If you've ever wondered whether your "healthy eating" has started to feel more like anxiety, this episode is for you.

This week I'm joined by Jessica Thiefels, host of Nope, That's Not Normal, to talk about disordered eating. That's the wide, often invisible space between a relaxed relationship with food and eating disorders. Jess shares how a restrictive healing protocol in her twenties slowly turned into a decade of rigid eating, and the moment she said out loud, "I think I'm straddling the line."

I open up about my own story too, including the food lists I once handed out to my patients. Together we talk about some of the signs to watch for like rigidity, anxiety, and a "cleaner" standard you can never reach. We also get into why midlife is such a vulnerable time: a lifetime of body dissatisfaction meets intense menopause nutrition messaging, and women are praised for the very behaviours that are wearing them down.

Jess is hosting the first Disordered Eating Awareness Week, October 19 to 23. I'm on the midlife panel on October 20, and it's free to join.

If this conversation stirs something up, please be gentle with yourself. You don't have to figure it out alone.

Join Disordered Eating Awareness Week (free): https://disorderedeatingawarenessweek.com

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• Book a no-strings connection call (virtual coffee with me): https://f.mtr.cool/HNVSNHTOCU
• Try the Midlife Feast Community free for 7 days: https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/7daytrial

Free support to get you started:

• Un-Diet Your Mindset: https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/undietyourmindset
• Food Guilt Decoder: https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder

Related episodes:

• #113 Clean Eating Pitfalls in Midlife & Menopause with Dr. Morgan Francis: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/15069896
• #55 Raising the Red Flag About Eating Disorders in Midlife with Val Schonberg, RD: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/12276579
• #94 How to Trade Wellness Culture for Well-being in Midlife with Christy Harrison, RD: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851576/episodes/14177909

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