The Gratefully Nourished Podcast with Alyssa Pike, RD

Today on the Gratefully Nourished podcast, I'm interviewing Christie Dondero Bettwy, Executive Director at Rock Recovery. We discuss her role at Rock, her experience with food and recovery from an eating disorder, how to embrace a healthy self image (and why that's hard!) and how she navigated a changing body during pregnancy. Learn more about Rock Recovery More about Christie: Christie ha...

We have another episode about exercise! Today I'm asking personal trainer Kasey Shuler how to shift our view of exercise to be life-giving instead of draining. Kasey helps us redefine exercise, shares tangible tips for improving our fitness by grace and helps us discern which type of exercise is best on any given day. We also discuss her experience with food and exercise and how she found intu...

Today's episode is a fun one because I have my friend Amanda joining me! Amanda and I became friends in 2020 - we live close to each other, go to the same church, and have weekly girl dinners with our friends :-) I'm so excited for you to hear this episode because we share BOTH of our positive pregnancy, labor & birth experiences as well as what we learned during the first year of moth...

Today's episode is all about our relationship with exercise! I am so excited to share my conversation with Amy Connell with you. We cover questions like: How can we improve our relationship with food, exercise and our body? How do we balance the desire to care for ourselves/our health without turning it into an idol? What does a healthy relationship with exercise look like? ...and so much more...

Kylie and I are continuing our podcast series on the book  Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms . In this episode, we dive into the chapters on conversation and bedtime. We hope you enjoy. COME SAY HI! Kylie's blog: immaeatthat.com Alyssa's blog: gratefullynourished.co Follow  ⁠⁠@gratefully_nourished⁠⁠  on instagram

Have you ever wondered what the Bible has to say about food and our bodies? If so, this episode is for you! On today's episode of the Gratefully Nourished podcast, registered dietitian Alyssa Pike is interviewing theologian and writer Amy Gannett who provides a powerful (and maybe jarring!) theology of food and the body and shares her experience overcoming her own struggle with food and body i...

If you've ever wanted to understand the basics of eating disorders, this episode will help you do just that. In today's episode, Jessica shares how she got into the eating disorder field, we discuss the spectrum of eating behaviors -- ranging from positive to neutral to destructive to threatening, the three needs for recovery and common misconceptions about eating disorders. Jessica delive...

Kylie and I are continuing our podcast series on the book  Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms . In this episode, we dive into the chapters on work and play. We hope you enjoy. COME SAY HI! Kylie's blog: immaeatthat.com Alyssa's blog: gratefullynourished.co Follow  ⁠@gratefully_nourished⁠  on instagram

Getting a cancer diagnosis or going through treatment is a life-altering experience, and Tuesday Hoelscher specializes in helping cancer patients and survivors navigate food during such an uncertain and stressful time. It was such a joy to sit down and talk with Tuesday about how to reduce one's risk for cancer while still keeping the bigger picture in mind: that we all have a unique set of ri...

I'm so excited for you to listen to this conversation with Lauren! There are so many myths and misperceptions about dairy and beef farming, and Lauren is passionate about telling the story of farmers, and I think her perspective is so needed. We talk about how she grew up on a farm, how she became a registered dietitian, what she wishes people knew about farming and the types of farming so you...

Habits of the Household Book Series: Chapters 5 and 6 -- Family Devotions and Marriage We did it....we got our husbands to join us for this episode! We're excited for you to hear their perspectives on these chapters. We really cover a lot -- family devotions and marriage, yes, but also more about how we met our husbands, how our marriage has changed over the years, the challenges of marriage,...

Emily Hahn, MPH, RDN, CED-S joins me on today's episode! We talk about how she got into the eating disorder field, the multiple hats she wears and practical tips for navigating a girls night out or date when you've been struggling with disordered eating. We talk about the first thing Emily does when trying to help people move from dieting and restriction to peace and freedom with food and...

Kylie and I are reading and discussing the book Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms. In episode two of the series, we cover chapters three and four: Discipline and Screen time. We talk about how discipline never happens at a convenient moment and the idea of discipline as discipleship, plus a few tangible habits to practice in your household. For screen...

Kylie and I are kicking off a new series on the book Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms . We dive into chapters one and two: waking and mealtimes. This was so fun to record! We hope you enjoy. Books/resources mentioned: Kylie mentioned: The Artist's Way Painting Outside the Lines Alyssa mentioned: Take Back Your Family Huckleberry app Risen Motherho...

Welcome back to the Gratefully Nourished podcast! I hope you enjoy this new season's focus on finding meaning in the midst of chaos plus the integration of all things motherhood, faith, life, and simplicity in addition to nutrition and health. Like I say in the intro, for a long time I struggled to make Gratefully Nourished all about nutrition. At this point, I know that's because health i...

We're rounding out this season with an episode all about eating disorder care. I'm delighted to introduce (or reacquaint) you to Emily Murray, RD, LDN, CEDS, who shares a little bit about her eating disorder experience and how she got into working with individuals suffering from eating disorders and struggling to find peace with food. We talk about how we each took non-traditional paths in the fie...

Have you ever wanted to bring the message of food freedom to your local church community? Body BLoved has created a wonderful resource for you! In this episode, we talk about so many good things, including the importance of getting curious about where we learned our current beliefs around food and body image, the value in starting small and respecting our own limitations as well as encouragement f...

Brittany Braswell, MS, RDN joins me for this episode, and I'm so excited to share it with you! We dive into how Brittany got into this work and why she chose to integrate a Christ-centered approach to eating disorder and disordered eating recovery into her practice. We discuss the importance of keeping nutrition in its rightful place -- a helpful tool to improve our health -- without shame or...

Kassandra Baker joins me for this episode, and it's a goooood one! We dive into Kassandra's personal experience with eating disorders and how life is different now that she is recovered. We also discuss navigating weight changes throughout the healing process and why identity is so central to living free from food and body image struggles. Kassandra also shares a powerful testimony of her experien...

I recently shared that my husband and I are pregnant with our first child, a baby boy due in December 2022! So Kylie and I are talking all things pregnancy, including what our experiences have been like, what's been hard, body image and more. Work with Kylie Alyssa's Instagram: @gratefully_nourished Gratefully Nourished Facebook community  Work with Alyssa

For those who have been following along with our Sacred Rhythms Book Club Podcast, you'll be extra excited for today's podcast guest! Kylie Mitchell, MPH, RD and I are talking with Megan Stewart who is the founder and Spiritual Director of Camp46! We're talking about soul care, how to slow down, how to find space to be with God and why all of this is so foreign to most of us. More about Megan: Hi,...

On this episode I'm interviewing Erin Todd, one of the cofounders of the Intuitive Eating for Christian Women Podcast and you don't want to miss it! Erin's insight and experience with the Lord transforming her heart is so powerful. We talk about her experience of letting go of dieting and the pursuit of perfection for a better way -- a way where she's not striving but instead resting in her identi...

Welcome to the seventh and final episode of our podcast book club series on Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Barton. I'm joined by Kylie Mitchell, MPH, RD of ImmaEatThat to discuss Chapter 8: Sabbath and Chapter 9: Rule of Life. This is our second podcast book club series -- the first was on Breaking Free from Body Shame by Jess Connolly and aired on Kylie's ImmaEatThat Podcast . We landed on Sacred R...

Have you ever wondered how to bridge the gap between disordered eating recovery and hormone health? In this episode, we're talking about just that! Listen in for a life-giving conversation about how to take care of ourselves and our hormones and how we can shift from trying to be the smallest version of ourselves to really appreciating our bodies and honoring our health without restriction or...

Welcome to the sixth episode of our podcast book club series on Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Barton. I'm joined by Kylie Mitchell, MPH, RD of ImmaEatThat to discuss Chapter 6: Self-Examination and Chapter 7: Discernment. This is our second podcast book club series -- the first was on Breaking Free from Body Shame by Jess Connolly and aired on Kylie's ImmaEatThat Podcast . We landed on Sacred Rhyth...