Carly Pollack: Feed Your Soul from the Inside Out

Published: July 23, 2019, 8 a.m.

b'In her book Feed Your Soul, Carly Pollack combines practical guidance on what to eat with timeless wisdom.\\nBeing a conscious leader requires focus, clarity, and energy. In this episode, Carly Pollack and Free Your Inner Guru host Laura Tucker explore why many people experience wellness as a battle between two voices \\u2013 our compassionate Higher Self and our obsessive, punishing lower self \\u2013 and why our relationship with food is a mirror for where we are on our spiritual path.\\n\\nCarly Pollack is the founder of Nutritional Wisdom, a thriving private practice based in Austin, Texas. A Certified Clinical Nutritionist with a master\\u2019s degree in holistic nutrition, Carly has been awarded Best Nutritionist in Austin five years running and has helped over 10,000 people achieve their health and happiness goals.\\n\\n\\u201cInstead of someone outside of you \\u2013 or a book or a person\\u2026Feed Your Soul is really a book about teaching you how to find your own boundaries. It\\u2019s not \\u2018Hey, I\\u2019ve never met you in my whole life, but I\\u2019m going to write a book telling you how I think you need to eat.\\u2019 It\\u2019s different for everyone, and different at different seasons of their life.\\u201d \\u2013 Carly Pollack\\nConversation highlights\\n\\n \\tCarly shares her experience of being at war with her body, a constant chaotic battle with 2 sides.\\n \\tThe role of awareness in guiding your health. Why focussing on the food and the movement is ineffective.\\n \\tWhen you feel like your emotional wellness is easily being tripped up by external triggers, you need to look at your spiritual practice and strengthen it.\\n \\tThe difference between judgment and holding yourself to a high standard\\n \\tWhere Carly stands on the two opposing camps in woman\\u2019s wellness\\n \\tSimple but impactful guidance on what to eat: foods that rot.\\n \\tWhy the white potato is a victim of dogma.\\n \\tHow to apply the 80/20 rule to nutrition.\\n \\tWhat it was like to approach publishers with a book that contains no hook or quick fix.\\n\\nCarly Pollack\\u2019s Memorable Quotes\\n\\u201cObsessiveness and awareness cannot coexist.\\u201d\\n\\n\\u201cI can\\u2019t influence myself if I\\u2019m judging myself.\\u201d\\n\\n\\u201cI don\\u2019t want to take the life out of food, I want to take the power out of food.\\u201d\\n\\n\\u201cTo demonize the banana, we are missing the point. We are doing this a lot to distract ourselves from the bigger picture of doing the deeper work.\\u201d\\n\\nMentioned in this episode\\n\\nCarly Pollack\\u2019s book \\u2013 Feed Your Soul -Nutritional Wisdom to Lose Weight Permanently and Live Fulfilled\\n\\nWebsite \\u2013 carlypollack.com\\nWant more conscious conversations in your life? \\nSupport the podcast and join the Free Your Inner Guru\\xae Leadership Community at freeyourinnerguru.com/leadership-community'