100% Healthy-ish

Our final day together… *snif*  It’s been an amazing week and I hate for it end. But if it must end, then let's blow this thing out of the water, yes? Day 7 it’s about letting the JUiCINESS you've been cultivating all week, flow from food, body, and movement into - and all over - your LIFE. Caitlin Moran recently released a new book. In it, she describes the moment she realized that diet cult...

Ooooh, mama! Are you ready for today?! She’s a BIGGIE! It’s day 6 of the Juicy Body challenge - we’ve gotten to know each other a bit, I’ve been pushing you to trust yourself and now (NOW!) I want you to trust me. Because today is all about the erotic . Living it. Breathing it. Bringing it into your life. When I say the word erotic, I always conjure up an image of a very bad, purple-y we...

If I had to place my money on something ( and I’m the kind of woman who spends a whopping 25 cents on a slot machine while in Las Vegas for a week - you know- a real gambling kinda gal ) I’d bet that you don’t have a fabulous relationship with exercise. If you do - that’s great . Seriously, you smelly like fairy farts and that 25 cents is ALL YOURS. But if you don’t - or if you’re intere...

It’s day four of the challenge, we're at the halfway(ish) mark, and I'd like to take a moment to cheer you on from my chair... You’re here. You’re learning, experimenting, getting curious and just being a general rock star. THANK YOU! This work has transformed my relationship with food, body, and MY HEALTH in incredible ways and I love that I get to share it with you.  Let’s recap what you’ve...

Are you making your breakfast decisions or is Gwyneth Paltrow? Are you deciding when you’re hungry or are you leaving that up to Gary Taubes (fun fact: I just had to google a Keto “expert” to insert in here. lol) Do you know what satiates you or is Good Housekeeping magazine telling you what foods are filling? Do you know when you're full or is your point counter calling the shots? My point: are y...

It’s Day two of the Juicy Body Challenge, baby! Are you ready to jump off a cliff with me? No? You didn’t realize that’s what you were signing up for? Well - it a metaphorical cliff, if that makes you feel better? The metaphorical cliff is called TRUST. The foundation of a juicy body and a juicy body life is TRUST. Trusting yourself to know what’s right for you - and in moments of confusion, trust...

The coffee is brewin, the tunes are blaring, and I’m kitchen dancing (while my teenager gives me the side-eye) because… It’s day one of the Juicy Body Challenge! We’re about to embark on a 7 day trek through the wilds of your brain and body - helping you figure out how you want to feel in that gorgeous form of yours , what it’s going to take to get there, and what’s getting in the way - without fo...

Well hello there! It's been a minute! I'm thrilled to be back in the podcast booth (aka my office) prepping a podcast series to accompany my upcoming Juicy Body Challenge! 7 days, totally free, designed to help you bring the JUICE back into your body and life. If you're feeling exhausted, burnt out, and sucked dry by the holidays (and the whole year that preceded them) then you need to sign up.&nb...

This is it! The last episode of the series and the final days to register for Redefining Health! Registration closes on September 24th.  To wrap up this Back on Track Series - Jill is addressing Emotional Dieting.  What is it? How is it related to emotional eating? Can we separate binge eating and emotional eating? Checking in with your feelings before you create a plan for health or fee...

This is for you if you're tried. And tired of feeling tired . And fed up . And bitter . And embarrassed of your totally magical but shape-shifting body . In today's episode - Jill talks about her program Redefining Health, what it is, who it's for, what's included, WHY you need to do this work NOW and what might get in the way.... The after has nothing to do with what you weigh or how you look and...

Gah! That was amazing! The Juicy Body workshop was filled with incredible women looking to feel good in their bodies this fall - without dieting or manipulating their weight.  This short 'n sweet episode covers the 3 takeaways from the women in that workshop. Tune in to hear thsoe lessons and the next steps for those on this journey! Tune in now! Did you miss it?! Well guess what? Jill's offe...

What could possibly be more fun then taking a sneaky look inside someone else's health and wellness plan?! Jill is super careful in this episode not to prescribe or suggest what YOU should be doing (no "what I eat in a day" stuff here) - while sharing openly about what she needs most this fall in order to get back to feeling good in her body. She asks: what's making you feel sucked dry? what if th...

Today, Jill explores the 4 big ways diet culture wants to sneak into your moderate, flexible, and sustainable plans to feel better in your body, RUINING them and leaving you feeling like a frustrated fart. ha! She covers how diet culture: Keeps you focused on your weight Tricks you into thinking you can consider ONLY your physical body Makes you feel like your plan needs to be Instagram worthy Rei...

In today's episode Jill talks about OLD ways of getting back on track - why they FAIL FAIL FAIL! She also opens up the door to a new way of approaching your physical self without self-sacrifice and collateral damage. New motivation. New Tactics. New measure of success. If you: don't feel like yourself these days if you're looking to change how you feel IN your body without resorting to diets and h...

In this episode Jill discusses our cyclical nature - and how it's misinterpreted as bad, falling "off track", or self-sabotaging. Old programming about your body will lead you to believe that you should be static, linear, and never-changing. That your food quantity and variety should never change, nor should your movement routines - but different seasons ask for different things from us - and summ...

In this episode Jill works with a mom who is sorting through her daughter's pickiness: what's behavioural, what's potentially ADHD, and how can she manage it all? It's a great conversation because this mama's incredibly knowledgeable on the Division of Responsibility and Intuitive Eating, she's working through her own journey, and she's using all of that hard-earned wisdom to manage a tough situat...

In this episode Jill works with a women who is committed to letting go of weight loss and diet obsession in order to live her best life - BOLD moves to make it happen, also had big setbacks. Some pretty understandable frustrations with her body and diet culture in general. They chat about: physical body changes that make it hard to exercise, post-partum perimenopausal body changes changes in frien...

Do you take the time to recognize how far you've come on your journey to food and body peace? In this episode, Jill works with a woman who has yet to recognize how much she's accomplished on the Food Freedom/Body Love journey. She's in the messy middle and all she can see is how far there is left to go. celebrates her accomplishments and introduces some tools to help her get to the next level.&nbs...

How hard is it to start intuitive eating while in a pandemic? In this episode, Jill chats with a woman about the process, the best way to FINE TUNE her connection to internal regulators and stay connected to her body. In the follow-up, 5 months post-recording, they discuss what's gone well and where things have fallen apart. It's an incredibly interesting episode about acceptance, compassion and c...

In todays episode Jillian talks about: Summer holiday pics - and why they derail your body acceptance efforts How to neutralize your reaction to photos The fact that it's normal to feel like you need to "get back on track" while holidaying and for old programming to pop-up but why you need to resist and HOW! Jillian also covers her Mastermind for professionals and practitioenrs and some exciting d...

In today's mish-mash of an episode, Jillian discusses: What's happening at the Food/Freedom Body Love Method these days The discomfort of launching a new program The allure of dieting when we want to feel a certain way Why we focus on behaviours and actions instead of feelings What are JUICY BODY sessions and why you should get in on one!! Sign up for a Juicy Body Session HERE.  SOLD OUT!!!!...

If you've been doing this work for awhile, you know - it's HARD to market your work in a weight loss obsessed world . Buuuut - there's also a lot of opportunity when it's done right! In today's episode Jill's talking about her struggle with grabbing people's attention based on their biggest struggle or pain point when 99% of the time, that struggle is weight. How can we show people what we offer,...

It's a tough and uncomfortable topic but it's a fact: health and wellness clinicians are often struggling with their own relationship with food and body, are perpetuating fatphobic health beliefs, and imposing weight stigma on those they work with . In this episode, Jillian is talking about some of the facts and figures (when surveyed, 49.5% of dieticians were at risk for orthorexia and 12.9% were...

In this episode Jill talks about the 5 biggest struggles she'd had in building an anti-diet, weight inclusive health practice . She's talking about how to figure out your beliefs and philosophies in the work, the challenge in figuring out how to teach or coach the work, how to build a team that really gets what you're doing... and more! She also does a rapid fire round of: Were You Wondering This?...

CART IS OPEN!!! It is a big, big day over here at the Food Freedom/Body Love Method. Today, I'm opening the doors on my newest program: Redefining Health for Professionals and Practitioners . It's an eight week intensive for those working in the wellness world, who are looking to develop the skills to offer up anti-diet, weight-inclusive health advice, creating safe and inclusive spaces for anyone...