The Heal Your Love-Hate Relationship with Food Workbook is out! And this podcast is, in essence, its companion. In this episode, I walk you through the goals of the workbook and explain how IFS and Intuitive Eating are THE APPROACHES that will help you to truly heal your relationship with food. We discuss each chapter of the workbook, and I flesh out the concepts in ways I wasn't able to in the book (I didn't have enough room!). If you've picked up the book, this episode will provide you with even more of an understanding of what you'll be working toward. And if you're still on the fence, this podcast will give you a good idea if the workbook is for you. Take a listen, and pick up the workbook at your favorite independent bookstore or head here to order!

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Have you ever found yourself thinking that ignoring your hunger is THE THING that makes you special? Or maybe it's your ability to eat very little during the day. Or maintain a very thin body.

Very often, folx who severely restrict their food intake (and especially for those in very thin bodies) have a part or parts who truly believe that their ability to eat so little or to be so thin, is the THE THING that makes them special. This is often a protection from very deep-seated beliefs of not being good enough, of being invaluable. These parts can be both protectors and exiles and need our attention and compassion.

In this episode, we're discussing parts who feel that their eating disordered behaviors are what makes them special. We focus on examples of these parts, why they're there, why they can be difficult to shift, and how to work toward healing them.

My workbook, Heal Your Love-Hate Relationship with Food: An Intuitive Eating and Internal Family Systems Workbook is available for preorder! Check it out here!

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I thought this would be a good time of year to do an episode on all or nothing thinking. With the new year starting, it's easy to get caught up in goals, resolutions, intentions, etc. And there's nothing at all wrong with that, if it appeals to you.

But I think what sometimes (or often) happens, is that we set goals that are wildly beyond what we're doing now. For example, going from not doing much movement at all to setting the goal of hitting the gym for an hour five times a week. Or going from eating whatever you enjoy to cutting out all carbs or sugar.

And when we don't reach these goals or when we last one or two weeks trying to work toward them, we have parts that feel shame and feel as though we've failed.

In this episode, we're talking about all or nothing thinking from an IFS lens. Specifically, we're discussing:

• All or nothing thinking as a polarization between two parts or groups of parts
• How this polarization tends to play out (i.e. with both sides getting louder and louder and you going back and forth from one side to the other like a tennis match!)
• How to recognize parts within this polarization
• What to do about all of this!

If this sounds like you, take a listen!

I also wanted to let you know that my workbook, Heal Your Love-Hate Relationship with Food: An Intuitive Eating and Internal Family Systems Workbook will be released on March 1 but is now available for preorder! Head here to check it out!

Where to find me:

Website: drkimdaniels.com

Email: kdanielspsyd@gmail.com

CE Course: Unburdened Bites: Helping Your Clients Heal Their Relationships with Food and Body Using IFS