Hosted by Kathy Salata · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 36 episodes
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Freedom to Nourish brings together stories, guidance, and encouragement for adults and families navigating eating disorder recovery.I’m Kathy Salata, an educator, advocate, and recovered anorexia survivor. This podcast serves as your weekly reality check in a world obsessed with diets, weight loss drugs, and unrealistic beauty standards. If you're tired of counting calories, letting the scale dictate your worth, fearing food, or feeling like your body is never "good enough", you're not alone. Here, we talk about recovery, body respect, and how to nourish yourself without shame.
Kathy Salata hosts Freedom to Nourish, a health show with 36 episodes published.
This one feels really personal. I’ve been sitting with this decision for a while, and I want to share openly why I’m stepping away from this format and what’s been shifting for me behind the scenes. For a long time, I be
Last year, new nutrition guidelines updated the familiar food pyramid. Yet many people feel more confused about food than ever. Part of that confusion comes from modern food trends. Today, we track macros, count protein,
Trust is often the missing piece when it comes to making peace with food and your body. Many people say they no longer know when they are hungry, when they are full, or what their body actually needs. After years of chro
Can someone really recover from an eating disorder? In this episode, I share my personal experience with treatment, relapse, and returning to recovery withmore humility and insight. I talk about why recovery is rarely a
What would my life look like without a scale? In this episode, I explore how one number has shaped so much of our self-worth. I share a childhood memory that taught me my value was conditional and how that belieffueled y
In this episode, I’m talking about something we rarely address in recovery from toxic diet culture and chronic dieting… our relationship with free time. You would think unstructured time would feel like relief. No deadli
Self-sabotage with food can feel frustrating and confusing. Today, I decided to talk about why this pattern is not a lack of willpower and not proof that something is wrong with you. I explain how emotional eating works
Today, I talk about emotional eating from a place of awareness and compassion, not shame or control. Emotional eating is not a flaw. It is a coping strategy, shaped by experience and pressure from toxic diet culture. I s
So many people feel stuck going back and forth between dieting and binge eating. In this episode of Freedom to Nourish, I talk about why this cycle happens and why it has nothing to do with willpower. You will hear how r
In this episode of Freedom to Nourish , I talk about the New Year, New You pressure and why changing your body is not the answer. I explain how toxic diet culture ties to appearance and keeps people stuck in chronic diet
Getting sick can feel unsettling in recovery. Appetite drops. Energy disappears. Weight changes without permission.And for anyone healing from an eating disorder, that can stir up old thoughts fast. So, let’s talk about
January gets sold as a fresh start. A reset. A chance to fix yourself. In this episode, I name what January really is => Black Friday for diet culture. The biggest sales moment of the year for weight loss plans, detoxes,
In this episode of Freedom to Nourish , I sit down with Paige Alexander and Jamie Morgan Reno, founders of Real Food Recovery. We talk about processed food addiction, emotional eating, and why so many people feel stuck i
This episode of Freedom to Nourish is a conversation with Bonnie Giller , MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES - a registered dietitian with decades of experience. We discuss how long-term dieting can weaken trust in the body and how str
Hunger is not just about food. Today, I talk about the kind of hunger that keeps whispering for ‘more’. The hunger for rest, safety, connection, and meaning. I share how toxic diet culture teaches us to silence hunger, w
In this episode, I talk about the pressure young athletes feel to “make weight” and how easily that pressure can turn into fear, shame, and long-lasting harm. I break down why comments about weight sound normal in sports
When I stopped dieting, I felt something I never expected. I felt grief. I felt empty. I missed the rules that once gave me a plan. Even though those rules harmed me, they made me feel safe. In this episode, I talk about
For years, Thanksgiving felt heavy for me. I share how the worry started weeks before the meal and how my eating disorder made me believe people were studying my plate. I talk about what was really happening under that f
Today, I talk about how weight loss drugs have changed over the years and why the same pattern keeps coming back. Each generation got a new “miracle” pill. Each one brought hope first and harm later. This pressure-fed to
Today, I talk about how words can harm, even when we mean well. Saying “you look great” after someone loses weight can sound kind, but we don’t know what’s behind that change. It could be grief, stress, or illness. I sha
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Freedom to Nourish is hosted by Kathy Salata. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 36 episodes.
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