Episode 239: Samantha Finkelstein

[SpookyGhost]

The registered dietitian shares about the huge importance that was placed on food growing up in her family, how she used it to soothe instead of finding a healthy way to express her emotions and how it morphed into an eating disorder.

Read Sam’s blog www.nerdygirlnutrition.com Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @SamTheDietitian.

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[Shadow_aka_Sandy]

This was such an amazing podcast. Thankyou Samantha for being so honest and I really understood. I hope some day I can be as intune with myself as you have become.

[Geoff 02]

A lot I liked in their conversation! What she said about her perfectionism and the tendency to do the opposite of what she really wanted to do, because she feared that she would fail at what she really wanted to do.

And the reminder, if you're not sure how to treat yourself, to think, "How would you take care of your child?" and "What do you care about? How would you take care of that thing, or that person, or that being? Treat yourself that way."

[SpookyGhost]

What she said about self harm really hit home for me. That you do something visibly to hurt yourself, you are saying to the world, look, I was hurt, I have scars. Wow.