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307: How Fatphobia Negatively Impacts Our Sex Life with Victoria Welsby Oct 22, 2021

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Victoria Welsby, aka Fierce Fatty, has been on the podcast before and it was such a joy to have them back on the podcast today! In this episode we talk about how to stop worrying about how others judge our bodies and how fatphobia can negatively impact our sex life.

Victoria Welsby (they/them) is a world-leading expert on dismantling fatphobia and diet-culture, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author. They went from being homeless, abused with self-esteem that was achingly low into the courageous fat activist and change maker they are today. Victoria helps people fall in love with themselves and is dedicated to shifting the way society views fat bodies.

In this episode we discuss:

How Victoria's life has changed in the past year, including their gender transition story.
How worrying about judgement from others prevents us from doing the work of body acceptance and intuitive eating.
Mindset shifts we can make when we notice negative self talk and the people pleasing tendencies.
How fatphobic beliefs had in the past affected Victoria's sex life.
Victoria's advice on how to navigate negative sexual experiences and feel more secure in your body.
How Victoria is currently practicing wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Victoria:

Website: www.fiercefatty.com

Instagram: @fierce.fatty

Facebook: @fiercefatty

Twitter: @fiercefatty_

Pinterest: @fiercefatty_

YouTube: @fiercefatty

LinkedIn: @victoriawelsby

Email: victoria@fiercefatty.com

In this episode I reference this blog post on worrying about people judging your body, and this blog post on how fatphobic beliefs hurt your sex life. Here is Victoria's past episode on the show.

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

We will be offering a Black Friday discount and special bonus offer for our January enrollment. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

Are you looking for one on one coaching for intuitive eating, body image, hormone support and/or digestive relief? We are booking for the final months of 2021 with limited spots left, reach out today to start your healing journey!

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

For every guest that comes on the show, we donate money to Loveland Foundation. The Loveland Foundation, is a foundation that provides therapy and healing to Black women and girls. We are honored to donate monthly to the Loveland Foundation, and you can learn more and donate yourself here.

306: Stress, Perfectionism and Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Oct 19, 2021

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If you've been listening to the podcast for any length of time, you know that in addition to intuitive eating and body image work, we also specialize in hormone and digestion disorders.

The most common hormone conditions we work with are HA and PCOS. Hypothalamic amenorrhea or HA is extremely common, no matter your body size, when you struggle with orthorexia and disordered eating. This is why we talk so much about it, because there's a huge gap in the hormone space about HA.

I'd like to talk about aspects of HA today that is less well known or talked about, and that's the stress connection to HA- and the main culprit of my community's stress, which is perfectionism. Listen to today's episode to learn more!

In this episode I reference Get Your Period Back Playbook, our HA recovery program that will help you regain your health and fertility. This program will reopen for enrollment in March you can join the waitlist here.

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

305: A 30 Day Abstinence Journey from Perfectionism and Exercise Addiction with Lauren Sheehey Oct 15, 2021

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Wow today's episode is AWE INSPIRING. I am honored to have guest Lauren Sheehey on the podcast today to talk with you about the mask of perfectionism, and her 30 day abstinence journey from perfectionism and exercise. A quick trigger warning: we do discuss trauma and sexual assault in today's episode.

Lauren Sheehey is a writer, meditation teacher, relentless creative, and most recently a new mom. For years, she worked with clients around the world as a Lifestyle Development Coach; her work focused exclusively on guiding women through their healing, empowerment, and self-actualization with a fully integrated, mind-body approach.

Now, Lauren is translating this work into motherhood and facilitating deep-dive conversations on her podcast, Hungry for More. She has witnessed, first-hand, the power of inviting women to tell, own, and write their stories. She knows that showing up and sharing oneself in a way that is unapologetically real and raw is ultimately the path to revolution.

You can find her writing on her blog, her instagram, and scattered across the internet for professional wellness brands. She has edited books for publishing and advised the copywriting for countless marketing campaigns, but you can find her doing what she loves most on her podcast; writing about the hard, beautiful, messy moments of life and reading them to her community.

In this episode:

Lauren's work and podcast, Hungry for More.
The ever-evolving journey of recovering from an eating disorder and healing from past traumas.
Taking the mask of perfectionism off to truly heal.
What Lauren's 30 day abstinence from perfectionism and exercise addiction, what this looks like and an honest review of how it's going.
How Lauren practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Lauren:

Hungry for More Podcast

Lauren's Instagram account

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

304: Beauty Ideals and Body Image Oct 12, 2021

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In this episode, let's chat about beauty ideals and body image. Because today's unrealistic standards for what is beauty, and the societal standards we experience, absolutely sets the stage for our own body image beliefs.

I mean how could it not? Sit and think about this: what are the images of women you saw growing up? What did they look like? I know for me it was Barbie dolls and princesses on Disney. What were your mothers or other adult women around you talking about as you grew up? For me, dieting and controlling food and our bodies was just the norm of what conversations among women looked like.

Listen to today's episode to learn how beauty ideals impact your own body image, and the differences between self expression versus self objectification.

In this episode I reference the books: The Beauty Myth, Invisible Corset and More Than a Body.

If you're ready to stop dieting forever and make peace with food and your body I'd love to see you as one of the 20 spots inside the program when it opens for January. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

303: Dr. Lindo Bacon on Health at Every Size and Their New Book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World Oct 08, 2021

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It was the honor of my career to have Dr. Lindo Bacon on the podcast today! If you're interested in learning from the author of Health at Every Size and Body Respect about why weight doesn't equal health, today's episode is for you! Plus, we dive deep into the evolution of Dr. Bacon's books and their new book, Radical Belonging.

Dr. Lindo Bacon is a researcher and former professor, and for nearly two decades taught courses in social justice, health, weight, and nutrition. Dr. Bacon holds a Ph.D. in physiology with a specialty in nutrition, and master's degrees in psychology and exercise metabolism. Dr. Bacon has mined their deep academic proficiency, their clinical expertise, and their personal experience to write two bestselling books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the co-authored Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight.

Their newly released book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better) , takes their inspiring message beyond size, to shaping a culture of empathy, equity, and true belonging.

In this episode we discuss:

Who Lindo is and their desire to not be defined by work or accolades, but rather who they are.
A basic explanation of what exactly is Health at Every Size.
What led Lindo to write Health at Every Size, and what the book left out that they believe is integral to health.
How Lindo's book Health at Every Size, Body Respect and Radical Belonging are an evolution of their research and beliefs, how each book builds on one another.
Lindo's inspiration to write their new book, Radical Belonging, all about how to survive and thrive in an unjust world.
How social injustices impact health outcomes and why health isn't just about our behaviors like food and exercise.
How Lindo practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more from Lindo:

Website: lindobacon.com

Twitter and Facebook: @LindoBaconX; Instagram: @LindoBacon

Recently released: Radical Belonging

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

302: Goals as a Dieter vs. Goals as an Intuitive Eater Oct 05, 2021

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Today I want to talk to you about the differences between how we set goals as a dieter, versus how we set goals with intuitive eating and body image work. Because I could imagine, for some of you, this is actually what's holding you back and keeping you stuck- unable to truly move into your intuitive eating journey.

Setting goals as a dieter tends to be short term and weight or appearance based. Even if it is health related, it tends to have a weight equals health approach, and still comes back to weight loss.

Yet I find that setting goals as a dieter rarely leads people to actually feeling as if they've created sustainable health habits that stick. Rarely do people create health habits that they will have for the rest of their lives through dieting. Honestly, I find dieting tends to do the exact opposite.

It tends to make people hate eating vegetables because they force themselves to eat only raw carrots and steamed, unflavored broccoli. So they think that all vegetables lack flavor. Dieting tends to make people never want to exercise, because when they forced themselves to exercise as a dieter it was from a perspective of punishment for what they ate, not for pleasure and enjoyment of moving the body.

If this resonates then listen to today's episode to learn the differences between goals as a dieter versus goals as an intuitive eater. You'll learn about how the destination needs to feel like the journey, how to set long term health goals, habit formation instead of goal setting and avoiding perfectionist planning.

In today's episode I reference this episode from Kara's podcast, Unf*ck Your Brain and you can also hear her on the podcast here.

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

301: Dr. Heather Finley on Why Eating Enough Helps to Heal Constipation and Bloat Oct 01, 2021

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If you struggle with constipation and bloating, today's episode is for you! I brought on gut health specialist and dietitian, Dr. Heather Finley to share with you how to manage your constipation and bloat, and why eating enough is critical for gut health.

Dr. Heather Finley is a Registered Dietitian, gut health specialist and sought-after speaker on the topics of constipation, bloating, gut health, integrative nutrition, functional medicine and nutrition.

Her clients often come to her as a last resort, after feeling like they've tried everything. And time after time, my team and I get to experience them transforming before our eyes, frequently told that our approach is like nothing they've done before.

As well as working with clients in the gutTogether program, Dr Heather also trains other practitioners to use her signature gutTogether™ Method, while helping them build a sustainable business in her gutTogether program.

In this episode we discuss:

Heather's personal journey with GI issues, and why she now specializes in digestive issues, especially constipation and bloat.
What it looks like to identify someone's root cause to constipation and bloat.
Why eating enough and consistently throughout the day is so important to GI health.
What matters the most when it comes to gut health.
Heather's 3 step process to gut healing and her Gut Together program.
How Heather practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Heather:

www.drheatherfinley.co

https://www.instagram.com/gutbrain.nutrition/

If you're ready to stop dieting forever and make peace with food and your body I'd love to see you as one of the 20 spots inside the program.

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

300: 5 Ways Intuitive Eating Makes Vacation Even Better Sep 28, 2021

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I recently traveled to Greece and felt so inspired by this trip and how intuitive eating (and body image healing) made my vacation even better, that I recorded this episode when I got back home. Listen to today's episode to learn the 5 ways intuitive eating makes vacation EVEN better!

And if you want vacations to feel easier and with less stress, if you want to experience peace with food and your body at all times, especially when on vacation, I would love to invite you to join Food & Body Peace Playbook (FBPP).

FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

At the time this episode airs, enrollment is currently open to our waitlist and will open to the public tomorrow on Wednesday, September 29th.

If you're ready to stop dieting forever and make peace with food and your body I'd love to see you as one of the 20 spots inside the program.

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

299: Katina Mountanos on Creativity as a Tool for Emotional & Psychological Health Sep 24, 2021

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Today on the show we are welcoming back guest, Katina Mountanos. Katina is back on the show today to discuss her company, Daydreamers, that uses creativity as a tool for emotional and psychology and how we can build a stronger mind body connection.

Katina Mountanos an author, entrepreneur and mindfulness expert whose mission is to help adults live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives. Her first book, On Adulting: How Millennials (And Any Human Really) Can Work Less, Live More And Bend The Rules For Good published by Skyhorse/Simon & Schuster hit bookshelves everywhere in November 2020. She is also the Co-founder and Chief Well-being Officer of a mental well-being startup, Daydreamers, and is currently receiving her Master's in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. Katina's work has been featured in HuffPost, Fast Company, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, Mindbodygreen, and others.

In this episode we discuss:

What Katina has been up to and how life has changed since she was last on the show.
The experience like of launching her first book, On Adulting.
The newest evolution of Daydreamers, the first mental well-being company to use creativity as a tool for emotional and psychological health.
Katina on going back to school to get her Masters in Clinical Psychology, and why she is focusing her degree on the mind body connection.
Easy tips we can all implement to connect back into our mind body connection.
How Katina practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Katina:

On Adulting, the book: https://www.onadulting.com/

Get on Daydreamers Waitlist: https://www.daydreamerspace.com/

Find Katina on Instagram and Tiktok

Read more about Daydreamers here: https://medium.com/daydreamers

This episode is brought to you by Food & Body Peace Playbook. FBPP is an 8 week online course + group coaching program that will help you stop dieting forever and make peace with food and your body. FBPP opens for enrollment at the end of September, you can click here to join the waitlist to get first dibs on the 20 spots available and $100 off the program.

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

298: 7 Lessons Learned from Intuitive Eating and Body Image Healing Sep 21, 2021

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In today's episode, I get personal with you about all that I've learned from my years of intuitive eating and body image healing.

Some of those lessons include how the struggle is part of the story, how the learning and growing never stops, how my body is the least interesting thing about me and so much more. Listen to today's episode to learn the 7 lessons I've learned from intuitive eating and body image healing!

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

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