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384: Opening Up To Your Partner About Your Food & Body Struggles with Client Lauren and Emilie Hebert RD/N Aug 16, 2022

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One of the hardest things about choosing food and body peace is admitting to yourself that you are struggling. Even harder? Telling those in your life that you love about those struggles!

Today's episode is one of hopefully many to come, where dietitian at my practice, Emilie Hebert, interviews one of her clients on their experience working with Emilie. Lauren was gracious enough to agree to come on the show, and I cannot thank her enough for doing so!

My hope is that this episode gives you light where there is currently darkness. That you see that choosing peace is worth it, even if it feels scary as hell initially to do so. Lauren shares her process of admitting to herself that she struggled, sharing this with her partner, and why she chose to seek help even though at times she didn't feel 'sick enough' to do so. Listen to this incredible story to learn more!

You can learn more about Emilie and her packages at Nourishing Minds Nutrition by clicking here.

Products referenced in this episode: the dry brush, gua sha stone, and the vanilla citrus deodorant. Use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

Announcements:

Food & Body Peace Playbook will reopen in October, and you can apply now to reserve your spot! Our signature group coaching program will help YOU make peace with food, trust your body again and live wellness without obsession.
We are currently booking for August, September and October for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you.

Resources for you:

Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
If you struggle with HA and you're ready to regain your health and fertility, join Get Your Period Back Playbook.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

383: Intermittent Fasting with a History of Disordered Eating Aug 09, 2022

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Can you engage in popular wellness trends, like intermittent fasting, if you have a history or are currently struggling with disordered eating?

Intermittent fasting is all the rage these days, and is touted as a way to improve blood sugar levels, cognitive function, life longevity, reduce oxidative stress and inflammation and so many more proposed benefits.

And if you have been here since the beginning of the show, this title is an episode we did in the first year of the show, all the way back in 2017. I actually went back and listened to the episode, and a lot of what we shared is pretty similar to how I feel now, but I did feel like it was due time to re-do this episode with more up to date information.

Because what is different is how STRONGLY I feel against intermittent fasting, in comparison to our first episode with this title, where we saw some of the benefits. Now, I just see it as an excuse for people to engage in disordered behaviors. Listen to today's episode to learn more!

*In the beginning of the episode I accidentally say 'intuitive eating' instead of 'intermittent fasting'.

Products referenced in this episode: the gua sha stone, fancy face serum and vanilla cirtrus deo! Use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

Announcements:

Food & Body Peace Playbook will reopen in October, and you can apply now to reserve your spot! Our signature group coaching program will help YOU make peace with food, trust your body again and live wellness without obsession.
We are currently booking for August, September and October for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you.

Resources for you:

Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
If you struggle with HA and you're ready to regain your health and fertility, join Get Your Period Back Playbook.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

382: Why I Love Practical Eating (+The Importance of Breakfast) Aug 02, 2022

Show notes

The saying goes "breakfast is the most important meal of the day." But you're used to skipping breakfast because you're intermittent fasting or counting collagen in your coffee as a breakfast. You can have more energy throughout your entire day, with this one change to your morning routine: By eating breakfast daily with carbs, protein and fat.

You deserve to live life the way you want, and have the energy you desire, and we can teach you the tactics to learn how to eat for ENERGY by listening to this very show.

And why are you talking about breakfast right now? Because THIS is an example of practical eating. My goal with today's episode is to help you see that your goals of health, feeling well, heck even having sustained energy throughout the day will be supported by practical eating.

Listen here to learn more about the 4 types of hunger. Submit your questions to me at victoria@victoriamyers.net to have them answered on the podcast!

Thank you to BetterHelp for sponsoring today's episode. You can click here to learn more and begin your journey with BetterHelp today.

Announcements:

Food & Body Peace Playbook will reopen in October, and you can apply now to reserve your spot! Our signature group coaching program will help YOU make peace with food, trust your body again and live wellness without obsession.
We are currently booking for August, September and October for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you.

Resources for you:

Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
If you struggle with HA and you're ready to regain your health and fertility, join Get Your Period Back Playbook.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

381: Creating Safety in Your Body So You Can Work Towards Body Trust with Mia Donley RD/N Jul 29, 2022

Show notes

Today on the show we have guest, Mia Donley, who shares with us all how to work towards body trust by building safety in your body. Mia Donley, MPH, RD, CDN is a registered dietitian and consultant working in the field of eating disorders and public health. She originally pursued nutrition to bring culturally relevant nutrition education to the field, as she didn't find her own family's foods and practices reflected in dietetics. She's worked as a nutrition educator in schools, coordinated public health programs, and currently works for a group practice focused on eating disorders. Outside of counseling, she teaches classes on cultural nutrition and helps create spaces for Black dietitians and dietitians of color working in the field of eating disorders and nutrition.

In this episode we discuss:

What inspired Mia's passion for the anti-diet sector of dietetics.
How to build trust with food and body, PCOS, and GI issues, especially for WOC and queer folks of color.
One tangible way those listening to work can work on building trust with their bodies.
How Mia lives wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Mia on her website and on Instagram.

Thank you to BetterHelp for sponsoring today's episode. You can click here to learn more and begin your journey with BetterHelp today.

Announcements:

Food & Body Peace Playbook will reopen in October, and you can apply now to reserve your spot! Our signature group coaching program will help YOU make peace with food, trust your body again and live wellness without obsession.
We are currently booking for August, September and October for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you.

Resources for you:

Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
If you struggle with HA and you're ready to regain your health and fertility, join Get Your Period Back Playbook.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

380: The Difference Between the Why to Heal vs. the HOW to Heal with FBPP Student Maria Jul 22, 2022

Show notes

I loved this episode with Maria so much. It speaks to your SOUL, that's just how Maria is. At the end of the episode, I ask Maria about why taking FBPP was different than listening to the podcast, which she has been listening since the VERY beginning, since 2017!

You'll have to listen in to hear Maria's answer, but one of the things her answer made me reflect on is the why behind why I transitioned the program (from when it was formally called Permission Stage Playbook) from an online course to instead a cohort style, group coaching program where we only enroll 3-4 times a year with a limited amount of students each enrollment period.

My why is because I care, deeply. I don't want you to take an online course to absorb 15% of it, and apply absolutely nothing. I want you to go through the material, participate in the support group, show up for the group calls and actually create change in your life!

Our last round of FBPP in the spring had a 84% completion of course material. To compare this, I found a study from 2018 that shared the average completion rate of online courses was 15%! That's not even measuring the group coaching component of the program, which is the most highly rated part of the program.

In this episode we also discuss the differences between WHY to change versus HOW to change. And if you're ready for the how through education, support and accountability, you can click here to learn more about Food & Body Peace Playbook.

We have officially closed the doors to our July cohort, however, you can go ahead and apply now to reserve your spot for our most popular group, our October cohort. Click here to learn more!

379: 4 Misconceptions About Intuitive Eating Debunked Jul 19, 2022

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In today's episode we debunk 4 common misconceptions about intuitive eating so that you can have clarity about what intuitive eating is all about.

Do you have duct tape on your broken relationship with food and your body?

If you do, and if this broken relationship is just getting worse as you try to determine how to fix it…and if you've been stuck at the 'let me try to fix this myself' place for awhile: This is your sign. It's time to ask for help. It's time to receive the support, accountability and momentum you need to heal your relationship with food and your body.

Food & Body Peace Playbook will help you do exactly that. Food & Body Peace Playbook (FBPP) is our signature 8 week online group coaching program that will help you make peace with food, trust your body again and live wellness without obsession. And what this means to you is by joining our July cohort, you'll feel at ease that you've asked for the help you know you need.

FBPP is open from today until July 24th or until all spots are filled. Click here to get started and reach out on Instagram if you have questions about the program!

378: What Learning How to Ride a Bike and Learning Intuitive Eating Have in Common with FBPP Student Melissa Jul 15, 2022

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Today on the podcast we have yet another special guest, Melissa! Melissa participated in our April cohort of Food & Body Peace Playbook (FBPP), and is on the show today sharing her experience going through the program. You'll hear Melissa share how she started dieting around 8 years old, how she learned about intuitive eating as a mental health therapist, and why she decided FBPP was a great fit for her needs.

You'll also hear me share about how learning how to ride a bike and learning the intuitive eating process is so similar. Sure, you can learn how to ride a bike by reading about it, heck even listen to podcast episodes about it. But that cannot compare to actually getting on a bike and riding it! FBPP is how you will get on the bike, actually applying what you learn in your intuitive eating journey, so that you can meet your goals.

FBPP is an 8 week group program that will teach you EVERYTHING you need to know in order to make peace with food, and also your body.

You're a great fit for FBPP if:

You want more mental space and freedom from thinking about food & your body 24/7, so you can focus on the things in life that truly matter.
You may still have the desire to lose weight, but you know the diets and clean eating schemes have gotten you nowhere, so you're ready for a new approach to eating and health.
You may be a little nervous to make peace with food & your body, but you're ready to trust your body again and change the way you view food.
You want to understand how to eat and care for your body, without the food and 'fix my body' obsession.
You have tried to figure out Intuitive Eating on your own, you may have even read the book, but doing this on your own has caused so much confusion and overwhelm.
You're ready to receive guidance and accountability from our expert team and the other like-minded women who join Food & Body Peace Playbook.
You want to change your relationship with food and your body so that you can be a good example to those around you (especially your children).

Are you ready for pro health, pro nutrition advice and SUPPORT on how to live in a peaceful place with food and your body? FBPP is open from today until July 22d or until all spots are filled. Click here to get started and reach out on Instagram if you have questions about the program!

377: Anti Diet Does Not Mean Anti Health Jul 12, 2022

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When people here anti diet here's what they hear: Anti health. Anti nutrition. Anti vegetables. In this episode, we will talk about one of the concepts of intuitive eating to help you understand why there's so much misinformation about this self care eating framework: Making peace with food.

Making peace with food involves giving yourself unconditional permission to eat. People take this to mean: you're going to be eating every second of every day, eating foods you deem unhealthy forever. Honestly, when I hear this response, I know without a doubt, that the person sharing this concern is struggling with diet mentality.

Making peace with food is a powerful experience. And I would argue is one of the most health promoting things we can do for ourselves! FBPP is an 8 week group program that will teach you EVERYTHING you need to know in order to make peace with food, and also your body.

You're a great fit for FBPP if:

You want more mental space and freedom from thinking about food & your body 24/7, so you can focus on the things in life that truly matter.
You may still have the desire to lose weight, but you know the diets and clean eating schemes have gotten you nowhere, so you're ready for a new approach to eating and health.
You may be a little nervous to make peace with food & your body, but you're ready to trust your body again and change the way you view food.
You want to understand how to eat and care for your body, without the food and 'fix my body' obsession.
You have tried to figure out Intuitive Eating on your own, you may have even read the book, but doing this on your own has caused so much confusion and overwhelm.
You're ready to receive guidance and accountability from our expert team and the other like-minded women who join Food & Body Peace Playbook.
You want to change your relationship with food and your body so that you can be a good example to those around you (especially your children).

376: Why Group Support Helps You Reach Your Goals Faster with Food & Body Peace Playbook Student Lara Jul 08, 2022

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Today's episode is SO special because today on the show I have a member of our April cohort Food & Body Peace Playbook, Lara!

Inside this episode, you'll learn how Lara first worked with us inside Get Your Period Back Playbook, and then decided to continue on in her intuitive eating journey by joining our signature group coaching program, Food & Body Peace Playbook (FBPP).

FBPP is an 8 week online group coaching program that will help you make peace with food, trust your body again and live wellness WITHOUT obsession. What that means to you is you will feel CONFIDENT in your food choices and at ease about your health.

Inside of FBPP, we host 5 group coaching calls over the 8 weeks of the online course so that you can get consistent support in your health journey.

In fact, according to a study completed by the American Society of Training and Development people who commit to their goals with a group of other people, are 95% more likely to achieve those goals.

This is just ONE of the many reasons we believe our students in FBPP hae such success in reaching their goals. Listen to learn more and hear Lara's experience inside this program!

FBPP is open from today until July 22d or until all spots are filled. Click here to get started and reach out on Instagram if you have questions about the program!

375: Why I Don't Teach Weight Loss as a Dietitian Jul 05, 2022

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I used to teach people how to lose weight for a living. It was my career and identity.

In the beginning, 10 years ago, I was totally sold on it. I so firmly believed that people could live off the 1,200 calories diets I was giving them. That they lacked discipline when they didn't stick to the plan. I was judgmental of OTHERS eating habits because I was JUDGING MYSELF.

Overtime, I woke up to the realities of the negative impacts of dieting. Now, my business helps undo those damages.

We teach women and people how to make peace with food and trust their bodies again. I know if I'm helping someone who chronically diets, or restricts and binge eats, or who has disordered eating/orthorexia that I'm helping them, not harming them.

And that's why Food & Body Peace Playbook (FBPP) exists. FBPP is an 8 week online group coaching program that will help you make peace with food, trust your body again and live wellness WITHOUT obsession.

What that means to you is you will feel CONFIDENT in your food choices and at ease about your health.

This is the body you're going to live in the rest of your life. When your 80 years old, how do you want to look back and reflect on how you treated your body? If that resonates I want you to know:

Food & Body Peace Playbook was designed just for you. You'll learn how to:

Stop the dieting, for good.
Learn how to eat FOREVER.
Stop the body hatred and mean girl self talk.
Start respecting and trusting your body again.
Live life FULLY and embrace wellness without obsession.

FBPP is open for our July cohort TODAY. Its open from today until July 22d or until all spots are filled. Click here to get started and reach out on Instagram if you have questions about the program!

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