The Intuitive Diabetic Podcast: Intuitive Eating, Diabetes, Non Diet, HAES

It's that time of year again where goals, intentions, resolutions (if you are a resolution making kind of person) are in full swing, but before you start planning out this year's goals, join me for this episode as I outline why SMART goals fail us, and discuss how we can approach goals differently.

What you'll learn by listening:

• What are SMART goals?
• 6 reasons why SMART goals fall short
• Why SMART goals parallel diet culture ideals
• How our intuitive eating journey/food freedom/health habits  journey is not conducive to the SMART goal framework
• 3 things we can do to approach our goals differently

How to Connect with Lindsay:
Questions or show ideas, email: [email protected]
Instagram: https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/
Website: https://www.lindsaysarson.com

NEW - Grab your Food Freedom Roadmap: https://www.lindsaysarson.com
Work with me: https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

On this episode we chat about how we can navigate diet, food, weight and body talk over the holiday season.

What you'll learn by listening:

• The role of perspective
• Why where you are in your food freedom journey may influence your approach
• Some approaches you can take when confronted with triggering/unsettling comments
• How to handle the 'play back' trap with more kindness and self-compassion
• The value of boundary setting

How to Connect with Lindsay:
Questions or show ideas, email: [email protected]
Instagram: https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/
Website: https://www.lindsaysarson.com

NEW - Grab your Food Freedom Roadmap: https://www.lindsaysarson.com
Work with me: https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

• Megrette shares her passion for changing the landscape in diabetes care, and how diet culture in diabetes has challenged her values of non judgement and self-compassion
• Why focusing on weight can sabotage diabetes care
• How one can begin establishing a sustainable diabetes strategy free of diet culture influences
• What to do when a medical appointment feels icky because of weight bias
• Megrette busts a common myth in diabetes
• Megrette's new diet free resource for people living with diabetes

How to connect with Megrette:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noweightlossrequired/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/noweightlossrequired/
Website: https://www.wn4dc.com

Program/Resources Mentioned by Megrette:
NoWeightlossRequired.com 7 day introduction program https://www.noweightlossrequired.com
Link for No weight loss required membership program
https://wn4dc.com/private_pages/4520409?preview=logged_out
$1 Link to the Ready to Being program
https://no-weight-loss-required.circle.so/checkout/pro-access-rtb
Link to 12 week email with $1 VIP access
direct link with the $1 VIP access 

 How to connect with Lindsay:
Show idea/question? Email: [email protected]
Instagram: https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/
Free Food Freedom Roadmap: https://www.lindsaysarson.com
Work with me: https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

If you are asking yourself - what is trauma informed nutrition, and why does it matter for my health,  diabetes care or my relationship with food?  This episode is a must listen.

On this episode special guest Kathleen Putnam, MS RD, a.k.a The Trauma Dietitian and I sit down and explore the concept of  trauma informed nutrition and its value.

By listening to this episode you’ll learn:

• Kathleen's story of how she became a trauma dietitian
• How common trauma is
• The value and goal of trauma informed nutrition
• How we can create more self-compassion
• The role of stress and its impact
• The power of mindfulness, and the role of rest in supporting this practice, and connecting to food
• What is  and some common signs of food trauma, and eating trauma
• How Kathleen creates a safe place and creates space for her clients

More about Kathleen:
Kathleen Putnam, MS RD, The Trauma Dietitian.   Kathleen is a dietitian, educator, and coach focused on trauma, grief, parenting and health.  She is bringing Compassion, Mindfulness, and Knowledge of Trauma Informed Nutrition to a Toxic Culture of Dieting, Perfectionism, and the Moralization of our habits to stop the needless suffering of Self judgement and Criticism.  No Shame, No Blame - Stop the Body Shaming, Health Judgement, and Weight Stigmatizing as she is Committed to opening the Door, Creating a Safe Space, and Addressing the WHY behind Health and Self Care Habits.   She is reminding us all that you are not a bad person if you struggle with food, eating, your health or your body.

How to Connect with Kathleen:
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/traumadietitian/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NutritionWorkSeattle
Website, Programs and Links discussed in show: https://www.nomorefoodtrauma.com/
Trauma Informed Nutrition Care Handout:- https://www.pacesconnection.com/g/california-essentials-for-childhood-initiative 

How to Connect with Lindsay:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/
Website and Work with Me: https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

Diet mentality....can we opt out?  Even if living with diabetes?

Today's episode is all about looking at the first principle of intuitive eating - reject the diet mentality.  We will explore this topic from a food, body, and diabetes lens. 

On this episode you will learn:

• what is diet mentality?
• How does diet mentality show up in our life?
• How does it influence the decisions we make?
• And how do we FEEL about those decisions?

Mentioned in show:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me
note:  all programs, and coaching open to all people living with diabetes, not just Type 1. 

Replay: Diets....Do you ever take a moment to consider how necessary diets really are, even for those of us living with diabetes?  Are they helping support our well being or are there signs that just maybe, they are hindering it?
On today's episode we are talking about

•  dieting and outline signs that diets just aren't working for you anymore
• common fears that come with letting go of dieting when diabetic
• intuitive eating - what is it and why this approach is supportive of greater health - and YES this includes blood sugars too.

Mentioned in the show

The Intuitive Diabetic on Instagram
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/

Lindsay Sarson website:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com

Finding Food Freedom Guide:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com/food-freedom

On today's episode we explore the power of our closet in keeping us stuck in diet culture and how we can begin cultivating better body image today - even if we've just realized our summer clothes don't fit anymore.

What you'll learn by listening:
- how our closet is one of the major inputs of diet culture
- how to do a closet detox
- how to do a closet retox
- how to learn more about and reserve your spot for a NEW group program - The Body Ease Project

Mentioned on the show:
The Body Ease Project Information and Waitlist -https://www.lindsaysarson.com/bodyeaseproject
Lindsay's Instagram - https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/
Lindsay's Website - https://www.lindsaysarson.com
Work with Lindsay - https://www.lindsaysarson.com/work-with-me

Join me today as we explore  emotional health, diabetes burnout,  and the use of art therapy with special guest Fi George. 

Fi George is a Therapeutic Peer Coach who works with women living with T2D to help them work on diabetes burnout prevention, management & recovery. Fi believes in the power of using lived experience, the expressive arts and her professional knowledge to create transformative experiences that encourage exploration, growth and healing. Fi is a trained Social Worker & Arts Psychotherapist. After 10 years of working for others she recently opened her own practice where she offers therapeutic peer coaching with an expressive arts twist.

On this episode you'll learn:

•  Fi’s diagnosis story and her experiences with diabetes burnout
• The intermingling of diet culture in our diabetes experiences, diabetes management, and diabetes care
• Some signs of diabetes burnout
• What is art therapy and how it can be beneficial for dealing with diabetes burnout
• Some examples of ways you can apply art therapy at home - today
• The value of lived experiences and peer therapeutic coaching

Connect with Fi:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/fig_therapeutic_services/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/figtherapeuticservices
Website: https://www.figtherapeuticservices.com.au

Connect with Lindsay
Instagram: https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/
Website: https://www.lindsaysarson.com

Are you familiar with the term diet brain?  On today’s episode with special guest, Stephanie Dodier we unpack this concept and discuss why understanding it is so important in being able to reject diet culture, and change our relationship with food, body and diabetes -  and wow, there are so many ways diet brain intersects with diabetes.

Stephanie Dodier is a Clinical Nutritionist, an Intuitive Eating Specialist, and the host of the Beyond the Food Show whose integrative and comprehensive approach helps womxn take
their lives back from diet culture. Her proprietary and countercultural approach, the Going Beyond The Food Method™️, has helped womxn in over 92 countries seek health beyond dieting. Stephanie was trained at the Institute of Holistic Nutrition in Canada and has a degree in Health Science.

What you will learn by listening:

• What is diet brain?
• How does diet culture impact the way we think?
• The intersection of diet brain, diabetes, health and body image
• What is the 'solution' to diet brain?

How to Connect with Stephanie and her programs:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/stephdodier
Website: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/
Bonus: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/roadmap

How to connect with Lindsay:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/
Website: https://www.lindsaysarson.com

"I think we forget sometimes that we are actually making culture.  That's what humans do.  There is no culture outside of what humans create, and so we literally can create something new", Kimberly Dark.

Kimberly joins the podcast today to discuss some thought provoking and empowering concepts to help unearth the power that we have as humans to be social creators and make cultural change, including how we can create empowered experiences socially and at the doctor's office. 

Kimberly is a writer, professor and storyteller.  She's the author of Damaged Like Me, Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old, The Daddies and Love and Errors, and her essays stories and poetry are widely published in academic and popular online publications alike.  Her ability to make the personal political is grounded in her training as a sociologist, and you can find her course offerings in Sociology at Cal State San Marcos and Writing/Arts at Cal State Summer Arts.

Kimberly hosts retreats, and travels internationally to offer workshops, lectures, and performances that use storytelling to make big, complex ideas relatable at campuses, conferences companies and anywhere people seek startling revelations and positive change.  Beloved by diverse audiences Kimberly crosses boundaries to show how we must engage all the wisdom and verve we have to create the most compassionate, fair and inclusive world we can.

What we discuss:

• what is body sovereignty, and how it aligns with the concept of body liberation
• hierarchy based on appearance and identity 
• her new book Damaged Like Me
• how to navigate our sovereignty in the doctor's office and in social settings
• social competencies and the importance of addressing unconscious bias. 

Connect with Kimberly:
Instagram  https://instagram.com/kimberly.dark
Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.dark.9/
Website (to preorder book and access The Hope Desk)  https://www.kimberlydark.com/

Connect with Lindsay:
https://www.lindsaysarson.com
https://instagram.com/theintuitivediabetic/