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Love Your Bod Pod#147 THE FINAL EP. Why I'm retiring from Coaching - Lessons from Chronic PainIn this final episode of Love Your Bod Pod, I am sharing my experience with chronic pain and how that played a role in my decision to no longer be a coach. I answer the questions you have sent in about why I made this decision. Thank you so much to everyone who has listened to this podcast and supported me over the last 7 wonderful years! I love you always. Please keep in touch.
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2023-07-1246 minLove Your Bod Pod#146 - 10 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of RecoveryIn this solo episode, I share 10 lessons learned from being in recovery for 10 years.
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2023-07-0517 minLove Your Bod Pod#145 Mindset for Freedom with Fitness, Food & Body Image, and How to do IE with Health Conditions w/ Alana Van Der SluysIn this episode, I interview Alana Van Der Sluys from Freedom with Food and Fitness, a fellow coach and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor.
We talk about mindset work and how food is only as powerful/scary/dangerous as the story you tell yourself in your head and how lasting freedom with food, fitness and your body requires mindset work. We also talk about how to have a fun and positive relationship with fitness, overcoming "Good Girl Syndrome", letting go of the thin dream and so much more.
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2023-06-281h 06Love Your Bod Pod#144 Self Esteem, People Pleasing, ED & Substance Abuse Recovery with Trauma Therapist Emily @yourmentalhealthbffIn this episode, I interview Emily, @yourmentalhealthbff, about her experience with drug-induced anorexia and the very common overlap of substance abuse and eating disorders. She tells her story of asking for help, choosing recovery, and going to a wilderness rehab (something I didn't know existed). She is a licensed Trauma Therapist, so I picked her brain on self-esteem, people-pleasing, and so much more. It's a great episode!
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2023-06-2159 minLove Your Bod Pod#143 BED Recovery, Overcoming Weight Stigma in Treatment, and Body Positive Fashion with Jaimie WeisbergIn today's episode, I meet with Jaimie Weisberg, your body-positive bestie! She is a fashion queen on social media and a recovery advocate. We talk about her experience growing up, advocating for herself throughout treatment while facing weight stigma, and why recovery is worth it. Of course, we talk about fashion and how to not let the size of your clothes influence your value and how you feel about yourself. She shares her mindset and strategies for overcoming those hard days when you put on clothes that don't fit. We talk about her favorite places to shop and so...
2023-06-141h 33Love Your Bod Pod#142 The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying and How Thinking About the End of Your Life Can Help Your RecoveryIn this episode, I talk about a book I read last year titled "The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying" by Bonnie Ware and how thinking about the end of my life, not in a morbid way, but in a matter-of-fact way, has helped me face my fears and show up powerfully for my lie. I also read some old Instagram posts on this topic and talked about some reflections I have been having since deciding to retire from coaching. My hope is this episode gets you in action and leaves to inspired to be big, bold, and courageous in...
2023-06-0741 minLove Your Bod Pod#141 End Secret Binge Eating, Parts Work and IFS, Perfectionism, How to Stop Living in the Thin Dream with Sammy Harrison GuttIn this episode, I interview Sammy Harrison Gut, a binge-eating coach and previous client of mine. We explore topics including secret binge eating, how it is a coping mechanism for anxiety, how perfectionism shows up with food and weight, how parts work and IFS helped Sammy heal, and the difference my online course Embodied Rebel Masterclass made for her in her body image journey. It was what she needed to finally detach from the "thin dream." And so much more.
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2023-05-311h 01Love Your Bod Pod#140 What to Expect from the Recovery ProcessIn this episode, I talk about the recovery process and how it happens in phases. Too many people try to rush the process or skip steps which ultimately slows them down and leaves them stuck. I share about my unique road to recovery and how, now, 13 years after making the powerful decision to work on recovery, I see things differently. Hindsight is 20/20, ya know? I also share what the process has looked like for various clients of mine, as many of their steps varied from mine. I hope you learn so much about yourself and what you need to...
2023-05-2448 minLove Your Bod Pod#139 It's not about the food, grieving the "thin dream", and YOUR questions answered by an Anti-Diet RD, w/ Genevieve Prushinski, MS, RDToday's podcast guest is Genevieve Prushinski, and HEAS-aligned, anti-diet Dietitian working at Balance Eating Disorder Treatment Center in NYC - one of the nation's best treatment centers. She answers questions from you that you submitted on Instagram!
Topics we cover:
- her personal experience with an ED and recovery process
- grieving the thin dream
- how it's not all about the food
- using ED behaviors to communicate emotions
- how to support a loved one struggling with an ED
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2023-04-131h 13Love Your Bod Pod#137 Romanizing your ED, the overlap between religion & diet culture, motherhood & body image and so much more with Rachel HillsToday we are with Rachel Hills, and our conversation gets raw, real, and deep. And it's loooooong and juicy! We talk about all the things, including her religious upbringing and the overlaps with diet culture, her personal struggle with body image and food, motherhood, miscarriages, health struggles. We dive into shame and how underneath it is a belief that you can change, how your personality is not your trauma responses and why we romanticize our EDs and thinness. AND SO MUCH MORE. It's an awesome conversation that I hope you love as much as I do.
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Think Ultimate S03Body Wisdom! ft - Cara CifelliCara Cifelli is a passionate coach who guides women into their most confident and vibrant versions of themselves. Cara provides the tools to help women leave behind dieting, disordered eating, and body shame so they can show up more fully in all areas of their life. After struggling with an eating disorder for 10 years, she took her daily pain and turned it into her life's work. She inspires others to leave behind society’s expectations so they can live the life they’ve always dreamed of. She is a self-taught chef and self-published author, so she knows the definition of h...
2023-02-0721 minLove Your Bod Pod#136 How to Feel Better in Your BodyFeeling better in your body is not determined by your weight - I explain why and how in this episode and give you 10 practical tips ad action items you can start implementing RIGHT NOW to feel better.
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2022-08-1238 minLove Your Bod Pod#135 Connecting to Your Inner Child MeditationInner Child work plays a powerful role in healing your relationship with food and your body because many of our earliest experiences of Diet Culture, body shame, trauma or feelings of not being enough/loveable, etc. happened in childhood. Those experiences impact how we relate to food and our body.
Use this meditation to connect to your inner child and offer her/him/them some unconditional love and attention.
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2022-07-0718 min
Love Your Bod Pod#134 Heal Your Relationship with Exercise & Movement with Anti-Diet Personal Trainer Rachel BassIn this episode, we talk with Rachel Bass, an NYC-based Anti-Diet personal trainer about exercise and movement! If you want to learn how to have an intuitive joyful relationship with movement and want to learn to separate weight loss from it so you're freer to move in ways that feel good, this episode is for you.
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2022-03-0948 minLove Your Bod Pod#133 You Deserve Clothes That Fit. Fashion from an Anti-Diet Lens with Dacy Gillespie @mindfulclosetIn today's episode, we talk with Dacy Gillespie, an online personal stylist, about the messages that we have received about what we "should" and "shouldn't" wear based on our body, age, and weight so we can unpack them and connect more to our authentic style and self-expression.
Clothing plays a big role in our body image and healing journey, so I know you are going to get a lot out of this episode!
Topics we cover:
What "flattering" really means
The role patriarchy and White Supremacy have in clothing messages and cho...
2022-02-2253 minLove Your Bod Pod#130 Breathwork for Emotional Eating (How to Feel Your Feelings)If you identify as an emotional eater, or someone who eats their feelings, you might not be sure how to actually feel your feelings, this breathwork practice will show you how to feel & process your emotions. I do not see emotional eating as a problem, rather I see it as a check-engine light, inviting you to look under the hood so you can learn more about ourself and your needs. This practice is a perfect way to do just that!
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2022-01-0507 minLove Your Bod Pod#129 But, I Still Want to Lose Weight...Today, I want to talk to those of you that really want peace and freedom with food and know that you need healing, but you are still hanging on pretty tightly to the desire to lose weight. This is for you.
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2021-12-3016 minLove Your Bod Pod#128 Fitness Culture, ED Recovery, Self Love & Investing in Yourself with Mark Jelkovsky of Mary's Cup of TeaToday we are joined by Mary's Cup of Tea! Not only do we explore her eating disorder and recovery journey, dropping in helpful tips along the way, but we also go deep into the power of in-person retreats & investing in yourself and Mary opens up about her woo-woo, spiritual side as well. Get ready to learn her Self-Love Formula, her journey to empowerment, and why she now sees fitness culture as a cult.
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2021-12-221h 13Love Your Bod Pod#127 Overcoming Fear in Recovery & Finding Freedom from Binge Eating with Maren HuntToday, we interview Maren Hunt, a Certified Intuitive Eating Coach about her personal recovery journey from a 20-year struggle with her relationship with food, her body, and herself and how she now helps others do the same as a coach. She shares several practical tips and strategies for overcoming fear, breaking food rules, body image healing, and ending the restrict-binge cycle.
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2021-12-1559 minLove Your Bod Pod#126 Breathwork for Connecting to Your Body (Body Wisdom)Dieting disconnects us from our bodies. If you struggle to listen to your body, know when you're hungry, full, in need of rest or movement, or if you've been at war with your body and are ready to get on the same team, this practice is for you.
0-4:33mins: Intro and explanation of the breath practice
4:35mins: Breathwork Practice
Do not do this while driving.
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2021-12-0920 minLove Your Bod Pod#125 How to Stop Eating Your Feelings & Instead Feel Your Feelings with Goodwin HopeToday, we interview Goodwin Hope, a health coach, and breathwork facilitator. If you are someone who feels like you constantly eat your feelings this one is for you! We talk about emotions, feelings, somatic work, confidence, and healing through the body.
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2021-11-2452 minLove Your Bod Pod#124 The 6 Types of Restriction that Lead to Binge EatingRestriction leads to binge eating. But I often hear people say "I'm not dieting, I no longer restrict but I am still binge eating!" If you've ever said that or felt like that, then it's likely that you are still struggling with one or more of the 6 types but you might be unaware of it. Check out this podcast if you're struggling with binge eating and would like to heal.
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2021-11-1714 min
Love Your Bod Pod#123 Periods, Cravings, Hormones, Birth Control & DIET CULTURE with Maddie MilesToday we have an interview with Maddie Miles. We talk all things hormones, periods, cravings, birth control, seed cycling, cycle syncing, and shitty advice from diet culture that messes us up! Plus why we think we need men's birth control instead of placing all the responsibility on women.
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2021-11-101h 21Love Your Bod Pod#122 Restriction for Medical/Health Issues and Binge Eating with Kirsten Ackerman, The Intuitive RDIn today's episode, we talk extensively about restriction and binge eating specifically as it relates to medical and health issues, including PCOS, Diabetes, IBS, Weight Loss Surgery, and more. This is in response to my viral TikTok video about the 4 types of restrictions that lead to binge eating. If you have health issues or medical reasons to restrict food but find yourself binge eating this episode is for you.
Kirsten Ackerman MS, RD, CDN
The Intuitive RD
Instagram: @theintuitive_rd
Podcast: Intuitive Bites Podcast
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2021-09-291h 01Love Your Bod Pod#121 Life is Hard. Which Version of Hard Will You Choose?Hard things are inescapable. But some hard things lead to suffering, depression, anxiety, and a life you don't love. Other hard things lead to liberation, expansion, evolution, and a life you love. So which version of hard will you choose? In this episode, we explore choosing the hard thing that leads to freedom and a breakthrough on the other side.
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2021-09-0913 minLove Your Bod Pod#120 Healing Through Inner Child Work, Breathwork and Somatic Work with Stevie WrightThis episode is all about unbecoming who we thought we had to be to succeed and be loved and becoming exactly who we are!
Today, we have an episode with Self Love Coach and creator of The Breath Channel, Stevie Wright. And it is full of vulnerability, authenticity, and a little sparkle! Stevie is so shiny and bright and someone I truly love and respect. In addition to talking about Stevie and her journey, I share some of the deep work I have been doing with Stevie as my coach.
Topics we cover:
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2021-08-2546 minLove Your Bod Pod#119 Breathwork for Letting GoThis episode is a short breathwork session to help you with letting go of anything you have been hanging on to.
As you may have seen over this past year, I have been working on my breathwork facilitator training certification so I can offer this powerful healing modality within my coaching practice. I hope this short practice is helpful for you!
Do not listen or practice to this while driving!
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2021-08-1813 minLove Your Bod Pod#118 Why We Need Weight-Inclusive Health Care and Is Food Medicine? with Dr. Joshua WolrichTRIGGER WARNING: Sensitive eating disorder behaviors are discussed in this episode.
In today's episode, I interview NHS doctor Joshua Wolrich and it is a fire-filled episode. Come listen with curiosity and open mind!
Topics we cover:
- Joshua's story of first being a weight-loss journey account on IG to fighting weight-stigma
- The role food and nutrition play in health
- Why he doesn't think food medicine and why that notion is harmful
- The role weight plays in health and why he no longer advises weight l...
2021-08-041h 18Love Your Bod Pod#117 Hovering Above Rock Bottom, The Emotional Work, and Knowing When it's Time to Change with Whitney CatalanoIn this episode, I interview Whitney Catalano, An Anti-Diet Dietician turned Success and Alignment Strategist.
Topics We Cover:
How her disordered eating & desire to be thin influenced her to study Dietetics in college
HAES, Diet Culture & Fat Activism
The emotional work involved in food freedom and body image healing
Hovering above rock bottom, why it's so hard to change
How to know when it's time to pivot and change in any area of life
The connection between empaths, highly sensitive people + food & body issues
Boundaries
and so much more!
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2021-06-231h 09Love Your Bod Pod#115 You Don't Have to "Lose the Weight" First + Body Confidence + Following Your Dreams with Amanda LaCountIf you have ever thought that you have to "lose the weight" before you can go do what you want to do and be who you want to be, THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU! Amanda LaCount is a plus-size, body-positive professional dancer, and living breathing proof that your body size does not have to hold you back from pursuing your dreams! This is the Pep-Talk you need this summer!
2021-06-091h 00Love Your Bod Pod#114 Self-Talk (Healing the ED Voice), Feeling Uncomfortable Feelings and Healing Body Image with Emma Lauer, LCSW/TherapistTRIGGER WARNING: mention of sexual abuse
In today's episode, we talk with Emma Lauer, a therapist at Find Your Shine Therapy (@findyourshinetherapy on Instagram). She is a HAES-informed eating disorder therapist who also specializes in trauma and anxiety. We talk about the impact of trauma, how to know if we've experienced it (many of us don't realize we have), and what we can do to heal so it stops interfering with our life.
Other Topics we Cover
The Eating Disorder Voice (Parts work) & how to heal
Uncomfortable feelings and how to increase your ability t...
2021-06-0243 minLove Your Bod Pod#113 Body Confidence, Diet Recovery & Fat Positivity with Victoria Welsby @FierceFattyIn this episode, we interview the incredible Victoria Welsby, also known as Fierce Fatty. She is a body confidence expert and fat positive powerhouse. If you are struggling to feel good about yourself because of your body, this episode is a MUST LISTEN! It's so good.
Topics we cover:
- Body shame, food scarcity, and dieting as a kid
- Dating
- The promise and lies of diets
- How to heal your body image and feel confident in your skin
- Reclaiming the word "Fat"
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2021-05-2648 minLove Your Bod Pod#112 How to Be Active & Pursue Health Without the Pressure of Weight Loss with Martinus Evans @300poundsandrunningTrigger Warning: talks of numbers/weight, and suicide
Today, we have an incredibly inspiring episode with Martinus Evans, also known as 300 Pounds and Running! He is a marathon runner, a run coach, and a soon-to-be author. But like many, he struggled with body shame and being bullied as a kid, and put forth so much effort to make his body smaller, including going on to get multiple college degrees in this area of health and fitness. Now he is all about "Fat Flyness" and living an active lifestyle, achieving incredible physical feats like running marathons without the...
2021-05-191h 00Love Your Bod Pod#110 Hating your body takes a lot of energy, Dieting is a distraction, and raising kids with body-neutrality and intuitive eating with Catie Lynch, CSWIn today's episode, I interview Catie Lynch, a social worker, therapist, and body-image coach. This episode is filled with so many chicken nuggets of wisdom on body image healing, dieting, self-reflection, and intentions! Plus if you're a mom or have little children in your life, Catie shares how to help raise your kids with body-neutrality and intuitive eating. It's a fabulous episode!
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IG: catielynchlcsw
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2021-05-0557 minLove Your Bod Pod#108 All or Nothing Mindset & How All Food Has ValueIf you are caught up in "Black and White" thinking, believing that food is either good or bad, this episode is for you. I share very practical tips to get you out of the "All or Nothing", perfectionist way of thinking.
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2021-04-2123 minLove Your Bod Pod#107 How to Change Negative Self Talk, Cultivate Self-Compassion & Why We Self Sabotage with Iris McAlpinIn today's episode, we interview trauma professional and coach, Iris McAlpin. She is a NARM Practitioner and specializes in self-sabotage and eating disorders. Grab a pen and notebook for this one, it's jammed packed with very practical tips and strategies that you can implement into your life right now if you are struggling with negative self-talk, self-judgment, a lack of self-compassion, feeling like you are not productive enough, self-sabotage, feeling not good enough and more.
Topics we cover:
What is trauma (capital T and lower-case T)
Why we have negative self-talk and how to start to t...
2021-04-1451 minLove Your Bod Pod#105 Drunkorexia (alcohol & ED's), Bigorexia and The Eating Disorder Cycle with Lindsey HallToday we interview Lindsey Hall, an award-winning eating disorder recovery speaker, and writer.
Topics we cover:
- alcohol, addiction, and eating disorders (Drunkorexia)
- the eating disorder cycle
- romanticizing our eating disorders
- "Bigorexia": men, fitness, gym culture and eating disorders
- one foot in and one foot out in recovery
- why we DO NOT grow out of our eating disorders
and so much more! It's a fantastic episode.
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2021-03-3156 minLove Your Bod Pod#104 Weight Bias in Public Health, COVID-19 Research + How to Accept Your Body w/ Epidemiologist Erika AusthofIn today's episode, we interview Erika Austhof, an epidemiologist at the University of Arizona College of Public Health. She has spent the last year advocating for weight-neutrality in COVID-19 research and ending weight-stigma in public health. She is also a past client of mine and we talk about her history with disordered eating and body shame and how she was able to make peace with both food & body.
Topics we cover:
- Weight bias in research and how to advocate for change
- weight stigma and COVID-19 (myths about BMI and health outcomes)
2021-03-241h 10Love Your Bod Pod#103 Misconceptions About Intuitive Eating & Working Towards Food FreedomThere are a lot of misconceptions about Intuitive Eating - that it means you will never eat healthy again and only ever want cookies, that it is anti-health, that it's just about eating when you are hungry and stopping when you are full, that it's for weight loss or weight control, and more. Today I break down the 7 biggest misconceptions about Intuitive Eating to reveal what it's really about: rebuilding trust with your body and reconnecting back to your inner wisdom so you feel free & at peace around food.
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2021-03-1725 minLove Your Bod Pod#102 Anti-Diet Work as Death Work with Virgie Tovar & Angela AlbertoWelcome to Season 3 of the #LYBP
Today we have author, Virgie Tovar, and death midwife, Angela Alberto to talk about the joyful & devastating work of leaving diet culture.
Topics we cover:
What is Death Work and how does it connects to Anti-Diet Work
The doors we close (death) and open (rebirth) when we do Anti-Diet Work.
The feelings we experience when leaving behind diet culture and how to take navigate them in the healing process
The two types of grief and what you must know about them to take care of yourself when you f...
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Love Your Bod Pod#101 BONUS: Why Being a Coach is The Best Career Ever with Brandi Tebo + a Convo with ERA Graduate, Nicole ZimmermanHave you ever considered becoming a coach? It is a career path that encompasses everything I used to dream about before I became an entrepreneur. It's purposeful, meaningful, something I deeply care about, makes a difference in the world, lets me work from home or anywhere in the world, allows me to be creative, and is very very lucrative. As I said, it's a dream.
This is a fun conversation with Brandilyn Tebo, my first life coach, and now a friend and co-founder of The Embodied Rebel Academy (The ERA), our signature 6-month training program...
2020-10-2800 minLove Your Bod Pod#99 Weight Science & Stigma: Why It's So Hard to Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Dr. Janet Tomiyama, UCLA ResearcherIn this episode, I interview prominent researcher, Dr. A. Janet Tomiyama, from UCLA. If you ever tried to diet or lose weight but have struggled to keep it off, this episode will explain why. She specializes in weight stigma, weight science, dieting, stress, eating, and the so-called "obesity epidemic".
Topics we cover:
Weight science: why it's so hard to lose weight and keep it off
What contributes to weight gain
How stigma explains the correlation between higher BMI and adverse health outcomes
The impacts of stress and stress eating
How to improve health without dieting
What to...
2020-09-1659 minLove Your Bod Pod#98 11 Ways to Feel Better in Your Body Without Losing WeightIn this episode, I share 11 practical tools, strategies, and items you can implement and put into practice right now to help you feel better in your body.
Share this episode with the people in your life who would also benefit from hearing these practical pieces of advice.
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2020-09-0226 minLove Your Bod Pod#97 Why I Am a Thin Ally to Fat Acceptance"The best-known environmental contributor to the development of eating disorders is the sociocultural idealization of thinness"- NEDA. And you can not idealize thinness without the devaluation of fatness. Girls as young as three start to express concerns over their weight and body image.
In this episode, I share the importance of fighting for fat acceptance and fat positivity and why I can not separate my advocacy for recovery from eating disorders, food freedom, and body liberation without also advocating to end weight stigma and discrimination.
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2020-08-1918 min
let's thriveDisordered Eating + Mental Health: Emotional Restriction, Scarcity Mindset, and Orthorexia with Cara CifelliWhat’s the impact of disordered eating and diet culture on mental health? Today’s guest, Cara Cifelli, explains how to shift your mindset, choose recovery, and make change in your life to finally break free of toxic diet culture. Cara is a coach and provides the tools to help women leave behind dieting, disordered eating, and body shame so they can show up more fully in all areas of their life. After struggling with an eating disorder for 10 years, she took her daily pain and turned it into her life's work. She inspires others to leave behind society’s expe...
2020-08-0558 minLove Your Bod Pod#96 Self-Compassion & Connecting to Your Purpose to Find Freedom & Liberation with Food, Body & Self with Julie ParkerIn this episode, I interview Julie Parker, a life coach and mental health clinician who specialized in eating disorders. Growing up, she struggled with her relationship to food and her body, and always found her self turning to food for comfort, and while food does provide comfort eventually she realized that it was not the solution to her problems. With this awareness, she started down the road to recovery, to dealing with her problems head-on, instead of avoiding them through food. Along the way, she utilized self-compassion, spirituality, and connecting to her purpose to find freedom and liberation.
2020-07-2952 minLove Your Bod Pod#95 Recovery is Not a Straight Line, It's a MF ScribbleIn this solocast, I get real with you about the recovery process. What it's like, what you can expect, and loving reminders about the messy middle.
Recovery is a process of working through and being with whatever it is we try to "diet-away" or avoid through our disordered behaviors.
The freedom, happiness, peace, and confidence that you are seeking is in the work you are avoiding.
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2020-07-1525 minLove Your Bod Pod#94 Disordered Eating & Fatphobia in Competitive Sports & The LGBTQ Community, and Finding Worth Outside of Yourself with Joey CifelliIn this episode, I interview Joey Cifelli, my cousin. He is a competitive athlete, having competed for the USA National Team in diving and a member of the LGBTQ community. For years he struggled with his body image and relationship with food and sought control in those areas to control people's perception of him before he owned his sexuality and came out as gay. We talk about his journey and he shares very candidly what it was like for him over the years finding worth in external validation, whether it was diving, "eating clean" or Instagram likes. Something that h...
2020-07-0153 minLove Your Bod Pod#93 Eating Disorder & Exercise Addiction Recovery, Questioning Your Thoughts and Forging Your Own Path with Emily FeiklsToday on the podcast I interview Emily Feikls! We talk about her struggles with anorexia, orthorexia, and exercise addiction. After losing her mom at age 10, she turned to her eating disorder to cope. It became her life-raft helping here navigate the uneasy waters of life. It also changed how she viewed herself, her health, her life, and ultimately the world leading her to trust her gut and forge her own path instead of continuing to people-please and do what others/society told her to do. She has a chronic illness and also shares how she managed both recovery while...
2020-06-1745 minLove Your Bod Pod#92 Mid-Season Update | What You Can Expect Moving ForwardHey friends! Today is a quick little mid-season update. I wanted to share what I am committed to moving forward with this podcast given everything that has been happening in our world and the new rhythm or schedule you can expect moving forward.
I am sending you all love :) Thank you for listening to the Love Your Bod Pod
2020-06-1111 minLove Your Bod Pod#91 Physical vs Emotional Hunger & How to Nourish Both with Dr. Anita JohnstonIn this episode, I interview Dr. Anita Johnston, author of one of my all-time favorite eating disorder recovery books, Eating in The Light of The Moon. We talk extensively about how our relationship with food can give us clues as to what we each need in order to heal. As an Eating Psychology Expert, she walks us through the difference between physical & emotional hunger and what we need to do to address all of our needs. Using metaphors and storytelling, Dr. Johnston brings a new perspective to the podcast. We also explore the Masculine & Feminine energies (not to be...
2020-05-2759 minLove Your Bod Pod#90 A Parents Guide to Intuitive Eating, Raising Kids Free From Diet Culture and Fatphobia in the Medical Field with Dr. Yami Cazorla-LancasterIn this episode, I chat with Dr. Yami about fatphobia in the medical field and education system, the role nutrition and movement play in health and disease prevention as well as how to raise children as confident eaters connected to their intuition. As a mom of two and a pediatrician, she has incredible insight for parents who want their kids to maintain intuitive eating as the grow up. She shares the most common mistakes parents make that influence diet culture, disordered eating, and body shame in their kids, often without meaning to or realizing it. She also shares with...
2020-05-131h 05Love Your Bod Pod#89 Listening to the Whispers & Spiritual Practices as Tools in Recovery with Alissa Young @blissbylissIn this episode, I interview Alissa Young, a women's empowerment coach. She struggled with an eating disorder and found a state of full recovery through spiritual practices, including Intuition, energy healing, reiki, Tarot, astrology, Human Design and more. We also talk about listening to the whispers of our soul, body and intuition before they turn into screams or we hit a rock bottom. If you are curious about how a spiritual practice could support you in recovery, this is for you!
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2020-05-0657 min
The Priestess PodcastCara Cifelli on Body Wisdom (E146)One of the things that constantly delights me about having conversations with incredible women on The Priestess Podcast is how many deep and beautiful parallels and connections can be drawn between our spiritual growth and every aspect of our lives. It truly helps me - and I hope helps you too - see that we really are so much more than the body we walk around in and that concept is truly bought home today by my guest Cara Cifelli. Cara shares with us today her journey of experiencing an eating disorder and the patriarchal, societal expectations she believed...
2020-04-2931 minLove Your Bod Pod#88 Why Do We All Want To Be Thin? The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia with Sabrina Strings, PhDIn this episode, I interview Sabrina Strings, PhD and author of the incredibly important book Fearing The Black Body, The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. Through her research, she seeks to answer the question of " Why do we all, but especially white women, so badly want to be thin?" If you have ever wondered why, this episode is for you. What she discovered and shares about in this episode will blow your mind. The pressure we put on women to look a certain way is centuries old with roots in racism and religion and has always been a form...
2020-04-221h 01Love Your Bod Pod#87 It's Okay If You Ate All Your Snacks! Loving Reminders and Words of Encouragement During QuarantineIn this solocast, I share some loving inspiration for these times, I quote Brene Brown several times as well, because she is the QUEEN of powerful one-liners. If you are struggling with perfectionism, food, body image, shame, judgment, and your "inner mean girl" right now, this episode is for you! I share tips, strategies & loving advice.
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2020-04-1530 min
Plant Trainers Podcast - Plant Based Nutrition & FitnessEating Disorders and Vegan Buddha Bowls with Cara CifelliIn this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk with Cara Cifelli about the relationship some women have with food and more specifically, her 10 years of disordered eating and how a plant-based diet was a part of her healing. 💥We do talk about some parts of her story which may be triggering to anyone who has had an eating disorder before, so please listen with caution. We also make sure to talk about ways to foster good body image and celebrate food by discussing some of our favourite buddha bowls! Cara Cifelli is a passionate coach who guides women int...
2020-04-1437 minLove Your Bod Pod#86 Beauty Sick: Our Cultural Obsession with Thinness & Appearance with Dr. Renee EngelnIn today's episode, I interview author and professor, Dr. Renee Engeln. She wrote one of my favorite books for healing body image called Beauty Sick. Topic's we cover: What is Beauty Sickness, how shame is not motivating, the problems with girls and women's fashion, how our obsession with appearance hurts us and what we can do about, aging and so much more.
Dr. Renee Engeln is a psychology professor and director of the Body and Media Lab at Northwestern University. She is the author of Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women. H...
2020-04-0857 minLove Your Bod Pod#85 How to Nurture Positive Body Image in Kids, Feminist Parenting and Gender Stereotypes with Catherine Bailey, JD of @ThinkorBlueIn this episode, I interview Catherine Bailey, a lawyer, women’s policy expert, and founder of Think or Blue, a community of parents, teachers, and family who believe that children thrive best in a world free from gender stereotypes. We talk about the impact gender norms and stereotypes have on children's body image and relationship with food. We go into the 5 Pillars of Feminist Parenting and you will walk away with practical, actionable tips and strategies you can use if you are a parent or have a child in your life, like a niece or nephew and you want to...
2020-03-251h 19Love Your Bod Pod#83 How the Process of Manifestation Can Help You Heal & Recover (Cara goes woo)OK!! Today I am getting woo on you. Although, in the episode, I argue that the process of Manifestation and the Law of Attraction aren't actually all that woo-woo, but rather really practical and make a lot of sense in a variety of contexts.
I share with you how I have been using the process of manifestation in my coaching without realizing it or intentionally going through it while I help people heal their relationship with food and their body. I share some examples of how you can apply it to recovery as well as how it c...
2020-03-1125 minLove Your Bod Pod#82 Negative Body Image, Sexual Objectification, and How Beauty is Used Against Women with Dr. Caroline Heldman In this episode, I interview Dr. Caroline Heldman. She is Executive Director of The Representation Project, a Professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and the Senior Research Advisor for the Geena Davis Institute for Gender in Media. Her research specializes in media, the presidency, and systems of power (race, gender, ability, and sexuality). Dr. Heldman has published five books.
We talk about sexual objectification and how it is not actually powerful to be seen as a sex object highly desired by men AKA the male gaze. We explore why most Body Positive advertisements don't actually work o...
2020-03-041h 03Love Your Bod Pod#81 Why I Want You To Get Angry!!!In this solo cast, I talk about how anger is a transformative emotion. Much of the body positive movement would have you believe that self-love, acceptance, and confidence are the emotions you need to heal from food and body shame but I'd argue that you have to get angry first. In this episode, I share the things that made me angry and why that's a good thing for your healing journey. Anger is actionable. Shame is powerless.
I also reference and quote THIS article from Brandilyn Tebo
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2020-02-2628 min
Vegetarian ZenVZ 349: Healing Disordered Eating with Holistic Health Coach Cara CifelliCara Cifelli is a Certified Health Coach, Holistic Nutritionist, chef, author, podcast host, and avocado toast lover. Cara passionately provides the tools to help women leave behind dieting, disordered eating, and body shame so they can show up more fully in all areas of their life. In this episode, we talk to Cara about our own issues with disordered eating.
2020-02-2342 minLove Your Bod Pod#80 How Normal Eaters THINK Differently from Disordered Eaters & Dieters and How To Eat NormallyIn this episode, I share the 6 main differences in mindset between normal, intuitive eaters and dieters/disordered eaters. I've talked a lot about the Diet Mentality and how it is truly where the transformation lies when it comes to healing our relationship with food. By distinguishing the differences in how you think, you will know the areas where you need the practice to find food freedom.
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2020-02-1918 minLove Your Bod Pod#79 Obesity is NOT An Epidemic: How Fatness Came To Be Understood as a Public Health Crisis with Abigail Saguy, PhD., UCLA ProfessorGet ready to have your mind blown with this episode!
I interview renowned author and sociologist, Abigal Saguy, PhD. and professor at UCLA. She wrote the book "What's Wrong with Fat?" a book that explains how we came to view fatness as a public health crisis and explores the implications of this view. Through her research she found that public discussions of the "obesity crisis" do more harm than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses. In this episode, she explains the cultural, political & capitalistic reasons why fatness is now seen as pathological when it used t...
2020-02-1253 min
I AM HUMAN85: Cara Cifelli on how a Plant-Based Diet Aided her ED Recovery (Veggie Doctor Radio)In this episode, I have a candid conversation with Cara Cifelli of Cara’s Kitchen where we discuss her history with eating disorders, body image and the work that she does now to help other women develop a healthy relationship with food and their bodies.About featured guest:Cara Carin Cifelli is a Certified Health Coach, Holistic Nutritionist, chef, author, podcast host, and avocado toast lover. Cara passionately provides the tools to help women leave behind dieting, disordered eating, and body shame so they can show up more fully in all areas of their life. Sh...
2020-02-0959 minLove Your Bod Pod#78 The Wound is Where the Light Enters. Why I am Grateful for My Eating DisorderIn this episode, I share what I learned from my decade-long battle with an eating disorder. I have come to believe that it happened FOR me not TO me, so I could be the person I am today. If you are in the middle of a struggle with food I know how difficult it is to think that any good could come out of it when it is causing so much pain. But hopefully, this episode will plant a seed of possibility for what's available on the other side of healing.
I also touch on how I tu...
2020-02-0526 minLove Your Bod Pod#77 You Are Not the Voice in Your Head, Physical vs. Mental Recovery with Sarah Herman @starving_to_strongIn this episode, I interview Sarah Herman, known as @starving_to_strong on IG.
We cover topics that include:
Relapsing
The pressure to lose weight for your wedding
Why separating yourself from the ED voice or the Diet Mentality is helpful & necessary
The illusion of control
Why connecting to your values helps you stay on the food freedom & recovery path
The importance of community
Chronic Illness and body image healing
How cooking and making food can be fun, creative and way to challenge yourself with fear foods
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2020-01-2345 minLove Your Bod Pod#76 How "taking care of your health" can turn into an eating disorder, feeling your feelings and dieting to find control with Caitlin Greene @starinfinitefoodsIn this episode, I interview Caitlin Greene from @Starinfinitefood
She candidly shares the story of her life, how she developed an eating disorder and eventually found healing. Like many, she is a high-achieving woman, self-described as a Type-A, and always looking for what's next. While these are qualities that can help you get ahead in life they can also lead you down a disordered path with food and exercise.
Caitlin's story is one of inspiration and triumph, one that you will walk away from with hope.
Topics we cover:
When pursuing health an...
2020-01-1554 minLove Your Bod Pod#75 How to Set Goals & Intentions from a Food Freedom & Body Wisdom Perspective. An Anti-Diet Road MapIt's 2020! A new year and a new decade!
In this episode, I share how to approach food, health, fitness & well-being goals & intentions from a food freedom and body wisdom perspective.
If weight loss is not the main marker of success or the main goal, what is my focus? How do I set out to take care of my health without the diet mentality or restriction?
This episodes answers these questions.
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2020-01-0828 minLove Your Bod Pod#74 Ayahuasca and Spirituality in Recovery from Eating Disorders, Trauma, Drug & Alcohol Addiction and Autoimmune Diseases with Jane Mayer @janeislisteningIn this episode, I interview one of my mentors and spiritual teachers, Jane Mayer. She struggled with an eating disorder, drug and alcohol addiction, and autoimmune disease.
Her recovery process included several healing modalities but we focus on her work with plant medicine like ayahuasca and her connection to Spirit (or The Universe/God etc.). She opens up about her childhood trauma, and how her body has become her greatest teacher through it all.
This is a fascinating interview and I hope you love it as much as I do!
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2020-01-011h 16Love Your Bod Pod#73 Intersectional Feminism & Diet Culture, Overcoming Fear of Weight Gain and Making Protest Art in Recovery with Therese @HealingcrayonsIn this episode, we interview Therese Roeser, who is the talented artist behind @healingcrayons on Instagram.
She makes incredible art as a way to protest against Diet Culture and its toxic programming.
Topics we cover include:
Intersectional feminism and how it relates to Diet Culture and Fatphobia
Relapsing in our eating disorders
Having a child with disabilities and how that really influenced her feminism
Body image, internalized-fatphobia and getting over the fear of weight gain
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2019-12-2545 minLove Your Bod Pod#72 *THIS* is The Missing Link in Your Body Image Healing- a Chat With Brandilyn Tebo & Info on Embodied Rebel, Our New Body Image CourseIn this episode, I chat again with the incredible Brandilyn Tebo, a transformational life coach.
Todays topic: Body Image, Body Shame, Body Hatred and how to heal.
We share with you what is the missing link for most women when they are trying to heal their body image. The reason why so many women still struggle with body image even after trying to feel better about themselves is that what we are told will help us doesn't actually help. We explain why the most recommended strategies fail us in the long run and then share wi...
2019-12-1844 minLove Your Bod Pod#71 How to be an Intuitive Eater with Food SensitivitiesIn this episode, I answer a common question around intuitive eating and food sensitives: "How can I be an intuitive eater if I have a legitimate health reason that means I need to "restrict" a food?"
I hope it's helpful!
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2019-12-1715 minLove Your Bod Pod#69 How to Make Food No Big Deal - Part 2In this episode, I give you 5 more practical strategies to help you make food no big deal. They will be super helpful this holiday season, however, they are useful and applicable year-round! My goal is to help make eating easy. If you have not listened to Part 1, go listen to that first!
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2019-12-0428 minLove Your Bod Pod#68 How to Make Food No Big Deal - Part 1In this episode, I give you 5 practical strategies to help you make food no big deal. They will be super helpful this holiday season, however, they are useful and applicable year-round! My goal is to help make eating easy.
Make sure to leave a podcast review on Itunes, share it on Instagram stories or in a DM, and tag me @caraskitchen to be entered to win my weekly giveaway taking place through the end of the year!
Pre-order Vegan Buddha Bowls, take a picture of the receipt, send it to me and you will receive an...
2019-11-2720 minLove Your Bod Pod#67 How to Overcome the Fear of Letting Go of ControlIn this episode, I address a common question I receive about overcoming our fear of letting go of control, particularly around food, but in any area in life. You will walk away with questions to ask yourself to help you overcome your fears as well as practical tips and advice to move through the fear of change.
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2019-11-2019 minLove Your Bod Pod#66 How to Respond to Comments from Others About Your Food, Weight and AppearanceIn this solocast, I am answering two questions I recently received that are asking how to respond to comments from other people that are triggering and hurtful. First, I pull back the lens and zoom out to support you in seeing the larger picture at play, which I truly believe is helpful in navigating the feelings they bring up in us so we can do the inner work and be less triggered and hurt moving forward. Then, I give you some practical tips for responding to comments that you can start utilizing right away.
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2019-11-1335 minLove Your Bod Pod#65 Unleash Your Inner Change Maker: 5 Steps to Heal Your Relationship with Food & Step Into Your Power MASTERCLASSLast month, Tristan from Honest to Goodness Health and I hosted a LIVE masterclass all about how to overcome food and body struggles. If you have ever felt like your relationship with food and body image is holding you back..., If fear of food and weight gain is running the show and you are OVER IT, Then this episode is for you.
The feedback from the masterclass was incredible, and although it wasn't our original intention, we decided that we wanted to give others a chance to listen to this magic as well so we are sharing i...
2019-11-061h 10Love Your Bod Pod#64 Is Dieting a Distraction?In this episode, I talk about how dieting is a defense mechanism and coping mechanism we've been trained into since birth. My goal is to help you recognize this pattern and support you in taking steps to free yourself from it. It's super important episode!
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2019-10-3119 minLove Your Bod Pod#63 At Peace with Food | A Mindful Eating Guided Meditation & VisualizationREPOSTING THIS due to multiple requests after I took it down!
Guided meditations and visualizations are powerful tools you can utilize to support you in reprogramming your subconscious mind and having a shift in mindset.
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2019-10-2312 minLove Your Bod Pod#62 Body Image from Puberty to Postpartum and Intuitive Eating with Food Sensitivities with Simi BoticToday on the pod, I interview Simi Botic, a fellow Holistic Health Coach! We have an open, vulnerable and raw conversation about Body Image and the impact our society's narrative about bodies has on us. Simi shares insight into her healing journey with food and body and how she maintains a positive body image through various seasons of life. She also is Celiac and she shares how she is able to be an intuitive eater while having a food she has to restrict for health reasons. It's a value-packed episode that I think you will love!
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2019-10-1642 minLove Your Bod Pod#59 First, I'll Lose the WeightIn this episode, I talk about feeling like you have to lose weight first before you can have what you want. I address the belief that weight loss is standing between you and the life you want.
So many of us put our lives on hold. We're waiting to lose weight before we start dating, before we feel confident, before we love ourselves, before we feel like we are worthy and enough, before we start the business, or wear a bathing suit, or go on vacation, or chase our dreams.
This episode is your permission s...
2019-09-2515 minLove Your Bod Pod#56 Healing from Perfectionism, Sexual Abuse and Disordered Eating with Samantha LeonardIn today's episode, we interview Sam Leonard, a published author who just released her first book titled Groomed: Shining a Light on the Unheard Narrative of Childhood Sexual Assault.
Like many, Sam was sexually assaulted as a child and went on to develop a disordered relationship with food as well as perfectionism and a need to be highly achieved in all areas of life. She shares her experience of dealing with and healing from the trauma, the impact it can have on your life as well as the power of community as a survivor.
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2019-09-0445 minLove Your Bod Pod#54 Exercise Myths, Intuitive Movement, and The Importance of Rest & Recovery with Tilita Lutterloh @IamTilitaIn this episode we interview High Performance Fitness Coach, Tilita Litterloh. She is a professional athlete training for the Olympics- SO inspiring right? Today we talk about taking a values based approached to exercise and fitness, and why just making it about weight loss makes most of give up and not feel great. Tilita also drops some major knowledge on us about the importance of rest and recovery in reaching our fitness goals!
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2019-08-071h 01Love Your Bod Pod#50 How to Open Up About Your Struggles with FoodIn this episode I share with you some insights and helpful tips to support you in open up about your struggles with food to a trusted person in your life as well as a professional. You do not have to go through this process alone and opening up will help you in the healing process. For most of us keeping things bottled up doesn't help, speaking up and talking about them does.
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2019-07-1723 min
You Are Worth More Than a NumberYour Body is Not Fixed and Food Freedom w/ Cara Cifelli!!Hi friends!! Thank you all so much for your support and love, I seriously wouldn't be here without you guys!! :) This week, I am joined by the amazing, Cara Cifelli from Cara's Kitchen and The Love Your Bod Pod! We talk about how our body is not fixed and how and why it's important to have food freedom.
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2019-06-2632 minLove Your Bod Pod#42 "Don't Call Me Pretty", Female Beauty and Social Media in 2019 with Aly Nagel @dontcallmepretty_In this episode I interview Aly Nagel, founder of the women's movement "Don't Call Me Pretty". Her mission is to help woman disconnect their worth from their weight, which is what society traditionally teaches us. We talk about the role of female beauty and the impact social media can have on our self-esteem.
She is also a social media marketing strategist that helps female entrepreneurs grow their businesses online.
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2019-05-2238 minLove Your Bod Pod#37 How Diet Culture is a Public Health Issue and How We Create Change with Shelbey HagenIn this episode, I interview Shelbey Hagen on a Public Health approach to eating disorders, disordered eating, fatphobia and Diet Culture. We discuss how Diet Culture impacts the health of people negatively on a micro and macro level. We discuss how we can use a Socio-Ecological Model to create change.
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2019-05-0153 minLove Your Bod Pod#36 Using Food to Cope with Trauma and How "Wellness Diets" Teach us to Restrict with Bree Shook from @Simplehealthyeats In this episode, I interview the lovely Bree Shook from @Simplehealthyeats. We talk about how she used food to cope with loneliness as a young girl and what it was like growing up always thinking her body wasn't how it should be. Like many of us she took to food, exercise and pursing health to change that, but it eventually brought way more negativity into her life.
We explore her "wake up call" that finally had her decide to work on her relationship with food and what it was like finally sharing her struggle with another person.
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2019-04-1756 minLove Your Bod Pod#35 How to Listen to Your Body and Honor Your Hunger and FullnessIn this solocast, I dive into what it means to listen to your body. I break it down into a simple to understand way, so you can see how you are already listening to your body in some ways which will give you clues how to tune-in in other areas.
You will walk away with practical tips to help you connect to your hunger and fullness signals.
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2019-04-1029 minLove Your Bod Pod#34 Part 1: How Salt, Oil & Processed Foods can be Nourishing, and Colonialism and Racism in Diet Culture with Em von Euw @thisrawsomeveganlifeIn this episode, I interview Em von Euw, from the award winning blog This Rawsome Vegan Life! And it is a gem of an episode.
We dive into their journey through disordered eating, from being obsessed with the purity and quality of every bite of food, to later discovering that grilled cheese can be a health food. Listen to discover why and how- it just might blow your mind.
On their path to recovery, they uncovered the deep roots that Diet Culture has in colonialism, capitalism, "white-ness" and racism, and how this understanding was able to...
2019-04-0359 minLove Your Bod Pod#33 This is Diet CultureIn this Solocast, I explain what Diet Culture is and how even if we don't think we are dieting, we are still participating in the culture of dieting. It's so pervasive and woven into the fabric of Western Culture that its hard to see it as a separate entity that we can opt out of. By listening to this podcast you will be able to see Diet Culture for what it is and discover how it is effecting your life in overt and covert ways. Hopefully by the end you will feel empowered and choose to leave it behind.
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2019-03-2730 minLove Your Bod Pod#30 How Whole 30 Can Cause Disordered Eating with Dana Monsees, CNS, MS @RealfoodwithdanaIn this episode, we interview Dana Monsees, CNS, MS from @RealfoodwithDana.
Dana used to be a Whole 30 Coach who recently made a massive pivot and shift in her business after realizing that Whole 30 was not delivering "Food Freedom" to most of her clients. Rather it was doing the opposite, it was either making their relationship with food worse, or had contributed to the beginning of a struggle with binge eating.
She had gone through her own struggles with an eating disorder and knew in her heart she had to make the switch in her business....
2019-03-061h 00Love Your Bod Pod#29 Beauty, Sexuality, Perfectionism and Body Hair with Ingrid NilsenIn this episode, I interview Ingrid Nilsen and cover a wide range of topics including her journey with YouTube, her relationship with makeup and acne, to exploring her sexuality and coming out online.
We talk about the small but growing trend in media and advertising away from Photoshop and using only one body type, and the excitement and importance of this shift.
An area she has recently become very interested in is body hair and I loved exploring this topic with her. I find it mind-boggling that we (myself included) have been trained to find th...
2019-02-271h 13Love Your Bod Pod#28 SUNDAY SESSIONS: Lines of Experience & Wisdom A.K.A WrinklesIn this solocast, I introduce a new series called Sunday Sessions where I share with you recent downloads I have received from my intuition and highest self.
Sometimes they are in the form of a poem or a short message, but they truly feel like a transmission from something much bigger than my earthly self.
This first one is about wrinkles, or what I refer to as lines of experience and wisdom.
I hope you love this new series!
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2019-02-2415 minLove Your Bod Pod#27 Weight-Loss is Not a PanaceaIn this solo episode, I explore this ever-present message around weight-loss being the solution to so many aliments in life.
Everything from physical health to mental and emotional health. And I challenge the idea and argue that weight loss is not a panacea.
My goal is to bring awareness to how many of us think that weight loss is the solution and as a result, many of us miss opportunities for real change, real health and real empowerment.
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2019-02-2015 minLove Your Bod Pod#26 Healthism, Fatphobia and The Problem with The BMI with Kristina BruceIn this episode, I interview Kristina Bruce who is a Body Acceptance Coach, Health at Every Size Advocate and passionate voice in the anti-diet culture space.
We discuss a wide variety of topics including:
How your body image effects your life
Why health is not a moral issue and what "health-ism" is
Body positivity and Intentional weight loss
Institutionalized fat-phobia, the problem with the words "overweight and obese" and why the BMI is BS
How to be a Thin Ally to Fat Acceptance
I think you are going to learn so much from this episode!
2019-02-1353 min
Healing HormonesChanging Your Perception: Body Wisdom, The Imposter Syndrome, & Food - with Cara CifelliToday we are talking to Cara Cifelli, the author of Body Wisdom: A Guide to Rediscovering Your Relationship with Food, Trusting Your Intuition and Becoming Your Own Health Expert and the creator of Cara’s Kitchen. Cara knows, first hand, how much our relationship with food and our bodies can influence our entire lives. So she uses her expertise in holistic nutrition, transformational psychology, intuitive eating, mindset medicine, and recovering from her own battle with an eating disorder to guide others to vibrancy and vitality in their bodies. We Chat About: Self-identifying with our jo...
2018-07-091h 00
Finding Your ShineChanging Your Perception: Body Wisdom, The Imposter Syndrome, & Food - with Cara CifelliToday we are talking to Cara Cifelli, the author of Body Wisdom: A Guide to Rediscovering Your Relationship with Food, Trusting Your Intuition and Becoming Your Own Health Expert and the creator of Cara’s Kitchen. Cara knows, first hand, how much our relationship with food and our bodies can influence our entire lives. So she uses her expertise in holistic nutrition, transformational psychology, intuitive eating, mindset medicine, and recovering from her own battle with an eating disorder to guide others to vibrancy and vitality in their bodies. We Chat About:...
2018-07-0959 min