Today is a special & emotional episode! My mom is on the show! Yup, we are discussing the problem behind the problem – where my unhealthy relationship with food & body image began and how she coped with raising an overweight child.
While I don’t think our past defines us and I certainly don’t think we’re stuck there, I absolutely believe it is important to evaluate your self-limiting food & body image beliefs and begin to ask “Are these true?” and find ways to move beyond them.
You don’t want to miss this emotional episode!
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The Problem Behind The Problem
In today’s episode, my mom and I tackle so much including:
- Specific choices she made and how they impacted how I view food and my body
- The development of unhealthy relationships with food & body image
- Helpful and unhelpful strategies related to raising an overweight child
- How her body image impacted the way I thought about food
- What might have happened if she took a different approach
- How restriction and forced exercise shaped the way I look at health
I want to give another huge THANK YOU to my mom for stepping outside of her comfort zone, admitting where she made mistakes and having this honest conversation with me to hopefully help others and open up conversations about weight, shame and body image.
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I learned that our parents did the best they knew how to do; even though a lot of it was WRONG! Your mom was right that she was just doing the best she knew how to do.
So true!
Thank you Elizebeth for this very honest podcast with your mom today. It really made me think about how we judge others by our comments and even just body language and how we need to stay in our own lane and focus on our own issues and accept people as they are right now on their own journey through life. I think that is one of the most powerful lessons I have learned from your podcasts.
Thanks Nancy! Such a powerful message & take away!
Thanks Elizabeth and her Mom. I have learned a lot from this podcast but I have learned the most from your hormone episodes. The episodes that are in series which I think starts with episode 10.
Hello primal family. I must say this mom podcast was mind blowing for me! It really reemphasized to me that parents do the best they can with what they are working with. It also shows me we have a long journey a head of us in learning how to help our children regain there health. If mom and Elizabeth encountered such dysfunction years ago today would be considered dysfunction to the 10th power, based on the appearance of the worlds health today. The only way to deal with the families multiple dysfunctions when it comes to health, weight and food is by having the real conversation like this podcast started for primal potential fam. Thanks for this podcast!
You are so welcome! I’m really glad you enjoyed it!