Millennial Body Image Project

This is part TWO of an interview I did on the Well-Fed Women Podcast with Noelle Tarr. Make sure you listen to Part 1 for an overview of what adrenal fatigue really is (spoiler alert: it’s not your adrenals getting ‘tired’ and stopping their production of cortisol, your primary stress hormone). I’ve had a lot of people reaching out to me about adrenal fatigue lately, so I wanted to share this episode where we answered a lot of your questions about how to heal from adrenal fatigue and manage chronic stress!

In this Part 2 (Listener Questions) episode, we’re covering: 

The best supplements for adrenal fatigue

* Should you use adaptogens for adrenal fatigue?

What about exercise?

The impact of CrossFit and intense exercise on our stress hormones

How to know when you’re fully recovered from AF

How to measure your progress in recovery from hormonal imbalances

Once you get it, do you have adrenal fatigue forever?

Why holding on to the idea of weight loss will prevent you from truly healing from adrenal or other hormonal issues

PS – Are you ready to let go of negative body image? Inside this FREE 4 Day Body Image Detox Challenge, we’ll share with you how to ditch the negative self-talk, unpack your deep-rooted beliefs around food and your body, and why right now the thoughts about food and our bodies are on overdrive. Stop fighting with your body and start living with ease. What are you waiting for? Join us for the FREE 4-day Body Image Detox Challenge here!

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Missed Part 1? Check it out here! How to Manage Adrenal Fatigue & Chronic Stress with Noelle Tarr

This week we’re back for a part 2 episode with Kris Dovbniak! On last week’s episode we talked about Kris’ journey from restriction, overexercising, and even competing in fitness competitions to making a full recovery with her relationship with food and her body. On this episode Kris talks about what it’s like to go through the intuitive eating counselor training, the myth of balance, and how “balance” and “moderation” are just another form of food restriction. Kris is also giving some practical tips on how we can move away from the all-or-nothing, morality-driven mentality around food.

In case you missed last week’s episode (check it out here!), Kris is the certified holistic health coach, certified intuitive eating counselor and trained chef behind Healthy Mama Kris, and the Healthy Balanced Mama Podcast.

Hang out with Kris!

* Instagram @healthymamakris

* Website: www.healthymamakris.com

* Kris’ online courses: Healthy Mama Meal Prep and Uncomplicated Eating

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Kristin Dovbniak is a certified holistic health coach, certified intuitive eating counselor and trained chef. Her passion is to help women uncomplicate eating and stress less about food to bring joy back into eating again. Today we’re talking about Kristin’s own health journey, the ebs and flows of her relationship with food and her body – through restriction, bingeing, fitness competitions and extreme weight fluctuations, feeling like you can’t do intuitive eating until you reach a certain goal weight, to finally finding freedom and balance with food and her body.

Listen to the episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Hang out with Kris!

* Instagram @healthymamakris

* Website: www.healthymamakris.com

* Podcast: Healthy Balanced Mama Podcast

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Kara Loewentheil is a Master Certified Life Coach and had a previous career as a women’s rights lawyer – so you could say she’s a certified badass specializing in women’s empowerment. She’s the host of the podcast Unf*ck your brain, and today we’re going DEEP in to the big issues that hold women back from living the life we want and deserve. Just a few not-so-little things we’re touching on: perfectionism, people pleasing, constantly trying to shrink ourselves, control our food, our self-confidence and self-esteem; you know, light topics. Kara is taking us to the root of it all and explaining why losing weight or changing your external world won’t fulfill you – you need to change your brain instead, and how we can get there. 

Listen to the episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!

ENJOYING THE SHOW? LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING WHEREVER YOU LISTEN TO YOUR PODCASTS TO HELP OTHERS FIND THE SHOW (AND I’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER!) AND SPREAD THE NON-DIET, SELF-CARE MESSAGE. YOU’RE THE BEST!

Hang out with Kara!

Website: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/

Instagram: @karaloewentheil

Podcast: Unf*ck Your Brain

* Grab the *free* Confidence Cheat Sheet from Kara!

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BONUS episode coming at you today! Victoria Albina (last week’s podcast guest!) and I decided we wanted to do an extra dose of chatting about stress management and Boundary setting for self-care during COVID-19. We’re planning on making this a series, so let us know what other kinds of conversations would best serve you during this time!

Listen to the episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Enjoying the show? Leave a 5-star rating wherever you listen to your podcasts to help others find the show (and I’ll love you forever!) and spread the non-diet, self-care message. You’re the best!

And in case you missed it, make sure you check out last week’s episode with Victoria on Codependency and the Nervous System + Managing Stress in a Pandemic!

HANG OUT WITH VICTORIA!

* Website: www.victoriaalbina.com

* Instagram @victoriaalbinawellness

* Facebook @victoriaalbinawellness

* Podcast: Feminist Wellness

* Free Breathwork Sessions Download 

Today’s episode is an interview with me (yay!) and Noelle Tarr from an original airing on the Well Fed Women Podcast. We’re talking about being on the brink of adrenal fatigue and dealing with chronic stress without pushing yourself over the edge – everyone in this pandemic. We’re all on the edge of our stress buckets bubbling over, and how can we prevent that from happening? We’re chatting on – how to manage adrenal fatigue and chronic stress when you can’t eliminate the stress? Also, before we get started – if you think you’re dealing with adrenal fatigue, or just really having trouble with dealing with all the stress right now, and struggling with food, your body, and exercise – please reach out! I am taking clients during this time, offering mini sessions, an offering a sliding scale for new clients as well. Link in the show notes to learn more. 

Discussed on today’s episode:

My story with adrenal fatigue and how I got out of it

Thinking: what got you to adrenal fatigue in the first place? That will hold the answers to getting out of adrenal fatigue for YOU.

The role of exercise and holding on to wanting to lose weight with adrenal fatigue (or a high level of stress, like in a global pandemic!)

What adrenal fatigue really is (hint: it’s not the adrenals getting “tired”)

Why high intensity training is the worst kind of exercise for you during times of high stress or adrenal fatigue

Questions answered:

How do you know if you have adrenal fatigue?

Where does one start to healing adrenal fatigue?

Ways to deal with chronic stress when you can’t remove the stress itself? 

What can you do when chronic stress impacts digestion?

Does adrenal fatigue cause sleep issues?

How can you optimize sleep for adrenal fatigue and chronic stress?

Terms Mentioned:

Pregnenolone Steal

HPA Axis Dysregulation (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis)

Cortisol Resistance

Insulin Resistance 

Work with Dana: Book a free 15-minute Discovery Session HERE

Learn More about Clinical Nutrition + Body Image Coaching HERE – https://p.bttr.to/3dFylPU

Hang out with Noelle Tarr on the Well Fed Women Podcast!

Today's episode is a throwback to April 2020! What a time to be alive. On this episode with Béa Victoria Albina, we're diving into:

• Codependency and how it impacts self-care and self-compassion
• Codependency and the nervous system
• The intersection of psychological (stress, anxiety, emotions, etc.) and physiological symptoms (GI, adrenal fatigue, thyroid issues, digestion, etc.)
• Why your gut issues keep coming back, even after religiously sticking to supplements, herbs, or an elimination diet
• Coping and stress management strategies during the current world situation
• Breathwork and how it works!

Find our guest:

• Website: www.victoriaalbina.com
• Instagram @victoriaalbinawellness
• Facebook @victoriaalbinawellness
• Podcast: Feminist Wellness
• Free Breathwork Sessions Download

What a time to be alive *facepalm emoji*. Things are crazy right now, so I’ve been creating a bunch of resources for you guys to help you through this difficult time. Today: work from home tips for those who don’t work from home and/or for those who don’t want to lose their minds and lose it on their family or roommates.

Other stay-at-home resources mentioned in this episode:

* The Food Anxiety Workshop

* Favorite Freezer & Pantry Recipe Meal Ideas

* Quarantine Recipe of the Day (Instagram Stories @realfoodwithdana) 

* 30-Minute Mini Session with Dana (clinical nutrition, body image, food anxiety) – Learn more HERE.

Let me know: what other resources would be helpful for you during this time? (Email or message me on Instagram – I’d love to know what you think!)

Love this episode? Screenshot it + Tag me (@realfoodwithdana) in your Instagram story, or leave a star rating on iTunes! Thanks so much! 

What are your favorite work from home tips? What’s working for you? Let me know! 

Jennifer Fugo is the guest on today’s episode and we’re talking all things skin and skin issues! Jennifer is an integrative clinical nutritionist with a master’s in Human Nutrition, who focuses her practice on a functional approach to chronic skin rash conditions. We’re getting a little nerdy talking about the gut-skin connection, leaky skin, the connection between skin issues and the thyroid, and – in the age of “food is medicine” and diets that proclaim (very loudly) how an elimination diet can fix anything and everything, Jennifer is digging into why cutting out foods from your diet alone won’t fix all your skin issues. 

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Hang out with Jennifer!

Websites: http://www.skinterrupt.com + https://www.jenniferfugo.com 

Healthy Skin Show Podcast 

Instagram: @jenniferfugo

Jennifer’s Book Recommendation: The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhig

 

In this episode, we’re chatting about where evidence-based nutrition guidelines and breaking free of dieting, improving your relationship with food and your body intersect. Which, as you guys know, is exactly my philosophy and what I try to do every episode on this podcast, so I’m really excited to have Victoria Myers on the podcast today! Victoria is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist whose goal is to inspire and educate her community to understand intuitive eating, how that connects to digestive and hormonal health, respect their bodies and let go of the perfectionist mindset. Her information is catered to women with the unhealthy obsession with eating healthy, as Victoria herself once struggled with this and now helps others break free from the health and wellness world that has become diet centric.

The focus of today’s episode today is about how the behaviors we engage in around food and exercise, whether that be chronic dieting, disordered eating, restricting our food, or eating disorders, impact us on a deep, physiological level – and how those behaviors can manifest in physical symptoms like digestive and hormonal issues. Victoria and I then talk about how we can approach these clinical manifestations from a non-restrictive approach, so you don’t get caught back up in the diet cycle that got you here in the first place.

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Resources for this episode:

* Victoria’s Website: www.victoriamyers.net

* Instagram: @victoriamyers_ and @nourishingmindsnutrition

* the Nourishing Women Podcast

* Nourishing Minds Nutrition (virtual practice and online education center)

* Victoria’s Book Recommendation: Eating in the Light of the Moon, by Anita Johnson

* Victoria’s Book Recommendation: Inward, by Young Pueblo

Victoria’s Bio: Victoria Myers is the dietitian and owner of the virtual private practice and online education center Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Victoria and her staff specialize in empowering women to ditch diets, regulate hormones, heal digestion and learn to practice wellness without obsession. She is also the host of the popular intuitive eating and wellness podcast, the Nourishing Women Podcast. Victoria’s mission for her community is to help them let go of the unhealthy obsession with eating healthy, make peace with their body and live their lives to the fullest.