Today’s podcast is about the many miracles of recovery and remembering we are at choice to either accept the miracles or to step around them. Recovery is about opening our hearts to life, to health and to love for ourselves. Melanie Larson MA, RDN Nutrition Director Willa Wellness Center Email: melanie@willawellness.com (mailto:marie@willawellness.…

This show is about learning how to set boundaries and being at choice about our own needs. By setting limits or saying no we protect our integrity based on our own truth. Kari Floberg is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Northern California. She holds degrees from New York University and the California Institute of Integral Studies. In her private…

Carol Normandi and I recorded this visualization about healing the spiritual wound within us. It is found on Pg 128 of our book, It’s Not About Food, 2010, Penquin Putnam, NY, NY. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Oleh Laurelee Roark

Carol Normandi and I recorded this visualization about healing the spiritual wound within us. It is found on Pg 128 of our book, It’s Not About Food, 2010, Penquin Putnam, NY, NY. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Oleh Laurelee Roark

Holistic means looking at ourselves in a way that includes our entire being, taking each part of ourselves into consideration. When we stop measuring ourselves by how we look, how thin we are, or how much weight we’ve lost, we can begin to embrace all the physical, emotional and spiritual parts of ourselves. We move beyond the goals of having a cer…

This weeks audio has the visualization on reparenting from the CD Carol Normandi and I recorded after our book, It’s Not About Food” came out. I hope you’ll listen to it and find peace for your own precious child who lives in you still. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Oleh Laurelee Roark

Creativity is the outward manifestation of who we are as spiritual beings. It is the magical ability to crest something out of nothing that is uniquely ours. It is the gift of being able to imagine, to dream, and then to make the dreams come true. Creative expression is essential to feeding our souls. It forces us to go beneath the obsession with f…

Feelings So when the peer educators go in the classrooms to present our 3 prong prevention and recovery program from disordered eating (body acceptance, intuitive eating and emotional intelligence) the students are interested and engaged. But as we move into talking about feelings, everyone goes into a coma. No one wants to hear about their own or …

Today’s podcast presents the Beyond Hunger Peer Educators talking about who they are and what they do in our program. These 3 young women are leaving to go away to school. Below is why they have donated so much of their time and themselves to the program. Grace 4 years peer educator. Going to Chicago being part of the peer education program has tau…

Feelings come from the deepest part of ourselves and are a guide to what we are learning, who we are as beings plus where we want and long to go. They are here to show us when our boundaries are crossed, how to love and allow ourselves to be loved, how get in touch with our own truth; body, mind and soul and then know how to feel all of it. The aud…

First, there will be a few moments of a guided meditative exercise. Next, you will be guided towards talking to your body and then listening to your body. Afterwards, you will have tools to better understand your body and its needs and wants. Which will bring you closer to the goal of loving and taking care of yourself- body, mind, and soul. ★ Supp…

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Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need. About Wen…

Recovery from an Eating Disorder is not a Linear Process. This podcast is looking at true recovery. It requires many layers of learning that unfold uniquely, spontaneously and independently. As we go around the spiral of recovery we often hit a stressor, which takes us back to our behavior. But we learn how to work ourselves out of it and get back …

Sheira Kahn is a Marriage and Family Therapist and fully recovered bulimic. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Ms. Kahn taught in the UC Berkeley Extension certificate program in Eating and Weight Disorders for ten years. In the 1990s, she studied inner critic disengagement with Byron Brown and natu…

Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies. With over 25 years of experience, Chevese Turner is an internationally recog…

Alexa Redner is currently a mentor teacher for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Program, training people from all over the world to become certified mindfulness teachers. She also works a Mindfulness teacher for Cloud Sangha, guiding people in small groups to deepen their meditation practice in community. Alexa holds a BA in V…

Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfold uniquely and spontaneously. “Trusting the Process” means that we all work through these experiences and issues in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don’t have to waste precious time comparing ourselves to others. Marc…

Fat thoughts are the kind of thoughts we have when we are criticizing our bodies, calling them too fat, too ugly, too big, or too “whatever”. These thoughts are learned from our culture’s fat prejudice and body hatred. Sometimes when we are young and experience shame or uncomfortable feelings, we change them into body hatred. When we begin to under…

Faith is trusting that there is a loving source of which you are a part. Having faith means that you can let go of fear and tight control and trust that there is great wisdom within you and around you, allowing yourself to breathe and listen for spiritual guidance. Having faith means that even though the recovery process may become difficult and da…

Creativity is the outward manifestation of who we are as spiritual beings. It is the magical ability to create something out of nothing that is uniquely ours. It is the gift of being able to imagine, to dream, and then to make the dreams come true. Creative expression is essential to feeding our souls. It forced us to go beneath the obsession with …

Honoring means we understand we are sacred beings and our bodies are sacred. They are not objects to be sculpted and forced to meet cultural ideals. They are not a commodity to manipulate in order to measure our self-worth. By de-objectifying and creating reverence for our bodies, we become free to experience the wisdom, magnificence and magic of o…

Jen Powers is a local Non-Diet Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Certified Yoga Teacher specializing in eating disorders, healing chronic dieting, HAES, and intuitive eating. She received her Bachelor's in Nutrition at UC Berkeley and Master's in Nutrition at CSU Long Beach where she worked closely with Ev…

Robyn is a nationally renowned contributing author registered dietitian nutritionist. She has been quoted as an expert in various publications including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Diabetes Forecast, Shape Magazine, Fitness, Oxygen, Life & Style, Natural Solutions, Beverly Hills Weekly and Today’s Dietitian. In addition, Robyn has also…

Expressing our feelings and ourselves is the only way to live our truth in our bodies, hearts and souls. Many times we have been taught that to express our feelings is harmful to others and ourselves, but if we learn how to express our feelings honestly and constructively it is beneficial to everyone Karen Louise Scheuner is a California based weig…

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 hav…

3 prong recovery and prevention model of Beyond Hunger Presentations of the Peer Educators. The 3 prong model we teach is body acceptance, intuitive eating and emotional wisdom. In this show I interview 3 of our recent peer educators about how they go into schools and talk about how to recover from disordered eating and body dissatisfaction as well…

Spiral with Maria Raquel Pandeyhe mrgramajo@gmail.com Recovery process is not linear, but rather like a spiral. As we begin our journey of recovery around the spiral, we will meet many layers of life experiences that trigger disordered eating and body hatred behaviors. Even though we are once again doing these behaviors, we are not at the same star…

Fullness is the bodily experience of having just enough to eat…not too much and not too little. When we slow down, stay conscious and go within, we can hear and feel this natural bodily sensation. Every person experiences fullness differently, and some of us have learned to ignore this signal. To experience fullness you may need to practice listeni…

Compassion is the necessary foundation for all healing. When we can have compassion for all the parts of ourselves that we dislike the most, we can let go of the debilitating shame and self-hatred we have carried for so long, and use out compassion to bring love, understanding, and then if necessary, change. Desiree McGunagle has been in recovery f…

Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spiritually. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy out needs and accept our natural bodies. Kait Fortunato Greenberg is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Ea…

This show is about how recovery is not only beneficial to ourselves but to all who come into contact with us. It’s good for us, our neighborhood, our town, our state, our country and our world. Margot Magowan is a writer and commentator. Her blog Reel Girl is dedicated to imagining gender equality in the fantasy world. Reel Girl's posts have also b…

This show is about finding, discovering, owning, and sharing your art and passion with the world. What ever your niches is there are those who get it, want it and are so so happy to be with your artistic gifts. Let your light shine. Daniela Johnson-Rongstadd Instagram: @calirockchick ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path to our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listenin…

This show is about learning how to work with money and financial health. Many people who have addictions, compulsions, and difficulties also have issues with money. Lillian give us very straightforward and much-needed advice on how to navigate the twists and turns of money. Lillian Meyers is both the founder and president of Meyers Financial Servic…

Divinity All that comes through us is divine because we are divine. A long time ago our bodies were considered to be the image of the devine, yet at some point we started seeing our bodies as objects to be sculpted into someone else’s idea of perfection. Every ounce of us is divine. When we start to accept this, just as we accept our bodies and fee…

Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need. andreaath…

Awareness is awakening to ourselves exactly as we are in the present moment. In order to heal our struggle with food and weight, we must become aware of eating patterns, emotions, bodily sensations, and diet/fat thoughts. Only by watching and working with ourselves in the moment, can we truly understand what we need. Stephanie Searle Health Teacher…

At the heart of every person is a yearning from the deepest part of our souls that must be heard. It is a desire to awaken, embrace our whole selves, and see past the limitations we have put on ourselves. It is the knowing that we are connected with a universal love and spiritual presence that holds the flame of our true essence of love and light. …

Reflection is the ability to see your true self mirrored back to you. Unfortunately we spend most of our lives using the mirror as a way to judge the imperfections in our appearance, which is a limited and biased perception of who we are. By changing how we see our reflection, we can expand and transform our vision to include the beauty of our true…

Starr Kelton-Locke Trust Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can then listen and unders…

Recovery from body hatred and disordered eating provides many layers of learning that unfold uniquely and spontaneously. "Trusting the process" means that we all work through these experiences and issues at our own pace and in our own way. We can trust that our process is exactly right for us and we don’t have to waste precious time comparing ourse…

Body Wisdom is the inherent wisdom we each hold within our own bodies that tells us what we need physically, emotionally and spirituality. When we listen to the wisdom of our bodies, we intuitively know how to feed ourselves, satisfy our needs and accept our natural bodies. Sarah Hijjeh is a Registered Nurse of 15 years and a whitewater raft guide.…

In this recovery, there are many miracles. We have the choice to either to embrace the miracles and take part in them, or step around and deny them. As we open our hearts to our recovery and let it guide and teach us, we receive many gifts. We develop compassion for ourselves and others, we create a healthier relationship with our mind, body, and s…

Inhabit means to live our bodies, not in our heads. When we learn to be present in our bodies, to move out of the obsessive thinking and into our feelings, we can learn to identify and meet our physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. First, we must be aware that we are in the obsession, in the thinking, in the head. Then we can use our breath to …

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Following our purpose leads us to the path that feeds our soul. We all possess unique gifts and we all have the need to express these gifts. To find our calling is to find the path of our hearts, the way of life that makes us feel alive and glad to be here. Over time we may find many different paths, small and large. We find our calling by listenin…

Osha Hayden is host and producer of the Aspire With Osha: art, nature, humanity podcast and is a Certified Life Coach who is passionate about empowering positive change. Her background as psychotherapist, mediator, trainer and artist informs her work. She earned an M.A. in Psychology, Couple and Family Therapy. Visit her here: https://oshahayden.co…

Claire Hansen is a Bay Area personal trainer and nutrition coach. Claire uses her knowledge in physical and mental fitness in combination with her personal experience with eating disorders, addiction, and successful recovery to help others lead healthy, happy lives. LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/claire-hansen-89b00469 Instagram @coach.claireh Fac…