Nourished Fertility

It's been awhile since we've had an episode dedicated to orthorexia, an eating disorder where one is fixated on being healthy. In today's episode I brought on one of the incredible dietitians at NMN, Kelsey Pukala, to help you understand this eating disorder and why it's on the rise and in disguise.

If you're interested in working with Kelsey or one of the team members here at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, you can click here to learn more about our 3 and 6 month packages.

In this episode we discuss:

• What is orthorexia and what are the signs and symptoms.
• Spectrum of intuitive eating to eating disorders, where disordered eating and orthorexia falls on the spectrum.
• Why orthorexia is such a problem these days, Kelsey and Victoria talk through the reasons this disorder is on the rise.
• How health care professionals are part of solving the problem and ways you can shift your language about food when talking to patients.
• Kelsey's recommendation if you may have orthorexia for next steps.
• How Kelsey is currently practicing wellness without obsession.

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

We will be offering a Black Friday discount and special bonus offer for our January enrollment. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

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.

Welcome back to another day in the life episode! Listen to get to know me a bit more, and follow along on a typical day for me of intuitive eating, wellness without obsession, business owning and motherhood.

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

We will be offering a Black Friday discount and special bonus offer for our January enrollment. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

Are you looking for one on one coaching for intuitive eating, body image, hormone support and/or digestive relief? We are booking for the final months of 2021 with limited spots left, reach out today to start your healing journey!

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 we have your menstrual bestie and period educator, Berrion Berry on the show. Berrion loves teaching modern women how to transform their periods & life through aligning their beliefs and body.

Since here on this show we believe period talk shouldn't be taboo, Berrion helps us understand the ways our brain changes throughout our menstrual cycle, and how to use this to your advantage, increasing productivity when optimal AND when to pause and rest.

Berrion Berry is a Menstrual Health Educator, Practitioner & Founder of Optimize Your Flo. She teaches modern women to fix their problematic periods naturally. Focused on fusing biology with practicality Berri helps people with periods create a new menstrual reality.

Her work has been featured on top podcasts like the Balanced Black Girl with Lestraundra Alfred, the Goal Digger Podcast with Jenna Kutcher, SHE by Jordan Lee Dooley, as well as, in leading publications like Shape Magazine, Thrive Global, & The Every Girl. From hormone balancing to cycle syncing, to mood enhancing and self healing, Berri covers it all and is excited to help you have your best period yet.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Berrion became a period educator, where her passion for periods can from.
• How the brain changes with the cycle for people with periods.
• How these changes may this impact our work, productivity and need for rest and pause during different phases of the cycle.
• Why its important to change your beliefs around your period.
• How Berrion practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Berrion:

Berrion's Instagram

Berrion's website

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

We will be offering a Black Friday discount and special bonus offer for our January enrollment. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

Are you looking for one on one coaching for intuitive eating, body image, hormone support and/or digestive relief? We are booking for the final months of 2021 with limited spots left, reach out today to start your healing journey!

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.

There are a variety of reasons secondary amenorrhea (a missing period for 3+ months) can occur, but the two most common reasons are PCOS and hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA).

In today's podcast, we will walk through the lab work and symptoms of both HA and PCOS, to help you understand the similarities and differences between these two common hormone conditions.

If you have a missing or irregular cycle, I would HIGHLY recommend that you do investigative work, order more lab work with your doctor and talk to them about your symptoms, even consider a DUTCH test, so that you have a plan tailored to you and your needs. These conditions are very different yet have a lot of overlap!

Need help getting your period back? We have a few spots left to work with us for anti-diet, gentle nutrition support for HA and PCOS at our virtual practice. Our online program specifically for HA recovery, Get Your Period Back Playbook, will reopen for enrollment in March 2022.

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

We will be offering a Black Friday discount and special bonus offer for our January enrollment. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

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'm so excited to have the co-hosts of What the Actual Fork Podcast, Jenna and Sammy. If you love my podcast, you'll love their podcast and I would highly recommend a listen!

Jenna Warner (Owner of Happy Strong Healthy) and Sammy Previte (Owner of Find Food Freedom) are the hosts of What the Actual Fork Podcast. These dietitian besties can't stand diet culture bullsh*t and love keeping it real! Their mission is for all humans to believe that they are made for so much more than chasing a smaller body. They are also here to share with you that food can be fun and pleasurable again. Although these ladies are medical professionals, they are human too! Listen to today's episode to learn their evolution to becoming intuitive eating dietitians.

In this episode we discuss:

• Who is Jenna and Sammy and how their podcast, What the Actual Fork podcast came to be.
• The goal behind their podcast and who they are serving.
• The evolution of going from a diet culture dietitian to an intuitive eating dietitian.
• Why we can't "fence straddle" as dietitians, why weight loss and intuitive eating cannot be recommended together, and what to recommend to your clients instead.
• How Jenna and Sammy practice wellness without obsession.

Learn more:

What the Actual Fork Podcast

Find Food Freedom Instagram and Website

Happy Strong Healthy Instagram and Website

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

We will be offering a Black Friday discount and special bonus offer for our January enrollment. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

Are you looking for one on one coaching for intuitive eating, body image, hormone support and/or digestive relief? We are booking for the final months of 2021 with limited spots left, reach out today to start your healing journey!

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.

Here's what I want you to experience THIS Halloween. This Halloween you are happy, engaged and present with your food choices, yes- candy included. You enjoy the candy, but more than anything you enjoy your time with family and loved ones.

This is possible for YOU my friend because this is what intuitive eating allows for in our lives. But I know you probably are scared to allow yourself to enjoy yourself. To really give yourself that permission to eat, especially foods like candy.

I know, because I've been where you have before. I've been in a chaotic relationship with food. I've experienced COUNTLESS times the restrict binge seesaw.

You know what I'm talking about, the seesaw of trying to control the thing you view as bad, or dirty, or too much sugar or too many calories. You try to control the amount you are allowed to eat, and maybe it works for a while, but inevitably you lose "willpower" and eat every piece of Halloween candy in sight.

And sadly this only reinforces the idea that you cannot control or trust yourself around food, especially foods like candy. If this is you, I want you to listen to today's episode to learn more!

P.S. The audio in this episode is off in comparison to our usual sound quality. So sorry for the difference in audio, but the content is still gold!

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

We will be offering a Black Friday discount and special bonus offer for our January enrollment. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

Are you looking for one on one coaching for intuitive eating, body image, hormone support and/or digestive relief? We are booking for the final months of 2021 with limited spots left, reach out today to start your healing journey!

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

Victoria Welsby, aka Fierce Fatty, has been on the podcast before and it was such a joy to have them back on the podcast today! In this episode we talk about how to stop worrying about how others judge our bodies and how fatphobia can negatively impact our sex life.

Victoria Welsby (they/them) is a world-leading expert on dismantling fatphobia and diet-culture, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author. They went from being homeless, abused with self-esteem that was achingly low into the courageous fat activist and change maker they are today. Victoria helps people fall in love with themselves and is dedicated to shifting the way society views fat bodies.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Victoria's life has changed in the past year, including their gender transition story.
• How worrying about judgement from others prevents us from doing the work of body acceptance and intuitive eating.
• Mindset shifts we can make when we notice negative self talk and the people pleasing tendencies.
• How fatphobic beliefs had in the past affected Victoria's sex life.
• Victoria's advice on how to navigate negative sexual experiences and feel more secure in your body.
• How Victoria is currently practicing wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Victoria:

Website: www.fiercefatty.com

Instagram: @fierce.fatty

Facebook: @fiercefatty

Twitter: @fiercefatty_

Pinterest: @fiercefatty_

YouTube: @fiercefatty

LinkedIn: @victoriawelsby

Email: [email protected]

In this episode I reference this blog post on worrying about people judging your body, and this blog post on how fatphobic beliefs hurt your sex life. Here is Victoria's past episode on the show.

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

We will be offering a Black Friday discount and special bonus offer for our January enrollment. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

Are you looking for one on one coaching for intuitive eating, body image, hormone support and/or digestive relief? We are booking for the final months of 2021 with limited spots left, reach out today to start your healing journey!

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.

If you've been listening to the podcast for any length of time, you know that in addition to intuitive eating and body image work, we also specialize in hormone and digestion disorders.

The most common hormone conditions we work with are HA and PCOS. Hypothalamic amenorrhea or HA is extremely common, no matter your body size, when you struggle with orthorexia and disordered eating. This is why we talk so much about it, because there's a huge gap in the hormone space about HA.

I'd like to talk about aspects of HA today that is less well known or talked about, and that's the stress connection to HA- and the main culprit of my community's stress, which is perfectionism. Listen to today's episode to learn more!

In this episode I reference Get Your Period Back Playbook, our HA recovery program that will help you regain your health and fertility. This program will reopen for enrollment in March you can join the waitlist here.

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

Wow today's episode is AWE INSPIRING. I am honored to have guest Lauren Sheehey on the podcast today to talk with you about the mask of perfectionism, and her 30 day abstinence journey from perfectionism and exercise. A quick trigger warning: we do discuss trauma and sexual assault in today's episode.

Lauren Sheehey is a writer, meditation teacher, relentless creative, and most recently a new mom. For years, she worked with clients around the world as a Lifestyle Development Coach; her work focused exclusively on guiding women through their healing, empowerment, and self-actualization with a fully integrated, mind-body approach.

Now, Lauren is translating this work into motherhood and facilitating deep-dive conversations on her podcast, Hungry for More. She has witnessed, first-hand, the power of inviting women to tell, own, and write their stories. She knows that showing up and sharing oneself in a way that is unapologetically real and raw is ultimately the path to revolution.

You can find her writing on her blog, her instagram, and scattered across the internet for professional wellness brands. She has edited books for publishing and advised the copywriting for countless marketing campaigns, but you can find her doing what she loves most on her podcast; writing about the hard, beautiful, messy moments of life and reading them to her community.

In this episode:

• Lauren's work and podcast, Hungry for More.
• The ever-evolving journey of recovering from an eating disorder and healing from past traumas.
• Taking the mask of perfectionism off to truly heal.
• What Lauren's 30 day abstinence from perfectionism and exercise addiction, what this looks like and an honest review of how it's going.
• How Lauren practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Lauren:

Hungry for More Podcast

Lauren's Instagram account

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

We will be offering a Black Friday discount and special bonus offer for our January enrollment. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

Are you looking for one on one coaching for intuitive eating, body image, hormone support and/or digestive relief? We are booking for the final months of 2021 with limited spots left, reach out today to start your healing journey!

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.

In this episode, let's chat about beauty ideals and body image. Because today's unrealistic standards for what is beauty, and the societal standards we experience, absolutely sets the stage for our own body image beliefs.

I mean how could it not? Sit and think about this: what are the images of women you saw growing up? What did they look like? I know for me it was Barbie dolls and princesses on Disney. What were your mothers or other adult women around you talking about as you grew up? For me, dieting and controlling food and our bodies was just the norm of what conversations among women looked like.

Listen to today's episode to learn how beauty ideals impact your own body image, and the differences between self expression versus self objectification.

In this episode I reference the books: The Beauty Myth, Invisible Corset and More Than a Body.

Today's episode is brought to you by our signature program, Food and Body Peace Playbook (FBPP). FBPP is an 8 week online course & group coaching program that will help you build lasting food freedom, better body image & sustainable health habits that stick.

If you're ready to stop dieting forever and make peace with food and your body I'd love to see you as one of the 20 spots inside the program when it opens for January. That means you can start off 2022 making the decision to say NO to diets that don't work and YES to intuitive eating and a lifetime of treating your body well.

Are you looking for one on one coaching for intuitive eating, body image, hormone support and/or digestive relief? We are booking for the final months of 2021 with limited spots left, reach out today to start your healing journey!

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