Craving Food Freedom

In a world that is so obsessed with being thin, it feels like an endless upstream battle to eat without guilt and feel good about one's body. You're probably exhausted, I'm exhausted. I'm also tired of seeing my patients struggle and I'm exhausted hearing about doctors pushing ozempic/weight loss on my patients. In this ep, I talk about how I feel about my industry, how hopeless it can feel sometimes, and why I'll be pausing this podcast for now. For 7-8 years of my 20s my self-worth revolved around my body, food was my obsession. Now that I'm in my early 30s, my obsession has transferred over to career and financial success. Living in a big city (Silicon Valley), it feels like all that matters is your job title, career progression and financial status. It feels like diet culture, trying to be better, do more, like nothing is enough. If you want to follow me in this next chapter where I tackle this desire to success and not get left behind financially, then I invite you to... My new YOUTUBE channel! @elisezliu https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUqKi8u-e5Z1clCgz2p24A What you'll find on my new Youtube channel: Feeling left behind financially at 31 & how I built 3 streams of income (earnings, is it worth it?!) https://youtu.be/MhYewguvQF8 How solo traveling in Bali changed me (poop anxiety, long flights, burnout cure?) https://youtu.be/pQIm2OQUh8w Goodbye for now Craving Food Freedom. In the meantime, let's hangout on youtube if you are on a similar journey :)

"We live in a very cognitive society. We're cerebral, we talk, but there's still this approach of thought forward existence versus listening to what our bodies are actually saying." -Romi Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Romi Cumes, an incredible Somatic therapist based out in Santa Barbara. Somatic psychology - what is it you may ask. It is understanding how the body works and what is happening underneath the psyche that's actually leading to that. Some of us can have some rigidity and then it manifests in other areas of the body too - tense shoulders for example. With anger, we can start to feel it in the trapezius and in the shoulders, which is really where a lot gets stored. So that's something to notice. How many of you are listening to what your body is saying to you? Romi helps individuals get in touch with the lived experience of the body in order to identify, explore, and ultimately transform stuck patterns and energy so they become more capable of living happy, balanced lives. Romi draws from over twenty years of healing arts experience and spiritual studies. She utilizes various techniques that include mindfulness and sensation-focused awareness. By focusing on body awareness, it helps to ground ourselves during moments of tension and reactivity, regulate the nervous system, and to learn from and heal long-held pain and body armor. Learn more about Romi at romicumes.com LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

Today I have the pleasure of having on Dr. Marianne Miller, an eating disorder therapist based in San Diego, CA. In this ep, we talk: managing chronic pain finding the right eating disorder treatment overexercising the effects of food restriction as a kid creating new pathways in the brain Find more of Dr. Miller on her webiste https://www.drmariannemiller.com/ and Facebook group for people who struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, stress eating, and body image. https://www.facebook.com/drmariannemiller/

Are you an immigrant or child of immigrants? If you've ever thought "I deserve to be stuck, I'm not allowed to be who I am, I hate my body", this is the episode for you. Today I have on Anny who offers therapy to those who have struggled during their childhoods finally find peace and fulfillment in their adulthoods, with a focus on immigrants and children of immigrants. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and online throughout California and her works helps to: Transform one's relationship to internalized shame, rejection, and criticism Better understand the different parts of yourself Personal note: the turning point in my relationship with food was when I first started to see a therapist and uncovered the layers of emotions buried deep around my family, and growing up as an immigrant. "Befriend the part of you that hates your body" -Anny Sometimes we want to throw away certain parts of ourselves, we let certain parts go into hiding, but in order to feel at peace with ourselves, it's time to embrace all of the parts within us. So that you don't feel like running away from yourself and going towards food. Find more of Anny through her website here. https://www.triplemoonpsychotherapy.com/therapy-for-immigrants-and-children-of-immigrants LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

Today I have the absolute pleasure of chatting with Joanne Kim from Olive Me Counseling and Melinda Olsen from Inviterra Counseling. Joanne and Melinda are friends, colleagues, business partners and most importantly incredible therapists in the Silicon Valley who help their patients discover patterns of thinking, feeling, and doing that create painful and rigid "knots" in their life and relationships. If you've ever felt "I'm not good enough, what's wrong with me", then massaging out these stubborn, trauma based "knots" through brainspotting and enneagram work might be the right next step for you. In this ep, we talk: enneagrams and how it can help you understand your own motivations/fears how being on auto-pilot may be keeping you stuck in your life how to stop automatic behaviors that don't serve you brainspotting - a way to bypass the intellectual/logical mind and get straight to the emotional/lizard mind to help with trauma processing Connect with Melinda and Joanne on IG: https://www.instagram.com/havenlycounselingcollective LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

Today's featured guest is none other than Pumpkin, one of the few things motivate me to keep adulting. Everything I do is to provide a roof over Pumpkin's head because she has done so much for me in my recovery journey with food. In today's ep: how walks set ME up for success taking care of something else helps one feel better about themselves --> more positive self regard takes away some of the emptiness of being alone LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

TRUST is a forever work in progress - with yourself, with others, with food, with anything in life. If you can trust yourself with something small, you likely have the ability to trust yourself with bigger things. Today I have the absolute pleasure of welcoming Emily Feikls, host of the podcast I'm Trying. Emily just took a BIG leap of faith. She quit her job and is living on her own in Houston as a content creator, entrepreneur, and podcast host. She is trying like all of us and has cultivated such a tremendous amount of trust in herself. Hopefully this episode will help you cultivate more confidence and trust in yourself, whether it's with food decisions or otherwise. In this episode, we get to hear: Emily's struggles with food/body and mental health doing the work of calming her nervous system ways to stop intrusive thoughts how to make huge life transitions and just GOING FOR IT cultivating trust with herself around food AND big life decisions LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

Overwhelmed by the idea of starting a new year and getting back "on track"? In today's episode, I talk about why you're feeling stuck and I have a feeling it has to do with your need to do everything perfectly. Whenever we think about new habits, we have lofty ideas of doing it everyday (i.e. journaling, sleeping earlier, moving daily, eating more veggies, etc). BUT are you being realistic and sprinkling in a healthy dose of flexibility? Today's ep: what's causing you to stay stuck why lofty goals may be causing you to feel overwhelmed how to close the gap between lofty expections and your actual day-to-day life what does CONSISTENTLY SUSTAINABLE look like to you LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

Why we may feel so strongly about our stomachs biological health a sign of willpower, self control, SES, and more Do a check in - does bloating have a pattern, does it relate to your menstrual cycle, what foods you eat There's nothing you're doing wrong Gas is a transient thing, it will pass So what if your stomach is bigger So what if it doesn't fall under the ideal shape Body appreciation exercise what function does this body part provide you what messages have you received about this body part in your life? what would you adult self react in that past situation? LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

In today's ep, I talk about sugar cravings! Consider what else is happening in your life (movement, sleep, energy, etc) Train your tastebuds to enjoy less sweet foods Explore the nuances of why you're reaching for it (palate cleanser, hydration, not full, etc) Set gentle guardrails i.e. try to cook it from scratch When is it worthwhile, when is it not If you're already eating it, really enjoy it mindfully There's nothing wrong with you for wanting sweets every day "So what if I want…" LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

In this episode, I talk about moving your body in a way that doesn't feel stressful/triggering! What is the value of movement for you (OUTSIDE of weight loss) How to intuitively move Conditional vs unconditional relationships Think of your body as a cute dog - you would give it all the walks and water and sunshine and love LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

In this episode I talk about leaning on food at night as comfort, how to uncouple relaxation time from food, and ways to stay present with your snacks at night. LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.

You know when you sit at home alone late at night and there's this gnawing feeling inside of you? Emptiness, longing, sadness, regret, anxiety, you name it... Last night was the first night that it hit me exactly what I needed. Do you know what you need? In this episode, I talk: when something feels missing at night emptiness/longing are you the person you want to be or have you let yourself down? what exactly is missing? LINKS AND RESOURCES Take the Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? (after years of dieting and bingeing) Request an Appointment – 1:1 private coaching with Elise Let's be friends on IG! @craving.food.freedom.com WHAT DID YOU THINK? If you liked this episode, please take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW, would love to hear from you! You'll be helping me reach more people just like you.