In this episode, Jen interviews Cara Carin Cifelli. Cara is a holistic health & anti-diet coach. Through her own struggle with an eating disorder and experiencing the freedom on the other side of recovery, she started her coaching business. She helps people who struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, chronic yo-yo dieting, and restriction take their power back from food and transition into intuitive eating and body respect. She is the author of two books, a self-help book titled Body Wisdom & a cookbook titled Vegan Buddha Bowls. She is the host of the podcast Love Your Bod Pod.

Key Points  you will learn:

• How food is energy and it is an opportunity to receive nourishment

• How food is a way that we can utilize to navigate our emotions

• How there are a lot of deep wounds in sisterhood

• What Intuitive Nourishment means

Show Notes:

(00:30) Jen shares who this week’s guest is

(03:18) How Jen found Cara Ciefella

(05:02) Cara talks about the service she is providing to the world

(07:25) Jen shares her unhealthy relationship with food

(08:59) Cara’s personal experience and journey that lead her to become passionate with her service

(16:59) How food is energy and it is an opportunity to receive nourishment

(17:35) The four subconscious beliefs that show up 

(18:40) The subconscious beliefs that comes up for Cara around her relationship with food

(26:20) Cara shares the personal development work she did and what the defining moment for her was 

(32:49) Cara talks about what purpose feels like in her body

(33:16) How food is a way that we can utilize to navigate our emotions

(36:09) Cara shares how she does a lot of inner child work with her clients and how necessary it is

(39:28) How there are a lot of deep wounds in sisterhood

(46:50) Cara shares more about her ‘The Body Wisdom’ book and who it is for and the work she’s doing

(48:45) Food Body Soul Membership - a monthly membership with different theme every month around transforming your relationship with food

(50:14) What Intuitive Nourishment means

Quotes:

(30:00) Who am I?

(30:44) I’m just in the work. Always doing the work.

(32:51) It’s all good. Hakuna Matata, no worries.

(33:01) You’re doing what you’re meant to do

(51:06) Intuitive Nourishment. Body Wisdom. It’s really you reconnecting back to yourself. It’s about self-trust and self-compassion.

Resources:

Website: https://www.jenmons.com/ 

Cara’s Instagram: @caraskitchen

Cara’s Website: https://www.caraskitchen.net/

PODCAST DISCLAIMER:

This podcast is to educate, inside, and inform the listeners of various pathways to wholistic well being.  This information is not to replace the advise of your physician, specialist, medical doctor, therapist, nutritionist or dietician. Please refer to full Medical Disclaimer Here.