When working on food freedom, it's easy to initially understand the need to eat the previously forbidden foods. It makes sense to eat the foods that were off limits during your dieting days. It feels good to make peace with things like muffins, cupcakes, croissants, ice cream, and/or whatever else you deemed wrong or bad. There is SO much value in making peace with those foods. They are a part of life and bring us joy, tastiness, and connection—all things I'm in full support

If you’re stressed, your gut is too. Our gut and our brain are connected. In fact, I think we sometimes do ourselves a disservice when we separate our bodies into separate systems like mind and body (although I understand why we do—without separating our bodily systems, it’s very difficult to conceptualize how we work as human beings). As you can likely imagine, many of the clients I work with suffer from significant GI distress. While I never want to knock evidence-based die