Why should women over 40 care about embodiment?
Embodiment has the power to make or break your experience in midlife. Together with mindfulness practices, embodiment increases your capacity to nourish yourself with healthy meals, exercise, and restorative rest.
“To have a healthy relationship with food and your body, you have to get out of your head and into your body.” That’s my definition of embodiment.
In this Savor Food and Body Podcast interview with fellow non-diet dietitian Mimosa Collins, we talk about how embodiment “brings awareness of your body from the inside out, rather than the outside in.”
In other words, the more you connect with your body from the neck down rather than react to your body in your head, the more you can honor basic physiological cues like hunger, satisfaction, and fullness.
By honoring your body’s basic needs on a regular basis you build a relationship based on trust in spite of physical, mental, and emotional changes in your body after 40.
Mimosa shares why her private nutrition practice is called, Rejoyn Wholeness, and what the name means to her personally and professionally.
We talk about her definition of embodiment and how she encourages clients to reconnect with their bodies from the inside out.
Plus, Mimosa explains how to become more embodied and have a peaceful relationship with food and body – especially as your body changes in midlife.
Mimosa Collins RDN (she/her) is a registered dietitian and supports individuals of all ages and genders to heal their relationship to food in her virtual practice, Rejoyn Wholeness.
She is certified as a Be Body Positive Facilitator and has experience with Internal Family Systems Therapy and Holistic Resistance’s Racial Justice facilitation.
Mimosa supports individuals and families to heal their relationship with food and body. She’s worked in a variety of places, such as immersive organic farm experiences, sexual empowerment workshops, community kitchens, and eating disorder treatment centers.
Mimosa experiences privileges such as being a thin, able-bodied, white-passing, cis-gendered, and neurotypical person. As part of her commitment to liberatory care, Mimosa is committed to dismantling systems of oppression and unlearning internalized narratives around systemic power dynamics.
Mimosa approaches her work from a non-diet, pleasure-forward, abolitionist perspective. This approach honors the person and their body on their individual journey toward freedom.
Embodiment Resources mentioned in the episode:
Mimosa’s website: www.rejoynwholeness.com
*Handbook of Positive Body Image by Niva Piran and Tracy Tylka
*Fearing the Black Body; the racial origins of fat phobia by Sabrina Strings
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