Graced Health: Perimenopause and Menopause Wellness for Christian Women

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Registered Dietitian and author Kristen Bunger joins the show today to discuss the third principle of intuitive eating: making peace with food. 

Kristen shares her insights on overcoming diet culture, addressing food-related fears, and achieving true peace with food. The conversation delves into practical steps for incorporating intuitive eating, handling ultra-processed foods like Cheez-Its, and the role of faith in finding healing and fulfillment. Listen in for encouraging advice on navigating your journey towards a holistic and grace-filled approach to health.

We discuss: 

• Giving up the battle against diet culture to win the war
• The fear of if we give ourselves permission to eat everything, we will go out of control
• How we can get over years of food rules
• Where ultra-processed foods fit into making peace with food

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Instagram: @kristenbunger.rd
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Kristen Bunger, MS, RD is a Christian registered dietitian, and author passionate about helping clients and readers find peace with food and their bodies. She has been practicing as a dietitian for 16 years at all levels of care with clients struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating, yo-yo dieting, and body image dissatisfaction. Kristen is the owner of Body and Soul Nutrition Counseling where she helps clients discover the origin of food and body disorders and what they need to heal. As a Christian, she uses God’s word to guide her clients to understand how God is the ultimate source of healing and fulfillment. Kristen lives in Peoria, Arizona, with her husband, Keith, and their two boys. 

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If you follow me on the socials, you've probably seen me talking about The Stronger Collective: a Christ-centered community of health professionals to help you find freedom in your holistic health.

Today I'm introducing you to the nine health professionals in The Stronger Collective. We are personal trainers, registered dietitians, pilates instructors, health coaches and more, all Kingdom-minded and integrating our faith into all we do.

Join The Stronger Collective and get a free week when you sign up (payment won't go through for a week so you can see what it's like).

When you use this link you'll also help support me and my offering to the program.

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{Quick Note: I recorded this while traveling and didn't have my mic. I appreciate your grace in my lower audio quality!}

Victoria Yates, RN joins to discuss the second principle of Intuitive Eating: Honor Your Hunger. We explore the differences between early and late hunger cues, and how to respond to them. We also touch on the impact of diet culture on our perception of hunger and the spiritual practice of fasting. 

Victoria  also provides practical advice on managing hunger between meals and emphasizes the importance of viewing hunger as a gift and a way to better understand our bodies.

We discuss:

• The spectrum of hunger and subtle signs you may not recognize
• Why it’s important to respond rather than waiting too long
• What to do with situations when we are hungry but can’t eat (or have the time to eat but we aren’t hungry)
• Fasting and the difference of spiritual fasting vs. diet culture fasting
• When it’s not appropriate to fast
• When the schedule we have doesn’t coincide with our hunger

Victoria Yates is a registered nurse, certified health coach and certified intuitive eating & body image coach for women, specializing in helping women to stop dieting & love their bodies through learning how to eat intuitively.  With all the pressure to eat perfectly & have a perfect body, it’s no wonder that you feel stressed about how you should eat.  Victoria teaches how to have a healthy lifestyle built on the science behind intuitive eating and deepen your relationship with yourself so that you never have to go on another diet ever again.

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Today we dive into a series on Intuitive Eating. Whether this is something you've been practicing for a while or are curious about it, this series will help you understand what Intuitive Eating is and clear up misconceptions about it as well (spoiler alert: it's not eat-what-you-want-when-you-want).

In today's episode I discuss the first principle with Registered Dietitian Tracy Brown.

We discuss:

• What it means to reject the diet mentality
• Situations where we need to make health-promoting changes for our cholesterol, blood sugar, etc.
• "I want to lose weight to be healthy"
• Identity and curiosity

Tracy Brown is a somatic nutrition therapist, registered licensed dietitian and attuned eating coach in private practice providing in-person, phone and online counseling since 2006. 

She specializes in treatment of eating disorders and eating problems for both adults and children as well as issues related to over-extending the body, including adrenal fatigue, hormone issues, PCOS and gut health.

Connect with Tracy:
TracyBrownRD.com
YouTube: Tracy Brown RDLDN
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In January 2024, I officially declared this show to be Intuitive Eating focused. 

Today I'm sharing my own journey to embracing Intuitive Eating (and my body) and why I feel it's important to do so here as well.

I discuss:

• My first few discussions about Intuitive Eating
• What this means for my first book, Your Worthy Body
• How Intuitive Eating influenced the writing of my second book for teen girls, Your CORE Strength
• The benefits I've gained
• Whether I think IE has caused my perimenopause weight gain
• And I introduce the next season of the Graced Health podcast

Episodes mentioned:

• How I heard from God without spending time in prayer or worship 
• How Intuitive Eating may give you the grace and freedom you need with Erin Todd
• How do I know if my loved one is dealing with an eating disorder? with Brittany Braswell
• I've gained perimenopause weight. Why I'm not trying to lose it.
• My arsenal to fight and overcome my body image issues.

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While I'm intentional about providing a diverse array of episodes, I don't follow a pattern or template.

That's why I've enjoyed doing recap episodes the last several seasons.

I listen to a variety of shows and don't listen to every episode. I don't expect you to catch every Graced Health one, either.

If you've missed any, here's your chance to hear about Season 20's episodes.

As a special treat in this recap, I'm including a clip of each guest's one simple thing.

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