Thrive Beyond Size

Hey friends, welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size! Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on a hot topic: intuitive eating. With so many programs jumping on the bandwagon, it's time we sift through the confusion and uncover what true intuitive eating is all about and how to spot when diet culture is sneaking in to steal the show. So, we’re going to break it down together and talk about what real intu...

Hello friends, and welcome back to the podcast! I’m going to start with a question so obvious that it sounds laughable: how do you know when you have to pee? That sounds wild, right? But can you feel your heart beating? Not your pulse with your fingers, but just the beating of your heart inside you? How can you tell if you’re hungry? Or full? There is an answer to these questions and it’s a topic...

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode. Today I really want to talk about something important that starts with a personal story. The story is from when Rob and I were camping a couple of weeks ago and has to do with how I felt about shopping for and trying on clothes in my favorite clothing store in Canmore. I love a certain brand and I know they fit well but I decided to try on a new brand in...

Hello again, friends! I want to confess something to you all today. I’m not perfect. The past week was terrible for my intuitive eating practice, I just haven’t been doing it, and I’m only just getting back on track now. That’s what I want to confess. What I want to share is my experience with why I fell out of my practice this week and how intuitive eating is a journey and not a destination. I wa...

Hello there, friends. Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. As you probably guessed from the title, today I want to talk about Simone Biles, the world’s best and most decorated gymnast, who recently blew us away with her grace and incomparable physical skill in Paris. She won 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the Paris Olympics. But I think back on her bowing out of the Tokyo Olympics four years earlier...

Hello friends! I am so excited to share this week’s episode with you. I interviewed the amazing Diana Dimmock, founder of Accessibility 4 Every Body, who I found in a Facebook group when I asked if anyone would be willing to share their stories of experiencing anti-fat bias or weight discrimination in healthcare. Diana wasn’t only willing, she was so articulate and had so many important points to...

Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size! This week I have another great interview for you all, with Coach and Founder of The Ally Method, Allison Yamamoto. Allison’s business is built around helping active women stop over-training and under-fueling in order to regulate their periods and assist them in achieving freedom around food and exercise. While it’s common to not have a period for a while, especi...

Hello friends, welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size! Today’s episode was born out of some things I’ve been thinking about and some things my husband Rob and I have been discussing. Specifically about our future. What do we want for our future? What do we have to do today to get out of our own way, take care of our health, and achieve the future we want in our retirement? We made a dream list and tho...

CW: conversations on binge eating and disordered eating Friends welcome to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. Many of you regular listeners may recall that this podcast went by a different name for the first one hundred episodes and had a different focus. It was called Mindful Weight Loss and was very focused on the weight loss and diet space. When I made the pivot for Episode 101, I shared th...

Welcome back, friends! Today’s episode is about something I don’t have personal experience with but something that many of my clients live with and have questions about. And that is children. Specifically pre-teens. I don’t have children but so many of my clients do and they constantly ask how to talk to their pre-teens, and how to effectively communicate with them. So I’m thrilled to introduce yo...

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode that I’m so excited to share with you all. It focuses on a topic that’s talked about a lot these days, and that’s trauma. Trauma happens to us all but there are a lot of misconceptions around it. So I’ve invited Ramona Kossowan, a personal empowerment coach and Gentle Trauma Release Practitioner, to join me in discussing how things we experience induce pa...

Welcome, friends! I’ve missed you! I’m so glad to be back with you. Over the past few months, I’ve had interviews with some absolutely brilliant women who have excited and challenged me, given me new ideas to share, and just helped me grow. It’s so amazing and I love it. Through my conversation with Frankie last week I started thinking about my journey into self-confidence and how much I’ve learne...

Welcome, friends, and I have to tell you right away how much I love spending time with you all every week. It’s such a pleasure to record these episodes for you. I am so moved and so lit up by the amazing people I meet through this podcast that it’s just become such a pleasurable part of my life. I was recently at a conference that was just other women physicians, more than 1200 of us, and I atten...

Hello friends, welcome to an exciting episode of Thrive Beyond Size. It’s exciting because if you’ve been listening for a while, you know I love anything related to the brain. Brain science, neuroscience, neuropsychology, it all fascinates me because we can use the brain to get us closer to our goals and I found an expert in all things brain and science-related, Dominika Staniewicz. Dominika, or C...

Welcome, friends, to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. Today’s topic is inspired by a beautiful conversation my husband Rob and I had during a rare lunch date the other day. He told a story about how when he and his fellow firefighters drive the engine past an elementary school while the kids are outside, the kids all run to the fence grinning and laughing as the firefighters honk the horn an...

Can you believe this is Episode 155 already? Time really does fly when you’re having fun. And we’re going to have fun today because we’re talking about meditation! My guest is Ann Swanson, an absolute expert in the neuroscience and research behind meditation and author of the new book “ Meditation for the Real World” . I love geeking out over the science of things, as you know, and Ann provides lo...

Hello friends! Today I’m talking about something I am lucky enough not to struggle with personally but which so many people do struggle with. And that is sleep. Sleep is my superpower, according to my husband, and I can fall asleep anywhere. Most people do not have this superpower, however, so every now and then I talk to a sleep expert here on the podcast because sleep is the absolute foundation...

CW: Talk about weight loss and experienced medical weight stigma, use of the terms obese and obesity Welcome to today’s episode, everyone, where we address a topic that’s not easy for us to talk about. We’re talking about weight stigma in the healthcare system. Why does weight stigma exist in our healthcare system? How does it show up and who does it show up for? What are the side effects of this...

Hello there everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I’m sure many of you have read the title of this episode and asked “Why is Michelle having a conversation about money on a podcast entitled Thrive Beyond Size?” At first glance it doesn’t seem to fit, I know. But here’s the reason why: there are a lot of similarities between our relationship with food and our relationship with money. In past times...

Friends, I’m excited to share this episode with you all because it’s on a subject I’ve been struggling with recently. We’re going to talk about movement. My relationship with movement has gone up and down, if you’ve been listening to this podcast from the beginning, and part of the struggle is that there’s part of me that still connects exercise to weight loss and that makes it feel a bit like pun...

I’m happy you’re all here to join me in a deep dive on a topic that comes up a lot on this podcast and in my coaching programs. That topic is embodiment. People these days are trying to understand the importance of alignment, of making decisions for themselves and their bodies, and there’s a spiritual need associated with it. That’s why this topic comes up so much. So to talk about embodiment, to...

CW: Talk about eating disorders, bulimia, binge eating disorder, restricted eating, purging I’m so glad to be back in front of the microphone with you all because I recorded so many episodes before going on an African vacation that I feel I haven’t reached out in a very long time! It feels good to connect again. I had a wonderful trip and you’ll hear a little more about it in this episode. My gues...

CW: Discussion on sex, sexuality, and fatphobia Friends, I hope you were able to join me last week for part one of this conversation with my guest Angela Corry. Angela is a clinical and sexual health educator, an expert in fatphobia and sex, and last week we talked about body image and fatphobia and how perceptions have changed throughout history. Fatphobia is very pervasive in our society and it...

Friends welcome to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. Today’s topic is so big that you’ll hear from my guest twice. We’re doing a two-parter, part one this week and part two next week. My guest is Angela Corry and she’s a clinical and sexual health educator from right here in my hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. Angela and I are going to talk about pleasure at every size. Sex? Yes. Intimacy? Yes....

Hello friends! I’m excited to share what I’ve learned with you all today because I have been down a rabbit hole for this topic. The question that prompted my research was “Where does the statistic that 95% of diets fail come from?” And I dug deep. I don’t advise you to go my route and Google, I did it so you don’t have to. But amongst all the fat shaming and weight discrimination, I found some ans...