Your Life is the Medicine with Dr. Sonny Miles
Healing isn’t just what you do—it’s how you live. Your Life Is the Medicine explores integrative healing, soulful living, and the power of journeying within to create a wisdom-led life rooted in connection, purpose, and well-being.
Hi, I'm Dr. Sonny Miles, and I believe your life IS the medicine.
I know what it means to live in a body that doesn’t follow the rules.
For years, as an integrative and palliative care physician, healer, and yoga teacher I've helped people with chronic and mysterious illnesses navigate their unique healing journeys. I've walked alongside them, listened to their stories, and witnessed their incredible resilience.
And through this work, I've discovered that true wellbeing comes from living a life that aligns with your deepest values and needs.
Healing isn’t about “fixing” yourself—it’s about building a life that supports you, exactly as you are.
Your Life Is the Medicine explores integrative healing, soulful living, and the power of journeying within to create a wisdom-led life. Discover how to cultivate deep, lasting wellness and live with wisdom and intention.
Subscribe now and discover how to unlock your body's innate healing capacity. Your journey to a life of vibrant well-being starts here.
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Your Life is the Medicine with Dr. Sonny Miles
Food as Nourishment, Not Punishment: Intuitive Eating with Ann Kent
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In Episode 20 of Your Life Is the Medicine, Dr. Sonny Miles welcomes her very first guest — registered dietitian, certified diabetes care and education specialist, and certified intuitive eating counselor Ann Kent — for a conversation that gently turns the whole framing of food on its head. Instead of asking what to cut, restrict, or fix, the two explore food as a literal building block of the body: the raw material of our hormones, our neurotransmitters, and our capacity to heal. This is integrative medicine at its most human — two practitioners who left the conventional healthcare system to make room for exactly this kind of unhurried, compassionate conversation.
Together they unpack what intuitive eating actually is (and the common misconceptions about it), how diet culture teaches us to override our own hunger and fullness cues, and why so many women — especially those navigating a busy life or a history of trauma — quietly decide they aren't worth nourishing. Ann shares her framework rooted in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the practice of "nutrition by addition," and the somatic art of the pause: learning to notice whether a craving lives in the belly or somewhere higher, in the anxious tightness of the throat. It's a tender look at the mind-body connection and at food as a doorway into nervous system regulation rather than a battleground.
The episode also holds the harder, more nuanced questions with care — including GLP-1 medications and weight loss, and how to approach these tools from a place of deep listening rather than shame. As Ann puts it, "you can never hate yourself into a body you love." For anyone weary of the checkbox mentality and longing for a more grounded, self-trusting relationship with their body, this conversation is an invitation toward holistic healing, resilience, and the slow, worthy work of reclaiming your body as your own.
Learn more about Ann Kent at peasandhoppiness.com, explore her app at app.peasandhoppiness.com, find her book The Brain Plate at thebrainplate.com, and listen to her podcast Nutrition Nuance With Dietitian Ann at peasandhoppiness.com/podcast.
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