Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially.

This week I am joined by Lauren Shugarts, a Food and Body Image coach who helps women find their food freedom! In this episode we discuss:

- Lauren's own personal experience with food and her body image

- How Lauren dealt with the fear of gaining weight

- Lauren's coping mechanism tools on negative body image days

- Emotional Eating - is it good or bad?

- Different coping strategies if you're someone who uses food to numb your emotions

- The 4 different types of hunger

- Getting support! 

I hope you enjoy today's episode. You can connect with Lauren through her TikTok and Instagram account @nourishedsoulwellness and she also has her very own podcast called Nourish Your Soul!

Lots of love

Lauren

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Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Using food as a way of feeling in control of your life

- Why this is a false sense of control

- The uncontrollable mess life can be 

- Healthier ways to feel in control

- Becoming aware of your unmet needs

- Adding more flexibility into your life

If you listen to this episode, I would love to hear what you think, so please share and tag me on Insta (or slide into my DMs!) I'd love to connect @fillyourbowl_.

Lots of love

Lauren x

Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially.

In this episode, we discuss:

- 5 reasons you need to stop labelling food as Good vs Bad

1. It increases Stress and therefore affects digestion

2. Food has no moral value

3. It creates a restrictive mindset around food

4. It stops you from enjoying the foods you love

5. It creates fear of food

- How you can do the work to stop labelling food!

Podcasts mentioned in this episode:

The Effects of Stress on the Body - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7oAakd0UqcuCjJsCpGM1rz?si=e57c39a3c31d4544

Challenging Fear Foods and Food Rules - https://open.spotify.com/episode/28Usc9URvOYmDLfWNyHfvK?si=934cbcf6a5db46e2

Overcoming the Fear of Weight Gain - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3lq0Du9s66uS2kuim8idlD?si=F8_Uuxd-QZe5vFrwHt6DdA

If you listen to this episode, I would love to hear what you think, so please share and tag me on Insta (or slide into my DMs!) I'd love to connect @fillyourbowl_.

Lots of love

Lauren x

Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially.

This week I am joined by Stephanie Baker, a registered Nutritional Therapist who specializes in helping people heal their acne once and for all! In this episode we discuss:

- Stephanie's own experience with acne

- How acne drove Stephanie to have an unhealthy relationship with food

- What are some of the root causes of acne

- Tips people can use to manage their skin health

- Skincare products

- Supplements for skin health

I hope you enjoy today's episode. You can connect with Stephanie through her Instagram account @stephjaynenutrition or her website https://www.stephaniejaynenutrition.com/ 

Lots of love

Lauren

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Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially.

In this episode, we discuss:

- The HPA Axis

- The effects of high cortisol (stress hormone) on the body

- Symptoms of a dysregulated stress response

- Sympathetic (fight or flight) dominance vs. parasympathetic (rest and digest) dominance

- Steps to manage your response to stress

- Steps to calm an overstimulated/overactive nervous system

The book I mention in this podcast is called Do The Work by Nicole LePera. You can find more information on Nicole here: https://theholisticpsychologist.com/. Highly recommend looking into her work!

If you listen to this episode, I would love to hear what you think, so please share and tag me on Insta (or slide into my DMs!) I'd love to connect @fillyourbowl_.

Lots of love

Lauren x

Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially.

Dr. Rachel Evans and I have a wonderful conversation all about Binge Eating Disorder. In this episode, we discuss:

- Calories on menus in the UK

- The difference between overeating/binge eating

- Guilt/shame around binge eating

- Reasons, why people may binge, eat

- What can people do instead to fill the gap that binge eating fills?

- Normalize overeating at times

- Removing negative self-talk

- Energy requirements change day to day

- What can people do to soothe themselves when they’ve eaten past the point of comfortable fullness?

I hope you enjoy today's episode. You can connect with Rachel at @rachel.evans.phd

Lots of love

Lauren

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Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially. 

Join Cleo and I for a wondering conversation all about Intuitive Eating and Exercise Addiction! Cleo is an Exercise Scientist and Intuitive Eating Coach. She helps people all over the world heal their relationship with food! In this episode we discuss:

- Exercise Addiction

- Calming Our Nervous System and entering a parasympathetic state

- A top breathing technique!

- What is Intuitive Eating?

- How can we eat the foods we love without feeling guilty?

- Why we control food

I hope you enjoy today's episode. You can connect with Cleo at @cleofaithcoaching

Lots of love

Lauren

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Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially.

If there's one person who you think would never recover from their ED, then I imagine it's someone like Caroline who was living with Anorexia for 30 years. Caroline is LIVING PROOF that recovery IS POSSIBLE! Caroline is now a health coach and eating disorder therapist, supporting her clients through their own personal journeys. In this episode we discuss:

- Caroline's experience with Anorexia

- Why Caroline enjoyed having anorexia which made it so hard for her to recover

- Why Caroline eventually wanted to recover

- Letting go of food guilt

- Eating disorders and routine

- Going on holiday with an eating disorder

- A special tip at the end you can try in recovery!

I hope you enjoy today's episode. You can connect with Caroline at @zesthealthcoaching!

Lots of love

Lauren

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Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially.

Ella and I have the most wonderful discussion today as we dive into all the topics that have been on our minds recently in life. In this episode we discuss:

I hope you enjoy the episode! If you'd like to connect with Ella her Instagram is @energywithel. She is a breath of fresh air and always open about the hardships/struggles of everyday life!

Lots of love,

Lauren

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Welcome to the Fill Your Bowl Podcast! I want to inspire you to fill up your bowl in ALL areas of your life. Whether that's spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, or financially.

The episode you MUST listen to if you're in ED recovery or want to heal your relationship with food and your body. Surina is such a LIGHT in the ED Recovery space on Instagram and I loved talking to her today about her experience. In this episode we discuss:

- Surina's experience with an eating disorder

- Being turned away from the doctors

- Bloating and ED

- Mindfulness/Meditating

- What it means when we say 'Your body needs to learn that food will always be available'

- Eating foods without guilt

- Food fears/rules

- The feeling of loss of control

- Dealing with triggers/diet talk

- Why recovery is worth it

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Go and give the lovely Surina a follow on Instagram @gainswithsurina 

If you listen and like the episode, I would love to hear from you!!

Lots of love

Lauren x