Food and Freedom: How to Make Peace with Your Plate

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Sue Van Raes offers a vital counterpoint to prevailing diet culture, unveiling a holistic approach to food freedom and body compassion. Drawing on new science and psychology, informed by years of client work, she emphasizes that our relationship with food extends beyond mere consumption. Food and Freedom becomes a transformative journey, guiding readers to reclaim wholeness, fostering integration, mindfulness, and fulfillment. Van Raes empowers readers to authentically embrace life, trust their bodies' intelligence, address emotional eating, and thrive through embodied self-carea guide for strength, independence, and genuine well-being.

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"With a depth and breadth of understanding, Sue Van Raes offers a feast of insights and practical suggestions to nourish the body, mind, heart, and soul. This book is a gift for anyone seeking freedom from struggles with food and eating."
-- Anita Johnston, PhD, author of Eating in the Light of the Moon

"Food and Freedom brilliantly weaves spirituality, biology, emotions, culture, and energetics into an incredibly useful guide to find true love and healing when it comes to food and our bodies. I've never read anything about food and the body that's quite so comprehensive. Anyone who wants to find peace and love around nourishing themselves needs to read this book!"
-- Kate Northrup, bestselling author of Do Less

"Sue Van Raes has created a blueprint for women of today and tomorrow to understand what truly fulfills them and satisfies their true hungers. In a world with so much noise and confusion, Sue's unique voice is compassionate, nonjudgmental, and inviting. With her engaging storytelling, science-backed strategies, and encouragement for reflection, you immediately want to pull up a chair to Sue's metaphorical and welcoming table. Once seated, you'll fill up on connection, wisdom, mindfulness, self-compassion, pleasure, and love. If you've ever wished that eating could be stress-free and enjoyable, let Food and Freedom guide you through a path of self-discovery, starting with the food on your plate."
-- Elise Museles, bestselling author of Food Story: Rewrite the Way You Eat, Think, and Live

"Sue Van Raes deepens our conversation on women's relationships to food, leaving us more embodied, empowered, and spiritually connected to our eating and our daily lives. This is an important work for women of our time!"
-- Sara Avant Stover, author of The Way of the Happy Woman, The Book of SHE, and Handbook for the Heartbroken

"Food and Freedom is just like Sue Van Raes: filled with wisdom, truth, and inspiration. Sue dives into the healing powers of food, self-care, and conscious living to reveal the power we each uniquely have to live our best lives. It's a must-read!"
-- Caitlin Greene, author of Just Eat Real Food, social media celebrity, and founder of Star Infinite Food

"Sue Van Raes has taken on a beautiful mission -- to help heal the feminine when it comes to food, body, and soul. The simple and practical insights that Sue offers are a great distillation of some of the more useful health principles of our time. This work is honest, heartfelt, and much needed."
-- Marc David, author The Slow Down Diet and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating

"Food and Freedom is for any woman who wants to feel freedom around food, at home in her body, and at peace with pleasure. Through her own experiences, client stories, inner inquiries, and much more, Sue Van Raes illuminates the path forward toward limitless possibility."
-- Nancy Levin, bestselling author of Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free and founder of Levin Life Coach Academy

"As someone who recovered from an eating disorder and who has been an eating disorder therapist for over forty years, I read a lot of books on eating, nutrition, body image, and care of the soul. Yet still I was astonished by this book. Owning this book is like having a nutritionist, a yoga teacher, a therapist, a soul retreat leader, and a friend. Sue Van Raes has compiled an incredible amount of material, well resourced and user friendly, for readers to begin to change their relationship to body, mind, and soul. From discovering your food archetype to recipes to yoga poses and talking sticks, one can find nourishment in these pages in so many ways. I am honored to be asked my opinion about this book, grateful to know about it, and putting it on my list of recommended reading."
-- Carolyn Costin, MFT, MA, MEd, CEDS, coauthor of 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder and founder of the Carolyn Costin Institute

Author Bio

Sue Van Raes is a functional nutritionist, food psychology specialist, wellness expert, yoga instructor, and founder of Boulder Nutrition. She has extensive experience as a featured health writer for the Chopra Center, and her work has been featured in People, The Sacred Science, Natural Solutions Magazine, Origin Magazine, and Elephant Journal. Van Raes hosts the podcast Satiate and leads wellness and yoga retreats in Colorado, Costa Rica, Bali, and virtually. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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