Feel Good Effect

In this episode, we are talking with New York Time bestselling author and beloved food blogger from Against All Grain, Danielle Walker.

In this conversation, Danielle talks about her health journey and how recipe development started as a necessary means for healing and eating what she loved, leading to her latest cookbook, Danielle Walker's Eat What You Love: Everyday Comfort Food You Crave.

Listen for more on healing from an autoimmune disease, the process of creating recipes and cookbooks that people can trust, the challenges of being in the public light, and Danielle's movement away from the Against All Grain brand and more towards herself.

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Have you ever stared at that never ending to do list and felt completely overwhelmed, not knowing what to prioritize or where to start?

This episode is all about how to prioritize when everything seems important and how to pull meaning out of all the noise.

I'm going to share a simple strategy that will help you find Purpose and Process in your to-do list. Purpose refers to meaning, the intention behind "why" and "what", while Process is more about steps you'll take to get there, the intention behind the "how".

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This week's guest is Priya Parker, a master-facilitator and the founder of Thrive Labs where she helps activists, elected officials, corporate executives, educators and philanthropists create transformative gatherings. Priya is also the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, which really dives into how to create gatherings, in all types of contexts, that meaningfully connect people.

This conversation is all about how to infuse intention and connection into those gathering opportunities. Priya talks about the idea of code switching, what that does at an individual level and how it led her to group conflict resolution.

She also talks about how self-care is relational, and how we can host or guest gatherings in ways that foster self-care with some tactical tips and questions to reflect on.

Priya and Robyn also talk about the idea of a spiral supper, encouraging listeners to participate as a virtual community.

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Guest Bio

Priya Parker is a master facilitator and the founder of Thrive Labs, at which she helps activists, elected officials, corporate executives, educators, and philanthropists create transformative gatherings. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India. She studied organizational design at M.I.T., public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. Find her online at www.priyaparker.com and @PriyaParker on Twitter and Instagram.

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Instead of getting stuck in the holiday spiral this year, use this time to ditch perfection, comparison, and overwhelm. The end of the year is a great opportunity to start making some changes, so that when the new year comes you don't feel like you have to start over.

In this episode, we talk about the different ways the downward holiday spiral comes up in self-talk, we compare two versions of the same holiday weekend, one in the downward spiral and one that is more intentional and incremental, and we talk about specific tactics to use to approach this holiday season intentionally and incrementally.

1 | Getting intentional

1. Create a holiday splurge list
2. Create a holiday to-do + to-don't list

2 | Getting incremental

1. Manage the 3 M's
2. Aiming for 2 out of 3 in a season of indulgence
3. Give yourself reset days

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This week's guest is Robyn Youkilis, a certified health coach, author, speaker, and leading expert in holistic digestive health. Robyn is the founder and CEO of the global health coaching practice, Your Healthiest You, and the author of bestselling books, Go With Your Gut and Thin From Within.

This episode focuses on how to listen to that intuitive food voice we all have and how to quit the serial dieting cycle.

Robyn offers advice for those who are constantly looking outside themselves for a fix as well as those interested in this lifestyle change, explains why the gut matters and how fermented foods play a role in gut health, and breaks down her rule of 5 in building a meal.

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Robyn Youkilis is an AADP Certified Health Coach, author, speaker and leading expert in holistic digestive health. She is the Founder and CEO of the global health coaching practice, Your Healthiest You. For nearly a decade, Robyn has helped clients shed both physical and emotional weight through her straightforward yet supportive coaching style. She is the author of the best selling books, Go with Your Gut and Thin From Within - The Go with Your Gut Way to Lose Weight, and has been featured by The View, The Today Show, The Cooking Channel, The Wall Street Journal, Health, Mind Body Green, Well + Good, The Chalkboard Mag and more. Robyn currently lives in New York City and Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter, Navy. She enjoys traveling, music festivals and eating dessert at fancy restaurants, one bite at a time.

To learn more about coaching with Robyn and to join the #YourHealthiestYou community, visit www.RobynYoukilis.com.

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This episode is about body-love and acceptance. We will unpack body image and talk about how to accept yourself the way you are right now. Robyn tells her story about her body image journey and offers a few mindset hacks and tactical tips to find peace, center, and calm about the way you look.

1 | Know how you think + what your personality type is: perfectionism, comparison, or guilt.

2 | Bring awareness to and change the way you talk to yourself.

3 | Talk to yourself like someone important is listening.

4 | Consider what you're really measuring.

5 | Dress for your body right now.

6 | Get honest with how you're approaching food + movement.

7 | Get in the picture.

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Today's guest is self compassion expert, Dr. Kristin Neff, an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas, Austin and a pioneer in field of self compassion research.

In this conversation, we dive into how to cultivate self compassion in your own life, what it has to do with well being, and how to use self compassion to reach wellness goals.

Dr. Neff talks about how to use mindfulness, kindness in response, and framing imperfection in light of the human experience to experience compassion. She talks about how self compassion is not self esteem, self pity, weak, or selfish.

Listen to learn more about why self compassion is so important, and how to make it a part of your life.

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This week's episode is about how to shift your mindset so that you can find the time for wellness. You can have all the tips and strategies, but if you're not able to shift your mindset about how you're thinking about wellness and health those strategies will get you nowhere. Learn how to implement both mindset and strategy into your wellness routine.

Listen to learn about the 3 ways to shift your mindset, and 9 strategies to guide you through finding pockets of time in your busy schedule to make space for wellness.

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Today's guest is Robin Long, founder of The Balanced Life + The Balanced Life Sisterhood. This episode dives into how to find time for exercise, talks about what balance means to Robin, a discusses a time when she felt like she didn't fit in and how she leveraged that into her business today, and gets real about the pelvic floor and ab separation.

Find out how to find time for exercise, why it's so important for avoiding burnout, and why we should speak up when we think differently than the people around us.

Full blog post, show notes, and resource for this episode available at: realfoodwholelife.com/fge

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Guest Bio

Robin Long is a certified Pilates instructor and creator of The Balanced Life, a website dedicated to helping women love their bodies.

The Balanced Life provides quick, yet effective, online Pilates & barre workouts that can be done from home or on the road and serves tens of thousands of women all over the world.

Robin is passionate about helping women transform their relationship with exercise and healthy living by choosing "grace over guilt" and finding a balance that feels like FREEDOM.

When Robin's not filming Pilates workouts on the beach, she can be found chasing her 5-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son, snuggling her newborn twins, relaxing on the beach, and seeking out the best almond milk latte in town.

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Website: The Balanced Life

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In this episode of the Feel Good Effect Podcast, I am going to share with you my 5 minute morning. This is how I start everyday, and it's the exact process that I share with my clients. You'll learn 5 steps to making this routine work in your life and the "why" behind it.

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