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Diet culture is a scam. And using food to punish yourself does nothing to create change in the world. In this episode you'll learn why and how we can view nutrition through a social justice lens with guest, Christyna Johnson RD/N.

Christyna Johnson RD/N is a Christian girl who loves chai tea lattes and reading research. Her nutrition philosophy is rooted in the social justice framework of Health at Every Size (R) and seen through the lens of Intuitive Eating. Christyna helps people find a peaceful and sustainable relationship with food and their body.

In this episode we discuss:

• Christyna shares her work at the Encouraging Dietitian, on her podcast Intuitive Eating for the Culture and as an eating disorder dietitian at a treatment center in Dallas, TX.
• Christyna shares her utrition philosophy and how it is rooted in the social justice framework of Health at Every Size (R) and seen through the lens of Intuitive Eating.
• Self compassion research, and how we can use compassion to create change in the world?
• Christyna shares why diet culture cannot provide the community it pretends to be and how we can all create a more positive community around us that doesn't involve diet culture BS.
• A key aspect of nutrition that people often neglect, hydration.
• How Christyna practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Christyna:

• Christyna's website
• Christyna's podcast
• Christyna's Instagram account

Improving your body image will help you model better body image to your children. And what that means to you is attending the workshop will give you clarity of the process to better body image. This will help you extend the ladder to your children so they can grow up with a different relationship to their bodies than you had.

Ensuring your children grow up with a better relationship to their bodies is what you're looking for, isn't it? IF so, tickets are currently available to purchase and the workshop will be held on Thursday, August 4th at 7pm EST. A replay will be available if you cannot attend live!

The Summer Reset is a free mini-course created for you to help you realize this fact: you're already summer body ready. And what this means to you is, instead of constantly trying to change your body every year summer rolls around, you can choose to reset how you view your body. So you can feel comfortable and gain confidence in the body you have right here, right now. The Summer Reset will help you reset your mindset towards food, fitness and body this summer so you can stop waiting and start LIVING NOW.

This episode is brought to you by one of my favorite skincare companies, Primally Pure. My favorite products right now are the facial dry brush, the plumping mask and the citrus and mint body butter. You can use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

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, 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.

Did you know? The more a child hears their own mother talk negatively about their body, the more they are to dislike their own bodies and try weight loss techniques, even as young as ages 4-6.

What if you could help your child learn that their body never needs to be fixed, that it is enough exactly as it is? In today's episode you learn 7 ways you can help your children to have better body image.

Improving your body image will help you model better body image to your children. And what that means to you is attending the workshop will give you clarity of the process to better body image. This will help you extend the ladder to your children so they can grow up with a different relationship to their bodies than you had.

Just the other day I was talking with one of my clients, who shared with me on a particularly bad body image day, she was able to use what she's learned in our sessions to get through the day and was able to reframe the negative body thoughts into gratitude for her body. Her children are young, but she feels at ease knowing she is modeling body respect to her children.

Ensuring your children grow up with a better relationship to their bodies is what you're looking for, isn't it? IF so, tickets are currently available to purchase and the workshop will be held on Thursday, August 4th at 7pm EST. A replay will be available if you cannot attend live!

Episodes referenced in this episode: Episode 214 with guest Amy Smith and Episode 264 with guest Majo Molfino.

The Summer Reset is a free mini-course created for you to help you realize this fact: you're already summer body ready. And what this means to you is, instead of constantly trying to change your body every year summer rolls around, you can choose to reset how you view your body. So you can feel comfortable and gain confidence in the body you have right here, right now. The Summer Reset will help you reset your mindset towards food, fitness and body this summer so you can stop waiting and start LIVING NOW.

This episode is brought to you by one of my favorite skincare companies, Primally Pure. My favorite products right now are the facial dry brush, the plumping mask and the citrus and mint body butter. You can use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

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

Megan's mission as a Style Coach is to empower, educate and inspire women to dress for the life they desire. She has worked with hundreds of women through VIP 1:1 Style Coaching, and her online Style Yourself Chic programs to help them dress to showcase their best self, and feel confident wherever the day takes them.

Megan grew up in Birmingham and has always loved fashion as a form of self-expression. She attended Birmingham-Southern College and studied Art History and French. She then trained in NYC as a Trend Forecaster analyzing the budding trends happening in the fashion industry. She took classes at the esteemed Parsons School of Design to continue her knowledge of fashion, color theory, fabrics and fit.

Upon returning to Birmingham she found her true passion, coaching women to look and feel their best through their overall appearance and wardrobe. She loves nothing more than working with her clients, as well as sharing her style tips and tricks on StyleBlueprint, Southern Living, and her own blog StyleYourselfChic.com.

In this episode we discuss:

• Megan shares who she is and the work she does as a style coach.
• Megan's mission to empower, educate and inspire real women just like you to dress for the life you desire.
• Why clothing can make such a difference in improving body image, helping you feel confident and comfortable.
• The Style Yourself Chic method to dress yourself and dress for each body type.
• How to curate your closet for a wardrobe you absolutely love.
• How Megan practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Megan here and on her Instagram account.

Are you a momma, momma to be or someone who's passionate about changing the next generation's body image for the better? I'm hosting the Momma Body Love Workshop on Thursday, August 5th to teach you how to navigate postpartum body image, how to better your own body image to model it to your children and how to set your children up for success when it comes to their relationship with their bodies. Tickets are officially available, click here to grab your seat!

The Summer Reset is a free mini-course created for you to help you realize this fact: you're already summer body ready. And what this means to you is, instead of constantly trying to change your body every year summer rolls around, you can choose to reset how you view your body. So you can feel comfortable and gain confidence in the body you have right here, right now. The Summer Reset will help you reset your mindset towards food, fitness and body this summer so you can stop waiting and start LIVING NOW.

This episode is brought to you by one of my favorite skincare companies, Primally Pure. My favorite products right now are the facial dry brush, the plumping mask and the citrus and mint body butter. You can use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

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, 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.

Body image is brain work, not body work. And what this means to you is if you have really negative and self deprecating thoughts about your body, trying to change your body won't make them go away.

Instead, doing the brain work will help you learn how to make peace with your here and now body, respect your body and have compassion for it, too.

In this episode you'll learn how to deal with negative thoughts and the 5 step process to changing body image beliefs. Plus, you'll learn how body image thoughts aren't always objective fact and what to expect when it comes to that mean girl inside your head that tells you your body is never enough.

Are you a momma, momma to be or someone who's passionate about changing the next generation's body image for the better? I'm hosting the Momma Body Love Workshop on Thursday, August 5th to teach you how to navigate postpartum body image, how to better your own body image to model it to your children and how to set your children up for success when it comes to their relationship with their bodies. Tickets will be available starting this week and you can follow along at @nourishingmindsnutrition and @victoriamyers_ for more information.

The Summer Reset is a free mini-course created for you to help you realize this fact: you're already summer body ready. And what this means to you is, instead of constantly trying to change your body every year summer rolls around, you can choose to reset how you view your body. So you can feel comfortable and gain confidence in the body you have right here, right now. The Summer Reset will help you reset your mindset towards food, fitness and body this summer so you can stop waiting and start LIVING NOW.

This episode is brought to you by one of my favorite skincare companies, Primally Pure. My favorite products right now are the facial dry brush, the plumping mask and the citrus and mint body butter. You can use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

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 guest Caroline Dooner. Caroline is the humorist and author of The F*ck It Diet. She spent years as a performer, and dieted like it was her job (because it kind of was). After healing her relationship to food, she's been sharing what she learned ever since. She writes a lot about *why* we have such a dysfunctional relationship with food and weight.

You can find more at thefuckitdiet.com and can follow her on instagram @thefuckitdiet.

The Summer Reset is a free mini-course created for you to help you realize this fact: you're already summer body ready. And what this means to you is, instead of constantly trying to change your body every year summer rolls around, you can choose to reset how you view your body. So you can feel comfortable and gain confidence in the body you have right here, right now. The Summer Reset will help you reset your mindset towards food, fitness and body this summer so you can stop waiting and start LIVING NOW.

In this episode we discuss:

• Caroline shares about who she is and what led her to write the book, the F*ck It Diet.
• Stories behind writing the book the F*ck It Diet you may not know!
• The similarities and differences between the F*ck It Diet and intuitive eating.
• Why we are not struggling with food addictions, but rather diet addiction.
• Understanding how we are not addicted to sugar.
• Caroline shares about her new book, Tired As F*ck.
• How Caroline practices wellness without obsession.

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, 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.

Did you know that…food is not always the cause of your GI symptoms? In fact, sometimes it has nothing to do with food and everything to do with your thoughts around the food. Today we are going to explore why this may be through a conversation on the gut brain axis.

I want to thank Marci Evans for her recent workshop that inspired this episode and is the reference for most of what I'll share in this episode.

The brain is involved in so much aspects of your health. From how the digestive response is impacted by the gut brain axis, to how body image work is brain work, to even how the hypothalamus, the control center of your brain, is the reason your period can shut down if you are undereating and overexercising...it is TRULY fascinating to think about how our brain is involved in so much of what we think and feel and believe on a daily basis and how this may impact our health.

In this episode we dig in to the link of disordered eating and the digestive system and GI symptoms you may be experiencing through understanding the connection of your gut brain axis.

The Summer Reset is a free mini-course created for you to help you realize this fact: you're already summer body ready. And what this means to you is, instead of constantly trying to change your body every year summer rolls around, you can choose to reset how you view your body. So you can feel comfortable and gain confidence in the body you have right here, right now. The Summer Reset will help you reset your mindset towards food, fitness and body this summer so you can stop waiting and start LIVING NOW.

Click here to join the waitlist for Digestive Freedom Foundations.

This episode is brought to you by one of my favorite skincare companies, Primally Pure. My favorite products right now are the facial dry brush, the plumping mask and the citrus and mint body butter. You can use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

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

A big misconception is that healing your relationship with food and managing a medical condition or nutrition therapy are incompatible. Learn how hormonal health and digestive healing aren't limited to restrictive and rigid nutrition plans. This episode is full of nutrition knowledge and important insights, not one you'll want to miss!

Today's episode is such a special one because I am re-airing an episode where I was a guest on Erica Drewry's podcast, the Aligned Nutrition Podcast. Listen to this episode to learn more about my personal story and how you can have a healthy relationship with food, even while managing medical medical conditions.

Today's episode is brought to you by our free mini-course, the Summer Reset. Click here to download this free course that will help you feel confident in your body this summer, without having to change it.

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

Have it all, be hot and healthy

Tone up that hot girl body

Get summer body ready

It's time to get a bikini body

These are just SOME of the common statements made once summer rolls around on social media.

Have you ever thought about what statements like this do to you? In today's episode I help you understand how the brain works and why 'summer body ready' statements can quickly become detrimental and cause feelings of inadequacy.

Instead here is another way to think about this summer, because there is a way you can:

1. Feel comfortable in your body this summer
2. Gain confidence about how you feel in your body
3. Without having to sacrifice your mental health and emotional well-being.

The Summer Reset is a free mini-course created for you to help you realize this fact: you're already summer body ready.

And what that means to you is instead of constantly trying to change your body every year summer rolls around, we are instead going to reset how you view your body.

That way you feel comfortable and gain confidence in the body you have: right here, right now.

The Summer Reset will help you reset your mindset towards food, fitness and body this summer so you can stop waiting and you can start LIVING NOW. Click here to download the free mini-course, Summer Reset.

This episode is brought to you by one of my favorite skincare companies, Primally Pure. My favorite products right now are the facial dry brush, the plumping mask and the citrus and mint body butter. You can use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

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

In today's episode we explore the topic of fat discrimination and oppression by diet culture with author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat and expert on body justice and fat activist, Virgie Tovar.

In this episode we discuss:

• Virgie's story of how she became an expert in fat discrimination and sexuality studies

• What is fat phobia and how to recognize it

• How diet culture is a form of oppression

• Ways that diet culture is bigotry

• How we can be better allies for fat acceptance

• What is internalized inferiority and ways to recognize how you may feel inferior in your everyday life

Virgie Tovar is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body justice. In 2018 she was named one of the top 50 most influential feminists by Bitch Magazine. She is the founder of Babecamp, a 4-week online course designed to help women who are ready to break up with diet culture. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. She is a contributor for ForbesWomen and Bedsider. Her new book, FLAWLESS: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color,comes out in March 2020 from New Harbinger. She holds a Master's degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, Tech Insider, BBC, MTV, Al Jazeera and Yahoo Health. She lives in San Francisco.

Links:

• Babecamp: www.virgietovar.com/babecamp.html

• IG: www.instagram.com/virgietovar

• ForbesWomen: https://www.forbes.com/sites/virgietovar/#c72bcd75ef92

• You have the right to remain fat book: https://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Right-Remain-Fat/dp/1936932318

Resources for you:

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

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

• Victoria's Instagram

• Victoria's Website

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram

• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Website

Here's what I want you to understand about thin privilege: Your body image struggles are real no matter your size. Your experience and struggles are real and valid. But we have to be willing to look at our privileges in all situations, body image and how this impacts our relationship with food, included.

I used to promote myself as the "body positive dietitian" and I now realize how much of a mistake on wording that was. That was taking a movement that wasn't created for me. And honestly ignorance on my part thinking me as a size 10 was not accepted. I hope this episode helps you see that your experiences are real and true and you are not alone in not accepting your body. Yet, as with any privilege we hold, it's not your fault or something you should feel guilty about. It's about recognizing that there's some experiences we may never be able to understand.

There are three types of fat phobia, that I've learned from Virgie Tovar (click here to listen to her episode on the podcast). A person in a thin body can experience INTRApersonal struggles as we all fear becoming fat in our society that tells us it's the worst thing in the world to happen to our bodies. But a thin body won't experience interpersonal and institutionalized fat phobia. This helps explain thin privilege in a meaningful way- that yes, your experiences are real, but these are two major areas you likely will never experience or understand if you live in a thin body.

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.

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