How to destress your relationship with food

Want to feel less anxious about what you eat?

Feeling stressed about what, when, and how to eat rarely comes from not knowing enough about healthy eating. In fact, if you're like many women in midlife, you've spent decades researching the best diet for health, fitness, and weight loss. 

If you already know how to eat in a way that aligns with your health goals, why is it so hard to do that every day? 

Because stress and anxiety often get in the way of you caring for yourself in ways that you want - like eating more vegetables, for example. 

In this interview with Tracy Brown, a trauma-informed non-diet nutrition therapist, you'll start to understand why chronic dieting, body image issues, and food struggles help you cope with stress, anxiety, and even past trauma. By the end of our conversation, you'll be able to stop relying on diet culture to validate your worth and have more agency with food and your body.

Tracy explains what major and minor trauma is and how your can experience both in your body.  How are trauma and diet culture influence each other, especially for women in midlife? As a somatic nutrition and body image coach, Tracy explains what Polyvagal Theory and Window of Tolerance are and how they relate to your relationships with food and body. Understand how your nervous systems works so that you can respond to the ups and downs of midlife with more compassion and ease. Where do you start? Tracy shares how women in midlife can begin to understand their nervous systems and grow their window of tolerance. 

Tracy Brown, RD, LD/N  is a trauma-informed nutrition therapist/eating disorder dietitian, stress recovery coach, and nutrition counseling skills teacher.  She walks beside people wanting to heal their relationship with food and weight and feel safer and less stressed in their bodies.  Since 2006, she has guided people one on one and in groups in healing from disordered eating and chronic dieting, many of which also have other stress-related conditions at www.tracybrownrd.com/get-started and  https://www.tracybrownrd.com/free-gifts (to stop bashing your body)

She is the creator of 3 courses that provide trauma-informed and body image counseling skills and supervision to health professionals as well at www.embodieddietitian.com  

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Get show notes and additional resources on my website www.alpinenutrition.org

While you're there, download the free guide The Top 5 Foods for Women Over 40.

If you're ready to break free from dieting without the confusion of how to eat healthy in midlife, get on the waitlist for my small group counseling program.

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