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Do you relate to the idea of grieving your body? Have you ever heard this term before, body grief? We know that for SO many of our clients, the term body grief finally offers a description of how they feel IN their bodies. It offers language to the challenging emotions you feel about your body.

Grief is a challenging and intricate emotion. Our emotions affect our ability to care for ourselves, and experiencing grief is no different.

Grief will absolutely affect how we care for our bodies. This is why it's important to allow ourselves to grieve and mourn what is lost, even if that means grieving the idea of a body that we never actually had. We grieve the loss of our "ideal" body. We grieve the loss of the fantasy of what a perfect body will give us in our lives.

This is where I often tell clients that the only way out is through. Through the grief, through the pain, through the disappointment and frustration. Listen to today's episode to learn more about body grief including the 5 stages of body grief so you can identify the specific stage you're in.

Grab our free guide, the Hunger Fullness Scale, for a limited time only by clicking here.

Other episodes on body image and body grief: Your Weight is Not Your Worth, 5 Ways to Feel More Confident in Your Body on a Daily Basis, Allowing Yourself to Grieve Your Here and Now Body with Bri Campos, and Signs Your Relationship with Your Body Needs Repair.

Right now, we are currently booking April and May spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is certainly the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.

Reach out in the next week to grab our spring special including $50 off breakthrough sessions and $150 off your first installment of a 3 or 6 month package.

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.

• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.

• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

Intuitive eating is a dynamic integration of instinct, emotion and rational thought. We eat (and stop eating) in large part due to hunger and fullness cues. But body cues are not the ONLY reason we eat!

One of the biggest misconceptions I see about intuitive eating is that you only eat what you are craving 100% of the time and that it's just simply "listening to your body". While that would be fun and ideal, it is simply not realistic for most of us in our daily lives! And that doesn't mean you are not an intuitive eater if you have to factor rational thoughts or make real life decisions to help you decide how, what and when to eat.

Grab our free guide, the Hunger Fullness Scale, for a limited time only by clicking here.

Other episodes on body cues: Experiencing Intense Hunger Now That You are No Longer Dieting, How to Not Turn Intuitive Eating Into the Hunger Fullness Diet, and Why I Love Practical Eating.

Right now, we are currently booking April and May spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is certainly the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.

• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.

• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

Founded four years ago by Susan and Tara in a bathroom, Here We Flo is on a mission to challenge shame and disrupt the period, bladder, and sexual wellness markets with its organic and vegan products, including tampons, pads, reusable period underwear, and condoms.

Here We Flo ensures every product is good for the planet, free of dyes or chemicals, and is 100% cotton. Their Flo pads have saved the equivalent of 61 million plastic carrier bags. At the heart of Here We Flo's leadership is a social good. From the beginning, Here We Flo has given back 5% of profits to people and the planet. The business has supported incredible charity partners like Bloody Good Period, a period poverty organization, and The Brigid Alliance, which promotes safe abortion access for Americans. Last month alone saw the business donate 10,000-period pads to charity.

Susan Allen grew up in the city of champions — Boston, Massachusetts, and received her B.A. in communications and legal studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After three years at a healthcare policy nonprofit in Boston, she moved to New York City to join George Soros' philanthropy, the Open Society Foundations. Susan completed her master's in management at the London School of Economics in 2015. She relocated to London in 2016 to lead the Foundation's work on diversity, equity, and inclusion and to launch Here We Flo with her best friend, Tara. Their mission is to make shamelessly natural personal care products that make us feel crazy confident about life's messiest moments - from periods to bladder leaks, to sex and everything else on the human body rollercoaster.

Tara Priya Chandra is co-founder of Here We Flo. Born in San Francisco, she studied Economics at Columbia University in New York City, where she tried almond milk and kombucha for the first time and had her mind blown. After working on Wall Street for a hot minute, Tara ended up in the music industry in LA while freelance copywriting for brands like Ray-Ban. Tara received her master's from the London School of Economics, where she met her bestie and future co-founder Susan, had the idea for Here We Flo in the university bathrooms, and received the C200 Award for exceptional MBA students. Tara and Susan launched Here We Flo with a Kickstarter campaign in 2017 and the business has been shaking up the personal care category ever since, with a purpose-driven, sustainable period care and sexual wellness range that offers 'shamelessly natural' products. Since 2020 in the USA alone, Here We Flo has saved 9.5 million period care products from landfill.*

*Flo period care products are biodegradable vs industry standard.

In this episode we discuss how Susan and Tara started Here We Flo, what makes them unicorns in the period care industry, why they make their marketing relatable as possible and an important discussion on taking words like hygiene and sanitary out of the period conversation.

Learn more about Here We Flo at their website and Instagram. Their products can now be found in retailers including Target, Whole Foods, HEB and more!

Grab our free guide, the Hunger Fullness Scale, for a limited time only by clicking here.

Right now, we are currently booking March and April spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.

• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.

• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

There's a 9 out of 10 chance you've heard of the book, Atomic Habits. It's a NYT bestseller. And there's a good reason for that! I really love this idea of breaking down habits into small, incremental steps so they actually become habitual.

Yet as is true for most things, the weight centric approach is all over the book. Why is it that all self help books use weight loss as their example for how to change with EVERYTHING?

It's so frustrating! I wish the world could see that we can work on forming habits and improving our health without fixating on weight or appearance. Unfortunately we're just not there yet as a society. But that's what we're working towards in the anti-diet world!

Since I think there's actually good insight from the book to glean, but I know it could be so triggering for many of you, I'm recording this episode to help you get all the juicy details out of the book, and applying it to your anti-diet health journey.

Listen to today's episode to learn how to make the book Atomic Habits anti-diet and support your health journey, without being triggered by the book's rampant weight loss examples.

Grab our free guide, the Hunger Fullness Scale, for a limited time only by clicking here.

Right now, we are currently booking March and April spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is certainly the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.

• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.

• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

Today's podcast guest and body confidence creator, Tiffany Ima, shares with us her story to healing her relationship with food, and the 3 principles of body confidence.

In this episode we discuss:

• Tiffany's story to healing her relationship to food.

• Why specifically body confidence important to Tiffany.

• The 3 principles of body confidence and how to embrace body confidence in your own life.

• How to build an exercise routine you can actually stick to.

• How Tiffany lives wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Tiffany:

Tiffany's Instagram

Tiffany's TikTok

Tiffany's website

Grab our free guide, the Hunger Fullness Scale, for a limited time only by clicking here.

Right now, we are currently booking March and April spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is certainly the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.

• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.

• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

And how it can transform yours, too! I have hosted this very podcast since 2017 and always have SO much gratitude for the way podcasting has impacted my life and my business.

Listen to learn the 5 ways I intentionally use my podcast to support my business, and also learn about the 3 ways I'm offering business mentorship, including podcast audits!

You can learn more about business mentorship here, I currently have two spots for business mentorship open for March!

In need of a podcast editor? I love my podcast editor so much and you can schedule a discovery call here with Cait to learn more. P.S. Tell her I sent you!

Right now, we are currently booking March and April spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is certainly the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.

Grab our newest free guide, the Hunger Fullness Scale!

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.

• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.

• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

Similar to my own journey, Eden has had her own journey in disordered eating recovery and transitioning from selling weight loss to intuitive eating coaching. If you want to hear more about the important revelations that led to Eden's decision, plus how sports nutrition fits into intuitive eating, you cannot miss this week's episode!

Eden is a registered dietitian, former collegiate athlete turned mountain athlete, recovered disordered eater, and Intuitive Eating counselor (in training - she's in the process of becoming a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor). Eden majored in Psychology at Texas A&M, and after she was diagnosed with Female Athlete Triad in 2012, she decided to combine her undergraduate degree with a Master's Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from Georgia State University.

For Eden, the overlap between our psychological health and our nutrition choices is way more important than "eating healthy." Now, Eden helps active individuals realize that a fueled body performs better than a starved body, confidence comes from body acceptance (not weight loss), and we are capable of so much more than we realize when we finally stop trying to shrink our bodies and our personalities to please others.

In this episode we discuss:

• Eden's journey growing up as an athlete, becoming a college athlete and then choosing dietetics as a profession.

• How athletics influenced her disordered eating, including her diagnosis of Female Athlete Triad.

• Eden's decision recently to leaving selling a popular weight loss program and what led to that decision.

• Red flags Eden indicates that the weight loss program wasn't true "food freedom" as its often promoted.

• 1-2 tips for how to approach sports nutrition from an intuitive eating lens.

• How Eden lives wellness without obsession.

Learn more from Eden:

Email: [email protected], Social media handles: @gardenofeden_rd (Instagram) @gardenofeden_rd (TikTok)

Eden's Weekly Newsletter: Pocket Snacks

Fearlessly Fueled Society, Eden's signature 8-week Intuitive Eating program, starts March 7th!

Grab our newest free guide, the Hunger Fullness Scale!

You can learn more about business mentorship here, I currently have two spots for business mentorship open for March!

Right now, we are currently booking March spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is certainly the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.

• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.

• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

If you want the most real, honest, behind the scenes look at my business, today's episode for you! In today's episode I share 7 reasons I've owned a successful online business since 2017 and I hope these 7 reasons inspire you to take messy action, to never give up and keep chasing your dreams, always.

And with that shared, I'm so excited to share that I have officially started business mentorship! Mentorship will have many different aspects to it, including a food and body peace training for providers in the fall of this year, but at this time of 3 different ways I can support you: intuitive eating & body image mentorship, online business coaching and podcast auditing.

You can learn more about business mentorship here, I currently have three spots for business mentorship open for March!

Right now, we are currently booking March spots for private coaching! Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is certainly the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.

• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.

• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

Social media has caused us to become obsessed with eating the right way. I wholeheartedly believe that social media is one of the main causes of our obsession with food, nutrition and wellness. And you may feel that you have to be obsessed with food in order to be healthy.

But there is a better way. In today's episode I'm going to share 5 steps to overcome food (and wellness) obsession. Listen to today's episode to learn those 5 steps!

If you missed this winter enrollment for Food & Body Peace Playbook, I want to let you know that it's not too late to receive support, in fact we are currently open and taking March clients for private coaching at our practice.

Private coaching is the highest level of care we offer at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and is certainly the fastest way to reach your goals of food and body peace, leaving food (and wellness) obsession behind in 2023.

You may know that we offer 3 and 6 month packages for private coaching, but you may not know that we also offer breakthrough sessions.

These are individual 75 minute sessions where you can meet with one of the dietitians at NMN, and create an individualized plan based off your history and goals. These breakthrough sessions are a perfect fit if you just want a single meeting to get you on the right track, OR if you are interested in a 3 or 6 month package, but want to feel out what a coaching session feels like before moving on to a package.

Click here to learn more about our private coaching options and sign on to become a March client!

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.

• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.

• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

As I shared in last week's podcast episode, which detailed through what is binge eating and the difference between binge eating disorder and being someone who experiences binge eating as part of their body's response to dieting, I wanted to give you some more concrete examples of how to stop binge eating for good.

In today's episode, I share 5 steps to stop binge eating, and give you next steps to take so that you can experience peace with food and your body. Listen to learn more!

***Important: We have already closed enrollment for Food & Body Peace Playbook for this round! If you missed this enrollment but you're ready for next steps in your intuitive eating journey here are some options for you:

Join our self-paced starter course, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

Consider purchasing a 75 minute breakthrough session or signing up for a 3 or 6 month private coaching package, linked here.

We are also no longer offering the group discovery call, however if you would like to schedule a discovery call to determine what type of support you personally need, click here to fill out the application form!

Resources for you:

• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop to have all the resources you need to make peace with food and your body, and live wellness without obsession.
• Interested in private coaching? Click here to learn more about our breakthrough sessions and 3 and 6 month packages.

Let's hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• • Victoria's Instagram
  • Victoria's Website
  • Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram
  • Nourishing Minds Nutrition website