Are you healing your relationship with food and your body and are coming to the point of beginning to crave joyful movement and gentle nutrition, but are worried that delving into this part of the Food Peace™ journey will jeopardize your recovery? Are the people around you still stuck in diet culture, and you're finding your relationship with them increasingly difficult as you move closer to Food Peace™? Listen now as special guest, Sarah Thompson, and I give our take on these Food Peace™ challenges. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by my online course, Your Step-by-Step Guide to PCOS and Food Peace™. Enrollment opens TODAY! Receive my FREE road map: Your First 3 Steps Toward Food Peace™ with PCOS. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. Check out the whole Love Food Podcast store here. All T-Shirt designs have at least one with size range options from XS to 5X. All proceeds go to funding this labor of love to keep it as a free resource for you. Product links may be affiliate. If you click and make a purchase, there's no extra cost to you. The transcribed episode can be found here. Episode's Key Points: Sarah Thompson joins us to break down this week's letter! Internalized weight stigma and diet culture are challenging to let go of, but it's necessary to find peace with food and our bodies. Fatphobia is SO entrenched in all of us, and it hurts everyone no matter our body size! Everyone is indoctrinated into diet culture, especially those of us who have been socialized as women. Family dynamics can play a big role in how we relate to food and our bodies, especially if as children we're made to act in a parental role. Embracing food and body actions that stereotypically have ties to dieting and restriction can be scary, but we don't have to engage with joyful movement and gentle nutrition in a disordered way! They can be nourishing actions, and they don't have to belong to diet culture. Body changes can be triggering, and weight loss may make us feel like we're betraying the fat-acceptance community. Body changes can also throw our body-acceptance process for a loop, making us have to start the process of embracing our new shape all over again. But body changes are inevitable! Make sure that you're aware of your privilege, and acknowledge it! Make room for marginalized voices. We get to enjoy salads and movement without promising ourselves weight loss and without falling down a disordered rabbit hole. The more that we heal our relationship with food, the less we will feel that foods are "healthy" or "unhealthy." There are people in larger bodies that have an active lifestyle! We DON'T have to be a small body to enjoy movement, and we don't have to pursue movement for the sake of weight loss. Movement belongs to everyone! We're all continually doing our own work and finding our own path. Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace™ Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Food Peace™ Syllabus. Be Nourished's e-course, Promoting Body Trust in Your Work (plus the Spanish version!), their Embodied Practitioner retreat, and The Body Trust Provider Certification Training ---> This week's Food Peace™ Syllabus addition Find Sarah on her website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! Eating Disorder Dietitians can help your Food Peace™ journey. Get access to one near you here. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.