
Free Spirit Academy Podcast
Free Spirit Academy is here to support you in being fully yourself. Often, that means addressing stress and trauma accumulated from culture, family, religion, education systems, and beyond.
Our bodies hold our trauma, but they also hold our truth.
My name is Rande Moss, I'm a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Eating Psychology Coach. I'm so grateful you're here for these talks and conversations.
Free Spirit Academy Podcast
My Body is Not a Project | Solo Episode
I love a project. I love working towards something. I think that's pretty human. But for a long time my body was my project. I grew up in a holistic, Seventh-Day Adventist, vegetarian home. we used homeopathy and natural remedies and drank carrot juice and ate homemade bread. To this day I LOVE the taste of barley green powder because I have early memories of drinking it as something that would support my health. I wanted to know about all the supplements in the kitchen cupboard and what they would do for me. I wanted to be strong so I ate spinach straight out of the can. There was an early connection with the fact that what you eat has an impact on how you feel.
Simultaneously alongside all this, my relationship with food was kinda weird...
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