What if your body wasn’t something to fix but something to honour—just like nature itself? In this powerful conversation, Sloan Elizabeth welcomes Annie, a former coaching client whose healing journey has transformed her relationship with food, body image, and self-trust. Annie opens up about overcoming binge cycles, embracing her intuition, and discovering the deep connection between personal healing and planetary healing. Together, they explore ecopsychology, the roots of body oppression, and the radical act of taking up space—without guilt, restriction, or shame.

“Like, what you said, how we treat how we respect our bodies is also how we're gonna respect the earth.” — Annie

In this episode, you will:

• Learn how seeing your body as part of nature can change your healing journey.
• Discover why breaking free from diet culture is about more than just food—it’s about dismantling systems of oppression.
• Understand the emotional resistance to healing and how to move past self-sabotage.
• Explore how intuitive eating and body trust create space for joy, passion, and purpose.
• Hear Annie’s personal breakthroughs, from overcoming fear to embracing self-acceptance.

Listen now and take the next step toward healing your relationship with food, your body, and yourself.

Resources Mentioned:

Books:

• Your Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
• You Are Not A Before Picture by Alex Light

Podcasts:

• Mindful U Podcast: Episode 3. Jeanine Canty: Environmental Justice
• The Full Plate Podcast: Episode 124: Accidental Disordered Eating & Healing from the Binge-Restrict Cycle
• NPR Throughline Podcast: Reframing History: Bananas
• NPR Shortwave Podcast: Fat Phobia and Its Racist Past and Present
• Unlocking Us Podcast: Brene with Sonya Renee Taylor on “The Body is Not An Apology”

Personal Blog: Healing Ecosystem

• Blog posts journal format (personal stories/reflections)
• Blog posts paper format (more formal/academic reflections)

Blog Posts on Body Healing:

• Earth Body: Seasons - Post about how the seasons mirror our body’s internal seasons
• Earth Body - Paper written for human development course in 2019; highlighting how ED development is connected to our culture’s disconnection with the earth

Other wonderful resources on Body Healing/Liberation:

Books:

• Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance and Revolution co-edited by Christine Caldwell & Bennett Leighton

*Ecopsychology books:

• My Name is Chellis & I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization by Chellis Glendinning
• Ecological & Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices edited by Jeanine Canty

Podcasts:

• We Can Do Hard Things Podcast:
1. Episode: 168. Sonya Renee Taylor: What If You Loved Your Body?
2. Episode: 262. Aubrey Gordon: On Freedom from Anti-Fatness
3. Episode 215: The Bravest Conversation We’ve Ever Had: Andrea Gibson
• The Full Plate Podcast:
1. #97: Dr. Anita Johnston On Being A Highly Sensitive Person & How Authenticity Heals Us
2. #98. The Truth about Self-Love and Body Liberation with Chrissy KJing, Author of The Body Liberation Project
• Maintenance Phase Podcast:
1. Zombie Statistics Spectacular
• Body Justice Podcast

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