Welcome to season 3 of the podcast! I’m so excited to be back with a powerful new episode all about using the power of our inner voice and intuition to find freedom around food. I speak with Bella Lively, whose work is dedicated to helping people access their intuition and their inner voice in order to find more freedom in their lives. She’s a coach, acclaimed teacher, and the host of The Lively Show podcast.

Today Bella and I go deep into her history in order to better understand how she found liberation around food. She describes her nine-year struggle with disordered eating when she was a teen and young adult, vacillating from borderline anorexia to binge eating (as a trigger warning, she shares this in detail from 06:27-10:40, in case any of you are suffering). She then explains how she was able to move from her mental obsession over food to trusting her intuition, eventually finding deep trust and harmony within her body.

Bella also describes the power in embracing non-duality in order to gain sovereignty. Instead of trying to put ourselves into boxes and limit ourselves with labels, she explains how releasing the mentality of good vs. bad/black vs. white/one vs. another, opens us up to a vast amount of freedom and ultimately our own authority. This extends far beyond just food and eating but can be applied to any aspect of our lives.

For those of you who’ve ever experienced any stress around food and eating, who want liberation from diet culture, and/or who want to heal your relationship to food and your body, this episode is for you. However, even if you’ve never had issues around food or your body, this conversation is an invitation to explore something deeper—to begin to let go of the dualities that have come to define our culture in order to find a path of inner autonomy and peace.

EPISODE LINKS:

* Mind, Body, Spirit, FOOD newsletter: https://mindbodyspiritfood.substack.com/

* Find Nicki on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickisizemore/

* Bella’s Website: https://bellalively.com/

* Find Bella on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bellalivelyworld/

* Bella’s Embodied Alignment Class: https://bellalively.com/embodiedalignment/

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