Welcome to this monster of a podcast episode with Whitney Shook, the Nutritional Therapy Practitioner behind the blog Rooted in Healing. We’re talking about Whitney’s tumultuous personal health journey, from losing her hair in her 20’s as a vegan and finally being diagnosed with Alopecia, Hashimotos, PCOS, SIBO and Candida. I’m not kidding when I say this is one of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done. We go deep in this episode to making peace with your body, healing your relationship with food, and healing from autoimmune disease (or body dysmorphia, chronic illness, and eating disorders) on a physical, mental, emotional level in this episode!
We also discuss:
- Healing starts with food, but it can’t end there if you want to achieve true health and healing. What we both did in addition to changing our diets to truly heal.
- What we do during the tough days – when it’s really hard to stay positive when you feel like you’re doing everything right and your body is still beating you down
- How to have a social life with an autoimmune disease – by getting over your need to please people.
- Why cutting certain friendships and relationships out of your life can be a key to healing
- Diet myths and bullshit people need to get away from to actually make peace with their bodies.
- Can you look at a picture of yourself without being critical of it?
- What Whitney’s food and body freedom looks like now and how she got there.
Whitney also starts off the episode with an amazing piece she wrote one day recently when she was feeling frustrated and totally fed up with the media, social norms and body image bullshit, when she was feeling like shit herself, and I think you guys are going to love it.
Links Mentioned:
Mickey Trescott’s Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook
Mickey & Angie’s Autoimmune Wellness
How to have a social life with autoimmune disease
Can you look at a picture of yourself without being critical of it?
Whitney’s most influential book: You are a Badass by Jenn Sincero
Check out Whitney!
on Instagram: @rooted.in,healing
Website: www.rootedinhealing.net
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