It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching

Latest Episodes:

PRO Series: My Anti-diet Business Journey - S2 EP2 Oct 27, 2020

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One of the frequent questions from health coaches who encounter my work in the non-diet approach for the first time is this:

How do I make money as a non-diet coach?

I get it. I had the same question 6 years ago when I first came to the world of anti-diet health coaching. If we don’t tell people what to eat when to eat and how to eat, what will they pay us for? Right?

To help answer this question, I’d like to give you an inside view into my anti-diet health coaching business more precisely what I wish I knew before starting my anti-diet health coaching business.

In today’s episode, I’m going to share with you what I wish I knew before starting my anti-diet health coaching business.

What you’ll learn listening to this episode about my anti-diet business journey:

How I started my non-diet business
What I wished I knew before starting my non-diet business
My top 10 lessons over the last 6 years
My biggest learning in this non-diet health coaching business

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258-Body Shame Oct 22, 2020

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Body shame is what kick-started my descent into perfectionism. No matter what I did, I couldn't rid myself of the shame I felt for my body. Like millions of other women, I master up a plan to offset my inability to get a "proper body" by being perfect everywhere else.

Familiar?

Why is body shame so powerful?

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:

What is shame
How shame applies to our body image
Why it’s so important to release body shame
How to release body shame

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Podcast Roadmap

Conquer & Thrive

PRO Series: The Anatomy of the Non-Diet Approach- S2 EP1 Oct 20, 2020

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When I first started in my nutrition practice the term “non-diet approach” didn’t even cross my mind. “Anti-diet approach” didn’t even exist. Unbeknown to me, I was practicing the “diet approach to nutrition” simply because that’s what was taught in health & nutrition school.

Fast forward close to 10 years now and a lot have changed. The non-diet approach is growing rapidly, so has the anti-diet approach and intuitive eating is booming.

So in this episode, we will deep dive into the non-diet approach anatomy. You’ll learn:

What is the non-diet approach
Core values of the non-diet approach
The pillars of the non-diet approach
Non-diet approach training for professional
Non-Diet Mentorship Program

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Beyond The Food PRO Mentorship Program

PRO Series – Free Training & resources

PRO Podcast Series - Full Listing

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257-Eating Normally Oct 15, 2020

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Have you ever thought, "I wish I could just eat normally!"

Hell yes, right, lol!

I've had this thought for years not sure when I first started to think it, but it's been years for sure, probably decades.

I thought that by quitting dieting, I would be able to eat normally. Well, that didn't work, lol! After a few attempts, I had to acknowledge that I didn't even know what eating normally was.

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:

What is normal eating
How to develop normal eating behavior
The difference in the process of normal eating for women who have been dieting for long period.

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Podcast Roadmap

Conquer & Thrive

256-Diet Mindset Oct 01, 2020

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People will often refer to mindset as a perspective.

I like to explain mindset to my clients as a collection of all of the things you believe, that you assume or that you have been taught. These can be conscious or unconscious, but these beliefs, assumptions or taught notions that influence your feelings, the approach you have in the situation, how you meet your needs, and ultimately the actions you take, therefore the results you create in your life.

The analogy I used with my clients is that your mindset is like a pair of glasses you wear 24/7. It's the lens through which you see and experience life.

Mindset is not just the beliefs, assumptions you think; it's how you feel due to what you think, the actions you take, and the result you experience are all under the umbrella mindset. It is really important for us to understand why we need to be addressing it all together.

To be addressing your mindset, you need to be looking at your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and results with it.

We have different mindsets based on different beliefs we hold in the separate areas of our life. We have a money mindset, political mindset, social justice mindset and yes, a diet mindset.

Diet Mentality

What is known as "Diet mentality" is the collections of beliefs and assumptions you were taught about health, beauty, body size, more specifically, what it means to be a woman. These beliefs we have about what it means to be a woman influence how you feel about your body and ourselves in general. These thoughts we have about our bodies and ourselves then create the actions and behaviours we have, just like going on a diet.

Concrete examples of diet mentality VS non-diet mentality

Do I deserve this food? VS Am I hungry?

How do I look? VS How do I feel?

How much do I get to eat today? VS How much food do I need right now?

I exercise so I can eat VS I eat so I can move my body.

I can eat whatever I want on my cheat day VS I can eat whatever I want any day.

Food is my worst enemy, and my favourite joy / Food is just-food.

I ate awful this weekend VS I had a great time this weekend with my family.

What other people say about me is very important VS What I think of myself determines how I feel about myself.

My worth is determined by my weight VS I'm born worthy.

I need to be smaller to be attractive VS My sexy is in my attitude and how I carry myself.

To feel better, I need to lose weight VS The way to feel better is to think better thoughts.

I'll be more confident when I lose weight VS Confidence is in my mindset, not in my weight.

My weight determines my health VS My health-promoting behaviours influence my health

As a woman, it's my responsibility to maintain my beauty VS As a woman, it's my responsibility to impact the world with my actions.

On this episode of the podcast you will learn:

How we develop our mindset
Why mindset mater greatly to our happiness
What is a diet vs a non-diet mindset
How to change your mindset

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Conquer & Thrive

255-Body Neutrality Sep 24, 2020

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Being Body Neutral

Body neutrality is a way to engage with our bodies.

The goal of body neutrality is to dial down the enormous significance that’s being given to physical attractiveness in our society. In fact, the significance of women’s beauty is what causes us to do all kinds of crazy things to look “better”. We wear make-up and spend a stupid amount of money on anti-ageing cream. And we cut up our body with esthetic surgeries and yes, dieting. Moreover, we effectively starve ourselves in order to be beautiful.

In fact, this is important to understand… if we didn’t buy/engage in the importance of our beauty to our place into this world, we wouldn’t diet or think we need to change the size/ shape/ look of our bodies.

Body neutrality goes beyond body-positivity. That is to say it’s not just about pushing back onto the beauty ideals of our times. Body Positivity challenges the beauty standards by putting forward diverse body types, size…

Being Body Neutral, on the other hand, pushes back on all aspects of society that continue to promote beauty as essential, consequential and the ultimate accomplishment, and a person’s appearance as indicative of their worth.

BN says “How I feel about myself has nothing to do with my appearance.”

BP says: “I feel good about myself, because I know I’m beautiful at any size”.

Can you see the difference?

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:

The 4 components of body image
The Body Image Scale
Why you shouldn’t aim to be body positive
The feminist approach to body image
Body neutrality in real life

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Conquer & Thrive

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The Way to Food & Body Freedom Sep 21, 2020

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I’ve been waiting for this day for months and it’s finally here. I’ve been working on this since March, and now it’s here.

I’m bursting with excitement… I could scream but since this is a podcast and many of you are listening to me in your earbuds, I do not want to hurt your pretty little ears, so I’m going to restraint myself.

I’m beyond myself to finally be able to share all the secret details of this thing I’ve been working on for months and months.

So here we go… get ready to conquer food and body & body image and thrive.

I’m pleased to announce and introduce… Conquer & Thrive.

In this episode, we will learn:

What’s is Conquer and Thrive
What is included inside Conquer and Thrive
Who should join Conquer and Thrive
What will happen after a few months inside Conquer and Thrive
How to join Conquer and thrive

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Conquer & Thrive

253- Eating: Power or Control Sep 17, 2020

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Power or Control

Let us start with this question:

Do you want to be in your power with food, or do you want to control food?

Do you want to be in your power with your body, or do you want to control your body?

My own relationship to power and control has been different at different stages of my life.

I spent most of my teens developing my power and being punished for it. In fact, I was labeled as a rebel because I was in my power. Over the years of being told over and over again that what I was being a daughter, a girlfriend, a young woman in her power wasn't right, I started to doubt myself and my ways.

From my mid-twenties to early '40s, I spent seeking control. If being in my power was wrong, then the opposite should be right. Now, let's be clear. I didn't wake up thinking, "Oh well, power doesn't work, let me try control." That's not how it happened. On the contrary, it was subtle. Instead of being punished for being in my power, I was being rewarded by society for "being in control." That is to say, I was given money, promotion in my career, higher social standing, etc…

Notice that what I outlined as signs that being in my power worked was all externals signs, nothing really personal. There's a reason for this: because internally and personally, "being in control" didn't lead me to success, to health, to joy, to happiness, to health.

Power vs. Control

In fact, it's only recently, over the last couple of years, that I was able to see this distinction. What led me to see the difference between the two is my own relationship to food and the consequences on my body.

And I have to say thank you to the thousands of women that I have worked with over the years that led me to not only see the tremendous difference between power and control but to truly understand it—and being the witness to the transformation well beyond the food that happens when we shift from one to the other.

That's what I'd like to share with you today… and you can decide for yourself what will serve you the best in your life today: Power or Control.

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:

What does it mean to be in our power
Why we seek to be “in control”
What happens when we shift from control to power
How to claim our power

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Conquer & Thrive

252-Righteous Eating Sep 10, 2020

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Are you a righteous eater?

One hint that you might be is the answer to this question: Do you secretly feel superior (better than others) because of the way you eat?

This one is also revealing: now again, answer silently: Do you feel a sense of shame or guilt when you don’t eat the way you think you should?

I emphasize the word secret or silent answer because admitting that you are a righteous eater publicly is just another layer of shame that we want to avoid.

We don’t seek righteous eating because something is wrong with us. On the contrary, we seek a righteous way of eating because we are trying to survive and protect ourselves from more “mean girl voice” critics.

We seek to eat righteously as a way to feel better about ourselves. To fill up the void left by the beliefs we aren’t worthy.

We desire to eat the right way in the hope of being worthy.

Diet culture has led us to believe that our self-worth was to be earned mainly through our body size and beauty, but also through trying hard enough to get “there”.

Righteous eating is, in my clinical experience, the #1 reason why women struggle with becoming an intuitive eater. Over time and years of chasing their self-worth with the next diet, they have acquired a distorted view of self-worth.

Unconsciously, many women believe that their sense of worth in “tangled” with their ability to eat the “right way” and “ get the right body”.

This is the foundation for righteous eating.

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:

The definition of righteous eating
How to determine if you are a righteous eater
How to overcome righteous eating
The one tool to change your self-esteem and sense of worth

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Podcast Roadmap

Conquer & Thrive

251-Her Story: Unlearning Diet Culture as a Mom with Mandy Sep 03, 2020

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Unlearning Diet Culture as a mom

It’s in our human DNA to seek autonomy as we become adults. To be independent and self- sufficient; without having to fit someone’s expectations but our own. To be ourselves.

I mean as parents our role is to raise little humans to be autonomous, right?

But Diet Culture gets in the way of our autonomy as women. It tells us what to eat, how to move, and what size and shape our bodies should be.

You and I do not have to live our lives according to diet culture's rules and expectations. Decide to opt-out, totally up to you.

You can stay, or you can say: HELL NO!

This is what Mandy decided to do. Mandy is a 40's years old mother of 2 who decided to change her reality.

You'll hear her share her journey unlearning diet culture as a mom from the beginning to the end.

On today's episode, you'll learn:

The 5 steps to unlearning diet culture
How she was raised in a family that dieted
After the birth of her kids eating & dieting took a turn for the worse
"I hit rock bottom when I didn't allow my kids to touch me"
The journey towards food freedom was gradual and healing
The changes that happened beyond the food:
- The relationship with her husband expanded
- She got her sexy back!
- Now she can cuddle with her kids
- She now has her dream job!