Millennial Body Image Project

On today’s episode we’re digging deeper into our mindset, and how it can either provide a roadblock or unlock the key to our healing, especially when it comes to healing our body image and relationship with food, and healing from the root cause. Lana Shlafer is a mindset coach, podcast host of the Manifest That Miracle podcast and author of the book Manifest That Miracle: Learn Why You Don’t Have What You Want and How to Get It.

We’re discussing:

Lana’s personal story of overcoming an eating disorder after immigrating to the US at age 12

How Lana figured out what her personal roadblocks to healing were, by finding her root cause of her troubled relationship with her body

The benefits of talk therapy vs. somatic (body-focused) therapy

How your body holds a story of all your past experiences

Why forgiveness is essential for optimal health 

Hang out with Lana!

Website: Lanashlafer.com

Instagram: @lanashlafer 

Podcast: Manifest That Miracle

Lana’s new book: Manifest That Miracle: Learn Why You Don’t Have What You Want and How to Get It

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Online courses: breaking free of the diet cycle, healing from body image issues, and how to incorporate non-diet nutrition into healing chronic health conditions. Learn more at wholeheartedeating.com

The theme for this month’s podcast episodes and guests is pursuing TRUE health and feeling good without diets or protocols – to go against the grain and provide a welcoming alternative to the traditional shame-based January new years resolutions culture. As always, on this show one of my main goals is to show you how you can pursue health and actually feel great from the inside-out (physical, mental, emotional health) without doing diets or cycling through elimination protocols – because remember, if those things actually worked long term, you wouldn’t to ‘reset’ again year after year, month after month, to actually feel good.

Make sure to check out last week’s episode: The dark side of the wellness industry, and how all-or-nothing thinking prevents long-term health and happiness, with Robyn Conley Downs

Have a topic you’d love me to cover? email me at [email protected] OR comment on a podcast episode blog post (linked below) with your idea!

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Welcome to the new year! The theme for this month’s podcast episodes and guests is pursuing TRUE health and feeling good without diets or protocols – to go against the grain and provide a welcoming alternative to the traditional shame-based January new years resolutions culture. One of my main goals is to show you how you can pursue health and actually feel great from the inside-out (physical, mental, emotional health) without doing diets or cycling through elimination protocols. Remember, if those things actually worked long term, you wouldn’t to ‘reset’ again year after year, month after month, to actually feel good.

Robyn Conley Downs is an entrepreneur and the author of the new book the Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change. Robyn has a Master’s degree in education with an emphasis in behavior change, and 4 years of public policy & health change at the doctoral level, her work taps into cutting edge science around psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, and habits.

On today’s episode we’re discussing:

The dark side of the wellness industry 

How perfectionism, all-or-nothing thinking, and comparison get in the way of feeling good, being happy and healthy 

Why doing all-or-nothing protocols in the pursuit of physical health can lead to burnout and a drastic decrease in your mental and emotional health 

What is chronic striving and why it’s so unhealthy 

* Why attaching your worth and value to productivity is so damaging

Hang out with Robyn!

Robyn’s Book: The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change

Website: https://realfoodwholelife.com/ 

Instagram: @realfoodwholelife 

Podcast: the Feel Good Effect

Want more from Dana? 

Join the *free* Non-Diet Community on Facebook for episode discussion + support! 

1×1 Nutrition & Coaching services: Schedule a free 15 minute consult worldwide via video or phone – https://p.bttr.to/3dFylPU

Online courses: breaking free of the diet cycle, healing from body image issues, and how to incorporate non-diet nutrition into healing chronic health conditions. Learn more at wholeheartedeating.com

Have a topic you’d love me to cover? email me at [email protected] OR comment on a podcast episode blog post (linked below) with your idea!

LISTEN TO REAL TALK WITH DANA ON ITUNES HERE !

LISTEN ON STITCHER HERE !

CHECK OUT THE SHOW ON SPOTIFY HERE!!

If you love the podcast, please subscribe to get all new episodes and write a five-star rating & review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts – you guys are the beeeest! It really helps the show grow and reach more people. I appreciate you!

Deanna Deacon is back on the show today! She’s previously been on the show for our episodes on the productivity comparison trap and quarantine guilt and Numbing, Disconnection, and Emotional Trigger Release – check the show notes to listen to those. Deanna is an Intuitive Life Coach, Motivational Speaker, Energy Healer, and the newly published author of Feminine Warrior: Your Guide to Intuition and Feminine Wisdom. In her practice she empowers strong, successful women to lean into their feminine energy to experience emotional resiliency, mental clarity and spiritual awakenings while maintaining high levels of sustainable growth, prosperity and joy.

*Exciting Announcement**: Cristina Hoyt and I are launching a live round of our signature 4-week course, Break the Diet Cycle in January! The course is always available to do self-paced, but this time, we’re running it live and upping the ante with an additional Masterclass every week. If group programs aren’t for you and OR you know you’d like to have more personalized, individual support – we’re offering the option of doing a Break the Diet Cycle Intensive, where you get the course plus individual coaching calls and support from me and/or Cristina. This is also open to all of our previous course participants or anyone who has ever purchased the course before, so we’re looking forward to having a really fun and engaged group to give you all an alternative to the new year’s diet culture shitstorm ahead, giving you live support WHILE the craziness of January reset/detox/diet season is going on so you don’t feel so alone and don’t know what to do. 

Today we’re digging into: 

“No excuses” quarantine rhetoric and the emphasis on productivity = value as a way to avoid hard emotions 

The emotions underlying guilt around not taking all the classes, re-doing your house, and creating all the things in stay-at-home times

Masculine vs feminine energies and tendencies – how has this showed up in quarantine

The pressure we’re receiving from all sides to restart in 2021 to erase the hurt of 2020

Mentioned on the show today:

* Break the Diet Cycle™ – LIVE round starts January 4th! 

Book: The Tao of Inner Peace, by Diane Dreher

Numbing, Disconnection, and Emotional Trigger Release

* The quarantine productivity trap & releasing quarantine guilt 

Hang out with Deanna!

Instagram: @deannadeaconcoaching

Deanna’s new book: Feminine Warrior: Your Guide to Intuition and Feminine Wisdom

Website:  www.deannadeacon.com 

Facebook community:  The Empowered Woman Collective. 

This past week marks the 3-year anniversary of Real Talk with Dana (crazy, right?!) so I wanted to do something different for this week’s show – a fun, uncensored, off-the-cuff episode to get to know your hosts (me and Cristina) a little better behind the scenes! We’re answering your questions unrelated to nutrition, fitness, or body image, and letting you know a little more about our backgrounds and personalities (and quirks!)

What you’ll learn about us today:

How Cristina & Dana met, became friends, and then merged their businesses

If we had podcasts about subjects other than nutrition – what would they be?

Pop culture phenomena we missed out on as kids

How deep Dana’s nerdiness goes

Our unpopular food opinions 

…and much more random, fun stuff!

Mentioned on this episode:

Book Recommendation: Untamed, by Glennon Doyle

Book Recommendation: Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy

Hang out with Cristina & Dana!

Wholeheartedeating.com

* Break the Diet Cycle™ – LIVE round starts January 4th! 

* Cristina on Instagram: @cristinahoytnutrition

* Dana on Instagram:  @danamonsees_cns

On today’s episode we have a return guest, who was last on the show almost exactly two years and 100 episodes ago! This time, Brianna Diorio and I are chatting about Seasonal Affective Disorder, Mental health & Nutrition for Immunity, and of course all from a non-diet, non-restrictive approach to nutrition. We’re also chatting about the Emotional immune system & Emotional indigestion, and preseason vs. game day nutrition!

*Exciting Announcement**: Cristina Hoyt and I are launching a live round of our signature 4-week course, Break the Diet Cycle in January! The course is always available to do self-paced, but this time, we’re running it live and upping the ante with an additional Masterclass every week. If group programs aren’t for you and OR you know you’d like to have more personalized, individual support – we’re offering the option of doing a Break the Diet Cycle Intensive, where you get the course plus individual coaching calls and support from me and/or Cristina. This is also open to all of our previous course participants or anyone who has ever purchased the course before, so we’re looking forward to having a really fun and engaged group to give you all an alternative to the new year’s diet culture shitstorm ahead, giving you live support WHILE the craziness of January reset/detox/diet season is going on so you don’t feel so alone and don’t know what to do. 

Mentioned on today’s episode:

* Break the Diet Cycle™ – LIVE round starts January 4th! 

* Seasonal Affective Disorder 101

Brianna Diorio is a Clinical Nutritionist, Holistic Lifestyle Coach, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and self-proclaimed recovering super spaz. She’s also just such a fun person to talk to and a great teacher who makes nutrition and herbs super simple and easy to understand while giving you practical action steps you can take to start feeling well – so I know you all will love this episode. PS – if this episode is really helpful for you, or you know it would be really helpful for someone in your life, please share it with them! This is also a great gift you can give to me and our podcast community – by sharing it, writing a review, or spreading the word in any way – I appreciate you all!

Hang out with Brianna:

Instagram: @briannadiorio

Website & Services: https://www.briannadiorio.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/briannamaxdiorio/

Episode 50: why you binge around the holidays and why inflammation isn’t evil

Michelle Smith is the food + lifestyle blogger behind the Whole Smiths and today we’re diving into how her philosophy around food has shifted over the years, tools for taking away food rules and shoulds (especially for new moms), and getting to a place of a more peaceful relationship with food and our bodies, and how to have conversations with your kids to cultivate a more positive relationship with food and their bodies. And best of all, thanks to 2020, we talk about who Michelle knows exactly who she does and doesn’t want in her zombie apocalypse crew. 

MORE RESOURCES FOR SUPPORT THIS HOLIDAY SEASON:

Join the Diet Detox Holiday Challenge: December 14-18

Our Whole-Hearted Eating™ Holiday Table eBook

Non-Diet Holiday Mindset Workshop 

Join the Non-Diet Community Facebook group for support throughout the holidays and beyond

Want more 1×1 support through the holidays? Click here to learn more about working with Dana.

Hang out with Michelle!

Instagram: @thewholesmiths

Blog: www.thewholesmiths.com 

Podcast: Get Wellthy

New Book: The Whole Smiths Real Food Every Day 

Jen Broyles is a Holistic health coach, breathwork therapist and founder of the Sacred Breath Community. In this episode you’ll learn more about the benefits of breathwork for stress, anxiety, and trauma healing, the different types of breathwork practices, and more of the physical, emotional, and mental benefits of doing this practice consistently. We’re also going to give you a super cool tool that you can use today, and at any time similar to a classic meditation practice, to help you drop into your body and help relieve some stress and tension.

Jen is taking you guys through a meditative, guided breathwork therapy session at the end of today’s interview so you can get all zenned out, drop into your body, and find some space and relief in your day today so you can experience a breathwork session for yourself! If you’re one of those people for whom you know meditation would be great for you because you’re constantly on the go and can’t slow your mind down (oh hey, that’s like me!) – which makes meditation really hard for you, I think you’ll love this breathwork session because it’s a lot more focused and guided than a traditional meditation, with less potential for distractions.

The first part of this episode is the interview with Jen, and then around 29:00 we go into the guided breathwork session with music.

Hang out with Jen!

 JenBroyles.com

Insta: @jenbroyleshealthcoach

Twitter: @jenbroyles1

YouTube: JenBroyles

It’s Thanksgiving week so I’ve got a fun solo workshop-style episode on how to create a Non-Diet Holiday Mindset! We’re digging into how to assess your current relationship with food, exercise, and your body from past holiday meals, how to prepare for the big holiday meal or event, and what you can do after the fact to enjoy your meal and continue to work on your healing journey with your relationship with food and your body.

So grab a piece of paper + pencil (or the notes app on your phone) and let’s dig in! 

More resources for support this holiday season:

* Our Whole-Hearted Eating™ Holiday Table eBook

* Join the Diet Detox Holiday Challenge: December 14-18

* Join the Non-Diet Community Facebook group for support throughout the holidays and beyond

* Want more 1×1 support through the holidays? Click here to learn more about working with Dana.

Both the Holiday Table eBook and the Diet Detox Holiday Challenge are FREE or pay what you can – as a small business, Cristina and I appreciate your support during this crazy year! We believe that developing the skills and tools to experience a non-diet, Whole-Hearted Eating™ holiday is a gift everyone should have access to. If you have the means, we would greatly appreciate a donation that will allow us to continue creating content to support you on your journey to healing your relationship with food and your body!

Non-diet nutrition & nutrition science myth busting alert! There is a new study that has come out about how our perception of certain foods can have a greater physiological impact on the body than the actual content of that food – meaning what we believe or assume to be true about certain foods can have a greater impact the body and the way your body metabolizes those foods rather than the objective nutritional makeup of those foods. The study is called Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual sugar intake – on today’s episode, Cristina Hoyt and I are breaking down exactly what the study is actually saying and why it matters.

This is exactly why working on your relationship with food is so important, and why we work on this so much with our Whole-Hearted Eating™ approach – because the HUGE amount of stress we carry around daily about food and our bodies can show up in our bloodwork, manifest in physical symptoms like GI issues, gas and bloating, hormonal imbalances, adrenal issues, thyroid issues, and the whole 9 yards. Meaning that working on our relationship with food and our bodies is *paramount* and *essential* to healing your physical, mental, and emotional health.

Read the study we discussed: Park, C., Pagnini, F. & Langer, E. Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual sugar intake. Sci Rep 10, 15633 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72501-w 

Join the Non-Diet Community Facebook group here to join in on future discussions + community support through the holidays!

Bonus episode coming your way today! In the Non-Diet Community Facebook group, Cristina Hoyt and I have been hosting a book club discussion for the past few months to put a Whole-Hearted Eating™, neutral nutrition spin on some popular nutrition + body image books out there. Right now, we’re reading + discussion the F*ck it Diet, by Caroline Dooner, and wanted to give you all a little taste of what it’s like to be in our book club! In this episode we’re discussing Part I: Introduction + “Why are we so obsessed with food?” – we encourage you to listen along and chime in on some of the major takeaways we had in this section, which can help you start to heal your relationship with food and your body by discovering where a lot of your roadblocks on this journey may be coming from. 

PS – it’s totally free to join inside our *free* Non-Diet Community Facebook group. We’re all in this together, and Cristina and I are here to guide you along the way.

Want to join? Check out the Non-Diet Community Facebook group here to join in on future discussions!