It's Not About Food Podcast with Laurelee Roark

Mar 07 2025 203 ep. 28 mins 6
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It's Not About Food podcast is about learning how to love and accept the body you have, re-learn how to eat intuitively and to know how to take care of your emotions.

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Visualization: Getting In Touch With Your Spiritual Path

Mar 07 2025 6 mins  
The audio podcast on this newsletter today is read by Carol Normandi from our first book, “It’s Not About Food”. It’s about getting in touch with your spiritual path and you can find it written out on page 137.Carol Normandi ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode 183: Inhabit with Laurelee Roark

Feb 28 2025 20 mins  
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

Episode 182: Spiral with Special Guest Taylor Houston

Feb 21 2025 21 mins  
This show is about using the example of a spiral as a recovery mechanism from disordered eating, body disturbances, addictions, depressions, anxieties and so many other coping mechanisms people suffer from. The progress towards health when followed by the non linear idea of a spiral allows for the development of new and more effective coping strategies used to achieve complete well

Visualization: Spiritual Beliefs

Feb 07 2025 3 mins  

Episode 181: Purpose With Special Guest Erin Byous

Jan 17 2025 24 mins  
This show is about finding and following our purpose. We are all here to share our gifts and our experiences as we walk our many paths of discovery. We find our calling by listening to our inner voice and doing what feels right and true to ourselves.Erin Byous, MFT has been working with individuals and families since 2010. She’s worked in private practice and for a large healthca

Visualization: Spiritual Being

Jan 03 2025 7 mins  
Spiritual Being Visualization by Carol Normandi from our book, “It’s Not About Food”. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode 180: True Recovery with Special Guest Carol Normandi

Dec 27 2024 22 mins  
Laurelee and Carol talk about what is true recovery and how to get there. Carol has been working with eating disorder recovery since 1988 when she co-founded Beyond Hunger with Laurelee Roark, a non-profit that provides support groups and eating disorder prevention education. In 1998 they published their first book It's Not About Food, based on their own recovery and their work wit

Episode 179: Trust with Special Guest Jenny Sederholm

Dec 20 2024 27 mins  
Trust is knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need. Jenny Sederholm, LCSW While I have been a Licensed Clinic

Visualization: Creativity

Dec 06 2024 7 mins  
This week’s offering is about creativity. It’s a recording Carol Normandi and I made. It’s on our CD of several visualizations found in our book, It’s Not About Food. We talk about using Creativity as a way to recover from disorder eating and body disturbances. I hope you have as much fun listening to it as we did making it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode 178: Miracles with Special Guest Melanie Larson

Nov 29 2024 34 mins  
Today’s podcast is about the many miracles of recovery and remembering we are at choice to either accept the miracles or to step around them. Recovery is about opening our hearts to life, to health and to love for ourselves. Melanie Larson MA, RDNNutrition DirectorWilla Wellness Center Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Website: www.willawellness.co