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

The “inner child” is a concept used by psychologists and therapists of all backgrounds to express the deep-seated beliefs that one’s hold within and often expresses itself in “self-sabotaging” behaviors. The “inner child” is part of the teaching and learning you have acquired before your teens that still is present within your subconscious mind. The thoughts that are still playing in your mind dri...

WAITLIST FOR CONQUER:   https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coming SHOW SPONSOR: Better Help Online Counseling Access 10% discount using this unique link:  https://betterhelp.com/beyondfood -- On today's episode, we talk about mindfulness One of the most impactful tools for reactive eating behavior is mindful eating. One of the most powerful tools for a reactive living (depression/anxiety) is mindful...

WAITLIST FOR CONQUER:   https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coming SHOW SPONSOR: Better Help Online Counseling Access 10% discount using this unique link:  https://betterhelp.com/beyondfood -- In today's episode, we'll talk about the wisdom of emotional eating Can we find wisdom in emotional eating behaviors? Or is emotional eating something to be demonized and eliminated? The vast majority of society...

WAITLIST FOR CONQUER:   https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coming SHOW SPONSOR: Better Help Online Counseling Access 10% discount using this unique link:  https://betterhelp.com/beyondfood --- Finding the Courage to Do What ’s  Best for You In this special bonus edition of The Beyond the Food Show podcast, I’m sharing a powerful case study that will show you how transforming your relationship to food...

WAITLIST FOR CONQUER:   https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coming SHOW SPONSOR: Better Help Online Counseling Access 10% discount using this unique link:  https://betterhelp.com/beyondfood --- In today's episode, we'll talk about binge eating and restricting. Whenever somebody brings up the topic of how to stop binge eating, I vividly remember the day I caught myself binge eating. This story happens...

WAITLIST FOR CONQUER: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coming SHOW SPONSOR: Better Help Online Counseling Access 10% discount using this unique link: https://betterhelp.com/beyondfood ----- In today's episode, we discuss if healthy weight loss is possible and provide an answer, too! Is it possible to lose weight in a healthy way? When is gaining weight enough when I try to eat intuitively? Is it wr...

Starting your intuitive eating journey on your own meaning to help, no professional, no course... just you and the book. This episode is for you! The intuitive eating learning journey Just like you had to learn to diet years ago... you need to learn to undiet. Just like dieting took time and effort, unlearning diet culture and all of its side effects takes time and effort. Any new behaviors, actio...

“ So I quit dieting … what do I do next?”   This is where all women begin their journey into intuitive eating. Maybe you know the answer to this question because you’ve been there. Or perhaps that’s the question you are asking yourself right now.   Most women have been indoctrinated into diet culture at a very young age and have been living according to diet culture’s rules since then. Most women...

Non-Diet Business Training is essential for any women health entrepreneurs starting their business adventure in the non-diet health approach. Your business success means women’s learning how to ditch diet culture. Your willingness to accept that your business success means more lives transformed is key to your being successful in your professional journey. In the same way, you ask your client/pati...

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Sarah Cogliati , a student of the Intuitive Eating Project. Sarah agreed to share her story on the podcast to show women what is possible when we finally make the choice to accept our bodies.    After 30 years of yo-yo dieting, liberation is possible!   Sarah has been on her journey of body acceptance and making peace with food for a few years and now has become a...

The business transition from the traditional model of nutrition and health to the non-diet model can be scary but also can be life-changing. As with everything in life, how you approach the need for you to transition your business will make the journey scary, filled with anxiety and uncertainties OR you will make the journey pleasurable, filled with learnings and growth both personally and profess...

Love versus fear.   Believe it or not, the opposite of love isn’t  hate . It’s fear.    All emotions basically fall under one of two categories — love-based emotions of fear-based.   Our emotions direct the choices we make daily. Our emotional state informs the decision we take in our lives. They create the action we take towards our dreams, goals… life!   Productive emotions will produce producti...

Women don’t diet because they enjoy dieting. Women who diet do it because they think they have to. From a very young age, women have been socialized that they are their physical bodies. Women have internalized that their worth is associated with their body and its ability to achieve the expectation from diet culture. Not sure... let’s look at research released by Dove, for their ‘Self-Esteem Proje...

Body fantasies sound like this: “When I finally lose weight I will ______” or “If my body could be different I would ______” or “If I could look younger I would _____” And you can fill the blank of what will happen once you get to live your body fantasies with one or many of these: I will be happy I will feel lighter I will be sexy I will be confident and do _____ I’ll get the promotion I deserve...

In the first three years of clinical practice, I thought I was addressing the root cause of my patient health concerns. In my training in holistic health & functional medicine, we are trained on addressing the underlying or root cause of chronic disease, taking into account the whole person including their environment, genetics, and lifestyle factors. Addressing the root cause is fundamental philo...

What are you hungry for?   What are we truly hungry for? Is it food? If it was, then eating will appease our hungers. But it doesn’t. That we crave, overeat, binge we never feel full. It’s not enough and feels like it’s never going to be enough. So,  if food was the answer to our hunger then we would feel full. But it’s not.   Could it be that what we are hungry for is not food? Is it possible tha...

Any non-diet business coaching must include a segment on non-diet marketing. For many, the words marketing is “yucky” or even “salesy”. Many of my new intuitive eating business students at first will tell me “I hate that part of my job”. Is that you, too? If you are a health professional and have a private practice, then marketing is a vital part of your business. This is even more relevant for no...

In today's episode, we'll listen to an Academy student's 40-year battle with food and body image... In today’s episode, I’m joined by Ann Killin, a student of the Going Beyond the Food Academy. Ann agreed to share her story  on the podcast to help other women take the step forward in healing in their relationship with food and body.     Ann is being very vulnerable and open about her life journey....

Diet mindset professional training was not available when I started my transition to a non-diet approach to nutrition and health as a clinical nutritionist; I had to figure it out on my own. Piece it all together… I shared my professional transition that my client Carolyn triggered in First Do No Harm: The Intuitive Eating Mentorship Journey. I argued that the current model of practice for a nutri...

In today's episode, we'll explore sugar cravings and intuitive eating “Is it bad to have sugar cravings?” “Why does our body crave sweets?” “Is sugar addictive?” “Why eating sugar leads to binging?” “What is my body trying to tell me when I crave sugar?” “Why do I crave sugar at night?” These are all normal and almost expected questions given the current perspective of our society (read here diet...

In today’s episode, we are going to explain what an intuitive eating business is really about. Starting an intuitive eating business can be overwhelming and scary. Even those that have a regular health practice to transition to a non-diet model can be frightening. We will reveal what steps you should take to create a heart-centered intuitive eating business that will be successful. In this episode...

In today's episode, we'll explore the #1 enemy to intuitive eating, internalized fatphobia “You are so beautiful Stephanie! …. It’s ok for you to be bigger but not for me.” Not that I hear this statement a lot when I meet women but most often when we have known each other for a bit. This statement or something similar will be shared typically when my students are struggling with their journey in b...

Welcome to Season 1 of the Beyond  The  Food PRO podcast series.    This 8-part podcast series is created to educate female health professionals on a non-diet approach to food, weight, and health.   In today’s episode, we discuss how we may be  causing harm to our clients and patients b y delivering nutrition services. By following a traditional model of nutrition and health care for women we may...

In today's episode, we'll talk about the five stages of intuitive eating The journey of becoming an intuitive eater is very different than the one of dieting...here we will look into the five stages of intuitive eating. We have to understand that becoming an intuitive eater is a process. It’s a process of restoring a safe of trust with our bodies that were rob from us when we became a dieter. Furt...

      In today's episode, we'll explore intuitive eating for the family, successful integration with Dr. Jillian and Sally   “The last thing I want to do is to pass my food issue to my kids”- This is a quote of many of my new clients and students. The majority of women in my community share my story of being introduced to the world of dieting at an early age. And for years we believed that it’s th...