Ep. 18 - Eating Disorder Awareness, Self Talk & Poetry, and Coming hOMe with Anna Palmer - Open To Everything

Have you struggled with bad eating habits or an eating disorder? I think we've all experienced grief over what we put in our bodies. Anna Palmer comes on to talk about her book "coming hOMe: Healing From an Eating Disorder by Finding Beauty in Imperfection"  Purchase the book here and follow her to support:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08GTL727W/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=  IG: @earth_wisdom_keeper  A letter from the author: At least 30 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an Eating Disorder in the U.S. alone. Eating Disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Eating Disorders are still very much a taboo topic. Voices are still being silenced around this topic. This book is dedicated to breaking the shame in the silence. I had an Eating Disorder of many shades (anorexia, orthorexia and bulimia) for a decade. I never thought I could heal from it. I wrote this book because I did heal. With the plethora of tools accumulated over many years needed for my mind, body and spirit, I could heal. Eating Disorders affect us psychologically, mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. All layers need to be addressed for sustainable healing. I tried anything and everything to heal. It wasn't until I began to see myself as whole, complete and lacking nothing, did I begin to find wholeness in myself again. Overcoming an Eating Disorder was the biggest battle of my life to date. I write these words to share the brutal nature of that journey, to remind anyone suffering that you are not alone. I hope my raw and vulnerable disclosure and honesty brings messages of hope and healing to anyone much like myself who never thought they could heal. I go into much detail around mind, body and spiritual healing, from my personal experience and also my studies of yoga, somatic healing, Craniosacral massage, the nervous system, psychology and spirituality. When we come home to the body and to the self, we are given the chance to heal. Somatic (body-centered) healing, coupled with psychology and a deeper understanding of the spiritual manifestations of an Eating Disorder, give us new opportunities to understand and heal from that vantage point. This book is one story of many. It is a story to shed light on things previously unmentioned or brushed over in regards to an Eating Disorder: trauma, shadow work and sexual healing to name a few. We have all been traumatized in one way or another. Addictions and Eating Disorders are certainly adaptive ways to cope with trauma. When we address the root causes of trauma and do the deeper emotional work, we can begin to heal from the ground up and the inside out. I hope this book provides light, hope and healing to anyone who reads it. Thank you for being here.  ___  My name is Eric Johnson, and I am a dreamer, an optimistic-realist, and a former competitive athlete who desires to make Open To Everything into an educational growth mindset podcast. ------  Subscribe up above, and follow along on social media:  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3YVN2rfdbCsyuUV0P1XjyS?si=bLbaQGr0Sg-EhJX31vXGAw  Youtube : Please Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFqykD4QDvWIftY6qEGHXcg  Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/open2everything/  https://www.instagram.com/blazene22/  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/opentoeverything  LinkedIn : Add me as a connection! https://www.linkedin.com/in/ejohn46/ To get in contact or for any type of inquiry, please email [email protected]