100% Healthy-ish

Big, huge, arms wide open welcome to Dacy Gillespie of The Mindful Closet! Today we're chatting about all things clothes, style, and why it's so damn hard to feel okay about how your body looks in clothing. WHY?!?!

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Healthy-ish Hacks: ideas, concepts, new ways of thinking and, yes, HACKS that are designed to shake up the external programming stuck in your brain and open the doors to all new, HEALTHY-ISH possibilities.  Today we're talking about why doing LESS is sometimes SO MUCH MORE:

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This episodes kicks off with a Jen Hatmaker post about tartines - that's right, the fancy toast that inspired a 30 minute conversation. Today, I'm talking with Meghan - a longtime client, who's journey to healthy-ish was SERIOUSLY up-leveled when she began to invite beauty back into her life. After years of shedding old stories about food, weight, and bodies Meghan found herself ready for MORE and boy did it show - on her Instagram feed and in her voice on today's show.

We're talking about:

Get in there!

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Healthy-ish Hacks: ideas, concepts, new ways of thinking and, yes, HACKS that are designed to shake up the external programming stuck in your brain and open the doors to all new, HEALTHY-ISH possibilities.

Don't forget to get your Holiday Healthy-ish Starter Guide!! Grab it here: https://www.foodfreedombodylove.com/healthyishstarterguide

IT'S TIME!!! A huge shift is happening in my work and life... and in the world. I'm craving - and I think you are too - a new, FUN, hopeful, inspiring approach to a version of health that you actually WANT to care about and show up for. 

No more heavy, divisive, do-it-my-way or else approaches to taking care of yourself. 

The podcast has shifted from The Food Freedom/Body Love Podcast to 100% Healthy-ish and we're going to blow the health conversation wide open. We're  gonna look at ALL aspects of your life, knowing that what connects you to how you want to feel in your body (and what makes the process FUN) is what's actually going to make you healthy.

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Myth #2 of Intuitive Eating: the misconception that IE teaches you to eat everything in front of you or everything that crosses your mind, at all the times, no matter what.

Many a woman has gotten stuck at a point in the IE process when this feels like the truth - eating every she sees, unable to stop, feeling messy and uncomfortable and anything but intuitive.

“I have a NO problem!!” she’ll shout at me from her Zoom room.

“I've lost my NO!!!!”

And then the spiral of I can’t do this, this can’t be right, this isn’t healthy, what a crock of sh&t, etc begins.

It's impossible to be intentional with your intuitive eating if you don’t feel like you can say no to anything - I think we can agree on that.

But how do we fix it?

Let's discuss...

Here we are at Part 1 of my Intentional Intuitive Eating series where I'm kicking things off by breaking down the first of three myths about IE. Myths that get in the way of our ability to be both intuitive and intentional. So here we go, the misconception that launched a thousand ships of shame…

Myth #1 - Intuitive Eating should be easy, breezy, natural. It should require no thought and is, instead, the result of always just going with the flow and being 'mindful', hippy-dippy style.

The reality is that intuitive eating requires a bit of work.

Let's discuss...

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How do you feel about intermittent fasting?

What about carbs? Is it a diet if I decide to reduce carb intake?

These are my favourite kinds questions. The ones that challenge me to explore and explain the complexity and nuance of intuitive eating.

I'm currently fleshing out a small ebook on the topic but - if you're interested - I thought it could be fun to dig into the basics right here, in your inbox.

This is what I propose: a 4-part series on what it means to be intuitive and intentional.

Today I'm introducing the series and filling you in on what's to come!

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What I want to talk about today is potential - and the things in our lives that have the potential to both build us up and break us.

It occurred to me, as I watched my daughters' dance show from the wings last weekend, how peculiar it is that I, as a body image coach and promoter of health at every size, have found myself and my children entrenched in the world of dance. Along with running, figure skating, and cheerleading - dance is one of the most problematic pursuits when it comes to girls, women, and bodies.

It has the potential to do so much damage.

My experience has been that dance - contemporary dance in particular - has offered my girls and me the opportunity to work through stress and tough emotions and connect to our bodies in a very tangible way. I see a deep and unwavering body confidence in both my daughters and I feel it in myself. The music, the movement, the exposure, and the physical challenge - boosts our mood and is often “the” game changer on tough days in our home.

It has the potential to do so much damage but in the right environment, with powerful teachers, and perspective that potential can be transformed into something wholly different.

Let's talk about it. What are the things in your life that bring joy and/or pain. What works for you and what doesn't??

How can we ditch the binary: that's good and that's bad. This is right. That is wrong. I am right. You are wrong.

How can we, instead, reach for a much more nuanced version of health, nutrition, movement, beauty, and body image?

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Whether it's carb counting or step tracking or weighing yourself incessantly or just thinking murderous thoughts about that one co-worker who never stops with the diet talk - what thoughts/stories are you hanging onto in an unhealthy way? How are these thoughts keeping you from seeing the potential for peace and solution and why are they so hard to let go of?

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