What Lee Cotton has said about Self-worth and food
2 quotes · 1 episode · Nov 3, 2026
Lee Cotton, Registered dietitian and author of A Nourishing Perspective, has been quoted on Self-worth and food 2 times in 1 episode of Passion Struck with John R. Miles, most recently on November 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Cotton recounts that as a teenager she restricted food because she did not feel she mattered.
“that word, matter, was something that I didn't feel like I mattered. So if I shrunk myself or disappeared, it wouldn't really matter”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: Your Relationship With Food Is Really a Relationship With Yourself | Lee Cotton - EP 841 (Nov 3, 2026) · Listen from 0:19
Cotton says she changed careers from public relations to dietetics because of her own struggles with food.
“I changed careers in my 20s, actually mid-30s, from public relations and PR to become a dietician because of my own personal struggles I had with food”
Passion Struck with John R. Miles: Your Relationship With Food Is Really a Relationship With Yourself | Lee Cotton - EP 841 (Nov 3, 2026) · Listen from 6:19
Episodes
Your Relationship With Food Is Really a Relationship With Yourself | Lee Cotton - EP 841Passion Struck with John R. Miles · Nov 3, 2026 · 57 min
Host John R. Miles and dietitian Lee Cotton discuss how self-worth, childhood messages, trauma, menopause and mindful eating shape people's relationships with food.
Lee Cotton on other topics
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- Menopause · 2 quotes
- Nutrition during cancer treatment · 1 quote
- Emotional eating · 1 quote
- Diet culture · 1 quote
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- Intermittent fasting · 1 quote
- Body image · 1 quote