Fuel Her Awesome — Mental Health, Aging, Nutrition & Healing Your Relationship With Food: gut-brain connection, emotional eating, women’s hormone health, food freedom, empowered eating

How would you describe your relationship with food?    Stellar? Destructive? Balanced? Productive?  Sour?    Chances are you have been in a bad relationship before, so you know the impact it can have on your life. This is just as, if not more so, true when it comes to your relationship with food. Only, you can't break up with food like you could your ex! Instead, we have to get acquainted and comf...

What’s up food friends!    "Eating A Hot Dog Could Shave 36 Minutes Off Your Life."    If you haven’t seen this headline yet, I am going to do you a solid and fill you in so you're ahead of the game. If you have seen it, I am so excited you are here because you need to be a fly on the wall and hear this conversation!   We are going to suck the fear right out of this headline and unpack it from a n...

Hey sister friends! Do you feel guilty for taking time for self care? Today we talk about how to turn self-care into an everyday habit (sans the side of guilt)! Self-care isn't always having wine in the bathtub, it can be as simple as a walk around the block by yourself to recharge. Tune in to learn all about habit stacking and how you can easily implement new health promoting habits that actually...

Perfectionism and all-or-nothing have you stuck in a state of paralysis?? Ladies today's episode is EVERYTHING! I am sitting down with clinical psychologist, therapist, and a personal friend of mine, Dr. Erica Castleberry. We are diving into an awesome conversation and about some of the major obstacles that present when it comes to healing our relationships with our bodies and moving towards healt...

Is breakfast the most important meal of the day?  What if you're intermittent fasting? What nutrients are most important to include in breakfast? What if I don’t have time?  Does coffee count as breakfast??  (Sorry... the answer is no on this one.)    In today's episode we are breaking it all down! I'm bringing you the research on these questions and unpacking the importance of the first meal of t...

A bonus bit, an embarrassing story, and a quick tip for keeping your mental chatter positive!    Enjoy sisters! Jess  👉 Learn more or apply to work together:    Apply to work with Jess FREE BEYOND MACROS MASTERCLASS + a free 12-day Reset Menu

From Eating Disorder to Awesome: Julie Allen's story of trauma, triumph, and how she came to be founder and CEO of an organizaion fighting diet culture and making women everywhere feel beautiful.    Julie Allen, an author and eating disorder awareness activist, is the CEO of Mary Rose NW Boutique and founder of the Mary Rose Foundation. Julie started Mary Rose NW Boutique because she recognized th...

Nothing is more powerful than a testimony of triumph.    I am so grateful for today's episode featuring a childhood friend. The Pascale I knew in elementary school was fun loving, hilarious, and a ray of light. Over the years, our culture eclipsed so much of her beauty... telling her she wasn't enough. Living in a large, black body comes with many challenges in our thin, white body-obsessed cultur...

Just a little something extra for you ladies this week!    Cheers and happy (weekend) eating,  Jess  👉 Learn more or apply to work together:  Apply to work with Jess FREE BEYOND MACROS MASTERCLASS + a free 12-day Reset Menu

Who else has been lost in the supplement isle????   🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋‍♀️   I am so stoked to dive into supplements with y'all today!  We are constantly bombarded with lists of all the different supplements and their claims to fame.  I want to take a step back and give you ladies a crash course on how to be supplement savvy!  On today's episode, I'm bringing you what you NEED to know i...

A little bonus bump for y'all this week!    Making Excuses vs. Giving Yourself Grace?! The Seasons of Health You Must Experience to Re-balance Your Relationship With Food.    Enjoy! Jess 👉 Learn more or apply to work together:  Apply to work with Jess FREE BEYOND MACROS MASTERCLASS + a free 12-day Reset Menu

The restrict then binge cycle is brutal!   It leaves you sad. Disappointed. And feeling like a failure.     It makes you want to buckle down, work harder, and focus more on diet and exercise. What if I told you this is the wrong place to start? Does working harder set you up to repeat old patterns?    Today I am rolling out the secret to stopping the madness!    Today's episode is brought to you b...

You live in your body! It is time to get comfortable!    Where Do You Fall On The Body Image Spectrum?   Body Bullying? Body Tolerance? Body Acceptance? Body Love?????    Join me in the episode with registered dietitian, Bryn Anthony (formerly known as Bryn Smith), as we unpack this spectrum and dive into tactical tools to move into a better relationship with your body.    Cheers and happy eating,...

Continuing this series for all my bada** ladies out there 💪🏼   FUEL YOUR WORKOUT!    I am dropping ONE EPISODE A DAY for 4 days!!!   1) Fuel Your Workout: What to eat BEFORE- be sure to tune in to episode #29!  2) Fuel Your Workout: How to REFUEL- episode #30. 3) Fuel Your Workout: What to eat the other 23 hours of the day- episode #31.   AND TODAY 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I have a special guest interview w...

Continuing this series for all my bada** ladies out there 💪🏼   FUEL YOUR WORKOUT!    I am dropping ONE EPISODE A DAY for 4 days!!!   1) Fuel Your Workout: What to eat BEFORE 2) Fuel Your Workout: What to eat AFTER 3) THIS WEEK!!!!! Fuel Your Workout: What to eat the other 23 hours of the day   In this episode, I am bringing you all the sports nutrition details on what to the other 23-hours of th...

Continuing this series for all my bada** ladies out there:  FUEL YOUR WORKOUT!    I am dropping ONE EPISODE A DAY for 4 days!!!   1) Fuel Your Workout: What to eat BEFORE- be sure to tune in to episode #29!  2) Fuel Your Workout: What it is so important to refuel and what to eat post-workout 3) Fuel Your Workout: What to eat the other 23 hours of the day 4) Special guest interview Fuel Your Workou...

I'm kicking off this month with a kick a** a series for you: FUEL YOUR WORKOUT!    I am dropping ONE EPISODE A DAY for the next 4 days!!!   1) Fuel Your Workout: What to eat BEFORE 2) Fuel Your Workout: What to eat AFTER 3) Fuel Your Workout: What to eat the other 23 hours of the day 4) And a special guest interview Fuel Your Workout: How to sync your cycle with your workouts.    In this episode,...

Do you find yourself doing everything you can, but you're still not healthy enough? How would you even know if you were “healthy enough”? Would you be able to notice it and celebrate it?  Today I share my thoughts on something I like to the call The Wellness Trap! When we embark on our health journey, we look for resources to support us and empower us but often times we find ourselves feeling beat...

Hey sister- It's my birthday!!!   Today I am celebrating my 36th trip around the sun and I am so deeply grateful for all of you who tune in and share your journey with me. This podcast is fuel for my fire and I feel so blessed to have a career I am this passionate about!  Because its my BIRTHDAY I wanted to do a little something special to thank all of YOU...  I am bringing you in on neRD world! (...

Happy Monday Ladies!  Do you ever feel discouraged because you've been eating healthy and hitting the gym, but you just can't seem to lose weight? You're not alone! In episode #27 we chat about what really might be going on inside your body and why you haven't been able to lose that 10 lb you so desperately want to!   I'm going over "Set-point theory" - is it really a thing? We also unpack and ref...

How many times a day do you beat yourself up in your head?  1, 2, ... 10?!?! Research shows that up to 80% of our thoughts about ourselves are negative.    ESH!!!! No wonder you are stuck and can't seem to get enough "will power" to hit those goals.    Combating negative self-talk can be difficult, especially when we have carved out these negative thought pathways for years. If you’re struggling t...

Today we dive into one of my favorite macros: PROTEIN!   Protein is an amazing nutrient that is absolutely essential to building and maintaining muscle strength. In today’s episode, I am breakin' down protein quality, quantity and timing.   Did you know as we age, our bodies start to utilize protein differently? I'm going to fill you ladies in on how we can keep reaching and exceeding our strength...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and I don’t think there is a single one of us who hasn’t been impacted, either personally or with a loved one, by mental health disorders.  The majority of my career has been spent working in the mental health field and supporting those who have struggled with eating disorders and disordered eating. In light of this month, I am diving into food, recovery, and l...

It is time we rethink how we define and categorize health. Health doesn’t have a specific shape, size, or color.  In fact, health is not something we can see at all.    In this episode Jen McLellan, author, speaker, host of the Plus Mommy Podcast and awesome human, joins Fuel Her Awesome for an important and powerful conversation. This heart-to-heart is about her journey as she discovers she is ST...

"I love the idea of empowered eating, but it seems so far away…”  I feel you sister! Life is CRAZY, packed, and doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.    But the reality is we have to figure out a way to live at peace with food and stop the body war or we will end up sabotaging ourself in one way or another.   In this episode I’ve got 3 steps to get you started on your empowered eating jour...