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

Latest Episodes:

244-So You Quit Dieting... Now What? Jun 11, 2020

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“So I quit dieting … what do I do next?”

This is where all women begin their journey into intuitive eating. Maybe you know the answer to this question because you’ve been there. Or perhaps that’s the question you are asking yourself right now.

Most women have been indoctrinated into diet culture at a very young age and have been living according to diet culture’s rules since then. Most women don't even realize that they can say no to diets. That there is another way of living beyond restricting food and hating their body.

That’s until they learn that diets don’t work and they aren’t the problem, diets are.

Quit dieting

Women then decide to not diet anymore. A sense of being lost then takes over because if they don’t diet what are they to do. Most of us have never consciously not dieted or not want to be on a diet.

That’s when the question: “So I quit dieting... now, what?” comes along.

In today’s episode, we will answer this question. We will give you the exact steps for you to take when you stop dieting.

What you'll learn listening to this episode on quitting dieting:

What to expect when you stop dieting
The pendulum swing
Investigate the damage
The process of unlearning dieting
The journey of becoming a normal eater… again!

Mentioned in the show:

Quiz- Why you struggle with food

Intuitive Eating Project

PRO Series: Non-Diet Business Model- S1 EP8 Jun 09, 2020

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Non-Diet Business Training is essential for any women health entrepreneurs starting their business adventure in the non-diet health approach.

Your business success means women’s learning how to ditch diet culture. Your willingness to accept that your business success means more lives transformed is key to your being successful in your professional journey.

In the same way, you ask your client/patient to invest in themselves by working with you: are you investing in yourself to be successful in your business?

Non-Diet Business Training

In episode 2 of season 1 of the Pro series, we discovered why crafting a business strategy is so important to your overall business. Without the foundation of a strategy, there’s very little chance your business will grow and transform hundreds of women’s lives.

In today’s episode, we will discover the various business model available to you to create your business strategy. A business model is a framework for how you will create value. It answers fundamental questions about the problem you are going to solve, how you will solve it and the growth opportunity within a given market.

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:

What is a business model
Why it’s important to have a business model
Look behind the scene of my business model
The one thing that most important to your business success

Mentioned in the show:

Mentorship Program
Free Intake Forms
PRO Series - Free Training & Resources
PRO Podcast series - Full listing

243-Her Story: 30 years of yo-yo dieting to finally accept her body with Sarah Jun 04, 2020

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In today’s episode, I’m joined by Sarah Cogliati, a student of the Intuitive Eating Project. Sarah agreed to share her story on the podcast to show women what is possible when we finally make the choice to accept our bodies.

After 30 years of yo-yo dieting, liberation is possible!

Sarah has been on her journey of body acceptance and making peace with food for a few years and now has become a certified coach, meditation teacher, and kick-ass spin instructor. She coaches other women on the same journey as her. I’m so excited to share this empowering discussion with you!

In this episode we discuss:

Sarah’s visit to a pediatrician at 8 years that impacted the next 30 years of her life.
How she was praised for losing weight in her teens
The serendipitous moment at the gym to make her dream come true
The mindset coach that showed her what’s possible
Sarah’s tips for joyful movement
Sarah’s process to deal with limiting beliefs

Mentioned in the show:

New Quiz - Evaluate your relationship with food

Intuitive Eating Project

PRO Series: Business Transition- S1 EP7 Jun 03, 2020

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The business transition from the traditional model of nutrition and health to the non-diet model can be scary but also can be life-changing.

As with everything in life, how you approach the need for you to transition your business will make the journey scary, filled with anxiety and uncertainties OR you will make the journey pleasurable, filled with learnings and growth both personally and professionally.

I want you to take a moment and reflect upon your client and patient for a moment. When they come to you and you stand in front of them presenting Intuitive eating and the non-diet approach to health.

Does your client feel scared at the thought of not dieting? Hell yess…

Do they feel anxious about potentially gaining weight? Hell yess…

Are they uncomfortable with the uncertainty of not knowing what will happen? Hell yess…

Most of your clients will trust you and move forward following your guidance. Leaning into you for leadership. They will face their fears because the pain of staying into diet culture is greater than the one of facing their fears.

This episode is for all of you, Health PRO’s that know that making the transition to a non-diet model is the right thing to do but are crippled with fear. I ask you to be as courageous as the people who daily face their fear and ditch diet culture, make peace with their body, and overcome fatphobia.

Rachel’s story of transition

The best way for me to express the possibilities that are in front of you is not with teaching but instead with inspiration. The best way I know to inspire is with lived experience.

I’m welcoming a colleague, a good friend, and mentee, Rachel Molenda. Rachel will be sharing her lived experience as she transitioned her business over the last 12 months to the non-diet model.

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:

Rachel’s origin story
How her own relationship to food led her to this work.
Rachel did a traditional model very successfully
Rachel shared how she was trying to be someone else
“I was living my life as a fiction” moment that changed everything
The business transition step by step
The transition culminates with the launch The BreakFree method
Right now, Rachel is learning intuitive living

Connect with our guest

Rachel's website
Rachel's Instagram
Rachel's Podcast
Break Free Method

Mentioned in the show:

Mentorship Program
Free Intake Forms
PRO Series - Free Training & Resources
PRO Podcast series - Full listing

242-Love versus Fear May 28, 2020

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Love versus fear.

Believe it or not, the opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s fear.

All emotions basically fall under one of two categories — love-based emotions of fear-based.

Our emotions direct the choices we make daily. Our emotional state informs the decision we take in our lives. They create the action we take towards our dreams, goals… life!

Productive emotions will produce productive actions, choices, and decisions.

On the other hand, unproductive emotions will produce unproductive actions, choices, and decisions.

Love-based emotions include love, hope, joy, gratitude, peace, faith, trust, confidence, happiness, connection, forgiveness, openness, passion, freedom, harmony, honesty, beauty, compassion, self-love, self-appreciation, respect, acceptance, understanding, etc.

Fear-based emotions include fear, anger, grief, shame, guilt, bitterness, judgment, jealously, frustration, doubt, insecurity, etc.

Hating your body is an action informed by fear-based emotions.

Dieting is a choice we make directed by fear of being fat.

Love-based choices liberate.

Conversely, fear-based choice constrict.

In today’s episode, I’ll teach how this decision filter – Love versus Fear directs decisions you take daily towards your life.

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:

What does love versus fear mean?
How to make love-based choices instead of fear-based decisions
Walk through a clear and relatable example of choosing love versus fear

PRO Series: Feminism & Diet Culture - S1 EP6 May 26, 2020

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Women don’t diet because they enjoy dieting.

Women who diet do it because they think they have to.

From a very young age, women have been socialized that they are their physical bodies. Women have internalized that their worth is associated with their body and its ability to achieve the expectation from diet culture.

Not sure... let’s look at research released by Dove, for their ‘Self-Esteem Project’, It found that 96% of women in the UK reported feeling anxious about the way they look, compared with 86% in China, 72% in Brazil and 61% in the US. Only 4% of the women in all the countries surveyed would consider themselves ‘beautiful’, and by the time girls reach 17, 78% will be ‘unhappy with their bodies’.

Helping women leave and recover from diet culture is a feminist issue.

In today’s episode, we will discover why as health professionals, we need to adopt a specific non-diet approach for women.

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:

Why a non-diet approach specific to women?
Feminism & diet culture
The intersection between diet culture & women history
Women socialization to diet culture
Women internalization of diet culture
Dieting is a feminist issue
Women empowerment
Non-diet Approach for women Professional Training
Non-diet Approach for women mentorship

Links mentioned in the episode...

Mentorship Program

Free Intake Forms

PRO Series – Free Training & resources

PRO Podcast Series - Full Listing

Women Food and Power

241- Body Fantasies May 21, 2020

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Body fantasies sound like this:

“When I finally lose weight I will ______”
or
“If my body could be different I would ______”
or
“If I could look younger I would _____”
And you can fill the blank of what will happen once you get to live your body fantasies with one or many of these:

I will be happy
I will feel lighter
I will be sexy
I will be confident and do _____
I’ll get the promotion I deserve
I will be successful and I’ll achieve ____
I’ll feel good about myself
I’ll start dating
I’ll be more outgoing
I will finally fit in the clothes that I used to love to wear
I will be more confident
I will go out and enjoy life
I will be a better sexual partner
I will be desired by my partner
I will feel more confident
My life will be easier
Moving my body will be easier
I’ll be able to stop eating when full
I’ll be relax
I’ll be healthier
My mom will finally stop commenting on my body
My kids won’t feel a shame to be with me
Etc…....
Body fantasies definition
It’s when you believe that life will unlock all that you be wanting once you get the body that you consider to the perfect or at least good enough
It’s when you believe you put things on hold because you haven’t GOT that fantasy body, that illusionary body that will ALLOW you to be happy, healthy, and confident… and sexy lol!
When you obsessed about losing weight, reshaping your body, reducing your wrinkle lines, become optimally healthier, control your food so you can finally change your appearance and unlock your dream life
It’s when one of the most important parts of your personal life is about changing your body.

It's when you put your life on hold until you feel deserving enough

On today’s episode you’ll learn listening to this episode:
What are body fantasies?
Do you have body fantasies thoughts?
Where does body fantasies come from?
The intersection between body objectification and internalization
Opting out of body fantasies

Mentioned on the show:

Women Food and Power

Conquer & Thrive Program

Breakthrough Consultation

Get Started with Intuitive Eating – Free Guide

PRO Series: Addressing the Real Root Cause - S1 EP5 May 19, 2020

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In the first three years of clinical practice, I thought I was addressing the root cause of my patient health concerns.

In my training in holistic health & functional medicine, we are trained on addressing the underlying or root cause of chronic disease, taking into account the whole person including their environment, genetics, and lifestyle factors. Addressing the root cause is fundamental philosophy and honestly, the pride of alternative health approaches: resolving the root cause vs. just dealing with side effects.
I was asking a lot of questions and doing an in-depth assessment with the goal of uncovering the “real issue” that no other health professional had identified yet. This unidentified root cause was, as per my training in functional medicine the reason why my clients were “still struggling”.
Was I really addressing the real root cause”?

In today’s episode, I open the discussion to find out if we really addressing the real root cause with our traditional health coaching and nutrition model?

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:
What’s the real root cause?
Why healing the root cause is so important
Weight stigma
Fatphobia
Body Image healing
Health can be weight neutral
How the non-diet approach address the real root cause

Links mentioned in the episode...

Women Food and Power

Mentorship Program

Free Intake Forms

PRO Series – Free Training & resources

PRO Podcast Series - Full Listing

240-What Are You Hungry For? May 14, 2020

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What are you hungry for?

What are we truly hungry for? Is it food? If it was, then eating will appease our hungers. But it doesn’t. That we crave, overeat, binge we never feel full. It’s not enough and feels like it’s never going to be enough. So, if food was the answer to our hunger then we would feel full. But it’s not.

Could it be that what we are hungry for is not food? Is it possible that we “think” is food hunger is actually a hunger for something else?

What I’m proposing to you today in this episode is to consider that what you think is a food issue is not. I would like you to consider that hunger can be for something else beyond food.

In this episode of What are you hungry for, we will:

explore two basic human needs that could present itself as hunger but aren’t need for food
explore how you can satisfy these basic human needs

Know that this information we share today in this episode is extremely powerful and can cause you to be upset at first... and it’s ok. It’s part of the healing process.

“The truth will set you free,

but first it will piss you off.”

-Gloria Steinem

Mentioned on the show:

Women Food and Power

Breakthrough Consultation

PRO Series: Non-Diet Marketing- S1 EP4 May 12, 2020

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Any non-diet business coaching must include a segment on non-diet marketing.

For many, the words marketing is “yucky” or even “salesy”. Many of my new intuitive eating business students at first will tell me “I hate that part of my job”. Is that you, too?

If you are a health professional and have a private practice, then marketing is a vital part of your business. This is even more relevant for non-diet approach health practice.

To help you fall in love with marketing so that you can thrive in your business, this article will discuss…

Understand the non-diet business coaching framework

The best non-diet marketing strategy

The 3 pillars of non-diet marketing

Pillar 1: Ideal Client Readiness

Pillar 2: Emotional Connection

Pillar 3: Nurturing

Non-diet Professional Training Center

Non-diet mentorship program