Do you experience anxiety? This epi is especially for you. I have the wonderful Lauren Sharp to share with you today.
Lauren holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition & Dietetics from the University of Delaware and completed her dietetic internship at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital.
She loves food and is so passionate about how food is integrated into our lifestyles that she decided to make it her career! Through lots of personal experience and 6+ years of education Lauren has created The Empower Method to help her clients stop struggling and obsessing over food to finally feeling FREE.
I really love this conversation because it’s a different flavor than we’ve had on the show before because Lauren really opens up about her struggle with anxiety, with really intense anxiety, how it was correlated to her perceived need to feel like she was in control. Lauren does a great job of highlighting how clamping down didn’t make her feel safer or freer, but only exacerbated her anxiety. Lauren’s journey is also unique in that she didn’t have one big rock bottom wakeup call. It was a collection of micro-turning points where her mind and perspective opened and she was slowly able to find the place of amazing flexibility and freedom with food and fitness that she is today.
During our chat she shares about how her quest to cure her anxiety through wellness turned into an unhealthy obsession and fixation on being thin, how her identity was tied into being the “healthy girl” in college and how that praise and recognition validated her unhealthy behaviors and made it challenging to realize she wasn’t in a great place, and how the flexibility she’s found with food, fitness and her body has affected her entire life and made her into a “fun” person. And loads more juice.
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