Here we take a look at several common reasons that we feel may be blocking our progress toward our food and exercise goals. Using a comparison of a hike with all of its challenges we realize that the path to reaching the goal is truly by gaining the skills necessary to get through the obstacles not by going around them. In doing so, we find we gain so much more than just our goal.

If you enjoyed the podcast, I know you will love my free mini course Food for Thought: How neuroscience shapes our relationship with food. Find it at kilgrownutrition.com/mini 

And if the information you are hearing on this podcast feels like the missing piece to you, like it did to me, consider training in the Greet the pull method.  Contact Irene Pace at irenepace.com.

Here we compare the purpose of guardrails along the road to the rules we set for ourselves in regard to food. When are they helpful and when are they hardful?

If you enjoyed the podcast, I know you will love my free mini course Food for Thought: How neuroscience shapes our relationship with food. Find it at kilgrownutrition.com/mini 

And if the information you are hearing on this podcast feels like the missing piece to you, like it did to me, consider training in the Greet the pull method.  Contact Irene Pace at irenepace.com.

Sometimes I worry that speaking to the struggle of nutrition professionals paints us in a bad light. So the first part is what I want clients to know about the humanness of their dietitian practitioner. Then I share some thoughts from other RDs about the very reasonable choice to reach out for help when you are a nutrition professional that is struggling with your own food stuff!

If you enjoyed the podcast, I know you will love my free mini course Food for Thought: How neuroscience shapes our relationship with food. Find it at kilgrownutrition.com/mini 

And if the information you are hearing on this podcast feels like the missing piece to you, like it did to me, consider training in the Greet the pull method.  Contact Irene Pace at irenepace.com.

Let's take a look at the extreme ends of a permission continuum and then discuss what's in the middle. Listen as I apply it to the principle of hunger in my own experience of it.

If you enjoyed the podcast, I know you will love my free mini course Food for Thought: How neuroscience shapes our relationship with food. Find it at kilgrownutrition.com/mini 

And if the information you are hearing on this podcast feels like the missing piece to you, like it did to me, consider training in the Greet the pull method.  Contact Irene Pace at irenepace.com.

Today we take a look at how skills in one area can help us in another area and how struggle overall produces growth in us that benefits us everywhere in our lives.

If you enjoyed the podcast, I know you will love my free mini course Food for Thought: How neuroscience shapes our relationship with food. Find it at kilgrownutrition.com/mini 

And if the information you are hearing on this podcast feels like the missing piece to you, like it did to me, consider training in the Greet the pull method.  Contact Irene Pace at irenepace.com.

Have you heard the term Sober Curious? Beyond just an interest in removing alcohol from one's life, it's an intentional look at the relationship you have with alcohol and how it might be hurting your physical or mental health. On a bigger scale it's permission to be the odd one out and say "no thanks, I'm not drinking tonight". Today we look at how that relates to our food relationship and what experiences in your past may have shaped that relationship.

You can find the free food history download, that I mention in the episode, at kilgrownutrition.com/food-timeline-landing-page

If you want to know more about the Greet the Pull Method that I teach, contact Irene Pace via her website irenepace.com to discuss training options!

I had originally intended to provide this recording as part of a paid course, but it was just too good not to share with everyone! I know you will love getting to know Irene and hearing not only about her method but about my experience of it. She's an amazing human and I am so excited that she would sit down with me for this podcast.

If you are interested in learning more from Irene, especially if you would like to train to share her method with your clients, you can find her at irenepace.com

Dan Seigl proposed a model called the window of tolerance in his 1999 book titled The Developing Mind. Here we compare it to the Poly Vagal Theory and look at it in the context of using food to try to regulate our nervous system. It works, but if it's your only tool- let's get you some more tools!

I have always been interested in why humans eat for reasons other than physiologic hunger. Here I introduce the PolyVagal Theory as proposed by Dr. Stephen Porges as a possible explanation for our use of food in regulating the nervous system. Stay tuned for a free mini course I have coming that adds some visuals to this explanation.

I am taking a physics class where we started with basic science principles and I am excited to share with you how I see them applying to uncovering your own nutritional truths through experimentation.