Aligned Nutrition Podcast

Calling all "clean eaters"! 

If you've ever felt like you can't find a happy medium of eating healthy or not, feel obsessed with eating or not eating certain foods, worried about the contamination of foods, or your list of foods you feel comfortable eating could fit on a post-it note - this episode is for you.

Join me and my guest as we discuss: what is orthorexia, how to recognize signs of this condition, how it interferes with society and restrictive eating patterns, and finally some steps you can take to heal from being obsessed with certain eating patterns and plans. 

Mimi is a graduate student in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling. She has her BS in Child Development and Medicine, Health, and Society from Vanderbilt University, where she studied educational psychology and social determinants of health, and learned about a weight inclusive, intuitive eating approach to care. Mimi has been featured on over a dozen podcasts and is passionate about orthorexia, obsessive compulsive disorder, and eating disorders. 

Connect with our guest: 

On Instagram: @the.lovelybecoming

Her podcast: The Lovely Becoming Podcast

Her website:  www.mimi-cole.com

Looking for support transitioning away from clean eating without feeling out of control? Inquire to become a private client, here: https://alignednutrition.com/contact/

This week's podcast episode is from a podcast I did on the Nourishing Women Podcast with dietitian Victoria Myers. Enjoy the alternative perspective of hearing me interviewed and join us as we discuss: 

- What it means to eat in line with your values

- The difference between positive and pathological nutrition

- What to do when you feel a pull to lose weight

Would you like to work with me on figuring out your version of positive nutrition? Inquire to become a private client, here: https://alignednutrition.com/contact/

Anyone else put themselves down and struggle with negative self-talk? If you are someone who wouldn't dare say the same things to someone you say to yourself this episode is for you. Join me and my guest as we discuss as we very realistically discuss (there are no "just be positive messages to be had in this episode): 

What does negative self-talk sound like and mean to you? 

How does it impact your relationship with food and yourself? 

What are some strategies to improve your negative self talk and eating? 

Our guest Nancy has a Masters Degree in Higher Education and in Community Counseling from the University of Dayton. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Coach specializing in High Functioning Anxiety, with fourteen years in private practice and has spent 20+ years working as a counselor/coach. 

She has written three books on living happier, most notably The Happier Approach: Be Kind to Yourself, Feel Happier and Still Accomplish Your Goals.   Nancy also completed her postgraduate training in Gestalt Therapy at the Gestalt Institute of Central Ohio and is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator (she trained with Brene Brown!!!).

She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and her 2 cats Calvin and Gus and dog, Watterson (they are big fans of the cartoon Calvin and Hobbes)

Connect with our guest:

Website: live-happier.com

Her podcast: The Happier Approach

Her book: The Happier Approach

Check out her upcoming course about: High Functioning Anxiety (Happening at the end of the Summer)

Ready to heal your relationship with food and your body? 

Does anxiety and your high expectations of yourself get in the way of you feeling good about what you eat, your body, and exercise? Let's see how we can help feel more in control and confident. 

Inquire to work together: https://alignednutrition.com/contact/

This podcast is from a question from one of you - asking about how to get into the habit of eating intuitively. How to stay in the mindset of eating intuitively by checking in with yourself BUT also not thinking about food all of the time. 

In this episode, I cover: some nuances of intuitive eating (IE), the difference between IE and mindful eating, and daily strategies to become more mindful and connected without overthinking it. 

There is a lot of context to be brought into this conversation and it can be deeply personal. Which is why I'm launching a small group experience at the end of this month. 

If you'd like support from me on developing an intuitive eating lifestyle plus the support of other people, visit www.realigncommunity.com and move through the process faster and with ease. We have 8 spots left and start June 28th.

Did you know that we have 4 types of hunger? Maybe you don't but are intrigued with all the different needs we have to meet. Maybe you wonder how to stop feeling hungry all the time? Or are you worried if you really let yourself eat, you'll never stop? 

This episode is for you if you want a deep dive on hunger, emotions, meal planning, and satisfaction with eating. 

Hunger can be extremely personal. If you want professional help and support sorting it out, inquire to work with me here: https://alignednutrition.com/contact/

It's not uncommon to reach a point in your journey of allowing all foods, honoring your hunger, and no longer restricting food intake BUT still eating past fullness. 

Overeating feels uncomfortable, defeating, and frustrating. You can't stop here. 

You have to keep going so that you can really gain confidence and trust that YOU can also be free and at ease with all foods. 

Re-calibrating our fullness is a necessary part of the process. 

I'm talking about this on the podcast because it's a typical sticking point in recovery or healing your relationship to food. It is a very individualized process and this is something I work closely with clients on. If you'd like to become a client of mine, inquire to work with me via the link in the show notes. 

Would you like to learn how to distinguish fullness and overeating for yourself? It's a big part of the journey and it's a must to go from "working on it" to "totally free" and this is something I work with clients on. Inquire to work with me here: https://alignednutrition.com/contact/

If you are healing your relationship with food and find exercise doesn't feel aligned, this episode is for you. It's no secret that exercise and our relationship with it is often damaged through dieting, disordered eating, and eating disorders. What you may not realize is that it's possible to draw analogies to intuitive eating and movement. In this episode we discuss what intuitive exercise means and how to leverage healing your relationship to food as a strength. 

Our guest Nyla is a Certified Health and Life Coach trained in habit and mindset change, also holding a Food and Nutrition Diploma and a host of fitness instructor certifications, who coaches through an Intuitive Eating and Intuitive Movement perspective. 

Connect with our guest:

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutritionwithnyla

Check out her blog: www.nutritionwithnyla.org/blog

Ready to heal your relationship with food and your body? 

Let's see how to improve your relationship with exercise and food in a way that feels additive and stress free.  

Inquire to work together: https://alignednutrition.com/contact/

Feeling bloated? Constipated? It's not uncommon for a stressful relationship with food to show up alongside digestive complaints. In this episode, I'm joined by a gut health expert and we tease apart correlations of disordered eating and gut health, myths about gut healing, and ways you can improve your gut health without cutting entire food groups. 

Our guest Dr. Heather Finley is a Registered Dietitian with a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition and a Certified Eating Disorder Dietitian. She studied functional nutrition and has discovered nutrition for gut health is so much more than what you eat. She helps women struggling with complicated digestive issues find relief by using her proven "gutTogether" method. 

Connect with our guest:

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/gutbrain.nutrition

Ready to heal your relationship with food and your body? 

Let's see how to improve your digestion without compromising your relationship to food. 

Inquire to work together: https://alignednutrition.com/contact/

Ask Me Anything - this solo podcast episode is 3 questions directly from you! 

I discuss:

- What foods I recommend to clients

- How to improve your diet and health without focusing on calories

- How to differentiate between fullness and overeating

Let me know if you would like to see more of these type of episodes by sending me a DM on instagram @alignednutrition

Want to ask me questions about your situation and get advice specifically tailored to healing your relationship to food? Become a client of mine! Inquire to work with me here: https://alignednutrition.com/contact/

Discomfort with our weights both lead us into and drive our hang ups with food. It's generally more of a societal issue than us as individuals. But what can we do and what can we learn about our bodies and weights to support us? Join me and my expert guest Marie-Pier as we dive deeper into weight science and share common misconceptions we are taught as a culture. 

Marie-Pier is Registered Dietitian with a B.Sc. in Psychology and the founder of The Balanced Practice. She strives to provide evidence based nutrition interventions to all her clients and support them in their recovery journeys. Marie-Pier is passionate about helping folx discover how to ditch diet culture and nourish their bodies without guilt, shame or restrictions. 

Connect with our guest:

Join her free emotional eating workshop May 25-27: www.thebalancedpractice.com/workshop

Find her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/the.balanced.dietitian

Ready to heal your relationship with food and your body? Inquire to work together

https://alignednutrition.com/contact/

Resources mentioned:

The Balanced Dietitian Podcast episode on difference of eating disorders, disordered eating, and dieting

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/eating-disorder-disordered-eating/id1522589752?i=1000485751287