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[party in my plants] 87: You Don’t Need Willpower, You Need Food Therapy! with Shira Lenchewski May 03, 2018

Show notes

My guest today believes that our relationship with food? It’s a relationship. Like a relationship we have with other humans. And just like we can talk to a therapist to help us fix our relationships issues with other humans, we can talk to a food therapist to help us fix our relationships issues with food. Shira Lenchewski is that food therapist! Shira’s an LA-based registered dietitian whose nutritional insights and recipes are faves among wellness-focused celebs and non-celeb awesome wellness-focused regular people too! What I love about Shira is that that she’s as real as they come - and she eyerolls alongside me when she hears the term mindful eating as well as shares the same tagline “being healthy eating doesn’t have to suck!” She recently came out with a book call The Food Therapist that’s jam-packed with refreshingly practical advice for helping peeps resolve their “it’s complicated” relationship with food! Alright, let’s do some food therapy, baby!

You’ll hear:

- Why not eating mindfully doesn't mean you lack willpower or you're lazy.

- How we've been conditioned to eat ice cream when we're sad.

- What you can learn from how a three-year-old eats a cupcake!

- The role of the pre-frontal cortex (yay science!).

- Where sugar does AND doesn't need to be.

- Reconciling wanting to look good vs. wanting a donut!

- Why ethical accounting doesn't have a place in your relationship with food!

- The importance of owning your decisions and indulging CONSCIOUSLY!

- And A LOT more!

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[party in my plants] 86: What’s a Healthy Sex Life? Here’s How to Party in Your PANTS! with Shan Boodram Apr 26, 2018

Show notes

My guest today to sex what a nutritionist is to food. Just like a nutritionist can help you eat more naturally, Shan Boodran, a sexologist can help you hump more naturally! Shan is the Internet’s most sought-after sex educator - she has over 25 million YouTube views and she’s shared sex and relationship advice on ABC’s “The View,” MTV, The Steve Harvey Show, CNN, The New York Times, Forbes and Time Magazine. Her book, LAID (love it) was a Canadian Bestseller, she rocks a really cool LIVE Facebook show and she sells vibrator necklaces -- which yes, to answer your silent question, are for BOTH decoration AND functional use. I met Shan when I introduced her at The Good Fest and I saw women just get wet and wild listening to her talk about having a healthy sex life so I knew I had to bring her on my show. Full disclosure, I’m admittedly a pretty prude lady so I definitely had a couple squeamish moments throughout our chat, but as Shan says: “fear ruins everything” so I just went with it. She also says she has orgasms in her sleep sometimes so if that’s something you’re struggling with - not sleep orgasms, awake orgasms, there’s a lot of helpful tips to come. PUN! Ok, press play.

Get turned on to hear:

- How Shan shifted from journalism to sexology.

- What a healthy sex life like looks like!

- How to navigate a relationship when your sex drive differs from your partners.

- Is scheduling sex good or bad?

- The diff between love languages and sex languages!

- Ways to talk to your partner about sex and make it not weird...

- The parallels between food and sex :-D

- Yep, we talk about having orgasms ! ! !

- The connection between our mindset and our sexual experience. (this was huge!)

- Some habits that might be blocking your firey sex life.

- And LOTS more.

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[party in my plants] 85: My Book Deal Story ~ All The Woohoo, Boohoo (& woowoo) Behind How I Got My Cookbook Deal! Apr 23, 2018

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Last month I shared the glorious news that I did, in fact, sign a book deal with Avery, an imprint of a publisher you miiiiight’ve heard of called Penguin Random House. If you saw that instagram post or read my announcement newsletter or overheard me talking about it on the Subway…or in my sleep, you might’ve drawn the conclusion that it was a boy meets girl, girl loves boy, boy and girl live happily ever after kind of story (except swap me for the boy and sub the book deal for the girl). But the truthful tale of my cookbook deal is anything but a straight, direct, easy line. It involved a lot of both woohoo AND boohoo, plus a surprising amount of woowoo …. all of which I dive into in this story. So if you press play on this episode thinking you’ll snag a copy and paste formula for getting your own cookbook deal, this probs isn’t the perfect episode for you, but if you’re open to hearing how achieving great dreams is completely possible with more hustle, heartbreak and some spiritual shiz sprinkled in, this episode might just do it for ya.

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[party in my plants] 84: Actually, Being Health Conscious and Being Weight Conscious AREN’T the Same Diff! with Jess Sepel. Apr 19, 2018

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My guest today is straight up - my girl crush. Whatevs. I’ve got no shame. And there’s no reason she won’t be your girl crush, too, after hearing our chat and stalking her on the socials! Jess Sepel, known as JS Health online, is quickly becoming one of Australia’s most sought-after wellness and lifestyle advocates - because she’s so passionate about helping women achieve an actually balanced lifestyle and body by eating whole foods and by flicking off fad diets forever. Jess is not shy about sharing her personal story about how she went from a diet fanatic to a whole foods fan, (not the store, the actual whole...foods), and she uses her booming platform, her books, her clinical nutritionist education and her online course to help women build a truly healthy relationship with food. For real. It’s a thing. And in this chat I got the pleasure of asking Jess live, from across the world, exactly how that thing called a healthy relationship with food can be a thing for everyone! We had a very similar conversation when I interviewed her live at The Good Fest a couple months ago so I tried to forget what we spoke about then and be a curious george when picking her brain again! This is most-def one of the most tangible episodes to date so just a little FYI - a thorough recap of our chat lives over at at partyinmyplants.com/84.

Press play to hear:

- How Jess turned in to a walking, glowing billboard of health!

- Some gentle nutrition guidance.

- Ways to learn to to listen to your bod.

- Why a green smoothie won't do any good if you're constantly stressed!

- How to create a stress-free zone and set some social media boundaries. (FOR REALZ.)

- An almost unheard of recommendation about exercise!

- What to do when you wanna take a nap at 3 p.m….

- What to NEVER do when you come home from work!

- The connection between your mindset and your weight.

- And loads more :-)

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[party in my plants] 83: Craving Pizza Or Cuddles? How to Eat Based on Emotion with Lindsey Smith Apr 12, 2018

Show notes

My guest today is an author, health coach, speaker, and fun food blogger behind Food Mood Girl. She also happens to dwell in one of my favorite non-NYC cities, Pittsburgh, where I go to cheer on the Steelers and eat great veggie burgers with my family who lives there! But this is about Lindsey Smith, not me. So yeah, Lindsey’s really passionate about creating plant-y recipes not just for taste-bud-ular-pleasure, but also for mental and emotional-pleasure as well. Her latest book is called Eat Your Feelings which is a title that I just ATE UP and so I wanted to bring her on to talk to us about how to, well, eat our feelings! Pretty straightforward. Although be forewarned: cravings? Not so straightforward as you’re about to learn.

Strap on your seatbelt to hear:

Why feeling your feelings is a-okay!
How to reclaim emotional eating.
In which situations a kale smoothie might not be the right answer.
When to listen to your cravings and when to not….
Why sometimes your cravings might lead you astray.
The life lesson Lindsay learned through a grilled cheese.
The #1 critical element at play when it comes to cravings.
Some great foods to eat when you feel all sortsa moods.
A mic drop moment on dealing with guilty food feelings.
And more more more!

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Where to buy Amazing Grass goodies and save 40% with code: PLANTPARTY40

Steal my job!! Scope out the exciting and impressive curriculum for The Institute for Integrative Nutrition!

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Where you can go to suggest a guest (yourself or someone else) for the show!

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[party in my plants] 82: The Wellness Project 2.0 - SIBO, Spring Cleaning and STILL STOPPING STRESSING! with Phoebe Lapine Apr 05, 2018

Show notes

My guest today has tried on more healthy habits than Alessandra Ambrosio has tried on Victoria’s Secret Bras! Well, that’s not a fact-checked fact so don’t quote me on that, but Phoebe Lapine had certainly tried on her fair share of healthy habits. Phoebe is the awesome author of The Wellness Project, a memoir meets self-help book that chronicles her year-long health endeavor experimenting with health habits like managing stress, switching to green beauty products, etc. to help manage her autoimmune disease, Hashimoto’s and find “the middle ground between health and hedonism.” We walked through her intimate experience with each of those 11 habits in our first podcast convo (episode 37) and now Phoebe’s back to dish the “where they are now” dirt about what life’s been like in the wake of The Wellness Project and how she’s found perfect health and happiness and has no worries in the world. Yeah right. She actually tells us the total truth about how her health journey just keeps going on and what she’s doing nowadays to keep herself feeling as good as poss, and how you slash me can follow her lead in feeling as good as poss. YAAAS!

Get stoked to hear:

- The aftermath of The Wellness Project.

- Some of the symptoms of SIBO and what it really means.

- How stress really is the worst thing EVER.

- How to stop trying to be the cool girl and do what makes you feel good.

- Ways to isolate healthy habits and determining if they're a tool worth using.

- The importance of a vice detox and how to do it easily.

- And loads more!

Links related to this episode:

Where to buy Four Sigmatic Shroom Products and save 15% with code: “PARTYINMYPLANTS”

Steal my job!! Scope out the exciting and impressive curriculum for The Institute for Integrative Nutrition!

Where you can go to submit a question for the show!

Where I’d much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!!

Where you can go to suggest a guest (yourself or someone else) for the show!

The full show notes with all the deets from this episode!

[party in my plants] 81: Why Chiropractic Care Isn't Quackery (Just Helpful CRACK-ery)! with Dr. Kasey Johnson Mar 29, 2018

Show notes

My guest today is woman who takes pleasure in pop, lock and dropping spines. All in name of improving people’s overall well-being, preventing health issues and proving that she is NOT a Dr. Bobby Bobby. (Yes, that’s a friends reference. And yes, the scene I’m talking about is posted in the shownotes). Dr. Kasey Johnson is a family wellness chiropractor based in the Tampa Bay area. She’s so pumped about getting everyone hooked on crack...ing their spines, even at a young age, that she wrote a children’s book about going to a chiropractor! It’s like instead of goodnight moon, it’s like goodbye ear aches. Kasey also eats a lot of plants! And we speak about whether you can tell the difference between a plant-y spine and a non-plant-y spine. (The answer to which might surprise you!) In one sec, you’ll hear Kasey’s passion for chiropractic care just reek through your speakers and you’ll hear me ask hopefully and probably everything you’ve actually ever wanted to ask anyone about a chiropractor. I left no stones unturned. No spines unadjusted. I straightened everything out.

You’ll hear:

- What Friends got right (and wrong) about chiropractors!

- What exactly chiropractic care means and the benefits of it.

- A chiro’s stance on standing desks.

- How chiropractors are similar to doctors AND acupuncturists!

- How often you can get adjusted.

- Whether you can tell the difference between a plant-y spine and a non-plant-y spine.

- Why a car is the perfect analogy for your health.

- Plus, some pretty awesome chiropractic puns.

Links related to this episode:

Where to buy Amazing Grass goodies and save 40% with code: PLANTPARTY40

Steal my job!! Scope out the exciting and impressive curriculum for The Institute for Integrative Nutrition!

Where you can go to submit a question for the show!

Where I’d much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!!

Where you can go to suggest a guest (yourself or someone else) for the show!

The full show notes with all the deets from this episode!

[party in my plants] 80: How to Be Better Than Your Mess! And Have Less Mess. with Rachel Hoffman Mar 22, 2018

Show notes

Rachel Hoffman is what happens when a professional bossy person is also a messy person. Rachel’s the founder of (pardon my french but get used to it because it’s the name of her brand and we talk about it a lot): Unf*ck Your Habitat, and she is the author of a book by the same name. Her thang is motivating regular peeps to get up, start cleaning, and get their lives in order because she really believes that our home should be somewhere where we’re comfortable and enjoy being in. I believe that, too. But I can’t believe we had such a fun conversation about cleaning! Seriously! You’re about to hear Rachel drop a ton of knowledge bombs that’ll help your home look less like a bomb exploded in it! That’s what my mom always used to say about my room growing up. Oh and we get into mommy issues in this chat, too! FUN!

You’ll hear:

The secret myth of the Instagram-perfect home.
The brilliant and LOL and BLEEP blend of Marie Kondo meets Thug Kitchen method of organization!
How to apply the Pomodoro technique to cleaning your house.
Justification for the difficulty of putting on a new roll of toilet paper. You’re so welcome!
The life-changing magic of getting to sink zero.
How keeping a bowl in the right place might make you cook more.
How to not ruin cleaning for life for your kids.
And lots more!!

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