100% Healthy-ish

When it comes to parenting, it seems that we are constantly navigating between the decision to shift/guide/mold/change our children versus the decision to just celebrate/accept them. The balance of changing versus accepting our kids is even more difficult to find when we’re in the very sensitive and triggering world of food body and weight. In this episode, Jill shows why the division of responsib...

Are you interested in adding a more body positive, inclusive, anti-diet perspective to your work? Are you interested in shifting your work completely? Well guess what! I’m thinking about beta testing a group program for healthcare providers and professionals (and really anyone who works with people) this fall. Tune in to learn more.

In this episode, Jill reads a piece from Alexandra Franzen on ICE. A beautiful metaphor for the process of changing the way we see food and our bodies.

It’s the end of the 85 day mini-podcast experiment/marathon/challenge!!! Here’s what Jill learned from the process!!

On the day of her 40th birthday party, Jillian reflects on why bad body thought show up before major life events, how to deal with it when it happens, and how far she has come on her body acceptance journey.

Ever feel like this work is vague and directionless? Ever try to find an an muscle during a tricky yoga/Pilates move? It’s basically the same problem with the same solution!!! Don’t believe me?! Tune in:)

As our 85 day podcast marathon comes to a close, Jillian is offering up a free, eight week food and body image challenge to help you integrate the information you’ve been absorbing here on the podcast and possibly from following her for a while. Whether you’re brand new to this work or you’ve been playing around with it for years, it’s important - not only to gather information - but to take the t...

In this episode, jill explores why making peace with food and body can sometimes feel like ‘giving up’, how to reframe what ‘healthy effort’ is, and how to move through the discomfort of learning to exist at a new pace!

In this episode, Jillian explores the relationship we have with the feelings of fullness and satiation. When you feel full – does it trigger you? Does feeling ‘pleasurably satiated’ immediately spiral you into restrictive food thoughts? Let’s explore it!

A few readings to get you thinking about your relationship with food and body!!!

In this episode, Jill explores Ellyn Satter’s division of responsibility when it comes to activity and children!!

Today’s episode is a Q&A from the archives. In it, Jill explores the difference between healthy body neutrality and complete apathy (verging on negativity) - including how to the-connect with your body when you are looking to move past ‘meh’.

In this episode, Jill takes a rare break from food and body (sort of?!) to talk about a few of her favourite things.

In this episode, Jill celebrates the new plus sized mannequins debuted by Nike in London. She contemplated the backlash and asks the question....in all the controversy, when it boils right down to it, what do YOU believe?!

In this episode, Jill answers a listener question about why a woman is struggling with food while feeling fine about (and enjoying the privilege of) her thin body.

In the episode, Jill pokes holes in the misconception that those in fatter bodies consume more calories (ie are judged as overeaters) than those in thin bodies.

In this episode, Jill talks about the belief that children cannot be trusted around food and she offers up some research on how children do - in fact - regulate the amount of food they take in and have the ability to regulate themselves around even sugary and fatty foods. A great episode for those who have children or who have trouble believing that they, themselves, have finally tuned internal re...

In this episode, Jill talks about why it can be so hard for those with a dieting history to stick with food restrictions - even when they are for a “good” reason. She also explains how best approach food restrictions - for those who are struggling.

In this episode, Jill discusses what know and DON’T know about pursuing intentional weight loss - and why the combination of those two factors is pushing us all to stop defining intentional weight loss as a health promoting activity.

In this episode, Jill talks about the mindset required to make a shift in your relationship with food and body.

In this episode, Jill explores a recent scenario that felt filled with subtle dirty mentality.

Who are the voices in your head when it comes to your relationship with food and your body? Are there lessons you once learned that are no longer serving you? Are you ready to move on from certain mentors? That’s the food for thought Jill is serving up in today’s minisode.

In this episode, Jill defines mindful eating and talks about a few of the ways the practice in presence can be turned into a diet.

In this episode, Jillian discusses the messaging around law of attraction, manifestation, alignment, and weight. I’m sure it will come as no surprise that there are a few things Jillian finds incredibly problematic.

When making peace with food, weight gain is not uncommon - but what is ‘normal’ and when do we need to take radical action? Today’s episode is an email exchange between Jill and one of her 1:1 clients.