A Teeny Tiny Eating Disorder with D

02/01/2023 1h 22min

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Episode Synopsis

Group coaching graduate, D, sits down with Lisa to talk about what has been like to navigate life as a highly sensitive person in a pointy world, what it means to figure out who you really are apart from your titles and roles, and coming to a place where it feels safe to live a true and authentic life.
Topics:

Being soft in a pointy world
Abandoning your authentic self to belong
Substance use
Adjusting to motherhood
The fear of being fat
Binging and over exercise

[2:20] D talks about learning to identify herself from the inside out by doing the work in group coaching and discusses why she chose not to identify herself as a licensed marriage and family therapist while she was a member
[11:00] D recalls the early messages she received about being a deep, sensitive, intuitive, empathic being raised in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s and how she coped as a little girl
[15:00] D reflects the culture of food in her Jewish home how was a love language for her Bubby, while her mom was what they called a “health nut”
[19:00] D remembers the demand for girls to be pretty (and therefore skinny) and her earliest memories of hearing women speak ill of each other’s bodies
[24:00] D discloses when food, eating, and body image really started coming to her consciousness and how her middle school classmates had a rating system for girls’ bodies and faces, and how she abandoned so much of herself to fit in and belong
[32:00] D talks about how pregnancy and motherhood brought food and eating issues to the forefront and what that looked like for her
[43:00] D reflects on the feelings surrounding her second go at weight loss when her second child was 10 years old and how she ultimately came to recovery
[56:00] D shares about her experience in 14 Week Group Coaching, coming in as a student and treating it as an intensive outpatient program
[1:10:00] D talks about life since completing the program and what has really stuck with her and shares this quote from Rupi Kaur, “it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
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