Is your hunger coming from your head or your heart or your stomach? Do internal battles and food issues drive your appetite? Can you re-learn how to have a healthy relationship with food? You bet you can. Let’s go from head and heart hunger to transformation.

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Today's Guests:

Connie Stapleton, PhD

Website: http://www.conniestapletonphd.com

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New Hope Girls:

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Caitlyn Scaggs is the Executive Manager with New Hope Girls which is based in the Dominican Republic and fights trafficking, abuse and exploitation. Their mission to rescue girls and empower women. As their state-side representative, Caitlyn works to grow awareness of this mission. Much of her work supports the workshop component and as the demand for their beautiful bags grows, so does the need to hire more women.

Atlanta-based psychologist Dr. Connie Stapleton. You know that Dr. Connie brings her vast experience in the mental health aspect of bariatrics to the table. She gets right to the core of the issues and always shares practical ways for you to improve your relationships with food, other people and most importantly with yourself. 

There’s a significant emotional connection to food and food choices. From stress to abuse to trauma, what goes on in the heart and head affects what happens with food. 

Topics, questions and answers discussed:

Caitlyn, girls come into your care enter with significant trauma. How do you see this show up around meal times? Are there observable signs?

1. Caitlyn, girls come into your care enter with significant trauma. How do you see this show up around meal times? Are there observable signs?
2. Dr. Connie, how have you seen abuse, trauma, food insecurity, bullying etc affect relationships with food?
3. Caitlyn, how do you help your girls identify where they are feeling hunger, ie in their stomach or their heart?
4. Dr. Connie, when you recognize food issues brought on from prior life events, how do you start someone on the way to healing the past and healing their relationship to food?
5. Caitlyn how does healing begin around food for the girls and women you work with?
6. Dr. Connie you just shared some ways to get started but it’s often hard to stay focused and continue to move ahead. How do you continue to kick the cycle of returning old habits and hurts to the curb and replace with cycles of empowerment? 
7. My listeners, my community are going through their own transformation journey. It may not be the exact same type of "hard" as what your girls have experienced, but they certainly have been through a lot. Caitlyn, do you have any words you'd like to share with them?
8. Dr. Connie, when you start to feel hopeless and like a failure, going back to head hunger, how do you stop that self talk and stay focused on the fact that you are created for more?
9. I am all about empowering my community to know they are worth it and to learn how to use food and nutrition to be healthy and get out there and live life. Caitlyn, I love that New Hope Girls empowers women and provide places of refuge and transformation. Tell us about your workshop for adult women where they make your beautiful products.
10. I am so pleased to be a partner with New Hope girls as your fabulous bags and other items enhance and support the transformation of my community who in turn can support the women in your community with hope to change their lives. I love that. If we want to support New Hope Girls by purchasing some of your beautiful bags - how exactly can they do that?

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