Ep. 70 - Diet Culture, Chronic Illness, Emotional Eating & Unrealistic Expectations on Women's Bodies with Amber Romaniuk

<p class="" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">Women out there in Chronically Healing Podcast land… this is an episode you NEED to listen to. Today’s guest is Amber Romaniuk, an Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert. I resonated so much with this episode - weight gain with Hashimoto’s and my body image are a daily (okay, hourly) struggle for me.</span></p> <p class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">During Amber’s episode, we talked about her personal experience with disordered, emotional eating and the unrealistic expectations on women’s body. Amber tells us SO MUCH about learning how to trust and take care of our bodies and truly believing that our body loves us - <em>unconditionally</em>.</span></p> <p class="" data-pm-slice="1 3 []"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong>In today’s episode we chat about:</strong></span></p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Amber's story with disordered eating and negative body image</span></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The unrealistic social conditioning women have about our own bodies</span></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We lack trust within ourselves because we're fighting with our bodies and we're disconnected</span></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The lie of reaching a goal weight and both of our experiences with that</span></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Body image + chronic illness + hormone issues (elimination diets, etc.)</span></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How she coaches women to find body confidence and achieve Body Freedom™ so they can create their best lives</span></p> </li> </ul> <p class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Links and things…</strong></span></p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href= "https://www.amberapproved.ca">Amber’s Website</a></span></p> </li> <li> <p class=""><span style="font-si