Today I’m talking to Tracy Brown, a somatic nutritional therapist, registered licensed dietitian and attuned eating coach. Tracy works in private practice in Florida, USA, providing in-person, phone and online counselling since 2006. Tracy and her Team coach women, men, children and adolescents who are struggling with food obsessions and body discomfort to build healthy, joyful relationships with food and body image, so they can be free and empowered to fully live their lives. The Team specialise in the treatment of eating disorders and eating problems, as well as issues related to over-extending the body, including adrenal fatigue, hormone issues, PCOS and gut health.
In this episode, Tracy firstly talks about her healing journey and how in the beginning, it felt as though there was nothing extraordinarily wrong. She had great grades, many friends and excelled at most things she did. However, Tracy felt somewhat empty and wondering what the point of everything was. She was aware of being highly sensitive and very attuned to the feelings of others. She was told more times than she can remember that she needed to toughen up. Tracy could never get away from feeling what other people were feeling. So she dove into obsessions around being nice, and good; the perfect kid/student/athlete to distract her from the discrepancies of the world.
Tracy fell into an eating disorder, starting out with restrictive eating and later into other eating disorder behaviours. But after 8 years, she began to walk her healing journey. She stepped into Attuned Eating, Deciding to Like her Body and to commit to the journey of self-acceptance and becoming her full embodied self. Then she began to teach others to do the same.
In addition to hearing about Tracy’s healing journey with the ups and downs along this recovery road, she is also going to talk about the work she does today with her clients, understanding the deeper meaning of eating disorders and how these can be symbolic communicators. Because sometimes, food is the only way we have - to numb out, distract, calm or soothe from our inner pain.
Tracy is also trauma informed and is passionate about building safety for her clients in their nervous systems via co-regulation, sensory work, secure attachment and somatic experiencing, amongst other practices - to provide a "landing pad" for recovery to stick. I hope that you enjoy the conversation.
To find out more about Tracy and her Team: -
www.tracybrownrd.com and www.embodieddietitian.com
Instagram: tracybrownrd
Articles / book links : com/as-seen-on
Since 2006, she has guided people one on one and in groups in healing from disordered eating and chronic dieting, many of which also have other stress-related conditions at www.tracybrownrd.com/get-started and https://www.tracybrownrd.com/free-gifts (to stop bashing your body) She is the creator of 3 courses that provide trauma informed and body image counseling skills and supervision to health professionals as well at www.embodieddietitian.com
To get started with Attuned Eating, get your free guide at www.tracybrownrd.com/free-gifts
To set up a free clarity call now schedule at www.tracybrownrd.com/get-started
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