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Nutrition resources to help you undiet your life. Find strategies, podcasts, and inspiration to reclaim your health from diet culture with intuitive eating practices.
How to eat for heart health after 40 – in real life
How to use gentle nutrition basics to promote heart health after 40 without compromising satisfaction or falling into the dumpster fire of diet culture.
How to create healthy habits after 40; 5 steps
If you’re not interested in New Year’s resolutions you’ll probably break on Super Bowl weekend, here are 5 steps to create healthy habits you’ll stick with.
How to Make Holiday Baking Healthier, or Not
Episode 59: Baking is the one area of cooking that takes the biggest hit from diet culture. During my disordered eating days, I had piles of recipes with scratched-out ingredients. After MANY batches of hockey puck cookies, crumbly brick-like cranberry bread, and sad, soggy pumpkin pie, I realized that trying to make holiday baking healthier doesn’t work. Here’s why.
How to use mindful eating can reduce holiday stress, 3 ways
Episode 102: The holiday season is a busy time of year. There are plenty of ways to distract you from taking care of yourself. Here are 3 ways to use mindful eating during the holidays to stay attuned to your physical and emotional needs.
How to Shut Down Diet Talk During the Holidays
Imagine sitting down at your holiday table. Smelling all the yummy smells - excited to try a new dish or plate up some old favorites that only hit the table once a year. Then your sister-in-law Karen announces she's not eating sugar this holiday season because she's...
Nutrition and Body Positive Resources
HEALTHY AT EVERY SIZE
3 Tips to Navigate Weight Bias in Healthcare
Episode 26: Weight Bias in Healthcare: I'm going to assume that your annual trip to the doctor's office is the anniversary you dislike the most. Hopefully, you only have to go through the shameful routine once a year...walk into the office, check-in, get called back...
How to be a runner over 40
Episode 39 Being a runner over 40: What image comes to mind when you think of a runner? Try it. Close your eyes and imagine a runner. Did you see a thin, young, sleek, able-bodied person? That's what most of us envision because that's how we commonly see runners in...
INTUITIVE EATING
How to eat more brain-health foods without being obsessive
Can you eat to support your brain health without falling into the dumpster fire of diet culture? Yes! You can take a non-diet approach to brain health with intuitive eating and gentle nutrition. Let's do it! Create your meals and snacks with a balance of complex...
How to improve your relationship with food after 40
What does it mean to undiet your life after 40? And how can ditching diets improve your relationship with food after 40?
PODCASTS
How being a perfectionist will sabotage your health 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...
How to live “beyond the binge”
Feeling exhausted from trying to control your eating, only to end up in a binge eating frenzy after you blow your diet? Go from frustrated to confident when you learn how to live "beyond the binge!" Do you feel overwhelmed by trying to "get back on track" with healthy...