What's the most iconic movie phrase in 1989?

If you're a woman, it's arguably "I'll have what she's having" from the movie When Harry met Sally starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.

The diner scene when Meg Ryan falls into erotic ecstasy with ohs, yes-es, and exclamations over her burger and milkshake while other women in the diner watch with envy is a classic.

If passion like that isn't in your sexual relationship because of stress, anxiety, symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, or all the other curve balls life throws at you after 40, this podcast interview was created with you in mind.

My guest, intimacy coach, Amy Color helps people connect and have playful relationships with love lives they love.

Amy became the intimacy professional she went looking for and couldn’t find. She created solutions to conventional talk therapy or pills, that solve real intimacy problems for real people in real relationships. She's written THE BOOK on intimacy: The Huddle: How To Score In Sex & Love.

As you'll hear in this episode, Amy is a memorable speaker. She's delivered an epic TEDx talk, Better Intimacy For Better Sex with over 1M views. Amy Color wants everyone to stop fighting and feel the love connection. ~ Mm-hmm.

Here's what you'll hear in our conversation:

• What's Amy's story? Why did she become an intimacy coach?
• How does body image get in the way of creating a meaningful sexual relationship and what does it mean to #freethejiggle?
• Help! He has a porn issue, erectile dysfunction, bad technique, doesn't initiate well, unattractive smell or touch - how can women work with their partners to address these complaints rather than think it's their fault?
• How to get a man to show up in other rooms of the house - and how does this help a coupler build emotional intimacy ("stay connected. Mm-hmm.")
• Amy shares her best advice for women in midlife who want to re-spark an intimate relationship that feels like "you're just roommates with a mortgage." 

Learn more about Amy's work and other ways to heal your relationship with pleasure and intimacy in midlife with the resources below.   Resources:   Interview with Dr. Alexandra Stockwell, MD https://alpinenutrition.org/have-great-sex-after-40/   Amy Color's TEDx TalK, Better Intimacy for Her, Better Sex for Him & Vice Versa: https://youtu.be/UkQ6FBltdYU   Amy's book, The Huddle: How to Score in Sex & Love   Amy's website: https://www.amycolor.com/  

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Hey there! In today's live session, I answer a common question about how to support your heart health with nutrition in midlife.

Plus, if you feel more chaotic than confident with food, I've got just the midlife hack that will help you know exactly how to nourish your body anytime, any day.

You can learn more about this midlife hack on the blog: https://alpinenutrition.org/chaos-to-...

I'd love to hear from you! In the comments below, tell me 1 way you're going to nourish yourself this week.

Got questions? I'd love to answer them! Contact me here: https://alpinenutrition.org/contact/ 

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What keeps women in midlife from having great sex? Body image.   That's the short answer. Of course, there are many other factors like stress, trauma, and symptoms of perimenopause that get in the way of experiencing sexual pleasure after 40.   But if you don't feel sexy in your body, if you can't give yourself permission to experience sex differently than you did in your 20s and 30s, your sexual well-being is shot.   I'm talking with Sarah Rose Bright an Intimacy and Sex Coach, and the founder of The Sexy Life Podcast. She helps women and couples enjoy sex and pleasure by creating deeper intimate relationships in midlife.   Listen to our conversation as we discuss the intersection of body image and sexuality for women in their 40s and 50s. Here's what you'll learn:

• How Sarah defines a healthy intimate relationship.
• Sarah's advice on how to keep a healthy sexual relationship going while experiencing body changes in midlife
• Why letting go of assumptions, expectations, and performance is key to sexual satisfaction in midlife
• How your desire for sex can change in midlife - including how you want to experience it.
• How to look after your sexual health (including your parts, vulva, and vagina) in midlife
• Sarah's 3 tips on how to have a positive experience with sexuality in midlife

If you're struggling with sexual well-being after 40, this episode will help validate your experience, answer your question "why me," and help you find pleasure in the bedroom in midlife.

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Sexuality and food have ALOT in common. How's your relationship with food? Take the quiz to find out!

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  Resources:  

*Book - Second Spring by Kate Codrington

*Book - The Pleasure Gap by Katherine Rowland

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In this episode, I answer the common questions that came up during our drop-in office hours in January. Questions like:

• What's the difference between structured eating and dieting?
• Eating whatever I want doesn't mean potato chips does it? What if I eat the whole bag?
• How can intuitive eating help me with emotional eating?
• What should I eat to be healthy in perimenopause? 
• I don't feel hungry but I easily feel too full. How can I know when I should stop eating?
• I gained X pounds out of nowhere after I turned 40. Will intuitive eating help me lose weight?

Tune in to hear my answers to these questions. You can check the live sessions every Wednesday at 9 AM Pacific Time on YouTube @savorfoodandbody and on the Alpine Nutrition Facebook Page. 

You can listen to the recording of the How to be great at intuitive eating in midlife series here on the podcast, episodes 65, 67, 69, 71, and 72

If you want more details on the questions above or ask your own questions about intuitive eating in midlife, I'd love to hear from you! 

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"He said he wasn't attracted to me anymore." Said my friend after 20+ years of marriage, 2 kids, mental health ups and downs, and a chronic health diagnosis.

Personally, I want to pull the guy's hair out, shake him by the shoulders, and give him a stern "seriously, WTF dude" thrashing.

The more zen side of my personality understands relationships change as life changes. And if they don't change together, emotional and physical intimacy gets lost in the shuffle.

Midlife is full of big changes, which is why this month's episode theme is intimacy in midlife. 

This week I'm talking with Dr. Patti Britton (Ph.D.) a nationally board-certified Clinical Sexologist known as the “Mother of Sex Coaching”.

Dr. Patti is the author of hundreds of articles, book chapters, forewords, and five major books in sexology. She is the host of over 40 DVD programs on couples’ sexual enhancement, has appeared on over 200 television shows, and is a featured guest on hundreds of shows for radio, podcasts, summits, and media.

She is the Co-Founder of Sex Coach U, the world’s premier training and certifying organization for sex coaches. Through her private practice in Los Angeles, CA, and worldwide via Zoom, Dr. Patti specializes in serving the Boomer Generation and sexless couples of all ages, who are seek sexual wellness and pleasure.

Here's what you'll hear in our conversation:

• What is sex coaching and how it's different from counseling or therapy?
• The issues Dr. Patti works with clinically around sex, body image, and aging for women in midlife.
• Dr. Patti describes her solutions for what to do when we dry up, sag or droop and slow down. 
• How to cope with body image issues as they relate to low libido and sexual desire.
• How relationship conflicts related to sex and sexuality later in life often radiate from misplaced expectations.
• And Dr. Patti's tips on how women in midlife can find more pleasure in intimacy - physically and emotionally. 

If your intimate relationship has lost the passionate spark, stay tuned for 3 more conversations this month with midlife intimacy experts.

 

Learn more about Dr. Patti's work on her website

Download Dr. Patti's free ebook on Happy Sexy Aging https://bit.ly/sexyagingebook

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How to respect your body in midlife with the help of gentle nutrition.   If we haven't already met, I'm Amanda Bullat RDN - registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and a strong advocate for helping you savor food and body in midlife.   As a former athlete with a disordered relationship with food and a woman in my 40s, I live for helping women in midlife undiet their lives through intuitive eating, mindfulness, and wellness without obsession.   During the Month of January, I've been teaching you how to be great at intuitive eating in midlife - based on the Principles of Intuitive Eating.   If you've missed the previous 4 episodes of this How to be great at intuitive eating in midlife series, you can listen to the past recordings here on the Savor Food and Body Podcast, episodes 65, 67, 69, and 71   This week we'll wrap up the series by talking about body respect and gentle nutrition.   To be honest, when I'm working with 1:1 clients, these principles are woven throughout our work - especially as they relate to nutrition and body image in midlife.   When it comes to the intuitive eating principle of Body Respect, the original definition encourages positive body image by honoring your genetic blueprint with kindness and compassion.

Listen as I explain why, for women in midlife, I like to go a little deeper with this definition to include your physical and mental health and how to treat both with respect.

As far as Gentle nutrition or compassionate nutrition as I like to call it, midlife is more about adding than subtracting. 

If you've been on and off diets for years, you've subtracted enough foods to know that strategy doesn't work in the long term. 

In this episode, you'll hear why it's critically important to eat enough food consistently, enjoy variety, and honor your satisfaction. Hit play and I'll show you how to make healthy eating in midlife easy and tasty. 

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If we haven't already met, I'm Amanda Bullat RDN - registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and a strong advocate for helping you savor food and body in midlife.   As a former athlete with disordered eating and a woman in my 40s, I live for helping women in midlife undiet their lives through intuitive eating, mindfulness, and wellness without obsession.   During the Month of January, I've been teaching you the principles of intuitive eating and how they relate to midlife.   If you've missed the previous 3 episodes of this How to be great at intuitive eating in midlife series, you can listen to the past recordings right here on the Savor Food and Body Podcast.   If you'd like to ask specific questions about intuitive eating or nutrition for midlife, come to the free drop-in office hours I host on Zoom Fridays January 27 and February 3 at 9 AM pacific time. Register below to get the link for these free sessions https://alpinenutrition.ck.page/officehours   This week I'll explain how to create an emotion-coping toolbox and why it's important to include food - even if you think emotional eating is at the root of your dysfunctional relationship with food. We'll also talk about how exercise or movement promotes body kindness, strength, and empowerment, and doesn't focus on before and a critical part of your intuitive eating journey in midlife.  

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Constipation. Diarrhea. Gas and bloating. If you're experiencing gut issues after 40 and you're a woman in midlife, you might assume the discomfort is caused by what you're eating.   You make an appointment with a doctor who specializes in gut health and they offer you a blood test. When the results come back, the doc says you have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) caused by the laundry list of foods you're "sensitive" to based on the blood test.   The recommendations include eliminate the "sensitive" foods and take a handful of supplements and your gut issues will be gone.   Frustrated, hungry, and confused, the tension in your gut increases. You try eliminating most of the foods on the list. Some of your gut issues improve, but not completely.   Eating is stressful, especially when you don't have time to cook a whole food meal from scratch to avoid "sensitive foods." And your family still wants to eat bread, cookies, and pizza. You hate to cook separate foods. Your stress level increases. The tension in your gut increases. Frustrated, you start eating the "sensitive foods" again to keep the peace in your family. Your gut issues continue.   Sound familiar? Is food really the problem? What about all the other stressors you're juggling in midlife?    My guest is Dr. Erin Hayford a Naturopathic Doctor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Intuitive Eating Counselor in-training.   As a mind-body specialist, Dr. Erin is interested in all the ways we are attuned (or not attuned) to our bodies and how this impacts overall well-being. She specializes in the emotional causes of physical illness, a common but often overlooked cause of many health conditions.    Here's what you'll learn in this episode:

• What's the definition of stress?
• What is neuroception and how does it relate to mental health?
• Dr. Erin explains the physiological impact of stress on the gut.
• How Dr. Erin interprets gut symptoms as messages from the body, and why they shouldn't be suppressed but listen to.
• Dr. Erin shares her history of Crohn's and how somatic medicine or mind-body work helped her reconnect to her body.
• Full disclosure, Dr. Erin admits the way she used to treat IBS/SIBO and other gut issues (with restrictive diets and supplements) created a lot of food fear, additional symptoms, and didn't help resolve her patient's gut issues. 
• Learn how Dr. Erin has changed her therapeutic approach with intuitive eating and somatic work to support mind and body healing in the true sense of holistic health.
• We wrap up with Dr. Erin's advice for women in midlife who experience intense physical and emotional symptoms of perimenopause.

If you're a woman struggling with gut issues after 40, somatic medicine might just be the resource you've been looking for.

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Hunger-Fullness Spectrum with Satisfaction on the Side

If we haven't already met, I'm Amanda Bullat RDN - registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and a strong advocate for helping you savor food and body in midlife.

As a former athlete with disordered eating and a woman in my 40s, I live for helping women in midlife undiet their lives through intuitive eating, mindfulness, and wellness without obsession.

During the Month of January, I'll be teaching you the principles of intuitive eating and how they relate to midlife. 

Join me live on the Savor Food and Body YouTube channel or on the Alpine Nutrition Facebook page Wednesdays at 9 AM pacific time.

Can't make it live? You can listen to the recordings here on the Savor Food and Body Podcast.

If you'd like more personal connection, I'm offering free drop-in office hours on Zoom Friday, January 13 - Feb 3 at 9 AM pacific time.

Register below to get the link for these free sessions

https://alpinenutrition.ck.page/officehours

 

If you're not familiar with Intuitive Eating or its principles, they were co-created by 2 dietitians Evelyn Tribole RDN and Elyse Resch RDN in the mid-1990s.

In this series, I'll be teaching the principles in the order I typically use with my 1:1 clients.

So far we've talked about how to reject the diet mentality and make peace with all foods (episode 65). Last week I shared how to identify your food-police thoughts and how focusing on satisfaction with food can keep those food-police thoughts at bay (episode 67).

Today, let's take a look at what I call the hunger-fullness spectrum, why it can be hard to honor subtle signs of hunger, and how satisfaction plays a critical role in finding comfortable fullness.

Here's what you'll learn:

• What is the hunger-fullness spectrum and why I don't call it a scale?
• Why it's difficult to hear subtle cues of hunger, especially if you've been pursuing weight loss for decades, experienced trauma of any kind, are feeling stressed or burned out, or have experienced food insecurity? 
• How ravenous hunger relates to uncomfortable fullness, bingeing, and bargaining.
• How the practice of satisfaction (mindful eating) with food can help you find comfortable fullness without following food rules

Remember! This is a spectrum to help you get to know your hunger-fullness cues better and learn to trust your body's needs as they fluctuate throughout life. Practice not perfection is the name of the game!

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What's the best workout for a woman over 40?   The one she'll consistently do without feelings of guilt or shame for not doing it.   For a workout to lead to better fitness and feeling great in your body, it has to be sustainable. Meaning, you have to feel motivated to do it, have fun doing it, and feel better afterward - mind, body, and soul.   Here's what we know from the research (thanks Brené Brown!). Guilt and shame are lousy long-term motivators. In reality, both will increase the fuckit mindset and lead to constantly trying to "get back on track."   The best workout you can do as a woman over 40 is one that honors your desire for more strength, flexibility, endurance, and body confidence. That doesn't mean you have to force yourself through 60 minutes of punishment.   You can improve your overall fitness in a low-stakes, consistent way, even if it's only 5 minutes most days and you never change into workout clothes!   My guest Jamie Carbaugh is a personal trainer and former physical therapist assistant who doesn't take before and after photos. She helps folks associate the benefits of movement and exercise beyond the scale so it's sustainable for the individual.   Her motto, "movement for more" is about helping you shift your focus from mainstream fitness goals (weight loss, body measurements, and before and after pictures) to associating exercise with more flexibility, patience, kindness, strength, and endurance.    Here's what you'll hear in our conversation:

• Jamie's path to becoming an online fitness coach and Heath At Every Size personal trainer
• What does her tagline "movement for more" means for her coaching style
• How Jamie teaches exercise and movement from a foundational and functional background, and what that means.
• Jamies advice on what types of movement she recommends for women in midlife who want more strength, flexibility, and endurance.

  Jamie is a Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor who is passionate about changing the culture of health and wellness. She offers 1:1 virtual personal training sessions, a monthly workout subscription, and virtual group fitness classes. Learn more about Jamie's work on her website: www.fitragamuffin.com

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