Eating advice for the holidays (and every day)
What if instead of following the rules
Or feeling bad for not following the rules
Or feeling obligated to eat Aunt Trina’s pie
Or feeling like you shouldn’t have seconds
What if instead of feeling tight around food
You felt spacious.
What if you gave yourself full permission to eat.
I know, it can feel scary at first.
I’ll eat everything
I’ll never stop
I’ll eat ‘til I’m sick
I get it, giving yourself full permission to eat can feel like a jail-break.
Running wild. Not sure where you’re headed.
But trust me
There is great healing in giving yourself full permission to eat.
It’s about giving yourself
Full authority
Full compassion
Full desires
Full pleasure
Full attentiveness
It’s about stepping into a full on relationship with your own body
And fully respecting your own body wisdom
And just in case it still seems terrifying
Giving yourself full permission to eat…
is not about not caring what you put in your body
is not about ignoring your full or hungry signals
is not about treating your body with disrespect
It’s about letting go of the shame and blame
It’s about feeling free with food
It’s about treating your body like she’s deeply worthy of the very best
It’s about reclaiming the foundational relationship with your body.
It’s about trusting that your body knows what full feels like
(And if you don’t know, you can learn again.)
It’s about honoring when your body says that’s all I need for now or I need more.
It’s about not feeling deprived and also not shaming yourself if you feel like you had more than you really needed.
It’s about celebrating your desires and slowing down to feel the emotions.
Giving yourself full permission to eat is about making space for a juicy conversation with all the parts of you that come to the table.
Your tastebuds
Your fullness
Your hunger
Your feelings
Your unique biology
Your desires
Your sensuality
Giving yourself full and conscious permission to eat is giving yourself a powerful invitation into trusting your body again. Because even if it hasn’t felt like it for you, she is trustworthy.
If you’d like help with navigating an authentic and respectful relationship with your body. Let’s talk.
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Nina Manolson, MA, NBC-HWC, board certified Health Coach, Psychology of Eating Coach and Certified Body-Trust Provider, believes that every woman deserves to feel good in her own body.
She helps women create a healthy and positive relationship with their food and body so they can love their body and life! She’s the founder of NinaManolson.com and The Nourished Woman Nation.
She helps busy women feel good in their own body.. She specializes in working with women over 40 who have tried other diets and approaches but are still struggling with their body and food.
She’s the creator of the BODY-LOVE MAP and the recipient of the prestigious Health Leadership Award from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
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Nina Manolson, MA, is the founder of Body-Peace®.She helps women end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their body—as it is.
She is known for her deeply feminist, anti-diet, body-peace® approach. She brings her 30 years of experience as a therapist, Body-Trust® Guide and Psychology of Eating Teacher to helping women create a respectful and trusting relationship with their food and body.
Nina’s Body-Peace® work is all in service of helping people get off the diet roller-coaster, and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating & living which creates a positive long-lasting change in and with their bodies. Her courses, coaching, poems and Body-Peace APP positively change the conversation that women are having with their body.
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