Trusting Our Bodies’ Wisdom with Stephanie Dodier
/Stephanie Dodier is a Clinical Nutritionist, weight loss and emotional eating expert, author, speaker and host of the podcast, The Beyond The Food Show. Stephanie is creator of the Going Beyond The Food Method™️ & Founder of the Going Beyond The Food Academy, a global coaching and online training platform focused on helping women make peace with food and their body using Intuitive Eating & Body Neutrality as the foundation. Her integrative and comprehensive approach to nutrition and health focuses on finding the root cause of cravings and aligning body and mind.
Here are some of the big topics we talked about…
How the proven, researched, self-care eating framework of intuitive eating can help you
Behind the confusion of dieting, intuitive eating is always with us: we’re born with it
Stephanie’s mindfulness steps to reconnecting with your body
What happens when you tell your body it’s wrong when it craves food outside of a diet
Distinction between your hunger talking to you vs. your cortisol & stress talking to you
A prerequisite for intuitive eating is to get away from the “food police” idea
Politics and industry of “diet culture,” history of the thinness ideal
The process of transitioning from food restrictions to food choices that are in alignment
In Stephanie’s Voice
“It is so liberating once you realize the power you have to make choices.”
“Intuitive eating will teach you to have a healthy relationship to food, distinguish between emotional and physical hunger, and enable you to tap into your body wisdom.”
“As we are learning to reconnect with our body, we also need to give ourselves the permission to no longer be on a diet.”
“Is it a physical hunger, or is it a hunger because I’m upset? A physical hunger will grow gradually and slowly. An emotional hunger is sudden, aggressive, and obsessive.”
“In asking through food what is it that the soul really wants, you have no choice but to explore your relationship to yourself.”
“Get away from judgment and bring curiosity in the picture.”“It allows us through our eating to connect with many other segments of our lives.”
“Restricting food increased cortisol level in women.”
“Is the way this food makes you feel empowering you and fueling you to chase your dream?”
“What I see in the spiritual side of this field every day is women not even having dreams. They are so caught up in thinner, controlling, and not achieving that. Self-esteem and self-worth go down. I ask them about life purpose and they say, ‘What do you mean, life purpose? I have to lose 40 pounds, that is my goal.’”
“There is structured work that can bring you at peace with food and your body so you can then chase your dream at full force.”