Hear Amerly’s first interview here, and listen to this related podcast on food boundaries here.
What if your so-called food intolerances are really about your parents?
In this episode, I sit down with my friend and mentor Amerly Centeno, a Family Constellation trainer and teacher whose work braids German New Medicine with ancestral dynamics. We trace my long, rigid history of cutting out gluten and dairy and lay it alongside the symbolic lens where those foods stand in for mother and father. From my Hashimoto’s diagnosis to the first croissant I chose to eat in Europe after fifteen years without a molecule of gluten or dairy, I walk you through the inner shifts that made that experiment even possible. Tune in if you suspect your patterns with eating might be about much more than food.
You’ll Learn:
[00:00] Introduction
[04:52] Why cutting out gluten and dairy can turn into an identity instead of a choice
[09:47] What one bite of a “forbidden” food exposes about hidden rules in your body
[12:36] How a small yes to pleasure can disrupt years of rigidity
[14:52] Why feeling safer inside shifts how you digest the same foods
[18:41] The reason symptoms can act as a biological solution when you can’t find one consciously
[21:32] How early attachment patterns shape the way you take in nourishment
[27:54] Why gluten and dairy often mirror the father and mother in the ancestral field
[33:12] What changes when you stand as the adult child of two imperfect parents
[40:52] How rigid health protocols can echo immature containment instead of true choice
[44:10] Why some eating disorders reflect an unconscious loyalty to someone who didn’t get to live