The Nutritional Mental Health Podcast · Annika Angelo, M.S.

Your Struggles with Food Will Finally Make Sense Now

·35 min·1 clip
It's easier to live in our brains than it is to live in our bodies.
The host shares their personal journey with food struggles rooted in ADHD and body disconnection, arguing that food feels unsafe because eating forces embodiment when your body doesn't feel safe. They explain how ADHD people learn to live in their brains as a coping mechanism, damaging interoception, and offer three practical steps: changing negative self-talk, creating physical safety for body connection, and daily nervous system regulation exercises.

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Food anxiety is framed as a problem of bodily safety, not willpower.

This episode treats a familiar kind of food distress with unusual clarity: the urge to get away from the table, the need to distract the mind while eating, and the feeling that food is unsafe before that feeling can even be named.

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When eating feels like a battle with your own nervous system.

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