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247: Postpartum Recovery Through Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy with Sara Reardon PT Mar 19, 2021

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Sara Reardon is a doctor of physical therapy graduating from Washington University in St Louis and board-certified women's health physical therapist. Sara specializes in the treatment of pelvic floor disorders, including pelvic pain, bowel and bladder dysfunction, painful sex, and pregnancy and postpartum recovery. She is the owner of NOLA Pelvic Health, a pelvic health physical therapy clinic in New Orleans, La. and founder of The Vagina Whisperer, an online resource for pelvic health education to support, empower and educate women worldwide. She is a mom to two boys, wife, Saints fan and wanna-be yogi. You can find her on Instagram at @the.vagina.whisperer where she has over 185k followers.

In this episode we discuss:

Sara's journey to becoming a pelvic floor PT and then starting her IG account and business, the Vagina Whisperer and NOLA Pelvic Health.
Why we need to rethink postpartum care, and why postpartum care for the vagina is so important.
How exactly pelvic floor physical therapy works and what to expect.
Common problems that can happen to the pelvic floor in the postpartum.
How important postpartum care is impacting not only our own personal lives, but our collective community.
Actionable items we can all do starting today to strengthen our pelvic floor.
Sara shares the story behind her V-Hive unfiltered posts she shares weekly on her Instagram account.
How Sara practices wellness without obsession.

Here's the website to the Pelvic Floor PT in Greenville, SC I personally work with, Jenna Sires.

Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones.

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.
Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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, 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.

246: Gentle Nutrition Series: Body Food Congruence Mar 16, 2021

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I'm excited to be bringing you a new series for the podcast! You asked for more content on gentle nutrition, so we will be beginning a gentle nutrition series, to help you explore what it looks like to care for your health through a non-diet lens.

You can submit topics you'd like to see in this new series by joining our Facebook group or sending me a DM on Instagram.

In this episode, I cover in detail the concept of body food congruence. The Intuitive Eating workbook shares this about body food congruence, "It represents how foods feel in your body- that is, how eating a particular food or meal makes you feel...It is about making food choices based on health and body functioning as well as pleasure."

Listen to this episode to learn more about body food congruence, definitions of authentic health and specific examples to help you understand with ease how to apply this in your own life.

I have decided to add Primally Pure back as a podcast sponsor after a two month pause due to incongruent brand values in who they chose to work with. I have loved and continued to use their products for over 3+ years, and would like to give the company a second opportunity in partnering together.

So with this shared, I would love to share what Primally Pure products I am currently loving. I am enjoying the rose tinted lip balm, plumping face mask and charcoal deodorant, all perfect for entering into the spring season. You can use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones.

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.
Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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

245: Casey Newman on How Journaling and Yoga Can Help You Follow Your Knowing Mar 12, 2021

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What is your Knowing? And how can you better connect to it? Listen to today's podcast episode, with guest Casey Newman, to help you feel nurtured and supported in how to use journaling, yoga and other mindfulness practices to better connect to your intuition.

Casey is a certified holistic health coach and yoga teacher. She is here to help you step into the BEST version of yourself using more than just the foods you eat. She is committed to helping you release toxic patterns and live the life you deserve, unapologetically. Casey loves getting real with her instagram captions with messages of empowerment, confidence and self-worth. Her signature Reset to Rise program is designed to help you find the courage to release toxic cycles and create daily rituals infused with intention.

In this episode we discuss:

Casey's journey like to pursue her work and what inspired her love for mindfulness, yoga and wellness.
How the struggle with perfectionism and disordered eating create a very challenging time understanding true balance. Casey's advice to be in the HERE with more ease.
What it means to follow your Knowing, your gut instinct and intuition.
The toxic patterns Casey sees most women following in their lives and how to break free from them.
The therapeutic benefits of journaling, and easy tangible ways to form this habit (especially if you struggle with how to get started!)
How Casey practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Casey on her blog and Instagram account.

Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones.

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.
Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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

244: AMA Q&A: Protein Intake, Probiotics and Habitual Eating Mar 09, 2021

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Welcome to the next round of our Ask Me Anything Q&A series! In this episode, my lovely assistant Kate asks me your listener questions about protein intake, probiotics and habitual eating habits.

Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones.

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.
Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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

243: How to Truly Honor Your Health with Gentle Nutrition with Rachael Hartley RD/N Mar 05, 2021

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Today on the podcast we have the honor of having Racheal Hartley, author of the new book Gentle Nutrition, on the show.

Rachael's book Gentle Nutrition explores what healthy eating looks like from a non-diet perspective. It teaches you how to improve your relationship with food and how take care of your body with real life tips and tools that have helped my clients. By taking food off it's pedestal as the end all, be all of health, Gentle Nutrition creates space for engaging with nutrition in a more relaxed, and sustainable manner. When we leave diet culture and the assumption that weight equals health behind, we can focus on truly honoring our health and well-being.

Rachael Hartley, RD, LD, is a Columbia, SC-based nutrition therapist, certified intuitive eating counselor and nationally-recognized food and nutrition expert. In 2014, Rachael opened her private practice, where she specializes in intuitive eating, disordered eating and eating disorders, women's health, and digestive disorders. She also runs the popular food and wellness blog The Joy of Eating. As a trusted voice in the dietetics field, she collaborates with like-minded brands for recipe development and nutrition communications.In 2018, she was named one of Self Magazine's trustworthy dietitians for nutrition advice. Rachael has trained under dietitians Evelyn Tribole (co-author of Intuitive Eating), Marci Evans and Anna Sweeney.

In this episode we discuss:

Rachael's journey to choosing to become a RD, and then evolving into a non-diet RD.
Rachael's new book, Gentle Nutrition, that I am SO excited to share and recommend to my community, because there are SO few books out there discussing nutrition from a non-diet lens.
Why Gentle Nutrition explores what healthy eating looks like from a non-diet perspective.
Why approaching nutrition from a relaxed, sustainable, non-diet manner essential to true health and well-being.
Tangible examples of what gentle nutrition can look like an application.
What it looks like to stock your kitchen for intuitive eating.
Where the 2,000 calorie recommendations on food labels came from.
How Rachael practices wellness without obsession.

Links to learn more about Racheal:

https://www.rachaelhartleynutrition.com/my-book-gentle-nutrition

https://www.rachaelhartleynutrition.com/blog/how-to-stock-your-kitchen-for-intuitive-eating

https://www.rachaelhartleynutrition.com/blog/where-2000-calories-on-food-labels-comes-from

Racheal'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.
Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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

242: How Intuitive Eating Boosts Your Metabolism Mar 01, 2021

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Listen to today's podcast episode to understand how eating enough and intuitive eating is the #1, most important thing you can do to boost your metabolism. When you've been undereating and following low calorie diets it feels like you need to continue to decrease calories to get 'results'. If this is how you feel, then listen to today's podcast episode!

As a reminder, today is the FINAL day to join Permission Stage Playbook, our online program on intuitive eating. Enrollment will not open again for 6+ months, so now is the time to join! If you join today, you'll be sent a final bonus offer on how to boost your metabolism with intuitive eating.

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 new online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

241: Join Sabreen Haziq as She is Coached on Intuitive Eating Feb 26, 2021

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Click here to join Permission Stage Playbook, you have 3 final days left to join until we re-open enrollment for fall 2021!

Welcome to such a special episode! I had the pleasure of being a guest on Sabreen Haziq's podcast, the Lavender Fix Project, where she asked me her honest questions about how exactly intuitive eating works. I asked her to come on the Nourishing Women Podcast, to ask me her honest and raw questions and allow me to coach her through the process! Enjoy listening to this episode to hear how I would coach you through the very real questions you have about how intuitive eating works. Sabreen Haziq is the host of The Lavender Fix (a humble project born Amid COVID19), a self-help podcast dedicated to sharing stories of perseverance & resilience from real people with real life experiences. Lavender represents the part of the psyche that, untouched by the weary and troubles of years, retains the vigor and vitality of youth.

Learn more about Sabreen:

My episode on the Lavender Fix.

Sabreen's website.

Sabreen's Instagram account.

In this episode we discuss:

Who is Sabreen and her podcast, Lavender Fix, and who it's for. What the world lavender means to Sabreen.
The amazing questions Sabreen asks me includes:
In this age and time kids are super unhappy with their bodies, and the media isn't helping. There have been studies that show 1 in 4 children has been on some sort of diet by the time he or she is 7 years old- really a time when they should be out there playing. Where do you think it all starts from? When are the seeds of diet-culture sown?
How much of a role can parents play in promoting body positivity and intuitive eating right from the start?
What is your opinion on the kind of products that are being openly sold across the world strengthening the diet culture- appetite suppressants, metabolism boosters, fat burners, especially with endorsements from such high profile influencers?
I'm not sure I fully understand how it's possible to let go and just eat whatever you want. How does the letting go piece work?
What if while eating intuitively and your body tells you that you needed 4 cupcakes. Do still you eat till your cravings die out or do you practice portion control? How do you not draw the red lines?
I'm sure there are people out there who are trying to get acquainted with intuitive eating while having difficulty celebrating non-scale victories. How does one change that and measure progress differently, especially if they're trying to lose weight?
How Sabreen practices wellness without obsession.

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 new online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

240: The 3 Step Process to Go From Food Fears To Food Freedom Feb 23, 2021

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I'm sure friend you turned on this episode with major curiosity because if you have food fears, it seems impossible to just let them go and move on...and doing it in 3 steps, how in the world does that happen? I am here to help.

I want to start by sharing this is actually an excerpt from one of the many lessons you'll find inside our online program on IE, Permission Stage Playbook. It's open for enrollment currently and if this was helpful, you'll love the education, step by step guidance, and community you'll find inside the program. Enrollment is only open for 6 more days so now is the time to join!

When working to go from food fears to food freedom, the three step method is try, evaluate and free. Listen to this episode to learn more!

Click here to join Permission Stage Playbook and click here to watch the replay of the 5 Steps to Confidently Become an Intuitive Eater webinar!

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 new online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

239: Alissa Rumsey RD/N on Unapologetic Eating and Living Feb 19, 2021

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Unapologetic eating means eating what you want, when you want, and how you want without feeling guilty or ashamed. Unapologetic Eating is also the name of Alissa's new book that we discuss in detail in today's podcast episode.

Alissa Rumsey, MS, RD, CDN, CSCS is a registered dietitian, nutrition therapist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and the author of Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace With Food and Transform Your Life. Alissa is passionate about advocating for women to reclaim the space to eat and live unapologetically. She is the founder of Alissa Rumsey Nutrition and Wellness, a weight-inclusive nutrition practice that offers virtual counseling and online programs to help people liberate themselves from dieting, cultivate a peaceful relationship to food and their bodies, and live a more authentic, connected life. Her expertise has been featured in hundreds of media outlets and she speaks regularly at events, online trainings, and conferences around the country. She calls New York City home and spends her free time exploring the city's food scene and searching for patches of green space to sunbathe in.

Links and order Alissa's book:

www.alissarumsey.com

instagram.com/alissarumseyRD

Order Unapologetic Eating: www.alissarumsey.com/book

Alissa's past podcast episode on the Nourishing Women Podcast

In this episode we discuss:

Alissa's life update and her experience living and writing a book during a pandemic
How Alissa came up with the title of her new book, Unapologetic Eating.
Alissa's experience sharing an image of herself unapologetically eating, and how this had Alissa reflect on why we as women apologize for our eating habits.
Alissa's belief that "food can be a powerful entry point into exploring more about ourselves, our beliefs, our values, and what we truly want out of life." and what that looks like in application.
The various factors that play into our relationship with food and our body image (i.e. family narratives, socialization, media messages, gender identity, culture and race, trauma, etc).
A speak peak into the four parts of the book: fixing, allowing, feeling and growing to help you embrace unapologetic eating.
How Alissa practices wellness without obsession.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR WEBINAR: 5 STEPS TO CONFIDENTLY BECOME AN INTUITIVE EATER IN 2021.

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 new online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

238: Intuitive Eating is Not Anti Weight Loss Feb 16, 2021

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I recently shared this Instagram post: "I'm not anti weight loss. I'm anti the system of beliefs, corporations, businesses, health care providers and influencers telling you the pursuit of thinness should be your highest ambition in life."

I do not judge you for wanting to lose weight. And I'm not anti weight loss altogether. But if you think this is going to be an episode encouraging you to pursue intentional weight loss and intuitive eating, keep listening...

As hard as it will absolutely be, you have to put aside intentional weight loss to fully be free to rediscover intuitive eating.

One of my favorite quotes from the Intuitive Eating book shares, "If you allow even one small hope to linger that a new and better diet might be lurking around the corner, it will prevent you from being free to rediscover Intuitive Eating."

When someone tells you that you can practice mindful eating or IE or food freedom and lose weight, and even diet and lose weight (in the long term) they're promising you something they realistically, and ethically, cannot promise you. Listen to this episode to learn more and learn what will happen to your weight as you practice intuitive eating.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR WEBINAR: 5 STEPS TO CONFIDENTLY BECOME AN INTUITIVE EATER IN 2021.

Learn more about set point theory:

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 new online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

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

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