The Feeling Lighter Podcast

The crew chats with guest Leigh Healey an ex bikini pageant competitor who shares her journey of filling the emptiness by finding meaning beyond body image.

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The crew discusses movement and what the real of moving your body is. What is good movement and why and how should you move your body. 

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The crew hears from Victoria who shares her story of 20 years of eating disorders and trauma and how she was able to survive, recover, and thrive. Victoria is a food freedom and body love coach, an inspirational speaker, podcast host and a writer. She's here to show you how to find food freedom, become besties with your body, and most importantly, fall in love with yourself.

***Trigger Warning: Rape, physical and emotional abuse***

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The crew interviews Natalie Rose a psychotherapist who specializes in treating eating disorders and disordered eating. She works primarily with adolescents and adults using a bio psychosocial approach to address emotion regulation, disordered eating, chronic dieting, negative body image and self-esteem, and eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and orthorexia. Natalie also provides intuitive eating and emotion coaching to individuals worldwide. For questions and comments, email us at [email protected]

Learn how to eat intuitively with Natasha Ngindi who shares her own story from growing up in South Africa to discovering different cultural norms around weight and body image in Canada. Natasha shares how she became an intuitive eater and a nutritionish and founded the ThicK Nutritionist brand. Is intuitive eating a diet, or an anti-diet? The crew explores these questions and more. 

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Special guest Heather Chauvin dicusses her journey of surviving, finding her true self, and thriving. How does a single mom with cancer push off the weight of their beliefs and find health and happiness? How do our beliefs create our identity? The crew investigates these stories and more! 

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Breaking up with diet culture isn't easy, it takes time and it not easy. We don't even realize all the harmful things we say to people that are actually promoting a toxic diet culture. Dr Folden tells us how she coaches people on how to unlearn diet culture and examine their history with it. Dr. Folden is a certified behavior team specialist, health coach and an owner of Healthy Fit Physical Therapy. 

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How do belief strutures create your life experience? Can you change your perspective on events in your life by changing your beliefs? The crew discusses this and more during this week's episode centering around beliefs. Katie also shares 3 of her favorite books that dive into our beliefs, join us to find out which ones she loves! 

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Have you thought about what role community plays in your life? The crew discusses how community has helped them and what role it plays for our members at WeShape. Sometimes its important to just be heard and also to listen to others. Also stay tuned for the special WeShape challenge word! 

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The crew has a discussion with Dr Sara Dowset about the psychology around disordered eating and body image. What does diet culture do to perpetuate disordered eating and who is it harming the most? Hear about Dr. Dowset's own journey and relationship with diets as the WeShape team navigates these hard topics together.

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