The Non-Diet Mom Show

This episode = vulnerability hangover!
I reflect on what 2021 taught me (yes, I realize most people do this on New Years haha), and share a bit of the themes that walked beside me during that year.
I share about International Women's Day and how womanhood inspired me to embrace all that is woman, including body hair.
I encourage you at the end to take a look at your own day to day and ask yourself your intentions behind something as simple as your morning routine. Are you doing it because you love it? Or because you think you 'should' do it?
Let me know if you resonated with any of today's message.

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Do you struggle with acne prone skin? Do you believe that if you could just have clear skin you would be happy and confident? Today on the show I am interviewing Christine Preston who is a certified Skin Therapist from Barrie, ON. Christine is going to share a bit about healing your body image while caring for your skin.
Let's have a listen :).

About Christine:
Christine Preston is a certified Skin Therapist, Intuitive Acne Coach and founder of Skin Discovery. She helps women with acne-prone skin and low self-esteem improve their mindset, stress levels and breakouts with intuitive skin care. Having struggled with most inflammatory skin conditions throughout her adult life, Christine knows firsthand the toll that poor body image, disordered eating from chronic dieting and persistent acne has on a person. Her mission is to help women reclaim their confidence in the skin they’re in.


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Today on the show my dear friend and colleague Gillian Yuan, founder and creator of the Motherhood Undieted Podcast, is here to share a bit of her story from owning a lactation consultant business, working with moms for 14+ years as a community postpartum nurse, to now being an intuitive eating health coach for moms. Today she is going to talk about how she’s merged her experiences and healed her own body image struggles. 

Gillian Yuan is a chronic dieter turned body-acceptance and Mind-Body Eating Coach! 

After being anorexic as a teen ballet dancer and then developing a temporary heart condition as an adult after the birth of her son, which was exasperated by her strict diet and exercise routine, Gillian knew something had to change. 

Her journey to healing her own relationship with food and her body, Gillian found a passion for sharing intuitive eating and the mind-body connection with other women and moms after seeing the life-giving effects of finding body and food freedom. 

I know you will enjoy this episode, Gillian is amazing and I can’t wait for your to connect with her. 

Connect with Gillian:
Link to freebie: How to feel good about your body Now!
Link to free FB group  Motherhood UnDieted Community
Link to The Motherhood UnDieted Podcast:
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About the Host:
Jolyn Martin
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Music by ItsWatR - Awakening Instrumental

We had to do something about LOVE on Valentine's Day ;).
Today on the show I am talking about how you don't have to love your body. Despite all the body positive messaging, we are allowed to just exist in our bodies.
Loving your body is optional. But we do have to get away from hating our bodies.
Today I talk about a bridge between body hatred and body love called 'body neutrality'.


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If you have struggled with finding exercise you enjoy, todays episode is for you.
For many people, the word 'exercise' feels like a heavy word loaded with expectations, pressure, to-do lists and punishment. That's why I try to encourage those deconstructing exercise to change the word to movement for a time because our bodies need movement, any movement, for optimal function. Exercise is just a fancier word that has been co-opted by the very loud weight loss industry, hence creating this idea that exercise is for either 'earning or burning' food.
Today I give you 5 steps to help you change your mindset to find movement that is fulfilling and enjoyable.

About the host:
Jolyn Martin is a certified personal trainer, group fitness instructor and intuitive eating & body image coach from Kitchener, ON, Canada. Jolyn is a mom of 2 and is passionate about helping other moms heal their relationship with food, body and exercise. Shortly after starting her career in the fitness industry, she started to notice the dangerous and toxic effects of chasing thinness and finding self-worth in body image. After dismantling her own beliefs, Jolyn has now made it her life mission to help women become the experts of their own bodies.

Connect with Jolyn:
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Website: www.jolynmartin.ca 

Today on the show I have the privilege of interviewing a friend and colleague, Ardelle Viau, who will talk a bit about wellness culture and the tenth principle of Intuitive Eating, Gentle Nutrition.

What you will learn:
- What is gentle nutrition
- What is wellness culture & how is it different than diet culture
- How intuitive eating puts you back in the drivers seat of your life
- Should you focus on nutrition or not when you become an intuitive eater
- Can nutrition play a role in eating choices

Ardelle is an Intuitive Eating Coach and Certified Holistic Nutritional Consultant dedicated to guiding ambitious women through the process of breaking free from perfectionism and dieting so they can intuitively embrace healthy & abundant lives. After spending years obsessing over her body size and health doing fad diet after fad diet, then health protocol after health protocol, she never felt like what she was doing was enough. It wasn't until she studied intuitive eating and combined it with her holistic nutrition education that she was able to fully accept her body. Intuitive eating has allowed her to embrace wellness without obsession. It has allowed her to love, nourish, express and empower herself. And now she is here to help you do the same! With over a decade of experience coaching clients, she is on a mission to dismantle diet culture and redefine wellness. Ardelle’s approach is highly individualized and rooted in intuitive eating, mindfulness, self-compassion, and the principles of Health at Every Size (HAES).

How to connect with Ardelle:
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Jolyn Martin: Host of the Non-Diet Mom Show
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Happy New Year mommas!
Did you know that the top 4 New Years Resolutions of 2020 in North America were:
- exercising more
- improving their diet
- losing weight
- and saving money
Does this surprise you? How many times have you set goals through the SMART goal system, only to find by the end of this month you were struggling to stay committed. 
Today on the show I want to teach you the following:

• Why SMART goals don't work for most people (there is a missing step)
• 2 main mistakes people make when goal setting
• How to set goals that excite you
• The mindset tool to feeling great in your body (without ever having to restrict food (diet) again)
• A reflection activity to brainstorm your goal feelings
• How to work with me further if you need some support

Applications are open for the Nourished Moms, Healthy Kids 12 week Coaching Program.
Last day to Register is January 27th, 2022 (which in real time is this weekend)
For more information about the program, click here

If you already know this is exactly the program you've been looking for, Apply and set up a discovery call to see if this program would be a good fit for you, click here

Looking forward to meeting you, I am honoured and grateful to support you on this healing journey.

xo Jolyn Martin

Life is too short to count calories and to try and squeeze into your skinny jeans two sizes too small for comfort. But it's not your fault if you are
neck deep in believing your true life will start once you reach a thinner destination. We have all been conditioned to believe this through thin actors in Hollywood to magazines claiming you need to earn your bikini.

Today on the show I am interviewing Sarah Miller, mom of 3, who is a graduate of the Nourished Moms, Healthy Kids program July 2021.
Today she shares her journey from body dissatisfaction to body neutrality throughout the 12 weeks and how she has applied the principles she learned in the NMHK program to her family life. The language her children are growing up around is now inclusive, body-positive and empowering.

Sarah shared this about the Nourished Moms, Healthy Kids Program:

I can honestly say that this program has changed my life. Jolyn, you are such a wonderful teacher. Your enthusiasm, energy, and passion for this topic is contagious. I never thought I would be happy with my body without losing weight or looking a certain way, but I am happy and now enjoy being active because it's fun and makes me feel great. Thank you for all of it.
- Sarah Miller

I am so thrilled to present this interview to you today.
Mentioned in the show:

Webinar: New Years Resolutions that Don't Suck the Life out of You! Wednesday December 29 at 7 p.m. ET over ZOOM. Register HERE
Our Place - Family Resource & Early Learning Centre - Stork Secrets 

Nourished Moms, Healthy Kids 12 Week Coaching Program with Jolyn Martin:
To learn more about the Nourished Moms, Healthy Kids Program Click Here
Apply TODAY! (Begins January 9, 2022) Click Here

What's Included in the 12 weeks?

•  A foundational step by step coaching program that takes you from overwhelm & uncertainty to confidence & fulfillment
• Workbook with weekly activities & quizzes
• 100% online. All Live sessions will be recorded
• 12 x 45 min Learning Sessions 
• 6 x 1 on 1 Coaching Sessions
• 6 x Group Coaching Calls 
• Access to a private FB community of other ladies on the same journey as you
• 24/7 Access to Jolyn via the private messaging app Voxer

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In today's episode, I share 5 desires behind weights loss goals and how they might not actually be contributing to health at all.

What you'll learn in this episode:
Weight loss goals appear on the surface to be about comfort (feeling good), "health", and physique. What is under these goals is most often a desire for acceptance & confidence (the real kind not the 'earned' kind)

A very brief timeline of how culturally we got to be so fatphobic.

A conversation with a client desiring weight loss.


Bonuses mentioned in the episode:
1) Free Webinar: "New Years Resolutions that Don't SUCK the Life Out of You" Sign Up HERE https://www.jolynmartin.ca/newyears2022

2) List of Self-Care Goals: Click Here https://www.jolynmartin.ca/healthgoals

Nourished Moms Healthy Kids 12 Week Coaching Program Deadline to join: January 9, 2022
Set up a discovery call today to see if this program would be a good fit for you! Click Here https://www.jolynmartin.ca/work-with-coach-jo/nmhk
Next week in Episode 25 I'll share an interview with Sarah Miller who graduated the Nourished Moms, Healthy Kids program in July 2021. Stay tuned & Happy Holidays!!

Do you feel stressed when everyone offers your children treats around the holidays? Are you exhausted from policing your children's intake of candies & sweets? Maybe you've found healing with your relationship with food but you still struggle with allowing your children to enjoy sugary foods?

Today on the show I have a special guest Unyime Oguta. Unyime is a Speaker, Life & Nutrition Coach for Mums, and mum of 3.  Unyime believes in a world where all mothers are thriving in their lives. Through her coaching program and podcast, The Thriving Mum Podcast, she teaches women how to leverage the power of their minds to let go of food fears and obsession, so that they can feel empowered to honor their needs and transform their lives with ease and confidence.

What you will learn from today's episode:
- Why feeding kids is so stressful for moms
- How to allow your children to enjoy treats within a structure
- Is sugar addictive? Isn't sugar basically poisonous?
- How to talk to your children about food, even if they are already in their teens

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Contact: [email protected]