This episode is part of our series on the intersection of faith and diet culture. We did an episode with Talk Purity to Me , Episode 105. This week Tracy is sharing her personal deconstruction and reconstruction of faith and next week Tonya will share hers.  SHOW SPONSORS: Check out our Amazon List with all of our favorite non-diet resources and self care items. Shop Amazon Ready to start your Live Free journey today? Download our free We're Not Weighting Workbook. Looking to add to...

We have Blair, the founder and creator behind Talk Purity To Me on the show today. Blair is an ex-evangelical and purity culture survivor who is working to create a space for people to discuss the harm of purity culture. Connect with Talk Purity To Me: Instagram II TikTok II Twitter MENTIONS For more on the intersection of diet culture and the church, check out these episodes: Episode 17 - Diet Culture, Feminism and the Church with Guest Celeste Smith, LMFT, CEDS Episode 47 - Sex,...

Show notes: This episode is about The Messy Middle. You are trying to figure out this whole Intuitive Eating/Health at Every Size stuff. Learning how to reconcile a past of striving for your dream body, now knowing there’s no perfect diet out there. You are in the process of letting your body be the size it wants to be.  So maybe you’re not really feeling like an Intuitive Eater, but also you know you don’t want to diet any longer.  This episode answers….how to be in the messy middle.    ...

Episode Notes This week we dive into all things Enneagram with expert Erin Baute! We are delighted to welcome her to the show to discuss the intersection of the Enneagram and Intuitive Eating. If you’ve ever wondered how learning more about the number you identify with and how it relates to your body, then this episode is for you!   GUEST INFO  Find Erin Baute: @livingtheenneagram on Instagram and Living the Enneagram on Facebook www.livingtheenneagram.com – where you can sign up for her...

If you scroll through social media you might see photos of women showing off their rolls and proclaiming they love them. Which we are all about, we think that visibility and representation are so important and we need to see all bodies, not just the ones that the media portrays. The problem is, your relationship with your body can’t be captured in an Instagram photo. Just like everything else on Instagram, it is a highlight reel and it isn’t a true picture of what your relationship with your...

Lindsay Iadeluca is a well-rounded journalist in Rhode Island for NBC10. She also is one of the co-hosts for the lifestyle show Studio 10 on channel 10. She is a board member for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society New England chapter and an avid foody. She and her friends are the proud bloggers for the Rhody Foody Instagram where they highlight local restaurants in the area. Born and bred in RI, Lindsay is a graduate of URI as well. Connect with Lindsay  Instagram II Rhody Food  SHOW...

Episode Notes   We have reached 100 Episodes!! Wow, what a journey. We are ever grateful for our We're Not Weighting Community. In this episode, we tell our stories and what we have learned along the way. Thanks for listening, liking, and sharing our work!   MENTIONS @noahbritonbeats (our sound Engineer) @evelyntribole & @elyseresch (their life-changing work of introducing us to intuitive eating)   SHOW SPONSORS CBD Direct Online: 25% off your next purchase Use this link to get...

This episode answers the question, what the actual eff is HAES?  You might have heard a bit about Health at Every Size when you’re learning about Intuitive Eating, but not really understood how it correlates with the anti-diet movement. Measures of body weight and body size do not accurately reflect an individual’s health status and often lead to ineffective interventions rather than efforts that actually enhance health and wellness. In this episode, we unpack a few common myths of HAES®...

On today’s episode we are talking about cleaning out your closet while you are in recovery or even as you are going through recovery.  We know first hand that changing your wardrobe can be hard while you’re in recovery. We are giving you our 5 steps for how to clean out your closet and find clothes you love in the body you have now. Sponsors: Try StitchFix  and use the link here to get $50 off your first box.  Sell the clothes that you no longer need with ThredUp.  Get free expedited...

We have been conditioned from birth to hate the way we look. Movies show us the stereotypical fat girl who can't get a man until she gets a make over. She's the best friend, the butt of the joke, a consolation prize never the main character. We have tv shows like FRIENDS who portray fat Monica and make jokes about her eating small children. We go to the doctors and instead of diagnosing why we are there, they prescribe weight loss as the only way to cure disease.  We see celebrities like...

Episode Notes This week we have the pleasure of speaking with the founders of Her Health Collective, Crissy Fishbane and Cindi Michaelson. HER Circle is a supportive, welcoming community for moms. Her Health Collective focuses on Improving the lives of moms with a dynamic social community supported by women’s health experts. In this episode, Cindi and Crissy speak on mom guilt, overwhelm, and the feeling of judgment that often appears in the "mom arena." They are both incredibly passionate...

Episode Notes   Consider this episode your "Cliff Notes" version of the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating. This episode explains the origins of Intuitive Eating and breaks down each of the ten principles using our opinion of what they mean in your life. This episode is a great starting point if you are new to Intuitive Eating, but it is also helpful to revisit if you’ve been on this journey for a while now.    MENTIONS The 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating    SHOW SPONSORS CBD Direct...

This week we are excited to welcome guest Camille Logan, a Health at Every Size therapist in Raleigh. In this episode, we discuss how to love your body during a difficult season, forming a relationship with your therapist, and boundaries with others when it comes to diet talk.  To connect with Camille: https://www.thekccollective.com/ Instagram Follow us on Instagram and share your "Wait, what?" moments with us. Have an idea for an upcoming episode? Let us know on our Facebook page. ...

Tis the seasons For New Year’s Resolutions but how many times have you made all of these grand plans at the beginning of the year only to get halfway through February and completely abandon them? New Year's Resolutions set you up for failure. Much like diets, they are unrealistic goals and they don’t deliver lasting results. We haven’t set New Year's Resolutions in 3 years but we’ve grown our business, we’ve made career changes, had babies and followed our dreams. In this week's episode we...

Newsflash for 2021! You don’t have to diet this year! 2021 doesn’t have to be about cutting back on food, restricting calories, giving up food groups, or starting a new exercise regimen.  If diets worked long term, we wouldn’t have to keep going on them.  Dieting promotes weight stigma by not recognizing that people come in all sizes and shapes and that each individual is worthy just the way they are.  Dive into this episode to learn how to set visions and intentions for 2021 that will...

We have Sam Williams of YoBa Studio on the show today. Sam’s first love was dance and that really put her on the path of body awareness, music therapy, and the practice of embodiment. She took those things and poured them into her own studio, YoBa Studio located in Raleigh, NC. Although it is a brick and mortar studio She set out to build more than just studio but also a lifestyle brand and a community that felt like church. People with a like minded heart and spirit for honesty,...

It feels trivial to say this year has been a lot. So the last thing we need right now is extra stress and pressure. So how do you survive the holidays? You are feeling great, finding peace with food and your body but the problem is your family has comments about your bodies or even about their own and that makes your recovery feel so much harder. We so get it, we have been there. We have had uncomfortable conversations. We still have to have uncomfortable conversations but this episode will...

We have Megan Hadley, MS, RDN, and LDN  on the podcast today. Megan is a nutrition therapist and owner of Simple Nutrition, a nutrition counseling practice in Greensboro, NC. She believes that all bodies are good bodies and that from cake to kale, all foods are good foods. After helping hundreds of clients recover from diet culture, Megan knows that when women think less about food and body and more about what really matters to them, they begin to thrive in all areas of their life. You can...

This episode is going to help you prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, and really any gathering that might be outside of your norm. We want you to survive and even thrive this Thanksgiving! However you are celebrating, we want to express our gratitude to you! We appreciate you listening to our podcast this year, and leaning into the important work of healing your relationship with your body and food.  Our Holiday Survival Guide will help you to prepare for your time by helping you build...

This week we have guest Hananatu Tunis on our show! Hananatu (Hana) is a descendant of Liberia with ties rooted in Sierra Leone. She's a St. John's University graduate, founder of One Million Girls, and creator of The P.A.D.S. Project. Her passion and life mission is to empower women and girls through social entrepreneurship and philanthropic projects while energizing them to make positive contributions to their communities and to the world at large.  Recently, Hananatu returned to Liberia...

In this episode we address how IE can become another diet, and it is easy to fall into a trap of dieting. It is popular to  co-opt intuitive eating as a part of their diet plan, ruining the whole point. Or they decide to stop dieting but get caught up in making sure they live, eat and breath the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating.  This episode clarifies how to stop making Intuitive Eating your next diet, and start living your life with freedom with food and peace with your body.  Join our...

This week we are talking about weight gain, it feels like in our body positive world we can’t talk about weight gain unless it is positive.  This is unfortunate because we live in a society that demonizes weight gain so of course we will have negative feelings about weight gain and we want to give you permission to have those feelings.  We add extra stress on those feelings when we feel badly about having feelings. Weight gain doesn’t mean something negative is happening. Listen to this...

Julie Schechter is a Harvard law graduate and relationship wellness expert focusing on how we can foster strong long-distance connections with our networks. Julie is the founder and CEO of Small Packages, a curated care package company that sends love when you cannot be there in person. Her mission is to end the millennial loneliness epidemic, one gift package at a time. Julie's work and opinions have been featured in numerous international publications, including Woman’s Day, The...

This week on the show we have a guest Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith to talk with us about the importance of rest. She tells us about the seven types of rest and how we can prioritize it in our lives.  Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a Board-Certified internal medicine physician, speaker, and author. She is an international wellness expert featured in numerous media outlets including Prevention, MSNBC, Women’s Day, FOX, Fast Company, Psychology Today, and as a guest on Dr. Oz show.  She is the author...

In the episode, we go over some common wellness culture terminology so you can spot the sneaky wellness culture influence and identifying your place in wellness culture. Wellness culture is sneaky. We don't even realize how it creeps up into our thoughts around food and body, let alone how we spend our time and money.  Wellness culture is the cousin of Diet Culture. It’s that quiet nice sidekick to the loud annoying villain. The one where you almost think you could get along if it wasn’t...