Free Spirit Academy Podcast
Free Spirit Academy is about you being fully yourself. My name is Rande Moss and with my background in Eating Psychology Coaching, Breathwork, and Somatic Experiencing, I offer conversations about food, body image, trauma, and freedom. This is about honoring our own bodies and our purest self-expression. Welcome to the podcast.
Episodes
70 episodes
Why "Body Positivity" Wasn't For Me
You won't get very far in this episode without realizing the click-baitiness of the title. The truth is, there was a time I wanted to keep all of my body shame and use it for fuel to "fix" my body and chaotic relationship to food. It neve...
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The Language Our Bodies Speak.
If you've spent any time in the somatic healing world, you're likely familiar with the concept of the body saying "no". I'll also often say that the body has a language that it speaks - sensation. emotion. pleasure and pain. Reactions and respo...
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8:57
Mindful Eating Didn't Work For Me.
What I wish I would have known when I was struggling and reading books about "mindful eating":- Slowing down isn't a tool to make you eat less. It's a tool to notice what's happening.- No amount of mindful eating is going to mak...
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Healing Doesn't Happen in a Hurry (the truth about emotional, compulsive, and binge eating)
Healing doesn't happen in a hurry. The hurry to be healed, integrated, enlightened, free, arrived...it's not as neat and tidy as a lot of self-help books or before-and-after photos might suggest. It's more like, the harde...
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7:45
The Top 10 Mistakes I Made On My Healing Journey.
THE TOP 10 MISTAKES I’VE MADE ON MY HEALING JOURNEY:Honestly, I cringe a bit using the words "healing" OR "journey" because the internet is so oversaturated with wellness or spiritual teachers. I'm not interested in making "healing" my w...
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Why We Feel Unsafe | Solo Episode
This podcast is for you if you're feeling unsettled and unsafe right now.It's for you if being alone, or home all the time, or having your world turned inside-out makes you want to crawl out of your skin.It's for you i...
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24:05
Coming Home to Your Body | Solo Episode
The 15 minute audio you're about to hear is the introduction to my 30-day course Coming Home to Your Body. This is a course that all of my clients get when we start working together but it's also available on it's own or part of the Free Spirit...
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When We Dissociate INTO Our Bodies | Solo Episode
Coming from a challenging childhood, dissociation became my "normal". As I left religion and pursued healing, the dissociation that was once completely disconnected from my body...went internal. Today we're looking at how attempts at embodiment...
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7:48
My Body is Not a Project | Solo Episode
I love a project. I love working towards something. I think that's pretty human. But for a long time my body was my project. I grew up in a holistic, seventh day adventist, vegetarian home...
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Navigating symptoms and flares without shame | Solo episode
So many folks I see, and this was me too, attach goodness and morality to their health. If something is wrong, they feel wrong. They will spin into stories about how they're creating their own disease or this is going to turn int...
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Unlearning shame after a lifetime of binge eating | Solo episode
Today I'm talking about the ways that shame lived in my body and fed into the cycle of binge eating and disembodied practices with food. I'll also talk about making my body safe enough to finally feel the shamed parts of me so that the...
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Why I was numb and how I learned to feel again | Solo episode
For a huge chunk of my life, trauma had left me flat, numb, and unable to feel what was going on in my body. In today's episode I talk about the seemingly "normal" experiences that can lead to an overwhelmed nervous system, the symptoms...
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What Happened When My Health Practices Were Taken From Me | Solo Episode
After a bit of a hiatus, today I'm bringing back the podcast talking about what happened when trusty health practices were "taken" from me. In this solo episode you'll hear about:- The health challenges that turned my wol...
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12:06
Food is Medicine, But it isn't Everything with Sarah Hook
Today I'm speaking with Holistic Health and Root Cause Practitioner Sarah Hook. Sarah and I have been connected online since our early wellness blogging days when we were certain we had it all figured out. Some years ago Sarah was bit ...
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53:38
My Health Saga of the Last Year.
For the last year, I haven't been consistently present with my online work...and today you'll hear why. A cascade of events left me in a pretty low-functioning state until recently. Currently I'm a couple months out from a couple of minor surge...
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30:45
The Dream Under the Dream Body | Solo Episode
Free Spirit Academy's new and expanded intuitive eating program is being uploaded this month (February 2022)!FSA members get ALL courses for $25 a month (no min...
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Episode 65
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Why "Letting Go of Control" is not "Letting Yourself Go" | Solo Episode
In this solo episode, I'm talking about the idea of 'letting yourself go' and how that differs from the 'letting go of control' that needs to happen in order to make peace with food or integrate trauma. There's also a very special deal ...
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Episode 64
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Chronic Illness, Healing Diets, & Disordered Eating | Solo Episode
Is it possible to take on a healing diet or a supportive protocol with a history of disordered eating?Is there a way to have a healthy, alive relationship with food that's also intentional? Is restriction 100% bad news in all ca...
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Episode 63
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12:05
ADHD, Naturally with Sophie Tully
I want to start by saying that this episode is going to be worth a listen whether you're a person with ADHD or not!Sophie Tully is a Biomedical and Clinical Nutrition Scientist and Health Coach and she specialises in creating highly per...
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Episode 62
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Making Peace with the Body You Call Home | Solo Episode
Today's episode is a sample of the Free Spirit Academy program, Body Love.I talk about why addressing a painful body image is integral to healing a disordered relationship with food, or taking on a healing protocol. Our bodies a...
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Episode 60
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28:08
Loving Oneself through Chronic Illness | Solo Episode
On today's episode I'm talking a bit about the autoimmune diagnoses I got earlier this year. This is a shorty ep but includes:...why it took me so long to see medical professionals and get tested....the wide range of feelings po...
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Episode 59
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When Rebellion is not Freedom | Lena Wegener
Hello friends, today I'm talking to my friend Lena, an eating disorder recovery coach who also understands firsthand months of juice fasting, pure raw food diets, and even using diet to heal illness - complicated by her many years of disordered...
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Episode 58
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Doing Everything "Right" and Still Feeling Unwell | Theresa Piela
After well over a year, the Free Spirit Academy Podcast is BACK!I begin this episode with a health update of my own - and talk about the balance between maintaining a peaceful relationship with food and my body, while ...
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Episode 56
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