“Your life can look totally different in six months.”
Michelle Hurn received this hope-giving advice from her father while struggling with life threatening anorexia, depression and anxiety.
Today she’s a badass rebel runner (ultramarathons!!!), author of Dietician’s Dilemma, and founder of The Protein Project, a movement to reduce food insecurity and improve health by providing, animal-based foods, nutrition education, and social connections to the local community and throughout the United States.
Tune in to learn how Michelle healed herself by doing the exact opposite of everything she’d been taught. And how her experiences and advice about being radically honest with yourself can help you, too.
Michelle and I both whole-heartedly agree that eating disorders (and disordered eating) are like a jail of hell hidden in plain sight. And that most of the treatment advised by well-meaning healthcare professionals is bullshit. Which is no surprise given that most of the general dietetic advice is also BS.
You don’t have to be suffering from an eating disorder to experience the effects of poor or suboptimal nutrition! Most of the chronic lifestyle conditions people have today are in large part the result of consuming foods lacking in highly bioavailable nutrients (i.e., the animal based protein sources and naturally nourishing fats Michelle and I espouse). The average American adult takes 5 prescriptions daily and I can attest in my work that 10 is typical and 20, while not uncommon, will forever shock to me; this is NOT okay. My heart aches for those in this state: they’re robbed of their vitality and burdened by disease financially, physically and spiritually. It doesn’t have to be this way!
Tune in and let me know what y’all think. Then find and follow Michelle on Twitter @michellehurnrd and Instagram @RunEatMeatRepeat. Buy her book on Amazon. And please consider donating to The Protein Project’s Go Fund Me this holiday season: our most vulnerable citizens need nutrient dense foods to help support them. Do we not all already have enough/too much stuff? I’m all about a donation holiday season. So any friends and family listening, please DO NOT buy me gifts; donate!
PS - I’m a week late posting this so hope y’all had a great Thanksgiving!
Radical Honesty with Michelle Hurn, RD