Kristen Ales announces she is pregnant and expecting a baby girl! We could not be more excited to dive into both the spooky and sweet surprises of her pregnancy journey. Kristen talks about what it’s been like to not have a lot of control over what’s happening in her body while it’s been busy making a baby - and how that has been affecting all the other adventures she’s been up to this year! She talks about some big changes in her relationship to her body, food, movement, work, and learning how to ask for help. Kristen shares some of the tools that she's learned throughout her own recovery and as a therapist that have come in handy during this time of big changes and big cravings.

We do recognize that each woman’s experience with pregnancy varies immensely,  and that this is a tough subject for some. If you decide it’s too spooky or triggering, feel free to skip this episode.

In this episode we discuss:

Kristen buys a little home on wheels  + announces she’s pregnant with a baby girl! 

Kristen shares more about her relationship with her body throughout pregnancy and meeting changes with neutrality and compassion rather than judgment or shame. 

With her body busy making a baby, she’s finding it easier to practice boundaries with her time and precious energy.

The gift of learning how to receive while letting go a little of the  “boss babe, do it myself” mentality.

Kristen’s favorite resources for pregnancy and expecting parents: 

Books: Expecting Better, Emily Oster

Bumpin': The Modern Guide to Pregnancy: Navigating the Wild, Weird, and Wonderful Journey From Conception Through Birth and Beyond, Leslie Schrock

Podcasts: The Pregnancy Podcast, Pregnancy Confidential

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠

There is nothing more spooky than stepping out of your comfort zone. Usually getting out of your comfort zone includes uncomfortable feelings of anticipation, anxiety, and even panic. These are emotions that most of us don't like to experience on a daily basis. So it makes sense why you might want to play it safe and stick to routines that you know. However, without stepping out of our comfort zone we risk boredom, complacency, and a lack of purpose.

Turns out, there are many benefits of stepping out of your comfort zone, and in this episode, we explore how we Kristen and Kristin are pushing ourselves to step out of our own comfort zones professionally. We get vulnerable chatting about public speaking events, launching retreats, and showing up scared and at times a little messy. We discuss what we have learned from getting uncomfortable and the major benefits we have experienced.

In this episode, we discuss:

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠

Are you someone who is either ALL in or ALL out? Do your projects feel like either a total success or a complete failure? This week we are talking about the sneaky ways our brain gets in our way of success, joy, and balance by labeling experiences, people, and even ourselves in dichotomous boxes such as All good Or All bad,  Healthy or Unhealthy, Always or Never. You may not even notice you are doing it! Kristin explains why our brain gets comfortable thinking in black and white and how to get comfortable living in the gray. 

In this episode we discuss:

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠

Do you ever feel that you cannot trust yourself around food? Are you consumed by thinking about food 24/7 or counting the minutes until your next snack? Or maybe you swing between patterns of binging followed by patterns of restricting or arbitrary rule following? This week host Kristen Ales, LPC and disordered eating specialist demystifies the framework and approach to Intuitive Eating. While it can be scary to begin to ask the body what it wants when diet culture has taught us to tune out our intuitive nature and healthy body cues, Kristen helps draw the roadmap to recovery, building self trust, and finding food freedom.

  In this episode we discuss:

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠

In this episode we are getting straight to the facts and hard science around nutrition and high performance activity. We are debunking myths about our body and food that are all around us - sometimes even taught in school! We are joined by the brilliant Shira Evans, MS, RD, CSSD, LD an expert in Sports Nutrition, RED-S, and disordered eating. After many years working as a Sports Dietician for Division-1 universities, Shira now works with individuals in her private practice. For any athlete, outdoor enthusiast, or sports dabbler, Shira helps us spot the difference between what is a “good” athlete and what might be disordered. 

In this episode we discuss:

Shira shares more about her history as a competitive athlete and shares that witnessing her teammate struggle with an eating disorder inspired her career path.

Debunking the idea that thinner = better and how to properly support different body types especially as they change throughout phases of our life.

Spotting the differences between a “good athlete” and disordered athlete.

Finding harm in places we typically think are safe and supportive such as elementary schools, university sports teams, or even health class.

You can learn more about Shira and her services by visiting her website 

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠

Meal planning is typically associated with stacks of perfectly organized glass containers, filled with perfectly portioned meals for each day of the week, and each meal consists of a lean protein and leafy vegetables. Not only does this typical way of approaching meal planning seem restrictive, but is also exclusionary and complicated. If meal planning and prepping feels like a stretch for you each Sunday, don't worry you're not alone.

Today we are joined by Deanna Michaelson, owner of Stoked Coaching. In this episode, they help us break down the barriers that overcomplicate the meal planning process, and we discuss all of the different benefits that come from bringing intention and structure to the way we feed ourselves.

In this episode we explore

Deanna Michaelson is a multidisciplinary creative, outdoor enthusiast, and life coach. They founded Stoked Coaching in 2021 out of a desire to help unconventional people lead intentional lives. Get Stoked on Meal Planning is the first in a series of life skills zines focused on “adulting” for creatives, entrepreneurs, and adventurers. You can find Deanna and learn more about their offerings by visiting their website or Instagram @stokedcoaching

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠ Check it out! This course is on sale for just $100 for the month of September!

Feeling anxious about how other people view you? Feeling guilty saying no, or speaking your mind? Feeling the need to fix or solve people’s problems in order to feel valuable? Saying yes to too many things and then feeling angry or resentful? You might have some traits of people pleasing, but don’t feel too alarmed because we do too! Kristen and Kristin are talking about their own unresolved people-pleasing tendencies and how it shows up in various aspects of their life. We discuss the roots of people pleasing as an maladaptive coping mechanism and the detrimental impacts people pleasing has on our overall happiness and well being. 

In this episode we discuss:

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠

If the traditional 9-5 lifestyle freaks you out a little - you’re not alone. Maybe you're considering ditching the 9-5 for something a little more untraditional that allows for more flexibility, time to travel or spend on adventures. After all, working remotely just requires wifi! In this episode, we talk with Isobel Griffin, a copywriter for small adventurous brands who operates her business fully remote. We talk about the glamor and the allure of creating our own schedules, having time flexibility for those mid-day yoga classes, and the freedom to work virtually from anywhere in the world. But any sort of freedom can come at a high cost - We get real about the difficult aspects of remote work that are not glamorous and sometimes jeopardize the freedom we craved in the first place! In fact, it often requires great skill in boundaries, and discipline to avoid becoming a slave to the work.

In this episode we explore:

1. The freedom remote work creates and can offer more space/ time to connect to outdoor recreation, getting outside, and traveling - virtually anywhere!

2. The importance of allowing yourself to pivot - take up a new career path or completely change our mind about what you want to study! 

3. The reality that working remote can feel really isolating and lonely, with connection and relationship feeling more difficult to attain and maintain.  

4. The extra importance of strong boundaries in our relationship to work given work is carried with us everywhere. 

You can find Isobel by visiting her beautiful website or Instagram @isobel.griffin

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠

Do you struggle slowing down and taking the time to check in with yourself? Do you have a difficult time knowing what your body needs or wants? Stress, anxiety, unresolved emotions, trauma, and the demands of our daily life can make slowing down feel impossible or sometimes deeply uncomfortable. Today we are joined by Lo Segal Registered Dietitian and Yoga Instructor who shares more about her philosophy and approach to slowing down and tuning in. Lo discusses her challenge as a former Division 1 Athlete and Collegiate Sports Nutritionist where she felt important elements of wellness and personal wellbeing were not aligning with the typical athlete mindset. She now owns her own business called Intuitive Athlete Yoga where she turns clients inward for guidance about what their body needs for a healthier relationship with food, movement, and beyond.

In this episode we explore

Lo’s journey from a former D1 athlete and collegiate sports nutritionist toward an approach and philosophy that feels almost opposite.

What does it actually look like to tune into our bodies and how it can help us have a healthier relationship with food, our body, and overall purpose in life. 

Challenging typical Athlete mindsets like “All or Nothing”, “Go big or Go Home” and guilt related to not sticking to a plan!

How trauma or unresolved emotions can make slowing down and listening to our bodies scary or uncomfortable + how to work with this in a safe trauma informed way. 

You can find Lo and her offerings by visiting her website or Instagram @intuitiveathleteyoga

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠ here

See You At the Summit Trip Recap +  the importance of integration

We are catching a breath in this week’s episode and catching up as Kristin comes off trail from her 9 day expedition with See You At the Summit, a therapeutic wilderness expedition designed for teens affected by cancer. Kristin recaps highlights of her experience in the backcountry of Central Oregon guiding a group of teenagers + discusses the most rewarding aspects of facilitating adventure therapy. Kristen and Kristin reflect on the importance of integration from any travel or adventure experience as a way of bringing home the lessons, taking a pause, and intentionally weaving life changing moments into our day to day lives before we’re onto the next trip!

In this episode we explore:

Kristin recaps her 9 day wilderness expedition facilitating a group of teens from See You At The Summit

She shares personal and student success stories from the field 

Kristen and Kristin explore the importance of making time for integration after any big trip, retreat, or new experience. 

Exploring integration as means of enrichment in our lives and perhaps the reason life changing experiences actually in fact change our lives. 

Check out the 2023 trip report and more information about See You At The Summit here.

You can learn more about the hosts ⁠Kristen Ales, LPC⁠, and ⁠Kristin Mathes, LCSW⁠ by visiting their websites.

This show is brought to you by: The Wilder Wellness Intuitive Eating online course is a self-paced program that will help you heal your relationship with food and your body. This 10-module course will help you stop obsessing over food so you can reclaim your time and mental clarity, take charge of how you take care of yourself, and begin to take steps toward finding food freedom. ⁠Learn more and sign up here.⁠