Nourished Fertility

If you have ADHD, this episode is just for you! I asked ADHD eating expert and registered dietitian, Becca King, to share with us the link between ADHD and binge eating, and why intuitive eating is the solution, even for those with ADHD!

Becca King helps adults with ADHD struggling with disordered eating, chronic dieting and body image issues make peace with food and improve their self-esteem.

If you find yourself struggling with binge eating, forgetting to eat, or what to eat to help manage your ADHD, Becca is a resource you are going to love! She will help you rebuild a healthy relationship with food and your body. Using an evidenced based, weight inclusive, approach to eating and movement, Becca teaches you how to make peace with food and feel empowered to trust your body again.

By providing support, using the principles of Intuitive Eating and gentle nutrition Becca helps you navigate your journey to rediscovering your inner Intuitive Eater so that you too can stop binge eating for good and actually enjoy life. Listen to today's episode to learn more!

In this episode we discuss:

• Becca's journey to becoming a registered dietitian that specializes in ADHD.
• Understanding the basics of what is ADHD and how to know if you struggle with it.
• How ADHD impact eating habits and how ADHD contributes to restrict and binge eating.
• Why intuitive eating is so beneficial for those with ADHD.
• How to implement practical eating if you personally struggle with ADHD.
• How Becca practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Becca:

• Becca King's website
• Becca King's Instagram

Announcements:

• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
• If you struggle with HA and you're ready to regain your health and fertility, join Get Your Period Back Playbook.
• Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

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

To say thank you to the guests that come on the show, we donate money to the Loveland Foundation. The Loveland Foundation is a foundation that provides therapy and healing to Black women and girls. We are honored to donate monthly to the Loveland Foundation, and you can learn more and donate yourself here.

As part of the celebration of the new release of Get Your Period Back Playbook available as an anytime purchase, I wanted to record today's episode on a component of hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA) that we have yet to discuss, and that's how excessive exercise contributes to HA.

The hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis or HPG axis refers to the hypothalamus, pituitary gland and gonadal glands almost as if they are a single entity. This axis plays a critical role in the development and regulation of several different body systems like reproduction and immunity. The HPG axis is what controls the cascade of your hormones releasing to create your monthly menstrual cycle, and also what can stop it from happening altogether, too. Remember, HA is when the brain (specifically the hypothalamus) turns "off" the ovulation switch.

The HPG axis is extremely sensitive to the environment. And today we are going to address this from a lens of excessive exercise.

Exercise has benefits no doubt. In a very basic explanation, exercise teaches our bodies to adapt to stress. It's actually a form of stress to the body, typically viewed as a positive stressor, teaching our bodies how to handle stress more effectively.

But when the allostatic load is too much, this positive stressor becomes a negative stressor. And when we have numerous stressors in our lives, from exercise but also our daily lives, work, family, our health habits, and mental stress...it becomes too much stress on our bodies. Listen to today's episode to learn more!

If you struggle with HA and you are ready to regain your health and fertility from HA, you're a perfect fit for Get Your Period Back Playbook. Join GYPB to get your period back with our tested strategy and with the guidance from the team at Nourishing Minds Nutrition.

Announcements:

• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• 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, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

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

I am so honored to say today on the podcast my guest is a client I've worked with Mary Weis. Working with Mary was an absolute joy. She was like many of our clients, working to fully heal her relationship with food and her body. But when we started working together, I immediately noticed how intense her digestion symptoms were.

You'll hear in this episode how we helped her work with her doctor to get antibiotics to treat SIBO, and we focused on removing the stressors in her life, healing her relationship with food and body and experimenting with different supplements that aid digestion and SIBO recovery.

We also discuss in detail orthorexia, why commenting on weight loss is problematic and the importance of letting go of health as your one and only identity. Listen to learn more and get inspired in your own recovery journey!

In this episode we discuss:

• What Mary's relationship was like with food, exercise and her body growing up.
• When Mary's relationship with food started to change, and what made her decide it was time to reach out and ask for help.
• Working through the fear of beginning the process to truly let go and give yourself unconditional permission to eat and not letting the fear of weight gain hold you back.
• Letting go of the identity of being the "healthy one" and the importance of doing so.
• Mary's SIBO journey and how this influenced her journey.
• Mary's advice for anyone listening that feels like they aren't sick enough to ask for help.
• How Mary practices wellness without obsession.

Find Mary on her Instagram and her blog.

Announcements:

• Get Your Period Back Playbook is currently open for our March enrollment, join this last live round to regain your health and fertility from HA!
• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• 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, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

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

For every guest that comes on the show, we donate money to Loveland Foundation. The Loveland Foundation, is a foundation that provides therapy and healing to Black women and girls. We are honored to donate monthly to the Loveland Foundation, and you can learn more and donate yourself here.

Are you someone who regularly experiences IBS symptoms, heartburn, nausea, or indigestion? If so, you're not alone! A majority of our clients at Nourishing Minds Nutrition are suffering from some type of digestive distress in addition to disordered eating when they begin working with us.

And since the vagus nerve is associated with many different functions and brain regions, research shows the positive effects of vagal stimulation on a variety of conditions, including digestive issues. There are many ways to stimulate the vagus nerve, and we discuss this in today's podcast episode!

Thank you to Kelsey for helping write this, and if you want to work with Kelsey, Megan, Emilie or myself you can click here to learn more about our services.

Announcements:

• Get Your Period Back Playbook is currently open for our March enrollment, join this last live round to regain your health and fertility from HA!
• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• 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, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

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

Have you ever thought about the power of the words you speak to yourself? If so, you are in for a treat today! Today on the podcast we have guest and word coach, Dimple Mukherjee, on the show to discuss the power of words and how to create your word for the year.

Dimple is an occupational Therapist with more than 25 years of experience, and a graduate of Queen's University with additional certifications in Health Coaching through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) through The Flourishing Center. Dimple also has three insanely active sons and call Toronto, Canada home.

Dimple's mission is to help intentional, values-oriented individuals use their words of the year as anchors to guide them purposefully towards their desires and create consistent forward momentum. I love using the simple medium of chosen, personal words to enrich our lives and relationships. Listen to today's episode to learn more about the power of words!

In this episode we discuss:

• Dimple's work as an occupational therapist, and her other certifications that have led her to becoming a word coach.
• How words shape our lives and mental health.
• How you can use words and neuroscience to help you set goals and achieve those goals.
• Dimple's book, Word of the Year, and how you can set your own word for the year.
• How Dimple practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Dimple:

• Dimple's book
• Dimple's website
• Dimple's Instagram

Announcements:

• Get Your Period Back Playbook is currently open for our March enrollment, join this last live round to regain your health and fertility from HA!
• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for February and March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you. We typically book 4+ weeks in advance so reach out today to guarantee your spot before the spring.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• 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, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace.

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

For every guest that comes on the show, we donate money to Loveland Foundation. The Loveland Foundation, is a foundation that provides therapy and healing to Black women and girls. We are honored to donate monthly to the Loveland Foundation, and you can learn more and donate yourself here.

If you are ready to begin your intuitive eating journey, I am SO excited to tell you about the Beginner's Guide To Food & Body Peace.

The Beginner's Guide is a self paced online course that will help you *officially* stop dieting and jumpstart your intuitive journey.

Created for those who need help beginning the journey, or processing through the obstacles preventing them from understanding this self-care eating framework, the Beginner's Guide is exactly what you're looking for if you are ready to begin healing your relationship with food and your body.

We are currently in the middle of a 72 hour sale to celebrate the launch of our new offer (and Valentine's Day), you can use the code FLASHSALE for 50% off the Beginner's Guide to Food & Body Peace through Wednesday, February 16th!

Announcements:

• Get Your Period Back Playbook is currently open for pre-sale for our March enrollment, by joining before February 15th you can get a free customized meal plan to support your HA recovery.
• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for February and March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you. We typically book 4+ weeks in advance so reach out today to guarantee your spot before the spring.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• 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.

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 on the podcast I have guest, Michelle Pillepich. Michelle is a Registered Dietitian and Personal Trainer helping people break free from food rules and learn to fuel their best lives. She sees clients virtually in her private practice and runs a group program that teaches intuitive eating and exercise with community support.

Michelle approaches health and nutrition from a holistic and intuitive perspective. She specializes in helping clients who struggle with eating disorders, disordered eating, or who want to work on improving their health and relationship with food from a non diet approach.

Listen to learn how to have a healthy relationship with exercise to compliment your intuitive eating journey, and to learn about Michelle's experience running the NYC marathon as an intuitive eater.

In this episode we discuss:

• Michelle's decision to become a personal trainer to compliment her expertise as a non-diet RD.
• Michelle's advice for how to reintroduce exercise after abusing it or using it in a punitive way.
• Ways to keep yourself in check when it comes to movement as an intuitive eater.
• The blue zones research and how movement is emphasized more than exercise.
• Removing the black and white mentality in health, including holistic health care.
• Michelle's experience running the NYC marathon.
• How Michelle practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Michelle:

• Michelle's website
• Michelle's Instagram
• Michelle's group coaching program

P.S. We have a VERY exciting announcement of a new offer and a flash sale coming on next week, stay up to date on Instagram or my email list to make sure you don't miss this sale!

Announcements:

• Get Your Period Back Playbook is currently open for pre-sale for our March enrollment, by joining before February 15th you can get a free customized meal plan to support your HA recovery.
• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for February and March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you. We typically book 4+ weeks in advance so reach out today to guarantee your spot before the spring.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• 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.

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

For every guest that comes on the show, we donate money to Loveland Foundation. The Loveland Foundation, is a foundation that provides therapy and healing to Black women and girls. We are honored to donate monthly to the Loveland Foundation, and you can learn more and donate yourself here.

Before we begin this episode, I am putting a call out for therapists who also own online businesses and work in the intuitive eating/body image space. We recommend therapy to every client we work with, and we'd love to set up a referral system with a select group of therapists who can work with our clients and conversely, that we can be your choice for dietitian referral for your clients. If you are interested in learning more, you can email me at [email protected].

TW: I will share calorie amounts in this episode. Please do not listen if this could be triggering for you in any way.

In today's episode, we discuss why calories are energy, not the enemy. I want to first begin though by validating the reason you are likely controlling, counting or trying to reduce your calorie intake. And that's your desire for weight loss.

Letting go of the desire to lose weight may seem near impossible at this point in your journey and that is a completely valid way to feel! Our culture is obsessed with thinness and losing weight for "health reasons." We are constantly bombarded with messages, ads, social media, products/supplements etc. promoting weight loss, so it makes sense to have the desire to lose weight (because our culture shoves this idea down our throats).

In today's episode I help you understand why calories are a GOOD thing, and why we need calories to thrive. Listen to learn more!

P.S. We have a VERY exciting announcement of a new offer and a flash sale coming on next week, stay up to date on Instagram or my email list to make sure you don't miss this sale!

Announcements:

• Get Your Period Back Playbook is currently open for pre-sale for our March enrollment, by joining before February 15th you can get a free customized meal plan to support your HA recovery.
• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for February and March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you. We typically book 4+ weeks in advance so reach out today to guarantee your spot before the spring.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• 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.

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

Sign up for our FREE 5 day New Year, No Diet Challenge running all next week here!

Today's guest is your favorite anti-diet business coach (and fellow dietitian!) Jennifer McGurk. Not only does Jennifer run her own successful private practice, but she is also the owner of Pursuing Private Practice.

Pursuing Private Practice is on a mission to empower non-diet dietitians to start, grow, and scale a business rooted in a weight-inclusive philosophy. Their goal is to amplify the common mission among non-diet dietitians that dietitians can empower clients feel fabulous about food. Pursuing Private Practice supports dietitians to create impactful offers for their clients, generate consistent revenue in business, and to prioritize self-care as a business owner.

Listen to learn more about Jennifer's advice for weight inclusive businesses and how to have happiness and success in your business, and also learn a bit about my own personal business evolution!

In this episode we discuss:

• Jennifer's journey as a dietitian, and what sparked her interest in teaching the business side of the career.
• How Jennifer coaches fellow anti-diet RDs on how to navigate our marketing from an ethical and value based perspective.
• How can fellow RDs fight about the perfectionist mindset, and not let it affect their business owning experience.
• How to challenge hustle culture.
• Jennifer's biggest challenges when it comes to building her own business.
• How Jennifer practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Jennifer:

• Jennifer's Instagram
• Jennifer's Website for Pursuing Private Practice

Announcements:

• Get Your Period Back Playbook is currently open for pre-sale for our March enrollment, by joining before February 15th you can get a free customized meal plan to support your HA recovery.
• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for February and March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you. We typically book 4+ weeks in advance so reach out today to guarantee your spot before the spring.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• 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.

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

For every guest that comes on the show, we donate money to Loveland Foundation. The Loveland Foundation, is a foundation that provides therapy and healing to Black women and girls. We are honored to donate monthly to the Loveland Foundation, and you can learn more and donate yourself here.

What does it mean to come home to your body? To practice embodiment? Today on the show I want to talk to you about one of my favorite parts of helping women heal their relationship with their bodies, and that's being IN your body. That's why I love the concept of coming HOME to your body so much.

Because for most of us, our bodies are not our homes. They are something separate from us, something to control, something to perfect…and I'm on a mission to help you change that. Coming home to your body is a practice of embodiment. Listen to learn more about what exactly is embodiment and ways to come home to your body.

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Announcements:

• Get Your Period Back Playbook is currently open for pre-sale for our March enrollment, by joining before February 15th you can get a free customized meal plan to support your HA recovery.
• Food & Body Peace Playbook is also open for pre-sale for our April enrollment, if you join before March 11th you will get a FREE 60 minute session with me, that way you can have a personalized coaching session to help you better implement the strategies you'll learn inside FBPP.
• We are currently booking for February and March for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you're looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you're in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you. We typically book 4+ weeks in advance so reach out today to guarantee your spot before the spring.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• 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.

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