral fat, and cholesterol, and how important it is to lose weight.

Daniela's life feels like it's constricting around her. 

She's tired of the decades of yo-yo dieting. She just wants to eat food that nourishes her, be at a moderate weight, and enjoy a healthy life. 

But she can't escape the feeling that her body is against her. 

So in this session, Marc helps Daniela see her story and her relationship with her body from a different perspective: that of her soul.

Because it's Daniela's soul that is calling out for a different kind of life: one where she can stop fighting herself and instead embrace the precious life she has the opportunity to live. 

If you're like Daniela, caught in worries about whether your health and weight is on the right track, be sure to tune into this episode! 

You'll hear:

✅ A much-needed wake up call for why it's time to surrender and let go.

✅ 5 key steps Marc shares for how we can release our health anxieties.

✅ How our metabolic capacity is connected to our personal power. 

✅ A soulful exploration of our collective beliefs around weight and lovability.

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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.

0:11.3

Now, here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David.

0:24.6

Thank you. Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David. Welcome everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.

0:30.6

We're in the Psychology of Eating podcast. I'm with Daniela today.

0:34.6

Hey, Daniela. Welcome.

0:36.6

Hello. Glad you'rea. Welcome. Hello.

0:39.1

Glad you're here. Glad we're doing this. And for anybody out there who's not familiar with

0:44.0

the podcast, Danielle and I are meeting for the first time. And we're going to have a session

0:48.8

together and see if we can do some good things. So if you could wave your magic wand and if you could have

0:55.7

whatever you wanted with food and body, what would that be for you? I would like to be able to take

1:02.6

all the things that like I've learned, the good things and follow the diet that I like. I have an

1:09.6

idea of how I'd like to be eating and feeling healthy.

1:14.7

But I want to be in a different body.

1:17.2

I want to be able to fit into my clothes.

1:19.1

I want to be thinner.

1:23.6

And I don't want to feel all the time because of all the podcasts I've listened to my whole life

1:29.4

that I'm going to like die because my stomach's big.

1:32.8

So that's visceral fat and my blood sugar must be horrible.

1:36.5

Like I feel like no matter what I eat, I can't get it right because there's some podcasts that's told me the horrible health.

1:43.4

I know we're not going to live forever, but I'd like

1:45.8

a little more time. I've got a whole wardrobe and I feel like I'm on the crux of something,

1:52.4

but I'm being, I'm barring myself from it because of my bold thoughts. So, so you'd like to lose some weight. You'd like to be in a different body.

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