28: Healing from the Inside Out: IBS, Anxiety, Nutrition, and Eating Disorders

As we begin to eye the end of 2021 and the start of 2022, it’s become my mission not only to tell personal stories of overcoming while also teaching the tools that I practice and teach daily, but also to bring you experts that have the power to open our eyes to new learnings and help each of us create our own life revolutions in the areas that most of us struggle.

In this week’s episode, we take on our relationship with food in a deep dive conversation with nutritional, IBS, anxiety, and gut expert Laura Patricia Martin. After all, ’tis the season of overindulgence, leaning into an imbalanced mindset of eating, and of course, we are just weeks away from setting those New Year’s fitness resolutions.  

This is one conversation that will inspire you to take command of your body as we journey through intentional eating, the mind, body, spirit connection to food, tricks for grocery shopping, and deep dive into crafting a relationship with nutrition that allows us to thrive not only in the now but for a lifetime.

Laura walks us through her life revolution and the journey she is on to heal women from the inside out.

Key Takeaways:

00:00 Intro

02:20 Laura Patricia Martin’s Personal Journey Begins—purpose knocks through a rock bottom upheaval

06:49 How deep the hard work was for Laura and the ways she tried to spiritually bypass

08:28 The difference between fault and responsibility

09:34 The a-ha moments that changed Laura’s relationship with her health

12:03 What a healthy food/body relationship should look like

13:50 What is your standard for yourself?

16:42 Anxiety & IBS - the gut/mind connection and the Vagus Nerves role in the body

20:30 Finding our way into balance through food

22:43 Reprogramming and exploring what works in our individual bodies

24:50 Witnessing and listening to signs, warnings, and symptoms within your body

27:34 IBS & Anxiety - the link and how to take control

31:37 Looking at metabolism and the how to work with our bodies, not against them 

35:32 Your subconscious speaks in your actions —what’s a better feeling thought?

38:30 Owning responsibility in our nutritional health: “Look at the context of your actions.”

41:04 We don’t lose our progress: “You can’t be at war with your body and win.”

44:23 A healthy body starts with self-leadership

45:36 Tools for taking command of your body

47:40 There is not a quick fix

51:03 Diet verse lifestyle, labels verse reality—what’s your standard?

56:00 Tools for the grocery store and the shelves

59:20 Laura’s 3 things.

Laura’s story and insight remind us that it’s never too late to take command of our most precious resources: our physical body, our mental health, and how we have the power to create what we need and want in life once we make a choice to shift our mindset and show up.

If you want to learn more about Laura and her programs, you can find her on Instagram @healingtohappy or @itslaurapatriciamartin

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