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237: Human Design to Live Your Fullest Expression of Life with Erin Claire Jones Feb 12, 2021

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Erin is a leadership coach, specializing in Human Design. Erin uses Human Design to help thousands of individuals and companies step into their work and their lives as their truest selves and to their highest potential. Her work as a guide, coach, and speaker has attracted a growing community of over 60,000 people who turn to her teachings for practical tools, digestible tips, and deeper self-knowledge they can access to live with greater ease and authenticity every single day. Erin's insights are highly sought-after because she makes Human Design pragmatic, tangible, accessible — and immediately applicable to everyday life (which was my favorite part of today's conversation). Human Design is a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern science that sheds light on a person's energetic makeup, as well as specific tools you can use to live at your happiest, healthiest, highest potential. It doesn't change who you are; it teaches you who you are. It offers insight into what's possible, and highlights the significance of understanding and living as the fullest expression of yourself.

Erin's intention is to show the world a new way of work, a new path toward success, and a new perspective on living as you truly are. This may be a new topic for you, so I encourage you to listen with curiosity and openness. As always, take what parts resonate for you and leave the rest. This doesn't have to define you, it can be simply a way to better understand yourself!

In this episode we discuss:

Erin's work as a leadership coach specializing in human design and what inspired her to specialize in this work.
An easy to understand break down of what exactly is human design.
The 5 types of human design, and the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Human design is meant to help you can reach your highest potential, Erin gives us examples of how this can work with human design, and how it is meant to empower you, not limit you.
How Erin practices wellness without obsession.

You can learn more about Erin with her website here and Instagram here. You can use the code NOURISH to give 10% off your blueprint for human design!

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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.

236: Ask Me Anything Q&A Part 2 Feb 09, 2021

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Today on the podcast we brought back my lovely assistant Kate, to answer your listener questions for another round of Ask Me Anything Q&A!

Questions we answered in today's podcast episode:

What's your favorite part of being an intuitive eater?
What probiotics actually do what they're supposed to?
Thoughts on the IGG food sensitivity test? Do people really need to avoid all foods flagged?
What can I do to better my digestion without being restrictive?

Past episodes on probiotics and digestion:

Episode 100: Disordered Eating as a Root Cause to Digestive Issues

Episode 101: Probiotics 101: What, Why & How

Episode 134: Get Digestive Relief from IBS Starting Today

Episode 162: The Difference Between Prebiotics and Probiotics with Kelsey Kinney RD/N

Today through February 10th we are doing something so INCREDIBLY SPECIAL. We are sharing a sneak peak inside our online program, Permission Stage Playbook, so you can get a feel for the juicy details and step by step guidance shared inside our course to help you confidently become an intuitive eater. For totally free, you can get the first three lessons of module 1, so you can start your journey through the permission stage of intuitive eating starting today.

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.

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235: Kendra Tolbert RD/N on Enhancing Your Fertility with Yoga & Nutrition Feb 05, 2021

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Kendra Tolbert MS, RDN, CDN, LD, RYT, Cert AT is a registered dietitian nutritionist, registered yoga teacher, and certified aromatherapist specializing in PCOS, fertility, and PMS. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences from Howard University and her Master of Science in Nutrition and Public Health from Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2017, She was awarded the Emerging Professional Award from the Women's Health Dietetic Practice Group.

Kendra has experience helping individuals, families, and communities make improvements to their wellbeing and quality of life by adopting healthier habits. Her areas of expertise include women's health, PCOS, fertility, mind-body practices, and community nutrition.

Kendra is passionate about helping women live fertile. To LIVE FERTILE is to live the most joyful, productive, and fruitful life you can by caring for your body, mind, and soul. Whether your goal is to have more energy, make peace with your body, or get pregnant, living F.E.R.T.I.L.E. can help you get there.

Enhancing your fertility isn't something you do through force or trying to wrestle your body into submission. It's something you set the stage for by supporting yourself with life-giving habits. Our bodies and fertility are beautifully complex, but supporting and enhancing our wellbeing and fertility is simple.

In this episode we discuss:

Kendra's journey to becoming a registered dietitian, yoga teacher, aromatherapist andspecializing in PCOS and fertility, and starting Live Fertile.
Kendra's passion for helping women who want to conceive (someday or today) preserve and optimize their fertility all without restrictive diets, exhausting exercise, and extreme measures.
Why extreme measures aren't necessary for fertility, and may even inhibit it.
Why with PCOS, Kendra doesn't counsel most women to diet or exercise excessively, and instead encourages gentle nutrition practices like using the plate method.
Types of behaviors that lead to long term health, happiness and happy hormones, including how yoga benefits your fertility and hormone balance.
Strategies to include in your life to either protect their fertility or conceive soon.
How Kendra practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Kendra at:

livefertile.com

youtube.com/livefertile

instagram.com/live.fertile

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:

234: Ask Me Anything Q&A Part 1 Feb 02, 2021

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We are bringing you such a special and fun episode today! I had the pleasure of having my amazing assistant, Kate, on the show to ask me the questions you submitted for this Ask Me Anything Q&A series. If you enjoy this format please let me know on Instagram, and we can keep creating them for you!

Questions we answered in today's podcast episode:

How important is breakfast? If I'm not hungry in the morning do I need something like a piece of fruit to break the fast? Is it ok to wait several hours to eat a meal?
How do you go from disordered eating/eating disorder to intuitive eating?
What were the biggest things you helped you build an aligned biz + beat overwhelm?
Can you talk about the concept that you won't keep gaining weight, I've gained 20 lb in the last six months.
How did pregnancy and the first few weeks pp affect your intuitive eating lifestyle? Any tips?

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.

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233: James Rose on the Intersection of Gender Identity and Eating Disorders Jan 29, 2021

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Today's conversation is one of the most important episodes we have had on the show to date! I had the honor of having James Rose on the podcast to discuss the intersection of gender identity and eating disorders. Body dysmorphia and eating disorders are an extremely prevalent issue within the trans and non-binary community, yet it is so rarely discussed and further perpetuates the stereotype that only white, thin cis-gendered women struggle with eating disorders.

James Rose (they/them) is a non-binary New York City based actor, Health at Every Size Personal Trainer, trauma-informed yoga teacher, and co-host of the Full Soul Nutrition Podcast. They write about gender, eating disorder recovery, sex, their feelings, & their exes on their Instagram (@jamesissmiling) where they hope to leave the internet a little bit better than they found it.

In this episode we discuss:

James' story and what led James to be passionate about acting, personal training, yoga and eating disorder recovery.
James shares their experience coming out as non-binary, and how this was different than their sexual identity coming out experience.
Differences between gender identity, gender expression and gender assigned at birth.
How gender identity intersects with eating disorders and the ability to receive help.
Trans + non-binary people experiences with both gender dysphorhia and body dysmorphia, and how this connects to eating disorders.
Transphobia is completely preventable, learn steps we should all be taking to prevent transphobia.
How James 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.

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For today's podcast episode, we made a donation to Fed Up, formerly known as Trans Folx Fighting Eating Disorders. FEDUP is a collective of trans+, intersex, and gender diverse people who believe eating disorders in marginalized communities are social justice issues. Their mission is to make visible, interrupt, and undermine the disproportionately high incidence of eating disorders in trans and gender diverse individuals through radical community healing, recovery institution reform, research, empowerment, and education. Learn more and donate yourself by clicking here.

*Note: We are pausing on working with Primally Pure at this time until improvements in who they chose to sponsor with and brand integrity improves. I do not condone the dangerous ideologies of an affiliate of theirs and incredibly disheartened to learn about this.

232: 2020 Reflections + 2021 Intentions Jan 26, 2021

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I think we are ALL in agreement that we are so glad 2020 is over. Wow, what a year. In this episode I'll give you my honest and raw reflections on 2020, and how I want to show up for myself, my family and my business in 2021.

2020 was a weird year for me. In so many ways I felt stuck inside (literally and figuratively), in my head. Questioning my choices. Numbing more than I am used to, particularly with social media and watching just about every show on Netflix and re-watching the Office and Parks and Rec too many times to count. And I also had a good year in many ways, too. All the questioning and digging with myself about who I was and what my business stood for, finally paid off when I began to feel more CLEAR on who/what I am/do more than ever.

I think this year would have felt much, much shitter had I not consistently be experiencing such gratitude. Listen to today's episode to learn what I felt so grateful for, how I feel going into 2021 and my word for 2021. I'm excited to be open and honest with you about myself and my life in this episode, be sure to come over to Instagram and tell me what resonated with you!

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.

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231: Breaking Free from the Invisible Corset with Lauren Geersten Jan 22, 2021

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Today we have on the show, author of the Invisible Corset (now available for purchase!) and body connection coach. In this episode, Lauren shares the invisible corset is a set of culturally-inherited beliefs that make women as restricted and uncomfortable in their bodies as traditional corsets did. Wearing the invisible corset, women fear, dominate, disconnect, mechanize and coerce our bodies. When we get free, we not escape the generational cycle of female body hate, we also reconnect to the intuitive wisdom of our bodies.

In this episode we discuss:

Lauren's healing journey and what inspired her to become a body connection coach
Lauren's journey to discover and realize that the invisible corset exists, and ways in which she was wearing it.
We discuss Lauren's definition of the invisible corset and specific examples of the invisible corset in our lives.
Lauren takes us through the different feminist movements and how the marketing messages of the day were promoted to challenge them and how now, the 'problem with no name' still exists.
What happens when we take off the corset, and how do we end the cycle of female body hate.
How the current body positive movement misses the mark in this work of taking off the invisible corset
How Lauren practices wellness without obsession

Connect with Lauren:

Lauren Geersten- author of Invisible Corset https://invisiblecorset.com/ and a body connection coach and owner of https://empoweredsustenance.com/
The Invisible Corset: Break Free From Beauty Culture and Embrace Your Radiant Self.

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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.

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230: New Year's Resolutions Are Perfectionist Fantasies with Kara Loewentheil Jan 15, 2021

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Hello my fellow recovering perfectionists! You are going to love today's conversation, with guest Kara Loewentheil, about how to truly create self confidence by rewiring your brain and thoughts, and letting go of perfectionist fantasies around New Year's resolutions.

Kara Loewentheil, J.D., is a Master Certified Coach, Host of the top-rated podcast UnF*ck Your Brain, and creator of The Clutch: A feminist mindset revolution. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, she did what every Ivy League feminist lawyer should do: Quit a prestigious academic career to become a life coach! Her Jewish parents have almost recovered; the fact that she built her business from zero to seven figures in three years didn't hurt. Five years after leaving the law she has taught thousands of women how to identify the ways that sexist socialization impacts their brains, and how to literally rewire their thought patterns to create true authentic confidence from within.

Her podcast, UnF*ck Your Brain, which combines evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and feminist theory in concrete and practical teachings and tools, has more than 12 million downloads. In 2019 she launched The Clutch, a feminist coaching community aimed at spreading the feminist mindset revolution across the globe. Since then thousands of women have joined and learned how to overcome insecurity, anxiety, imposter syndrome, people-pleasing, and their dependence on external validation. Kara specializes in teaching a step-by-step system that identifies and removes internalized oppression and creates new and unshakeable self-confidence.

Connect with Kara:

In this episode we discuss:

Kara's journey from lawyer to becoming a master certified coach and starting her own business, podcast and coaching community.
How thoughts create our feelings and impact our actions, and how to use the thought ladder to positively change this.
New Year's Resolutions: Are they good goals or perfectionist fantasies?
Three "women's empowerment" sayings that actually do a disservice for us in truly being empowered as women.
What it truly takes to accept and love your body at any size.
How to work towards neutral beliefs about your body to help change your body image.
Kara shares about her amazing podcast, Unfuck Your Brain, and her coaching community, the Clutch.
How Kara 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.

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229: How OCD Impacts Orthorexia Recovery with Mimi Cole Jan 08, 2021

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Today I am so excited to have guest, Mimi Cole, on the show today. Mimi is in school to become a therapist, and is particularly passionate about OCD through her own lived experience and research. Mimi shares in this episode what exactly is OCD, how this differentiates from someone who is organized or just "so OCD" and some specific examples of how OCD manifests. We also chat at length how OCD connects to orthorexia and what recovery with OCD and an eating disorder looks like.

In this episode we discuss:

Mimi walks us through her journey to decide to go back to school to become a mental health counselor.
What exactly is OCD and what differentiates OCD from the desire to just be organized.
Most common examples of how OCD manifests and how to know if you are potentially struggling with OCD.
The connection between OCD and disordered eating such as orthorexia.
If someone with an ED also had OCD needs to know about treatment and recovery.
Why Mimi's IG account is called the lovely becoming and her goal to create a community for humans who are becoming.
How Mimi practices wellness without obsession?

Learn more about Mimi:

@the.lovelybecoming (Instagram)

www.Mimi-Cole.com (website)

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.

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228: REPOST How Simi Botic Uses Barre to Connect to Unmeasured Movement (and How You Can Too!) Jan 01, 2021

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I am SO thrilled to have guest Simi Botic back on the show. Simi was last on the show in episode 78 sharing about overcoming perfectionism and the power of reinterpreting events. And today she is back to share about unmeasured movement to support your intuitive eating and living journey. Simi is one of my absolute favorite intuitive eating coaches and if you describe yourself as a perfectionist, you're going to want to follow her and learn all that she has to share!

In this episode we discuss:

What Simi has been up to since last on the show, and her 2020 goal to discuss intuitive movement.
What inspired Simi to create your Barre membership group, Unmeasured.
Simi shares why its called Unmeasured and why she believes movement should be aboud joy, not punishment.
Simi shares tips for ways we can let go of the perfectionism and "should-ing" on ourselves about our exercise habits
Exploratory questions you can begin asking yourself to determine if exercise that day would be an act of self care, versus exercising out of self control.
Simi shares what our relationship to rest can tell us about our relationship to movement.
How Simi practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Simi and her work:

Sign up for Unmeasured!
Free 7 Day Movement Mindset Series
https://www.instagram.com/simibotic/ (IG)
https://www.simibotic.com/ (website)

Thanks to Primally Pure for bringing us today's episode. I'm currently obsessed with the plumping face mask, beauty cream, and body butter. I've also been using the gua sha stone and body brush daily for circulation and lymphatic drainage support (hello, fall allergies). Don't forget to use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

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.

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