Weight Loss for Busy CRNA Moms

This might be the most important podcast you've ever listened to and it's only 3 minutes long. When it comes to feeling and processing emotions, one of the crucial skills required for life long weight loss success, one of the things that holds you back are two thoughts.  "I don't want to feel this" and "I shouldn't feel this." This actually makes the process of feeling the emotion so much mor...

I've been noticing some things in my coaching.... There is a story, a common story, that I see among the people I talk with and it goes a little something like this.... "I need x,y,z to happen in order for me to be successful." As long as there aren't sweets in the house, I will be successful. As long as I know what food will be there, then I will be successful. As long as I can control what's bee...

When it comes to permanent weight loss success, there are three major components to focus on. In this podcast I dive into all of them. You are not going to want to miss this. If you are over the yo-yo dieting and ready to figure out this weight thing once and for all, come join me in my intimate group coaching program. Click here for more details.

My coaching practice has taken on several renditions since it's birth.   I have been working hard to create a program that is the most supportive and comprehensive for my clients on their journey to achieve permanent weight loss and end their battle with food once and for all. In this podcast I share what that entails and why, moving forward in 2023. I have one spot left in my intimate g...

Do you ever just walk in the door or come down from finally getting your kid to sleep and this wave of desire hits you… “I must go to the pantry, do not pass go, do not collect $200. You’ve developed a pathway, initiated by the trigger of walking through the door or coming downstairs after a marathon bedtime routine.  So many of these triggers lead us to eat when we really aren’t hungry, and...

Do you ever feel like certain events happen or circumstances occur, and food just jumps into your mouth.  Like, “x,y,z happened…therefore I had to eat/drink x,y,z." This is definitely a sign that you are an emotional eater…. when you let certain events, things people say, or actions of others, create feelings inside of you, that you settle with food and booze.   Everyone does this f...

So much of the messaging around weight loss is that it is the individual's fault for the results they are currently have. So if they are overweight or obese or don’t have control around food, society tells us that there must be something wrong with that persons willpower or self worth and they they are just inherently broken people. Of course I don’t believe that at all and in this podcast I’m goi...

This holiday season was much different than any other holiday season.  It had more love, gratitude, joy and connection than I could ever remember.  I think coaching has been the key to creating that reality. In this podcast I dive into how I've contributed to disconnect and fractures in my relationships with the people I love and how I want to show up moving forward. If you feel the same...

 Have you ever considered eating things like ice cream, cookies, and alcohol mean that you are “off track?"  It's like…. if you are eating those things then you are off track and if you aren't then you are on track???  What if eating those things, as part of your plan, was actually part of your “track” to permanent weight loss? And now that the holiday is over, there is no track to...

Hi friends! This podcasts stems off the coattails of a conversation I had with my husband about boundaries. He didn't really understand the entire boundary concept, and it felt a bit sticky and unsettling to him. I totally get how other people might also have similar thoughts about it. I wanted to give some clarity about boundary enforcement in a way that hopefully helps it all make more sense. I...

If you've been following me on IG you know I've been obsessed with things I've learned from Dr. Becky. In this podcast I'm going to share all of the amazing things I learned from Dr. Becky that can be applied to your weight loss journey and that I notice when I work with my own clients and what might also apply to you. I also have information for my next group program starting January 3, 2023. Doo...

I had the privilege of being invited to be interviewed on another podcast, this time specifically for CRNAs. In this podcast Bobby and I spoke a bit a about my personal weight loss journey, how I started my Life and Weight Loss Coaching Practice, my challenges as I navigated starting this endeavor as well as information about what I offer my clients in my program and how I help them. If you are in...

In this podcast I was interviewed by my personal business coach, Ann Konkoly,  on how I am a Nurse, Living the Good Life while I build my business helping you all achieve permanent weight loss. We had a great discussion on how there is nothing wrong with you despite what your brain wants to continue to offer and how so many odds are stacked against you when it comes to desire for food. We tal...

“You heal your food stuff, you heal your money stuff, you lead a fuller, better life.” -Mariko Gordon, CFA a.k.a. “The Swiss Army Knife of Wealth Coaching”  Mariko Gordon. CFA is a business, money, and wealth coach. She’s also an amazing human being and I am so grateful to be in her orbit. Her life experience, skillset, training, world view, and educational background equip her to help you wi...

Hi friends! Since I got really jazzed on this topic of helping my child have a better relationship with food, I thought some of my Mom listeners might also be interested in getting some support! So I decided to do a podcast with my friend, Dr. Beth Conlon, a pediatric dietitian and nutritionist who helps families overcome their child’s “picky” eating habits in her private practice. In this podcast...

Buy this book immediately. I am getting zero royalties by the way. I just want the knowledge and wisdom of this book to be spread to as many people who interact with children and food as possible. Give it as a gift, read it in book club, just read this book. Link to buy it is below.  In this podcast I am going to share some amazing tips they outlined in this book, where I currently am in the...

On this episode of Weight Loss for Busy CRNA Moms, I am interviewing my amazing client who has lost over 85 pounds in my coaching program.  We talk about how she decided to go the coaching route, what made it different, and how it changed her life, and the person she has become as a result of Life and Weight Loss Coaching. You are not going to want to miss this. If you are interested in my gr...

When I tell people that part of my coaching program is going to involve teaching people to feel and process emotions instead of eat them, it’s a foreign concept because we’ve never known any different. If you've always used food to solve for your emotional life like stress, anger anxiety, then this will be new. I promise It’s possible to learn, it’s a process and it’s a practice.  In this pod...

Why do we so easily default to food as a source of fun, pleasure, and connection? I think it’s because for so many of us, food was one of the only sources of connection we had with our loved ones, it was one of the only ways they knew how to show love, it was one of the only ways they knew to give us temporary pleasure, it was an easy way to provide a moment of joy and connection, and it was one o...

In an effort to alleviate temporary discomfort of any kind, many of us turn to food to avoid feeling that discomfort. In doing so, by not feeling temporary discomfort, we hurt ourselves for the long term. We actually provide more long term discomfort for ourselves in the form of extra energy being on our body. In this podcast, I give you a glimpse of what results you could create for yourself if y...

If you've been following me for a while, you are hip to the fact that I advise taking a break from sugar and flour as protocol of a protocol I make with my clients to help them lose weight and keep it off forever. I am not going to go into detail about why in this podcast, if you are interested I've linked a recent blog post with on The Protocol here along with videos that go into much more detail...

When you think you can't make a plan... do me a favor... ask yourself a couple of questions? #1 is your brain trying to be sneaky with you? #2 how has that thought been serving you? In this episode we are going to dive into this thought and give you some tools on how you can always make a plan, and how to navigate this thought to serve you better and get you closer to your weight loss goals. For m...

Everyone thinks you need to do something different to lose weight. Count points, try keto, do intermittent fasting, etc.  But the key to lasting weight loss isn't what you do, it's how you think about food and how you think about yourself. When you go off plan, what you THINK will lead you to more desire to continue to eat off plan and overeat, or it will create feelings that will get you bac...

Those last 15 pounds, you ever wonder why they seem so "hard" to lose? For the last 15 pounds your desire for food has to be way toned down, allowed urges for off protocol and unplanned food should be feel easy, your planned "joy eats" should be about once a week, and you should be honoring your hunger scale and stopping eating when you are truly satisfied. For reference, while I was losing the la...

I had a lot of thoughts about going out to eat before this weight loss journey. Thoughts about... "Opening the flood gate, "Not being able to control myself, " not knowing how many points things where, not being able to lose weight and go out to eat at the same time,  setting myself back, allowing myself opportunity to not have to think about what I was eating, giving myself a chance to indul...