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There is a common misconception when it comes to having a negative body image that only women struggle with these insecurities. Aaron Flores is here today to tell you why that is very far from the truth. Aaron is a registered dietitian nutritionist based out of Los Angeles, California with over 10 years of experience working with eating disorders in a variety of settings. In his work, Aaron helps men and women learn how to make peace with food and develop body-positive behaviors. Along with his work with eating disorders, he also is a co-host of the podcast, Dietitians Unplugged. 

Whitney shares:

• Aaron’s food struggle journey that led him to where he is now
• Making the shift from traditional nutrition approach
• Becoming a Body Trust provider and what that means
• Including social justice in the healing conversation
• How anyone who does not identify as a woman is excluded from the conversation
• Socializing ourselves on how to have uncomfortable conversations
• Experiencing group-leader fear about creating a safe space for others
• Struggling with feeling like a failure when diets are not successful

Links to Resources:

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Listen to Aaron’s podcast, Dietitians Unplugged!

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During pregnancy, women’s bodies will go through the most dramatic changes in their lives. What the world doesn’t see is the powerful mental and emotional hardships that women go through during this time. Today, Whitney’s guest, Shreen El Masry, is talking about body image during and after pregnancy as well as healing infertility after having an eating disorder. Shreen is the owner of Be You Be Free, a body-positive health and wellbeing community for women. Having struggled with disordered eating and body issues her whole life, Shreen discovered intuitive eating, health at every size, and became educated in all areas of health and wellbeing to recover. Having a positive body image can help women break free from diet culture and spend their time on the things that matter to them the most. Live life the way you are meant to!

Whitney shares:

• Shreen’s journey through body image problems and her eating disorder
• Supporting women who are pregnant or post-partum with their body image
• Refusing to be weighed during pregnancy
• Dealing with the post-partum pressure to lose weight
• Promoting a body-positive and healthy lifestyle for your children
• Recovering from an infertility condition caused by an eating disorder
• Underestimating the impact of undereating and stress on health
• Dealing with the backlash from professionals in the health field
• Different ways to prioritize stress reduction during recovery
• Working on positive body image with Shreen’s 12-step program Nourish Me
• Coming to terms with your cravings during pregnancy and post-partum

Links to Resources:

Keep up with Shreen and Be You Be Free on Instagram and Facebook!

No Period. Now What?

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If you can change the way that you think about something then you can change the way that you feel about it. Today, Whitney is talking to Kara Loewetheil about how to take back control of your thoughts. Kara is a Master Certified Coach with a B.A. from Yale and J.D. from Harvard Law, as well as the host of the iTunes top-rated self-help podcast Unf*ck Your Brain. In the last three years after pivoting from a legal career, she has grown her life coaching business from 0 to 7 figures. At the end of the day, your thoughts control your emotions. You can consciously decide to engage with your thoughts instead of being at the mercy of those thoughts. Change the way you think and create your own life!

Whitney shares:

• Defining thought work and how people think
• Kara’s path to coaching and working with thought work
• Psychological teaching history of mankind
• Journeying through the relationship between size and happiness
• Where self-confidence comes from and how it works
• Reasons that people find their negative emotions so horrible
• Are your thoughts valid or invalid? Or neither?
• Changing the way you feel about trauma by changing the way you think about it
• Learning to think about negative thoughts or disfunction in a different way
• Taking apart personality tests
• Where intuition, instinct, and lizard brain play into your self-thoughts and emotions
• Beliefs and feelings in regard to photos of yourself

Links to Resources:

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Go to Unf*ck Your Brain and check out what Kara has to offer!

Listen to the Unf*ck Your Brain Podcast on Itunes!

Unf*ck Your Brain Confidence Cheat Sheet

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Recently, Weight Watchers has released their Kurbo app, which is geared towards dieting for children. This, of course, has plenty of concerned citizens expressing discontent with the problematic messages that this app is sending to the next generation. In the studio today, Whitney is talking to Lindsey Hall, who is here to talk about those problems and her own journey through recovery. Lindsey is an award winning eating disorder/addiction speaker and writer, focusing on the topics of recovery and eating disorders. Having struggled with the eating disorder cycle for many years, Lindsey has actively been in her coined "flexible recovery" since 2014, and is the author behind "I Haven't Shaved in Six Weeks," a blog written to humanize the stigmas of eating disorders and treatment. Parents, learn how to talk to your kids without shaming them!

Whitney shares:

• Information about the launch of her new group coaching
• How writing about her experiences contributed to Lindsey’s healing
• Tendencies related to embarrassment when starting recovery
• Lindsey’s journey through her eating disorder and recovery
• Knowing when you are “sick enough” to reach out for help
• Biological responses that cause binge eating disorders
• Binge eating as a punishment response to shame
• Showing empathy for people and companies that are trying to do the right thing
• Companies targeting more affluent families over low-income families
• Kurbo app review and problems with the program
• Pushing restrictive ideas onto kids during their developmental years
• Setting an example for your kids as an adult that looked up to your own parents
• Taking yourself out of a system that demonizes a group of people based on size

Links to Resources:

Weight Watchers

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Experiencing trauma is an unfortunate aspect of life and can leave you feeling damaged with no healing in sight. Today, Whitney is talking to someone who has experienced major trauma and found a way to heal her relationship with her body. Ailey Jolie is the author of My Body, My Story, and assists individuals who have experienced trauma in their process of coming home to their body through somatic and mindfulness-based psychotherapies. This is the same approach that helped her reconnect with her body after being sexually exploited. Ailey knows that the best thing that you can do after experiencing a major trauma is to take what you can from it so that you can help others who may be dealing with the same things. Use your bad experiences to change the world for the better!

Whitney shares:

• Update on Whitney’s burnout, health, and group-coaching program
• My Body, My Story on a high level
• Synthesizing powerful feelings and experiences into writing
• Reasons that trauma cannot be compared
• Staying aware of your body in a world where we are not taught embodiment
• Standing beside other victims to give them a voice
• Where playing it small meets Ailey’s therapy practice
• Reconnecting with yourself while being able to numb yourself when needed
• Feeling different when you are around people that you admire
• Why chasing perfection is detrimental to recovery
• What running away from your problems can look like
• Attempting to rewrite other people’s stories
• Everything that comes with dating an addict while you yourself needs help
• Meeting your self-needs in more helpful ways
• Slowing down when you feel the urge to go fast

Links to Resources:

My Body, My Story

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https://www.instagram.com/aileyjolie/

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Do you often get the feeling like there’s no gas left in the tank? There’s a good chance that you are experiencing emotional burnout or just burnout in general. If you are, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Many people in and out of the workforce experience burnout on a daily basis and the problem is that too many of those people ignore it. Emotional burnout can affect your mindset and your ability to focus. Whitney has run into some burnout of her own lately and is here to tell you about what is going on with her and how she plans to handle the emotional burnout that she is going through. If you are dealing with your own emotional burnout then stay tuned because you may be able to take something away from Whitney’s experiences!

Whitney shares:

• Types of people that Whitney can help with coaching services
• How emotional burnout shows up for Whitney
• Different sources of emotional burnout
• Chaos in life translating to trauma in the body
• What emotional burnout can look like from a medical standpoint
• Suggested emotional and medical methods for dealing with emotional burnout
• Reasons that burnout is so much more than just food
• Learning how to rest without guilt in order to avoid burnout
• Defining emotional burnout and how to recognize it
• Incomplete emotional cycles and how they store in the body
• Why dealing with the stressor is not the same as dealing with the stress
• When you may need to invest in professional help
• Your health depends on your emotional healing

Links to Resources:

Beyond The Pill

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If you are ready to heal your relationship with food, break free from binge eating, and step into your authentic power, learn more about coaching with me at: www.whitneycatalano.com/food-freedom 

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Navigating relationships with your partner, friends, and family can be difficult for anyone. It can become even more difficult when those people diet regularly while you have a rough relationship with what you eat. It’s a rocky combination. Instead of avoiding these people, and subsequently, your life, you need to learn how to talk to these people. Going through the recovery process alone can be a terrifying path, but having strong relationships with people that you can open yourself up to can help make it a smoother ride. To keep these healthy relationships, it is important to set boundaries with these people. Stay tuned to hear Whitney’s advice on just how to do that. 

Whitney shares:

• Letting people in on your recovery when you feel ready
• Easiest ways to tell someone about your mental health problems
• Internalizing negative self-talk from the outside
• Staying on the same team as yourself
• Practicing patience with others around what they say
• The two kinds of people you are going to deal with
• Following up your words with actions
• It’s not your job to do these things
• Finding ways to support others without convincing them that they are wrong
• Making it known that help is available
• Dealing with significant others that are dieting
• Signs that someone is struggling with their own body image
• What to do when you inevitably mess up

Links to Resources:

For the free binge meditation, go to www.whitneycatalano.com/binge

New clients can book coaching services at www.whitneycatalano.com/book

If you are ready to heal your relationship with food, break free from binge eating, and step into your authentic power, learn more about coaching with me at: www.whitneycatalano.com/food-freedom

Being vulnerable is the ultimate sign of trust. There is nothing more vulnerable than openly discussing your eating disorder or disability on a podcast, and that’s exactly what Anna Sweeney is here to discuss. Anna is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Supervisor, and owner of Whole Life Nutrition, a nutrition therapy practice dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders. She is able to help those struggling with eating disorders and disabilities from a place of experience, having been diagnosed with MS when she was 12. She works by combining her knowledge of nutritional science, experience in the treatment of eating disorders, and heartfelt, thoughtful care. Stay tuned to hear about Anna’s story and how we can bridge the gap between the able-bodied and disabled worlds!
 

Whitney shares:

• Updates, updates, updates
• Anna’s story
• Experiencing invisibility for the first time through disability
• Learning and sharing through life experience
• Being grateful for everything that disability can give you
• Looking for something other than empathy when you have a disability
• Making the transition from shit-talking your body to accepting your disability
• How disabilities can prevent you from getting help with your eating disorder
• Bridging the gap between the able-bodied and disabled world
• Supporting professionals with disabilities
• Recognizing how much we need each other as humans
• How needing more assistance impacts your relationships

Links to Resources:

Check Anna out on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and her website Www.wholelifeRD.com!

If you have the ability to take videos and pictures of inaccessible views, share them with Anna on social media with #inaccessibleviews

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New clients can book coaching services at www.whitneycatalano.com/book

If you are ready to heal your relationship with food, break free from binge eating, and step int

Go lose weight. Fat is bad. Do these sound familiar? The problem with becoming healthy is that the definition of healthy is completely different from person to person. In the studio today is Dr. Joshua Wolrich, who has recently become an anti-diet and health at every size advocate on social media. Over the past few years he has become acutely aware of the problematic nature of both losing weight and also encouraging it. He now focuses on improving one's relationship with food through addressing #nutribollocks and reminding us that there is so much more to health than our weight on the scales. There are times when weight loss can be beneficial to health, but how do we decide what goes in that crossover gray area? It’s a conversation that needs to be had! 

Whitney shares:

• Problems with too much information and control on your journey
• Making the change away from the problematic view of weight loss
• Having the unconditional permission to eat all foods with natural moderation
• Where weight loss and health cross over
• Reasons that fad diets shouldn’t be compared
• Lack of informed consent when dieting
• Knowing the balance of risk and reward when making any decisions
• The myths surrounding celery juice and where they come from
• 2 things that medical professionals hate
• Everything wrong with believing pseudoscience
• Socioeconomic aspects of different diets
• Benefits and setbacks of bringing your own research to your doctor

Links to Resources:

Cut Through Nutrition Podcast

Check out Dr. Joshua Wolrich on Instagram!

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New clients can book coaching services at www.whitneycatalano.com/book

If you are ready to heal your relationship with food, break free from binge eating, and step into your authentic power, learn more about coaching with me at: www.whitneycatalano.com/food-freedom

For a chance to have your listener question answered on the podcast, or if I said something that needs correcting, you can email me at

Are you noticing that your love-hate relationship with exercise has been more hate than love? We have all been sitting at home thinking that it’s time to go exercise but the gym is just not in the books for today, so you exercise at home. Somewhere in the back of your mind, you don’t consider this exercise. Why? This is what is called the diet-culture voice. That diet-culture voice in your head tells you to feel bad about something that you should absolutely not feel bad about. Whitney is sharing with you 5 tips to develop a healthy relationship with exercise. Take the power back from your inner bully!

Whitney shares:

• What inspired today’s talk about exercise
• Short-term mindset vs. long-term mindset
• Importance of developing a healthy relationship with exercise
• Be willing to take a break from exercise
• Working on the guilt of taking a break
• Finding a place to heal other than the place that you got sick
• Take it one day at a time and try new things
• Questioning what you count as movement
• The power of the brain over how your body reacts
• Resisting the obligation voice
• Recognizing the different voices inside

Links to Resources:

For the free binge meditation, go to www.whitneycatalano.com/binge

New clients can book coaching services at www.whitneycatalano.com/book

If you are ready to heal your relationship with food, break free from binge eating, and step into your authentic power, learn more about coaching with me at: www.whitneycatalano.com/food-freedom 

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