It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching

Food noise isn't a diagnosis. It's not a brain disorder. It might be the most cleverly marketed word for something that's been happening to diet-culture survivors for decades. Dr. Erin Knopf is triple-board certified in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, and she specializes in eating disorders. In this episode of the Beyond GLP-1 series, she breaks down what food no...

Nobody screens you for disordered eating before prescribing a GLP-1. That is not an accident. It is a gap in the entire informed consent process, and it is the subject of this conversation. I talk with Dr. Michelle Tubman, an emergency physician, about what informed consent for GLP-1 medications should actually include and rarely does. In this episode you will learn: What Michelle sees in the emer...

GLP-1 medications are changing how people experience food. What no one is telling you is they may also be changing how people experience everything else. In this episode I sit down with Olivia Palmer, chartered health psychologist and behavioral science specialist, to look at what these drugs are actually doing to the brain. Not the metabolic picture — the psychological one. We get into anhedonia,...

The Ozempic era did not create weight stigma. It just showed us how shallow the acceptance always was. Dr. Angela Meadows is a social psychologist, weight stigma researcher, and founder of the International Weight Stigma Conference. She has spent her career studying how weight stigma operates at the individual, relational, and systemic level. In this conversation, she brings her research lens dire...

GLP-1 medications are being prescribed with no eating disorder screening and no monitoring. What could go wrong? According to eating disorder specialist and registered dietitian Marci Evans, quite a lot. Marci has spent her career at the intersection of body image and eating disorder care. In this conversation, she shares what she is actually seeing in her clinical practice and why it frightens he...

The science on GLP-1 drugs is not what the marketing says it is. Ragen Chastain has been studying weight science, weight stigma, and healthcare practice for over 20 years. In this episode, she gives us the clearest breakdown yet of what the research actually supports — as of May 2026 — and how to tell the difference between evidence and pharmaceutical strategy. This is part of the Beyond GLP-1 exp...

GLP-1s did not just change medicine. They changed a movement. Virgie Tovar is a weight stigma expert, activist, and journalist who has been watching this unfold from a perspective most voices in this conversation don't have. In this episode, she traces exactly what happened to body positivity and fat activism when Ozempic entered the room, and she does not soften the analysis. In this episode: The...

The reason the non-diet approach didn't work isn't the approach. It's that the work stayed too surface level. Most weight-neutral health coaching teaches behaviors. It doesn't touch identity. And without identity work — without building the version of yourself you are becoming — the old patterns always come back. This episode is about the piece that's been missing. What you'll learn: What future s...

Your clients are going to bring GLP-1 into the room whether you are ready or not. The only question is whether you have a clinical framework for it.   In this episode, I sit down with Sam Previt — registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and founder of Find Food Freedom, the largest intuitive eating dietitian practice in the US — for the conversation our field has been avoi...

What if your client wants to lose weight—but you don’t coach weight loss? In this episode, I’m giving you the exact tools and mindset shifts to navigate that moment with confidence and compassion. You’ll learn how to coach through the desire to lose weight—without gaslighting your client or abandoning your non-diet values. We’ll explore where this desire comes from and how to respond in a way that...

The drugs have been sold as a miracle. The science has been quietly shaped by the companies profiting from them. And the deaths are not yet being called a scandal. Clinical psychologist Louise Adams co-authored a paper that has already been read more than 7,500 times in its first ten days. She joins me to trace the three-pronged pharmaceutical marketing strategy behind GLP-1 drugs, follow the mone...

Binary thinking is not a character flaw. It is a survival mechanism. And it is the #1 thing keeping women stuck in their relationship with food. In this episode I go into the grey zone: what it is, why the brain defaults to all-or-nothing thinking, and what it actually takes to build the capacity to live in the nuanced middle. What you will learn: Why binary thinking is the #1 cognitive pattern bl...

Journaling and thought work are not the same thing. And if you've been mixing them up, the change you're looking for may be stalled at the surface. In this Coach Corner, I answer a real question from a Groundwork client who has been deep in the podcast. She noticed I keep talking about thought work and cognitive behavioral coaching, and she asked: is that the same as what I'm doing when I journal?...

You've been doing the body image work. So why are you still having " bad body image days?" Because the goal was never to stop having them. In this episode, I'm breaking down body image perfectionism — the belief that if you heal enough, do the work long enough, follow the protocol closely enough, you'll arrive at a place where your body never bothers you again. That's not healing. That's perfectio...

Bad body image days aren't failures. They're the mechanism. Stephanie teaches the healing spiral and why oscillation is how real body image work actually moves forward. In this Coach Corner episode, I teach two concepts that created a light bulb moment inside the first session of The Groundwork: the oscillation of body image and the healing spiral. These are not abstract ideas. They are the refram...

Performative eating is when you choose food based on how others perceive you — not hunger or satisfaction. Learn what drives it and how to stop. In this episode, you'll learn: What performative eating actually is and how to recognize it in your daily life Why overriding your body's signals to "perform" health is the root of disordered eating How conditional self-esteem fuels food choices based on...

What does a non-diet health professional's quarterly business review actually look like? I'm showing you mine. In this episode, I walk you through the exact process I use to review my business every three months — what worked, what to stop, and what to add. Then I share my real goals for Q2 of 2026, including the market shifts I'm responding to and why I'm restructuring my offers right now. This i...

Post traumatic growth is possible after diet culture. Learn how to move beyond anger and into a richer life using the Beyond The Food Method. In this episode, I'm sharing a concept that has the power to completely change what you believe is possible after leaving diet culture behind. Post-traumatic growth is real, it's backed by psychology, and for some people — it's the missing piece. I'll walk y...

When your client hits a wall in body image healing, it is not a sign something went wrong. It is a sign you are doing the work right. In this Coach Corner episode, I answer a question I get more than almost any other. A practitioner has done everything correctly with her client. Intuitive eating. Body image tools. Mirror work. Six weeks of solid sessions. And now she is stuck. I explain exactly wh...

Discover how hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues work and why diet culture disrupted them. Learn to rebuild interoception for real food freedom. What you'll learn in this episode: Why wellness culture sends you chasing hormones you cannot control What interoception awareness is and how dieting dials it down Why feeling full is a shameful experience for most women and what that costs them How t...

What really drives your food choices? Learn the psychology of eating — and why it must come before any nutrition conversation. In this episode, I break down the psychology of eating: the belief-to-behavior chain that drives every food choice, why diet culture structurally depends on keeping you disconnected from your own psychology, and what actually changes when you start addressing the root. Thi...

Why feminist identity (not just beliefs) protects women from disordered eating, and what that means for non-diet health coaching. In this episode, you'll learn: Why feminist identity protects against body dissatisfaction and disordered eating, and what the research actually says The difference between holding a belief and embodying it, and why that gap is the reason your clients get stuck Why soci...

You've been told consistency is the goal. But what if chasing it is actually what's keeping you stuck? In this episode, I'm introducing a concept I call the consistency fetish — the belief that being consistent is a moral indicator of your worth. I'm breaking down why women are especially conditioned to chase it, how it mirrors the thin ideal, and what we need to build instead. What you'll learn i...

Nervous system capacity matters more than pant size. Stephanie Dodier explains why it's the #1 missing piece in women's health and how to build it. What you'll learn: What nervous system capacity is — and why thinking of it as a muscle changes everything How low capacity shows up in your clients through body image, emotional reactivity, and eating behavior Why it's the hidden driver behind pattern...

What if your self-worth isn't broken — it's just conditional? Learn the difference, the signs, and how to rebuild it from the inside out. In this episode, you'll learn: The critical difference between self-esteem and self-worth — and why confusing them keeps clients stuck How social conditioning wires women to seek worth externally — and what that looks like across body image, health, and career T...