I thoroughly enjoyed chatting to Chef Amber Caudle for this episode. When we first met we immediately clicked. I love her no-nonsense approach to wholesome eating. In this episode Chef Amber shares how her approach to food wasn’t always holistic. Amber was in a constant race to lose weight, leading to over 30 years of disordered eating and a very exhausting, unhappy life. Amber was also as a professional chef. Her body could no longer tolerate this way of being.  Chef Amber openly shares her challenging journey with food, and how through her restaurant, The Source Café, which opened in 2012, Amber has been able to create a sumptuous take on natural, wholesome foods, infusing spirituality into her beautiful, rejuvenating and restorative, nutritious dishes. Highlights from this episode include: ·  Ambers own spiritual transformation, which includes a profound epiphany in Albania, and she shares the deep work involved in detoxifying her old patterns gaining life changing perspective. ·  What qualifies as “healthy” and what are “fake healthy foods”? ·  What is a holistic way of living. ·  How Chef Amber nourishes her mind, body and soul and how self-love techniques inspire the food she prepares for her restaurants.  ·  Chef shares how she became honest with food, her body and herself and stopped using food to avoid all feelings and to cope with the anxiety, stress, and depression, she was feeling in her body.  ·  The amazing action steps and practices she does on a daily basis to keep her in her worth and power, like dancing naked, meditation, fueling your body with the right foods and letting go of trying to have the “perfect” body or diet.  ·  Learning to listen and tune into your body to hear what your body wants you to put in it, and what it doesn't. And how you feel after you've eaten over processed, fried, heavy foods.  ·  And we chat about her new Holicious TV series, guests and upcoming books.  About Chef Amber & The Source Café: Chef Amber is an entrepreneur and spiritually-led chef. She is an author, and owner of The Source Café in Hermosa and Manhattan Beach, California. She opened The Source Café in 2012. Her second location opened during the pandemic. The Source Café joyfully embraces the true essence of thoughtful food. Believing that food should be vibrant, beautiful, sexy, and prepared with love. Each item on the menu is created with intention to heal and nourish your mind, body, and soul. Significant thought is given to every simple, local, organic and non GMO ingredient. Her forthcoming book HUNGRY: Why I F*ucking Eat, will be released May 2022. Chef Amber also has a new cookbook, Sexy Nourishing Food, featuring a combination of favourite The Source Café dishes and her go-to staples, releasing later this year. More info:   Personal website: https://chefamber.com  The Source Cafe: https://thesourcecafe.com