Small Steps

One of the larger hurdles to healthier eating, cooking at home or meal prepping can be figuring out WTF to cook! In this episode, I provide a few options you can try to figure out how you can figure out what to cook each night or week, depending on what could work for you in this season of your life.

We all tap into our strength in different ways and for a lot of people, strengthening their physical bodies is the key to strengthening their minds as well. Today I talk with Maria Rodriguez of Fear Her Fight Athletics about how strength training opened doors within and outside of her, and how she pays that forward with coaching, her company and bringing folks together to stand more in their own strength.

So often we can have goals to get healthier and while we can keep some consistency for a little bit, it falls off and we beat ourselves up for not following through and “being lazy.” In actuality, those health goals can be not as deeply meaningful to us, which is why we don’t stick with them. In this episode, I talk about how you can get really clear on why you want your health goals, aligning those with your personal values and how to move forward with both of those.

Planning a wedding can easily go from excitement to sheer dread for so many reasons, from the cost to the coordination to your wedding outfit. Wedding planning can be a whole other thing because of all of the expectations and standards that come with. My guest, personal trainer and newlywed Vanessa Checchio of Bachata and Barbells in on the show to share her experience dress shopping, how slippery the diet culture slope is with dress shopping and wedding planning, and how you can step outside of that.

Moving forward in your health and wellness goals goes beyond what’s on your plate, your sleep and how you’re moving. What you’re saying and thinking about yourself can really make a difference in making changes more permanent or easier. This episode is an invitation to check in with the language you’re using about you, your body and your food, and if it’s not helpful for you, how to adjust.

CBD is one of the hot new things in the wellness world. From tinctures to drinks to lotions to pet products, you can find it in so many products. But what exactly is it? How could it help? How does it make you feel? Nadya Pecherskaya of Icaria is on the show to answer all of my CBD 101 questions and why it’s best as an addition to your life, rather than something that will “solve all your problems.”

I answer one of the most common questions I get as a nutritionist: How do I eat healthier? While it seems like a simple question, the answer isn’t as straightforward as you would think. I’ve got 5 small steps you can try and start to eat healthier in a way that works for you and aligns with what you want.

Birth control has long been seen as a rite of passage or a way to take control of your health. While it can be helpful, we often aren’t told enough (or anything) about what it can really do to our bodies and the side effects of it. Going off of it seems scary, too, after all of the fear around getting pregnant when we’re not ready. My guest Cindy Luquin talks about what the pill does, how we can find a hormone-suppressant free way to know our cycles and reconnect with our bodies.

In our society, it can be easy to fall into a never-ending cycle of busyness. And while you can get a lot of things done when you’re busy, being too busy for too long can have some negative effects on your health and wellbeing. This episode creates the space for you to stop, pause and check in with yourself to see how your busyness is right now and how you can give yourself the rest and nourishment you need.

When you’ve seen that you don’t want to play the diet culture games with your health anymore, it can feel overwhelming or confusing on how to take care of yourself and step farther away from diet culture. Steph Gaudreau is back on the show to talk about a holistic, compassionate and approachable way to do that with her new book, The Core 4.