Master This Skill to Change Your Relationship with Food

What if the key to freedom with food and your body isn’t dieting or restriction- but trust? In this episode, we dive into what body trust really is, why most of us have lost it, and how to rebuild it step by step. Learn how to listen to your body, let go of fear and shame, and create a confident, peaceful relationship with food and yourself. Your body’s compass has always known the way- this episode shows you how to follow it.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Why Trust Feels Hard
• 0:20 Trust As The Game Changer
• 0:34 What Body Trust Means
• 1:11 How Distrust Took Root
• 1:55 Why Rebuilding Trust Matters
• 2:33 Practical Signs Of Trust
• 3:14 The Broken Compass Metaphor
• 4:16 Getting Uncomfortable On Purpose
• 4:50 Turning The Corner To Recovery
• 5:18 Starting Points And Next Steps
• 6:08 Tools, Support, And Full Recovery
• 6:34 Find Your Compass And Freedom

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

Good morning. We are going to talk about one of my favorite things and one of the hardest things for my clients, which is to step into trust. And the only way to do that is to actually build it. And the only way to build it is to get pretty uncomfortable, but it's super transformational. So today we're going to talk about this one skill that will absolutely change your relationship with food. And that is building trust with food, your body, and yourself. So let's get into how to do that and why it's so important. So building body trust is exactly what it sounds like. It is listening to your body's cues, listening to its signals and honoring those and learning to rely on them and allow your body to rely on you. It's about honoring its needs and responding with respect rather than fear, control, or shame. With this, over time, you build a relationship with your body built on something just that feels so good and is so sustainable rather than having a relationship with your body that is like a battleground where your body is the enemy, food is the enemy, you feel like you can't trust yourself. So we didn't start this journey with body trust. We actually cultivated within ourselves a deep distrust of food and body by restricting dieting, ignoring our cues, harsh talk, avoiding what our body needs and just ignoring it, always listening to all these external cues rather than listening to ourselves and our bodies and respect from a respectful place. But here's the thing: trust can rebuild, and rebuilding is essential to rebuilding our a new relationship with food and body that feels good and is out of this disordered cycle. So why should we rebuild trust when it is so scary, so foreign, so uncomfortable? It truly challenges everything we were told, which is to control, manage, manipulate our body. It really goes against everything we're told in diet culture. But it's also essential. And I want you to ask yourself, how has dieting and controlling and manipulating worked for you? So trust goes both ways. Your body cannot trust you if you're constantly manipulating it, controlling it, ignoring its cues, shaming it. And you can't trust your body if you spent years distrusting it and you don't rebuild the trust with it and lean in and become friends with your body again. So what does building trust look like? What does it mean? Number one, it means learning to listen to your body's cues and needs and stop fearing food and bringing all foods back in. It means reducing those constant body image nagging thoughts that are just negative and unhelpful and shaming. It means staying present with your here and now body and your body's needs. It means becoming attuned with those cues and aligned with your values. It means letting go of the idea that your body is something that needs to be controlled. It means learning how to keep ice cream in the house for more than one night and even forgetting it's even there. It means to stop punishing yourself with exercise. It means stop putting yourself down out of fear of judgment. Ignoring our body's needs and not trusting our body is like not trusting this internal compass that we have that guides everything, that guides us to this respectful, compassionate relationship with food in our body. But the problem is our compass is broken because this compass that we were born with has been trampled on by diet culture. It's been not attuned. The calibration of the compass is all off because we got so used to listening to all this contradicting external noise about what we should be doing, how we should be eating. That all contradicts each other and got us so confused. So we don't know which way it's pointing. But the thing is, is that internal compass has been pointing to where we need to go all along. It has all the answers, it has all the directions. We just need to learn how to recalibrate and trust that compass again. Because if we keep following all these external compasses, we're never gonna get to the real true path, your path according to your compass. And it takes some work to get back to that compass because when we start using it again and learning it and experimenting, getting rid of the noise that takes us off the path and just re-educating and getting uncomfortable again, it's gonna be very scary. It's gonna feel wrong, it's gonna feel like the wrong direction, and it's gonna be very confusing. That's why many of us, when we start to navigate this compass again, we start to doubt it, blame it, and even turn away from it because it's so scary. So we fail to give it the necessary patience, time, exploration, and trust it deserves. But once you do that, you turn a corner in your relationship with food and body. And this is why this is truly the game-changing piece of people's recovery. Because think about it, once you have trust, unwavering trust with your body and food and your relationship with yourself and you navigating your body image and navigating food in a way that feels good and easy, there's no going back. There's no going back. And this is where the journey starts. You don't need to have it all figured out. In fact, that's one of the things that you're going to be doing as you start to recalibrate the compass. You're going to be relearning, re-educating, experimenting, and getting uncomfortable as you find that true north again. But this shift has changed everything for me and it changes everything for my clients. So if you're ready to build trust with food, your body, and yourself again, this is the starting point. This is where it's at. And I absolutely believe you can have it. Absolutely believe it is there for you. To start recalibrating that compass and start trusting that compass again, I highly recommend you check out my video of the three pillars to stop and end food noise for good and get to full recovery. This is a 20-minute breakdown of exactly how to get to a place where you can use that compass to guide you to full recovery. So start there and if that resonates with you, reach out to me. I love helping people get to full recovery. I am a clinician who is recovered and believes in full recovery for everybody. You just need the right tools, you need the right patience, you need the right support, and you need to leave no stone unturned. This is not simply me handing you another compass. This is me leading to you to your compass so you never need me or anyone else again. In order to have a relationship with food, body, and yourself that feels good, trusting, respectful, and that feels like something that's that's easy, easy to sustain, aligns with your values in your life, and just makes you feel good and no longer anxious around food or body anymore. You can just live your life, and that can be something that's a distant memory.