Why We Love Nicole:

Nicole Cruz, MS, RDN is a registered dietitian nutritionist, mom of three, wife, and eating disorder specialist. She has a private practice located in Southern California, devoted to helping others reclaim their joy and find food freedom. She works with clients from all walks of life to transform their relationship with food by practicing from an intuitive eating perspective and non-diet approach.

As a mom herself, Nicole’s passion is to support parents in fostering a healthy relationship with food for their children. She has a private Facebook group, Joyful Eating for Your Family, and she offers virtual nutrition coaching and programs to parents. Nicole is dedicated to transforming the way we view nutrition in order to live more full and balanced lives, at peace with food.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• How Nicole got into this work and the issues related to food she started to see among children and families
• The foundation for fostering a healthy relationship with food as a parent or caregiver, and how to get started feeding your family with an intuitive eating approach
• How to handle potentially harmful input and opinions from other people when it comes to feeding your own kids
• Tips for working with picky eaters and avoiding becoming the short order cook
• Approaching snacks vs. meals in terms of quantity and variety
• Navigating sugar consumption for kids
• How to advocate for your kids if they’re getting misinformation about food in school or somewhere outside the house
• What to do about conversations or concerns regarding a child’s weight, especially at the doctor’s office
• Separating a real health problem from weight gain that has been pathologized 
• What to do if multiple parents or caregivers are involved in feeding and are not in agreement about food
• And so much more

Helpful Links:

• Visit Nicole’s website
• Join the Joyful Eating for Your Family Facebook Group
• Follow Nicole Cruz 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 chat with one of us
• Check out our personalized Intuitive Eating Coaching program

In This Episode:

Bridget and Dana discuss why it can be challenging to get in touch with your intuitive cues around food if you've been dieting for awhile, how to get started identifying your hunger and fullness, and what to do if you're struggling with this.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Why it can be challenging to get in touch with your body's cues around food
• How to get started identifying your hunger and fullness
• What to do if you're struggling with your intuitive cues

Helpful Links:

• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Get the free Intuitive Eating Assessment
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session to chat with one of us
• Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program

Why We Love Dr. Harris:

Dr. Marina Harris is a specialist in eating disorders, sport psychology, trauma-informed care, and mindfulness. She currently works as a fellow at the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (CEED) and the Carolina Athletics Mental Health and Performance Program. 

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Her unique entry point into sports psychology and eating disorder mental health work through an early career in competitive gymnastics
• Why performative competitive sports easily lend themselves to disordered eating and eating disorders 
• Trauma, big T, little T, PTSD, what it is and how it impacts our mental health 
• The way trauma can shift our worldview and other ways it impedes our lives 
• Ways to recognize if we are dealing with trauma in our own lives and steps to find care if we have access to it
• Why living in diet culture is a form of trauma and seeing it as such is helpful to heal
• Why generational trauma is so common when it comes to diet culture and disordered eating and how we can prevent it
• The decreasing stigma around mental health care and how to get more people access to good care 
• The mental health care she provides around bariatric surgery, why health is independent from weight, (she doesn't recommend bariatric surgery for improving health), and the nuance around this polarizing topic in the HAES and IE community
• And much more 

Helpful Links:

• Check out Marina's blog, Letters From Your Therapist, on Psychology Today, or her website
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Get our free video series: How to Stop Hating Your Body
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session to chat with one of us
• Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program

In This Episode:

Bridget and Dana discuss the myth of improving health outcomes or solving specific challenges with weight loss. We address one of the most common questions people have when they come to us to learn about Intuitive Eating and body image resilience: “but what about my health?”

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• The myth that we can achieve better health, or avoid certain negative health outcomes, by dieting to lose weight, and why we need to unpack this concept in order to make peace with food
• Why weight isn’t indicative of health and why you can’t actually tell anyone’s health status by looking at their bodies
• What actually *does* matter for improving health outcomes, and how to embrace a health at every size approach to taking care of yourself if health is a value for you

Helpful Links:

• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Get our free video series: How to Stop Hating Your Body
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session to speak to one of us
• Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program

Why We Love Marie:

Marie-Pier is an anti-diet Registered Dietitian with a B.Sc. in Psychology and the founder of The Balanced Practice. After completing her first degree in psychology, Marie-Pier struggled with an eating disorder. After recovery, she went back to school to become an RD with the dream to support folx in their own food journeys. She started her private practice and has been supporting folx heal their relationship with food and their bodies. She strives to provide evidence based nutrition interventions to all her clients and support them in their recovery journeys. She  is passionate about helping folx discover how to ditch diet culture and nourish their bodies without guilt, shame or restrictions. 

She is the host of The Balanced Dietitian Podcast where she provides listeners a different approach to nutrition. She offers one on one counselling at The Balanced Practice as well as an online group program to help folx heal their relationship with food and body.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Her own recovery from disordered eating and why she set out to bridge the gap between psychology and dietetics to help others heal as well 
• Why our gut health and mental health are so deeply connected and why many of the strict ass little protocols from wellness gurus and celebrity doctors are actually making it all worse 
• Why GI issues don’t always mean you should cut out good groups 
• The other factors that could be impacting your gut health that have nothing to do with food
• Why weight-inclusive care is so important for health outcomes 
• Why making a nome “nutritionally safe” is so important for families in which a child is struggling with an eating disorder
• Some warning signs that a child might be struggling with an eating issue
• How to manage post-COVID body image disruptions and why reconnecting to our bodies is the antidote to the discomfort not body love 
• And so much more

Helpful Links:

• Watch Marie's free workshop
• Check out her one on one services 
• Check out her online program
• Follow Marie on Instagram
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Get our free video series: How to Stop Hating Your Body
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session with one of our coaches
• Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program

In This Episode:

We're celebrating 100 episodes of the pod with a giveaway! Plus, we're discussing post-pandemic body image: how to navigate challenges that might come up during this time of transition, and practice ways to support feeling at peace in your body.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Celebrating 100 episodes! To be entered to win access to our Intro to Intuitive Eating course and a copy of Evelyn Tribole's new book, Intuitive Eating for Every Day, leave the podcast a review and send us a screenshot (email us [email protected] or DM us on Instagram @wellness_lately) by April 9, 2021.
• Why our fat phobic society is problematic in terms of what the focus is right now coming out of a global pandemic
• Helpful ways to navigate feelings of frustration and shame regarding post-pandemic body image, and what to keep in mind right now
• Practical tips for handling body image challenges and feeling at peace in your own skin

Helpful Links:

• Get our brand new Podcast Guide
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Get our free video series: How to Stop Hating Your Body
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session with one of our coaches
• Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program

Why We Love Stephanie:

Stephanie Dodier is a Clinical Nutritionist, an Intuitive Eating Expert, and the host of The Beyond the Food Show whose integrative and comprehensive approach helps womxn take their lives back from diet culture. Her proprietary and countercultural approach, the Going Beyond The Food Method™️, has helped womxn in over 92 countries seek health beyond dieting. Stephanie was trained at the Institute of Holistic Nutrition in Canada and has a degree in Health Science.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Stephanie's entry point into a career of dieting 
• Her transition into the wellness diet and the common practice that triggered her season of binge eating specifically 
• What exactly diet culture is and why it’s overlooked in mainstream feminist conversation 
• What weight stigma and fat phobia are and their profound impact on all of our lives
• The 4 components of diet brain: perfectionism, all or nothing, black and white thinking, people pleasing, mental filtering (it’s my body’s fault) 
• Why we cannot stop at Intuitive Eating, why we have to do the mindset work too or it won’t be successful 
• Why we cannot wait for diet culture to stop itself 
• Why striving to love our bodies and how they look is a misguided road to a more positive body image and what to do instead
• And so much more

Helpful Links:

• Visit Stephanie's website
• Listen to Stephanie's podcast: Going Beyond the Food Show
• Follow Stephanie on Instagram
• Follow Stephanie on Facebook
• Check out Stephanie's Youtube
• Connect with Stephanie on LinkedIn
• Learn more about Stephanie's Conquer and Thrive Program
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Get our free video series: How to Stop Hating Your Body
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session with one of our coaches
• Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program

In This Episode:

Bridget and Dana discuss why food and body image issues can hold you back in your career, why these challenges disproportionately affect women in the workplace, and how to start improving your relationship with food and your body so this struggle isn't holding you back any longer.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Why food and body image issues can hold you back in your career
• Why these challenges disproportionately affect women in the workplace
• How to start improving your relationship with food and your body so this struggle isn't holding you back any longer

Helpful Links:

• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Get our free video series: How to Stop Hating Your Body
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session with one of our coaches
• Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program

Why We Love Jaren:

Jaren Soloff is a Registered Dietitian and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) who serves as an expert in women’s health. While continuing to practice in the field of eating disorder treatment, Jaren gained additional experience as an IBCLC to fuse her love of nutrition and women’s health. Now working solely in private practice, Jaren combines her expertise as a skilled nutrition therapist and lactation consultant to support mothers in nourishing themselves and their babies with confidence. FULL CRCL provides nutrition counseling and lactation consultations to help both mom and baby thrive in motherhood. Informed by her own journey and the hundreds of women she has counseled, Jaren’s experience comes full circle to support women in navigating pregnancy, birth and postpartum from a simple and intuitive framework.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• The work Jaren does as a nutrition therapist and lactation consultant
• How her personal struggles with food played a role in coming to this work
• Some of the common challenges women face in pregnancy and postpartum phases related to food and body 
• Why poor body image moments are often not actually about our bodies
• How to approach nutrition and taking care of your health as a new mother without falling into dieting or any restrictive patterns
• The Postpartum Cookbook: who Jaren wrote it for and why
• The factors outside of nutrition that impact a new mother’s healing including mental health 
• How weight stigma affects individuals in larger bodies during pregnancy and postpartum
• How to develop your inner advocate when it comes to your postpartum care and upholding boundaries
• And so much more

Helpful Links: 

• Visit Jaren’s website
• Follow Jaren on Instagram
• Check out The Postnatal Cookbook (+ get a free sneak peek)
• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session with one of our coaches
• Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program

In This Episode:

Bridget and Dana discuss how to start to take better care of yourself without dieting, and some simple, practical tips to start honoring your health.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Why restricting food is often the go-to method for "improving" health, and why it's not actually not helpful
• The surprising mindset shift to make around food and other forms of self-care and nourishment
• Practical, simple ways to begin taking better care of yourself and what to evaluate in your day-to-day, without turning to dieting

Helpful Links: 

• Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Shifts to End Binge Eating
• Join our private Facebook group
• Set up a free breakthrough session with one of our coaches
• Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program