Lisa sits down with 14-Week Group Coaching alum, pharmacist, and single mom by choice Erica, to talk about how trauma, grief, and loss, collided with early motherhood and the Covid19 pandemic. She shares how she unconsciously turned to food and experienced rapid weight gain coupled with shame and found Out of the Cave and was able to understand her experience and heal.
Topics Include:
90s and early 2000s diet culture
Picky eating
Trauma, grief and loss and its impact on our relationship to food
Operating in survival mode
Releasing shame and self-blame
Neurobiology
[3:30] Erica looks back on her earliest memories around food and eating and the effect of being a Black ballet dancer and cheerleader on her body image
[20:00] Erica remembers being a teen and wanting to be in a smaller body and grappling with fitting in as Black AP student and goes into life as a broke college student, experiencing high levels of stress and experiencing clinical depression
[30:00] Erica shares when food, eating, and body image really became a top of mind issue for her as she walked a path toward parenthood through donor conception and attempting different diets with a toxic partner
[36:00] Erica gives birth to twins boys as a single mom by choice right before the Covid19 pandemic and simultaneously her sister was battling an aggressive cancer and life as she knew it was pulled from under her and turns to food, and beats herself up for her lack of willpower
[40:00] Erica finds Lisa and Out of the Cave and shares the freedom of letting go of the story that she is “A lazy piece of sh*t” and shares how the work has positively impacted her sons and the culture of food and eating
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