Nourished Fertility

Dr. Kim Daniels is on a mission to build an army of women who never deny themselves the food they love, who have left behind the days of anxiety about what they weigh, and who love themselves and their bodies. And who never diet again. In this lesson we detail through the why and how your weight is not your worth.

It's rare to find a psychologist who specializes in anti-diet culture messaging and is a Certified IE Counselor, so trust me when I say this episode is a must listen!

In this episode we discuss:

1. As a psychologist, how did Kim come to specialize in helping people develop a healthy relationship with food and body.
2. How Kim helps women "curb" (not "cure") emotional eating.
3. Tangible examples of mindset shifts one can make to go from diet mindset to Intuitive Eating mindset, and questions to ask yourself to begin this process.
4. Kim shares why focusing on weight loss does not work, and what "not working" means exactly.
5. Context into the misogyny of diet culture and how this impacts us as women.
6. How Kim practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Dr. Kim Daniels on her website, Your Weight is Not Your Worth.

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.

Today on the podcast, I'm sharing with you 10 easy ways to cope with a bad body image day. This will be a short and sweet episode, which is perfect, anytime you are having one of these days, a bonus step could be coming to listen to this episode to remind you how to navigate it. The truth is, bad body image days happen.

I find for a lot of my clients, they can happen when they are challenging food fears (and the discomfort of eating them makes their brain perceive they have suddenly gained loads of weight), when they are having a stressful day or week and just generally can occur when things in our life feel out of control. As sad as it is, most of us feel that our bodies and food are sometimes the only thing in our lives that we can control. We want to be compassionate with ourselves when we feel this way, but I also encourage you to not let these negative thoughts dictate your actions and how you treat yourself or feed yourself. Listen to today's episode to learn more!

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

Today I'm excited to have guest, Meredith Renshaw on the show! Meredith is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at Free Method Nutrition, a virtual group nutrition practice that exists to equip women with the skills to overcome and the wisdom to move beyond the influences of diet culture. Meredith knows it can be overwhelming to establish a healthy relationship with food, in a world that suggests we should constantly be trying to make ourselves smaller. So often, women are fed lies that happiness is found in the size of their jeans, the number on the scale, or the calories burned in a day. She is committed to setting women free from this narrative.

Meredith champions women to find the food freedom they never imagined was possible, by helping them redefine health, ditch the restrict-binge cycle and embrace intuitive eating. She specifically enjoys working with college women to find peace with their body size and feel confident in their food choices in an environment where diet culture thrives. She works to empower college women to walk away from a life of shame and guilt around food and body image.

In her work at Free Method Nutrition, Meredith uses The FREE Method process, that is designed to take women from fed up and overwhelmed with diets and body dissatisfaction to freed up and empowered with lasting habits of Intuitive Eating and body respect. Meredith's speciality areas are eating disorders, disordered eating, chronic dieting, body image concerns and women's health.

In this episode we discuss:

• Meredith's role as lead dietitian at Free Method Nutrition.
• Meredith's journey from weight loss dietitian to intuitive eating dietitian, how her years working at a college campus sparked her passion for working with people in college to work towards food freedom.
• The emotional impacts that can exacerbate the likelihood of developing ED in college
• How normalized diet culture is in a college setting.
• Tangible ways college students can protect themselves from diet culture.
• Healing from perfectionism while in college.
• How Meredith practices wellness without obsession.

Get to know Meredith:

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @meredithren.rd

Food Freedom Handbook (free download): freemethodnutrition.com/guide

Start your food freedom journey with our self-paced course, Free Method: Fundamentals

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 is a non-profit 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 today's podcast episode, we are going to be focused on YOU and your story. I share quite a bit about my own personal journey, and bits and pieces of my clients with you, but I think it can be even more powerful to see that SO so many of us have had similar experiences when it comes to hypothalamic or post pill amenorrhea. Enjoy today's episode where I share YOUR confessions of 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.

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

Casey Zavaleta is a strength coach, fitness educator, and nutritional therapy practitioner based in Toronto, ON. She began her career with Toronto FC in the High Performance Department where she created programs to improve athletes' high performance habits. As a personal trainer, she has found a passion for leading and coaching women to engage with fitness for better reasons than changing their body size. She is currently an educator with DTS Fitness Education, where she is the lead developer for DTS Habits Coach, a course that teaches trainers to help their clients improve their habits and change their beliefs about themselves.

As a former dancer, Casey struggled for many years with my body image and disordered eating, and learned to define my worth based on how my body looked. After educating herself and doing countless hours of internal work, Casey came to a deep understanding that wellness is about much more than external markers such as the size of our bodies or the amount of weight we can lift in the gym. In this episode we help you explore what it looks like to set strength training goals for yourself that still honor and respect your Intuitive Eating mindset and practice.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Casey evolved to become a strength coach that practices in an IE aligned way and how she made that shift.
• Tangible examples of what it means to stop obsessing about how we want to look and start focusing on how we want to feel.
• Examples of what it looks like to set goals that are strength based that aren't geared specifically towards weight loss
• Questions you can ask yourself to help navigate the tricky part of movement routines of creating a habit and being motivated to move your body.
• How Casey personally navigates being intuitive with her exercise routine while also progressing towards goals.
• Casey's podcast, How Do You Feel Podcast and her work.
• How Casey practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Casey:

• Listen to How Do You Feel: Apple Podcasts
• Find Casey on Instagram: @caseymzav
• Register for DTS Habits Coach: dtsfitnesseducation.com

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.

Today's episode is helping you to understand and explore what happens in your body when you have hypothalamic amenorrhea. Unlike other hormone conditions, HA is directly caused from stress to the body, namely inadequate intake and excessive exercise. This episode helps explain how this occurs, and why we lose our period when our diet and exercise behaviors have gone too extreme.

In this episode we discuss 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 produces hormones that cause women to menstruate. Each gland produces hormones in a precisely timed manner allowing them to work in harmony creating an ideal environment for your body.

The HPG axis is extremely sensitive to the environment. Changes in the environment can then affect the HPG axis and hormone production by disrupting its regularly scheduled programming.

What is a change in environment? And how does this affect the HPG axis? Listen to today's episode to learn more!

Today's episode is brought to you by Primarlly Pure. I am loving lately 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

Sara Reardon is a doctor of physical therapy graduating from Washington University in St Louis and board-certified women's health physical therapist. Sara specializes in the treatment of pelvic floor disorders, including pelvic pain, bowel and bladder dysfunction, painful sex, and pregnancy and postpartum recovery. She is the owner of NOLA Pelvic Health, a pelvic health physical therapy clinic in New Orleans, La. and founder of The Vagina Whisperer, an online resource for pelvic health education to support, empower and educate women worldwide. She is a mom to two boys, wife, Saints fan and wanna-be yogi. You can find her on Instagram at @the.vagina.whisperer where she has over 185k followers.

In this episode we discuss:

• Sara's journey to becoming a pelvic floor PT and then starting her IG account and business, the Vagina Whisperer and NOLA Pelvic Health.
• Why we need to rethink postpartum care, and why postpartum care for the vagina is so important.
• How exactly pelvic floor physical therapy works and what to expect.
• Common problems that can happen to the pelvic floor in the postpartum.
• How important postpartum care is impacting not only our own personal lives, but our collective community.
• Actionable items we can all do starting today to strengthen our pelvic floor.
• Sara shares the story behind her V-Hive unfiltered posts she shares weekly on her Instagram account.
• How Sara practices wellness without obsession.

Here's the website to the Pelvic Floor PT in Greenville, SC I personally work with, Jenna Sires.

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.

I'm excited to be bringing you a new series for the podcast! You asked for more content on gentle nutrition, so we will be beginning a gentle nutrition series, to help you explore what it looks like to care for your health through a non-diet lens.

You can submit topics you'd like to see in this new series by joining our Facebook group or sending me a DM on Instagram.

In this episode, I cover in detail the concept of body food congruence. The Intuitive Eating workbook shares this about body food congruence, "It represents how foods feel in your body- that is, how eating a particular food or meal makes you feel...It is about making food choices based on health and body functioning as well as pleasure."

Listen to this episode to learn more about body food congruence, definitions of authentic health and specific examples to help you understand with ease how to apply this in your own life.

I have decided to add Primally Pure back as a podcast sponsor after a two month pause due to incongruent brand values in who they chose to work with. I have loved and continued to use their products for over 3+ years, and would like to give the company a second opportunity in partnering together.

So with this shared, I would love to share what Primally Pure products I am currently loving. 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

What is your Knowing? And how can you better connect to it? Listen to today's podcast episode, with guest Casey Newman, to help you feel nurtured and supported in how to use journaling, yoga and other mindfulness practices to better connect to your intuition.

Casey is a certified holistic health coach and yoga teacher. She is here to help you step into the BEST version of yourself using more than just the foods you eat. She is committed to helping you release toxic patterns and live the life you deserve, unapologetically. Casey loves getting real with her instagram captions with messages of empowerment, confidence and self-worth. Her signature Reset to Rise program is designed to help you find the courage to release toxic cycles and create daily rituals infused with intention.

In this episode we discuss:

1. Casey's journey like to pursue her work and what inspired her love for mindfulness, yoga and wellness.
2. How the struggle with perfectionism and disordered eating create a very challenging time understanding true balance. Casey's advice to be in the HERE with more ease.
3. What it means to follow your Knowing, your gut instinct and intuition.
4. The toxic patterns Casey sees most women following in their lives and how to break free from them.
5. The therapeutic benefits of journaling, and easy tangible ways to form this habit (especially if you struggle with how to get started!)
6. How Casey practices wellness without obsession.

Learn more about Casey on her blog and Instagram account.

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.

Welcome to the next round of our Ask Me Anything Q&A series! In this episode, my lovely assistant Kate asks me your listener questions about protein intake, probiotics and habitual eating habits.

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