Befriending Your Body: Finding Freedom from Diet Culture with Marla Mervis-Hartmann
Discover freedom with food and body in midlife. Marla Mervis-Hartmann shares how to unlearn diet culture, embrace self-compassion, and heal ...

Marla Mervis-Hartmann, Best Selling author of "BE-Friend Yourself-Finding Freedom with Food and Peace with your Body" is a Coach, Reiki Master, and TEDx speaker dedicated to guiding people toward deep love and peace with their bodies, food, and lives. Marla works at Ai Pono a Eating Disorder Recovery Center sharing Body-Love Healing Circles and was known as the leading body image expert and Reiki Master at Journey Malibu–a Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation center. Most recently, she has been featured at TEDx Salinas. Her dedication to women’s studies has had several focuses including women’s sexual wellness, postpartum care, pelvic floor support, tantra and yoga instruction, massage therapy, and lifestyle coaching through Love Your Body Love Yourself.
Diet rules, mirror anxiety, and the lie that thinness equals happiness—let’s challenge the script. In this episode of Life, Health & The Universe, I sit down with Marla Mervis-Hartmann—coach, Reiki Master, TEDx speaker, and author of "BE-Friend Yourself-Finding Freedom with Food and Peace with y...
In this episode, Marla Mervis-Hartmann shares her journey from binge cycles and body shame to freedom with food, asking whether kindness could be the cure for bingeing. She guides midlife women through perimenopause, hormonal shifts, and changing identities without returning to diet culture, offerin...
Discover freedom with food and body in midlife. Marla Mervis-Hartmann shares how to unlearn diet culture, embrace self-compassion, and heal ...
