Today’s guest is Emily Holt-Gosselin! She quite literally, told me everything, about her entire journey into sobriety and eating disorder recovery. Some topics we covered:

+How much exercise and diet really have to do with health

+Rejecting diet culture from a social justice lens

+Spirituality, meditation and yoga in recovery

+The difference between recovery with food and recovery from alcohol

+Balance between trusting professionals and trusting our own intuition (and what it's like to repair that lost connection with our intuition)

+Systemic oppression & racism in diet culture (mention of other incredible humans you should follow/learn from about this topic -- details below)

+Privilege and activism in the anti-diet realm

*Just a heads up, we do talk briefly about eating disorder behaviors and suicidality but no explicit detail with any of those nor any mention numbers of weight in this episode*

More on Emily:

Emily Holt-Gosselin is an Integrative Wellness Coach and Yoga instructor who passionately aligns with the Anti-Diet movement, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size. She strives to offer the same relief and healing she found through these movements and philosophies with others. Through hundreds of hours of yoga training & teaching, outspoken recovery work, and personal experience, she is able to combine the ancient wisdom of yoga with the modern path of body liberation. She aims to empower individuals to more easily acknowledge their inherent worthiness and unwavering radiance.

Links & resources:

Instagram: @em.poweredliving

Website: empoweredlivingwithemily.com

Recommended books on Anti-Diet, Intuitive Eating & Health at Every Size:

Sonya Renee Taylor (@sonyareneetaylor) : The Body is Not an Apology

Sabrina Strings: Fearing the black body: the racial origins of fatphobia

Aubrey Gordon (@yrfatfriend): What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat