Carolina Salazar
EPISODE 104
In this episode of Open Late Podcast, Jess connects with Carolina Salazar, a certified holistic health coach and hormone specialist from the Inner Growth Podcast. Together, they explore Carolina's inspiring journey that led her to become a holistic coach. Carolina candidly shares her personal story of struggling with body image and weight due to cultural and family influences, leading to an unhealthy relationship with her body. She opens up about her experience with obsessive exercise and unhealthy weight loss, reaching a breaking point that prompted her to make necessary changes. The discussion delves into the concept of orthorexia and Carolina's realization of swinging to the other extreme of "healthy" living, where she found herself judging others' food choices and living an extreme food restrictive lifestyle. They touch on the importance of accepting parents for who they are and the societal pressure on women's appearance. They emphasize the significance of seeking help when needed.
In this episode of Open Late:
Holistic coaching journey
Overcoming body image struggles
Orthorexia and finding balance
Accepting different opinions and societal pressures
Acknowledging the problem and the importance of Seeking support
Listen to Inner Growth Episode with Jessica:
Growing from mushroom experiences and Exploring your Sexuality with Jess Esfandiary
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• Podcast: Inner Growth Podcast
• Website: thecarolinalifestyle
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Quotes from this episode:
3:14 The world that we live in and all the conditions that are placed on us as women, on our bodies, on what we're supposed to look like, and how that kind of becomes our inner talk and it becomes the programming that we're fed. And then can sometimes lead to very toxic behavior. – Carolina Salazar
7:37 Subconsciously, I think I also created this story in my brain of I need to lose weight to be liked by romantic interests. – Carolina Salazar
9:11 I started posting pictures on Instagram of my smaller body, and then I started getting compliments. And then people like saying, Oh, you lost weight, you look great. You're so skinny. What are you doing? I started getting this external validation from it and it almost fueled the problem because it started making me feel like, okay if I'm getting all this validation now, do people not think I was pretty before? – Carolina Salazar
10:42 I think the trickiest part was the validation that I was receiving. As a society, we glorify weight loss. – Carolina Salazar
11:55 The backdrop of the conversation is about how people's weight is important to who they are and what they're worth. – Jessica Esfandiary
16:12 If you've been through a restrictive pattern or time of your life, breaking those restrictions can feel really scary. – Carolina Salazar
18:17 I started doing a big deep dive on this discomfort that I felt and the shame and the self-judgment and like how I was labeling foods as good or bad, and then feeling like there is this morality with food. And if I ate bad food, I was a bad person. – Carolina Salazar
27:54 I used to make myself feel bad after eating certain things when I was younger, but it was very mild. I learned that when you do that, it actually just mitigates any kind of nutrients that you can bring into your body with that food anyway. – Jessica Esfandiary
28:56 Our emotional and energetic well-being is such a big part of our health. It's not just food and exercise, it's everything. – Carolina Salazar
29:48 I am done with letting restrictions and rules and this endless pursuit of looking a certain way or of fitting this societal standard of thinness, get in the way of my joy. – Carolina Salazar
42:43 We live in a society where a woman's body and her looks are constantly a public debate. – Jessica Esfandiary
43:31 It's not my job to change my parents' perspective because for them it's not an issue. – Jessica Esfandiary
44:36 Healing is like an onion. Layers and layers, ultimately getting to like a really strong core. – Carolina Salazar
51:28 Studies have shown that your relationship to body image and disordered eating have a big correlation to people not wanting to be intimate or have romantic partners. – Jessica Esfandiary
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