Shoulders Down

In this week’s episode, I’m joined by dietitian and mindfulness teacher Keirra Bartley. She owns the private practice Attune Nutrition and believes everyone has the right to feel at home in their body and on this earth.

Together we discuss:

• Keirra’s food & body image story
• How being conscious about sustainability led Keirra down a path of disordered eating
• How mindfulness can support healing our relationships with food and body
• Misconceptions of what mindfulness looks like
• How wellness culture has co-opted mindfulness

More from Keirra:

• Check out Attune Nutrition’s website
• The Attune News Substack
• Follow Keirra on Instagram

More from Leah:

• Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course
• Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
• Join my self-paced course, The Return
• Subscribe to my personal Substack
• Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
• Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
• Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
• Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code. 

In this episode, we are joined by Registered Dietitian, pubic speaker and running coach, Serena Marie. Serena uses a unique blend of intuitive eating, somatic counseling, and running nutrition to help you fuel your dreams. Together, we discuss:

• Serena Marie’s journey with disordered eating & running
• How Serena was introduced to intuitive eating
• Addressing thin privilege & internalized weight stigma
• The problems with under-fueling & under-hydrating before, during or after exercising
• How to set yourself up for success at as athlete

More from Serena Marie:

Listen to Leah on Serena’s podcast, Dear Runner Bod

Visit Serena’s website

Follow Serena on Instagram @serenamarierd

More from Leah:

Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course

Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program

Join my self-paced course, The Return

Subscribe to my personal Substack

Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd

Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings

Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered  straight from my heart  to your inbox each week.

Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code. 

In this episode, we are joined by nutrition student and wellness podcaster, Emily Beal of Energy with Emily and What I Didn’t Know. Together, we discuss:

• Emily’s journey from body neutrality to disordered eating to recovery
• How disordered eating can lead people into studying nutrition
• The relationship between perfectionism, over-achieving & disordered eating
• Emily’s journey with mental health, therapy & medication
• Learning to be enough

More from Emily:

Hear Leah on Emily’s podcast, What I Didn’t Know

Follow Emily on Instagram @energy.with.emily

Join Emily’s email list

More from Leah:

Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course

Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program

Join my self-paced course, The Return

Subscribe to my personal Substack

Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd

Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings

Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered  straight from my heart  to your inbox each week.

Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code. 

In this episode, we are joined by  Intuitive Eating Coach and HAES advocate, Jonny Landels! In this episode, we discuss: 

• Jonny's food and body story
• The  impact of being bullied for his body size on Jonny's relationship with food 
• How working at CrossFit skyrocketed Jonny into disordered eating and negative body image
• The messy middle parts of healing from disordered eating
• How Jonny finally stopped counting calories and tracking macros
• How Jonny's rigidity with food negatively impacted his relationships

Find Jonny on Instagram to learn more about his work

Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course
Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Subscribe to my personal Substack
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered  straight from my heart  to your inbox each week.
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code. 

In this week's episode, we catch up with Koren, a graduate of my 1:1 coaching program, The Embodied Method. In this episode, we discuss:

• Koren's story with her long history of dieting and trying to manipulate the  her body 
• The  tipping point that led Koren to reach out for support 
• How Koren went from being a lifelong dieter to becoming an intuitive eater
• The tools that have made the biggest difference in helping Koren make peace with her body

Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course
Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program


Join my self-paced course, The Return
Subscribe to my personal Substack
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered  straight from my heart  to your inbox each week.
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd (note, I'm moving away from using IG and plan to log off fully by March 25th 2024, however you can still find an archive of free content on my page).
Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code. 

In this week's solo episode, I cover: 

• The 3 biggest things I’ve changed my mind on in 3 years of running my biz
• How I’ve shifted my approach to coaching (specifically, body image coaching)
• The way my views on when and how to incorporate gentle nutrition with clients has shifted over time
• How (and why) I’ve drastically changed my mind on the role I want social media to play in my biz ecosystem

Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course
Read my Substack piece, Why I'm Leaving Instagram

Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Subscribe to my personal Substack
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered  straight from my heart  to your inbox each week.
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd (note, I'm moving away from using IG and plan to log off fully by March 25th 2024, however you can still find an archive of free content on my page).
Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code. 

• My story with navigating the holiday season before and after becoming an intuitive eater and healing my body image
• Common hurdles to navigating the holidays as an intuitive eater
• Specific tips for handling loved-ones still entrenched in diet culture
• How to avoid eating past comfortable fullness at the big holiday meal(s)
• Dealing with the desire to fill the void of unmet needs with food 
• Moving through the sadness that can come up when a delicious celebratory meal is coming to an end. 
• Navigating the situation where you’re being hosted for the holidays and don’t have control over food and mealtimes

Download the FREE Intuitive Eater Holiday Survival Guide

Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Subscribe to my personal Substack
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered  straight from my heart  to your inbox each week.
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code. 

In this episode, we are joined by fellow anti-diet dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Christy Harrison! In this episode, we discuss

• Christy’s food and body story
• How an innocent pursuit of wellness can quickly lead to disordered eating
• How wellness culture kicked diet culture out of the mainstream spotlight
• The “care effect” as a possible explanation as to why some people claim that wellness interventions “work” 
• The role of wellness in creating stigma around using medications for mental health support
• Christy’s take on whether or not we should avoid alternative medicine approaches altogether 
• Why Christy can’t stand the cultural obsession with gut health

Visit Christy's website to learn more about her work.

Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Subscribe to my personal Substack
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered  straight from my heart  to your inbox each week.
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code. 

In this episode, we are joined by fellow anti-diet dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Sam Previte of Find Food Freedom. In this episode, we discuss:

• Sam's story with her relationship with food and body
• Sam's journey from being a "fence straddler" to becoming a full on Intuitive Eating RD
• How Sam approaches sharing the Intuitive Eating message with large TV audiences
• The aspect of IE that has been on Sam's heart as of recently 
• Sam's biggest diet culture pet peeve

Visit Sam's website to learn more about her work.
Connect with Sam on social media @find.food.freedom

Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Subscribe to my personal Substack
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered  straight from my heart  to your inbox each week.
Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code. 

In this week's solo episode, we talk about how your relationship with food impacts you on a physiological level.  We cover:

• How relationship with food impacts digestion and metabolism
• The impact of stress on your body
• Sympathetic versus parasympathetic nervous system

Download my free PDF guide linking all the studies I mentioned in this episode.

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Join my self-paced course, The Return
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Submit your question(s) here for chance to have it answered on an upcoming podcast episode
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered  straight from my heart  to your inbox each week.
Email me: [email protected]

🎧 Join the waitlist for my audio course, 10 Steps To Food Freedom. Doors open in early November and waitlisters get an exclusive 30% off discoumt code.