Hungry: Trust Your Body. Free Your Mind.: Recent Episodes
Tara Whitney
Hungry: Trust Your Body. Free Your Mind. is a podcast for those on a journey to move beyond dieting, restricted eating and emotional eating and want to connect with, nourish and honor their bodies. Tara Whitney, CPA and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor shares her own journey, insights and practices to support you along your journey. She also has amazing conversations with those that have evolved their own relationship with food. They share what life is like now that their minds are free and they trust their bodies.
This is the final episode of the podcast!
Tara shares her big takeaways from publishing over 100 episodes, including why closure is so important, some unexpected outcomes from the podcast and what happened when she trusted herself and the energy she was noticing.
Tara also shares her vision for her next podcast.
Erica Mather is a certified Yoga Therapist and the author of “Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty Standards & Embrace Your True Power”. She brings her own struggles with body image from a young age and transformational yoga principles to guiding people to feel better in their bodies, no matter what body challenges they have.
On the podcast, we talked about why it’s so common for folks to dissociate with painful internal body talk and the difference between objectification and embodiment. We also talked about the importance of recognizing unrealistic thin body ideals and fat bias and the role of personal responsibility in freeing yourself from the impact of them. Erica shares what it’s like to have your body as your best friend, so you can see that possibility for yourself. We also talked about body image in the yoga community, our drive for belonging, and how choosing to befriend your body is an ultimate act of defiance.
Check out Erica’s book: Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty Standards & Embrace Your True Power on Amazon.
Website: www.ericamather.com
Social media handles: IG: @Erica-Mather
FB: https://www.facebook.com/erica.mather
Adrien Paczosa believes that dietetic care with a health at every size approach should be accessible and affordable nationwide. Thanks to her vision, she founded Nourish, a virtual-first nutrition group with affordable access to nutrition care.
On the podcast, we talked about how focusing on body weight only creates harmful weight cycling, how every diet and diet book should have a warning that weight cycling is harmful to your health, and why everyone should be offered the option to define health for themselves because it’s a personal definition. We also talked about incorporating other ways of improving health into daily habits, without the focus on weight loss.
Learn more about Nourish here. www.UseNourish.com
Connect with Nourish and Adrien on Social:
@UseNourish.com
@AdrienPaczosa
When you feel better about your body this holiday season, you’ll have the energy and emotional resilience to be more present and available.
On the podcast, Tara offers you six strategies that will support you to feel better about your body and also feel better living inside of your body.
These simple and practical strategies can be practiced all year round.
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Diet and weight loss commercials are in full force in the holiday season and it can feel pretty overwhelming.
On the podcast, Tara shares why this is happening and offers some concrete strategies with media, social media and in your relationships on how to set boundaries so you can continue along your non-diet and intuitive eating practices with more peace and ease.
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Holiday stress eating is often seen as a problem that needs to be solved by changing what you eat. But this strategy only makes you focus on food as the problem and distracts you from why you need relief in the first place.
On the podcast, Tara offers you a new framework around holiday stress eating that’s based around needs and feelings. Stress eating is just a strategy used to try to get your needs met. When you understand what your needs are, you can start to use other ways to support yourself without food.
Learn more about Non Violent Communication and the Compassion Course here. https://www.nycnvc.org/
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The holiday season is an intense time, and it’s not surprising that folks may feel more shame around their patterns of eating and their bodies.
On the podcast, Tara shares what the mechanism of shame is and how it works, why you may be feeling more shame during this time of year, and how shame around food and shame around your body are two different things (but may feel like one thing).
Tara offers some strategies around how to free yourself from shame so that you don’t need to react and reinforce it.
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On the podcast, Tara speaks with the founders of the Center for Body Trust, Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kenavey. They co-authored “Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path To Healing and Liberation”, which was recently published.
Hillary and Dana describe diet culture as a shapeshifter that’s incredibly deceptive. They also share how destructive it is because it speaks to people’s hearts and tender spots. This is why some people are more susceptible to the order and control around food that diet culture offers. Hillary shares why it’s so heartbreaking that people aren’t offered consent to opt into diet culture, instead they are just immersed in it.
We also talked about what trust looks like and feels like. Dana asks “ Who are you placing your trust in?” when it comes to food, your health and your body. She shares the analogy of seeing your journey of body trust as a tree, and being able to move from old poisonous soil to nourishing soil.
Hilary offers a powerful distinction around transformation, which often comes from being able to reclaim our personal narrative around food and body image and being able to understand all the pieces of it including the impact of diet culture.
Connect with Dana and Hillary here:
FACEBOOK: @CenterForBodyTrust
INSTAGRAM: @Center4BodyTrust
Order your copy of Reclaiming Body Trust here.
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I can just say “junk food” and you know immediately what foods fit into that category. You also know what foods are “healthy”. We’ve learned which foods are which from our parents, teachers, social media, friends, and diet programs. But do these labels change whether you eat those foods or not? Or, do you just feel better or worse when you eat them?
On the podcast, Tara dives into the messages we hear about the value of foods and how conflicting they are, why these labels are meant to motivate us to eat in a certain way but that’s not really what it does, and how to look at food instead (without the labels).
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You may have hit diet rockbottom and refuse to go on another diet again. Or, you’re just frustrated with your relationship with food and you’re ready for something different and new. Or, you stumbled upon intuitive eating and are curious.
In this episode, Tara shares six things (she added one at the end) to keep in mind while you’re starting your intuitive eating practice. They include some of the challenges you may encounter when you reject the diet mentality, learn about diet culture, practice tuning into your body, want to know if you’re doing it right and feel alone because so many people around you are still dieting.
This journey is worth it and my hope this episode will leave you feeling better equipped to take these steps in a new direction.
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With Halloween around the corner, the idea of being around so much candy may be giving you a real fright (sorry, I couldn’t help it). And I get it. There was a time when being around candy felt so conflicting to me. I wanted to eat it, but not eat too much of it. I wanted to enjoy my favorites, but more often than not, when I started to eat one Snickers bar, it would turn into far too many.
The common advice that we get from diet culture is to not have candy in the house and get rid of it as soon as we can. Or, to just buy the candy we don’t like so we won’t be tempted. Wouldn’t it be nice to just feel relaxed around candy and trust yourself enough to know that you can eat it if you’d like it and leave it when you’re not wanting it? I want to guide you to that place.
On the podcast, I’m going to share with you why the conventional advice around avoiding Halloween candy doesn’t work. And offer you a common sense approach using intuitive eating principles. I’ll share what to do this year, if you haven’t started practicing intuitive eating yet and what to do if you’ve been practicing intuitive eating for a while but want to feel even more free around all foods, including Halloween Candy.
Have you started eating intuitively, but are having a hard time explaining what you’re doing to your friends and family?
Are you feeling self-conscious about your food choices because now you’re eating foods that your family are not used to seeing you eat?
Are loved ones concerned because they think you’re not being “healthy”?
Navigating intuitive eating when others are dieting or are expecting you to diet can be really hard.
On the podcast, I share my perspective on what’s going on, how to get your feet underneath you so you can have some conversations around this (if you choose to) and how to continue to practice intuitive eating with more confidence.
I got this question from a friend and I knew it was time to go back to basics. I use the term “overeating” so often, but it’s important that you have a clear understanding of what overeating is and why you may be doing it.
On the podcast, I share why we’ve been conditioned to believe that overeating is wrong and bad. We don’t worry if we haven’t had enough water to drink or if we’ve over-hydrated!
I offer a concrete way to know if you’ve eaten past a comfortable fullness, as opposed to believing you’ve overeaten if you eat more than a portion size that’s been determined by a diet. I also offer four reasons why people typically overeat. It’s not surprising that three of these reasons have to do with dieting!
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Kayla Douthitt, anti-diet advocate, is passionate about offering parents of teens with eating disorders more support and education.
On the podcast, she shares the signs for parents to look for if they are concerned that their child may have an eating disorder, like excessive exercise, weighing themselves regularly, trying to monitor food intake and comparing themselves to their peers.
Kayla also shares how parents may also be struggling in their relationship with food and their body image, how important mindset is to overcome perfectionism, and advice on what to do with cell phones and social media.
You can connect with Kayla here.
Also @WisdomNWellness on Facebook and @wisdomnwellnessky on Instagram
Something happens when you start your intuitive eating journey. You start to wake up to the signals your body shares with you. Some of those signals are lovely, like the sun on your skin and when your belly hurts because you’ve been laughing so hard. And some are not so lovely, like when you’re tired and have a headache after drinking a couple of glasses of wine the night before.
We can’t filter out the signals we don’t prefer and just notice the ones we do prefer. Which is why you may be noticing how alcohol may not feel good to you.
On the podcast, Tara shares her own story being alcohol free for the past three years and how she came to that decision. She also shares the common thread between dieting and drinking, which are both a form of deprivation. Tara offers a few suggestions if you’d like to take the next step to examining your relationship with alcohol.
Looking for one-on-one coaching support around intuitive eating, body image and emotional eating?
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When Barb Puzanovova (she/her), aka The Non-Diet Trainer, was struggling with orthorexia and compulsive exercise in college, she realized she was spending way too much time thinking about food and exercise. Her life felt out of sync. One question that opened her eyes was “Have you had a day without a (food and training) goal?”.
On the podcast, Barb shares her recovery and how critical finding an inclusive, anti-diet gym was. She also shares how recognizing the obstacles that folks feel around hating exercise is very real and how it can be harmful to insist they try to work through their resistance. We also talked about the harmful impact of elitism and anti-fat bias in the fitness industry.
Connect with Barb on Instagram and her website.
Check out Barb’s Joyful Movement Program starting this fall here.
On the podcast, Barb mentions the Maintenance Phase podcast episode on the presidents physical fitness test. Here is the link.
After sharing a post about how exhausting I felt talking about diet culture (see post below), I realized a few things that I needed to name and share.
On the podcast, I shared the post I shared, why it was an important piece for me to share openly, the reaction I received from the community, and two surprising take-aways; thin privilege and thin fragility.
I share and name my own thin privilege and get specific about how I know I’m privileged living inside of a straight-sized body. I also share my own fragility and how recognizing the impact of diet culture on marginalized identities is critical to our own freedom.
The social media post:
I know this is very uncool of me, but I get tired of talking about diet culture.
I'm in awe of so many of my colleagues that call out the harmful messages and inaccuracies we're being told about health, weight, food and body size.
I know I've done my share and there is more for me to do, but it just wears on me.
I feel hopeless. Like we are fighting a losing battle. Any impact I have is a faint whisper compared to the massive marketing machines behind diet culture kings like Weight Watchers, Noom, and Jenny Craig.
In this hopelessness, I feel indifference. Fine- go ahead. Keep marketing to kids. Keep lying to people and telling them your diet is a lifestyle plan. Take people's money and take away their body autonomy.
It makes me so angry, I could scream. But who do I scream at? Who do I call? It's like I'm swinging my arms blind folded. Diet culture is everywhere, with no obvious physical location.
I've given my hard earned money to Weight Watchers. I've been duped by them too.
Maybe that's why I'm tired of talking about diet culture. I'm mad at myself. I'm mad that I was deceived. I'm mad that all of my clients have been deceived too and they have to hire me.
I wish it never existed. I wish I never went on a diet when I was 12. Then I wouldn't have to talk about diet culture.
I realize now that I'm just fuckin' sad. That's all.
Glenys Oyston, RDN shares her history of dieting and being the “5%” that lost weight but feeling so much emotional distress and food preoccupation to be there.
She shared her desire for body currency and desiring the accolades that come from being that person that lost weight and can keep it off.
We talked about the risk that comes from only deriving our value from our body because we miss other ways to value ourselves.
Glenys shares what body tolerance is: being okay that you don’t like your body, what to do when you’re having a bad body day, the importance of noticing internalized anti-fat phobia, and recognizing the challenges in the workplace around self care.
Connect with Glenys here:
https://www.facebook.com/DareToNotDiet
https://www.selfcare4diabetes.com/
Free guide: https://www.selfcare4diabetes.com/myths
Group Coaching starting in September 2022
Looking for one-on-one coaching support around intuitive eating, body image and emotional eating?
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Tamar Rothenberg, MS, RDN, a registered dietitian who specializes in recovery after breast cancer offers her clients non-diet and weight neutral option support.
On the podcast, Tamar shares how important it is to debunk faulty information that we receive from wellness culture on juice cleanses, clean eating and supplements. She clarifies that we can’t prevent cancer, we can only reduce the risk of cancer occurrence. She reminds us that getting cancer isn’t anyone’s fault and that no one did anything wrong if they have the experience of cancer.
We also talked about how beneficial the practice of intuitive eating is with cancer care and recovery because it’s about self-care, not self-control.
Learn more about Tamar here.
Connect with Tamar socially:
https://www.facebook.com/tamarrothenbergRD/
https://www.instagram.com/breastcancer.nutritionist/
Private Facebook group for thrivers
Check out Tamar's new book: Cancer Diet for the Newly Diagnosed
Looking for one-on-one coaching support around intuitive eating, body image and emotional eating?
Schedule a clarity call with me where you can share what your goals and intentions are, I’ll offer you some insight around what’s going on and if we feel like we’re a good match, I can share more information on how we can move forward.
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Ragen Chastain is a speaker, writer, trained researcher, multi-certified health and fitness professional, and thought leader in Weight Science, Weight Stigma, and Weight-Neutral Health.
On the podcast, Ragen shares her discovery that diets don’t lead to long-term weight loss. She shares the pivotal moment when she knew she couldn’t just be a fat dancer, she had to be a fat activist, why healthism can’t ever excuse fatphobia, how diet culture has hijacked health and healthcare, the history of BMI, and why we all need to challenge the assumption that poor health has to do with being in a big body.
Ragen is a national dance champion, triathlete, and marathoner who holds the Guinness World Record for Heaviest Woman to Complete a Marathon, and co-founded the Fit Fatties Facebook group which has over 11,000 members. Ragen lives in LA with her fiancée Julianne and their two adorable dogs.
Connect with Ragen here.
Instagram: @RagenChastain
Facebook: @RagenChastain
Twitter: @DancesWithFat
YouTUbe: @DancesWithFat
Check out Ragen’s Fat Healthcare Summer Workshop Series
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Looking for one-on-one coaching support around intuitive eating, body image and emotional eating?
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Aaron Flores is a registered dietician nutritionist, Certified Body Trust® provider, and his main areas of focus are Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size®.
On the podcast, Aaron shares his perspective on men’s body image and their unique and often not-so-unique challenges around healing from diet culture and practicing intuitive eating.
Aaron shares what toxic masculinity looks like, how often men suffer in silence with their eating disorder because they believe they don’t deserve help.
He also shares how self-compassion can often be interpreted as giving up and the challenges men have with connecting to their bodies.
Learn more about Aaron here.
Aaron was recently a guest on Dan Harris' 10% Happier Podcast.
Episode 441: What Men Don't Talk About
Connect with Aaron on Instagram-
Connect with Aaron on Instagram.
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There was a point in time, before I discovered Intuitive Eating, when I believed that my rocky childhood and poor self-image were the reasons I couldn’t keep food under control and stop eating emotionally. Sadly, a decade or so later, I’m hearing the same messages from diet culture that tell people they need to do the inner work if they want to lose weight. For example, when deciding on the title of this podcast, I found an article called “How to Overcome 5 Psychological Blocks to Weight Loss”. It’s easy to believe this advice when the authors are highly educated and the article is stamped “medically reviewed”.
And guess what? In some ways, this message isn’t completely wrong. The work I do with my clients is all about challenging old beliefs and shifting mind-set. But where this advice goes wrong, and destructively so, is telling us that how we feel about ourselves and how we’ve been surviving is getting in the way of us achieving a body size they feel is appropriate. It’s incredibly deceitful and very tricky to piece apart.
Which is why I wanted to highlight what these articles aren’t saying. I want you to be aware of the subtle assumptions that are probably making you blame yourself for diet failures and wondering what’s wrong with you. And I want to remind you of the truth; diets won’t deliver on long term weight loss and you don’t need to wait to lose weight to treat your body with great respect.
Dr. Hortencia Jimenez is a pioneer in bringing intuitive eating and healing to the Latinx community by centering on important challenges like food insecurity and the labeling of foods native to the Latinx community as unhealthy.
On the podcast, Dr. Jimenez shares the grieving of her paternal grandmother, the one she immigrated with to the United States when she was a young child, her vision for bringing healing with intuitive eating to the Latinx community, and why she fell in love with sociology because it gave her the words to explain her experience as an undocumented citizen. Dr. Jimenez also shares how diet culture and discrimination is impacting the Latinx community because of food insecurity and the messages that food that is native to the Latinx community is unhealthy.
Dr. Hortencia Jimenez is of huichol ancestry, she was born in the Sierra Madre in the state of Nayarit, Mexico. She holds a BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Sociology and is also a certified Health Coach. She is a contributing expert for UnDiet Your Mind app, a community-based app where members can work on their UnDieting journey in a safe and supportive HAES, non-diet and Intuitive Eating aligned space.
You can follow her at @drhortenciajimenez
Website:www.hortenciajimenez.com
Mira Rao, Resilience and Embodiment Coach, helps those burnt out on getting stuck in their past in therapy or whitewashing their pain with toxic positivity in coaching by releasing old trauma and stress patterns, learning deep and steady self compassion AND making significant changes in their life to move forward with resilience and confidence.
On the podcast, Mira shares what embodiment is and why it can help you heal painful patterns. She shares why resilience is so important and how understanding your own nervous system is a super power because it helps you to cultivate compassion and curiosity.
Learn more about Mira’s work at https://www.mirarao.com.au/
Connect her on https://www.instagram.com/miraraocoach/
I started doing energy practices a few times a day thanks to my business mentor and coach, George Kao. He created the Energy Reboot Technique to help solopreneurs get unstuck and increase productivity.
I noticed pretty quickly that when I took a few moments to notice my breath and become aware of my body that I was much more present and engaged in whatever came next. Soon, I was no longer doing George’s technique and creating my own.
Here is a practice that I’ve been sharing with my clients. They’ve shared with me how it’s a great way to start their day and find some moments of calm during a busy day.
On your healing journey and practicing intuitive eating, tuning into your body takes practice. I hope this simple 5 minute exercise gives you another way to notice your body and create calm.
If you’ve enjoyed this practice and want to do it regularly, you can use this clip that starts at the beginning of the practice.
Making her way from mathematics, to humanitarian aid and peace work, Sanaz Shiraz found healing and learned how to process emotions through embodied dance. Now she coaches strong and independent women in their relationships and dating with embodied dance and movement.
On the podcast, Sanaz shares how embodied dance allows people to live inside of their bodies, is ideal for human expression and how it helps to create safety in the body.
Learn more about Sanaz and her work at www.sanazshiraz.com
Connect with Sanaz on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/SanazShirazCoaching
And Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbhJhs8-ekUblSbPmpYpmQ/featured
Before I found Sara Petersen’s work, I had no idea what a momfluencer was and why I should care. On the podcast, Sara shares how important it is to have awareness around momfluencers so that we can stay anchored in our own values instead of being aimlessly influenced by those that want to sell us a product and the promise of being a better mother along with it. Sara shares how momfluencers often sell the “whole package”, and therefore when they sell health, diet or nutritional information, people are more apt to buy into it.
Sara Petersen’s first book, Momfluenced is coming out in 2023. In the book, she examines the performance of motherhood through the complexities of mommy influencer culture, what this reveals about the texture of modern motherhood, and what we might learn from it.
Join Sara’s newsletter, In Pursuit of Clean Countertops here- https://sarapetersen.substack.com
Connect with Sara on twitter and insta @slouiseptersen
No-Diet Day was started 30 years ago by Mary Evans Young to promote body acceptance and size diversity. This is a day to increase the awareness of the harms of dieting and also invite people who have been dieting for most of their life to experiment with giving themselves a break from needing to follow food rules, weigh themselves and feel the pressure of needing to lose weight.
Dieting does not offer long-term weight loss but instead robs people of mental and physical health.
On the podcast, I had a panel conversation with Anne Poirier, Eating Disorder Specialist, and Kathryn Best, LCSW about why a non-diet lifestyle is so important, how diet culture impacts people’s relationship with food, and the cost of dieting.
Learn more here https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/nodietday
You can connect with Anne Poirier here- https://shapingperspectives.com
On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/annepoirier11/
You can connect with Kathryn Best here- https://www.newmeadowscounseling.com/
And on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/kathryn_best_lcsw/
Sara Gottfried, LCSW, wrote her memoir, Full: A Memoir of Overcoming an Eating Disorder, to give people a raw view of how hard and challenging it is to be in recovery and how eating disorders hold people back from living the way they want to live.
On the podcast, Sara shared how seeing other people feel neutral around food really inspired her to want freedom for herself. She also shared how she needed to choose recovery over and over because she didn’t want to go back to feeling isolated from her friends and loved ones.
Connect with Sara:
www.saraelleng.com
Instagram: @sara_elleng
To purchase Full: A Memoir of Overcoming an Eating Disorder https://www.saraelleng.com/store
After doing all the right things and checking all of the “boxes” personally and professionally, Becky Mollenkamp discovered she still wasn’t fulfilled and happy.
On the podcast, Becky shares her story of personal discovery and how she now understands the social conditioning that keeps women blaming themselves for their failures.
We discussed how trying to achieve the thin body ideal is a way to achieve success, when it only harms us emotionally and physically. Becky also offers some fantastic questions that you can ask yourself to discover your own definition of success.
Check out Becky’s Get Sh*t Done Workbook + private audio series
https://beckymollenkamp.com/procrastination-workbook/
Follow Becky on IG https://www.instagram.com/beckymollenkamp/
Learn more about Becky here https://beckymollenkamp.com
Dr. Jenn Salib Huber is on a mission to properly educate women in midlife about what’s happening in their bodies during perimenopause so they can navigate a new relationship with food.
On the podcast, we talked about Jenn’s four pillars of how she educates and empowers clients, which include the science of what’s happening in their bodies, self-compassion, attunement and gentle nutrition. Jenn also shares the importance of maintaining muscle during midlife and offers some ideas on how to do this.
She also offers some gentle nutrition suggestions which include how to add in protein and a reminder that carbs don’t cause weight gain.
Learn more about Jenn here: www.jennsalibhuber.ca
Social media handles: IG - @menopause.nutritionist Twitter - @themidlifefeast
Check out Beyond the Scale membership here- https://www.intuitivenutrition.ca/BeyondTheScaleSignup
Karin Lewis, LMFT, CEDS, believes that everyone has an essence, an offering, and uniqueness that lives within them.
On the podcast, Karin shares her story of recovery and why the complexity of eating disorders disconnects people from living from their own potential.
Karin is passionate about offering those healing from eating disorders comprehensive and compassionate care that includes the integration of the patient's family and treatment team. She also shares how eating disorder patterns are isolating and how healing it is when people know they can ask for help and receive support. Karin shares her personal stories of recovery and encourages those on their healing journey to know that recovery is hard, but they will pass through to the other side.
The Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Recovery Center is expanding nationwide. Learn more here- Karinlewisedc.com
Connect with Karin @recoverybitespod @karinlewisedc
A great question. I get why you're asking it. And I question that I get all of the time.
On the podcast, I share why losing weight is so important to you, what I know about dieting and intentional weight loss pursuits, and my thoughts on weight loss and intuitive eating.
On the podcast, Amee shares how people new to intuitive eating often get sidetracked when they treat intuitive eating as the “screw it” diet. She shares how being free of guilt and worry around food helps improve your own health and dieting may feel necessary to do for folks when people around them are dieting too.
Amee also shares the importance of safety and choice for everyone, but especially for those that live in marginalized bodies where safety isn’t readily accessible.
Amee Severson (she/they) is a Registered Dietitian whose work focuses on body liberation, fat acceptance, and intuitive eating through a social justice lens. Amee’s passion is providing safe and inclusive care for the LGBTQ+ community.
Amee is the co-author of How to Raise an Intuitive Eater How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence
https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Intuitive-Eater-Generation-ebook/dp/B092T7JZXB
Learn more about Amee's work at www.prospernutritionwellness.com
Follow Amee on Instagram @ameeistalking
On the podcast, Ginelle Testa, body positivity advocate and recovery and mental health writer, shares her healing journey with food and body acceptance.
She shares how mindfulness helped her tune into her body so she could practice giving herself enough food, how recognizing that her bingeing was a result of not eating enough every day and how connecting with communities has helped her build strength and ride out challenges.
We also shared lots of personal stories around cooking, writing, and sharing authentically.
Ginelle is working on her forthcoming memoir “Make a Home of You: A Memoir”. Connect with Ginelle on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/ginelletesta/
And read some of her articles here- http://www.ginelletesta.com/
In this episode, I share my year and a half long experience with chronic pain in my hip. I share what it was like to deal with chronic pain and how it wore on me physically and mentally. I offered what I had to transform in my thinking around my pain so I could accept my pain and be present to it. And finally, I shared how chronic pain has been an amazing opportunity for me to treat my body with great love and respect.
Amy Gardner, certified eating disorder registered dietician and yoga teacher, is passionate about helping those with compulsive exercise heal their relationship with movement. On the podcast, Amy shares what compulsive exercise is and how to detect it, how important it is to reflect on whether exercise is additive or detractive to the quality of your life, and why moving toward exercise as a way to heal and create connection is a more positive approach (if available) than stopping exercise altogether.
Learn more about Amy and her work at metrowestnutrition.com and imovebook.com
@imovewithamy (IG) @mwnutr (IG) @MetroWestNutr (FB) @imovemethod (FB)
iMove virtual group (starting in March) iMove Clinician Training (pilot, website in development - people can email me amy@metrowestnutrition.com or visit imovebook.com)
Dacy Gillespie, owner of Mindful Closet, intuitively guides her clients to discover what they feel best in by helping them to let go of the external messages they’ve been given about what they should wear and get to the heart of what’s making them uncomfortable about their clothes. On the podcast, Dacy and I discuss the parallels between creating a mindful closet and intuitive eating, such as dropping external rules and using a somatic experience to determine what feels best. Dacy shares how having a mindful closet can be a warm welcome for those having a hard time accepting their “now” body and why it’s okay to grieve pieces in your closet before you let them go.
Check out Dacy’s group program, Making Space: https://mindfulcloset.lpages.co/making-space/
Instagram.com/mindfulcloset
Mindfulcloset.com
On the podcast, Melanie Klein, writer, speaker and professor of Sociology and Gender/Women’s Studies, shares how understanding systems and constructs like sexism, diet culture, the patriarchy and white supremacy were pivotal in helping her move from blaming herself for how she felt about her body and not seeing any other choice but pursue a thinner body, to palpable relief.
Now, Melanie answers the call to share her knowledge and expertise to help folks come to a place of body neutrality and acceptance so they can feel empowered.
Melanie recommended reading:
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
Learn more about Melanie and the books she’s published here:
http://www.melaniecklein.com/
Connect with Melanie here:
IG: @melmelklein @ybicoalition
In this solo episode, Tara shares why she never considered herself a perfectionist, yet how it was clear that she’s been a perfectionist for most of her life.
She shares how she defines perfectionism as a strategic tactic to secure safety and how to move forward to dismantle perfectionistic patterns.
Dr. Lindo Bacon shares why calling out and noticing diet culture can be so challenging because it’s countercultural and risky, why what diet culture is selling is only creating the problem, the importance of looking at your own experience with food as validation, challenging weight stigma and advocating for every body being worthy of respect.
Dr. Bacon also shares their personal story around their gender identity and offers reassurance that our past stories can be reclaimed as a source of power and much more around self-acceptance, hope and living inside of your body.
Dr. Lindo Bacon is a researcher and former professor, and for nearly two decades taught courses in social justice, health, weight, and nutrition. Dr. Bacon holds a Ph.D. in physiology with a specialty in nutrition, and master’s degrees in psychology and exercise metabolism. Dr. Bacon has mined their deep academic proficiency, their clinical expertise, and their personal experience to write two bestselling books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the co-authored Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight. Their newly released book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better) , takes their inspiring message beyond size, to shaping a culture of empathy, equity, and true belonging.
Twitter and Facebook: @LindoBaconX Instagram: @LindoBacon
Check out Radical Belonging: https://lindobacon.com/radical-belonging-book/
For many folks, the idea of trusting their body feels foreign. We’ve been taught to prioritize external rules and dismiss information our body shares with us. We haven’t been taught how to celebrate or even honor the wisdom of our bodies.
Yet, the lack of trust we have in our bodies is what makes us feel so out of control around food, emotionally eat, binge, and feel so dissatisfied with our bodies.
I’ve designed my Trust Your Body Framework as a tool for folks that want to take steps toward feeling free and peaceful around food, accept their bodies and feel emotionally empowered.
On the podcast, I share the components of the Trust Your Body Framework and how it may support you on your own journey.
Virginia Sole-Smith woke up to the impact of diet culture when her daughter had a significant health crisis that drove her to not eat when she was 2 months old because she didn’t feel safe. This was the catalyst for Virginia to examine her own relationship with food and to decide that she needed to make food joyful and her home a safe space for her family.
On the podcast, Virginia and I discussed what it’s like to not believe we’re dieting, but are. Virginia talked about the Noom app, which is essentially a diet for smart people in different packaging. She wrote an informative and insightful article here.
We talked about the so-called obesity epidemic and how the Body Mass Index, politics and the pharmaceutical industry have played a pivotal role in how we look at obesity. And we talked about white feminism and it’s origins with equal pay and abortion rights.
Sumner Brooks, RD is educating and empowering parents to raise intuitive eaters, even when they’ve had a tumultuous relationship with food and their own body.
On the podcast, Sumner shares the starting point for parents raising an intuitive eater is creating a paradigm of health based on personal values and teaching children how to relate to their bodies, which includes considering all of the other ways their bodies are impacted by their choices (food isn’t the primary one, it’s just one of them).
Sumner also emphasizes that raising an intuitive eater isn’t about being a perfect parent, it’s allowing parents to heal where they are.
We also talked about how our children can be our greatest teachers around food and our body and how parents can not be happy with their own bodies, and still encourage their children to be happy with theirs.
Sumner shared that when parents are worried about their child's health and weight, it’s important to understand the significant health issues behind dieting and weight cycling.
Social media handles: @IntuitiveEatingRD @edrdpro
Sumner is the co-author of How to Raise an Intuitive Eater that is available now for preorder and comes out on January 4, 2022.
Dr. Kimberly Higney, a chiropractor specializing in natural hormonal health, personally knows what it’s like to turn her attention away from her body’s wisdom and what it’s like to honor it. In this conversation, Dr. Kimberly drops some amazing truth bombs that will land in your heart and fill you with relief.
Dr. Kimberly and I talked about practicing self-compassion when understanding that we have patterns that served us at one point in our lives and those patterns may no longer serve us. We talked about what it’s like to number all emotions, not just the unwanted ones, and how to be with our body when we are in pain. Dr. Kimberly offers some advice on how to find nourishment in all areas of our lives, including what information we receive. We also discussed fear and love, and how to be curious when considering our choices.
Dr. Kimberly is the owner of Cardea on the Seacoast of New Hampshire.
Follow Dr. Kimberly on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/cardea_seacoast/
Jenna Hollenstein, nutrition therapist and meditation teacher, knows how life-transforming the practices of intuitive eating are. She shares her unique approach from a meditation and Buddhist lens in her book “Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life.”
On the podcast, Jenna and I talked about how important it is to expand the intuitive eating community by expanding communication, access and additional ways of healing. Jenna talked about how important it is to get folks in the same room to share openly so they can hear they are not alone. Jenna also shared the opportunity men have with intuitive eating, which is a practice of being with emotions.
Check out Jenna’s latest book Mommysattva.
Connect with Jenna here:
jennahollenstein.com
https://www.facebook.com/jhollenstein
https://www.instagram.com/jennahollenstein/
Krista Handfield, LICSW is a health equity and justice-oriented social worker rooted in Health At Every Size.
On the podcast, Krista shares why everyone is impacted by weight stigma, and how important it is to understand the poor health outcomes that folks in larger bodies experience because of this form of oppression.
She also shares the importance of living with the body we have, instead of putting our life on hold for the body we’re told we should have.
We talked about why breaking up with exercise may be a necessary step in healing because for some it’s been a form of punishment for living in a larger body.
Krista shares where we typically experience weight stigma, among our family, in health systems and in schools.
Learn more about Krista and the work she’s doing at SHAPE. https://www.shapecenterri.com/
Brianna Wilkerson, Holistic Health Coach shares her story around how she’s moved away from emotional eating and eating disordered behavior by understanding that her worth is more than her weight.
Brianna shares how she now understands how she was designing her life around receiving external validation around her weight, success and bank account. Brianna know that when she tries to pursue weight loss, it only leaves her exhausted and unfulfilled.
On the podcast, we also talked about how important it is to offer ourselves nourishment in other areas of our lives and how what we may really need is connection.
I had a great conversation with Brianna on her podcast More Than Your Weight - Episode 102: How to Trust Your Body and Free Your Mind around Food. You can listen to it here.
** On this episode, Brianna and I talked about a diet called Whole 30. On the Whole 30 diet, certain foods are considered “good” foods and better than other foods. In Intuitive Eating, we unlearn the diet mentality and practice eating for satisfaction and our health. For most people, following Whole 30 is not an intuitive eating practice.
Learn more about Brianna here.
Brianna is also hosting Your Healthiest Years Yet Summit, a 5-day free summit for women over 40 starting October 18th. I’m presenting How Over-Giving is Impacting Your Relationship with Food and Your Health! Learn more and sign up here.
Dr. Melody Moore, psychologist and yoga teacher, is leading a movement of personal and collective healing and liberation. She founded the EmbodyLove Movement so that everyone can claim beauty on their own terms.
On the podcast, Melody shares:
- Her personal experience watching her mother’s disordered eating patterns as a young child.
- Her profound healing from trying to keep her body safe and unattractive, to knowing true liberation and pleasure.
- Her vision for what the world needs to heal from the thin body ideal and the patriarchal oppressive systems.
- How important intention and consciousness is to embody love and feel worthy of our own love and belonging.
Visit Dr. Moore’s website at drmelodymoore.com
Support and receive support from the Embody Love Movement.
https://www.embodylovemovement.org/
Anne Beverly Chow, Therapist, and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, tells her clients over and over that everyone is worthy of love, belonging and connection. She shares her own journey from going to Weight Watchers at the age of 9 to the awe and appreciation she now experiences when she’s listening to the signals her body shares with her.
On the podcast, we talked about
~ the history of dieting and how diet companies market to people’s fears and insecurities,
~ how important it is to accept your whole self and welcome the parts of you that you want to run from, and
~ how to examine your weight loss motivation by asking yourself the question “what if I lost weight and the rest of the world never saw my thinner body, would I still want to lose weight?”.
One of the poem’s Anne read was:
Friend, This is The Only Way by Sachal Sarmast
Friend, this is the only way to learn the secret way:
Ignore the paths of others, even the saints' steep trails.
Don't follow.
Don't journey at all.
Rip the veil from your face.
Anne also recommended reading
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Find out more about Anne here- https://www.bluebirdcounselingcenter.com/
We’re gently but firmly shedding some light on how your relationship with food and your body was impacted by your mother.
If you grew up with a mother that was dieting, judging her body, restricting what she was eating, worried about weight loss, commented negatively on her body, used exercise as a way of weight loss, talked about clean eating and calorie counting, you received and internalized it for yourself in your own unique way.
Listen in as Tara explores how to explore this complex relationship for yourself and how to heal around it.
While dieting, we focused on accomplishing a weight loss goal. We’d have that “goal weight” in our minds and sacrifice what we could to get there in the shortest time possible. How we approached food and nourishing our bodies was always short-term and often a quick fix.
As you intentionally leave behind dieting and the physical and emotional rollercoaster that comes with it, approaching food freedom may be challenging at first.
This is why understanding the journey of food freedom is so important. By changing your mind and how you approach food freedom, you can navigate the journey with much more ease and grace.
On the podcast, Tara shares 10 new mindset shifts to consider on your food freedom journey.
By the way, how are you liking Tara’s solocast format? If you have a topic or question you’d like for Tara to address on a future episode, please email her at tara@tara-whitney.com
Heather McCornack has been a student of the breath as a singer and voice teacher for decades. She discovered how her breath, in particular, being curious around her breath, helped her eating disorder recovery.
On the podcast, Heather shares:
- The transformation of her relationships with her children and family that came with her eating disorder recovery.
- Why curiosity is so important in recovery because it moves us away from black and white thinking.
- How she designed a yoga practice that fits and feels great in her body.
- Why it was important for her to recognize diet culture and the pressures she felt to change her body to fit into an impossible standard.
Connect with Heather and check out some of upcoming yoga classes at https://www.instagram.com/bodybreathvoice/
When Dr. Kerry Goyette was in high school, chiropractic care helped her heal from an asthma diagnosis. Now, she loves to guide her patients to experience optimal health by using the Zone Technique of chiropractic care.
We had an inspiring conversation about our body’s wisdom and healing. On the podcast, we also talked about:
Acknowledging how resilient our bodies are and how they are wired for health.
- How important it is to not make any illness or disease who you are by owning its label, for example, “my asthma” or “my eating disorder”.
- How to connect with our body’s wisdom by slowing down and letting go of our head drama.
- Why it’s emotional stressors that often bring our bodies out of balance.
- How our bodies respond to stressors the same way whether they are real or imagined.
Dr. Kerry Goyette’s office is in Amesbury, Massachusetts. You can connect with her at https://marketsquarechiro.com/.
You can find other certified Zone Technique chiropractors at the Zone School of Healing. https://zoneschoolofhealing.com/directory/
After she recovered from her eating disorder, Anne Poirier reflected on the pivotal moments that led her to dieting, not feeling good enough and trying to control her body size. This insight led her to become a Certified Intuitive Eating and Body Confidence Coach, Self-Talk Trainer, and Eating Disorder Specialist. Anne is also the author of the forthcoming book “The Body Joyful - My journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance” available October 5, 2021.
In this powerful conversation, Anne and I talked about:
- How important it is to have another option on the table around how to be in relation with food and your body.
- Grieving a body size you lived in in the past so you can move forward.
- The importance of self-talk, how to recognize the different voices you have in your mind and how to create a more compassionate narrative.
- How diet culture lures us into feeling safe by dieting, but only creates false safety when we compare and judge our bodies.
- One of the challenges of starting an intuitive eating journey is the fear of the unknown.
- Why community is so important in the work of intuitive eating.
You can learn more about Anne at https://shapingperspectives.com
Pre-order Anne’s book here- https://shapingperspectives.com/the-body-joyful/
Join Anne’s Private Facebook community- Body Joyful Revolution here- https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodyjoyfulrevolution
Connect with Anne on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/shapingperspectives
Tracy Brown, RD, LD/N, knows the truth about people’s struggles with food and weight; we need to create healing and safety in our bodies while we are re-learning how to nourish ourselves.
From her personal experience and years of trauma-informed training, Tracy shares so many powerful insights on the podcast, including:
- Our reaction to trauma came from wise actions that supported us in the past.
- When the reaction emerges now, often with food patterns, our healing is recognizing what’s happening in our body and giving ourselves space for processing.
- Diets can be addictive because they offer hope, promise, and familiar regulation for people that need relief and safety.
- Recognizing what state your body is in is a powerful practice. Ask yourself if you have too much of something and not enough of something else.
- Trauma isn’t caused because of an event. We experience trauma when we don’t have a compassionate witness.
- Diet culture and the system it offers provide safety and security, a promise of love and belonging when someone achieves a certain body size. If we don’t have the tools and conditions to support our own feeling of being loved and belonging, diet culture can compensate for what we’re missing.
- Our relationships are pivotal in our healing. Allowing ourselves to receive what’s good is important, both in our relationships and what’s on our plate.
- Dieting and weight loss pursuit is a defense strategy that people use to feel safe (even if it’s false safety) in their body.
Tracy Brown,RD,LD/N is a trauma informed nutrition therapist/eating disorder dietitian, stress recovery coach and nutrition counseling skills teacher. She walks beside people wanting to heal their relationship with food and weight as well as feel safer and less stressed in their bodies.
Learn more about Tracy:
www.tracybrownrd.com
www.embodieddietitian.com
Follow Tracy on Instagram @embodied_dietician
We always have free gifts at www.tracybrownrd.com/free-gifts and for professionals at www.embodieddietitian.com
While in recovery after a second relapse with an eating disorder, Jennifer made the practices of classical yoga the foundation of her recovery.
Eating disordered patterns create separation between the body and mind. The practice of yoga allows us to safely connect back to our source of wisdom.
On the podcast, Jennifer shares:
- How to start incorporating yoga into your life, no matter where you are in your recovery process.
- Why you don’t have to have an eating disorder diagnosis to take a yoga for eating disorder class.
- Why disordered eating is on a spectrum and everyone deserves support and healing.
- How you can practice yoga in your day-to-day life.
- What trauma-informed yoga is and why it’s necessary for eating disorder recovery.
Jennifer Kreatsoulas is a certified yoga therapist specializing in eating disorders and body image. She is the founder of Yoga for Eating Disorders, creator and host of Real Body Talk, an online interview talk show, and author of the book Body Mindful Yoga, and an international speaker.
Connect with Jennifer at www.yoga4eatingdisorders.com
On Instagram at yogaforeatingdisorders
On Facebook at yoga4eatingdisorders
Join Jennifer’s private Facebook group Yoga for Eating Disorder Community.
When Julie Allen, an eating disorder awareness activist, CEO of the Mary Rose Boutique, and founder of the Mary Rose Foundation, was in inpatient treatment in her teens and early 20’s, her parents needed to take out a second mortgage on their home (to pay for cost).
Her treatment saved her life from anorexia and bulimia. Now, she’s on a mission to offer financial support so people can receive the treatment they need when they're recovering from eating disorders.
When she went shopping 4 years ago, while her newborn son was only 6-weeks old, she kept hearing subtle messages that something was wrong with her postpartum body.
That’s when she opened Mary Rose Boutique in Oregon. Julie wants to offer women an inclusive shopping experience where they know that their body is beautiful and they can wear clothes that make them feel comfortable and good about themselves.
On the podcast, Julie also shares how being okay with her fears and practicing self-compassion were the most pivotal for her in her eating disorder recovery.
Check out the Mary Rose Boutique here.
Follow Julie @maryrosenwboutique @maryrosefoundation
Are you afraid to have Oreos (or your favorite cookie or treat) in your home because you’ll eat the whole package?
Do you wonder if you have a food addiction because you’re so out of control around foods with sugar or white flour?
In this solo episode, Tara explores three reasons why certain foods seem to have power over you. And more importantly, what you can do to claim your power back so you can feel confident and peaceful around all foods all of the time.
Mary Wagstaff, holistic alcohol coach, came to a point when alcohol was getting in her way of living the life she was meant to live. Since she’s let go of alcohol, everything has soared for her.
On the podcast, we talked about the practices that allowed Mary to align with her true self without alcohol and food restriction; Embracing feminine energy, connecting with the earth, practicing daily rituals, and honoring the flow of cycles.
Learn more about Mary at www.marywagstaffcoach.com
Mary is podcast host of Stop Drinking and Start Living.
Mary interviewed me on her podcast. Here is the episode.
There came a point when Tiffany North was afraid to eat. An autoimmune condition that she was trying to treat with her diet and her training as a health coach led her down a road of Orthorexia.
Orthorexia, though not officially recognized as an eating disorder, is an extremely rigid way of eating that’s generally motivated for health reasons.
Intuitive Eating helped Tiffany move past her rigid and extreme patterns of eating so she could restore trust in her body. On the podcast, Tiffany shares her story.
Tiffany is also the creator of the unique and insightful Food Attachment Model, which allows people to understand their patterns with food by considering some factors like anxiousness, control, connection, and trust.
Learn more about Tiffany and take Your Food Attachment Model quiz here.
On the podcast, Ellie Lane, Life Coach and Clinical Social Worker, and I talked about our patterns that keep us stuck in certain areas of our life and what are the fears that keep them in place. Ellie shares the powerful practice of taking tiny steps and showing your brain that it can win at change.
We talked about how the “shoulds” in life keep us in black or white thinking. For example, if someone believes they shouldn’t be eating sugar, they will either be staying 100% away from sugar or be eating more sugar than what feels good. The “shoulds” create an on and off switch.
Establishing boundaries is so important to letting go of the “shoulds”, allowing our true expression to emerge and to align to our personal values.
You’re going to love this conversation!
Learn more about Ellie Lane here.
Eric Klein, leadership coach, meditation teacher, ordained Kriya yoga priest, and co-founder of Wisdom Heart, witnessed struggles with food at a young age when we watched his beloved aunt diet on Weight Watchers. She always described her days as either “good” or “bad” based on what she had eaten or not eaten that day.
On the podcast, Eric and I talked about why we often neglect our inner guidance around food and how to create more freedom by being fully present to our unique experience. Meditation and mindfulness are ways we can be in our bodies without judgment.
We also talked about how important it is to:
- Recognize the wholeness that already exists within us and acknowledge the unmet needs that we are seeking to fill.
- Redefining discipline as being a disciple to our inner wisdom, which requires courage and commitment.
- Notice how our conflicts and old patterns are often an opportunity to take our awareness practices deeper with greater compassion.
Learn more about Eric at https://www.wisdomheart.com/ and take the 7 Days of Clarity course that will help you still the mind, awaken the heart, and live with wisdom.
In this episode, Clara Moisello shares her journey from struggling with food and dieting and working in a challenging professional environment in science research to coaching people in Nonviolent Communication and body positivity.
Clara shares the pivotal moment when she realized that dieting and the pursuit of weight loss wasn’t something she could do for the rest of her life. Her preoccupation with food and the scale was causing her anxiety and stress, which wasn’t improving her health.
Clara explains what Nonviolent Communication is and how it can support everyone in bringing more compassion and acceptance in our lives.
Connect with Clara on Facebook.
Learn more about Clara here.
https://www.nycnvc.org/
On the podcast, Jo Miller and I talk about trauma and some of the paths Jo uses with her clients. Jo specializes in Sound, Deep Listening, Somatic Therapy, Shadow Work and Embodiment Facilitation in her practice.
Jo offered some amazing insights, including:
We can experience trauma on three levels; societal, community and personal.
We don’t need to become whole, our wholeness is always present.
We find and explore pockets of safety in the body and nourish them.
Syncing with the rhythms of nature for healing helps us let go of our need to control.
Follow Jo on Instagram.
Jo is offering a Focalization Training for practitioners starting May 9th. Learn more here.
Learn more about Jo here.
Gigi Bisong has learned a powerful lesson on her journey as a speaker, storyteller and coach; to embrace her whole self. Instead of trying to fix parts of herself she didn’t like, she has learned to embrace them.
Gigi shares how she integrates her inner voice, by allowing it space to emerge in her body. As a result, she now recognizes her inner voice as a brilliant guide and a source of wisdom within her.
Gigi shares the origins of her Embodied Allyship program and why it’s so important to incorporate spirituality into her teachings.
We also talked about shame being the core reason why women are dissatisfied with their bodies.
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Gigi is hosting the When the Women are Well virtual retreat May 14- 16th, 2021.
Follow Gigi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gigi_bisong/
Learn more about Gigi here- https://www.gigibisong.com/
Janet Farnsworth, body empowerment coach and shame buster, helps women become best friends with their bodies.
On the podcast, we talk about the experience of feeling separate as one of the reasons why 97% of women are dissatisfied with their bodies.
Janet offers some powerful tools for re-establishing a connection to our bodies, our emotions, and ultimately ourselves.
As a gift, Janet is offering free copies of her books “Your Body is Your SuperPower: How to Live a Life of Confidence, Clarity and Joy” and “Love Your Body: The Guide to Stop Making Your Body a Battleground”.
After thirty years supporting hundreds of women heal body trauma - including sexual assault, addiction, disability prejudice, and eating disorders, Janet shares the secrets not just to connect to the body, but also how to use the body as your most powerful asset.
Janet is the founder and CEO of the movement-therapy practice The Practice of Now: Let Love Move You.
Learn more about Janet here.
As a fellow Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Maria Scrimenti knows the journey from restricting food and over-exercising to feeling at peace with food and being comfortable in her own skin.
On the podcast, Maria shares her journey of coaching mom’s how to lose weight and noticed that no matter how hard they tried, how religiously they dieted, and how dedicated they were to their work-outs, they still weren’t happy in their bodies. She knew something was wrong.
That’s where Intuitive Eating woke her up to diet culture, fatphobia, and weight stigma. By confronting her own fear of fat, she learned how to let go of dieting so she can love and accept her body. Maria loves to use her education in counseling when coaching her clients to feel free around food.
Learn more about Maria here:
https://mariascrimenti.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mariascrimentiwellness/
There was a pivotal moment when Elizabeth Hall was ready to choose intuitive eating or “doubling down” by being more diligent and knowledgeable with her food choices.
She realized that she needed to leave the old paradigm of straining, stressing, and striving in life and around food and practice acceptance and compassion.
On the podcast, we also talked about the power of a daily ritual, how meditation gives us much-needed space, and how our spiritual journey always starts with acceptance.
Learn more about Elizabeth and the programs she’s offering at ElizabethHallCoaching.com.
Carmell Clark, Transformational Coach, shares how she continues to practice how to be trustworthy with herself, again and again. It starts with radical self-acceptance.
On the podcast, Carmell shares her own stories around the choices she’s made in religion, around food, and healing her body.
Learn more about Carmell here.
Carmell's well-known Wake-up Call Online Interactive Workshop 7-day Self-Acceptance Meditation Challenge with Carmell
Shailaja knows what doesn’t work; letting others convince us to follow their way of doing things. This left her exhausted and stressed. Her shoulders were so sore and tense.
Now, Shailaja offers powerful advice to her clients: stop comparing yourself to others, don’t expect a quick fix or immediate results, and have faith that you are exactly where you need to be.
Shailaja shared the story of how the practice of listening and observing helped her to overcome depression and bipolar disorder twenty years ago. Now, she has an internal practice that helps her thrive in her body and her business.
Learn more about Shailaja here- https://shailajav.com/
7 Day Blog Reboot- https://gumroad.com/l/7dayblogreboot
Follow her on Medium https://shailajav.medium.com/
Each of us has an inner wisdom, which is where our own definition of success and our own internal compass comes from.
On the podcast, Kim Marie, Business Leader and Transformational Coach, and I discuss why it’s so hard to connect with our inner wisdom, why chaos and darkness in our life is so necessary for creation and stepping into the unknown, and how asking ourselves “what do I really want?” takes so much courage and is a necessary step to live a powerful life.
Learn more about Kim and check out her upcoming programs:
KimMarieCoaching.com/Solace
Kim’s Becoming Effective program
Dr. Carmel Finnan knows the power of a story. They don’t have to be epic, but instead, are a tool in which we can get to know ourselves and own our transformation.
Carmel and I talk about the importance of self-trust and how we create alignment within ourselves.
Carmel also shares that recognizing the extraordinary in the ordinary is where the real transformation is revealed.
Learn more about Carmel at the Story Dialogue here.
Alissa Rumsey is shouting from the rooftops that there is another way to nourish ourselves and value our bodies. As a registered dietitian, nutrition therapist, and certified intuitive eating counselor, she’s guiding people to divest from diet culture, the messages that tell us we need to have a thin body to be valued in the world.
In this conversation, we talk about teen dieting, why people put their life on hold because of their body size, perfectionism, social justice and the need for community especially among those in marginalized bodies.
Alissa’s new book Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace With Food and Transform Your Life will be available on February 9th! Buy it here.
Here is where you can find Alissa:
Instagram.com/alissarumseyRD
Facebook.com/alissarumseyRD
Facebook.com/groups/DitchTheDietSupport
The first thing Cynthia Hauk does before leading busy women through Creative Mindful Art activities is a body scan. She knows that the sensations in our bodies are worth exploring and expressing.
On the podcast, Cynthia shares how Mindful Art is all about the process and what happens when there is a safe container and room for making space for our own experiences and emotions. We talk about grief and expressing the many layers of emotions that came along with it.
Find Cynthia's creative offerings here.
Link to Cynthia's FREE meditative watercolor doodling book.
Chantal Roche lives, breathes and inspires hope in every person she connects with. In her role as the Diversity and Inclusion Manager for the United States Tennis Association of New England, she’s working tirelessly to fulfill the USTA’s mission: To make tennis look like America.
Changing the ethos of tennis is no small feat, and the USTA is up for the challenge by offering tennis to a variety of socio-economic communities, including more people of color and welcoming all abilities onto the tennis courts.
Chantal offers advice on combating racism and creating real social change: 1. Talk openly to friends and family about racism and acknowledge why incidences are wrong. 2. Seek out the diversity and inclusion manager at your place of employment and ask what changes are being made. 3. Check in with your BIPOC friends after incidents like what happened at the Capitol. 4. Look within and educate yourself around the history of BIPOC oppression and racism.
The National Junior Tennis and Learning network supports over 250 nonprofits to bring tennis to over 160,000 under-resourced youths each year. You can learn more and support NJTL here.
Connect with Chantal on Linked In.
In what seems like a different lifetime, Iris Higgins was a weight loss coach for a large commercial weight loss program. While eating less than 1,500 calories a day, she was coaching women to lose weight and also bingeing regularly.
One day, she had a thought that changed everything. She decided that she would rather gain weight than be obsessed with food for the rest of my life.
Eventually, when it came to her body, Iris realized that “this is who I’m going through life with, we might as well be best friends.”
Iris and I also talked about the incident on Capitol Hill and how to navigate situations of violence and racial injustice, we need to come from a grounded and centered place. We talked about fat phobia, raising our children to be intuitive and mindful eaters (even with food sensitivities), and Iris’ upcoming nourishing bodies program.
Iris Higgins, MA, Cht, has been providing coaching and hypnotherapy for womxn for the past 10+ years. Her mission is to help others unlearn old, limiting stories, and create and live out new ones that make personal wellbeing and happiness a priority.
She specializes in working with entrepreneurs facing burnout, parents of transgender and gender diverse kids, and individuals with chronic illness.
You can download her free 10 minute guided meditation to help you prioritize your to-do list at www.irishiggins.com.
The moment that Tracey Miller started to notice how food made her body feel, and how food impacted her thoughts and her emotions was the moment her life began to change.
Before that, she just wanted her health problems to go away with a quick fix. Her health journey helped her discover how important it is to understand ourselves so we can be compassionate and courageous when honoring our bodies and our vitality.
Listen in!
Join Tracey and a panel of expert speakers on Cultivating Wellness from Within, a virtual women’s retreat on January 9th and 10th. This is a forum, a space for conversation, and an invitation for dialogue on self-awareness, self-trust, and self-love.
www.adventureswithin.us
Check out the Women's Wellness Exchange, the first national business directory for women in wellness.
Learn more about Tracey here and check out her book “This is Me” https://traceymiller.co/
The most common way people try to stop themselves from eating emotionally is to try to restrict and avoid those “forbidden” foods. Yet, doing this, or trying to diet their way out of emotional eating doesn’t work.
Besides feeling really frustrated and often guilty that we couldn’t stay in control around food, we are distracted by food and make it the problem.
Listen in why this doesn’t make you stop eating emotionally and what to do that will make a big difference in your relationship with food.
We’ve been incorrectly schooled around emotional eating. We see Bridget in a Diary of Bridget Jones eating ice cream and hiding under a blanket.
Emotional eating isn’t as simple overeating when we’re sad. The messages we’ve heard around emotional eating can make us feel ashamed and even blame ourselves for our patterns around food.
This is why I can’t wait for you to hear these 5 truths so you can feel hopeful and empowered around emotional eating.
As a young girl, Raspreet was told by her loved ones that she was too skinny. She tried hard to gain weight and couldn’t. In her mind, she heard that she wasn’t voluptuous enough and that she didn’t have enough substance to her. Ras shares her journey from harming and disowning her body to acknowledging it as beautiful machinery. She also shares her simple and effective favorite practices to connect and appreciate her body.
Ras is an international coach, speaker and pioneer in conscious creation. She offers her clients a unique perspective and approach with long lasting results.
Learn more about Ras at www.divinesacredsoul.com
follow her on Instagram at @raspreet_sagoo
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Jessica Vazquez, international coach, lecturer and author, was recognized on two occasions as one of the “100 Most Powerful Business Women in Mexico”, yet Jessica has never felt more powerful than she has over this past year.
Jessica was sick of feeling tired and tired of feeling sick and made the choice to make real change on her terms. She had battled with compulsive eating and depression, but knew that this time was different. She used three key tools she had learned and practiced in her coaching business and started with the question “what do I really want for my body?”.
Listen to Jessica’s inspiring story and words of wisdom.
Jessica is leading a group of Brave Spirits to create a new identity around money and business, connect with her at www.jessicavazquez.com. Jessica specializes working with highly sensitives, introverts and empaths.
Follow her on Instagram at @jessicavazquez77 and Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvazquez77/
Uncertainty isn’t always welcomed. Yet, that’s been the lesson that Susanne Navas, the Reboot Coach, has learned during this pandemic.
Susanne shares why she stopped drinking over 5 years ago, because she was exhausted and was tired of the role alcohol had in her life.
You don’t need to wait until you’ve hit rock bottom to make a change. What if your rebellious side wasn’t a problem, but instead, the byproduct that came from adapting and surviving tenuous times growing up?
How glorious is it when we’ve found freedom, our minds are free from the insignificant and we can focus on what really matters?
Susanne Navas, the Reboot Coach, wasn’t motivated by following rules and fulfilling the expectations of others. She shares how her rebellious side was once a problem in her eyes.
Now she knows her old patterns were just a byproduct of adapting to tenuous times. Rebelling was about survival. When Susanne learned how to embrace these patterns, she experienced an even bigger transformation, including stopping drinking alcohol five years ago.
Listen in as Susanne shares her perspective on uncertainty, why you don’t need to hit rock bottom to make change, and how glorious it is to find freedom in our minds so we can focus on what really matters.
Learn more about Susanne and individual, group and corporate coaching she offers at www.TheRebootCoach.net
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Twitter: @smilepace
Instagram: @mindfulpreneur
If you’ve been turning to food for emotional soothing during these past 7 months, this conversation is going to help you understand why.
Living during a pandemic has most of us in a state of shock, worry and uncertainty, which impacts us physically, mentally and emotionally.
Our body is feeling it. Our mind is overwhelmed. And our emotions are all over the place.
Listen in as Tara shares why this is a time to treat yourself with compassion, rather than feeling guilty about using food to soothe your emotions.
Receiving one negative comment about the size of her thighs in college set her on years of obsessive exercising and strict eating habits. She thought this was keeping her safe from being judged by others. But really, it was just armour that kept her from knowing herself and being in her body. Stacey’s transformational was inspiring. She left her corporate position to start her own company. Something shifted inside of her. She didn’t want to be known as the person who always exercises. She knew she had so much more to offer the world.
Stacey is a podcast host, facilitator and creator of an unconventional public speaking and leadership development studio called Engage the Room. She coaches people to move from their head to their heart, and sometimes from their heart to their head.
https://engagetheroom.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyshipman/
Stress and overeating: they seem to go hand-in-hand for many of us.
We’re too busy, we feel pressure, and food seems to be a way to distract and comfort us. But we end up getting caught in a vicious cycle of stress, stress-eating, and fear of gaining weight.
The common advice to stop stress eating is ridding your cabinets of trigger foods or drinking lots of water. Yet, has that really stopped your stress eating or your stress?
Listen in on this episode as Tara offers you insight on stress and stress-eating. Hint: it’s about the stress, not about the food.
Maria Arena has experienced first hand the heartbreak of diet culture. She was told that she couldn’t reach her dream of joining a professional ballet company because of the size of her body.
Maria talks about the pressures of feeling as though the size of her body was a roadblock to success, and the moment she realized she wouldn’t sacrifice for one more minute.
Listen to her passionate story of how she found her way back home, into a physical practice - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that allows her to be herself, own her strength, and let food be fuel for her life.
Maria Arena is a dancer, martial artist, creative strategist, writer, former corporate administrator, but most of all, she identifies herself as a “mover.”
Connect with Maria on Instagram: @maria_on_the_mats
Learn more about women’s self defense and Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu here.
In the last five years, I’ve gotten a real taste of what freedom around food and my body looks and feels like in action. These reflections have been a healing and grieving process and a celebration— all at the same time.
Listen in as I share seven transformative insights I’ve discovered for myself. You may find these inspiring for yourself, too.
We are socialized to believe that foods have moral value.
Celery is good. Cake is evil. French fries clog your arteries. Kale makes you a goddess of health.
We often feel like we’re on the losing end of our battles with food. We work so hard to stay away from forbidden foods and try to avoid overeating them. Yet, all we get for our efforts is exhaustion, guilt and shame.
Listen in and learn how to stop battling with food.
Be prepared for some jaw dropping truths in this episode, my friend.
Kelly and Tara go wide and deep as they explore what perfectionism really is and why it plagues women to exhaustion.
They explore why labels like imposter complex and eating disorders are cultural injuries that leave women blaming themselves and wondering if there is something wrong with themselves instead of identifying what’s really happening: women have brilliantly created ways to survive in a system that was not designed for their success.
Kelly Diels is feminist educator, writer, and coach and specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers.
www.kellydiels.com
Instagram: @kelly.diels
Facebook: kellydielswriter
Put yourself on the waiting list for Kelly’s one year mastermind FLORA, the Feminist Marketing School for Female Entrepreneurs
https://www.kellydiels.com/flora/
We may often eat emotionally to avoid feeling our feelings. But this isn't our fault. We live in a culture that teaches us to feel only the "good" emotions and not the "bad" ones. And often, processing emotions isn't modeled for us.
It can take more work to avoid and push away emotions that it does to actually feel them.
This episode is a great starting point for you have a fresh perspective on emotions and how to process them.
It's a bold vision. Seeing a world where every women loves and accepts her body. We are far away from that, which makes this vision even more important.
Tara shares her vision, why it's so important and what your day may look like when you love and accept your body just as it is.
You're invited to Hungry for Acceptance: Loving Your Body Just As It Is.
The next program starts 10/1/20.
https://www.tara-whitney.com/hungry-for-acceptance
Weighing yourself to measure your progress can be a slippery slope. Depending on the number you see, your food choices may change. You may want to celebrate. Or punish yourself. You may feel defeated.
This can make eating intuitively and in partnership with you body very difficult. Listen in for how you can create a way to evaluate your progress in a way that works for you!
What does it take to be liberated around food and your body?
Shohreh Davoodi has been on this path and shares her own evolution with food as once a clean eater, hell-bent on having 6 pack abs to now understanding that her relationship with her body is one of the most important relationships she will ever have. Shohreh left her career as an attorney to take on a radicalized approach to food and body acceptance, and she has never looked back. She shares how she gave herself the grace to tune into herself deeply and be willing to fully embrace her bisexuality and neuro-diversity.
Shohreh Davoodi is a weight inclusive health and wellness coach that helps her clients cultivate the courage to give diet culture the middle finger.
https://www.instagram.com/shohrehdavoodi/
https://www.facebook.com/shohrehdavoodi/
https://www.pinterest.com/shohrehdavoodi/
Take a listen to Shohreh’s Redefining Health & Wellness podcast
https://shohrehdavoodi.com/category/podcast/
Wondering if Intuitive Eating is right for you?
https://shohrehdavoodi.lpages.co/intuitive-eating-quiz/
You can also join the Snack Pack group coaching wait list- https://shohrehdavoodi.com/groupcoaching/
Eating mindlessly, eating emotionally, and eating for distraction can leave you feeling out of control.
Here is one simple practice that takes you off autopilot around food, so you can be aware and conscious around the choices you are making.
You likely haven’t been taught how to connect and listen to your body.
When it comes to your relationship with food, you may notice there is a fight going on, between what your head thinks and wants you to eat and what your body is asking for.
In this episode, Tara shares how to connect with your body, tools you can use to hear it’s messages and why being in your body will undoubtedly shift your relationship with food.
A common way of thinking about food freedom is when you feel in control around food.
True food freedom offer much, much more. Like reclaiming time and energy, being in the present moment and moving past fears.
Dr. Valerie Rein masterfully shares how women are experiencing trauma that’s impacting our careers, relationships, health, and happiness, as a result of Patriarchy Stress Disorder (PSD).
PSD isn’t something that’s wrong with us, but instead, a system that we are born into and one in which we can never truly win. We discuss how dieting and our need for a thin body is a way we participate in trying to gain conditional approval, a tool of oppression from PSD.
Healing from PSD is critical now, as we are living in a very potent moment, when we can no longer tolerate women’s power being a punishable offense.
Healing from PSD means we stop playing the game, and instead, turn to a collective healing in a community of women.
Join the Thriving Experience held on August 14-16, 2020. A FREE virtual retreat where you can have the experience shifting from survival to thriving and begin healing Patriarchy Stress Disorder in a community of women on this journey. Learn more and register at www.TheThrivingExperience.com
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Free Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1076117229121447
Download Free First Chapter of Dr. Valerie’s book “Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment”
https://www.drvalerie.com/book
Here are some practices you can start doing now to get on your PSD-healing journey to shift from surviving to thriving and master the game of “How good can it get?” .
https://www.drvalerie.com/book-resources
Could your greatest fear of being seen fully just as you are, set you on a path to freedom?
Megan Jo Wilson is the Founder and Ringleader of Rockstar Camp for Women, where she knows that the rupture is where the gold is.
Guiding women back to their bodies, giving them tools to feel pleasure and process their feelings fully are just some of the ways she offers them a way to show up fully in their life.
In this episode, Tara and Megan Jo also talk about Black Lives Matter, recognizing our white skin, and bringing social justice into our businesses in a tangible way.
Check out Megan Jo's books on Amazon:
Who The F*ck Am I To Be A Coach?!: A Warrior's Guide to Building a Wildly Successful Coaching Business From the Inside Out Who The F*ck Am I To Be a Rockstar?!: How to Stop Hiding and Start Rocking Your Coaching Business Like a Boss Check out Rockstar Rising: Sales Skills for Light Worker Women
www.meganjowilson.com
Connect on social:
Instagram: @meganjowilson
Facebook: @megan.j.wilson.90
It may feel impossible. Especially if trying to lose weight is all you know. On the episode, Tara talks about that first time you chose to lose weight. She also examines the real impact that always wanting to lose weight has on your life, like the time and energy wasted always looking for a diet that will finally work, putting your life on hold until you’ve reached a certain weight and the struggle of always trying to follow diet rules and being good around food.
What would it be like to get to know yourself when you’re not trying to lose weight?
If you’re curious about how to let go of dieting and putting weight loss on hold feels like something you’re willing to try, let’s chat about some of the ways I can support you.
I’m offering a 6 week group coaching program that may be a perfect fit for you!
You can book a time with me here.
https://bookme.name/tarawhitney/lite/lets-talk
Have you ever thought about writing your body a letter?
Well, Tara wrote her belly a letter while sharing a picture of her belly with The Happy Belly Project.
Here is an opportunity to create healing and transform your relationship with your body by apologizing for how you've treated her and let her know how you plan to restore trust.
Find a copy of her letter here.
Reserve your spot in an upcoming session of Hungry for Acceptance: Loving Your Body Just as It Is. www.tara-whitney.com/hungry-for-acceptance
Shifting your relationship with food takes courage. There is a good chance you’ve already noticed signs that Intuitive Eating is worth exploring. In this episode, consider five signs that Intuitive Eating has been knocking at your door and it’s time to welcome it into your life.
If you’d like to explore Intuitive Eating in more detail, join Hungry for Change: A 5-Day FREE Experience to Explore Food Freedom through Intuitive Eating.
We start July 13th.
Find out more and reserve your spot here. https://www.tara-whitney.com/hungry-for-change
No matter what you know or don’t know about Intuitive Eating, take a listen. Tara clears the air and gives you a solid understanding of what Intuitive Eating is all about.
You may be even wondering, is Intuitive Eating for me?
Check it out for yourself in Hungry for Change: A FREE 5-Day Experience to Explore Food Freedom through Intuitive Eating.
This is your chance to gain more awareness around your own relationship with food and learn more about each of the principles of Intuitive Eating.
Learn more and reserve your spot here. https://www.tara-whitney.com/hungry-for-change
Angella Johnson, Intuitive Marketer and Visionary Leader, shares her healing journey around food and her body after a decade-long battle with bulimia and binge eating.
She shares how she recognized diet culture, separated the health and body weight conversation to get to the real truth, healed triggers around food insecurity, found joyful movement and now prepares food with gratitude and abundance.
Find Angella Johhnson at www.angellajohnson.com and on Instagram @angellaj.alchemist. Check out her Soul Vision Planner and The Collective for Creators, a collaborative community revolutionizing networking.
Wondering what's all the talk about with Intuitive Eating?
This principle based, anti-diet, non weight loss focused approach to creating a nourishing relationship with food is getting a lot of media attention for good reason. For anyone that struggles with food and body image, Intuitive Eating offers a way to get your life back.
Here are just a few benefits:
- Getting off the diet rollercoaster so you never have to feel like a failure around food again.
- Freeing your mind from food and weight loss so you can focus on what really matters in your life (like your passion, purpose, and simple pleasures).
- Giving yourself space to honor your emotions.
- Prioritizing food satisfaction over sacrifice so you can thoroughly enjoy a wide range of food guilt free.
In this episode, I share these benefits and more!
Check out Hungry for Change: Exploring Food Freedom through Intuitive Eating. In this 5-day FREE experience you will learn about the 10 Intuitive Eating principles and explore how Intuitive Eating can work in your own life. We start on July 13th!
Emily Calvin, life long feminist and activist, once bought into the belief that “nothing tastes as good as thin feels”. She has since liberated herself from diet culture by paying attention to her body and allowing it be nourished with more food and plenty of love.
Emily is the founder of Happy Belly Project, a fat and body positive Instagram account focused on the beauty, importance and acceptance of our bodies with the focus on the belly as the root of acceptance.
She stumbled up on the name when she started to witness happy bellies around her and realized that happy bellies are proud, nourished, filled and accepted. Thanks to the Happy Belly Project, Emily is now embracing her own belly with kindness and compassion.
On the podcast, Emily also shares her passion for advocating and supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Her clarity around her work came from her own personal experience and continues to be fueled by the injustices she witnesses and how violence has the ability to devastate and destroy lives.
Follow Emily @happybellyproject.
And, share your belly there! Like I did!
If you or someone you know needs support and assistance as a survivor of domestic violence, look here
https://www.thehotline.org/
And call 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE).
Legal services are available to domestic violence survivors in each state. In New Hampshire, you can find more information here. https://www.nhla.org/content/victimsservices-15
Like me, you may be wondering how to make Black Lives Matter not just a social justice initiative, but something to live and breathe.
Processing the shock and anger since George Floyd's murder has been paralyzing. I reflected back to HOW I shifted and healed my own relationship with food and my body to guide me as I step forward. I share this with you, not to tell you what to do or how to feel, but instead, as one way to navigate racial injustice for yourself.
On this podcast, I mentioned two books that I’m listening to:
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Amanda Strojny, RYT shares her journey from struggle with obsessive exercising to the ultimate freedom of creating a brand new life on her own terms. The spiritual connection she found in her yoga practice was a pivotal part of her healing. She’s been surrendering and courageously letting go old patterns ever since.
Listen in as Amanda shares how she understood the risk of leaving the comforts and security of a corporate career, yet moved through uncertainty and created a thriving coaching practice as a Financial Coach to yoga teachers, healers and spiritual creatives. Amanda has been on some worldwide traveling adventures and shares how she learned so much about herself, what happens when she embraces the unknown and the magic that comes from knowing the exact right people will meet her on her path.
Amanda shares plenty of wisdom around her own transformation, including giving yourself permission to slow down, taking one day at a time, opening your heart and asking for help. She also shares her own passion for helping women claim their own value and create an abundant money mindset.
This was a beautiful conversation, check it out for yourself.
Learn more about Amanda and her coaching at www.amandastrojny.com
Check out Amanda’s next Spiritual Money Mindset Workshop!
Connect with her socially:
https://www.instagram.com/astrojny/
https://www.facebook.com/amanda.strojny
https://www.facebook.com/AmandaKStrojny/
Emotional eating can leave us confused and frustrated. But it doesn’t need to. In this multi part series, Tara offers a simple way to understand why you are eating emotionally, a question you can ask yourself to move yourself beyond emotional eating and one practice you can start using today.
Have you been thinking you’re eating emotionally because you’re feeling too much? Do you consider yourself a sensitive person and this is the reason you’re eating emotionally?
Tara shares one of the real reasons you’re eating emotionally. You’re not eating because of what you feel. You’re eating to not feel. Food has been a way to distract you from feeling uncomfortable and processing unwanted emotions.
The question of “Am I willing to feel fully? “ can invite you another alternative, being in your body to fully feel your emotions.
Tara also offers a simple practice of being in your body that will guide you to notice physical sensations.
Listen In!
Emotional eating can leave us confused and frustrated. But it doesn’t need to.
Why do you eat emotionally?
Food is filling an unmet need. Food likely doesn’t make you feel better in the long run, but eating emotionally is an effective, reliable and often quick way to feel better fast.
Listen in to understand how this dynamic may have become habitual, especially if you started eating emotionally at a young age. Ask yourself one simple question that will expand your thinking around how to care for yourself. Try one practice that will undoubtedly support your needs (no matter what), so eating emotionally isn’t your only option.
There is a common narrative around eating emotionally. It’s bad and it needs to be stopped. The common solution around eating emotionally is to avoid trigger foods, be more disciplined and focus on healthy habits.
What’s common isn’t what helps or works. In fact, this common narrative ultimately hurts.
The person that’s eating emotionally feels guilt and shame because they believe they’ve done something wrong.
They focus all of their time and attention on food, which never allows them to understand what’s really happening with them emotionally. By distracting themselves with a stricter diet, they continue the cycle and make this pattern all about food.
If you've been eating emotionally, you know the end result. You feel worse, fight yourself, fight food and emotional eating doesn’t go away.
Let’s throw this whole common narrative out the window. Tara shares a view on emotional eating that, quite honestly, just makes freakin’ sense. It’s refreshing, light and will leave you with new possibility around finding freedom around food.
Listen in, my friends!
Dr. Mary Morton, Certified Sports Nutritionist and PhD in Biological Sciences, is passionate about coaching female strength athletes discover their true potential through strength training and intuitive eating.
On this episode, Mary shares her own journey in her relationship with food from one of feeling out of control around food and despising her body to one of feeling peaceful around food, loving her body and discovering her own strength her own way.
Mary’s shares her wake up moment, the moment she realized that everything she was trying so hard to do to lose weight wasn’t just not working, but was hurting her. In a single moment, she decided to stop everything.
She now asks her clients to be honest with themselves about how well the traditional dieting approaches work for them. Mary knows from personal experience that macro counting, limiting food groups and restricting calories does more harm than good.
Interestingly, Mary’s observes that the strength training community, #strongisthenewbeautiful, still holds unrealistic standards of being thin.
Mary offers her own perspective on why weight loss can’t be prioritized over feeling peaceful in your body.
Mary’s vision for her business is inspiring: to guide women to increase their strength and use intuitive eating to fuel their bodies. When they do, women have connected with a power within.
You can find Mary at:
www.femalestrengthacademy.com
intuitiveathletenutrition@gmail.com
Instagram:
@astoldbymary
@femalestrengthacademy
@empoweredbyiron
@intuitiveathletenutrition
Check out Intuitive Eating Coaching for Female Strength Athletes: https://intuitiveathletenutrition.com/purchase/
Are you looking for support around your own relationship with food? Check out Tara’s book Hungry: Trust Your Body and Free Your Mind around Food.
Petra Lehman, founder and owner of Create Power Yoga in Providence, Rhode Island joins me around some unsuspecting ways to heal our relationship with our bodies.
Petra shares how her daughter was a catalyst for the shift in her own relationship with food and her body as she learned to take the time to nourish her body and make sit down meals a dedicated practice.
As someone who had a thin body most of her life, Petra shares the painful impact of our society’s value of a thin body. What happens when your thin body, the one that everyone notices and praises, is no longer thin? Petra’s heightened awareness brought her to the conclusion that everybody suffers under this system, no matter what our body size, because this system values our worth based on how we look, not who we are.
Recognizing how we can reclaim our power ultimately comes from what we choose. As Petra so brilliantly put it, “we have to know we have a choice to make a choice”.
Petra shares how critical inclusivity is in her business. She shares how she's made it a priority in her marketing, social media strategies and yoga teacher training. Inclusivity comes down to this: “It matters that you see potential in the world around you.”
We talk about why community is so important to women’s healing. What makes a powerful community? Feeling safe and being seen. Petra shares specifically how she’s created this container in her annual women’s retreat.
Yoga has been life changing and healing. It has taught both of us how to embrace our whole selves. Petra shares the value of being part of a yoga teacher training and the opportunity to share yourself. “You are going to share yourself to the extent you know yourself.”
Enjoy!
Follow Petra Lehman https://www.instagram.com/petralehmanyoga/
Check out Create Power Yoga in Providence, RI https://www.createpoweryoga.com/
Live locally and are interested in exploring teacher training at Create Power Yoga? Check it out here https://www.createpoweryoga.com/teacher-training/
During the pandemic, join Petra and her team for online classes! http://createpoweryoga.mykajabi.com/offers/Z3zP2JWh/checkout
Diet culture has been likened to the air we breathe. A set of beliefs that’s so embedded in our culture that we don’t even recognize them.
Tara shares how she recognized diet culture. She used Byron Katie’s “The Work” by examining the question that was always running through her mind “I need to lose weight”. By investigating this stressful thought, Tara realized she had internalized diet culture.
When considering just some of the ways diet culture shows up in our lives, we can start to recognize it in our TV screens, magazines and social media accounts. We can also hear diet culture’s whispers when we hear “you look great” when someone has lost weight.
The most important thing we can do in our own relationship with food is to recognize diet culture as the origin of the thought “I need to lose weight”. We believe that thought because diet culture tells us that happiness and success comes in a thin body.
Christy Harrison’s definition of diet culture is so comprehensive. You can find it here.
Tara also mentions Annie Grace’s This Naked Mind. Annie Grace shares how confirmation bias affirms internal beliefs around drinking alcohol.
Identifying diet culture helps you to understand where the stressful thoughts around the need for weight loss came from. You’ve been given this message over and over. Once you can put the blame where it belongs, without needing to blame yourself, you can dissolve the belief that your body needs to be different in order for you to be happy.
You can find more about Byron Katie here. https://thework.com/
On the podcast, I speak with Dr. Tiffany Denny, who has made it her mission to offer people a way to honor their bodies, even while dealing with pain and discomfort through yoga.
The mindset of needing to work for your body needs to be challenged. Isn’t our body already worthy of our acceptance, just as it is? Sadly, diet culture sends us a message like the air we breathe. It tells that to value only one kind of body- the very slim and unattainable.
Kelly Diels gave us insight around the Female Lifestyle Empowerment brand. This brand empowers women only based on a version of what women look like and markets in a way that continues to devalue marginalized groups.
We discuss body acceptance, even when our body is in pain, or we are in recovery. Our body is always changing. Seeing our body as divinely perfect, just because our body is here on this earth is really the practice.
When under fear and anxiety, our body is even more sensitive. Now during a time of social distancing and self quarantine with COVD-19, people are experiencing their typical emotions x100 and it’s likely our bodies are uncomfortable.
Rigidity, needing things to be a certain way, to feel okay, is a way of coping. Now’s the time to be flexible. Self compassion is acknowledging our worth and not needing to earn it based on what we look like from the outside.
Giving yourself permission to say this sucks. Spiritual bypassing can often be working hard on making it okay. Being with your body even when it’s uncomfortable.
When the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, we won’t be making it out the same way we came into it. Could the silver lining be the compassion we’ve cultivated for ourselves and others?
There are some tools to get through this. Anchoring to something we are drawn to, like a rock, tree or blanket. Breathing with intention will soothe our bodies.
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If diets worked, the first one you tried would have worked and you would have never needed to look for another one.
But that's not what happened. In this episode, Tara talks about WHY diets don't work. She shares the mechanics of dieting, how humans are wired and why the two don't work well together.
If you've been beating yourself up for failing at dieting, this episode if for you. Take a listen!
Let's call a diet for what it is. A plan or protocol that requires us to limit what we eat, when we eat and how much we eat. Dieting is so prevalent that our diet mentality can be hard to recognize. Join Tara Whitney for this important discussion around why diets are so deceptive in so many different ways.
In this first episode of Hungry: Trust Your Body. Free Your Mind. Tara Whitney takes the opportunity to share her story with dieting and emotional eating that began at a young age. She also shares some of the pieces of the puzzle that moved her beyond these struggles.
Tara shares why this podcast is called Hungry. Dieting and weight loss never truly satisfied us. In addition, she shares why trusting your body and freeing your mind are so important, not only as a working practice but also as an outcome of this intuitive eating and body connection process.
Hungry: Trust Your Body. Free Your Mind is for those on a journey to leave behind dieting to connect and honor their bodies.
Tara Whitney, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Transformational Coach shares her own journey of moving beyond dieting, emotional eating and despising her body to one where her mind is free and she can trust her body.
On the podcast, Tara offers insights and practices and has conversations with amazing women that have shifted their own relationship with food and their bodies. Her guests share their own journey and personal inspiration.