305 - Beyond Restriction: Rethinking Food, Stress, and Healing

What if healing isn’t about cutting more out of your life — but about what you choose to add back in?

In this conversation, I sit down with registered dietitian Noa Miller to explore how nutrition and mind-body work can come together to support chronic health conditions. We discuss how stress, emotional repression, and restrictive mindsets around food can keep the body in a state of tension — and how curiosity, nourishment, and regulation help it return to balance.

Noa shares her own journey through surgery, autoimmune illness, and the search for a sustainable approach to healing. Together, Noa and I unpack the complex relationship between body, food, and emotion, offering a grounded, compassionate look at what real healing requires.

Listeners will come away with a deeper understanding of:

• Why restriction and quick fixes rarely work long-term

• How emotional awareness and nervous system regulation affect digestion and inflammation

• Ways to approach nutrition with flexibility, curiosity, and joy

• The power of integrating medical, emotional, and spiritual care