Compassionate Conversations with Esther Kane, MSW

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Esther Kane is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping Highly Sensitive People (or HSPs) discusses the concept called 'being inwardly outrageous' by SARK and encourages HSPs everywhere to try it out for themselves.

Where to find SARK and her fabulous books:
https://www.planetsark.com

To check out Esther's outrageous shoe collection and to find some fun shoes for yourself:
https://www.fluevog.com

FREE resources:

To learn more about the Highly Sensitive Personality:
https://www.estherkane.com/highly-sensitive-people/

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on Highly Sensitive People, click on this page:
https://www.estherkane.com/category/highly-sensitive-personality-introversion/

To receive my FREE report designed to help HSPs create better boundaries called, "10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy", click here:
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter 

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel,  give it a great review if you enjoyed it and pass episodes on to others who could also benefit from them.

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Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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Esther Kane, a psychotherapist who specializes in  helping highly sensitive people (or HSPs)  shares tips for how we can lessen anxiety around being physically sick. She talks about how she has made peace with having seasonal allergies through exposure therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy and gives some affirmations which lower anxiety.

FREE resources:

To learn more about the Highly Sensitive Personality:

https://www.estherkane.com/highly-sensitive-people/

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on Highly Sensitive People, click on this page:

https://www.estherkane.com/category/highly-sensitive-personality-introversion/

To receive my FREE report designed to help HSPs create better boundaries called, "10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy", click here:

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter 

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel and give it a great review if you really enjoyed it and pass episodes on to others who could also benefit from them.

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Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like the odd one out for being different than other people? What if you could learn to reframe your sensitivity as a superpower instead of being mean to yourself? Listen to this short talk  to learn some easy and incredibly effective tools which will help you transform how you view yourself and empower you to step out as the amazing super-person you are.

FREE resources:

How to Increase Your Self-Compassion:

https://www.estherkane.com/mothering-yourself/

To learn more about the Highly Sensitive Personality:

https://www.estherkane.com/highly-sensitive-people/

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on Highly Sensitive People, click on this page:

https://www.estherkane.com/category/highly-sensitive-personality-introversion/

To receive my FREE report designed to help HSPs create better boundaries called, "10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy", click here:

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter 

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel,  and give it a great review if you really enjoyed it and pass episodes on to others who could also benefit from them. Thanks!

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like the odd one out for being different than other people? What if you could learn to reframe your sensitivity as a superpower instead of being mean to yourself? Listen to this short talk to learn some easy and incredibly effective tools which will help you transform how you view yourself and empower you to step out as the amazing super-person you are.

FREE resources: 

How to Increase Your Self-Compassion:

https://www.estherkane.com/mothering-yourself/

To learn more about the Highly Sensitive Personality:

https://www.estherkane.com/highly-sensitive-people/

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on Highly Sensitive People, click on this page:

https://www.estherkane.com/category/highly-sensitive-personality-introversion/

To receive my FREE report designed to help HSPs create better boundaries called, "10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy", click here:

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter 

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel, click the 'like' button, give it a great review if you really enjoyed it and pass episodes on to others who could also benefit from them. Thanks!

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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As a  highly sensitive person, do you feel like you are less in charge of your life than you'd like to be?   What if there was a way to learn to be the 'driver of the bus' that is your one precious life? Listen to this short talk to learn more about how to take your power back.

Author of book mentioned, The Body Keeps the Score is Bessel van ver Kolk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Keeps_the_Score

Creator of Somatic Experiencing is Peter Levine:

https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/about-peter

FREE resources:

To learn more about the Highly Sensitive Personality:

https://www.estherkane.com/highly-sensitive-people/

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on Highly Sensitive People, click on this page:

https://www.estherkane.com/category/highly-sensitive-personality-introversion/

To receive my FREE report designed to help HSPs create better boundaries called, "10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy", click here:

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter 

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel, give it a great review if you really enjoy it and pass episodes on to others who could also benefit from them.

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

Send us Fan Mail

As a  highly sensitive person, do you feel like the odd one out for being different than other people? What if you could learn to reframe your sensitivity as a superpower instead of being mean to yourself?  Listen to this short musing  by Esther to learn some easy and incredibly effective tools which will help you transform how you view yourself and empower you to step out as the amazing super-person you are.

FREE resources:

How to Increase Your Self-Compassion:

https://www.estherkane.com/mothering-yourself/

To learn more about the Highly Sensitive Personality:

https://www.estherkane.com/highly-sensitive-people/

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on Highly Sensitive People, click on this page:

https://www.estherkane.com/category/highly-sensitive-personality-introversion/

To receive my FREE report designed to help HSPs create better boundaries called, "10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy", click here:

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter 

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel,  give it a great review if you really enjoyed it and pass episodes on to others who could also benefit from them. Thanks!

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

Send us Fan Mail

Are you a fan of Ketogenic Woman (Anita Breeze)? I sure am! Here she shares her personal story which contributed to a significant weight gain before she found the ketogenic way of eating. I was touched by her story and deeply moved by the emotional healing she has done in order to heal her relationship with food and her body. I think you will be too. Enjoy!

Episode Contents

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:56 Introducing Anita Breeze
8:14 Going beyond the typical weight loss story
9:51 What Anita learned about women's roles from her family-of-origin
21:03 What messages Anita got about food and weight from a young age
24:38 Identifying the link between multigenerational trauma and her struggles with food and weight
36:00 Using food for emotional reasons- food as comfort
38:12 Healing the relationship with her mother
46:10 How her relationship to food and her body has changed over time
47:47 Anita and Esther discuss one of the most important areas to address in order to heal our relationship to food and our bodies: unfinished emotional business and past traumas
52:15 Anita's 'before and after': resolving unfinished emotional business and past traumas
53:28 Wrap-up

Show Notes

Where to find Anita:

Her website:

https://ketogenicwoman.com

YouTube Channel:

Ketogenic Woman

To watch my interview with Dr. Joan Ifland on Highly Processed Food Addiction, go here:

https://www.estherkane.com/podcasts/highly-processed-food-addiction-with-dr-joan-ifland/

Dr. Georgia Ede and her book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, can be found here:

https://www.diagnosisdiet.com

FREE resources:

To check out Esther's writing and podcasts/videos on women, eating disorders and body image, go to this page:

https://www.estherkane.com/category/eating-disorders/

To receive Esther's  6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies:
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter 

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel, click the 'like' button, give it a great review if you really enjoy it and pass episodes onto others who could also benefit from them.

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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Canadian Psychotherapist Esther Kane interviews Dawn Hertz, a grief and loss therapist, to provide  some tools for those of you who are grieving a recent loss.

Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Introduction of Dawn Hertz
1:30 How Dawn has been touched personally by grief and loss
9:39 How she became interested in specializing in grief and loss as a therapist
12:52 What grief and loss looks like for most people in the short term, after a year, and in the long run
15:28 How western culture helps or harms those who are grieving
19:46 Mistakes people make when trying to help someone who is grieving
23:48 How to best support someone who is grieving
25:00 Pitfalls grieving people fall into and how they can these be avoided
29:27 How grieving people can recognize what they need and then ask for it
35:50 Do we ever truly ‘get over' a significant loss?
40:20 Dawn shares stories of hope from those who have moved through significant loss in their lives

Show notes:

Where to find Dawn:

https://dawnhertztherapy.com

Grief author mentioned in interview:

Dr. Alan Wolfelt

Blog post about losing my dear friend to brain cancer:

https://www.estherkane.com/a-tribute-to-my-dear-friend-ingrid-watermann-1974-2024/

Read articles I've written on grief and loss:.

https://www.estherkane.com/category/grief-and-loss/

To receive my FREE report called, "10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy", go to:

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter 

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel, click the 'like' button, give it a great review if you really enjoy it and pass episodes onto others who could also benefit from them.

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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Dr. Ifland is considered to be the world's leading expert in processed food addiction.

She is the author of the textbook, Processed Food Addiction.

Dr. Ifland educates health practitioners on using food addiction recovery to put diet-related diseases into remission.

She was selected by the Oprah Winfrey Network as food addiction specialist, is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and an innovator in food addiction recovery programs.

In this episode, we discuss: 
 - the Standard American Diet (SAD) being filled with highly-processed, low nutrient, cheap foods, which Dr. Ifland calls "addictive food-like substances”
 - the food industry and what happened in the 1980s
 - how the brain learns to crave
 - the impact on the brain and body when processed foods are consumed
 - how many people who eat The Standard American Diet have a food addiction and how you can identify if you have one
 - if you have a food addiction, what steps you should take
 - obsession and cravings
 - how to avoid relapse
 - how to overcome an addiction to processed food

Where to find Joan:
https://www.drjoanifland.com

Food Addiction Reset Program:
https://www.foodaddictionreset.com/arc-membership-details

Dr. Vera Tarman, Author of "Food Junkies": Food Addiction 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0W3V_4cMW4

How to Break Free of Food Addiction: Clarissa Kennedy and Molly Painschab of Sweet Sobriety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_sGEubvmcg&t=264s

FREE resources: 

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on women, eating disorders and body image, click on this page: https://www.estherkane.com/category/eating-disorders/ 

To receive my 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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Are you a Jewish woman who struggles with food and body image? You are not alone! One study found that the rate of eating disorders amongst Jewish women was 50 percent higher than the general U.S. population. Enjoy this fascinating discussion between two experienced Jewish female eating disorder therapists, Esther Kane and Nina Manolson,  to understand the reasons behind this. Most importantly, you will learn some invaluable tools to help you recover from your distorted body image and food issues for good.

Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:44 Introducing Nina Manolson
4:20 The four major themes from Esther's research on Jewish women and eating disorders
8:50 Nina's take on these findings 
15:53 Nina's advice for Jewish women who struggle with food and body image
30:10 Shifting focus from food as 'the problem' to 'this is about survival/coping'
35:55 How women from minority groups can adopt these strategies
41:27 A poem from Nina

Show Notes:

To learn more about Esther’s research study:

Exploring the Role that Ethnicity and Culture Play in Disordered Eating (on page 10 in the following link)
https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/sites/default/files/visions_disorderedeating-no16.pdf

Video on Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Food:

https://youtu.be/BKEGfNHHCrU

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-survivors-cookbook/

Where to find Nina:
https://ninamanolson.com/

FREE resources:

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on women, eating disorders and body image, click on this page:
https://www.estherkane.com/category/eating-disorders/

To receive my 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies:
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter 

Please don’t forget to subscribe to this channel, give it a great review if you really enjoy it and pass episodes onto others who could also benefit from them.

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com