Aug 3, 2020 | Life Lessons, Podcast
What if you grew up never having gone on your first diet? >If you didn’t learn salads as “good” and cookies as “bad”? >If you didn’t associate worth with size? >If you never got it stuck in your head that “I need to...
Jul 7, 2020 | Body Beliefs, Freedom From Dieting, Holistic Weight Loss, Podcast
If you’re working to stop dieting, there is typically 1) the fear of weight gain and/or 2) actual weight gain. Today’s episode addresses #2! If you’ve gained weight, here are three tips to help you handle it. ...
Jul 6, 2020 | Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting, Podcast
When we’ve been in the diet world for some time, our brains become trained to think of food as good and bad. Broccoli? Good Cake? Bad Salad? Good Bread? Bad When we’re working to stop dieting, it can be insanely challenging to train our brains to stop defaulting into...
Jun 30, 2020 | Featured, Food 'n Stuff, Freedom From Dieting
When we’ve been in the diet world for some time, our brains become trained to think of food as good and bad. Broccoli? Good Cake? Bad Salad? Good Bread? Bad When we’re working to stop dieting, it can be insanely challenging to train our brains to stop...
Jun 22, 2020 | Body Beliefs, Podcast
Is your worth determined by your size or the number on the scale? So much of what we learn growing up is our worth is dependent on something: Being a certain size Having a specific body type The number on the scale Making a certain amount of money or a certain career...
Jun 10, 2020 | Featured, Food 'n Stuff, Nourishment and Self Care
I know I talk a lot about letting go of dieting and eating for satisfaction. And I’m all about learning the whole “eat intuitively” and trying to figure out how to listen to what your body really needs and wants. But what happens when eating what...
Jun 2, 2020 | Food 'n Stuff, Podcast
Does it seem like despite your best intentions to stop dieting and be peaceful around food that you’re still scared to let go of control? You may be afraid of gaining weight, bingeing for days on end, or that it’ll trigger a spiral out of control....
May 25, 2020 | Food 'n Stuff, Podcast
Here’s the thing: we talk about wanting to be healthy, but what does it actually mean to eat healthy? We learn so many things from society about what it’s supposed to look like. We pick up ideas about good foods and bad foods, things we...
May 19, 2020 | Body Beliefs, Podcast
What can give us some serious trouble on this path? Body acceptance. How on earth are you supposed to accept your body when you don’t want to be where you are?! I’m talking body acceptance with a twist. Sometimes hearing a different explanation can make it...
Mar 20, 2020 | Emotions and Eating
Many people overeat, but there comes a time where it becomes a pre-diagnosed bingeeating disorder (BED). There are differences between binge eating and overeating. While you may overeat at times, those with self-diagnosed BED eat in excess all the time and cannot...
Mar 16, 2020 | Emotions and Eating, Podcast
When we get caught up in worry, fear, anxiety and stress, it can lead to using our coping mechanism: Soothing ourselves with food. With everything that’s going on in the world, I wanted to give a few tips to help you move through uncertainty without eating. Can...
Mar 11, 2020 | Food 'n Stuff, Overcoming Overeating, Podcast
There are tons of different tips, tools and strategies to stop bingeing or overeating at night. (I talk about some of them in this post) But on today’s episode, I wanted to give you ONE question to focus you and help you tune in to breaking the overeating cycle....