#11: Dr. Anita Johnston: Myth, Storytelling, and Seeking Metaphor in Your Relationship to Food

Dr. Anita Johnston joins us to talk about how to learn more about your relationship with food by looking through the lenses of myth, storytelling, and metaphor. Author of Eating in the Light of the Moon and Clinical Director of 'Ai Pono eating disorder treatment center in Hawaii, Dr. Anita Johnston speaks to how the matrilineal society in which she grew up shaped her persceptive on food and body struggles, the neuroscience behind metaphor, and how one's struggle with food communicates the things a person sometimes cannot. Links: You can find her at: www.DrAnitaJohnston.com www.LightoftheMoonCafe.com or contact her at: DrAJ1@aol.com Anita@LightoftheMoonCafe.com Free .pdf for Food & Metaphors Guide: http://lightofthemooncafe.com/opal Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody

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The Appetite is a podcast by the founders of Opal: Food+Body Wisdom, an eating disorder treatment center in the University District of Seattle, WA. Psychologist Lexi Giblin, PhD, Marriage and Family Therapist Kara Bazzi, LMFT, and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Julie Church, RDN, CD, will meet every other week to discuss all things food, body, movement, and mental health. Learn more about us at www.opalfoodandbody.com.