It was Christmas Eve when Alexie Landry woke up to her deceased husband in bed; a moment, nobody is ever ready for, especially at the age of 35. But when you have a 16-month old to take care of, you just have to keep going.

What came after that – the grief, the mourning, the processing, the connections, the new-found love and romance, the light – could also never have been predicted. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Alexie’s personal recount of the Christmas Eve she lost her husband
• The ever-changing emotions that come with grief
• Speaking to your kids about death
• How Alexie’s daughter Adeline took the news of her father’s passing
• The “widow club” that was born through the mourning and grieving process
• How Lost + Found came to be (with Sarah Keast, Shannon Culver, Janice Tsao)
• Dating as a widow 
• How to support someone who’s grieving a loss 
• What losing her husband has taught Alexie 
• Personal recounts of losing their partners from Sarah, Shannon and Janice (the rest of the team at Lost + Found)

THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR

MINDFUL BEGINNINGS

For support with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues and life transitions, book your appointment with psychotherapist, Melanie Tsesler, over at mindfulbeginnings.ca

UPCOMING & INTERESTING

• FREE Webinar: Pursuing Health Without Perfection

• TWO SPOTS REMAINING FOR FEBRUARY: The Intuitive Way For Eating Consulting Program

• Book your discovery call

• Learn more

RESOURCES

• Lost + Found Website
• Lost + Found Instagram @lostandfoundto
• Episode 19 with Melanie Tsesler
• Meal Train 
• Instagram:
• • Alexie Landry @adventures_with_adeline
  • Shannon Culver @shannonmarychristine
  • Sarah Keast @adventuresinwidowedparenting
  • Janice Tsao @jnicet

It was Christmas Eve when Alexie Landry woke up to her deceased husband in bed; a moment, nobody is ever ready for, especially at the age of 35. But when you have a 16-month old to take care of, you just have to keep going.

What came after that – the grief, the mourning, the processing, the connections, the new-found love and romance, the light – could also never have been predicted. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Alexie’s personal recount of the Christmas Eve she lost her husband
• The ever-changing emotions that come with grief
• Speaking to your kids about death
• How Alexie’s daughter Adeline took the news of her father’s passing
• The “widow club” that was born through the mourning and grieving process
• How Lost + Found came to be (with Sarah Keast, Shannon Culver, Janice Tsao)
• Dating as a widow 
• How to support someone who’s grieving a loss 
• What losing her husband has taught Alexie 
• Personal recounts of losing their partners from Sarah, Shannon and Janice (the rest of the team at Lost + Found)

THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR

MINDFUL BEGINNINGS

For support with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues and life transitions, book your appointment with psychotherapist, Melanie Tsesler, over at mindfulbeginnings.ca

UPCOMING & INTERESTING

• FREE Webinar: Pursuing Health Without Perfection

• TWO SPOTS REMAINING FOR FEBRUARY: The Intuitive Way For Eating Consulting Program

• Book your discovery call

• Learn more
  
  

RESOURCES

• Lost + Found Website
• Lost + Found Instagram @lostandfoundto
• Episode 19 with Melanie Tsesler
• Meal Train 
• Instagram:
• • Alexie Landry @adventures_with_adeline
  • Shannon Culver @shannonmarychristine
  • Sarah Keast @adventuresinwidowedparenting
  • Janice Tsao @jnicet

This coming week, your newsfeeds will be filled with conversations around mental health and mental illness in honour of #BellLetsTalk day. I look forward to this week and how it helps to destigmatize mental illness and supporting mental health as a whole, but the conversation can’t stop here. My hope is that after listening to this episode with mental health advocate, Karyn Inder, you’ll be able to see and understand that anyone can be affected by mental illness. We need to continue talking about it openly in order to ensure people are getting the care they need and not going untreated.

In this episode we discuss: 

• Karyn’s challenges with mental illness, including bipolar, anxiety and depression
• The relief that can come with a mental illness diagnosis
• Seeing and treating mental health and physical health in the same light
• Talking about mental health with your partner, or in a relationship
• Talking about mental health with your employer
• Karyn’s strategies to support her mental health daily 
• A day in the list of someone struggling with mental health 
• How to support someone in your life who is struggling with mental illness

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORSMADE WITH LOCAL

Save 20% on your next Made With Local order of Real Food Bars, Loaded Oats or Bar Mix when you use “RACHEL20” at checkout over on madewithlocal.comMINDFUL BEGINNINGS

For support with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and life transitions, book your appointment with psychotherapist, Melanie Tsesler, over at mindfulbeginnings.caRESOURCES

• Homewood
• Seek out Mental Health groups/forums/therapy sessions on Facebook for support within your city
• Connect with Karyn:
• • INSTAGRAM: @karyninderr 
  • TWITTER: @themodeltongue 
  • YOUTUBE: Karyn Inder 
  • FACEBOOK: Karyn Inder 

Follow body positive & mental health advocates for support, relatability & resources: 

@jackdotorg 

@bodyposipanda

@imakegirls 

@makedaisychains

@straightcurvefilm

@allwomxnproject 

@modelallianceny

@thefutureisfemalemovement

@cmhanational 

@yourewelcomeclub

@chanelmillerknowmyname 

@rupikaur_

@thelatestkate

@anxiety_sugar

This coming week, your newsfeeds will be filled with conversations around mental health and mental illness in honour of #BellLetsTalk day. I look forward to this week and how it helps to destigmatize mental illness and supporting mental health as a whole, but the conversation can’t stop here.

My hope is that after listening to this episode with mental health advocate, Karyn Inder, you’ll be able to see and understand that anyone can be affected by mental illness. We need to continue talking about it openly in order to ensure people are getting the care they need and not going untreated.

In this episode we discuss: 

• Karyn’s challenges with mental illness, including bipolar, anxiety and depression
• The relief that can come with a mental illness diagnosis
• Seeing and treating mental health and physical health in the same light
• Talking about mental health with your partner, or in a relationship
• Talking about mental health with your employer
• Karyn’s strategies to support her mental health daily 
• A day in the list of someone struggling with mental health 
• How to support someone in your life who is struggling with mental illness

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

MADE WITH LOCAL

Save 20% on your next Made With Local order of Real Food Bars, Loaded Oats or Bar Mix when you use “RACHEL20” at checkout over on madewithlocal.com

MINDFUL BEGINNINGS

For support with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and life transitions, book your appointment with psychotherapist, Melanie Tsesler, over at mindfulbeginnings.ca

RESOURCES

• Homewood
• Seek out Mental Health groups/forums/therapy sessions on Facebook for support within your city
• Connect with Karyn:
• • INSTAGRAM: @karyninderr 
  • TWITTER: @themodeltongue 
  • YOUTUBE: Karyn Inder 
  • FACEBOOK: Karyn Inder 

Follow body positive & mental health advocates for support, relatability & resources: 

@jackdotorg 

@bodyposipanda

@imakegirls 

@makedaisychains

@straightcurvefilm

@allwomxnproject 

@modelallianceny

@thefutureisfemalemovement

@cmhanational 

@yourewelcomeclub

@chanelmillerknowmyname 

@rupikaur_

@thelatestkate

@anxiety_sugar

Happiness. It seems to be the thing everyone is chasing after but is left constantly yearning for. It doesn’t help that we’re in the dog days of winter here in Canada where the winter blues are alive and well, people are experiencing S.A.D (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and still recovering from the hit their bank accounts took during the holidays.

Here to help us find a little pep in our step and cultivate more happiness in our lives is Happiness Expert, Researcher and Speaker, Dr. Gillian Mandich. Gillian teaches about health, wellness and happiness on a variety of platforms from university classrooms, TV, radio, podcasts, magazines, and is the regular Happiness Expert on the Marilyn Denis show and The Social. 

In this episode we discuss:

• What happiness *really* is 
• How the pursuit of happiness could be hurting us
• Happiness: is it a choice, worked for or innate?
• The tools to help cultivate happiness
• The importance of experiencing an array of emotions 
• Why sadness is not a “bad” emotion
• How to find what makes you truly happy 
• Why NOT to put off being happy

THANKS TO OUR SHOW SPONSOR, Made With Local

Save 20% on your next Made With Local order of Real Food Bars, Loaded Oats or Bar Mix when you use “RACHEL20” at checkout over on madewithlocal.com

RESOURCES:

• Gillian Mandich
• • Website
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Happiness. It seems to be the thing everyone is chasing after but is left constantly yearning for. It doesn’t help that we’re in the dog days of winter here in Canada where the winter blues are alive and well, people are experiencing S.A.D (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and still recovering from the hit their bank accounts took during the holidays.

Here to help us find a little pep in our step and cultivate more happiness in our lives is Happiness Expert, Researcher and Speaker, Dr. Gillian Mandich. Gillian teaches about health, wellness and happiness on a variety of platforms from university classrooms, TV, radio, podcasts, magazines, and is the regular Happiness Expert on the Marilyn Denis show and The Social. 

In this episode we discuss:

• What happiness *really* is 
• How the pursuit of happiness could be hurting us
• Happiness: is it a choice, worked for or innate?
• The tools to help cultivate happiness
• The importance of experiencing an array of emotions 
• Why sadness is not a “bad” emotion
• How to find what makes you truly happy 
• Why NOT to put off being happy

THANKS TO OUR SHOW SPONSOR, Made With Local

Save 20% on your next Made With Local order of Real Food Bars, Loaded Oats or Bar Mix when you use “RACHEL20” at checkout over on madewithlocal.com

RESOURCES:

• Gillian Mandich
• • Website
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Parents simply want the best for their kids. They want to protect them. They want them to be happy. And they want them to be healthy, so they can live a long, enriching life with as little bumps in the road as possible. 

And so, many parents do their best to provide this. They do so by keeping “bad” foods out of the house, by emphasizing the harmful effects of sugar, by forbidding them of certain foods that are assumed to result in weight gain and encouraging exercise from an early age.All of this might not seem very harmful, but what’s happening is that many parents with unresolved disordered eating habits of their own are subconsciously passing off their disordered eating habits to their children, which negatively impacts their relationship with food and could possibly set them up for a lifetime of unhealthy habits around food if not intervened otherwise. 

Here to teach us how we can be more mindful of the “healthy habits” we are passing off to our children is Dr. Jillian Murphy, who is a licensed Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. Dr. Murphy works with families who have children who are struggling to eat competently. Dr. Murphy offers up the most sound, healthful and researched-validated advice for families looking to raise children who are a joy to feed, who grow well and have a great relationship with their bodies. In this episode we discuss:

• Why forbidding foods from your kids is doing more harm than good
• Understanding your influence as a parent in terms of food and body 
• Step-by-step process to raise healthy eaters as per Ellyn Satter’s model
• The division of responsibility 
• Engaging in healthy habits as a parent that won’t negatively impact your child 
• How to recognize if you’re projecting your own disordered eating habits
• Healing our own relationship with food before teaching others 
• Understanding your parent’s parenting to better understand your relationship with food 
• Shifting the conversation from being aesthetically focused when speaking with kids

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE GUIDE: “Satisfying Food Cravings Without The Guilt: A Feel-Good Guide To Understanding and Managing Food Cravings”.

LEARN MORE: The Intuitive Way For Eating (4-month one-on-one consultation program to heal your relationship with food and your body)

Resources:

• Dr. Jillian Murphy’s
• • Website
  • Instagram @foodfreedombodylove
  • Facebook
  • Podcast
• Fill Your Cup Podcast Episode 8: Why Weight Doesn’t Determine Health + Raising Competent Eaters with Dr. Jillian Murphy

Parents simply want the best for their kids. They want to protect them. They want them to be happy. And they want them to be healthy, so they can live a long, enriching life with as little bumps in the road as possible. 

And so, many parents do their best to provide this. They do so by keeping “bad” foods out of the house, by emphasizing the harmful effects of sugar, by forbidding them of certain foods that are assumed to result in weight gain and encouraging exercise from an early age.

All of this might not seem very harmful, but what’s happening is that many parents with unresolved disordered eating habits of their own are subconsciously passing off their disordered eating habits to their children, which negatively impacts their relationship with food and could possibly set them up for a lifetime of unhealthy habits around food if not intervened otherwise. 

Here to teach us how we can be more mindful of the “healthy habits” we are passing off to our children is Dr. Jillian Murphy, who is a licensed Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. Dr. Murphy works with families who have children who are struggling to eat competently. Dr. Murphy offers up the most sound, healthful and researched-validated advice for families looking to raise children who are a joy to feed, who grow well and have a great relationship with their bodies.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why forbidding foods from your kids is doing more harm than good
• Understanding your influence as a parent in terms of food and body 
• Step-by-step process to raise healthy eaters as per Ellyn Satter’s model
• The division of responsibility 
• Engaging in healthy habits as a parent that won’t negatively impact your child 
• How to recognize if you’re projecting your own disordered eating habits
• Healing our own relationship with food before teaching others 
• Understanding your parent’s parenting to better understand your relationship with food 
• Shifting the conversation from being aesthetically focused when speaking with kids

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE GUIDE: “Satisfying Food Cravings Without The Guilt: A Feel-Good Guide To Understanding and Managing Food Cravings”.

LEARN MORE: The Intuitive Way For Eating (4-month one-on-one consultation program to heal your relationship with food and your body)

Resources:

• Dr. Jillian Murphy’s
• • Website
  • Instagram @foodfreedombodylove
  • Facebook
  • Podcast
    
    
• Fill Your Cup Podcast Episode 8: Why Weight Doesn’t Determine Health + Raising Competent Eaters with Dr. Jillian Murphy

There’s likely no other time of the year you’ll come across as many people employing healthy habits than the start of a New Year. While I’m all for fresh starts, new beginnings and doing things to help you feel your best, fixating and obsessing about health can quickly lead you down a path of unhealthy habits. In some cases, as is often the case with nutritionists, health practitioners and health bloggers, we might see conditions like Orthorexia arise, which comes with a number of severe implications.

In this episode we discuss:

• Extremist behaviours around health and why they’re actually hurting us
• The link between Orthorexia and nutrition school
• Disordered eating disguised as health habits
• Characteristics of orthorexia
• The importance of flexibility when engaging in health habits 
• Harm of self-diagnosing health conditions 
• Releasing perfectionist ways around food
• How to pursue health without obsessing about it 
• Support and resources for those struggling with Orthorexia 

Resources

• Instagram: @rachelmmolenda 
• Website: www.rachelmmolenda.com
• Learn More: Intuitive Way For Eating Program
• Book Discovery Call for Intuitive Way For Eating Program
• Lost + Found Event: Cultivating New Year’s Intentions VS New Year’s Resolutions 
• Fill Your Cup Podcast Community
• Book: Let That Shit Go
• Episode 6 Fill Your Cup Podcast: From a 17-Year Long Eating Disorder To Food Freedom with Kelly Boaz 
• Sheena’s Place
• Kyla Fox Recovery

There’s likely no other time of the year you’ll come across as many people employing healthy habits than the start of a New Year. While I’m all for fresh starts, new beginnings and doing things to help you feel your best, fixating and obsessing about health can quickly lead you down a path of unhealthy habits. In some cases, as is often the case with nutritionists, health practitioners and health bloggers, we might see conditions like Orthorexia arise, which comes with a number of severe implications.

In this episode we discuss:

• Extremist behaviours around health and why they’re actually hurting us
• The link between Orthorexia and nutrition school
• Disordered eating disguised as health habits
• Characteristics of orthorexia
• The importance of flexibility when engaging in health habits 
• Harm of self-diagnosing health conditions 
• Releasing perfectionist ways around food
• How to pursue health without obsessing about it 
• Support and resources for those struggling with Orthorexia 

Resources

• Instagram: @rachelmmolenda 
• Website: www.rachelmmolenda.com
• Learn More: Intuitive Way For Eating Program
• Book Discovery Call for Intuitive Way For Eating Program
• Lost + Found Event: Cultivating New Year’s Intentions VS New Year’s Resolutions 
• Fill Your Cup Podcast Community
• Book: Let That Shit Go
• Episode 6 Fill Your Cup Podcast: From a 17-Year Long Eating Disorder To Food Freedom with Kelly Boaz 
• Sheena’s Place
• Kyla Fox Recovery