The Peaceful Plate: Ending Food Panic After Hormone-Driven Breast Cancer

New year, new you? Not so fast, my fellow survivor. Setting yourself up for success vs failure in 2025 is what I’m here to help you do. My years of experience in the fields of nutrition, fitness, wellness and healthy lifestyles have shown me time and again that tight-fisted, deprivation-based new year resolutions don’t work! In today’s episode I share the three guidelines for setting a new year GOAL and introduce you to three ways to implement the goal you identify. I can’t wait to share this with you! Tune in to my final episode of 2024 and get my wisdom on slaying all of your 2025 nutritional goals. 

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Regardless of whether or not you celebrate any holidays in December, you can’t ignore that this is a time of giving, gifting, and granting wishes. And in the spirit of this season, my holiday wish for you is that you’ll find and cultivate nutritional resilience. This may be the first time you’ve ever considered resilience and nutrition to have any relevance to each other, so be sure to tune in today’s episode where I introduce you to that concept and teach you how to use nutritional resilience in your day to day life.

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Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for people to make comments about your food. If this has happened to you and you want to understand why people do that, why it makes you feel so “icky”, and what you can do about it, this is the episode for you! Learn the two most common types of comments and four solid ways to handle all the food commenters in your life. 

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Do you know a food pusher? Argghhh, food pushers can be tough to deal with because they seem to push all of your “food issue” buttons. If you have a food pusher in your life, or even if you have one you engage with only on occasion, it pays to have realistic, healthy strategies for dealing with the situation. During the holiday’s and especially after your breast cancer experience, food pushers tend to come out of the woodwork, so listen to this episode and 1. learn what a food pusher really is all about and 2. prepare yourself to handle any food pusher with grace and ease.

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Today is the 10-year milestone of my lumpectomy surgery following my October 27, 2014 breast cancer diagnosis. Honestly? I can’t believe this is where I am, because at the time I couldn’t imagine looking ahead that far; I could only get through the day-to-day of my breast cancer experience. But I’ve come a long way, and in today’s episode I recount that day for you and share five lessons I’ve learned since then. This is a deeply personal episode, and I can’t wait to share it with you.

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Thanksgiving can bring up lots of food anxiety, especially if this is the first one since you’ve finished treatment. If you’re wondering how in the world you’ll ever be able to navigate that bountiful Thanksgiving table (and dessert buffet) without having a nervous breakdown, this episode is for you! Tune in to learn how to counter three common thoughts you may be having about Thanksgiving, and get my three tips for crafting an anxiety-free approach to sharing this holiday of gratitude with the people you love.

Inflexible eating tends to be black and white eating, with no room for error, joy or peace. Who wants to eat like that? Not you, my fellow survivor, not you. In this episode I address three types of “inflexible” eating and how they lead to unhealthy eating behaviors, and share my “food collage” concept to help you understand your own eating patterns. If you’re ready to kick inflexible eating to the curb, give this episode a listen! 

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I know you’re looking for the “best” diet to eat after finishing treatment, and it can be frustrating when you can’t find the exact food to eat that will make you less panicked about your nutrition. In today’s episode I share why you can’t find the diet you’re looking for, and teach you three science-backed diet changes that absolutely support your breast and overall best health. Grab your notebook and join me for this information-packed episode!

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If you’re freaking out about maintaining your healthy after-breast cancer eating habits during the upcoming holiday season, this episode is for you! Today I’m sharing one of my favorite tips for keeping your nutrition goals front and center in the coming months as you navigate your family’s traditional holiday cookies, cakes, candy and more. I promise you this; enjoying special holiday foods doesn’t mean you’re triggering a recurrence. You won’t want to miss this, so grab a cup of tea, a notebook and get ready to learn!

Do you know what it means to “give yourself grace”? While there are plenty of definitions, here’s one that I love; “do unto yourself as you do unto others”. Can you speak kindly to yourself, set boundaries, celebrate your wins and stop striving for perfection? Those are a few examples of offering yourself the same grace you would someone else, and when it comes to eating after breast cancer, I’m guessing all of those would be appropriate to apply. If you’re having trouble getting there, you won’t want to miss today’s episode! I’ll share the importance of giving yourself (nutritional) grace and three concrete ways to make it happen.

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