Beyond Nutrition: Food, Culture, Self-Care & Healthy Habits You Can Actually Live With with Leonila Campos

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What if caring for your health didn't require separating yourself from the foods, culture, traditions, and experiences that are part of who you are?

On this episode of The FEEL Podcast, Melissa Crook is joined by Leonila Campos for a practical conversation about nutrition, self-care, cultural foods, sustainable habits, and caring for ourselves as whole people.

From “Add yourself to the lunchbox list” to challenging the belief that “I'm a lost cause,” Melissa and Leonila explore what can happen when women move away from shame, perfection, and all-or-nothing expectations and toward habits that can actually fit into their lives.

They also discuss why food can't always be separated from culture. Food can carry family, tradition, memories, connection, and identity, and honoring those layers can be part of caring for ourselves too.

This conversation asks us to consider a different approach to health:

Can we nourish ourselves without judging ourselves?

Can we make changes without believing everything has to change at once?

Can healthy habits be sustainable enough to actually live with?

And while we're caring for everybody else, have we remembered to put ourselves on the list?

 Because caring for yourself doesn't have to mean losing the parts of yourself that matter to you.

Topics: Women's Nutrition • Sustainable Healthy Habits • Self-Care for Women • Food and Culture • Cultural Foods • Healthy Relationship with Food • Whole-Person Wellness • Women’s Empowerment • The FEEL Podcast

Timestamps:

Prioritizing Self Care - ( 3:10 )

Confidently Setting Boundaries - ( 5:24 )

Taking Care of Your Emotional Health as much as Your Physical Health - ( 9:59 )

Support self & other women unapologetically - ( 16:03 )

Coming Back to Your WHY and Your VALUES - ( 19:41 )

Living Out of Your Own Expectations - ( 24:44 )

Accepting the Layered Aspects of Yourself - ( 34:26 )

Living out FEEL, how does it affect your relationships - ( 43:02 )

5 Activities That Nourish You - ( 47:08 )

5 Words for How You Want to Feel in the Next Six Months - ( 48:21 )

Original Music by Rio & Valencia Saint-Louis

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