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 :)

Shame causes us to feel less than, different, not good enough. It causes us to feel one degree of separation from the person we think is better than us in some way (success, money, intelligence, appearance, etc. "I am lesser than the other person or other people, and I am on the outside looking in." - Joanne Kim Today I have on Joanne Kim, a therapist-turned Feelings Translator who helps Highly Sensitive Persons turn their BIGGEST feelings into their GREATEST superpower! The people who work with her are often the first (or only) person in their family or communities to intuitively process and express feelings; consequently, they are often judged or criticized so that they learn to people-please, placate, or perform until they hit a wall. When Joanne shares about her approach to working with feelings, the #1 response she gets is, "Why didn't they teach me this in school?!?" Grab the free guide "The BIG Feeler First Aid Kit" to learn how to navigate your feelings when they show up when you least expect (or want) them! www.IntelligentEmotions.com/FirstAidKit You can find Joanne on Instagram: www.instagram.com/intelligentemotions LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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.

"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 Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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 chatting with Molly Zive, San Diego based therapist who specializes in ketamine-assisted therapy. We talk: It was such an insightful conversation and hopefully you will get something out of it too. Find more of Molly on her website https://therapywithmolly.com/ LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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: 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/

Today I have the pleasure of having Emily Cooper @heyemilycooper where we chat about eating disorder care. Emily is a licensed social worker/therapy based in Utah and Washington and in this episode, we talk: Connect with Emily on IG LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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.

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: 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 Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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 would mother nature make it easy for us to lose weight, so that we can just wither away??... In this ep, we talk: Another diet is not the answer. What actually works based on my experience working with clients. But what if your doctor is telling you to lose weight... No one should be able to tell you what to do. You get to trust yourself. You know how to take care of yourself and your body. And if you don’t know how to do so in the best way possible, there are therapists and dietitians that can help. LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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: Connect with Melinda and Joanne on IG: https://www.instagram.com/havenlycounselingcollective LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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 Jackie & Jojo, who host the podcast Asian Glow Up - a podcast sharing stories that help Asian Americans explore identity and connect with their most authentic selves. In this ep, we talk: "What you believe about yourself is projected outwards." - Jojo Connnect with Jojo and Jackie on IG @asianglowuppod and their podcast Asian Glow Up. LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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: LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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.

SPOILERS AHEAD "He's literally trapped himself in his body. At one point he disregarded that he had a body. He no longer cared. He didn't feel like he deserved any better". In today's episode, I share my thoughts on this gut wrenching movie and what it means for all of us. how much do youu value yourself and your own happiness/health can we really be healthy at ANY size In his last days, the main character Charlie wanted to do things differently, change his beliefs, and make things right. It's always possible to believe new things, build up our own self esteem by doing the things that matter, and in turn feel more deserving of good tthings. We have a whole life ahead of us. Imagine spending the majority of our days believing that we're good people, that we can do good for the world, that we can say true to our words, that we deserve more. Had Charlie done that earlier, he probably would have felt better about himself and perhaps gotten the support that he needed. LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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: LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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.

Take the quiz - Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? One last diet? Or is it time to try something radically different? Why you’re here - perhaps years of dieting hasn’t worked and you're tired of having seasons of being on the bandwagon/disciplined and then seasons of going off the rails. Today's ep: Remember, the most beautiful and appreciated among us are those who dared to be different and remain true to themselves. They pushed forward until the world recognized what they had to offer. If you’re ready to release the brainspace that dieting has controlled for so long, I encourage you to stay tuned and join along. LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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 Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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.

"Psychedelics can help us remember truths we’ve always known about ourselves." Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Jenny Weinar, LCSW onto the podcast! Jenny is a Psychedelic Assisted Therapist providing ketamine assisted psychotherapy in Philadelphia as well as virtual psychedelic integration therapy in Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Jersey. She weaves Western mental health treatment with the sacredness of psychedelics to help people come home to themselves and remember the truth of who they are. "People logically want to believe that they’re beautiful enough, good enough... but just can’t. Sometimes with psychedelics, you get a glimpse of universal love and that is fertile ground for healing." Jenny Weinar, LCSW Get to know Jenny Weiner at homebodytherapy.com LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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 There’s nothing you’re doing wrongGas is a transient thing, it will pass LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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.

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In today's ep, I talk about sugar cravings! (movement, sleep, energy, etc) LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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.

Cuties gate, Love is Blind S3 Reunion has me invested on a psychological, emotional, and physical level. In this episode, I talk about: what you’re triggered by is more of a reflection on you Were you triggered or could you see that Cole was (mostly) well-intentioned? LINKS AND RESOURCES Quiz – Is Intuitive Eating Right for YOU? Request an Appointment@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.