Soshy Adelstein is a wellness coach, public speaker, writer and the Founder of Embody Nutrition. She is an expert in the field of nutrition and uses Intuitive Eating and the Health at Every Size approach in her coaching. Through real talk and compassionate listening, she teaches women how to let go of old beliefs around dieting, eating, exercise, weight and body image so that they can step into new practices to support their best self now.
In these episodes we talk about
- how her birth story was the start of her body image struggles
- her first experience leaving her body at the age of 12
- being raised in the Orthodox Jew community and how being covered from the neck down and other parts of their beliefs affected her
- how the #metoo movement brought up a lot for females of things we had repressed
- being drawn to fashion as a teenager and still to do this day as a part of self expression
- starting to rebel against the rules of being Orthodox Jew and feeling freedom and shame at the same time
- how the wellness and supplement industry feed into the not enough struggle and how we relate to our bodies
- being disowned by her mother and kicked out at the age of 17
- still living with the fear of being homeless to this day.
- seeing a digital photo of herself at 19 and feeling she wasn’t enough which started her on a cycle of dieting, binging and exercise addiction
- the hiking accident that was a blessing as it stopped the cycle
- the work she did and how her story empowered her to teach other women to accept their bodies and eat intuitively
- realizing how present diet culture is and yet most people don’t realize it
- one of the many gifts of my fibromyalgia was that I am more motivated by how I feel than how I look and how that works with what I eat and move my body
- the food rules we often develop without realizing it
- what intuitive eating actually means
- what inspired her to create intuitive eating potlucks
- why she focuses on body acceptance and not body confidence
- Which keychain he chose from my line and why!
To learn more about Soshy find her https://www.embodynutrition.com and @soshyadelstein
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LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
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Elissa Goodman episode (supplements)
Lisa Hayim Episode (diet culture)
Robyn Youkilis episode
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F THE SHOULDS. DO THE WANTS.
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