Are you a fan of Ketogenic Woman (Anita Breeze)? I sure am! Here she shares her personal story which contributed to a significant weight gain before she found the ketogenic way of eating. I was touched by her story and deeply moved by the emotional healing she has done in order to heal her relationship with food and her body. I think you will be too. Enjoy!

Episode Contents

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:56 Introducing Anita Breeze
8:14 Going beyond the typical weight loss story
9:51 What Anita learned about women's roles from her family-of-origin
21:03 What messages Anita got about food and weight from a young age
24:38 Identifying the link between multigenerational trauma and her struggles with food and weight
36:00 Using food for emotional reasons- food as comfort
38:12 Healing the relationship with her mother
46:10 How her relationship to food and her body has changed over time
47:47 Anita and Esther discuss one of the most important areas to address in order to heal our relationship to food and our bodies: unfinished emotional business and past traumas
52:15 Anita's 'before and after': resolving unfinished emotional business and past traumas
53:28 Wrap-up

Show Notes

Where to find Anita:

Her website:

https://ketogenicwoman.com

YouTube Channel:

Ketogenic Woman

To watch my interview with Dr. Joan Ifland on Highly Processed Food Addiction, go here:

https://www.estherkane.com/podcasts/highly-processed-food-addiction-with-dr-joan-ifland/

Dr. Georgia Ede and her book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, can be found here:

https://www.diagnosisdiet.com

FREE resources:

To check out Esther's writing and podcasts/videos on women, eating disorders and body image, go to this page:

https://www.estherkane.com/category/eating-disorders/

To receive Esther's 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies:
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel, click the 'like' button, give it a great review if you really enjoy it and pass episodes onto others who could also benefit from them.

Canadian Psychotherapist Esther Kane interviews Dawn Hertz, a grief and loss therapist, to provide some tools for those of you who are grieving a recent loss.

Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Introduction of Dawn Hertz
1:30 How Dawn has been touched personally by grief and loss
9:39 How she became interested in specializing in grief and loss as a therapist
12:52 What grief and loss looks like for most people in the short term, after a year, and in the long run
15:28 How western culture helps or harms those who are grieving
19:46 Mistakes people make when trying to help someone who is grieving
23:48 How to best support someone who is grieving
25:00 Pitfalls grieving people fall into and how they can these be avoided
29:27 How grieving people can recognize what they need and then ask for it
35:50 Do we ever truly ‘get over' a significant loss?
40:20 Dawn shares stories of hope from those who have moved through significant loss in their lives

Show notes:

Where to find Dawn:

https://dawnhertztherapy.com

Grief author mentioned in interview:

Dr. Alan Wolfelt

Blog post about losing my dear friend to brain cancer:

https://www.estherkane.com/a-tribute-to-my-dear-friend-ingrid-watermann-1974-2024/

Read articles I've written on grief and loss:.

https://www.estherkane.com/category/grief-and-loss/

To receive my FREE report called, "10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy", go to:

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel, click the 'like' button, give it a great review if you really enjoy it and pass episodes onto others who could also benefit from them.

Dr. Ifland is considered to be the world's leading expert in processed food addiction.

She is the author of the textbook, Processed Food Addiction.

Dr. Ifland educates health practitioners on using food addiction recovery to put diet-related diseases into remission.

She was selected by the Oprah Winfrey Network as food addiction specialist, is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and an innovator in food addiction recovery programs.

In this episode, we discuss:
- the Standard American Diet (SAD) being filled with highly-processed, low nutrient, cheap foods, which Dr. Ifland calls "addictive food-like substances”
- the food industry and what happened in the 1980s
- how the brain learns to crave
- the impact on the brain and body when processed foods are consumed
- how many people who eat The Standard American Diet have a food addiction and how you can identify if you have one
- if you have a food addiction, what steps you should take
- obsession and cravings
- how to avoid relapse
- how to overcome an addiction to processed food

Where to find Joan:
https://www.drjoanifland.com

Food Addiction Reset Program:
https://www.foodaddictionreset.com/arc-membership-details

Dr. Vera Tarman, Author of "Food Junkies": Food Addiction 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0W3V_4cMW4

How to Break Free of Food Addiction: Clarissa Kennedy and Molly Painschab of Sweet Sobriety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_sGEubvmcg&t=264s

FREE resources:

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on women, eating disorders and body image, click on this page: https://www.estherkane.com/category/eating-disorders/

To receive my 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies:
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter