Thrive Beyond Size

Hello friends and welcome back to the podcast! Today I have something truly special to share with you, something that I’ve been pouring my heart and soul into for months. Today I’m announcing the launch of my brand new course: Nourish Yourself Body+Mind. This course, Nourish Yourself Body+Mind, is a roadmap and support system for unlearning what diet culture has taught, rebuilding a foundation of...

Friends, welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. Today I’m talking about intuitive eating and how the heck you do it while on your period. I realized when I instinctively bought cookies that I almost never buy while grocery shopping the other day, that my mind and body are pretty in sync now because a day or two later I got my period. Which explains the cookie craving. We’re used to cravings, especial...

I’m happy to have you back with me at Thrive Beyond Size. Last week I was truly fatigued, so exhausted, but this week I’m feeling better and reclaiming energy. And today I want to talk to you about something I’ve struggled with along the course of my own intuitive eating journey: a fear of hunger. Hunger can feel uncomfortable and scary and those feelings can stem from experiences in childhood or...

Welcome back, friends. I’m exploring what happens to our food cravings when we’re exhausted. Why is eating and choosing food such a chore when we’re fatigued? How does it affect our decision-making? We’ve all been there, overwhelmed and bone tired, staring at the kitchen and thinking the only option is the fast option. But we’ve been made to feel guilty about that. Like we’re failing when we can’t...

Hello everyone and welcome back! The subject of today’s episode was inspired by an experience I had on a road trip through my home province of Alberta to a medical conference. My husband and I have been making the same trip for 50 years and we have little rituals where we stop for breaks and get favorite snacks. A certain donut shop is one of those stops. But this time I didn’t enjoy the donuts th...

Hello everyone! Welcome back to the podcast. It has been a while since I’ve shared an interview with you and I’m excited about this one because I welcome back a former guest and one of the coaches who works inside Wayza Health. Christina Claytor, the founder of Mindful Health Revolution, joins me again but this time to talk about raising her two young daughters as intuitive eaters. She’s here to e...

Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size! I'm so happy to have you here. Today’s topic is the concept of food rules. What are food rules, you ask? I’m talking about the rigid and often unspoken guidelines that we lay down for ourselves that dictate all the decisions we make around eating. Things like carbs are bad or don’t eat after 7 pm or yogurt has too much sugar. Some of them are choices we have con...

Hello everyone! Right now, at the end of January, I feel an urge to talk about something that seems more important than ever. Rest. In my commitment to rhythm this year, I’m noticing that I also need a little more rest and that it’s actually in my rhythm to have a tough time at the end of January going into February. It’s a thing I’ve noticed I need: more sleep and slowing down. The type of rest I...

Welcome back to another episode, everyone. I’m very excited about the year ahead. Learning is one of my core values and last year I started doing training in trauma. At first, I simply wanted to have a trauma-informed approach to my coaching but the process intrigued me and opened so many realizations about the connection between trauma and healing around food and body. So now I’m doing true traum...

Hello and welcome to 2025, everyone! It’s the start of a new year and the time of resolutions. We’ve all fallen into that trap of making a resolution that just didn’t stick. Maybe we resolved to eat better or exercise every day and we did well for a week or two but fell off around mid-January. I think resolutions are too rigid to allow flexibility and too focused on external expectations. So inste...

Hello friends and welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. It’s been quite a while since I’ve shared an interview with you so I’m very excited to share one today. I’ve become passionate about advocating for weight-inclusive care in healthcare and addressing anti-fat bias and weight discrimination in the world and now I’m introducing you to someone who fights weight discrimination in spas. A spa trip is...

Hello, lovelies, and welcome back! I’ve been focusing a lot on healing our relationships with food and our bodies and I’ll always explore that, that’s at the heart of acceptance. But something else is at the heart of healing our food and body relationships and that’s a sense of connection. This time of year, the holidays, is especially focused on connection which is part of why I love it so much....

Hello and Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! The last few episodes have centered around guilt, cravings, and how to manage ourselves in everything we feel around the holidays. Today I want to talk about overeating, something that often happens at this time of year, but I want to approach it in a compassionate way. I want to focus on how we can be more compassionate with ourselves during h...

Hello hello and welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. Today I’m tackling a topic that’s especially tricky during the holiday season. Emotional eating. Many clients are asking about it in calls and it’s coming up in my own life as well. This season is the most amazing and most stressful time for us so it can be overwhelming. We deal with excitement, nostalgia, sadness, and a whole range of other emot...

Hello there, friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I love this time of year. The twinkle lights, the snow, the frost on the trees, it all makes me so happy. I love Christmas music, yes, and I love all the Christmas decorations everywhere. I love the get-togethers, eggnog, treats, and parties. But there are also a lot of challenges that are brought up at this time of year, especially around body tr...

Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size, friends. Heading into winter and the holiday season, I’ve been really leaning into my crafts. I’ve done crafting my whole life, things like DIY kits and paint by numbers, and I’ve just found it very comforting and relaxing for me. So I want to talk about how doing crafts can support your journey with intuitive eating. I know! You’re saying “What the hell does on...

Hello friends. Today I’m tackling a question I receive a lot from potential clients and people interested in intuitive eating. The question is can I still practice intuitive eating if I’m taking a GLP-1 medication? I’ve spoken about these medications a lot on this podcast. They’re prescribed for people managing type 2 diabetes but sometimes they are also prescribed for weight loss. They control bl...

Welcome, friends, to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size! I just got back from a vacation, an eight-day cruise with my husband Rob, and it was wonderful. I didn’t use my phone once, I put it in my bag, I didn’t take it out, and it was an amazing real break. After the cruise, I attended a medical conference in Orlando, Florida, on lifestyle medicine. One of the pillars of lifestyle medicine is ea...

Hi friends! I’m excited to bring you a bit of a lighter episode today. I know the last few episodes have been on the heavier side so it’s time to lighten things up a bit. I want to talk about what the heck you eat when you’re hungry but don’t know what you want. Do you ever feel that? You know you’re hungry and you stand at the fridge and just stare into it and can’t figure out what you want? Or s...

Welcome back to the podcast, everyone! I’m very glad you’re here. I’ve been reading a book called “Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture ” by Virginia Sole-Smith and even though I’m just a third of the way through it, it floors me every time I turn the page. The author is talking about the effects anti-fat bias can have on families and she shares some stories that break my heart. Imagine...

Friends, welcome to Episode 175 of Thrive Beyond Size. Can you believe it’s the 175th episode? That means I’ve done this podcast for 175 weeks in a row without missing a single week. I’m really proud of this accomplishment because I think it’s the longest commitment I’ve ever made. When I started the podcast I was so nervous. I was terrified, actually. I did everything anyone told me to make it pe...

Welcome back, beautiful friends, to the podcast. Last week we talked about how it’s not your fault, your body is not broken, and you are not broken. Today is a bit related to that because I want to talk about food control. That constant food chatter in our minds, a constant obsession about food, feeling like we have to control food but also feeling out of control, that’s what I want to talk about...

Hello friends, welcome to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. I’ve been going through a real transition period this Fall and it’s prompted me to continually remind myself “You’re not broken”. All the changes from dropping half my shifts at work to spend more time with my husband and clients and shifting my priorities on how I spend my time, all of the things I’m working on have made me more in...

In this episode, I dive deep into the erasure of fat people from the fashion industry. It’s an issue that many of us are familiar with—big sizes are often only available online, and store options are shrinking. And why is this an issue? Because it’s a reflection of a much bigger problem: the erasure of fat bodies in society. We’re breaking down the history of plus-size fashion and how the recent d...

Ever feel like you’re drowning in obligations and losing sight of yourself in the process? In this episode of Thrive Beyond Size, we’re getting real about boundaries: why they matter and how they can completely transform the way you protect your time, energy, and emotional well-being. Whether you’re constantly saying yes to things you don’t have the capacity for or you’re tired of unsolicited comm...