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The Surprising Truth About Healthy Eating: Debunking Common Myths About Nuts, Beans, and Whole Grains
Episode 11: How do you make healthy food choices? What makes food healthy? If you don't know me well enough by now, you should know that I'm a firm believer in the "all foods fit" model of eating. But I wasn't always. I graduated from grad school with a degree in...
How to Break Free from Binge Eating: Intuitive Eating Tips for Overcoming Destructive Eating Behaviors
Episode 13: Overcoming Destructive Eating Behaviors You've done it! You've made the big decision not to go on another diet, and you're loving how food freedom tastes! Until you see your body size change, feel guilty for eating too much (insert guilty food pleasure...
Eating Intuitively: 3 Easy Steps To Make Intuitive Eating Work For You
Episode 14: Eating Intuitively 3 Steps to Make Intuitive Eating Easy, Breezy Now that you've done all the diets. Lost weight. Gained weight. Tried to love and accept your body by squeezing into skinny jeans only to end up frustrated, bingeing on chips, and hating...
Yin Yoga: Empowering All Bodies to Find Their Perfect Balance
Episode 15 Why yoga isn’t about looking great in Lululemon leggings: How many times have you seen a picture on social media or in a magazine of a woman doing yoga and thought, "If only I looked like her; then I'd do yoga?" That's because all we ever see are photos of...
What do hummus, tank tops, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding have to do with your relationship with food?
Episode 16 Culture Shock: "You know those scenes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding with all the crazy family members fussing over the bride and groom's big day? Yeah, that's pretty much my life." This is the first thing Malak Saddy said to me when I first met her in our...
Nutrition and Body Positive Resources
HEALTHY AT EVERY SIZE
Is It All Downhill From Here: Women in Midlife
Is this what a midlife crisis looks like? I remember when my Dad retired. In his new found free time, he got hooked watching Barrett-Jackson collection car auction tv shows. He became obsessed with wanting a Porsche Cayman sportscar and I immediately thought "uh...
Nobody EVER deserves to be objectified
Wolf-whistles, cat-calls, shouted come-ons... I object! Here's how my morning started...minding my own business, packing groceries into my backpack to bike home and behind me, I hear two guys making cat-call-type comments. It took me a minute to realize they were...
INTUITIVE EATING
What do hummus, tank tops, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding have to do with your relationship with food?
Episode 16 Culture Shock: "You know those scenes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding with all the crazy family members fussing over the bride and groom's big day? Yeah, that's pretty much my life." This is the first thing Malak Saddy said to me when I first met her in our...
Daily Rituals to Reduce Mood Swings and Increase Energy Levels
Episode 19: I hate mid-afternoon energy drags, don't you? Back in my dieting days, I couldn't figure out why, when I'd been so "good" with my eating all day, I'd end up dragging myself through the finish line of the day (let's be honest, what was left on the to-do...
PODCASTS
Why a Perfectionist Mindset Can Sabotage Your Health and Weight Loss Goals
Episode 8. Are you a perfectionist? Do you ever feel the pressure to keep pushing toward perfection? Does your drive for achievement leave you feeling disconnected from your body and your true purpose in life? Dr. Rebecca Sorenson is a former competitive athlete whose...
From San Francisco to LA: How a Cycling Adventure Ignited Passion, Connection, and Positive Body Image
Episode 9: What would it take to have a positive body image? Not in a "you feel your heart pounding when you walk upstairs" or "hit your funny bone" (not funny) kind of way. In a much deeper, more compassionate, peaceful sort of way. A connection that you can trust...