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#021: How To Raise Healthy Eaters {Part 2} Jul 06, 2016

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Raising healthy eaters is a battle. But do we make it more of one than it needs to be? What if raising healthy eaters meant letting go, becoming a good negotiator and really fostering their own eating cues and patterns? It's not as rigid or strict as we've made it out to be. In fact, feeding your kids can be a pleasant experience. Learn how and exactly what in this episode.

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#020: How To Raise Healthy Eaters {Part 1} Jun 28, 2016

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In today's show you will learn:

What intuitive eating means
How our food preferences develop
Why removing emotion from a child's eating is key
Why you shouldn't expect your kids to eat anything that you won't
The importance of using experiences as a reward instead of food
Why you should never force your kid to eat when they don't want to
What our role as parents is and how we can shape our children's intuitive eating principles
Why my husband still won't eat his peas
How to get your kids to think about the food choices they are making
How we've taught our oldest daughter to connect the food she eats to how she feels

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#019: Are your Expectations Stealing your Joy with Christine Hassler Jun 21, 2016

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Expectations have a way of wreaking havoc on life. It can really suck the joy out of all things.

I say this knowing full well what living in a life full of expectations can do. The problem was for the longest time I never realized that expectations were the root of a lot of arguments, anger, and let-downs. I truly believed that expectations were, well expected in this life.

I mean it's kind of ingrained in us from the time we were little ones. There's no escaping it, from expecting our children to behave well, to expect to get paid on time, to expecting everything in your day to go perfectly planned or how about expecting to lose weight on your next "diet". And the list continues.

But what happens when reality strikes, your kids fall apart, your paycheck comes in a few days late or you get stuck in traffic only to be late for your 8:00 am meeting? You become reactive. In my case, reactive means angry, distraught and anxious about the realities that have actually happened that seem to be far from what I expected.

Maybe it's the fantasy land we create or believe others are living simply because of the perfection of social media. Maybe it is just a human tendency to want to be right. I'm not really sure where the urge to create unending expectations comes in but the reality, they're sabotaging our chances of actually getting what we've set out to get, of meeting our goals.

So before you get into today's episode on preventing expectations and all of the reasons you should change it up and forget them I want to ask you, are your expectations met? What happens when they aren't? How does it make you feel and why do you even make them?

Just a little light thinking for you ;)

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#018: My Personal Journey And A New Direction With Simple Roots Jun 15, 2016

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This episode is very near and dear to my heart. It's my personal story of hitting my lowest of lows and through that learning, growing and transforming myself and Simple Roots with a new direction. I'll take you on a journey of finding myself and fully believing in something bigger than me and my recommended steps for you to write your own story.

Learn more: https://simplerootswellness.com/018

Bonus Q&A: Your Skin Questions Answered Jun 10, 2016

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You asked and I delivered. In this bonus episode I will give you advice, tips, tricks and hacks on how to get the most vibrant and youthful skin. From why birth control pills work, the alternatives, balancing hormones for clear skin, my favorite beauty products and more.

#017: The Health Secrets Of Your Mouth with Dr. Ben Pospisil Jun 07, 2016

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Our mouth is one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated systems of the body. But if we dig further we can see just how vital the mouth is. If you thought dentistry was just about cleanings and fillings you're going to want to tune in.

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#016: How To Earn Happy and Own Your Life with Lori Harder Jun 01, 2016

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One transformation story of a self-sabotaging young girl turned fitness model who experienced rejection over 40 times before realizing what it takes to succeed in life. It's an episode to showcase that if you struggle with shame and lack of confidence, you are not alone. That even cover models have been through it, experience it and yet no matter who you are there are simple ways to overcome this. Find out more in this deep and meaningful episode with Lori Harder.

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#015: How To Get Healthy Clear Skin May 24, 2016

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Here's what you'll learn in episode #015 of Simple Roots Radio:

The role of the skin to our body.
The gut-brain-skin axis.
How much our skin absorbs.
How our hormones affect our skin.
How to eat to regulate our hormones and even out our skin.
The skin as a detoxification pathway.
The skin microbiome and its benefit.
The impact that cosmetics and other beauty products are having on our hormones.
How to tell the difference between safe and unsafe beauty products.
The action you can take today for healthier skin tomorrow.

Learn more: https://simplerootswellness.com/015

#014: How to Break Free of Being Busy with Alli Worthington May 17, 2016

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There are those times in your life where you feel like your reality just gets slapped across your face.

Mostly because I like to keep myself too busy to notice the obvious, especially when the obvious is hard.

Alli's book was handed to me in one of those moments. One of those seasons where I was drowning in everything from the endless amount of e-mails in my inbox, to school snacks that I kept forgetting, mounds of laundry (we're talking like an entire pack-n-play full (which makes a rather nice clothes basket) and twenty different projects I said yes to, eighteen of which I was regretting.

Fortunately, it wasn't an angry moment when my sister handed me this book and declared the entire family was going to read it. I actually looked at the title and started salvaging because I knew my life was mass chaos. No beautiful mess here, just grimy, icky, horrible mess.

As I dug into the book, I couldn't put it down. It was as if she was speaking to me word by word, page by page. I needed it, I soaked it in and I wished for more when it was over so I just read it again.

My life was far beyond busy and I had reached every end of overcapacity.

I realized I was a hypocrite a liar and that was just getting through the shell.

Here I was someone promoting and posting to the world advice that I wished I could take but knew I didn't have the means to. I mean the laundry never ends, looking for work never ends, the to-do list is never, ever gone. I surely couldn't break free of busyness but I wanted everyone else to because I knew the damage.

But I hit the pit. What seemed like a bottomless pit of shame, guilt and still a never-ending to-do list was pretty rocky. I got bruised and battered on the way down but looking back it was exactly the jolt I needed to get my head back above water and breathe.

What started out as gasping for air has now just turned into a lot of daily deep breaths. And while I'd like to tell you I've broken free, I haven't yet. I'm still plagued with fear, worry, and anxiety about what is next, about letting go and ultimately missing out. Yet the other side of me recognizes and realizes and sees that in breaking busy I'm actually more free to be me.

The journey never ends I'm sure but I'm hoping today's show will be the boost of encouragement you need to get rid of the things that hold you back and truly become the person you know you can be.

Today's episode will rock your socks off!

Learn more: https://simplerootswellness.com/014

#013: Real Life as a Mom of Six with Karlee Hufford May 12, 2016

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Today we're fortunate to have one of my dearest friends on the show. My go-to for support, encouragement, and ramblings all things health and mom to six. Yes, six under the age of seven. I'd say that a child's eating patterns and habits are more than just a scientific talk but one of real and raw life and there's no better person than a mom who's birthed six different children, with different eating habits, patterns, and palates.

Learn more: https://simplerootswellness.com/013

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