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Today on the show I'm honored to have Leehe Negri on the show to share with you the role a therapist plays in eating disorder recovery, how Leehe helps her clients identify diet culture in their lives and how a dietitian and therapist can complement each other in helping their clients thrive.   Leehe is a licensed mental health counselor, located in Boca Raton, FL. She works with adults with a bro...

Have you ever wondered, why am I so damn crazy obsessed with helping people make peace with food and their body? If so, today's episode is for you!   As a bonus episode to let you know that this Sunday is the final day to join our October cohort for FBPP and that you want to join now because:   This is the last group we are running in 2022. Price will be increasing next round. You'll be supported...

If I were to ask you, what is your self worth dependent on, how would you answer? Would it be the grades you make in school? The accolades you hold in your job? How hard you work? How good of a mom you are?   What about your body? Do you feel that your body is THE thing that either provides you self worth, or is the very thing that you feel constantly holds you back from viewing yourself in a posi...

What if you could get dressed everyday without negative body talk? And w hat if you could feel confident in your body without changing what you eat?   Today on the podcast, we are going to cover 5 specific ways to feel more confident in your body on a daily basis.   And why do we want to experience confidence in our bodies? Confidence allows us to: Eat ice cream AND feel confident your body can ha...

Do you constantly feel guilty for what you eat? And does the guilt you feel about food involve concern over how that food is going to impact your body, i.e. will it cause weight gain?   Have you ever thought about WHY you feel guilty about what you eat? In today's episode we explore the main culprit of food guilt, diet culture, and how it causes food guilt.   Because here's the truth: Guilt and sh...

Have you ever experienced extreme hunger when you stopped dieting? Maybe you went from barely any hunger at all, and you stopped following Weight Watchers, paleo, keto, etc and now you cannot stop thinking about food?   Or maybe for you it's that the feeling of hunger is complicated to you. You often ignore, push it away, which then leads you to get to the state of primal hunger at the end of the...

There may be a way to save yourself hours per week with this one small change to your health habits. And that's meal planning!   Over the past couple weeks, we've addressed many of the positive benefits to meal planning, like helping you eat for satisfaction AND nourishment, reducing decision fatigue and helping you have sustained energy all day long because you're eating enough throughout the day...

What if you could eat the most delicious meals, in the comfort of your own home, without the decision fatigue you typically experience.   Let's be honest, we are all busy bees. Same here. If I tried to come up with satisfying meals in the moment, meals that satisfy my desire for flavor and nutrition, I would give you a blank stare.   This is where meal planning can be so beneficial. In today's epi...

Our newest offer, the Meal Planning Guide, will be available starting next Tuesday, September 6th, for only $10 the first 72 hours! This guide will help you grocery shop with confidence, meal plan without the influence of diet culture, and eat for satisfaction while knowing you are taking care of your health.   And as we did last week, we are going to continue detailing through a tactic we teach i...

I'm hosting a free training this week on Thursday August 25th at 7pm ET. If you are interested in eating your favorite foods without guilt, I want you to attend the 3 Unexpected Ways to Let Go of Food Guilt training! Spots are limited to this live training, so click here and grab your seat today.   What if you could have energy, all day long, without drinking a pot of coffee? Imagine how that woul...

One of the hardest things about choosing food and body peace is admitting to yourself that you are struggling. Even harder? Telling those in your life that you love about those struggles!   Today's episode is one of hopefully many to come, where dietitian at my practice, Emilie Hebert, interviews one of her clients on their experience working with Emilie. Lauren was gracious enough to agree to com...

Can you engage in popular wellness trends, like intermittent fasting, if you have a history or are currently struggling with disordered eating?   Intermittent fasting is all the rage these days, and is touted as a way to improve blood sugar levels, cognitive function, life longevity, reduce oxidative stress and inflammation and so many more proposed benefits.   And if you have been here since the...

The saying goes "breakfast is the most important meal of the day." But y ou're used to skipping breakfast because you're intermittent fasting or counting collagen in your coffee as a breakfast. You can have more energy throughout your entire day, with this one change to your morning routine: By eating breakfast daily with carbs, protein and fat.   You deserve to live life the way you want, and hav...

Today on the show we have guest, Mia Donley, who shares with us all how to work towards body trust by building safety in your body. Mia Donley, MPH, RD, CDN is a registered dietitian and consultant working in the field of eating disorders and public health. She originally pursued nutrition to bring culturally relevant nutrition education to the field, as she didn't find her own family's foods and...

I loved this episode with Maria so much. It speaks to your SOUL, that's just how Maria is. At the end of the episode, I ask Maria about why taking FBPP was different than listening to the podcast, which she has been listening since the VERY beginning, since 2017!   You'll have to listen in to hear Maria's answer, but one of the things her answer made me reflect on is the why behind why I transitio...

In today's episode we debunk 4 common misconceptions about intuitive eating so that you can have clarity about what intuitive eating is all about.   Do you have duct tape on your broken relationship with food and your body?   If you do, and if this broken relationship is just getting worse as you try to determine how to fix it…and if you've been stuck at the 'let me try to fix this myself' place f...

Today on the podcast we have yet another special guest, Melissa! Melissa participated in our April cohort of Food & Body Peace Playbook (FBPP), and is on the show today sharing her experience going through the program. You'll hear Melissa share how she started dieting around 8 years old, how she learned about intuitive eating as a mental health therapist, and why she decided FBPP was a great fit f...

When people here anti diet here's what they hear:  Anti health. Anti nutrition. Anti vegetables. In this episode, we will talk about one of the concepts of intuitive eating to help you understand why there's so much misinformation about this self care eating framework: Making peace with food.   Making peace with food involves giving yourself unconditional permission to eat. People take this to mea...

Today's episode is SO special because today on the show I have a member of our April cohort Food & Body Peace Playbook, Lara!   Inside this episode, you'll learn how Lara first worked with us inside Get Your Period Back Playbook, and then decided to continue on in her intuitive eating journey by joining our signature group coaching program, Food & Body Peace Playbook (FBPP).   FBPP is an 8 week on...

I used to teach people how to lose weight for a living. It was my career and identity.   In the beginning, 10 years ago, I was totally sold on it. I so firmly believed that people could live off the 1,200 calories diets I was giving them. That they lacked discipline when they didn't stick to the plan. I was judgmental of OTHERS eating habits because I was JUDGING MYSELF.   Overtime, I woke up to t...

Dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, Megan Perez, is back on the show today! In today's episode, Megan guides us through a better understanding of what fiber is, sources of fiber in the diet and the health benefits of fiber.   Since Megan works with clients on gentle nutrition, especially for her PCOS clients with some degree of insulin resistance; it's fun to discuss health promoting practice...

Have you personally or known of someone who has taken a food sensitivity test? And have you ever noticed that overtime, for many people, the results dissipate? That they may even cause anxiety or worry about the foods they are intolerant to?    Today, I want to discuss why I don't like nor recommend food sensitivity testing. This is definitely a tricky subject. What I'm not trying to do in this ep...

Lauren Cadillac is a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, certified personal trainer and retired bodybuilder. She owns and operates a virtual private practice where she helps individuals from all over the world heal their relationship with food.   Rather than focusing on a number on the scale or strict food rules, Lauren takes an approach to nutrition that encourages behavio...

Y'all it's my birthday week! And to celebrate I'm hosting my first annual, Birthday Blowout Flash Sale!   My goal with this flash sale is to give you 72 hours to purchase our online courses at a discounted price, so that you can get the help you need at a lower price.   We are offering for HALF OFF the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace and the Gentle Nutrition Masterclass , and $100 off our HA...

*TW: We discuss nutrition in today's episode, if this could be triggering for you in your ED recovery, today's episode may not be for you. If you do listen, I encourage with all nutrition information to keep an "add in" mentality when applying recommendations.   In today's episode we have gut health expert and Gastroenterologist on the show, Dr. Leybelis Padilla. She is a mommy to 2, wife to a for...