On today’s episode we’re introducing our May focus: body image and body neutrality. Today’s episode is a solo one – just Dana and Cristina – and we’re digging into conditional food neutrality: how and why we set conditions on when we feel like we can, or are allowed to have food neutrality or food freedom...

On today’s episode with Becky Scott we’re chatting about microaggressions in the fitness industry, the problematic “worth it” aspect of exercise, how to create more inclusive fitness spaces, and the work she’s doing with FitPros Against Weight Stigma. Becky is the creator of MissFits Workout. Becky found body positivity and fat liberation in her early...

Larkin Silverman is a self-proclaimed Vinyasa Vixen who teaches accessible, inclusive, empowering,  Body Neutral and Trauma Informed group and private fitness classes. For Larkin, these movement modalities are an act of reckoning and reclamation. In today’s episode she is going to be sharing these deeply liberative practices and mindset shifts with you in podcast form,...

Barb Puzanovova is our guest today, who is also known as the the Non-Diet trainer! Barb is an ACE-certified personal group trainer, Behavior Change Specialist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. She’s dedicated to teaching her clients how to move joyfully and train with intention for all bodies.  On today’s episode with Barb we’re digging into...

This month on the Whole-Hearted Eating Podcast we’re diving deep with our guests on the topic of intuitive fitness, and how you can begin to change the way you view exercise away from an all-or-nothing mentality that is always tied to changing the size of your body. Our guests are all non-diet fitness professionals who...

Welcome to the evolution of the Real Talk with Dana podcast with Dana Monsees, to…the Whole-Hearted Eating Podcast with Dana Monsees and Cristina Hoyt! Whole-hearted Eating is the philosophy we created that marries the principles of integrative health, weight-inclusive care, and non-diet, neutral nutrition. It is a way of empowered eating and living that creates...

This week on Real Talk with Dana is the last episode until we change to the Whole-Hearted Eating Podcast! Cristina Hoyt, aka my new co-host going forward, and I will be diving into the topics of wellness chasing, conditional food freedom, and The Nutrition Jungle – also known as, we get so confused and overwhelmed...

Lopa Van Der Mersch is an Ayurvedic practitioner. Mother of two. Sustainability advocate. TEDx speaker and recovering cult member. Her adventures have taken her around the world in search of health, spiritual fulfillment, and deep energy. Two years ago, she added a new chapter to her life story: Founder and CEO of Rasa, the adaptogenic...

Carrie Eckert is a holistic health coach, a friend of mine from grad school, and the author of the new book Going with my Gut. On today’s episode we’re chatting about neuroplasticity healing for mold and chronic inflammatory response syndrome, the effect of mold on the brain and the immune system, and how to tune...

Israel Passwater is a co-owner of Clearly Filtered and today we’re talking about how not all water is created equal – and why clean water for gut health is so important. We talk all the time on this podcast about how food, mindset, stress, exercise affect our health – but we don’t talk as much...