Why We Love Alissa:

Alissa Rumsey, MS, RD, CDN, CSCS is a registered dietitian, nutrition therapist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and the author of Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace With Food and Transform Your Life. Alissa is passionate about advocating for women to reclaim the space to eat and live unapologetically. She is the founder of Alissa Rumsey Nutrition and Wellness, a weight-inclusive nutrition practice that offers virtual counseling and online programs to help people liberate themselves from dieting, cultivate a peaceful relationship to food and their bodies, and live a more authentic, connected life. Her expertise has been featured in hundreds of media outlets and she speaks regularly at events, online trainings, and conferences around the country. She calls New York City home and spends her free time exploring the city’s food scene and searching for patches of green space to sunbathe in.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Her entry to this work and the shift she made in her personal and professional life along the way
• Why unpacking diet culture and learning Health and Every Size commonly leads to activism 
• How to separate the desire for weight loss from concerns about health 
• Why diet culture is really anti-fatness and does not exist in a silo and how that’s the underlying current beneath most people’s dysfunction with food 
• Why we all love the show Salt Fat Acid Heat
• Who Unapologetic Eating is for and why she wrote it 
• How healing our relationship with food, can be a portal to deeper healing and self-actualization 
• What the process of grieving a past body, or the thought of a different future body, looks like and how to “sick in the suck” 
• And much more

Helpful Links: 

• Visit Alissa’s website
• Her book Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace with Food and Transform Your Life
• Follow Alissa on Instagram
• Watch our free masterclass to learn the 5 Shifts Our Clients Use to End Binge Eating
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our coaching program is a good fit for you
• Join our private Facebook group
• Learn more about our Intuitive Eating Coaching Program

In This Episode:

Bridget and Dana discuss how to cope when the uncomfortable moments of "feeling fat" come up in the process of healing your relationship with food and your body.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Why "feeling fat" is a problematic concept for a couple reason and what to consider to shift it
• How to navigate this situation in a way that's effective and helps you build your body image resilience
• How to choose real self-care and body respect over the self-harm of dieting and punitive exercise when these moments come up

Helpful Links: 

• Watch our free body image video series: How to stop Hating Your Body
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our coaching program is a good fit for you
• Join our private Facebook group

Why We Love Jenna:

Jenna is an LGBTQIA+ Self-Love Coach, who helps folx sort through conditioning, release emotional baggage, and tap into their authentic selves. You can connect with Jenna at jennaslaughter.com, or check out the new Unlearning podcast!

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Conditioning: what it actually is and how our beliefs might affect us
• Some common limiting beliefs and fear-based thoughts
• Reparenting ourselves and inner child work
• Some of the stats around women and girls related to eating disorders and body hate
• How Jenna’s queer identity and internalized homophobia intersected with body acceptance
• Social media: the benefits and the downsides as it relates to our self worth and body image
• How to start to shift your mindset and create new beliefs that actually serve you
• And much more

Helpful Links: 

• Visit Jenna’s website
• Listen to The Unlearning Podcast
• Follow Jenna on Instagram
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Simple Shifts Our Clients Use to End Binge Eating
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our coaching program is a good fit for you
• Join our private Facebook group

In this Episode:

Bridget and Dana answer a question from our community: "Aside from all the wonderful tips/tricks/mindset updates / etc you have provided over the years, I was curious if you have anything further to comment on in relation to wedding? Obviously I want to look / feel my best, hence the struggle between 'eating healthy' and intuitive eating."

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• How to prepare for a wedding or event where you might be in the spotlight, as someone who is recovering from food and body image struggles
• Why dieting may add more stress and drain your confidence as you get reading for a special occasion
• How to approach "eating healthy" vs Intuitive Eating

Helpful Links: 

• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Simple Shifts Our Clients Use to End Binge Eating
• Watch our free video series: How to Stop Hating Your Body
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our coaching program is a good fit for you
• Join our private Facebook group

Why We Love Lindsay:

Dr. Lindsay Kite and her twin sister Dr. Lexie Kite received their PhDs from the University of Utah. Their academic research on media studies and body image inspired them to establish the non-profit Beauty Redefined in 2009 (while concluding their co-written master’s thesis and beginning their doctoral research) to help women recognize and reject harmful messages about their bodies, worth, and potential, and redefine the meaning and value of beauty in their lives.

Since then, Lexie and Lindsay have become leading experts in body image resilience and media literacy and have been featured in a variety of national publications and interviews. Today, they continue to build on their academic work and the passion it stoked for helping girls and women through Beauty Redefined’s online body image resilience course and course facilitator program, and regular speaking events for thousands of people of all ages at universities, high schools, and community organizations.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• The phenomenon of self-objectification - what it s, when it begins and why it affects women so profoundly in life 
• How being an identical twin impacted body image and her own self-objectification 
• What creates our body image and the specific factors that impact our self-objectification 
• Why a household that diets growing up is a common denominator for poor body image issues 
• Why measuring health by weight is problematic and incomplete and wreaks havoc on our body image growing up 
• The important distinction between loving how you look and building body image resilience 
• Connecting the media we mindless consume for entertainment as blocking our ability to self-actualize; we can’t imagine our best future selves without also seeing ourselves looking differently
• How the fitness and wellness industry contribute to our self-objectification

Helpful Links:

• Visit the More Than a Body website
• Get the book, More Than a Body
• Follow Dr. Lindsay Kite and Dr. Lexie Kite on Instagram
• Join our Facebook group to partake in our next book club about More Than a Body
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Simple Shifts to End Binge Eating 
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our Intuitive Eating coaching program is a good fit for you

In this episode we explore one of our favorite principles of Intuitive Eating: the satisfaction factor! You'll learn why it's so important for healing your relationship with food, and how to start putting it into practice.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• The three reasons you never feel satisfied when you're eating
• What seeking satisfaction with food looks like and why it matters if you want to break free from the diet-binge cycle
• How to start putting this important principle into practice in your daily life

Helpful Links: 

• Download the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating
• Take the free Intuitive Eating Assessment
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Simple Shifts Our Clients Use to End Binge Eating and Finally Stop Obsessing About Food Every Day (Sometimes Overnight)
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our coaching program is a good fit for you
• Join our private Facebook group

Why We Love Shanique:

Shanique Allen is a certified Health & Nutrition coach with over 10 years in the wellness space as Personal Trainer and Corporate Wellness consultant. Now as the Head Coach of Shanique Allen Coaching, she is on a mission to help women embrace themselves where they are, and use their life experience to build a wellness blueprint they can thrive on.

Through her coaching programs, she gives women the tools to free themselves from diet culture’s toxic food and movement rules, and instead embrace the intuitive ways they can eat, move and live to nourish their whole being from the inside out.

You won’t find her recommending diets, food lists, one way to move, or shaming you for starting over for the 10th or 100th time. Instead, you will find repeated calls to show yourself grace when things go awry as much as you will find her asking you the tough questions to get you living life unrestricted and in total body health and acceptance.

Shanique lives in Seattle with her husband Mike and their 3 year old goldendoodle Siggy.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Shanique's story and her struggles with food, her body, and burnout 
• Signs of burnout and why it can be sneaky
• The mindset shifts she made around exercise and food
• The traumatic, visceral response to restriction after many years of dieting
• Navigating possible weight gain and body acceptance that can feel scary in response to giving up dieting
• How to create small, simple healthy habits by starting with what you’re already doing
• Getting curious, and asking questions anytime you’re told what to eat or someone else suggests they knows better than you when it comes to your body
• And much more

Helpful Links: 

• Visit Shanique’s website
• Follow Shanique on Instagram
• Follow Shanique on Facebook
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Simple Shifts to End Binge Eating 
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our Intuitive Eating coaching program is a good fit for you
• Join our private Facebook group to implement healthy habits in your own life
• Learn more about our personalized intuitive eating coaching program

Dana and Bridget discuss pseudo dieting: what it is, and why it can be harmful if you're trying to heal your relationship with food. You may notice some of these patterns in your own life (we've been there with every single one!), so this is a helpful way to understand how some thoughts and behaviors around food can impede your ability to listen to your body.

On the Pod We Discuss:

• What is pseudo dieting and examples of how it shows up
• Why it's so harmful and how it can affect your relationship with food
• How to avoid pseudo dieting so it doesn't impede your ability to listen to your body

Helpful Links: 

• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Simple Shifts Our Clients Use to End Binge Eating and Finally Stop Obsessing About Food Every Day (Sometimes Overnight)
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our coaching program is a good fit for you
• Join our private Facebook group

Why We Love Isabel:

Isabel Foxen Duke is the Creator of Stop Fighting Food®, a free online training program for those recovering from diet-binge cycling and/or "feeling crazy around food." She is also the founder of the soon-to-launch Center for Weight Neutral Coaching™,  an online training program for coaches and wellness professionals committed to providing diet recovery services from a weight-neutral perspective. A fixture and thought-leader in the greater Body Positive movement, Isabel has been featured in the Huffington Post, Elle Magazine, Refinery 29, and has been praised by the likes of Ricki Lake and Lena Dunham. Her writing and free guide, How To Not Eat Cake...really fast, standing up, when nobody's looking, can be found at isabelfoxenduke.com and you can watch her free video training series at stopfightingfood.com.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Isabel’s history with binge eating and struggles with her body
• What was at the root of her struggle and what lead to her eventual road to recovery
• What happened when she gave up the restriction and decided to accept wherever she ended up with food and her weight
• The realities of fat phobia, separating the social narratives to navigate and the psychological effects of holding these beliefs
• How trauma intersects with disordered eating or eating disorders and our nervous systems
• The fundamental pieces of body image and how to begin addressing it
• What mainstream body positivity is missing, particularly related to “body love”
• The soon-to-launch Center for Weight Neutral Coaching: who it’s for and why Isabel decided to create it
• And much more

Helpful Links: 

• Visit Isabel’s website
• Learn more about Stop Fighting Food
• Learn more about the soon-to-launch Center for Weight Neutral Coaching™
• Follow Isabel on Instagram
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Simple Shifts to End Binge Eating 
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our coaching program is a good fit for you

In This Episode:

Dana and Bridget discuss how to spot fake Intuitive Eating, and why it's an important skill if your true goal is to have a peaceful, healthy relationship with food.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• What "fake" Intuitive Eating looks like and what to look for in a guide, coach, mentor, trainer, etc.
• The key distinction if your GOAL is a truly peaceful and healthy relationship with food
• Why it's so important and helpful to make this distinction

Helpful Links: 

• Download the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating
• Take the free Intuitive Eating Assessment
• Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our coaching program is a good fit for you
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Simple Shifts Our Clients Use to End Binge Eating and Finally Stop Obsessing About Food Every Day (Sometimes Overnight)
• Join our private Facebook group