Rebuilding Trust With Your Body

You've spent years trying to outsmart your hunger - pushing it down, ignoring it, or waiting until you "deserve" to eat. But what if I told you that ignoring your hunger is exactly what's keeping you stuck in the binge-restrict cycle? In this episode, I'll show you why your body's hunger signals aren't the enemy - they're actually the key to finding food freedom.  Here's the truth: when you ignore...

Where does alcohol fit in with intuitive eating? Should you "intuitively" try to drink? What about the health risks vs benefits to alcohol? We're digging into all these questions today with my extra special guest, Casey Davidson, a sobriety coach.    The truth is, there are key differences between food and alcohol that you need to be aware of. And there are some special considerations for how you...

Food freedom and intuitive eating are about more than just eating delicious pasta and pizza. It's about more than listening to your hunger and fullness.    In fact, intuitive eating isn't even all about food. (Yes, of course food is part of it - but if you stop there you're missing the point.)   If you don't ALSO have these other 4 missing pieces, then you're not going to fully have the peace and...

Be honest—does the thought of gaining weight hold you back from fully embracing intuitive eating? You're not alone, and it's not just about the number on the scale. The fear runs deeper, touching your relationships, sense of control, health beliefs, and even your identity. In this episode, we're digging into the 4 biggest fears that keep you from making peace with food and terrified of weight gain...

Today we're tackling one of the most misunderstood (yet essential) intuitive eating skills - honoring your fullness. This skill gets overlooked in terms of its power for your health, and that's what I am going to show you in this episode.   You've probably heard the advice: "Eat when you're hungry and stop when you're full." Sounds simple, right? But if you've spent years dieting, ignoring your bo...

This is the final episode of a special 3-part series, so if you haven't listened to parts 1 and 2 yet, start there (it's episodes 168 and 169 right before this one). In Part 1, we uncovered how diet culture keeps you trapped. In Part 2, we explored rebuilding trust with your body. Now, in Part 3, we're focusing on letting go of food guilt, reclaiming your life, and navigating your fears around wei...

If you've ever felt like your body is a total mystery - sending you cravings, hunger cues, and mixed signals that you don't quite trust - you're not alone. But what if I told you that your intuition can guide you toward feeling better in your body and at peace with food? The trick is learning how to listen and trust - and that's exactly what we're diving into today. This is Part 2 of a special 3-p...

You swore off dieting, but…you still feel guilty eating "too much." You secretly hope your daily walks will shrink your body. You find yourself getting on the scale "just to see." Sound familiar?  That's diet culture's grip - sneaky, insidious, and still influencing your choices, even in ways you don't even realize. In this 1st episode of a special 3-part series, I'm breaking down exactly how diet...

Does sweating make you cringe - or even stop you from exercising altogether? If the thought of sweat has you dodging workouts, you're not alone. Today, we're tackling the mindset blocks that might be holding you back from moving your body more consistently.   Society sends us confusing messages about sweat: If you're not dripping, your workout doesn't "count," yet sweating can leave you feeling ju...

In this episode, you'll learn how to improve your health with this one powerful mental shift. But here's the kicker - it's going to be uncomfortable.   Labeling food as "good/bad" or "healthy/unhealthy" is not only untrue (we'll get into why not), but it's also working against you and interfering with your health goals.   That's because it's disconnecting you from your body, working against your b...

What if instead of trying to make your negative thoughts and feelings about your body go away, you allowed them to guide you towards what your body image is telling you?    You see, our bodies contain a wealth of wisdom and guidance for us, and if we get curious and turn inwards to explore what is beneath the surface, we just might be able to embrace a gentler and more collaborative relationship w...

If you've struggled in your relationship with food, with disordered eating or an eating disorder, you know how lonely and painful this can be. It often looks like everyone else around us has it all figured out, and you might be left feeling like there's something wrong with you.    I want you to know this: YOU ARE NOT ALONE.   That's also the message that my guest today wants you to hear. Audree G...

If you're feeling like you need to "make up for" the holidays, or that you need to "get back on track" with your health or even with intuitive eating, I want you to listen to this episode with an open mind towards approaching this differently this year.    Grab your pen and paper, because I'm going to walk you through a reflection on your relationship with food throughout 2024, and setting your in...

Do you ever feel like you have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other shoulder, and both are constantly talking in your ear telling you what you "should" and "shouldn't" do with food?    Even if you've never thought of it in the angel/devil sense before, there's a good chance that you have experienced some type of inner dialogue or food police that has a long list of rules about which f...

In a world full of messages about how to eat, and what to eat, and what NOT to eat…this gets even more challenging when we're talking about children.   We all want the kids in our lives to grow up having a positive relationship with food, and good health and nutrition.     Whether you're a parent, an aunt, a grandparent, a teacher or just an adult who wants to understand how your own childhood mes...

It's the ho, ho, holidays and that means that not only are gingerbread cookies and eggnog everywhere, but there's also the pressure to make "healthy holiday swaps" with your favorite foods and recipes.    Here's the problem: This is probably going to backfire on you.   So often, when we try to "healthify" the foods we enjoy, it ends up making them less satisfying, and we feel deprived (even at a s...

What if your feelings could do more than make you want to dive head first into a bag of chips – What if your feelings actually became a valuable indicator of what you were needing outside of food?   Rae Thomas is my guest today, and she's the Chief Clinical Officer of Feelings Found, a women-owned company creating tangible tools for emotional exploration. She uses academic research and her experie...

Did you know that 64% of Americans report feeling guilty about the food they eat during the holidays? I don't know about you, but I find that really sad. The holidays are meant to be a time of joy, celebration and connection - not guilt.   In this episode, I'm digging into how to give yourself permission to enjoy the holiday foods that you love, without going overboard, and without feeling like yo...

Do you feel compelled to say "yes" to food during the holidays when someone offers you something that they made? Does saying "no" feel rude, or like some form of restriction brought on by diet culture?   If you're like I used to be, you wrestle with wanting to say yes to people please, and to prove to yourself that you've broken all of your former dieting food rules. But you also want to be able t...

It's that time of year where you're going to be seeing people you haven't seen in a while, and if some of those people have lost a bunch of weight, it can feel really triggering. With GLP-1 medications being all the rage, it's easy to assume that "everyone" is taking it.    This episode is about understanding and managing your own personal feelings about when other people lose weight. It can stir...

We need to have a heart-to-heart. If you've ever hidden food wrappers or candy wrappers in the trash, because you want to hide the evidence of what you've eaten, this conversation is for you.   Eating in secret, and hiding the wrappers is a far more common struggle than most people realize. And it all ties back to a sense of shame about the food you're eating, about your body, about your weight, a...

You know what's spooky to me? The ways that diet culture and fatphobia are running rampant this Halloween.   What I'm finding is that a lot of what is happening has been so normalized, that it flies under your radar and keeps you stuck with one foot accidentally in diet culture, and the other in the world of intuitive eating.    So you're over here, trying to make peace with food, while you're sti...

Do you find yourself in an on again, off again relationship with exercise, like it's a bad boyfriend that you want to like, but just aren't able to commit to long-term? You're not alone!   In this episode, we're going to dig into the blocks you might be experiencing with exercise. Whether you enjoy working out, but you just can't seem to stick with a routine, or you hate working out and can't fath...

What you're about to hear is the interview I did on the Be Brave is a podcast, which is dedicated to covering all the ups and downs of recovery from an eating disorder or disordered eating, and our conversation focuses a lot on how to trust and accept your body again when you've struggled in your relationship with food.    We discuss:   How lack of trust and body acceptance shows up in our lives S...

Today we are talking about something that doesn't get discussed very often in the intuitive eating space…fruits and veggies.    We (of course) focus a lot in the beginning of the intuitive eating journey on making peace with things like donuts, burgers, pizza, french fries, ice cream, and things that diet culture has told us are "bad/unhealthy."   But rarely do we talk about intentionally includin...