Savor Food and Body Podcast

I'll never forget walking through the bulk department of the original Seattle Whole Foods Market, and having a fellow team member grab my attention by saying, "Hey, I thought beans, nuts, and whole grains were healthy?" Dead stop. What? I turned around and said, "well yeah, what makes you think otherwise?" The team member was putting up signage in the department that showc...

If it feels like your critical voice is on overdrive as you hit middle age, you need to hear this. Maybe your critical voice has already been running your life all these years, pushing you to try diet after diet, workout after workout, without feeling like any of it makes a difference.  Connie Sobczak, author, and co-founder of The Body Positive is the queen of helping people embrace their critica...

Katie Meza is a San Francisco-based creative, she received her BFA from Art Center College of Design and has been profiled in Fast Company and Bicycling Magazine. Hear her inspirational story about how she was able to rekindle the relationship with her body by riding over 545 miles from SF to LA with AIDS/Life Cycle.  Katie says, "growing up I never weighed myself, but I also never felt conne...

Dr. Rebecca Sorenson is a former competitive athlete whose pursuit of the ideal swimmer body led to a disordered relationship with food and exercise. Rebecca describes how at 16 years old, stress, food restriction, sleep deprivation, and over-exercising created the perfect storm to break her previously healthy relationship with food. The pressure to keep over-achieving as an athlete, student, and...

What was your Mom's relationship with food and her body like?   Did you ever see her measure out her food, hear her say X food has Y calories in it, or X food isn't healthy?   Or that she'd need to go for a long walk or spend more time at the gym tomorrow to burn off those extra calories?   I'm talking with a fellow anti-diet dietitian and food peace advocate Gabrielle Kahn, MS...

 How can you move through these bad body image moments or days with the least amount of distress as possible?     Part of being human is experiencing the ups and downs of body image on a regular basis. It doesn't matter if you live in a thin, fit, fat, wrinkled, young, or old body - if you're human, you've likely looked at your reflection with dissatisfaction a time or two in your l...

Even if it feels like you're going crazy in your body, you're perfectly normal! You're just swimming in the hormonal soup of mid-life, doing your damnedest to keep up with life - kids, work, partner or spouse, aging parents, a pandemic, body changes...you know all the things life is throwing at you.   Get additional blog posts and resources for intuitive eating during menopause on m...

Cookies aren't meant to be scary. But, when you live in a society that's obsessed with thinness equals health, power, and agency, the mere idea of letting yourself go by eating a cookie is terrifying.   Janelle Banat MSOL, owner of Footlamp Consulting talks about how your brain can get pushed into a threat state in fear of your body changing and how knowing some neuroscience basics can n...

Let me ask you a personal question. What thoughts come to mind when you open the door to a bakery - the warm air, heavy with the smell of fresh-baked bread and coffee hitting your nose?   Do you think, "wow that smells amazing, I want one of everything!"   Or , "wow it smells amazing in here, but I better just get an Americano and skip the baked goods. I've already gained the C...

I'm talking with Julie Newbry, certified personal trainer and coach, about how to heal your relationship with movement, enhance your physical fitness, and find a greater sense of empowerment with your appearance.   We're diving into topics such as:   What inspired Julie to become a weight-inclusive, Health at Every Size®, intuitive movement trainer? Get additional blog posts and resource...

I never thought that I'd do this. For a hot minute I worked on someone else's podcast and I thought, "no way, that's not for me!" Fast forward many months later and after some client peer pressure, here I am. The truth is, I have stories to tell and tips to share so you can kick start your Intuitive Eating practice and get off the weight-loss roller coaster for good.  But...