Cara Cifelli is a badass human. We have very similar stories in that we both got into the health and wellness space starting with a health coaches working on healing with real food and food bloggers focusing on healthy recipes. About a year ago, Cara made a huge shift in her business away from general healthy eating and weight loss clients to exclusively focusing on body positivity, health at every size, anti-diet culture and intuitive eating, taking her own personal struggles with an eating disorder in her past into account. We talk about what it’s like to make that change in business, and how you can incorporate some of those tips into your personal healing journey.
We discuss:
- Kara’s personal health journey that led her to become so passionate about intuitive eating and body positivity
- Why she made the switch from primarily a food and recipe/healthy lifestyle blogger to focusing more on body positivity, anti-diet culture and intuitive eating
- “Wellness culture” vs. diet culture and why a lot of the time, they’re the same thing
- Kara’s opinion on BMI
- How we are not taught about health at every size and weight stigma in nutrition school
- How to shift your mindset from thinking of foods as good and bad to “all food are equal, but there may be foods I choose to eat because they make me FEEL good and not feel so good”
- Nutrition for anxiety without falling into the trap of good and bad foods again
- Emotional eating is your alarm bell, alerting you that something in your life needs attention.
- All about weight stigma
- How do we tap into body wisdom?
Hang out with Cara!
- Body Wisdom, by Cara Cifelli
- Love your Bod Pod on iTunes
- Cara’s Website, Cara’s Kitchen
- Cara on Instagram
Recommended Resources / Referenced in this Episode:
- Intuitive Eating, by Evelyn Tribole
- Health at Every Size, by Linda Bacon
- Eating in the Light of the Moon, Anita Johnson
- Christy Harrison’s Podcast
Cara Carin Cifelli is a certified holistic health coach who helps humans feel confident around food and in their bodies. Through education, positive psychology, neuroscience, intuitive development and major realness; she offers her clients a personal, integrated experience that allows them to connect deeply to the woven in wisdom of their bodies so healthy eating and healthy living is fun and easy, not full of guilt, stress and shame. Through her private mentorship, online course, podcast, and instagram, Cara is inspiring women to live fully self-expressed, free from society’s expectations of their bodies and their lives. She’s been featured in Mind Body Green, Recovery Warriors, Elephant Journey, and The Feed Feed and is the author of the book Body Wisdom now available on Amazon.
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