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Episode Overview
When someone experiences trauma, it can feel like there are constantly tigers in the room with them. How do you lessen the anxiety? How do you begin to heal? And can food help with that process? Our guest Julie Peters, yoga teacher and author, gives us so much great information by telling her story of healing from sexual assault and how consuming food became a daily practice of consent. Her story and outlook on how food can nourish us when we are experiencing hard times is actually perfectly aligned with Balance365’s philosophy of balance, self-compassion, and self care.
What You’ll Hear in this Episode
- The motivation behind Julie’s newest book, “Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure
- After Sexual Assault”
- How Julie’s book can help not just women but people of all genders who have experienced sexual assault
- How food was a way to help Julie through recovery
- How women and men may experience anger differently
- How emotional eating doesn’t necessarily have to be a negative practice
- How stress can affect your sexual desire
- The fight, flight, freeze, and “tend and befriend” responses to stress (and how this can lead to abusive
- relationships)
- How your body is always trying to help you survive
- How eating became a daily practice of consent for Julie
- Listening to your body’s cues to figure out your own personal food rules
- The various resources you can use when experiencing trauma
Resources
- Julie’s website
- Julie’s book – Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault
- Ocean & Crow Yoga Studio
- Come As You Are, Emily Nagosaki
Transcript
Download a copy of this episode’s transcript here.
