Episode 141: Beyond Hunger Peer Educators - The 3 Prongs of Recovery

It's Not About Food Podcast with Laurelee Roark

In this podcast, I interview three of my fabulous peer educators. Each one will talk about the 3 prongs of recovery from eating disorders and body hatred. These awesome young women get trained to go into classrooms with me all over the Bay Area and present a message of hope, knowledge, prevention, and recovery for students. Whether the students have eating or weight issues themselves I have found we can all learn how to take care of the glorious bodies we are born with, we can all re-learn intuiting eating and we can all listen and attend to our emotional selves even when we don’t want to.

Complete recovery from an eating disorder is completely 100% possible.
I believe recovery is about letting go of the diet mentality and integrating intuitive eating and trusting our bodies…one day at a time. It took me a very long time to dial all of this in, but I was able to. And I had to use a lot of love, acceptance, compassion, and respect.
It's about letting go of fat thoughts and recognizing that diet and fat thoughts are messages we send to ourselves when we need to listen to our feelings more deeply. When we are able to listen to our truth in the very moment we are feeling body hatred we will be able to stay in recovery and recognize the red flags that signal a need for more self-care. It's about listening and caring and being kind to us.

Body Acceptance with Grace Venezia
Junior, San Marin High School

Intuitive Eating with Shyla Lensing
Senior, Redwood High School

Emotional Wisdom with Julia Frankus
Senior, Redwood High School

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