Nourished Fertility

Today's guest is Jessie Johnson, a Board Certified Nutrition Specialist and the founder of Good Farma. As a leader in promoting sustainable food systems that prioritize transparency + planetary integrity, Jessie brings a pinch of rogue activism to her work. She believes all food should be easy, all food should be nourishing, and all food should be fair. Jessie is here to make more than a statement; she is here to make an impact.

In this episode we discuss:

• Jessie's work as the founder of Good Farma.
• Jessie's journey with an eating disorder and living through the 'wellness rollercoaster'.
• What is healthism and how does it harm?
• Specific examples of how healthism is problematic, perpetuating privilege and morality around food.
• Jessie explains the issues with food access, why fair isn't always fair.
• Food desserts versus food apartheid
• What is a food apartheid and how their our systemic issues, like racism, involved in our food systems.
• How Jessie practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Jessie: IG | @good_farma_

Website | https://www.mygoodfarma.com

If you are a perfectionist with a missing period or diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea, sign up here for the waitlist to Get Your Period Back Playbook. Enrollment opens May 26th, and waitlist enrollees get first dibs to the limited spots AND early bird pricing. Don't forget to also download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones!

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.
• Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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.

As we continue to explore gentle nutrition in this series, I'd love to talk to you today about nutrition hierarchy.

Today we will explore the concept of nutrition hierarchy, so what matters most and least when it comes to nutrition. Because I know you, and that you tend to be fixated and worried about "doing it right" when it comes to nutrition.

My goal is that this episode helps you see clearly the importance of adequacy, balance and variety, and that while individual foods can also be important, they are not at the top of the nutrition hierarchy pyramid.

In this episode I reference the Gentle Nutrition book by Rachael Hartley, and this article by Ellyn Satter.

If you are a perfectionist with a missing period or diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea, sign up here for the waitlist to Get Your Period Back Playbook. Enrollment opens May 26th, and waitlist enrollees get first dibs to the limited spots AND early bird pricing. Don't forget to also download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones!

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

Financial wellness is a realm of wellness that I feel gets left out of the conversation so often, and it's something I am fascinated with as an idea of a way to practice wellness without obsession. As women, it's common to not feel empowered with education about managing our money, and I hope this episode helps you see that you can practice wellness even through creating financial stability and freedom in your life.

Today's guest is Brooke Tyler Benson, founder of Not Starving Artists, is a Financial Coach, AEA Actor, and Expert Contributor at Backstage Cast. After graduating with a BFA in Acting, she realized how little the arts industry taught and valued financial wellness. Her mission is to arm the creative freelance community with financial literacy through digital resources, group coaching, and a community of other artists striving for financial freedom. She is your financial cheerleader, here to destroy the "Starving Artist" trope and empower you about your own personal finance game. Find her on Instagram at @notstarvingartists and at www.notstarvingartists.com.

In this episode we discuss:

• Brooke shares about her work as the founder of Not Starving Artist.
• Why it's Brooke's mission to destroy the "starving artist" trope and bridge the financial education gap for creatives.
• What it means specifically to feel empowered and in control of your own money.
• How to have and create financial wellness in your life.
• Tangible changes we can all make starting today to create more financial wellness in our lives.
• How money + food are tied and emotionally connected.
• How Brooke practices wellness without obsession.

Link to upcoming group coaching program starting MAY 1ST:

FINANCIAL WELLNESS CRASHCOURSE

Learn more about Brooke:

WEBSITE (www.notstarvingartists.com)

INSTAGRAM (@notstarvingartists)

If you are a perfectionist with a missing period or diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea, sign up here for the waitlist to Get Your Period Back Playbook. Enrollment opens May 26th, and waitlist enrollees get first dibs to the limited spots AND early bird pricing. Don't forget to also download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones!

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.
• Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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.

Here's some honest truth: Weight changes are likely the #1 challenge of choosing to become an intuitive eater. And for most of us? We believe weight loss will give us better body image, when it truly never will.

Sit and think about it: any time you've reached your "goal" weight did it feel like enough? Did you feel satisfied with your body? Or did it make you feel even worse? Want to keep going, "just another 5 lb?" Did you treat your body with more or less respect when you reached the elusive goal body you set for yourself?

More likely than not, the answer is that you felt even worse then. Because how our bodies look isn't actually what creates positive or negative body image. It's our thought patterns and how we treat our bodies that do.

So if we can work to instead focus on the real outcomes of better body image, you can hold space for your desire to lose weight but not actively participate in these desires, giving you the ability to focus on the changes needed to get your period back, eat enough, and learn to make peace with food and your body. Listen to learn more!

If you are a perfectionist with a missing period or diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea, sign up here for the waitlist to Get Your Period Back Playbook. Enrollment opens May 26th, and waitlist enrollees get first dibs to the limited spots AND early bird pricing. Don't forget to also download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones!

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.
• Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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

After working long hours as a Wall Street consultant, overcommitting herself to friends and colleagues, and putting her health on the backburner, Rachael developed an autoimmune disorder that forced her to slow down. The daily gym sessions, people-pleasing social life, lack of sleep and nonexistent lunch hours had finally caught up with her, and it took three years to return to homeostasis. During the time away from her career she began putting herself first, which opened her eyes to the flaws in our culture, a culture that puts success ahead of peoples' health and unique pursuits of personal fulfillment. Rachael committed to reconnecting with her true self and began evaluating how the vicious cycle of overworking perpetuates itself in our culture.

Rachael was inspired to start Return To Flow to help burnt out professionals break free from our hustle culture and find balance and fulfilment — whatever that looks like for them. Listen to today's episode to learn more about the 7 types of burnout and how to heal from hustle culture!

In this episode we discuss:

• Rachael shares her journey to becoming a coach that helps burnt out professionals break free from hustle culture.
• How American culture idolize workaholics - and why women are hit the hardest.
• The 7 main causes of burnout + the signs and symptoms of each.
• Why idolizing successful people's routines and following "productivity hacks" and traditional self-help advice can be toxic and unhelpful.
• How to separate professional success and self worth.
• How Rachael practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Rachael on her website, Return to Flow.

If you are a perfectionist with a missing period or diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea, sign up here for the waitlist to Get Your Period Back Playbook. Enrollment opens May 26th, and waitlist enrollees get first dibs to the limited spots AND early bird pricing. Don't forget to also download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones!

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.
• Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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 to another round of AMA Q&A! Join me and my wonderful assistant, Kate, for our answers to your questions about:

• Daily challenging of perfectionism and orthorexia
• Trusting the unknown
• Avoiding restriction with IBS and food sensitivities
• Reverse dieting vs. going "all in" for HA recovery
• Exercise recommendations for HA recovery

Thank you to Primally Pure for bringing today's episode. I am enjoying the rose tinted lip balm, plumping face mask and charcoal deodorant, all perfect for entering into the spring season. You can use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

If you are a perfectionist with a missing period or diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea, sign up here for the waitlist to Get Your Period Back Playbook. Enrollment opens May 26th, and waitlist enrollees get first dibs to the limited spots AND early bird pricing. Don't forget to also download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones!

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.
• Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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 guest, Lauren Sharpe, is a food freedom advocate and registered dietitian that is passionate about helping women end the binge/restrict cycle, end food guilt, feel confident in their bodies and stop thinking about food 24/7. In this episode, Lauren helps explain the true root cause of disordered eating and also explains why things like comparison and progress pictures on social media are negatively impacting your ability to reach food freedom.

In this episode we discuss:

• Lauren's journey to becoming a food freedom dietitian.
• What food freedom means to Lauren and the true root cause of disordered eating.
• How to remove the control around food and move towards a free and peaceful relationship with food.
• The harm progress pictures can cause and how to avoid seeing these on social media.
• How to protect yourself from comparison and perfectionism on social media.
• Lauren's top tips for creating a healthy relationship to social media that will positively impact your food choices and body relationship.
• How Lauren practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Lauren:

Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones. This episode is brought to you by Get Your Period Back Playbook. If you are a perfectionist with a missing or irregular period, this online program was created just for you. Learn all strategies we use to get our clients periods back and regain their lives from HA. Join the waitlist to get first dibs on the limited spots and early bird pricing!

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.
• Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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.

If you are struggling with hypothalamic amenorrhea, you may know the basics of recovery are to eat more and exercise less. But what does it mean to eat more? It's interesting, the two most demonized macronutrients, carbohydrates and fat, will be the two most important nutrients to consider when it comes to getting your period back.

In this episode, I'll help you understand why carbohydrates are essential to your reproductive health and your period resuming. One of my favorite things that carbohydrates do for our hormones is stimulate our glucose sensing neurons in our ovaries. Eating enough overall and eating sufficient carbohydrates tells these neurons to communicate with hormones, which are also involved in turning on GnRH secretion to stimulate the specific reproductive hormones involved in your menstrual cycle. But this is just touching the surface on the amazing things carbohydrates do for our bodies and how they help us in amenorrhea recovery!

Listen to learn more and if this episode was supportive, you'll love Get Your Period Back Playbook, coming to you at the end of May. Sign up for the waitlist to get first dibs on the limited spots available and early bird pricing!

Thank you to Primally Pure for bringing today's episode. I am enjoying the rose tinted lip balm, plumping face mask and charcoal deodorant, all perfect for entering into the spring season. You can use the code NOURISH for 10% off your first order.

Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones.

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.
• Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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

Mary Jelkovsky is the creator of Mary's Cup of Tea, an online platform that empowers women to be more confident in their bodies and love themselves unconditionally. After recovering from an eating disorder, Mary started her Instagram account @maryscupofteaa to help women heal body-image struggles and find self-love. Now, Mary Jelkovsky is a published author, TEDx speaker, and women's self-love retreat host. She also has a podcast called Mary's Cup of Tea where she shares self-love and body-image advice and talks about all things women's empowerment.

Mary also just came out with her new book called The Gift of Self-Love which is a workbook to help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to finally love yourself. Written like a letter to a close friend, this self-improvement book provides practical advice and exercises that will help you finally love yourself.

*Please note we do briefly discuss sexual assault in this episode, so if this is triggering for you this may not be the best episode for you to listen to.

In this episode we discuss:

• Mary's journey of recovery and to creating her business, Mary's Cup of Tea.
• How Mary came to realize chasing the thin ideal would never give her positive body image.
• The dichotomy between unwanted and wanted attention as a woman.
• Disordered eating vs eating disorders and why for so many of us its hard to get diagnosis, treatment and support.
• The 3 step process to use when we have negative self talk.
• Examples of what it looks like to reframe negative body image thoughts.
• How Mary practices wellness without obsession.
• All about Mary's new book, the Gift of Self Love.

Learn more about Mary:

• Grab her new book, the Gift of Self Love
• Mary's website
• Mary's Instagram account
• Mary's TedX talk

Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones.

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.
• Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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.

Every round so far that I've done with Permission Stage Playbook (our online program that helps you make peace with food and body, enrollment reopening later in the fall, click here to join the waitlist), I get the question around if sugar is truly healthy or not to consume. This question almost always comes up when we are in the module discussing challenging food fears.

If you sit and think about it, I'm positive for you too, sugar is likely one of the most anxiety or fear provoking foods you could possibly consume.

And honestly this makes sense given the way sugar is discussed in the media, with health care professionals and any health blog on the internet these days.

Words like inflammatory, poison and enemy are words I've heard used to describe how "bad" sugar is for you.

But if you're working to become an intuitive eater, you are rejecting diet mentality, making peace with food and challenging the food police, that mean girl inside your head that causes judgement and shame if you allow yourself to enjoy a chocolate chip cookie.

So what do you do? Do you sit and eat all the cookies because now you have permission? Do you allow yourself to have a cookie, but just one since it's still sugar? Do you still limit sugar because you believe any and all sugar consumption is bad for you?

Let's explore this in today's episode in our gentle nutrition series!

Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones.

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.
• Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.

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