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But really, wtf is diet culture? It's a term that's being used and thrown around a lot, but how do we define it and know if the information we are consuming is diet culture or not?   Today's podcast episode explores this in detail, sharing the definition of diet culture and giving concrete specific versions of diet culture in detail. Plus, I give you three tips to be able to point out if something...

Really, this episode should be called a day in the life of an intuitive eater, wellness lover, business owner and new momma. I thought this would be a fun episode to record and share a bit more behind the scenes of an intuitive eater, how I incorporate #wellnesswithoutobsession in my life, yet also a bit more about my personal life running my online nutrition business and private practice, and bei...

There are so many misconceptions about intuitive eating, one of the biggest ones is that it's anti-health and you cannot care about nutrition, health and wellness. The reasons, however, that health and wellness is pursued as an intuitive eater is very different than the diet culture infused versions of health and wellness.    So can you practice meal planning and food prepping as an intuitive eate...

A few episodes ago (in episode 144 on allowing yourself to grieve your here and now body) we discussed one of the first, critical stages of body acceptance. You have to grieve your here and now body and understand how your body image is so directly tied to your self worth and self esteem. Yet, how do you go from hating your body to then accepting it?  Today's podcast episode explores how to move f...

Cyclic living is essentially how you approach each day, week and your overall actions based off where you are in your menstrual cycle.    Cyclic living understands the changes in your hormones monthly affect your: Mood Energy Eating/exercise habits Work abilities Sex drive Relationships   Today's episode explains what is cyclic living and how you can apply it in your life period or not. This conve...

Don't forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge has already begun but you can join at anytime, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate. In today's episode we are joined by Whitney Catalano, the host of the Trust Your Body Project podcast to...

Don't forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge has already begun but you can join at anytime, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate. Brianna (or Bri) Campos is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of NJ. She has experience work...

Stay tuned to the end of the episode for a very exciting personal life update! Don't forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge starts next Wednesday January 15th, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate in the New Year, No Diet challenge.  ...

Don't forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge starts next Wednesday January 15th, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate in the New Year, No Diet challenge. In today's podcast episode, I share five books that have helped shaped me and ch...

Don't forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge starts next Wednesday January 15th, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate in the New Year, No Diet challenge. I know everyone is setting resolutions for 2020, but I wanted to share with you...

I know the New Year can make you feel that you HAVE to diet and set New Years Resolutions geared towards your eating and exercise habits and focus yet again on another year of trying to change your body. What if there was another way? We are hosting a FREE New Year, No Diet Challenge to help you do so. For every weekday for 30 days starting January 15th, you'll get an email sent straight to your i...

Kait Hurley is a digital entrepreneur and the founder of the KAIT app & Move + Meditate Method. With a background deeply rooted in wellness and over a decade in the fitness industry, Kait helps students cultivate a stronger, more resilient body and mind. She's proud of the growing global community that's getting behind movement and meditation, and she's thrilled to share something that has been so...

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday week! For the next two weeks, I'll be reposting some of mine and your favorite episodes from 2019. Today's episode is a repost from earlier in the year when my previous co-host, Meg Dixon, and I shared about emotional eating and body dysmorphia. In this episode we discuss: Emotional eating vs binge eating Diet culture's role in the development of identifyi...

As founder and CEO of the wellness brand Beekeeper's Naturals, Carly's mission is to improve the health of humans and bees alike, which is why she left her job on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs to launch Beekeeper's Naturals full-time in 2016.  Beekeeper's Naturals is on a mission to revamp your medicine cabinet. Rather than relying on conventional products, their potent nutraceuticals are mad...

This year of my life has met me with the most changes, the hardest moments and the most rewarding moments of my life. I've never better understood duality of emotions than before this year, and I learned it from both my business and from becoming a mother. I wanted to use today's episode as an opportunity to get more personal than I usually do with you, and share a lot of the behind the scenes, th...

Rachel Mansfield is back on the podcast today! In this episode she shares how life is now as a mom of a 10 month old, running a business while being a mom, and how she has been feeding Ezra. We also discuss her upcoming cookbook, Just the Good Stuff, which is available for preorder now. Rachel shares the inspiration behind the cookbook, how the recipes are organized in the cookbook and her mission...

The purpose of today's episode is to give anyone out there experiencing digestive issues doable and approachable tools and strategies you can begin using today to have digestive relief. While this conversation is geared towards people with IBS, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome, these strategies can really be used by anyone experiencing digestive symptoms.   It's been awhile since I've shared this so I...

Y'all I am so excited about today's episode! I started following Becca Bristow about a year ago when we connected on the conversation of Intuitive Eating, and have become RD-online-friends and feel so honored to say that! Becca came on the show today to share about her business, being a mother, her passion for intuitive eating and we also spend a ton of time chatting the benefits of essential oils...

If you've never heard of the term gentle nutrition before, this is the approach and mindset to applying nutrition in the intuitive eating paradigm. The term gentle nutrition comes from the final of the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, called honor your health with gentle nutrition. Gentle nutrition allows for individuality understanding we all feel different eating different ways, for our own c...

Along with our free holiday survival guide e-book, the team of dietitians at Nourishing Minds Nutrition (Kelsey, Megan and myself), wanted to record this episode to help you with how to use intuitive eating strategies to survive the holiday season. Not yet downloaded our free e-book? Check out the link in these shownotes to make sure you get your hands on it!   Get Victoria's FREE E-BOOK: The Holi...

I want to start off this conversation by saying...Our bodies are made for detoxing and equipped to handle toxins, chemicals, stress and inflammation- so many of the taboo words in the health and wellness world.   The problem is not that we should avoid all these things forever and freak out if we ever use a soap that has fragrance, or buy a deodorant with aluminum or eat an inflammatory food (what...

Sara Forte is a two-time cookbook author, award-winning food blogger at Sprouted Kitchen , co-creator of the Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club , mom of two, and equal opportunity salad and brownie enthusiast living in Southern California. Sara's food blog, Sprouted Kitchen , launched over a decade ago and has been an adventure Sara pursued with her wildly talented husband, Hugh, who is responsible for...

In today's episode, Victoria debunks 5 myths about your period and hormonal health. This episode details through why having a natural, monthly period is important to your long term health, why its important to know when you are ovulating, the significance of cervical mucus, why you don't have to follow a strict diet or food protocol to have a healthy period and why intuitive eating is best for hor...

  A powerful and often forgot about way to take care of ourselves is through the products we use in our homes. Today on the podcast, we have Allison Evans, one of the founders of the nontoxic cleaning company Branch Basics.   Allison Evans is a co-founder of Branch Basics and lives in Texas. After experiencing a health crisis during her junior year of college and traveling to specialists across th...

  So many of you have been telling me that you've been scared off from intuitive eating because when you try to make peace with food and give yourself the unconditional permission to eat all foods, you then begin binge eating those foods once deemed off limits. Today's podcast episode defines what is binge eating, why it happens for some as they begin their intuitive eating journey and how to stop...