ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Sandi Morse spent years helping people untangle their worth from food and their bodies. Then she lost what she considered her dream job at Google—and had to confront how much of her own worth had become tangled up in achievement.
That’s where this conversation starts. It doesn’t stay there.
Sandi is a therapist, behavioral health leader and author of Feed Your Purpose: Intuitive Eating as a Spiritual Practice. We get into the messages many of us absorbed long before we knew to question them: shrinking our bodies, earning our food, chasing the next accomplishment, and believing enough discipline or control will finally make us feel okay.
We talk body image and diet culture, GLP-1s, intuitive eating, the problems with BMI, why food can become a form of control, what our kids are learning from us, and why women can succeed in nearly every area of life and still believe their body makes them a failure.
Sandi also shares what losing Google forced her to face about identity and success, why putting her own story into this book terrified her, and what changes when mental health, nutrition and spirituality stop being treated as separate conversations.
One line from Sandi captures where this ultimately goes: feeding your purpose means putting your energy and intention into what you believe you’re here to do.
If you’ve ever measured yourself by the title, the scale, the mirror, the promotion—or someone else’s definition of success—this episode is for you.
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