Healing Your Relationship with Food Through IFS + Intuitive Eating with Dr. Kim Daniels

What if your relationship with food isn’t about willpower… but about the parts of you that have learned to use food as protection, comfort, control, or survival?

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Kim Daniels, Clinical Psychologist, Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and author of Heal Your Love-Hate Relationship with Food: An Intuitive Eating and Internal Family Systems Workbook, for a powerful conversation about healing our relationship with food by understanding the inner system driving our eating behaviors.

Together, we explore how diet culture and societal messaging deeply shape our beliefs around food, body image, and worthiness — often creating polarized parts that keep us stuck in cycles of shame, restriction, emotional eating, and disconnection from our bodies. Dr. Kim shares what inspired her to write her new workbook and how combining IFS with intuitive eating offers a compassionate path toward true healing.

We also dive into the critical role of Self-energy in helping us build trust with eating parts, why traditional approaches to food often overlook the emotional and protective functions behind our behaviors, and how parts work can help us move from a love-hate relationship with food into greater freedom, connection, and self-compassion.

In This Episode We Explore:

• Dr. Kim’s inspiration behind writing Heal Your Love-Hate Relationship with Food
• The impact of diet culture and societal messaging around food and body image
• Understanding eating disorders through the lens of Internal Family Systems
• How protective parts influence our eating behaviors and relationship with food
• The role of Self-energy in healing food-related struggles
• Why intuitive eating and parts work are powerful when integrated together
• Moving beyond shame and toward healing your relationship with food

About Dr. Kim Daniels

Dr. Kim Daniels is a Clinical Psychologist with a private practice in Hartford, Connecticut. She is a Certified, Level 2 trained Internal Family Systems therapist, an approved clinical consultant, and a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. Dr. Daniels is the author of Heal Your Love-Hate Relationship with Food: An Intuitive Eating and Internal Family Systems Workbook and host of the Emotional Eating (and Everything Else) Podcast. She specializes in working with clients struggling with food and body concerns and especially enjoys supporting fellow IFS therapists in their own personal and professional growth.

Connect with Dr. Kim Daniels

Website: https://www.drkimdaniels.com/
Book: https://www.newharbinger.com/9781648487286/heal-your-love-hate-relationship-with-food/
Podcast: https://www.drkimdaniels.com/podcast

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