Ep #9 | Healing Your Relationship with Food with Rachel Molenda
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Are you an emotional eater?
Today on the podcast, I’m interviewing Rachel Molenda. Rachel get’s real with us, shares her personal struggle with food that started at 8th grade and evolved as an eating disorder. Rachel was very critical with her body, binging and going in and out of diets; this lasted for 10 years of suffering, until she started a positive connection with food, recovered the pleasure of eating and connected with exercise and movement.
Rachel Molenda is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist and Emotional Eating Coach, who helps women heal their relationship with food and their body by breaking free from dieting, rigid rules and discovering the power of intuitive eating and eating #RealAssFood.
Rachel believes that the first thing needed is to heal the emotional relationship with food, overcoming this emotional eating is the priority, but how to start? Rachel proposes a series of first steps:
- Bring awareness to what is happening with your eating habits.
- Ask yourself: What are your triggers?
- How dieting has or hasn’t served you?
To start healing the connection with your food — intuitive eating is a must. Intuitive eating is listening and honouring the needs of your body, including all foods: All Foods, yes! Rachel explains the importance of overcoming the fear for certain foods and shifting the focus to how you feel when you are eating them and breaking, this way, the dieting cycle.
On Rachel’s personal path, exercising and moving were the following steps into connecting with how her body was feeling and by listening to those signs she realized she needed a change, and honored her body by slowing down and acquiring a different exercise routine.
Contact Rachel for an emotional eating consultation and put and end to dieting, instead heal your relationship with food and rediscover trusting in your body.
Wishing you more simplicity and ease in all that you do!
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Quotes:
“Meal plans often complicates things more, it feels like another thing that can´t be achieved successfully”
“At some point we started using food either as a punishment or as a reward.”
“Emotional eating is a coping mechanism, we turn to food because we know is going to give us a faster relief.”
Additional Information About Jenn:
Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium and Juice Plus.
Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.