EP 240: Nutrition & the Mind-Body Connection with Guest Expert Jessika Brown

The Bridge to Fulfillment

Do you wonder whether your relationship with food is healthy?

With busy lives in a fast-paced world, it can feel impossible to make empowered choices when it comes to the food we eat. With eating disorders and a general lack of emphasis on nutrition in our society, it’s more important than ever that we take the lead in making better choices and cultivating healthier connections with our bodies.

Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment Ⓡ, Blake welcomes Jessika Brown, a registered dietitian (RD) with a master's degree in Nutrition. She’s also a Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics and a Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian-Supervisor. Her superpower is helping people live deeper in their values through health. She’s the host of the Fuel Her Awesome Podcast and owns a dietetic private practice.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to understand the biofeedback your body is providing when it comes to what you eat. You’ll hear the important role of the microbiome in your overall health, the impact of your emotions on how you eat, and how you can begin to reshape your values when it comes to your relationship with food.

What You’ll Learn:

• How healing her relationship with food led Jessica to her professional path (5:00)

• Connecting our emotions to when and what we choose to eat (10:56)

• The origin of our distrust for our bodies that leads to disordered relationships with food (15:41)

• Defining health on your own terms and determining your values (21:24)

• Advice for parents who want to help their kids choose healthier foods (31:42)

Favorite Quotes:

1. “So many of the conventional methodologies that we're taught are broken. As a society, we are seeking all these things that are ultimately bandaids and don't give us the results or the solutions we need. So, we often then think that there's something wrong with us.” -Blake

2. “Until we learn, and understand that every emotion we feel is for us and that we create our own suffering around it, we can't create any change.” -Blake

3. “We have to define health on our own terms, not the doctor's terms, cultures, terms, how we were raised, we have to get very clear on what healthy looks like for us.” -Jessika Brown

4. “There's this illusion that we're supposed to never feel sad or upset and, if we do, we need to get rid of the feeling. That's one of the biggest things I've taken away from working with this population and in my own healing is that that is part of the human experience. We have to get rid of this lie that it's going to be wonderful and beautiful all the time. Half if not more of the human experience is sorrow and sadness and it’s about developing resiliency through those pieces.” -Jessika Brown

Additional Resources:

For more information on the Empowered Eating Method check out Jessika Brown’s FREE workshop: How to Eat Intuitively and Hit Your Goals or learn more about working with her 1:1 at jessbrownrd.com.

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com