The Dear Body Podcast

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068 - Everybody Deals With It, Nobody Talks About It Aug 06, 2020

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Jessi sits down with us for a solo episode this week and bravely shares about her current struggles. She discusses how we as humans face challenges, bad days, loneliness and that it is totally normal. Jessi shares what her most recent mental breakdown looked like and what helped her through it.

In this episode:

Jessi normalizes having bad days, mental breakdowns and low energy.
How social media can trigger funks, anxiety or overwhelm.
How to the root of what is truly going on within ourselves
How to break down shame, guilt and loneliness
That it doesn’t make you weak to break down or struggle
What to do when you feel like you have to be strong for everyone else
In these moments that you feel alone, all you have to do is let yourself rest.
How you can allow yourself to physically emote and release negative energy
No longer being afraid of breaking down or having an intense emotional experience
Its not a moment of weakness its a human exprience to be mental tapped out
How stuffing emotion can lead to numbing out with food
How our inner child can guide us to see what we are truly longing for
How we are all going to still face challenged and struggles but we can navigate them in a healthy way and no longer let it derail us

A few questions when you’re feeling in a funk or feeling low:

What do you need most in this moment?

Whats good in your life right now?

What are you thankful for?

Normalize pain, normalize the struggle in your life.. its part of being human. You are not weak, its a human experience.

Please let me know if you enjoyed and can relate to this episode. Send me a DM on Instagram: @jessijeannn

Links:

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

067 - HER STORY - Your Past Doesn’t Define You With Molly Jul 28, 2020

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In this episode, Food Freedom Online Program Client, Molly shares her incredible story. Her struggles with food and body began at a young age after her father went to prison. Like many of us, she began using food to cope and numb out. Molly walks us through how she processed many challenging events in her life and ultimately found the courage to rise above and pursue healing. Molly encourages all women who have faced trauma in the past to not let your past define you.

In this episode:

Where + why her struggles with food started
Hurtful comments that were made about her body when she was younger
How food became her coping mechanism for comfort and to numb out
How challenging it is to process challenging events when we are children
How what our parents do with food can affect how we view food
How her body image struggles started as early as nine years old
How society wants us to associate beauty with thinness
The problem with celebrating and praising someone's weight loss
How being sexually assaulted exacerbated her struggles with food + body
Where her relationship with food + body is at now
How she tried multiple things by herself to heal her struggles
How community and belonging was a key aspect of healing her relationship with food
How we need to lean into fear and overcome our struggles
How your past does not define you and you CAN come out on top

Links:

Body Image Breakthrough Intensive

Free Morning Routine Challenge

066 - Appreciating the Hot Mess with Carly Ann Dell Jul 23, 2020

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In this episode, I sit down with mama to be health influencer Carly Ann Dell. Carly shares her journey from high school sports to bikini competing to balance. Carly shares how she once found value in being the smallest version of herself and how she has progressed to understanding more of herself, appreciating the health journey and ultimately recognizing her inherent worth. You will leave this episode feeling encouraged to continue finding balance and reinventing yourself in every season of life. It’s time to embrace the hot mess!

In this episode:

How we search for titles to feel validated, find safety and belonging
How her fitness journey began
How she realized health & fitness are different and what that means
What health and fitness looks like when its not scheduled in from work or sports
The strong difference between believing and knowing
How pain is pain and we don’t need to compare it to others pain
Appreciating movement rather than just checking it off the list
Looking at things from a lifestyle and longevity perspective
How our journey is going to evolve with each season of our life
How we can reinvent and invent ourselves as many times as we want
The pressures of being a health and fitness influencer
Her own struggles with food and body
How food could trigger a negative mental shift
Struggling with miscarriage and working through the emotions with her husband
Navigating body image while pregnant
How she began embracing and appreciating her body
How the journey to food freedom is a lifelong practice
How Carly plans to dive into her relationship with food and body even more in postpartum

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/carlyanndell/

https://carlyanndell.com/

https://carlyanndell.com/podcast

065 - What We As A Team Are Doing To Fight Racism Jul 14, 2020

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Today two members at Rise With Me, Carlie and Sydney, sit down with me and discuss what we as a team are doing to end the fight against racism. We are learning, growing + committed to consistent action. We are not experts on racism, just simply sharing our experience and commitments moving forward in an effort to encourage you in your walk as well. Please learn from individuals who are anti-racism experts.

In this episode:

Before recent current events what was our understanding of racism
A few takeaways from Chrissy King’s Anti-racism Webinar
Getting uncomfortable is where the growth is
What we as a team are doing to end the fight against racism
We are hosting a book club inside the Food Freedom Online Program and starting with, Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad.
Conscious Maturity and taking responsibility for our actions and growing from them
How we must lean into fear

Links:

Me and White Supremacy

Chrissy King’s website + Instagram

Color of Change

Center for Policing Equity

Girls for a Change

064 - Where She’s At 2 Years Later With Food Freedom Graduate, Tilda Jul 02, 2020

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In this episode, Jessi is joined by one of her very first Food Freedom Online Program clients, Tilda. Tilda shares how far she has come since completing the course. She shares how she has completely transformed her life and gained confidence as a mother, women + author.

In this episode:

Why she joined the Food Freedom Online Program
How our eating habits + anxieties affect those around us; kids, friends, marriage
How once you get to a healthy place with food you can unlock so much more in life
How much time she gained once she was free from binge eating
How social media can impact your mental health
How healing is our responsibility when you are a parent so your children do not adopt an unhealthy relationship with food + body
The reality of postpartum; insecurities, sleep deprivation and more
Lowering the bar and no longer striving for perfection with food, motherhood and body
How you must be vulnerable and shower yourself with grace to heal

Links:

Tilda’s book, This is Post Partum

Instagram

063 - How To Increase Fertility Naturally With Dr. Lauren Noel ND Jun 18, 2020

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Through the Food Freedom online program and social media, Jessi has seen several people discuss their fertility challenges. Many of them are curious about the possibility of their fertility challenges as it relates to their struggles with a disordered or unhealthy relationship with food. In this episode, Jessi had on Dr. Lauren Noel, a naturopathic doctor, host of the Dr. Lo Radio Show and the creator of an online course that helps people with fertility. Jessi and Lauren discuss working on the foundational pieces of your health (and why sleep is SO important). Lauren shares 3 tips for getting back on track and why you should reconsider your thoughts about self-care.

In this episode:

What Lauren does as a naturopathic doctor and how she got into this line of work
How working on the foundational pieces of your health increases fertility
Her history with navigating PCOS
How nutrition and stress levels affect your health
Her 3 tips for how to get back on track when you’re feeling off
Why you have to look at self-care differently
How different hormone testing isn’t treated equally
What she does to help support clients through fertility

Links:

Instagram

Website

Dr. Lo Radio Show

Golden Eggs Fertility

062 - How To Process Trapped Emotions & Get Unstuck with Tanin Matin Jun 11, 2020

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Opening yourself up to the world of energetics can be transformative. Feeling into your body will give you so much insight about yourself. In this episode, Jessi was joined by a psychic and mindset freedom coach, Tanin Matin. Tanin shares how she got into energetics work after working on Wall Street and being fed up with corporate America. She and Jessi talk about how your body knows what it needs for healing and where you can start to learn about your energy. They discuss how you attract things in your life and why you need to eliminate words that could hinder your progress from your vocabulary. They also talk about what an emotional release session is, how it could help you and why you should be open to additional healing modalities.

In this episode:

How she went from working in corporate America to energetics
Why starting to feel will help you receive insights from your body
How the body knows exactly what it needs to heal itself
Where you can start learning about your energy
How you can change the trajectory of your life by changing what you focus on
Eliminating words from your vocabulary that you don’t want
What it means to be in energetic alignment and how to attain that
What an emotional release session looks like
Becoming open to more healing modalities

Links:

Instagram

Website

061 - Are People Overstepping Your Boundaries with Caitilin Olsen, LMFT May 28, 2020

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Did you know that we teach people how to treat us? It’s true. When we’re stretched and pulled outside of our comfort zone by others, those learned behaviors are from a lack of boundaries. In this episode, Jessi had on a FFM client, Caitlin Olsen. Caitlin is a marriage and family therapist who learned about the FFM from another client in her own community. Jessi and Caitlin discuss how Caitlin got into her work as a boundaries coach and why you absolutely need to create boundaries for a healthy life. They discuss how to set boundaries with those around you and how to identify where your boundaries are being violated in your life.

In this episode:

What Caitlin does as a marriage and family therapist
How Caitlin stumbled upon Jessi from another FFM client
What brought her to this career
How she became a boundaries coach
Why you have to have healthy boundaries for a healthy life
Her advice to people who aren’t great with boundaries
How to begin the process of setting boundaries
How to identify if there are boundary violations in your life

Links:

Website

Caitlin's Instagram

Caitlin's Facebook

029 - HER STORY - How Wife, Mom & FFM Client, Kylie, Beat Binge Eating & Rediscovered Her Passions

060 - HER STORY - How This Busy Mom of 5 Beat Binging & Purging With Joni May 14, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to binging, purging and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

As a mom, healing from struggles with food and body is not only a gift to yourself but to your family too. In this episode, you’ll hear from Joni, a mother of five and client of the FFM who came on to discuss her journey of struggling with food and her body. She opens up about how a loss in her family opened her up to the idea of food as comfort at a young age. Joni shares how her struggles progressed over the years and affected her as a mom and wife. She and Jessi talk about her struggles with binging and purging and how she decided it was time to pull herself out of this struggle. Joni discusses what’s helped her the most through the course and her advice for other people who are pursuing healing. She talks about taking the power back in her life and overcoming dark times she was facing.

In this episode:

Where her struggles with food and body started
How her grief propelled her weight issues which led to dieting at a young age
How her struggle evolved and affected her journey through motherhood
What made her realize she needed to make a change
How she ended up turning to binging and purging as an attempt to lose weight
Her experience of trying to pull herself out of this struggle alone
How she stumbled across Jessi and the FFM
What worked for Joni and helped her the most through the course
Her advice for someone who is resonating with her story
How her life is different as a result of healing from her struggles with food and body
How there is no right or wrong way to pursue the course
What Joni hopes that women will take away from her story

059 - HER STORY - I Thought I Was A Sugar Addict With Swedish Actress Julija Green Apr 30, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to sexual abuse, trauma, eating disorders and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

Have you ever considered yourself a sugar addict? In this episode, Jessi was joined by FFM client and Swedish actress Julija Green. Julija shares her story of struggling with food and her body for the majority of her life. She talks about how her struggles were brought on after being sexually abused and how she used food, specifically sugary food to numb out. Julija shares how this affected her dating life and how she saw intimacy. She discusses a movie she was working on and how a bad experience prompted her to drop out and create her own films. You’ll hear her experience of thinking she was a sugar addict and advice she’d give to her younger self. She also talks about her experience in the FFM and how her life has transformed since joining the course.

In this episode:

What prompted Julija’s struggles with food and body
What her struggles looked like over the majority of her life
How her sexual abuse left her feeling broken and using food to numb out
Not knowing how to be intimate when she reached dating age
Her experience of getting a part in a movie and being told to lose weight
Dropping out of that film and deciding to pursue her own films
How she overcame this trauma and got to where she is right now
What her relationship looked like before the course and how it evolved
Why she believed that she was a sugar addict
The advice Julija would give her younger self
How the FFM has affected her life and career
Why Julija recommends using meditation

Links:
Julija Green’s Facebook
The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass
Rise with Me LIVE

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!
You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

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