Today I spoke with Emily Travis of We All Eat, about… THE PANDEMIC!

Y’all knew I had to go and have an episode about all that. We talk about such a wide range of topics within the pandemic from food intake, food scarcity, to body image and movement.

Emily received a Bachelors of Science in Nutrition Sciences from Baylor University and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She is also a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist on behalf of the International Associate of Eating Disorder Professionals and currently serves as a board member for Houston Eating Disorder Specialists. Emily originally started We All Eat as an instagram hobby and turned it into a full blown private practice in just 3 years! She is passionate about helping people cultivate a healthier relationship with food, body, and movement, and is definitely known for dreaming big. In addition to We All Eat, Emily co-founded Nourish, a Christian Support group for women overcoming disordered eating. Emily is interested in further educating the Christian community on disordered relationships with food and how this can overlap in religion everywhere.

Emily’s Instagram

tiktok: @weall_eat

Emily’s website

Co-Founded Nourish: Christian Support group for women overcoming disordered eating instagram: @nourishsupportwebsite: www.nourishsupport.org

Other Resources mentioned:

Kylie Mitchell

The Way You Are Project Episode 5 with Kylie Mitchell

Hi friends! Today I come to you BRAND NEW. A brand new me! I talk with you all today about what the last two years have looked like for me, and what I am up to now in the middle of this big ole’ pandemic. Why the intro changed and where I stand with the show, my values, all of it!

Just listen, I say it all right here. Sending you all love and light!

Birth Hour Interview

FREE yoga with Erica!

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I am going to skip that awkward catch up that comes with me being off the show for almost 2ish years-don’t worry I am going to fill you ALL in on another one here, shortly-and just say that today’s guest and also my new friend and fellow Houstonian is, Lucia Harmeling!

Lucia Harmeling is a body attunement dietitian, a registered yoga instructor, and a devout Catholic. It is through her connection to God, her understanding of nutritional science, and her intuitive gifts that she works to serve others. Lucia is the founder and owner of Savorli LLC, a nutrition and wellness practice Houston, Texas. The focus of her practice is intuitive eating, health at every size, body respect, and body attunement. She loves incorporating the principles of yoga and values of Christianity into her counseling sessions. Lucia loves the outdoors, strong coffee, bluebell ice-cream, and spending time with her husband, Brett, and sweet pitbull, Roxy.

Today we talk about her path through recovery and finding intuitive eating. We also discuss intuitive living.  How using principles of intuitive eating and listening to our bodies can help lead us to our most empowered and embodied lives. We also talk about one of my new fave topics of discussion… YOGA! We discuss how yoga can be a tool to get in our bodies and out of our heads so we can live the life we are meant to live. We discuss body attunement and being connected in and *up*.

I had an amazing time talking to Lucia and I hope you enjoy the conversation. Join me in her Body Attunement series! I will be popping in on a couple of the middle sessions and I could not be more excited! I am looking forward to being here with you all again and walking this journey again.

Thank you so much for being exactly how you are. Until next time!

Ways to work with Lucia:

Lucia’s Website

Lucia’s Instagram 

More Info/Sign Up for the Body Attunement Series

Take a yoga class with Lucia!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

Four Dragons Yoga Studio

Intuitive Eating

Linda Bacon, Author of Health At Every Size and Body Respect

Well Nourished by Andrea Lieberstein

Gallant Culture Branding and Marketing Agency

Anti Diet by Christy Harrison

Body of Truth by Harriet Brown

Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield

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Hello everyone! I am back from a brief-ish hiatus. Let’s call this season 2 of The Way You Are Project. Life hit us pretty hard and fast and I am happy to announce I am pregnant! So this episode is just lil’ ole me talking about my pregnancy journey thus far through a completely different lense than last time.

I would love to hear your post ED recovery pregnancy stories, so send them my way at [email protected]

I am also asking you to send me any and all questions you have that you’d like to hear answered on a FAQ kinda episode regarding: fat acceptance, body acceptance or body positivity, intuitive eating, health at every size, etc etc etc.

Resources mentioned:

Zelda’s birth story

My original ED post  * I will say that this was written fourish years ago and some of the language I chose (calling food garbage for example) is not something I do now, nor do I condone it in anyway. Other possibly triggering language could be present*

Linda Bacon

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I am so excited to be able to bring you guys this interview (I know I say that every interview but REALLY!) Caroline and her work were seriously monumental in my full recovery journey. The “fuck it” if the fuck it diet really is the last little boost I needed to totally kick the diet mentality to the curb and I think you’ll find similar results. Her work is a great place to start in healing your relationship with food and your body and give up dieting- forever. We talk about what the fuck it diet ( I wanted to title the episode that but I knew iTunes would take it down) even is, we talk about food addiction, and the idea that if we let ourselves eat whatever we want we’ll become unhealthy bottomless pits (spoiler alert: we wont). We also talk about something I know you all have heard me ramble about before and that is REST!

Caroline is the creator of The Fuck It Diet, and teaches radical normal eating to chronic dieters. She also teaches intuition and advocates hardcore for #rest.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Caroline’s Website

Caroline’s Free Intro Course

The F*** It Diet Radio

Intuition Intensive

Instagram

Twitter

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This week I spoke with Kate Brosnan a registered dietician and listener of the show. She reached out to me a few weeks back and we got to talking about her own journey with food and she disclosed to me about her eating disorder. She mentioned to me how hard it is to recover from an eating disorder while being a parent, so I decided that was a conversation we could have on the show. She was very transparent about how she is still recovering from her eating disorder so I want to put a content warning out there that we do discuss active eating disorder recovery and there may be things that listeners could find triggering. If you are in a place where these things could affect your well being, please skip this one.

Kate graduated with a degree in Nutrition Sciences from Penn State and has been a Registered Dietitian for 12 years.  Introduced to the liberating world of IE/HAES in late 2016, she has been dedicating this year to extracting herself both professionally and personally from diet culture as she rebuilds her private practice from the non-diet ground up and works to recover from her own eating disorder.  She’s a wife, mother, longtime cross-fitter and triathlete, and she owns every Barefoot Contessa cookbook.  Her favorite quote is from Maya Angelou: ‘Do the best you can until you know better.  Then when you know better, do better.’

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This week I spoke with Ragen Chastain who is a fat activist, writer, and speaker. We discuss her eating disorder recovery, fat activism, and her current goal to become an iron man!

Ragen’s Blog

Ragen’s Food Psych Episode

Intersectionality

Kimberly Crenshaw’s Intersectionality Work

Fit Fatties

Fat Activism Conference

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Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, CDN, is a non-diet dietitian who helps people struggling with chronic dieting, disordered eating, and eating disorders. She uses a combination of Intuitive Eating, mindfulness techniques, and meditation to help her clients move toward greater peace, health, and wellness.

Jenna is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and a Certified Dietitian Nutritionist (CDN) in New York State. She has a Bachelors degree in Nutrition from Penn State, a Masters degree in Nutrition from Tufts University, is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and an Open Heart Project meditation guide.

Jenna is the author of Understanding Dietary Supplements, a handy guide to the evaluation and use of vitamins, minerals, herbs, and botanicals for both consumers and clinicians, and more recently the memoir Drinking to Distraction.

Other resources mentioned:

Jenna’s Website

Jenna’s Food Psych Episode

The Power of Now

Eckart Tolle interview with Oprah

The Mommy Sangha

Intuitive Eating Online Community

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Dana “Hotpants” Suchow is a Speaker, Activist, and Event Producer. Since overcoming bulimia and compulsive exercising that resulted in permanent injuries, she has become a champion for women’s rights, eating disorder issues, and body positivity.

Dana founded Do The Hotpants in 2012 as a fashion blog, but once she realized that fashion’s unattainable beauty standards were fueling her eating disorder, she switched gears. In 2014 Dana gave up her dream of becoming a famous fashion blogger, and has since made it her mission to use her own life experiences to educate, empower, and uplift anyone struggling with bad body image. Dana now leads workshops and curates feminist events that support all self-identifying women and focus on the importance of female safe spaces.

In this episode Dana and I talk about her recovery and transformation from a fashion blogger into a body positive and feminist activist. We touch on all things feminism- even things that have been weighing on my mind personally as of late such as body hair and makeup. She also discusses the best way those of us with more privilege can be allies to those who are more marginalized.

Dana’s Website

Dana’s Instagram

Dana’s Twitter

The Ripple

“Photos I wish I didn’t Photoshop”

#Mybodystory

Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth

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Just what you’ve all been waiting for, an episode of me rambling all by myself. I discuss my choice to unplug from social media, as well as self care, rest, and the pursuit of perfection.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Instagram

Daring Greatly

Food Psych Podcast

Love Food Podcast

Nasty Women Radio

The Fuck It Diet Radio