Body confidence is a skill that you can build no matter what body size or age you are, sister. The way we approach body confidence right now is faulty. But it's not your fault that the way you’re approaching, pursuing, and chasing after body confidence isn’t right. It’s because that’s the way you were socialized to think about body confidence. These 3 unpopular truths about body confidence are most often what we skip, or what we think is not going to work for us. What you’ll learn listening to t...
Jan 27, 2022•28 min
Coping with your emotions without turning to food is an important skill to have. Having the right tools to support your emotions can help you discern when coping with food isn’t helpful. Here’s the thing: emotional eating is normal, but we don’t often see it that way. This is because the general perception is that emotional eating is bad... it’s not! In this episode, our guest, Sabrina Rogers, explains why emotional eating is healthy and how we can expand our toolbox to cope with our emotions be...
Jan 13, 2022•28 min
Healthy eating is different for every human. There is no one plan that works for everyone, yet this is what most “healthy eating” plans miss. In this episode, we explore healthy eating in 7 steps without having to restrict ANY food... This is the non-diet approach to healthy eating. Follow these steps and you will feel powerful in your relationship to food. In fact, you will be able to enjoy life because you’re not obsessed with food. This kind of healthy eating is available to you and it’s the ...
Jan 06, 2022•25 min
Upgrade your body image with body neutrality so that you can free yourself from all-consuming negative body image. Your body image is not uni-dimensional. Rather, it’s the sum of how you see, think, and feel about your body. And as a result, how you treat your body. The goal of body neutrality is to dial down the enormous significance that’s being given to physical attractiveness in our society. Body Neutrality pushes back on all aspects of society that continue to promote beauty ideals as the u...
Dec 30, 2021•36 min
You know that you struggle with binge eating or overeating, so now what? When I recall the last time I caught myself binge eating, I knew that’s what I was doing, but I had no idea why I was doing it. I blamed, judged, and punished myself for it, and kept it all a secret. I now know that I was eating in response to the food restriction I was imposing on myself, and to numb the emotions, I didn’t want to feel. If you are struggling with binge eating, you are not alone. In today’s episode, we’ll t...
Dec 23, 2021•29 min
Set non-diet goals for the new year so that the better life you desire is not conditional on achieving a goal. Diet culture goals are dirty goals - the ones you’re used to setting. They are the type of goals that focus only on having a better life AFTER you’ve achieved the goal. Dirty goals tell us that we need to achieve the thing in order to feel worthy, confident, and happy; clean goals teach us how to use our thoughts to create these feelings TODAY. What you’ll learn listening to this episod...
Dec 16, 2021•26 min
Say no to Diet Culture's New Year, New You BS, and choose to create yourself this year. You are not something to be fixed, sister. Instead, you get to choose to create yourself without fixating on changing what you can see on the outside (your body). It's time to throw out the “New Year, New You” list of weight and health resolutions and commit to unlearning diet culture, believing in yourself, and creating the life you desire in 2022. What you’ll learn listening to this episode on how to say no...
Dec 09, 2021•51 min
Food Freedom these days is getting tossed around a lot...and unfortunately, most often it’s a clickbait term to diet culture. The truth is, Food Freedom is simply normal eating. It is our innate state of being as humans until the moment restriction comes in. These restrictions and rules are layered on in the Food Freedom Diet, all under the disguise of "Food Freedom". The Food Freedom Diet continues to center your body and food and fails to address the diet culture belief system that leads to fe...
Dec 02, 2021•26 min
'Tis the season to smash down diet culture... and if we want that, we need to understand the roots of the holiday season so that we can smash down the roots of oppression. "Indulgence” is rooted in diet culture – it makes you feel bad for enjoying holiday foods and it sets you up for eating out of control. It is a stepping stone on the path to binging because this mentality towards food is tied up in your self-worth and body image. What you'll learn listening to this episode on 'tis the season (...
Nov 25, 2021•40 min
Do you often answer the question “How are you doing?” with “I’m just so busy....” The thoughts that want to validate the fact that you’re too busy, that there’s not enough time, are coming from the exact same place in your brain that criticizes your body, that criticize your food choices. That part of your brain is your fight or flight part of your brain – aka diet brain. That part of your brain is designed and fully committed to keeping you exactly where you are. I am committed to helping you g...
Nov 18, 2021•24 min
Ready to escape the new year new you bs? Do you want to make 2022 the year where you say: enough is enough… I’m taking back my body from diet culture? Then you’re ready for the un-retreat! Our mission; to make 2002 the year you undiet your food, your body and you mind… heck your whole life! Here’s the plan… Kickstart 2002 with a transformative unretreat and then we get to spend the whole year together. Click here for more details and register: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/unretreat/ I’ll see ...
Nov 16, 2021•4 min
We are celebrating the 300th episode of our podcast and entering our 6th year! Woot Woot! So, this is a special episode: Chapter 6 of She’s Beyond The Food: My personal story. For most of my life, I misunderstood acceptance. I have to admit today, I was wrong. I used to believe that acceptance meant being resigned and giving up. I was socialized to believe that self-acceptance meant being passive in the face of my life and somehow lazy. The pain and suffering that I attributed to my body not bei...
Nov 11, 2021•40 min
Decolonizing diet culture and our approach to non-diet coaching is essential for the healing of all of our clients and it’s goes beyond simply white people’s food. Diet culture centers on the white narrative of what is “healthy”. Non-diet coaches need to know how to hold space for clients who have been taught that their food is “bad”, and play an active role in decolonizing diet culture in practice. What you'll learn listening to this episode: How white culture sets the “standard” in diet cultur...
Nov 09, 2021•12 min
Wishing Thinking is when you want something to be true even when it’s not true, like the fantasy of the thin ideal. Think of all the years we pursue dieting… The endless “on and off” diet cycle always landing right back in the same place. Wishful Thinking is the formation of beliefs based on what might be pleasing to imagine rather than on reality, evidence, FACTS. It’s is usually grown from fear. We don’t resort to Wishful Thinking because it works. We resort to Wishful Thinking because it allo...
Nov 04, 2021•23 min
Bro marketing “works” because its tactics are rooted in scarcity, authority, and social proof which ultimately brings cash into our non-diet coaching businesses. Building ethical marketing into your non-diet business with the right messaging and strategy for your brand will set you up so that you can reach more people, build brand awareness, and get your dream clients interested in your offer. What you’ll learn listening to this episode: > What bro marketing is and why ethical marketing is be...
Nov 02, 2021•12 min
Learning to have your own back is the process of developing an internal culture of unconditional self-compassion It is being your own best friend and treating yourself in a respectful and supportive way. Having your own back means that no matter what, you will fight for your own potential, not limitations as imposed by diet culture or patriarchy. Learning to have your own back is training your brain to make the choice to have your own back. It’s about choosing to see the possibilities in your ow...
Oct 28, 2021•25 min
Thin privilege in coaching is a reality that will impact your client relationship and coaching efficiency. Here's the thin privilege definition: being able to experience the world knowing you will always be accommodated for and considered “acceptable”, based on the (smaller) size of your body. Thin privilege in health coaching – what it means for non-diet coaching businesses is that coaches in smaller bodies have to take responsibility for their thin privilege in practice. What you'll learn list...
Oct 26, 2021•12 min
I want you to think of the process of undieting your brain of all the diet culture thoughts and beliefs, like Marie Kondioing your mind. Undiet Your Life is the act of decluttering your mind from all the thoughts that are no longer serving you, that no longer spark joy, happiness, and ease for you. You’ve picked thoughts all along your life, and up until now, you have kept them. Now, you have a mind filled with thoughts that create anxiety, perfectionism, black-and-white thinking, and fear. Thou...
Oct 21, 2021•22 min
We are back with a Q&A-style podcast this week. I help you find your answer to the question: “Can I accept my body and still want to change it?” In this episode #296 of the Going Beyond The Food Show, we will discuss: How my relationship with my family has changed What does body acceptance truly mean Why is there not 1 answer for everyone to the questions 3 questions to ask yourself to find the answer to the question to find the best answer for you Mentioned in the show: Podcast Roadmap Undi...
Oct 14, 2021•29 min
Undieting your life doesn’t mean stopping dieting. Although stopping dieting is the first step. I hosted a workshop yesterday The Rebellious Eating Solution and the Q&A part of the class was on fire! I received one question that stomped me and I decided to create a podcast episode about it. This is today’s episode! What you’ll learn listening to this episode: Why did I add “ not just your food” to the title What does it mean to undiet your life Where to start to undiet your life Mentioned in...
Oct 07, 2021•30 min
Thru their body women are asked to comply with society's prescribed norms. Body compliance defines, controls, and constrains women. As women, we learn to perform via our bodies. We demonstrated our ability to be self-disciplined, self-controlled, and to comply with social norms via body constraint. As a result, we learn not to disturb and take space through our bodies. That it is its size or its sign of aging. Body compliance and beyond At first, it's compliance with our body, but it spreads qui...
Sep 30, 2021•28 min
Rebellious eating is when we use food and/or eating in order to resist authority. In fact, it's an action to affirm one's power of food, body, or existence. Rebellious eating is not about the food... it's about resisting authority over us. Rebellious eating is about fighting for our autonomy and agency. When we eat rebelliously, We're actually restoring our autonomy and protecting our boundaries. Rebellious eating allows us to reclaim our power. What you'll learn listening to this episode: What ...
Sep 23, 2021•33 min
Most often, when women start their journey beyond dieting, it’s because they want to overcome compulsive eating behaviors like binging or what they self-describe as “overeating.” They have learned that restriction is causing these compulsive eating behaviors, so they quit dieting... but is it the solution? Is it the only action that needs to be taken in order to end compulsion around food? That’s what we discussed on today’s podcast. If perhaps you are at this point where even though you have li...
Sep 16, 2021•31 min
Are you a very logical woman who perhaps uses her brain capacity to succeed at work yet struggles with her relationship to food & body? And just like me in secret, you wonder: Why is it that I can solve very complicated problems at work, yet something as simple as how I eat and feel about my body isn’t working for me? You’re not alone—the secret thought and the same one that many of us have or had. In this new segment of Her Story, you’ll meet Monserrat Lopez, a Physics Ph.D. and a sewing ar...
Sep 09, 2021•43 min
Are you successful in many aspects of your life, yet food and body remain a secret struggle? Kim Beckman is a high-performing, achieving professional who, after a 50-year journey with food and body restriction, has committed herself to the journey of unlearning diet culture. She joined Undiet Your Life a year ago, and in this interview, she will share with us what she has learned. She has a special message for all “type A” women! What you’ll learn listening to this episode on a high achieving &a...
Sep 02, 2021•45 min
Kim was a listener of the podcast for more than 6 months, and then one day, she listened to me talking about taking action instead of just listening to the podcast. That's when she joined us. She'll share with you that when she joined Undiet Your Life, she thought, "Let me try this intuitive eating thing... it sounds a lot healthier than my last diet." That's almost a year ago. What you'll learn listening to this episode: Kim's journey making peace with food and her body The trigger that moved K...
Aug 26, 2021•41 min
Diet culture beliefs do not support your amazingness, your goodness and your brilliance. Diet Culture has been manufactured in order to create self-doubt in women, feeling of victimhood, distrust of self and disempowerment. In order to believe in yourself and the possibilities that can be present for you in your life, you need to have beliefs that support this amazingness, goodness that is in you now. And these beliefs aren’t shared by Diet Culture. How do we get to believe in ourselves more tha...
Aug 19, 2021•24 min
Today, we are sharing stories and unpacking one of the most common beliefs women share: the belief that we are not good enough. And very often, controlling our bodies and beauty are the tools offered to us in order to access our self-worth and confidence, always selling us with the promise that we will feel good enough when we get to the “right body” size and beauty. Although I consider myself a confident woman today, it hasn’t always been this way. Diet culture conditioning and the pursuit of t...
Aug 12, 2021•42 min
After every single diet failure over the span of a 25-year dieting career, these thoughts were on running on a loop in my mind "What's wrong me with?" "Why is it that it works for ALL these women but not for me." "If only I had more discipline and willpower, I couldn't have kept the weight off ." What if I told you that nothing had gone wrong? That diet failure was the actual expected outcome of ANY diet . Diet Failed You. You didn't fail at dieting. What you'll learn listening to this episode: ...
Aug 05, 2021•22 min
About 4 years ago, I came across an analysis of 57,000 women and found that those who had experienced physical or sexual abuse as children were twice as likely to behave compensatory behaviour with food. These women said that they felt more physically imposing when they were bigger. They felt their size helped ward off sexual advances from men. That's how food and trauma are often linked. It's not only in the context of sexual violence but also in various forms of trauma where food is often used...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 2 min
