The Feeling Lighter Podcast

Katie and Tyler have an empowering chat with Tandy, winner of their 30-day feel good challenge. She shares her lifelong body image struggles stemming from competitive gymnastics and how the challenge sparked her journey to self-love. Tandy keeps it real about the ongoing ups and downs of self-acceptance and why self-compassion is key. Katie and Tyler emphasize the need for more authentic stories l...

In this episode Katie, Nina, and Tyler have an open conversation about their personal journeys with food and their relationships with their bodies. They discuss how societal beauty standards, dieting culture, and messages from family can impact how we see ourselves and relate to food. Each of them shares their experiences with disordered eating, restrictive diets, negative self-talk, and finding f...

Get ready to reshape your relationship with food and body image. In this thought-provoking episode, hosts Katie and Tyler have an enlightening conversation with Lauren Cadillac, a dietitian who helps people break free from the shackles of diet culture. Lauren shares her raw, personal struggles with disordered eating and chasing diet perfectionism. You’ll be inspired hearing how she transformed her...

 Katie and Tyler chat with Leigh Ann Lindsay, a certified Zyto specialist and Evox practitioner who helps clients identify and release subconscious blocks through biofeedback technology and somatic therapies. Leigh Ann explains how our subconscious mind controls up to 95% of our daily decisions and patterns, many of which originate in childhood. She discusses tools like meditation and journaling t...

Diet culture has most of us trapped, but what if food freedom is possible? Join Katie and Nina as they explore this concept with Victoria Klinsmann, a survivor turned advocate for women finding freedom from disordered eating. You'll learn why diets don't work long-term, the difference between emotional eating and binge eating, and how to tune into your body's intuitive wisdom to guide your food ch...

Coach Mike Millner opens up about what it looks like to have disordered eating as a man in our culture. Mike identifies some of the issues he faced and how he was able to flip those around and develop strategies to deal with and reframe everything. So many men suffer silently when it comes to body image expectations and it’s time that stopped! for questions and comments please email us at podcast@...

In this episode Nina and Katie dissect the ”barriers to weight loss” and why so many of them are complete BS, why we seek external validation, and some shocking statistics on how many diets fail and why they keep failing us. A peek inside the minds of two people how have been through weight loss cycles before learning to see what is actually important.  for questions and comments, email us at...

Join us as the team hosts Meghan Farrell Gordon, creator of Balance by Meghan, they delve into the benefits of connecting with your body through movement and how even short meditations can lead to profound emotional and psychological changes. Meghan shares her personal journey from being disinterested in wellness practices to finding a sense of peace and self-care through yoga, meditation, and int...

Discover a transformative journey towards food freedom and intuitive eating in our latest episode! Join us as we dive into an enlightening conversation that challenges conventional diet culture and empowers you to embrace a healthier relationship with food and self. Jenn Baswick is a non-diet registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, who shares her personal triumph over disord...

The team chats about how bodies change and transform as you go through life, aging, having children, experiencing injuries, and everything else that happens along the way. What standards are held for our bodies by society and do those change as we age? The team discusses this and more!  for questions and comments email us at podcast@weshape.com To learn more about WeShape and try it for free, clic...

The team hosts Colleen Christiansen, a Registered Dietitian and non-judgy educator who discusses her work on social media and educating people on overcoming food rules and disordered eating. Colleen shares her personal struggles with eating disorders and how it led her to help others. She emphasizes the importance of food freedom and intuitive eating. The conversation covers various topics, includ...

The team hosts WeShape coach Marilyn for a second time on the show as she shares her personal journey and the challenges she faced with her health and happiness. Marilyn recounts her harrowing story of almost losing her life due to a serious heart condition. Her story highlights the importance of self-advocacy and the need for women to learn to connect with themselves on a deeper level and know wh...

We talk about how toxic diet culture is on the podcast all the time! What about the things we have been fed around exercise? In this episode, we dig into slogans like, No pain, no gain, and other subconscious messages about exercise that might hurt us more than they help us! Listen now! For questions and comments email us at podcast@weshape.com And if you are interested in learning more about WeSh...

The team talks with Nicole Cruz who helps navigate food freedom through the lens of family life! Need tips on how to help your kids find balance and neutrality around eating? She can help!  Nicole Cruz, MS, RDN is a registered dietitian nutritionist, mom of three, and wife who takes an intuitive eating and non-diet approach to food. Her online practice is devoted to helping individuals and familie...

Sara Puhto aka @saggysara chats with the team about true body acceptance and what it looks like to be completely authentic online. Are you ready to ditch the airbrushed media you consume and realize that “social media isn’t reality”? Because Sara is living proof that being yourself is SO worthwhile!  Sara Puhto is a queer body acceptance content creator. She posts photos to assist others in unlear...

When we think about how we measure health it’s always in numbers and bar graphs, and labs…But what about joy? What about sunshine? What about time with family and friends? Are these metrics important when it comes to overall wellness? We talk with renowned integrative medicine practitioner Chris Kresser about why they are SO important and how to make sure to prioritize these things to increase you...

The crew shares the strategies that have worked for them to listen to what their body needs and being aware of how they are feeling. Everyone is unique and different tricks work for different people, listen and learn some tips to try out yourself. for questions and comments, email us at podcast@weshape.com To learn more about WeShape, click the link and activate your two week free trial: https://l...

Toni Marinucci is a Registered Dietician and owner of tips with Toni. Who Ironically teaches people how NOT to diet. Her team of RD’s provide online nutrition coaching to help women break free from the all or nothing mindset and encourage balance instead! Ton’s mission is to ens restrictive diet culture by providing simple tips to healthy living while incorporating foods you LOVE! She recently gav...

What are intentions, where do they come from, what is setting an intention, and how do you even do that? The WeShape crew explains why intentions are important pieces to guiding our lives and how they’re absent from a lot of fitness and exercise programs and methodology.  If you're enjoying listening to the WeShape podcast, remember to subscribe. WeShape also offers an online fitness and wellness...

Katie, Tyler, and Nina interview Wendi Francis MS, RD, CPC who is a pioneer in her field, forging the way for others to find freedom from their food. For the last three decades, the fundamentals of her work have moved clients into uncovering, overcoming, and changing their relationship with their food, their body, their weight and themselves. Whether she is working with a college student or a grou...

How do our beliefs shape our reality? Are the things we believe true? The crew discusses how to shift a strongly held belief that isn’t serving you.  and hold on to beliefs that other people might not share.   for questions and comments, email us at podcast@weshape.com

Community is an element that is the heart of WeShape. Community holds us, gives us support, and offers an opportunity to connect, even through small interactions with those around us, while learning from and motivating each other. WeShape believes in community because we all need to connect and believe in one another. For questions & comments email us at podcast@weshape.com

The crew interviews Dee who won the WeShape 30 day feel good challenge and hear her experience with fitness, past challenges and what clicked for her to start feeling good in and about her body.  For questions and comments, email us at podcast@weshape.com

The crew has an in-depth conversation about race and how it affects the diet and fitness industries with Dr. Hortencia Jiménez Ph. D. a Sociology professor from Hartnell College in California. Dr. Jiménez speaks about systemic oppression, body image, cultural foods, and brings her perspective as an immigrant woman of color. for questions and comments, email us at podcast@weshape.com

Movement is at the core of what we do at WeShape and its the foundation of how you get around in the world. It's so important that you move correctly and in a way that makes you feel good in your body. We believe that everyone is capable of doing this but that traditional ways of teaching movement in traditional fitness and exercise programs are falling short of what all of us really need. For que...