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What to do if you eat your feelings Sep 17, 2020

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In this episode, Claire touches on a topic that brings many women to Flourish—emotional eating. Typically this takes the form of trying to eat your way out of negative emotions like stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. Emotional eating is a touchy subject for some, but nothing we can't begin to understand.

Claire covers what to do if you eat your feelings, gives an example of a past member's journey with emotional eating, and shares what foods are emotional for her. We hope this episode empowers you to take the drama out of food and make it enjoyable again.

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Program note: Hey, glad you’re enjoying the podcast! In this episode, you might hear Claire talking about Nutritional Freedom and Foundations. Since we launched the podcast in 2020, we've undergone a makeover to improve the membership experience. For more, listen to our "And we're back! All the updates!" episode.

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Creating structure for your healthy habits Sep 10, 2020

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Are you looking for more structure in your life, your health, and your daily routines? In this episode, Claire introduces "supportive structure" and how to incorporate it at the intersection of self-care, self-discipline, and self-compassion.

Claire also discusses "unsupportive structure" and what that looks like in everyday life. Chances are you've been given a meal plan from a trainer, push up challenge from Pinterest, or a calorie goal from an app, which often leads to you sacrificing your mental, emotional, or social health to prioritize your physical health.

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What I've learned from diets Sep 03, 2020

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You know by now that here at Flourish we're not the biggest fans of diets, but we've learned so much about ourselves through them. Claire breaks down why dieting isn’t just about what you’re eating or how much, why you don’t need to be on a specific diet to be engaging in either diet mentality or diet behaviors, and how she learned that the most sustainable way to eat is guided by her own intuition and internal compass, not external rules.

Freeing yourself from diets opens up so much space for you to experience life to the fullest. In this episode, Claire shares what she's learned after a decade of dieting so that you can begin your own journey to flourishing.

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Consistency sabotage Aug 27, 2020

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Have you ever thought: "If I could only be more consistent?" Girl, you're not alone. In this episode, Claire discusses the ways in which we unintentionally sabotage ourselves when it comes to creating consistency in the healthy habits we desire.

Maybe you're attempting to be consistent in something that is inherently unsustainable, maybe you’ve got a perfectionistic idea of consistency, or maybe you don’t believe you actually can be consistent. Whatever it may be, we're encouraging you to set yourself free of those unrealistic expectations rooted in past behaviors and patterns and take a different approach to consistency.

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Why dieting sucks for your metabolism Aug 20, 2020

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Take a moment to think back on your diet history. What was the first diet you went on? How old were you? Why did you go on it in the first place? What results did you get? Did they last? How has your diet history progressed from there?

You’ll commonly hear weight management boiled down to a simple balancing act: calories in versus calories out. In this episode, Claire explains why it’s so much more nuanced than that. While it’s not total BS—within reason and without underlying issues or imbalances, weight is gained in a caloric surplus and lost in a caloric deficit—it is a drastic oversimplification.

The thing is, you deserve to feel comfortable and confident in your body. You deserve vibrant health that fuels the life you desire. And while diets position themselves as the quick fix to get you there, your body knows better.

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Your body and your job, plus a story. Aug 13, 2020

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If we were to wave a magic wand and solve all of your body image woes, how much time and energy would be freed up for you? And what would you do with all of it?

In this episode, Claire discusses the positive side effects that can come from creating a more sustainable, less time-intensive approach to nutrition. Whether that’s starting to date for the first time in years, starting a family, paying off debt, getting involved in social justice issues, or growing in their careers (the area in which we see the most progress in our members).

You'll also hear a story from Claire about a time that her body image and her work collided in a very real way.

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The problem with body positivity Aug 06, 2020

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In a world where women are taught and conditioned to hate their bodies, deciding to love yourself is a really radical idea. In this episode, Claire discusses the body positivity movement and the problems that arise for the people based on their interpretation of the movement or even the simple idea of being “body positive.”

Body positivity may, at face value, feel inaccessible if you aren’t in a place where you currently accept, like, love, or feel neutral about your body. We explore the concepts of body acceptance, body neutrality, and what we think of as a foundational baseline: body respect.

Pursuing body positivity isn’t the only way to feel better about your body. The way I see it, you deserve to feel at home in your body. And you get to define what that means for you. You get to decide what you want to feel about your body. But putting that wall up and thinking, “That’s not for me,” likely isn’t going to help you move forward.

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Three components of body image and how to improve yours Jul 30, 2020

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Body image is one of our favorite subjects to talk about in Flourish. After all, you probably wouldn’t care as much about food and nutrition if it weren’t for how it affected your body, weight, or body image, right?

But if you think about it… body image isn’t just about the way you look. Even when you look your thinnest and “fittest,” your body image can still be negative because of the way you think and feel about how you look. Maybe your body image has fluctuated based on a number of factors that had nothing to do with how your body looked. That’s because there are multiple components of body image.

In today’s episode, Claire explores the three components of body image and what you can do to improve across all three.

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What to do when your partner DGAF about health Jul 23, 2020

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You may follow the podcast because you’re interested in creating a more consistent, sustainable approach to your nutrition and health. We love helping you do that at Flourish becasue we know how much better, more energized, and more confident you feel from that place of vibrant health.

And one of the best ways to create more consistency is to understand what gets in the way.

We hear it all the time: “My partner doesn’t like to eat healthy!" or “My partner just doesn’t care about health!” If that’s you, you’re in the right place. But Claire's perspective may not be what you expect.

In this episode, Claire shares what to do if your partner just does not care about healthy habits the same way you do.

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Staying sane in the season of the summer bod Jul 16, 2020

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If your pool days or beach trips are filled with bikini anxiety more than any other feeling, this episode is for you.

From childhood all the way through college, Claire hated the summer. Summer camp? Pool parties? Swim team? Tubing down the river? They all involved getting into a bathing suit, which brought on a very specific version of dread. These days, if Claire's in a bikini, she's likely enjoying the feeling of sun and wind her my body, not getting wrapped up in swirling negative body image thoughts.

In this episode, Claire shares some tips and mantras so you can enjoy this season, no matter what you’re wearing.

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