You don’t have to hit rock bottom to know something in your life needs to change.

You can be successful. A good mother. A good friend. Someone who takes care of her health. Someone who knows all the “right” things to do.

And still have parts of your life that don’t feel the way you want them to.

That is where this conversation with Lindsay Sparks begins.

Lindsay is a registered dietitian and intuitive eating counselor who spent years helping women understand their relationship with food and their bodies, while privately beginning to recognize some of those same patterns in herself.

What followed was a much bigger reckoning with food, body image, alcohol, anxiety, perfectionism, motherhood, belonging, and the enormous amount of energy we can spend trying to manage ourselves.

We talk about the gray area that can be so difficult to name. When your drinking doesn’t necessarily look like a “problem,” but you’re thinking about it more than you want to. When you make rules and then break them. When you try to moderate. When you wonder if you’re overreacting. When part of you knows something needs to change and another part keeps convincing you that you’re fine.

Lindsay shares her own path to sobriety and the realization that there didn’t need to be one catastrophic rock bottom for her to choose differently.

And this is also a deeply personal conversation for me.

There were pieces of Lindsay’s story that felt so much like my own. We talk openly about our relationships with alcohol, the shame that can exist around it, motherhood, our bodies, and what it means to begin trusting yourself again after spending years overriding what you know.

Because this episode isn’t really about whether you drink or don’t drink. Or whether you eat the “right” foods. Or whether you love your body every day.

It’s about the relationship you have with yourself underneath all of it.

And what becomes possible when you finally start listening.

ABOUT LINDSAY SPARKS

Lindsay Sparks is a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor specializing in women’s health, intuitive eating, and nutrition support during substance use recovery, particularly alcohol recovery. She provides 1:1 nutrition counseling and offers wellness workshops and nutrition presentations for groups and organizations.

Connect with Lindsay:

🌿 Website

www.feedyourspark.net

📸 Instagram

@feed.your.spark

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