Heyyyyyyyyy fam. I missed an episode last week. Because all hell broke loose in my home, city, and state.

Also, the pod is pressing PAUSE for ~ a month so I can be a full yes to traveling the West Coast in a camper van for a month with my lover and 2 cats.

Further also, Empowered in the Bedroom (previously called Loverfest) is postponed until sometime in April due to previously mentioned reasons.

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Today I have another amazing woman to share with you. Ahhh I loved this conversation.

Her name is Bridget Shannon.

On a mission to reclaim wellness from diet culture, Bridget is a health coach, podcast host, and co-founder at Wellness Lately. After becoming a Certified Health Coach, spending 10 years working in the health industry (while seeing a lot of kale-infused, lycra-clad bullshit), and healing her own history with disordered eating and body image challenges, she’s passionate about helping women ditch dieting and embrace a version of wellness that actually feels good, through Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size and body liberation. To learn the five shifts she used to break the diet-binge cycle herself, watch the free class at wellnesslately.com/masterclass.

Bridget has the beautiful energy of someone who is strong in their sense of self, comfortable with who she is, isn’t here to try to prove anything to anyone. She’s light and enjoyable yet knowledgeable as shit.

MM this is a good one.

She shares how she shifted her health journey from feeling frustrated, eratic, & sad, to peaceful, joyful, and neutral.

Some key points we cover in our convo are:

• How the BMI scale is whacked out and damaging

• How a wellness obsession can be a guise for deep disordered eating

• Breaking out of the mentality of waiting on losing weight to live life

• The power of getting clear and taking action on life desires

• Starting the recovery journey with self-kindness

• The identity death + rebirth that comes along with this journey

• Why pushing your comfort zone in the body you have is key

AND SO MUCH MORE

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Hello and welcome back to the 50th EPISODE. Of the think to thrive podcast. 50 whopping episodes. To celebrate this milestone I am bringing on a guest that is actually one of my dream guests. And her story as well as her line of work is going to shake things up a bit on the pod, and stretch what we’re comfortbale with. Which, what better way to celebrate a milestone than stretching the ol comfort zone??

Today my guest is the magnetic, Nadine Lee. Nadine is the founder of Tantric Alchemy, her company that helps people awaken the divine femenine, in union with the divine masculine and return home to themselves.

She is a Teacher of the Feminine Tantric Arts; Feminine Embodiment Coach & Nutritionist. At the core of her work, she is here to expand your mind body & soul. She helps you break down conditionings & stories that bind you & hold you back from living your truest potential.

Nadine shares her transformational journey going from a place with food + body + exercise she describes as non-acceptance, pain, discomfort- to where she is now which she describes as intuitive, nourishing, and authentic.

Some of the key points we cover in our convo are:

• The healing power of sacred sexuality

• The role of sexual abuse at age 6 played into her struggle

• All the ways we can become disconnected from our bodies, and how to reconnect through feminine embodiment

• Eating according to the phase of your menstrual cycle

• How transitions + feeling out of control exacerbated her struggles

AND SO MUCH MORE

I love this conversation and story because Nadine is at a total and complete intuitive place in her relationship with food and body and exercise, and she’s never even heard of intuitive eating. Her path ahs been all about reconnecting with herself with her body and really living from an intuitive place.

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Aaaaaand we're stayin spiritual, folks.

Elizabeth Tripp is a New York based Lifestyle Design Coach and Spiritual Teacher. As a featured radio talk show host on TalkRadio.NYC, a Thrive Global Contributor, and a national public speaker, Elizabeth is recognized as a thought leader in spirituality, well-being, and prosperity.

She is the owner and founder of ElizabethTripp.com, a coaching practice where she awakens ambitious women and men to the beauty of their soul's journey by helping them see the true beauty of their body and their life. It is Elizabeth's calling to empower other people to feel truly healthy, happy, and radiate with joy because they love themselves and their life more than they ever have before.

She believes the secret to loving your body and your life starts with believing you deserve to. Elizabeth teaches her clients to see their own journey and create their own path by helping people to understand who they really are and the purpose behind why they have chosen their body and the life they're leading.

With Elizabeth's unique capacity for sensing and understanding the feelings of others as well as her ability to feel and communicate with spirit guides and past loved ones, she helps her clients believe it's possible to love their body and their life and therefore dissolve their struggles with their well-being once and for all.

Elizabeth shares about:

• A pivotal moment getting bullied in middle school that led to 20 years of chasing beauty and enough-ness

• Losing 76 pounds in one year and getting mad attention and validation, but still not feeling worthy on the inside

• Becoming an RD and feeling like a fraud because of binge eating + drugs + drinking + over exercising

• Being a deeply sensitive and empathetic human without the tools to process emotions as a youngin

• Trying to be like other people to like herself

• Wondering what the point of life was after a long time relationship ended

• The spiritual mentor/moment that led her to realize she could let go of the external stories and value assigned to her

• The path to seeing herself as beautiful, and how that led to her treating herself beautifully

• The challenges and setbacks of the journey

….And SO much more

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Tyler is an an Anti diet dietician and intuitive eating coach and founder of food, body, & soul. She helps women leaders overcome binge eating + compulsive exercise, so that they can thrive in life and in business.Tyler takes a deeply healing spiritual approach to guide her clients towards releasing what’s in the way of connecting with their feminine power and true essence.

Tyler is with us today to share her transformative journey going from a place in her health journey she describes as lonely, misunderstood, unworthy, and guilty

To a place she describes as expansive, nourishing, and liberating.

This conversation is so fire. It is so fascinating how many layers there are to peel back to understand the root of our relationship with food, fitness, and our body, and tyler truly takes it down to the level of the spirit.

Tyler shares about:

• A challenging home life + big transitions led her to clamp down and control food + her body + exercise

• Being stuck in the restrict/binge/compensatory exercise loop for years

• The deeper root of her struggles of trying to prove her worth and value

• How powerful inner child work is, and how to do it

• What radical acceptance actually means and how it creates openness

• How we are available for different levels of growth at different parts of our journey

• Her first exposure to Intuitive Eating and how it allowed her to phase out restricting & bingeing

• Learning how to truly love herself and take care of herself

• The modalities that supported her along the way

• The importance of connecting to a higher power, and entering into the body somatically sensitive

• The importance of allowing ourselves to fully experience being human

And sooo much more.

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The fire roll continues with our guest today!

Kaitlin Bolt-Lovett is a Registered Dietitian whose practice embraces each unique individual and works to empower through reflection, education, and healing. She focuses FIRST on the relationship with food and body image, with a goal of creating confidence and harmony between them. She values the personal intricacies of each client’s experience and approaches the relationship with an inclusive, tailored perspective.

After battling through her own sport induced eating disorder for over 2 decades, Kaitlin wanted to build a private practice based on healing relationships with both food and body. Through her own experiences and continuing education, she found the social justice movement HAES(R), intuitive eating, and taking an inclusive approach to her work to be powerful and compelling. She emphasizes creating a safe space for clients to feel empowered to explore their relationship with themselves while providing an opportunity to turn inward instead of constantly looking to the external. This generates a self-awareness and trust that can break through the societal biases that often work against our ability to feel WHOLE.

She’s here with us today to share her story of healing and transformation, going from being in a place in her relationship with food, body, exercise, and herself that she describes as rigid, disconnected, and sad. To one she describes as integrative, gentle, and versatile.

Some themes that pop up in our conversation today are

• The impact that life transitions have on our relationship with food, body, and self,

• Perfectionism and being caught in the loop of NOT ENOUGH

• Being an introvert and not understanding or accepting this and the anxiety that causes

• The powerrrrr of self-compassion

• How yoga allows for connection with breath and body

• How working an extremely stressful and demanding job can exacerbate binge eating and ED tendencies

• Working with a therapist to built the skill of recognizing emotions, acknowledging them, and learning how to meet our own needs

• Healing does not mean brokenness

• How we never “arrive” at an ideal place in our health journey, it’s ever evolving

• How transforming these parts of ourselves opens up a new and freer way to experience life

And sooooo much more.

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YEEHAW we're entering into 2021 with a BANG.

Mindy Gorman-Plutzer brings 25 years of experience to her private practice as a Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner

and Eating Psychology Coach. Mindy’s life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body science; introducing a compassionate resolution to physical and emotional challenges resulting from chronic and complex health issues, as they relate to Eating Disorders. She’s the author of The Freedom Promise: 7 Steps To Stop Fearing What Food Will Do TO You and Start Embracing What It Can Do FOR You.

In today's epi Mindy shares her journey of recovery. It began in her late 30's after she was 2 pounds away from being hospitalized. For years she went through the motions of "doing" recovery, and only through peeling back the layers and growing in connection with her deepest innermost self, beyond externally imposed labels, did she find true connection with her body and thus true recovery. She covers the 7 principles that allowed her to BE recovered, and that she now guides clients through professionally.

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I'm so excited to hear from you!!!

Okayyyyyyyy skip the niceties because I think this is my favorite episode yet.

Our guest today is the empowerd af Kristen Ales.

Kristen is a therapist who specializes in disordered eating and body image based in Bend, Oregon. She is also the founder of Wild and Weightless, an organization that aims to inspire those affected by disordered eating, chronic dieting and negative body image to seek out empowerment through outdoor adventure and community. Kristen's work is centered Body Trust, Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating. When Kristen is not being a therapist you will find her skiing, hiking, and spending time with her boyfriend and dog.

Kristin shares about how she got seriously bullied for being both tall and living in a larger body, how this led to her going on a diet at age 14, losing weight, getting a ton of recognition and praise, and then developing anorexia and silently dealing with it for many years. She shares how getting a job as a nature guide and spending allll her time in nature was the catalyst in her healing her relash with food and body and exercise, and ultimately returning to her truest self, and what her journey to freedom and thriving looked like from there. She drops wisdom about how to make body acceptance a practice, how to stay embodied and connected to yourself, how to make peace with a fluctuating body, and sooo much more.

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"I felt good on a surface level because I was like, I'm chasing weight loss, isn't that what I'm supposed to be doing?"

Christina Montalvo has been working in the wellness industry for 8 years and kicked off her career as a weight loss coach. She struggled for years with a chaotic relationship with food, obsessing about her body, and witnessing her clients experience the similar challenges. After hitting diet rock bottom she started making some serious shifts both in the way she was treating herself and also working with clients.

She shares some mad wisdom about:

-The problematic sides of dieting + body image obsession

-The major impact our beliefs have on our thoughts + behavior

-Why it's so important to focus on how we feel

-The Body Positive social justice movement

And so much more!

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^^The Confidence Project epi 138

-Health At Every Size, Linda Bacon

-Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch & Evelyn Tribole

Oh my gosh y’all. The conversation and human I have to share with you today. Is so rich. So good. So insightful.

Katelyn Parsons is an Entrepreneur, Speaker, Certified Intuitive Eating + Body Image Coach, as well as the host of The Modern Girl Podcast.

After years of struggling with bulimia and disordered eating, she not only found recovery but recognized a crucial missing link in the wellness industry- empowerment + individual sustainability around health. This inspired her entrepreneurial journey and life mission to shift the conversation toward healing our relationship with food and body.

For the past 4 years, Katelyn has helped countless high-achieving women transform their relationship with food and body image through an integrative, evidence-based process so that they can move through each day feeling more present, empowered, and comfortable in their skin, without worrying about what to eat.

You’ll also find Katelyn strolling the beach in sunny San Diego with her husband and their pup Winnie.

These days Katelyn describes her relationship with food+body+fitness as free, expressive, and grounding. The way she described it in the past is fucking train wreck. Today Katelyn shares with us how she struggled for years and years with binge eating which then escalated to purging and full out bullemia. How the roots of this began literally out of the womb when she experienced restriction due to a milk allergy, and how it further developed later into middle school because she was involved in sports and theater where her body was on display, and had the first thoughts of “ I have to achieve the perfect body.” How her disordered eating patterns would calm down and then flare up due to different transitions and emotions, how she finally said yes to getting support, and all the bumps and learnings in her journey from there. She shares how deeply perfectionism, people pleasing, anxiety, lack of emotional regulation and healthy communication were all woven into her struggles with food and body.

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