Redefining Health Podcast | Intuitive eating, body image, health without dieting

In today's episode, we're talking about all the things all of us are embarrassed to talk about, but need to. Katherine and Victoria sit down with Kezia Hall to talk about her journey to overcome IBS and digestive drama, or as she puts it from "sad, sick, and stuck on the toilet to vibrant health and being able to live life." She also talks about our bodies' power to heal themselves, hope for those struggling with digestive issues, and how to approach healing in an intuitive way.

In this episode, we talk about:
- The power we have to heal our own bodies
- What helped her continue looking for answers and not lose hope
- What is IBS and how is it different than IBD
- Can IBS be cured?
- Hope for those discouraged with IBS and healing journey
- Intuitive Eating and GI issues
- The difference between food intolerance and food allergy
- Can you overcome a food intolerance?
- The negative impact of restricting foods for a long period of time
- The role psychology plays in gut health

Kezia is a Holistic Nutritionist in Scotland who works online with women who are fed up of feeling bloated and tired. They're not happy with their weight and are tired of constant digestive issues and knowing what to eat. In her online clinic she creates nutritional and lifestyle plans that help them fix their digestion so that they can feel good in their clothes, and get back to living their lives! She also runs a popular podcast, eats a lot of dark chocolate and has a love/hate relationship with coffee.   Connect with Kezia:

• Website
• Instagram
• Gut Goddess Show

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• Victoria's Beautycounter
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• Website
• Instagram
• Katherine's Beautycounter

Today on the podcast, Katherine and Victoria sit down with Michelle Hunt -- the recipe developer on her blog Peachy Palate who is driven by a desire to help and inspire others to think outside the box a little when it comes to meals, and show that there is space for all foods as part of an intuitive eating approach. We're talking about Michelle's struggle with anorexia, how she found full recovery, and what helped her along the way. We then dig into her experience with hypothalamic amenorrhea, and how letting go of control and going all in helped her get her period back.

We discuss:

• Michelle's story of anorexia and recovery
• The challenges she faced in recovery
• What helped her find full recovery
• How she knew she was recovered
• Her experience with hypothalamic amenorrhea
• How she got her period back

Connect with Michelle:

• @peachypalate (IG)
• Blog: peachypalate.com

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• Website
• Instagram
• Victoria's Beautycounter
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• Website
• Instagram
• Katherine's Beautycounter

 

 

 

Have you been feeling more stressed recently? With everything that's going on in the world, you may be feeling more stressed than normal, and we wanted to offer some education and resources to help you manage stress right now. You don't need elaborate routines or special products to reduce your stress. In fact, trying to do all the things to manage your stress, may be making your stress worse. Instead, we offer some accessible and simple tips and tricks to become aware of stress in your life and bring peace into your life.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How both Katherine and Victoria recognize they're stressed and what is and isn't helpful in coping with stress.
• An overview of what stress is and how our bodies' respond to stress.
• Why not stress isn't always bad.
• The Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Nervous Systems
• How stress impacts our health
• How to bring balance and cope with stress

Connect with Embracing Balance Podcast:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/embracingbalancepodcast/
• Email: [email protected]

Connect with Victoria:

• Website: https://victoria-yates.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nondiet_rn/
• Victoria's Beautycounter: https://www.beautycounter.com/victoriayates?goto=/ 

Connect with Katherine:

• Website: https://choosing-balance.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katherine.herbison/
• Katherine's Beautucounter: https://www.beautycounter.com/katherineherbison?goto=/ 

 

 

 

On this episode, Katherine interviews Crystal Karges about experience with food growing up and her struggle with and recovery from an eating disorder. How marriage and motherhood motivated her to work towards full freedom and recovery, and the challenges of pregnancy and postpartum after an eating disorder. And lastly, they discuss how diet culture has infiltrated child feeding, how to truly raise healthy children, and how parents can help their children foster positive body image.

 

Crystal Karges is a Master’s-level Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Nutritional Therapist. With a San Diego based private practice, Crystal offers specialized nutrition counseling for maternal and perinatal eating disorders, body image healing, prenatal and postpartum wellness, pediatric health and child feeding strategies, and breastfeeding consultations. Combining her experience and expertise as an eating disorder dietitian and in maternal and child health, Crystal provides comprehensive online nutrition counseling and support that empowers women to confidently nourish themselves and their families throughout the motherhood journey, cultivate a positive body image, and live freely in a peaceful relationship with food. Through a weight inclusive framework, Crystal is committed to providing effective, compassionate, and evidenced based nutrition care to mothers and families across San Diego county and worldwide through her online blog and virtual nutrition coaching practice.

Connect with Crystal Karges:

• Website
• Instagram

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• Instagram
• Email: [email protected]

Connect with Victoria:

• Website
• Instagram
• Victoria's Beautycounter
• Email: [email protected]

Connect with Katherine:

• Website
• Instagram
• Katherine's Beautycounter
• Email: [email protected]

 

 

What is clean beauty? Does it really matter? And how can you pursue this wellness trend without obsession? We're answering all these questions and more in this episode! Katherine and Victoria share how they got interested in clean beauty and how they reconciled this trend with their past eating disorders. Read More >>

We talk about:

• What is clean beauty?
• The current state of the beauty industry in the U.S.
• Why clean beauty matters
• How you can make a swap to cleaner products
• Some of our favorite clean products

Together we can make change in the beauty industry and help our friends use safer products. Share this episode with a friend and/or share on your social media.

Talked about on the podcast:

• Beautycounter Countermatch skincare
• Beautycounter Charcoal Mask
• Beautycounter Cleansing Balm
• Beautycounter Countertime skincare
• Beautycounter Shampoo and Conditioner
• The Never List
• EWG Skin Deep Database

Connect with Embracing Balance Podcast:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/embracingbalancepodcast/
• Email: [email protected]

Connect with Victoria:

• Website: https://victoria-yates.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nondiet_rn/ 
• Victoria's Beautycounter: https://www.beautycounter.com/victoriayates?goto=/ 

Connect with Katherine:

• Website: https://choosing-balance.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katherine.herbison/
• Katherine's Beautucounter: https://www.beautycounter.com/katherineherbison?goto=/ 

 

 

Let's bring joy and energy back to exercise (i.e. movement)! Staying active is one aspect of a balanced healthy life, and Katherine and Victoria want to empower women to find healing with their relationship with exercise. Enter Heather Englund, AFAA certified group fitness instructor, certified YogaFit instructor, and more. Read More >>

In this episode, Katherine and Heather discuss Heather's story of going from an obsession with body size and over exercise to embracing an intuitive approach to exercise. Now Heather is passionate about helping women discover movement that works with their body not against it.

We talk about:

• What is intuitive movement for me?
• How your cycle impacts movement
• How to build an intuitive approach to exercise.
• Practical tips on how to tune into your body
• How movement can be part of a balanced approach to wellness.

Heather Englund is the face and voice behind the food and fitness website Fit Mama Real Food. Heather is also the host of the weekly healthy living podcast Fit Mama Real Food Radio and is the creator of Fit Mama Real Food on YouTube, where you’ll find quick workouts, healthy recipes and tips.  

Heather is an AFAA certified group fitness instructor, certified YogaFit instructor along with many more fitness specialties under her belt. Her teaching career began in 2011. She finds so much joy making movement fun for her participants. Seeing the transformation exercise can have both physically and mentally inspires Heather every day to guide women to take the time to focus on themselves in this way.

Connect with Heather Englund:

• Website
• Podcast
• YouTube
• Instagram

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• Instagram
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Connect with Victoria:

• Website
• Instagram
• Victoria's Beautycounter
• Email: [email protected]

Connect with Katherine:

• Website
• Instagram
• Katherine's Beautycounter

 

 

Today on the podcast, Katherine and Victoria sit down with Cristina Hoyt, MS, of Cristina Hoyt Nutrition. Cristina is an Integrative Clinical Nutritionist and Body Image Coach, and she helps her clients cultivate a positive relationship with food and their body by integrating the principles of functional, neutral nutrition, Health At Every Size™, and weight inclusive, non-diet medical nutrition counseling. Read more>>

In today's episode, we talk about how Cristina's struggle with chronic illness informs her practice today, how to manage a chronic illness without becoming restrictive, how our values can lead to restrictive eating behaviors, the issue with becoming too health conscious, Health at Every Size, and the importance of weight inclusive care.

 

Connect with Cristina Hoyt:

• Instagram
• Website
• Are You Too Health Conscious? Quiz

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• Instagram
• Email: [email protected]

Connect with Victoria:

• Website
• Instagram
• Victoria's Beautycounter

Connect with Katherine:

• Website
• Instagram
• Katherine's Beautycounter

 

Did you know that you have very little control over your weight? Or that eating less doesn't necessarily lead to weight loss? Shocking, right?!

In this episode, Katherine goes in depth about setpoint weight - the weight range that your body can comfortably maintain without any calorie manipulation, control of food, dieting or obsessive exercise. Read more >>

She talks about the fear of weight gain and why we don't need to control our weight, what setpoint is and how it works, how to know if you're at your setpoint weight, and tips for allowing your body to find its set point.

Additional Resources:

• Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon
• Body Respect by Linda Bacon

Connect with Embracing Balance Podcast:

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Connect with Victoria:

• Website: https://victoria-yates.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nondiet_rn/
• Victoria's Beautycounter: https://www.beautycounter.com/victoriayates?goto=/ 

Connect with Katherine:

• Website: https://choosing-balance.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katherine.herbison/
• Katherine's Beautucounter: https://www.beautycounter.com/katherineherbison?goto=/ 

Welcome Meridith Beinvenue of She Who Can, holistic business coach guiding stay-at-home moms through how to make an income to create financial, energy, and time freedom. Read more >>

In today's episode, Meridith shares her story of how pursuing the ideal body only left her feeling empty and how that led her into building a business to empower women, only then to be disrupted by an unexpected pregnancy which led her to the work she does now. We talk about the ideal body does not lead to happiness, depression, the challenges of an unexpected pregnancy and post-partum, and how mom's don't need to lose who they are in motherhood.

Trigger warning: We do talk about depression, unexpected pregnancy, and suicidal thoughts. If this is triggering to you, please skip this episode and listen to a past episode.

Connect with Meridith:

• Instagram
• Website

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• Email: [email protected]

Connect with Victoria:

• Website
• Instagram
• Victoria's Beautycounter

Connect with Katherine:

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• Instagram
• Katherine's Beautycounter

 

 

Today on the podcast Victoria Yates shares about Orthorexia - the obsession with healthy eating and living. Victoria shares more about what orthorexia is, how to determine if you have it, her own struggle and recovery from orthorexia, and encouragement and tips for those working through orthorexia recovery.

More on orthorexia from Neda.

Bratman Test for Orthorexia.

Connect with Embracing Balance Podcast:

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Connect with Victoria:

• Website: https://victoria-yates.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nondiet_rn/
• Victoria's Beautycounter: https://www.beautycounter.com/victoriayates?goto=/ 

Connect with Katherine:

• Website: https://choosing-balance.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katherine.herbison/
• Katherine's Beautucounter: https://www.beautycounter.com/katherineherbison?goto=/