Navigating a changing body, whether it’s through eating disorder recovery or for any other reason, can be really challenging. Learning to trust your body is a process which often comes with trial and error, moments of joy, and grief.

Coming back home to your body includes building relationship to it, which doesn’t always feel easy. In fact diet culture tells us we can’t trust our bodies! But this is not how we were born. We were born with the intuitive ability to trust our bodies, yet conditioning from systemic influences or personal experiences can lead you to “unlearn” how to do this effectively.

In this episode, I speak to Aaron Flores about learning to trust the body, the process of going through body grief, and how one might use metaphors (like using the story of Star Wars) to grasp complex ideas in recovery from disordered eating.

Aaron is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Body Trust® provider with a private practice in Calabasas, CA. Aaron uses Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size®, and Body Trust® as the framework to help individuals develop a more compassionate, non-judgmental approach to food and their body. In addition to his individual work with clients, he is also a podcaster. His two shows are Men Unscripted and, Dietitians Unplugged.

We also touch on the experience of being a person who identifies as male in recovery, and Aaron’s safe space for men to anonymously share their body stories on his podcast, Men Unscripted

Aaron will also be speaking at Project HEAL and EDRD Pro’s event called “InformED” https://www.theprojectheal.org/2023-informed-forum which is a virtual event that will be held on October 20th 2023 at 10:30am - 4pm ET on ‘The Medical Landscape: Ozempic and the Renewed Rise of “Thin at Any Cost”’

Find Aaron here: @aaronfloresrdn