Welcome to the Finding Freedom with Food Podcast!
Are you ready to break free from the yo-yo diet cycle of losing and regaining weight and rebuild a pleasurable, balanced, and sustainable relationship with food? Is so, you're in the right place!
Tune in each week as I dismantle the unhealthy diet culture practices that are keeping you disconnected from your body’s innate wisdom and share my best tools, and strategies to help you shift your mindset and behaviors with food, recover from binge and emotional eating, improve your body image & eat in a health-promoting way you can sustain for life.
The most common recommendation to people with diabetes is to lose weight to lower their A1C. Countless patients walk out of their doctor’s office with a prescription for weight loss. However, research shows that the most efficient path to managing your diabetes and lowering your...
The holiday season is officially upon us. This is the season where we are encouraged to “eat, drink and be merry.” However, if you've struggled with dieting and body image, it’s natural for this time of year to feel extra challenging because FOOD IS EVERYWHERE....
Does the thought of Halloween candy conjure up scary feelings of being out control when candy is in the house? If you’re feeling stressed about keeping Halloween candy in your house for fear you will binge eat the candy and not be able to control yourself until the candy is out...
A common cause of disordered eating comes from the pressures of an aggressive dieting culture. And being surrounded by images of the “thin ideal” can certainly play a role in developing disordered eating and full-blown eating disorders. However, sometimes disordered...
Do you find yourself thinking about food 24/7 and are you tired of feeling like food holds power over you? You’re not alone. The way that we approach food in our society is making us obsessed with it. It’s really easy to get caught up in diet culture practices such as...
In America alone, statistics show that 45 million people go on a diet each year. However, only 5% actually keep the weight off. If you’re a serial dieter, there’s a good chance you’ve lost and regained the weight (or more) several times in your life. This vicious...
“I blew my diet. I’ll start over tomorrow…or on Monday…or after vacation.”
The infamous "starting over tomorrow" mantra is a common response when we are stuck in the diet cycle....
In the last episode I talked about one of the main misconceptions about Intuitive Eating - that it is an eat all you want, whenever you want, free-for-all eating fest - and how some of the critics’ express concern that encouraging people to listen to their body encourages them...
There is a lot of incomplete information about what Intuitive Eating is. If you’ve been learning about Intuitive Eating from social media, it’s easy to get the idea that it’s simply “not dieting" and eating whatever the hell you want. Wrong!
Intuitive Eating is...