Consider this episode your “Cliff Notes” version of the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating. This episode explains the origins of Intuitive Eating and breaks down each of the ten principles using our opinion of what they mean in your life. This episode is a great starting point if you are new to Intuitive Eating, but it is also helpful to revisit if you’ve been on this journey for a while now.

This week we are excited to welcome guest Camille Logan, a Health at Every Size therapist in Raleigh. In this episode, we discuss how to love your body during a difficult season, forming a relationship with your therapist, and boundaries with others when it comes to diet talk.

Tis the seasons For New Year’s Resolutions but how many times have you made all of these grand plans at the beginning of the year only to get halfway through February and completely abandon them?

New Year’s Resolutions set you up for failure. Much like diets, they are unrealistic goals and they don’t deliver lasting results.

Newsflash for 2021! You don’t have to diet this year!

2021 doesn’t have to be about cutting back on food, restricting calories, giving up food groups, or starting a new exercise regimen.

We have Sam Williams of YoBa Studio on the show today. Sam’s first love was dance and that really put her on the path of body awareness, music therapy, and the practice of embodiment. She took those things and poured them into her own studio, YoBa Studio located in Raleigh, NC. Although it is a…

It feels trivial to say this year has been a lot. So the last thing we need right now is extra stress and pressure. So how do you survive the holidays?

You are feeling great, finding peace with food and your body but the problem is your family has comments about your bodies or even about their own and that makes your recovery feel so much harder.

We so get it, we have been there…

We have Megan Hadley, MS, RDN, and LDN on the podcast today. Megan is a nutrition therapist and owner of Simple Nutrition, a nutrition counseling practice in Greensboro, NC. She believes that all bodies are good bodies and that from cake to kale, all foods are good foods. After helping…

This episode is going to help you prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, and really any gathering that might be outside of your norm. We want you to survive and even thrive this Thanksgiving!

However you are celebrating, we want to express our gratitude to you! We appreciate you listening to our podcast this year, and leaning into the important work of healing your relationship with your body and food…

This week we have guest Hananatu Tunis on our show! Hananatu (Hana) is a descendant of Liberia with ties rooted in Sierra Leone. She’s a St. John’s University graduate, founder of One Million Girls, and creator of The P.A.D.S. Project.

Her passion and life mission is to empower women and girls through social entrepreneurship and philanthropic projects while energizing them to make positive contributions to their communities and to the world at large.

In this episode we address how IE can become another diet, and it is easy to fall into a trap of dieting. It is popular to co-opt intuitive eating as a part of their diet plan, ruining the whole point. Or they decide to stop dieting but get caught up in making sure they live, eat and breath the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating.

This episode clarifies how to stop making Intuitive Eating your next diet, and start living your life with freedom with food and peace with your body.

This week we are talking about weight gain, it feels like in our body positive world we can’t talk about weight gain unless it is positive.

This is unfortunate because we live in a society that demonizes weight gain so of course we will have negative feelings about weight gain and we want to give you permission to have those feelings.

We add extra stress on those feelings when we feel badly about having feelings. Weight gain doesn’t mean something negative is happening.

Julie Schechter is a Harvard law graduate and relationship wellness expert focusing on how we can foster strong long-distance connections with our networks.

Julie is the founder and CEO of Small Packages, a curated care package company that sends love when you cannot be there in person. Her mission is to end the millennial loneliness epidemic, one gift package at a time.

This week on the show we have a guest Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith to talk with us about the importance of rest. She tells us about the seven types of rest and how we can prioritize it in our lives.

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a Board-Certified internal medicine physician, speaker, and author. She is an international wellness expert featured in numerous media outlets including…

In the episode, we go over some common wellness culture terminology so you can spot the sneaky wellness culture influence and identifying your place in wellness culture.

Wellness culture is sneaky. We don’t even realize how it creeps up into our thoughts around food and body, let alone how we spend our time and money.

Wellness culture is the cousin of Diet Culture. It’s that quiet nice sidekick to the loud annoying villain.

Ashley Baxter is a certified life coach specializing in empowerment. She helps women stand up for their own worth in areas of body confidence, self-worth, and healing. She draws from my own personal struggles and 20 years of counseling others. Learning to fight for herself after being sexually assaulted, led to her learning to truly value herself for the first time. She lives in Wilmington, NC with her dog Zoey.

Who is on your team?

Finding support in the non-diet world can be tricky, even exhausting. Sometimes it would be nice to just be around other people who “get it” and are not obsessed with the same old conversations about dieting and the scale.

As a personal stylist, Dacy Gillespie intuitively guides her clients to discover what they feel best in. She helps them let go of the external messages they’ve been given about what they should wear and get to the heart of what’s making them uncomfortable about their clothes. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy’s clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what’s flattering to unapologetically taking up space in the world.

It can seem so daunting to stop dieting. If you have been dieting for some time now, it’s all you know. So when you say you’re going to stop, it’s like okay well what is next.

We get stuck in the fear of not knowing how to move forward. In today’s episode, we are talking about some of the most common things we hear from the women we work with…

Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, body positivity, self-worth and confidence. She helps womxn all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com.

It seems like everywhere you look body positivity has exploded on the scene. This is good and bad. It’s wonderful that this concept is going mainstream even if it feels at times to be a bit performative. It’s so nice to know that this conversation is moving forward.

But I do wish though that it had a different name.