In this episode, Food Freedom Online Program Client, Molly shares her incredible story. Her struggles with food and body began at a young age after her father went to prison. Like many of us, she began using food to cope and numb out. Molly walks us through how she processed many challenging events in her life and ultimately found the courage to rise above and pursue healing. Molly encourages all women who have faced trauma in the past to not let your past define you. In this episode: Where + why her ...
In this episode, Food Freedom Online Program Client, Molly shares her incredible story. Her struggles with food and body began at a young age after her father went to prison. Like many of us, she began using food to cope and numb out. Molly walks us through how she processed many challenging events in her life and ultimately found the courage to rise above and pursue healing. Molly encourages all women who have faced trauma in the past to not let your past define you.
In this episode:
- Where + why her struggles with food started
- Hurtful comments that were made about her body when she was younger
- How food became her coping mechanism for comfort and to numb out
- How challenging it is to process challenging events when we are children
- How what our parents do with food can affect how we view food
- How her body image struggles started as early as nine years old
- How society wants us to associate beauty with thinness
- The problem with celebrating and praising someone's weight loss
- How being sexually assaulted exacerbated her struggles with food + body
- Where her relationship with food + body is at now
- How she tried multiple things by herself to heal her struggles
- How community and belonging was a key aspect of healing her relationship with food
- How we need to lean into fear and overcome our struggles
- How your past does not define you and you CAN come out on top
Links:
Body Image Breakthrough Intensive
Free Morning Routine Challenge
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