Hi Jimi,
If you’re part of our tribe, then we know you care about your health and well-being. That’s pretty much a given.
BUT, for many of us “caring” about our health often looks – and feels – a LOT more like worrying and obsessing.
And we understand why.
First, there’s seemingly more stuff to worry about than ever before – and it’s not just with health, but also every aspect of our increasingly complicated lives.
And then there’s the ever-growing mountain of health information available, which can often contradict itself. Even our favorite health experts disagree with each other on the best health approaches – and that can leave us frustrated and unsure of what’s best for us.
Take nutrition.
There are SO many different schools of thought on what, when, and how to eat.
Just think about the handful of diets you probably know of, off the top of your head:
- Keto
- Paleo
- Vegan/Vegetarian
- Blood Type
- Alkaline
- Carnivore
- Low-fat
- Low-calorie
Beyond that, there are therapeutic diets for conditions like IBS, SIBO, inflammatory conditions, diabetes, and heart disease. There’s belief- or faith-based dieting. There’s all kinds of fasting or cleansing approaches – and so, so many more. If we were to take a good look together, we would see
hundreds of different diet approaches.
Knowing what’s right for our unique body can feel pretty challenging – and when we’re faced with all this, we can easily end up spiraling into worry.
And worry doesn’t exactly lead us to the relaxed, easygoing relationship with food that we crave.
So in this week’s podcast episode,
“Finding Calm In The Nutritional Storm,” Marc helps us regroup, and discover how we can find what’s right for us – without all the nutritional anxiety.
You’ll hear Marc work with Kesia, a mother of five who has multiple food and body concerns that are beyond negatively impacting her quality of life.
Like so many of us, Kesia wants to get nutrition “right” – and in her efforts to do so, spends a lot of time caught in questions about what to eat, what her kids should eat, how that’s going to impact her health and weight, and so on.
The shift for Kesia and the rest of us who worry about our nutrition and health is to recognize
the key role our beliefs have on our relationship with food.
By examining our nutritional beliefs, we can begin to unwind a lot of the worry and confusion that lives in our system.
To learn more, be sure to
tune into the episode.
We hope you enjoy it!
Warm Wishes,
The Institute for the Psychology of Eating
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www.psychologyofeating.com