The Impact of Food Trauma on Your Eating Behaviors with Rachel Hobbs

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) are traumatic events that occur in childhood and affect your sense of safety. 

ACEs have been found to be higher in prevalence among those who struggle with food and body image. As the experience of safety diminishes, the likelihood of binge eating increases.

This is why you can't shame yourself for your food behaviors. They are not your fault. You’ve been made to believe that your food choices are your decision and that if you can’t “control” yourself with food, then that is your fault. Yet, this couldn’t be further from the truth. 

Your food and body image behaviors are a response to how your body is digesting your life experiences, not something you're actively choosing or out of a lack of willpower, or self sabotage. 

In this week's episode, I chat with Rachel Hobbs, Clinical Dietitian, Personal Trainer and Certified Therapist about: 

• A compassion centered focused approach to nutrition
• How early childhood experiences affect your food interactions
• The role of shame in food behaviors
• How the nervous system and past trauma shapes food behaviors
• Seeing nutrition through a more nuanced perspective

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/the-impact-of-food-trauma-on-your-eating-behaviors

I hope that this episode reminds you to meet yourself with compassion these next couple of weeks as you navigate friends, food, and family this holiday season. 

With Compassion and Empathy, 

Stephanie Mara Fox

Keep in touch with Rachel: 

Website: https://www.dietitianrachel.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dietitian.rachelhobbs/