"When you come back home to yourself—when you get embodied—you attract the things that are for you."
Kara Campbell
EFR 480: Coming Home to Your Body, Building Healthy Relationships With Food, and the Power of Human Connection with Kara Campbell
Relationships isn’t normally the first word that pops to mind when we talk about food. Today’s guest illustrates what it truly means to embody our relationship with food and defines “healthy eating” in terms that go way beyond calories, macros, and choosing so-called “good” foods.
When we’re in tune with what we’re eating, food allows us to connect to ourselves, to other people, and to the world on a visceral and emotional level.
Listen in as Kara Campbell shares how she came to embrace the connective power of food at an early age, just from sitting around the table with her family at dinner time every night. She explains how this evolved into the idea that dining with others and asking intentional questions leads to friends and strangers alike mirroring pieces of themselves back to one another through conversation.
She then unpacks the topic of intuitive eating and why most people fail to reconnect to their bodies and simply trust that they know what they need.
Kara then talks about how her upbringing within purity culture had a profoundly negative impact on her relationship with food and why women growing up in such an environment almost always have body image issues and destructive eating habits.
Finally, Kara touches on why our body is our wisest teacher and the surprising benefits beyond the physical that one experiences once they are able to repair their relationship with food.
Kara Elise Campbell is an embodiment coach who teaches women how to connect with their bodies and come back home to themselves.
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Key Highlights
Kara shares how, as far back as she can remember, she intuitively knew that food is connective, even as she personally struggled with her relationship with food for many years.
Do certain foods stimulate certain conversations? What is Kara’s approach to choosing foods for the dinner parties she hosts?
As the saying goes, “The body keeps the score.” Find out what it takes to be able to intuitively eat and choose foods not with your mind but with your own body by listening to the signals unique to you.
Having grown up in hardcore purity culture, Kara was taught that “the body is bad and sinful”. She explains how her unique upbringing impacted how she viewed food and chose what to eat.
Our body is our wisest teacher and if we feed it well, trusting that it knows what it needs, our life transforms in every possible way. Kara describes some of these benefits, including a few surprising ones.
Powerful Quotes by Kara Campbell
I love having good food; but, really, it’s about this idea of having people around the table or a cheese board or whatever it might be. What happens when we do that is we create the space for actual connection. We create the space to have the hard conversations and the good conversations—any conversation.
Food is our number one vehicle to connect to ourselves. How we eat is everything. How we eat and nourish our body speaks volumes about how we see ourselves and how we see the world.
Thanks to modern diet culture, we are told all day, every day that somebody else knows our body better than us. The truth is, no one can know your body better than you. No one can know what you need except for you. But we’re not taught that.
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