The Dear Body Podcast

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048 - HER STORY - Growing Up Around Addiction With Elizabeth Mar 17, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to alcoholism, addiction, 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!

For so many people, struggles with food and body can start in the early years of life. In this episode, a FFM client named Elizabeth came on to discuss her struggles with food and body. She opens up about growing up around addiction and alcoholism and how this directly correlated with her eating disorder. She shares how her faith and relationship with God has helped her recovery but how she needed more support and found the FFM. Elizabeth and Jessi discuss the power of connection in the healing journey and how you can sometimes evolve mentally before behaviorally. The two talk about how Elizabeth discovered the FFM, her advice for someone who has a similar journey and expanding your perspective of what you want in life.

In this episode:

What Elizabeth’s struggles with food and body looked like
Having a meltdown before her sister’s wedding and how this affected her
The correlation of emotional trauma and how this exacerbated her eating disorder
Losing her mom to alcoholism and having to be the strong person in her family
How her faith has helped her in recovery and trauma
How Elizabeth found Jessi and the FFM
Why FFM resonated so heavily with Elizabeth
Her experience with the program and finding a community of women
The power of connection in your journey to healing
How her relationship with food and her body has shifted since joining the program
Evolving mentally before you evolve behaviorally
Her intentions and why she’s working on changing her own self-identity
What advice Elizabeth gives to someone who could relate to her story
The fears she’s overcome since joining the FFM
How the process of pursuing healing has changed her whole perception of life
Focusing on gratitude to help dissipate anxiety
Expanding our perspective of what we want from our life
Her biggest piece of advice for other women

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This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Adult Chair Episode 153 - Binge Eating With Jessi Jean

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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!

047 - The Dark Side of Chasing Your Dreams Mar 12, 2020

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Would you believe it if someone told you there was a dark side of chasing your dreams? As you begin to start stepping into confidence and going after what you desire most, you’ll lose people who just aren’t comfortable with seeing you grow and aren’t secure with stepping into their own dreams. After all, nobody in your life can meet you where they haven’t yet gone. In this episode, Jessi explains how paralyzing the fear can be that comes with chasing your dreams and wrestling with who you were and who you’re becoming. She shares why you should let failure be your friend, why you need to immerse yourself in the identity of a new reality and why you need to stop playing small to make other people feel comfortable.

In this episode:

Stepping into the unknown and getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
How dealing with insecurity is part of being human
The paralyzing anxiety of chasing your dreams
Wrestling with who you were and who you’re becoming
Visualizing what it would be like to already have what you desire
Stepping into the belief that you’re worthy and capable of what you want
Immersing yourself in the identity of a new reality
Declaring your new identity to be the truth
Realizing that you aren’t afraid of failure and making failure your friend
How you’ll lose people as you step into confidence and start chasing your dreams
Why you need to stop playing small to let others feel comfortable
What you can expect from Rise With Me Live 2020
Normalizing the feeling of pursuing big dreams

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**Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

046 - HER STORY - Healing Through Miscarriage and Food and Body Image Struggles with Vanessa Mar 10, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to miscarriage, 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!

As you overcome the struggles you’ve had with food and your body you may have to start to process emotions and learn to feel feelings that you’ve never felt before. It’s hard, and it’s definitely scary. Today’s guest is someone who has dealt with that and she was astonished by the feelings and emotions that came up that she used to numb out. In this episode, I talk with FFM client, Vanessa. Vanessa’s struggles with food and her body came at a very young age and it was something she navigated throughout most of her life. In this episode, we talk about her devastating experience with miscarriage, how her relationship with food and her body has changed since joining FFM and the power in telling your story.

In this episode:

Where Vanessa was at with food and her body before finding FFM
Navigating through her parent’s divorce and using binging to numb her pain
The ups and downs of her food and body struggles
The tipping point where she realized she needed to make some changes
How she stumbled across Jessi on Instagram
The power in telling your own story
How her relationship with food changed when she came into the course
Learning to feel and process emotions that she’d never felt before
Having a whole new network of women to support her
How her view on her body image has changed
Her experience of going through a miscarriage
Giving yourself permission to grieve without numbing out
What helped Vanessa get to the point where she liked her body
The relationship and trust she’s cultivated with her body
How her life has changed as a result of the relationship with her food and body changing
Her advice for any woman going through a miscarriage
Why it’s worth fighting for yourself

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Vanessa’s Instagram

Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

045 - New Morning Routine Challenge Mar 09, 2020

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If you want to change your life, here’s a powerful secret to getting you started: a morning routine. That’s right, there is a huge night and day difference in what a morning routine can do for your entire life. It can completely transform the way you move throughout your entire day. In this episode, Jessi dives into why she started a morning routine after noticing how the successful people she looked up to had one they practiced daily. She talks about becoming a master of your energy and elevating your energetic capacity through your morning routine. She gives you a tour into what her morning routine looks like and how it can help you move through the way with more ease, peace and groundedness. Jessi also shares a new challenge that she’s created to help listeners start their own morning routine (and hold each other accountable) and she discusses her upcoming event, Rise With Me Live 2020.

In this episode:

How success leaves clues and noticing that people she looked up to had specific morning routines
Her reservations for starting a morning routine
The crazy benefits of a morning routine
Starting the Rise With Me Live Morning Routine Challenge to hold herself accountable
Why we all need accountability as humans
The first step of her morning routine and why gentle movement helps to change your physical state
The second steps of her morning routine and why she implements breathwork and meditation into her morning routine
Focusing on a mantra when you’re meditating and letting go of your thoughts
Why self-confidence is necessary to live the most fulfilling life possible
The third part of her morning routine of gratitude and affirmations
Why affirmations need to feel authentic and genuine to have power in your life
What affirmations Jessi shifted to when she was feeling insecure in her body
Using future pacing to get clear on what you want to think, feel and behave
Taking a few moments to honor your spirituality
Giving yourself the grace to standardize your morning routine before optimizing it

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011 - My Morning Routine

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044 - Couples Q&A - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Feb 14, 2020

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Today on the podcast Jessi was joined by her husband Hung. They shared the story of how they met and how their relationship developed. The two dive into how they started seeing a therapist at the beginning of their relationship and share a personal story about how their therapist saved their engagement from ending after a huge challenge they encountered. Jessi and Hung discuss diet culture, being intimate while on the journey to healing from food and body struggles and so much more! This episode is filled with great pieces of wisdom for couples dealing with food and body struggles who want to overcome it together as a team.

In this episode:

Jessi and Hung’s recollection of how they met
How their dating relationship began
What it was like dating and getting to know each other
Why he ghosted her after she wasn’t sure if she wanted to date
How they ended up making it official
Why they decided to go to therapy at the beginning of their relationship
Going through challenges during their engagement
How Hung felt as he saw her relationship with food and body evolve
Why men want you to enjoy being intimate
How Hung feels about exercise and diet culture
His struggles with binging and overeating after competitions
Sharing memories with your person and being in flow together
How to be a supportive partner in someone’s journey to healing and growth
How they’ve overcome communication barriers
The hardest thing they’ve ever been through as a couple
Jessi’s past engagement before she met Hung
How their therapist helped them to overcome a big relationship challenge
How Hung felt about his addiction
Choosing commitment and not expecting perfection out of each other
Continuously working to build trust in their relationship
Getting to a place where you feel comfortable with intimacy while going through these changes
Why you shouldn’t withhold intimacy from your partner
Placing more intention in getting to know your partner on all levels
Discussing each other’s insecurities
Their biggest piece of relationship advice
Their advice for other couples in interracial relationships
A fire round of questions about their relationship

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Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

043 - Making Peace With Seeing Yourself In Pictures Feb 12, 2020

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Have you ever taken a photo with family or friends and after seeing it, immediately felt your heart drop? You beg for it to be deleted and to never see the light of day which causes you to want to hide out and not be captured in pictures. If this resonated with you at all, then today’s episode is for you. Jessi talks about the disservice in beating yourself up for how you look in photos or in the reflection or in the mirror. She shares tangible strategies for making peace with seeing your own reflection and why you need to put quality gasoline in your tank with positive self-respect and self-talk.

In this episode:

How it’s a disservice to your soul to beat yourself for how you look
Tangible strategies to make peace with seeing yourself
Knowing that you’re so much more than your image
Stopping yourself from getting overly emotional
Putting quality gasoline in your tank with positive self-respect and self-talk
Jessi’s challenge for listeners
Looking back on photos and practicing body neutrality
Practicing being satisfied with who you are

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

042 - HER STORY - Breaking Free of Bulimia With Nat Weston Feb 06, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to eating disorders, suicide 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!

When you’re breaking free from the weight of emotions that you carry when struggling with food and body, it helps to have a supportive person there cheering you on. Today you’ll hear from Nat Weston. Ever since joining the FFM, Nat has been one of the most incredible cheerleaders for other women inside the group. In this episode, she opens up about her eating disorder and what breaking points she’s faced over the years. She and Jessi chat about how Nat found the FFM and decided to give it a try. She opens up about her transformation processes and the techniques that were most powerful for her healing journey. They talk about why community is one of the most important aspects of recovery and the freedom that she’s felt after being a part of the FFM for one year.

In this episode:

How Nat began to struggle with an eating disorder as a child and teen
What it felt like struggling with her eating disorder
Having to open up in her relationship about her struggles with food and body
Breaking points that she had throughout the years
How Nat found the FFM and what resonated with her about it
Navigating out of the hard emotions to pursue healing
Getting reassurance from other people in the FFM
How slowing down helped those food thoughts to disappear
What techniques and tools were most powerful for Nat in her transformation process
How she started to find balance after joining the FFM
How having a morning routine has helped her journey
Why the community is such an important aspect in recovery
Her reflections on the one year anniversary of joining the FFM
The freedom she feels within herself and the weight of emotions she’s been set free from
How she navigated through the fear of not feeling good in her own skin
The support of her husband and how it’s helped her recovery journey
What words of wisdom Nat would give her former self

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036 - How To Be Confident When Your Body Doesn't Fit Thin Ideals with Ariel Doctoroff

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

041 - How To Overcome Fear of Failure & Get UNSTUCK FAST Feb 04, 2020

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If you’ve ever felt a fear of failure or felt stuck then this is the episode for you. Today Jessi explains how to overcome the fear of failure and what the fear of failure actually is. She dives into how to set up your beliefs, thoughts and behaviors to align with your goals and how to practice the art of surrendering. She shares how you can step into your new identity and learn to feel more emotions without the need for numbing out. You’ll also learn why failure is imperative for success and how to embrace more courage in your life.

In this episode:

How Jessi’s relationship with her husband has taught her how to let go of things
Setting up your beliefs, thoughts and behaviors to align with what she wants
Releasing your attachment to the outcome
Practicing the art of surrender
What the fear of failure actually means
Mourning detachment from your old identity so you can step into your new identity
Learning to feel more emotions without the need to check out
Building yourself up from affirmations
Why successful people don’t fear failure
Realizing that failure is a beautiful teacher and a fact of life
Looking at the environments you’re putting yourself in that are driving you to take action out of fear
Embracing more courage in your life
Helping other people in your life to get into momentum
Why they created the big sister program in the FFM
Different groups that are within the FFM

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039 - Elevate Your Energy From Self-Hate to Self-Confidence

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

040 - HER STORY - My Eating Disorder Became My Job With Amanda Ownbey Jan 30, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to eating disorders, suicide 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!

When you’re on your way to recovery from your struggles with food and body, you might find yourself wrestling with fears. In this episode, Jessi and her guest, Amanda Ownbey talk about leaning into fear and doing it scared. Amanda is a client in the FFM who has an amazing story about overcoming her eating disorder and what happened that made her realize it was time for some change. They talk about the importance of doctors during recovery, why you need support on your journey to recovery and what breakthroughs she’s made since joining the FFM.

In this episode:

What happened that caused Amanda to struggle with an eating disorder
How her relationship with food and body escalated as she grew up
The shame she felt and how this affected her struggle
How her eating disorder affected her health
The moment that changed everything
Why you need a doctor when you’re recovering
How Amanda stumbled across Jessi and the FFM
Knowing that she needed more support
Learning to listen to your body
Feeling the fear and leaning into it
Applying the tools you’ve learned into your everyday life
Breakthrough moments that Amanda has had
Why the struggle of recovery is worth it
Amanda’s experience of falling back in love with herself and developing a relationship with herself
Amanda’s vision for her life and what she wants to do
Her advice for anyone struggling with food and body

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

039 - Elevate Your Energy From Self-Hate to Self-Confidence Jan 28, 2020

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We often sell ourselves and our souls short of what we’re capable of. Living with self-hatred and low self-esteem is exhausting for the heart, mind and soul. As you struggle with insecurities and self-hatred, your soul is longing to walk in confidence. Learning to cultivate confidence is something we should all aspire to as it will bring you higher levels of peace. In this episode, Jessi talks about how to elevate your energetic capacity to become magnetic toward things you want and how to break the habitual thought patterns that are self-destructive. She shares practices to help you elevate yourself to a higher energetic state and how to lean into the fear of acting confident even when you don’t feel confident.

In this episode:

How thoughts floating around in our head aren’t truly who we are
The difference between those who are able to cultivate self-confidence and those who aren’t
How recognizing your insecure thoughts is the first step to building confidence
Training your energetic capacity to become magnetic toward things you want
Elevating your energy to break the cycles of the habitual thought patterns by observing what’s happening
Becoming a non-judgemental observer of our thought life and emotional life
The power of saying things out loud
Tips for developing self-awareness and checking in with yourself
What you can expect from the live event in Denver
Leaning into the fear of acting confident even when you don’t feel it
Envisioning how the highest version of yourself shows up
Practices you can use to elevate yourself to a highly energetic state
Stepping out and doing the things your soul is longing to do

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!

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