Food & Body Love Podcast: Recent Episodes
Teddey Hicks
Teddey Hicks is a coach and intuitive eating counselor whose passion is helping women escape the diet cycle and learn how to live their best lives right now. On the Food & Body Love Podcast, Teddey discusses all the practical issues related to eating without rules, as well as deeper emotional and spiritual issues on the journey to self-acceptance. Teddey interviews other experts in the field and women who’ve successfully found freedom with food and peace with their bodies. She’s happy to answer your burning questions about intuitive eating, body image, and navigating the world as a badass larger woman, so shoot her an email at teddey@teddeyhicks.com
Is there something you just can't have in the house because you'll eat it ALL, or do you just feel hungry ALL the time?
In this episode, I'm going to tell you WHY this is happening, and explain exactly what you need to do to fix it.
https://www.foodandbodylove.com/fbl
https://www.foodandbodylove.com/daily-affirmations
My friend Jen Liddy joins me to talk about her journey from gluten-free evangelist to flexible intuitive eater, and I share my journey to becoming [mostly] gluten-free.
We get into how we decide what to eat based on our priorities, balancing mental and physical health, and why you should never compare the way you eat with anyone else.
FREE download: How to Stay Intuitive with Dietary Restrictions
Connect with Jen: https://www.jenliddy.com/
You can feel the tension mounting as you get closer to the holidays, where you know that rude uncle will make a comment about your weight, or your partner's mother will go on and on about her latest diet.
Here are 2 important ways to keep yourself sane, protect yourself, and remember YOUR journey as you head into these stressful situations.
Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodypositiveclub
In this episode, I get to interview my incredible friend, Jessie Shedden. Jessie has such a fascinating story, from escaping a cult to doing a nude photo shoot to becoming a model, and finally learning to love herself exactly as she is. Jessie now works with silenced women to own their stories and speak their truths. You can learn more about Jessie here (and buy her books so you can get the whole story!):
https://www.jessieshedden.com/
https://www.facebook.com/jessieshedden
I spent the majority of my life thinking there was something WRONG with me -- why do all these things like shopping, working at certain jobs, and just socializing feel so hard for me when other people do them so easily (and even seem to enjoy them)?
Understanding my introverted qualities and learning to honor and respect myself rather than criticize myself has been SUCH a boost for my self esteem.
Hear what it means to be an introvert, and how knowing that about yourself can help with your self esteem and body image.
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodypositiveclub
Membership: https://www.foodandbodylove.com/fbl
I was stuck spinning my wheels for a really long time. I liked the concept of self-acceptance, but didn't know HOW to do it. I became obsessed with finding tools and putting systems in place to make consistent progress and reprogram my subconscious beliefs. I'll give you two great tips for what you can do right now to get un-stuck and feel more comfortable in your body.
Membership: https://www.foodandbodylove.com/fbl
Sign up for Daily Affirmations: https://www.foodandbodylove.com/daily-affirmations
Body Positive Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodypositiveclub
In this episode, I tell you all about my experience as a fat person and explain why you don't have to LOVE the way you look in order to live your best life and be happy with yourself.
Link to Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodypositiveclub
Link to Membership info:
https://www.foodandbodylove.com/fbl
Have you ever noticed how you're always pushing yourself to do hard things or forcing yourself to continue things you HATE? We have a cultural construct that reminds us again and again that GAIN requires PAIN.
I don't buy it, and in this episode, I'm talking about how the intentions behind whatever you're doing is the most important part. Doing things out of love and respect for yourself is MUCH different than doing them because you are punishing yourself or think you need to change.
Membership link: https://www.foodandbodylove.com/fbl
Facebook Group link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodypositiveclub
I know we're creating freedom with food here, but that doesn't necessarily mean eating absolutely anything that strikes your fancy. If you need to tweak your diet for health reasons, or just so you can feel your best every day, Ricki Heller has some tips on how to do it so you don't feel like you're missing out on anything.
I know it's hard to imagine that you could ever be ok with your body right now. We've been conditioned our whole lives to hate ourselves and try to change. HOW can it be OK to look like THIS?
In this episode, I remind you WHY diets don't work, and give you several super straightforward tips on what to do right now in order to feel better about your body.
In this episode, I talk about my experience of having COVID, from the surprising emotional roller coaster to the effect of not having taste for a few days and what that did to my relationship with food.
Come join the conversation in my private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodypositiveclub
Learn more about the Food & Body Love Membership: https://www.foodandbodylove.com/fbl
Have you ever wondered what the process for improving body image is? I came up with these 4 steps in a Facebook post the other day, and really liked being able to see the process.
Come join me in the Body Positive Club and share your thoughts.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodypositiveclub
Whether you do it all the time and get stressed out about it or don't do it at all and feel guilty about it, exercise is something that we've created so much drama around in diet culture. This episode has some great tips for finding a way -- if you CHOOSE -- to incorporate exercise into your life in a way that works for your body, your schedule, and your preferences.
In this episode, I'm talking about why my daughter stealing my sweatshirt made me really mad, and how I managed it so I didn't barge into her room and scream at her at 6:00 in the morning. Letting yourself feel the way you really feel, labeling it, describing it, and talking yourself through it is the key to avoiding lashing out at others or coping in ways that aren't necessarily productive.
The other day, I watched the first video I ever made and it reminded me of how fearful and miserable I used to be. I knew all the things about Intuitive Eating, but I didn't FEEL any differently inside. In this episode, I talk about what made the real transformation and why I'm really doing this work.
This episode explain why it's so important to really tease apart your beliefs about your body and make sure they're still relevant for your life. I talk about a client who was maintaining a really old, untrue, irrelevant belief from her past and it was really holding her back. Once we identified it and reframed it, she was able to let it go.
I'll also explain why it's so important to just be your most authentic self and stop trying to appeal to everyone. There's a lid for every pot! The more YOU you are, the more easily you will attract people who really resonate with you and love you for YOU.
There's so much to complain about these days, but I really think it makes things worse. Not only does it affect your mood and energy, but our collective pessimism really invites more problems. Learn how you can shift your attention to stop inviting negative energy into your life.
In this episode, I'm telling a story about this dude in my neighborhood who took it upon himself to confront me about my "obvious" desire to lose weight and recommend some crazy diet. Hopefully, you can use this experience to gain some tips about how to deal with this kind of stuff in your own life.
My grandmother's recipe book holds history and secrets about how to enjoy food and nourish yourself thoroughly.
Today, I’m talking about confirmation bias and how it keeps us trapped with bad body image.
Today, I’m talking about the way we hold onto ideas that aren’t true and don’t serve us! I have a great story about my husband to illustrate the point.
Are your thighs rubbing together, or you feet hurt after a long walk? And I bet you think you need to lose weight in order to fix it, right? Listen to this episode and learn why the desire to lose weight to relieve physical pain is not a sustainable solution.
https://www.foodandbodylove.com/blog/pain
International No Diet Day is celebrated every year on May 6. Read more about it here: https://nationaltoday.com/international-no-diet-day/
In this episode, I'll tell the story of my first diet and how it set me up for a lifetime of shame and failure until I learned to love myself exactly as I am.
What would the world be like without diets? What would we all be capable of if we could just love ourselves in the bodies we have right now?
Ozzy's irrational fears can show us all how our blocks and limitations are just stories we hold onto. You don't have to just keep telling the stories, like "I'm too fat to get that job," or "I could never go to my high school reunion looking like this." You have tool to change the story and dismantle the block.
When we met, Jen hadn't even heard of Intuitive Eating. She didn't know there was an alternative to dieting and torturing herself with exercise, but she DID know that she couldn't do it anymore. She was at that perfect pivot point where she was READY to do things differently, but just didn't know how. During our work together, she learned to stopped obsessing about food and find acceptance with her current body. Listen to Jen's story and hear how much happier and more peaceful she is in her life now.
Teddey Hicks is a coach and intuitive eating counselor whose passion is helping women escape the diet cycle and learn how to live their best lives right now. On the Food & Body Love Podcast, Teddey discusses all the practical issues related to eating without rules, as well as deeper emotional and spiritual issues on the journey to self-acceptance. Teddey interviews other experts in the field and women who’ve successfully found freedom with food and peace with their bodies. She’s happy to answer your burning questions about intuitive eating, body image, and navigating the world as a badass larger woman, so shoot her an email at teddey@teddeyhicks.com