Nourished Fertility (A Period Recovery + Fertility Podcast)

It's been a long time since we last had a podcast episode on intermittent fasting and I thought it was due time to an update, review of the research and to have an honest conversation with you about your need for rules.   It's common and totally okay to have questions about what is intuitive eating aligned and what is not when it comes to health trends, and even nutrition research. Because intuiti...

One of the amazing dietitians at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, Megan Perez, is back on the show! Today she's getting personal with you sharing why she is so passionate about PCOS awareness and proper education on this endocrine disorder. Megan is our resident PCOS specialist so I knew she would be the perfect person to come on the show to share with you gentle nutrition practices to support PCOS.  ...

The purpose of today's episode is to share the digestive response our bodies have to an eating disorder and how this impacts our gut microbiome.   For the context of this episode, I'm going to refer to eating disorders to include the entire spectrum: chronic dieting, disordered eating, orthorexia, anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. Since I specialize in orthorexia, I'll really be touching on thi...

Today on the podcast, we have one of our amazing dietitians at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, Kelsey Pukala, back on the show to explain how disordered eating can be a root cause to digestive issues.   In today's episode we detail through: An explanation to what is disordered eating What kind of digestive issues you can experience with disordered eating Why and how disordered eating can lead to diges...

  I'm going to start this episode off with a rant of how bad diet culture is right now. I live in my non-diet bubble so much that sometimes I forget HOW BAD it is out there. I'm continuing to realize how prevalent diet culture is and how much we need to keep spreading our message. And I get that intuitive eating sounds like a different world. And that's because it is. It's about behavior change an...

There is no perfect or "right way" to nourish our bodies and I hope this episode with guest and eating disorder specialist, Erica Drewry RD/N, helps you discover your own version of health and learn the differences between positive and pathological nutrition.   Erica Drewry is a dietitian dedicated to teaching you how to worry less about food and be more present with things that matter in your lif...

Mindfulness has been a buzzword for the past few years and the number of people practicing in the US has tripled in the past decade, but so many don't know the real principles behind it. It's more than simply calming the mind, it involves self-love, forgiveness, compassion, authenticity, and perspective.   After climbing the corporate ladder for nearly a decade, Nina left her flourishing career to...

Today's episode is another round of Ask Me Anything Q&A with my amazing assistant, Kate, asking me your listener questions. In this episode we cover in detail birth control for hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA), how long it takes to recover from HA, how to heal from HA as a college athlete and lab values that confirm or deny HA.   If you are a perfectionist with a missing period or diagnosis of hypotha...

If you resonate with being a perfectionist or a "good girl", you'll love today's guest,  Majo Molfino , the Latinx author of Break The Good Girl Myth , host of the HEROINE Podcast designer, and women's leadership expert.   Majo Molfino guides women toward more power and meaning through her unique blend of storytelling, design, psychology, and mindfulness . She has a book, Break the Good Girl Myth...

Today's guest is Jessie Johnson, a Board Certified Nutrition Specialist and the founder of Good Farma.  As a leader in promoting sustainable food systems that prioritize transparency + planetary integrity, Jessie brings a pinch of rogue activism to her work.  She believes all food should be easy, all food should be nourishing, and all food should be fair.  Jessie is here to make more than a statem...

As we continue to explore gentle nutrition in this series, I'd love to talk to you today about nutrition hierarchy.    Today we will explore the concept of nutrition hierarchy, so what matters most and least when it comes to nutrition. Because I know you, and that you tend to be fixated and worried about "doing it right" when it comes to nutrition.   My  goal is that this episode helps you see cle...

Financial wellness is a realm of wellness that I feel gets left out of the conversation so often, and it's something I am fascinated with as an idea of a way to practice wellness without obsession. As women, it's common to not feel empowered with education about managing our money, and I hope this episode helps you see that you can practice wellness even through creating financial stability and fr...

Here's some honest truth: Weight changes are likely the #1 challenge of choosing to become an intuitive eater. And for most of us? We believe weight loss will give us better body image, when it truly never will.   Sit and think about it: any time you've reached your "goal" weight did it feel like enough? Did you feel satisfied with your body? Or did it make you feel even worse? Want to keep going,...

After working long hours as a Wall Street consultant, overcommitting herself to friends and colleagues, and putting her health on the backburner, Rachael developed an autoimmune disorder that forced her to slow down. The daily gym sessions, people-pleasing social life, lack of sleep and nonexistent lunch hours had finally caught up with her, and it took three years to return to homeostasis. During...

Welcome to another round of AMA Q&A! Join me and my wonderful assistant, Kate, for our answers to your questions about: Daily challenging of perfectionism and orthorexia Trusting the unknown Avoiding restriction with IBS and food sensitivities Reverse dieting vs. going "all in" for  HA recovery Exercise recommendations for HA recovery Thank you to Primally Pure for bringing today's episode. I am e...

Today's guest, Lauren Sharpe, is a food freedom advocate and registered dietitian  that is passionate about helping women end the binge/restrict cycle, end food guilt, feel confident in their bodies and stop thinking about food 24/7.  In this episode, Lauren helps explain the true root cause of disordered eating and also explains why things like comparison and progress pictures on social media are...

If you are struggling with hypothalamic amenorrhea, you may know the basics of recovery are to eat more and exercise less. But what does it mean to eat more? It's interesting, the two most demonized macronutrients, carbohydrates and fat, will be the two most important nutrients to consider when it comes to getting your period back.   In this episode, I'll help you understand why carbohydrates are...

Mary Jelkovsky is the creator of Mary's Cup of Tea, an online platform that empowers women to be more confident in their bodies and love themselves unconditionally. After recovering from an eating disorder, Mary started her Instagram account @maryscupofteaa to help women heal body-image struggles and find self-love. Now, Mary Jelkovsky is a published author, TEDx speaker, and women's self-love ret...

Every round so far that I've done with Permission Stage Playbook (our online program that helps you make peace with food and body, enrollment reopening later in the fall, click here to join the waitlist ), I get the question around if sugar is truly healthy or not to consume. This question almost always comes up when we are in the module discussing challenging food fears.   If you sit and think ab...

Dr. Kim Daniels is on a mission to build an army of women who never deny themselves the food they love, who have left behind the days of anxiety about what they weigh, and who love themselves and their bodies.  And who never diet again. In this lesson we detail through the why and how your weight is not your worth.    It's rare to find a psychologist who specializes in anti-diet culture messaging...

Today on the podcast, I'm sharing with you 10 easy ways to cope with a bad body image day. This will be a short and sweet episode, which is perfect, anytime you are having one of these days, a bonus step could be coming to listen to this episode to remind you how to navigate it. The truth is, bad body image days happen.   I find for a lot of my clients, they can happen when they are challenging fo...

Today I'm excited to have guest, Meredith Renshaw on the show! Meredith is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at Free Method Nutrition, a virtual group nutrition practice that exists to equip women with the skills to overcome and the wisdom to move beyond the influences of diet culture. Meredith knows it can be overwhelming to establish a healthy relationship with food, in a world that suggests w...

In today's podcast episode, we are going to be focused on YOU and your story. I share quite a bit about my own personal journey, and bits and pieces of my clients with you, but I think it can be even more powerful to see that SO so many of us have had similar experiences when it comes to hypothalamic or post pill amenorrhea. Enjoy today's episode where I share YOUR confessions of HA recovery!   Th...

Casey Zavaleta is a strength coach, fitness educator, and nutritional therapy practitioner based in Toronto, ON. She began her career with Toronto FC in the High Performance Department where she created programs to improve athletes' high performance habits. As a personal trainer, she has found a passion for leading and coaching women to engage with fitness for better reasons than changing their bo...

Today's episode is helping you to understand and explore what happens in your body when you have hypothalamic amenorrhea. Unlike other hormone conditions, HA is directly caused from stress to the body, namely inadequate intake and excessive exercise. This episode helps explain how this occurs, and why we lose our period when our diet and exercise behaviors have gone too extreme.   In this episode...