Shame Free Eating

Sometimes it takes the youngest among us to teach the truths we most need. Tune in as Lita shares a personal story with Julie that beautifully encapsulates how to strip the power from shame with courage and vulnerability. And in the process passing along some of the greatest gifts possible to those in our wake...self-acceptance, self-confidence, worthiness, belonging, empathy, strength, and love.

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Do you wonder how nutrition fits into an intuitive eating and anti-diet approach? Tune in for a quick explanation! The food that we eat serves a multitude of purposes, and the science of nutrition is awesome. The sciences of psychology, human behavior, and physiology are also awesome, and they play a part in this story.

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You don't want to miss this episode! Tune in for some meaningful insight from Julie's guest Kim as she discusses her personal journey with, and thoughts about, before and after photos.

Kim also shares how she and her teenage daughter support each other as they traverse this culture of diets and anti-fat bias, and the ways in which they reframe how they talk to themselves.

For more on this topic head on over to shamefreeeating.com and connect with any number of resources you can find there!

Why is lack of sleep a badge of honor? Sleep is as necessary for life as food, and our body is just as unyielding in its biological drive to make it happen. Tune in as we discuss some of the things our body does to try and compensate for sleep deprivation and then go take a nap!

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Are you feeling overwhelmed, can't juggle everything, feeling super stressed? You are probably focusing your energy on too many things. Tune in and do an activity that might just be life-altering or at the least life-affirming. You are enough!

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Your body certainly doesn't know the difference between a diet and a famine. And that big brain of yours can't outwit it either! In fact, a diet is a famine. Tune in for the 411 on how your body does exactly what it is built to do when you go on a diet, and how weight regain is not your fault. Weight loss diet advice is so prominent in our culture that in comparison, evidence based nutrition has become hard to find if not practically obsolete from the widely consumed social platforms. For more on this join the FREE online workshop Healing from Diets. Julie will go live for 15 minutes each April 12 - 16th. Go to shamefreeeating.com for more info and to register!

When friends push their diets on social media platforms it can have many unintended and harmful consequences.

Host Julie speaks with past guest Vicky about how these posts come across to her and her concerns for the emotional health of those reading them, in particular, teenagers. Julie addresses some of the problems with those still grappling with their own history of dieting becoming the "health coach" for other struggling folks.

If you have a history with food and diets and want some strategies for how to move forward reach out! Head over to shamefreeeating.com for more resources and to get in touch.

Our body is shouldering a whole lot of stress these days. And that can look a lot of different ways...body changes, mental health changes, activity changes, changes in routines.

Tune in as Julie speaks with Lara about her job as a cardiac nurse and how changing jobs during covid was an incredible opportunity while also derailing her past routines.

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Reflecting on her personal history as a non-diet dietitian, Julie shares her history as a picky eater, thoughts on her genetics, and how it contributed to the way in which she practices nutrition therapy.

Her thin privilege afforded her benefits that led to many of the insights that are foundational in how she works with clients.

Listen in for advice on ditching the weight charts in order to be a more intuitive eater and to skip the dieting weight roller coaster all together.

For more on healing your relationship with food and your body head on over to shamefreeeating.com for free resources and how you can work with Julie.

If you are using your scale as a form of "accountability", it may be doing more harm than good. Tune into this episode for some inspiration and encouragement to ditch the scale for good!

There are a lot of things that we do because it's what we've always done and seems to be "the thing to do". Hear a quick plug for why weighing yourself probably shouldn't be one of them anymore.

Do you have a story about weighing that you would like to share? Head over to shamefreeeating.com and let's chat!