It's Not About Food Podcast with Laurelee Roark

Inhabit means to live in our bodies, not in our heads. When we learn to be present in our bodies, to move out of the obsessive thinking and into our feelings, we can learn to identify and meet our physical, emotional and spiritual needs. First, we must be aware that we are in the obsession, in the thinking, in the head. Then we cause our breath to being our awareness into our body and explore what we are experiencing in our bodies.

The podcast today is me interviewing me about living in the bodies we have, taking care of the bodies we have and loving the bodies we have.

I get asked all the time by those who are recovering from disordered eating and body dysmorphia, "how the hell am I supposed to do that?"

I agree it seems impossible because so many of us have been told never to accept the weight we have, or the body we have, or the image we have, if it’s not perfect. So we didn’t and it has caused untold damage.

But we can change. We can accept our weight, no matter what it is right now, as a starting point. And then we can work to be satisfied with our natural weight.

Which brings up the other question I also get asked all the time. “What is my normal weight? And when will I get there and how will I know that’s it?”

The answer is…

When we consistently eat when we are hungry, consistently eat what our bodies want to eat and we consistently stop when full…we will go to a weight ourbodies want to be at. When we exercise in a way our bodies want to exercise, get enough sleep, cut down on stress, follow our path and love ourselves body, mind and spirit, no matter what, we will be at our normal size. And of course we have to consider it all at this age, with this DNA, with this life style and with this life…for the rest of our lives. Subject to change cause if we don’t die, we’ll get older. Right?