Non-Diet Business Training is essential for any women health entrepreneurs starting their business adventure in the non-diet health approach. Your business success means women’s learning how to ditch diet culture. Your willingness to accept that your business success means more lives transformed is key to your being successful in your professional journey. In the same way, you ask your client/patient to invest in themselves by working with you: are you investing in yourself to be successful in y...
Jun 09, 2020•33 min
In today’s episode, I’m joined by Sarah Cogliati, a student of the Intuitive Eating Project. Sarah agreed to share her story on the podcast to show women what is possible when we finally make the choice to accept our bodies. After 30 years of yo-yo dieting, liberation is possible! Sarah has been on her journey of body acceptance and making peace with food for a few years and now has become a certified coach, meditation teacher, and kick-ass spin instructor. She coaches other women on the same jo...
Jun 04, 2020•45 min
The business transition from the traditional model of nutrition and health to the non-diet model can be scary but also can be life-changing. As with everything in life, how you approach the need for you to transition your business will make the journey scary, filled with anxiety and uncertainties OR you will make the journey pleasurable, filled with learnings and growth both personally and professionally. I want you to take a moment and reflect upon your client and patient for a moment. When the...
Jun 03, 2020•37 min
Love versus fear. Believe it or not, the opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s fear. All emotions basically fall under one of two categories — love-based emotions of fear-based. Our emotions direct the choices we make daily. Our emotional state informs the decision we take in our lives. They create the action we take towards our dreams, goals… life! Productive emotions will produce productive actions, choices, and decisions. On the other hand, unproductive emotions will produce unproductive actions,...
May 28, 2020•30 min
Women don’t diet because they enjoy dieting. Women who diet do it because they think they have to. From a very young age, women have been socialized that they are their physical bodies. Women have internalized that their worth is associated with their body and its ability to achieve the expectation from diet culture. Not sure... let’s look at research released by Dove, for their ‘Self-Esteem Project’, It found that 96% of women in the UK reported feeling anxious about the way they look, compared...
May 26, 2020•29 min
Body fantasies sound like this: “When I finally lose weight I will ______” or “If my body could be different I would ______” or “If I could look younger I would _____” And you can fill the blank of what will happen once you get to live your body fantasies with one or many of these: I will be happy I will feel lighter I will be sexy I will be confident and do _____ I’ll get the promotion I deserve I will be successful and I’ll achieve ____ I’ll feel good about myself I’ll start dating I’ll be mor...
May 21, 2020•26 min
In the first three years of clinical practice, I thought I was addressing the root cause of my patient health concerns. In my training in holistic health & functional medicine, we are trained on addressing the underlying or root cause of chronic disease, taking into account the whole person including their environment, genetics, and lifestyle factors. Addressing the root cause is fundamental philosophy and honestly, the pride of alternative health approaches: resolving the root cause vs. jus...
May 19, 2020•29 min
What are you hungry for? What are we truly hungry for? Is it food? If it was, then eating will appease our hungers. But it doesn’t. That we crave, overeat, binge we never feel full. It’s not enough and feels like it’s never going to be enough. So, if food was the answer to our hunger then we would feel full. But it’s not. Could it be that what we are hungry for is not food? Is it possible that we “think” is food hunger is actually a hunger for something else? What I’m proposing to you today in t...
May 14, 2020•41 min
Any non-diet business coaching must include a segment on non-diet marketing. For many, the words marketing is “yucky” or even “salesy”. Many of my new intuitive eating business students at first will tell me “I hate that part of my job”. Is that you, too? If you are a health professional and have a private practice, then marketing is a vital part of your business. This is even more relevant for non-diet approach health practice. To help you fall in love with marketing so that you can thrive in y...
May 12, 2020•28 min
In today's episode, we'll listen to an Academy student's 40-year battle with food and body image... In today’s episode, I’m joined by Ann Killin, a student of the Going Beyond the Food Academy. Ann agreed to share her story on the podcast to help other women take the step forward in healing in their relationship with food and body. Ann is being very vulnerable and open about her life journey. She shares how her struggle was brought on by a single comment from her father. The struggle then contin...
May 07, 2020•48 min
Diet mindset professional training was not available when I started my transition to a non-diet approach to nutrition and health as a clinical nutritionist; I had to figure it out on my own. Piece it all together… I shared my professional transition that my client Carolyn triggered in First Do No Harm: The Intuitive Eating Mentorship Journey. I argued that the current model of practice for a nutrition professional top-down approach is causing more harm to a particular segment of our clients. The...
May 05, 2020•34 min
In today's episode, we'll explore sugar cravings and intuitive eating “Is it bad to have sugar cravings?” “Why does our body crave sweets?” “Is sugar addictive?” “Why eating sugar leads to binging?” “What is my body trying to tell me when I crave sugar?” “Why do I crave sugar at night?” These are all normal and almost expected questions given the current perspective of our society (read here diet culture) on sugar these days. As a result, many of my community members have been asking these quest...
Apr 30, 2020•48 min
In today’s episode, we are going to explain what an intuitive eating business is really about. Starting an intuitive eating business can be overwhelming and scary. Even those that have a regular health practice to transition to a non-diet model can be frightening. We will reveal what steps you should take to create a heart-centered intuitive eating business that will be successful. In this episode, we will cover: What is the business of intuitive eating? What is an Intuitive Eating Coach? Servin...
Apr 28, 2020•31 min
In today's episode, we'll explore the #1 enemy to intuitive eating, internalized fatphobia “You are so beautiful Stephanie! …. It’s ok for you to be bigger but not for me.” Not that I hear this statement a lot when I meet women but most often when we have known each other for a bit. This statement or something similar will be shared typically when my students are struggling with their journey in becoming an intuitive eater. These women try really hard but something is just not clicking. It’s lik...
Apr 23, 2020•51 min
Welcome to Season 1 of the Beyond The Food PRO podcast series. This 8-part podcast series is created to educate female health professionals on a non-diet approach to food, weight, and health. In today’s episode, we discuss how we may be causing harm to our clients and patients b y delivering nutrition services. By following a traditional model of nutrition and health care for women we may be aggravating an underlying condition and symptoms. In this episode, I share my patient Caroline (fictitiou...
Apr 21, 2020•29 min
In today's episode, we'll talk about the five stages of intuitive eating The journey of becoming an intuitive eater is very different than the one of dieting...here we will look into the five stages of intuitive eating. We have to understand that becoming an intuitive eater is a process. It’s a process of restoring a safe of trust with our bodies that were rob from us when we became a dieter. Furthermore, it’s a process of healing. Healing is not linear. It’s filled with ups and downs. Self-comp...
Apr 16, 2020•29 min
In today's episode, we'll explore intuitive eating for the family, successful integration with Dr. Jillian and Sally “The last thing I want to do is to pass my food issue to my kids”- This is a quote of many of my new clients and students. The majority of women in my community share my story of being introduced to the world of dieting at an early age. And for years we believed that it’s the way to go to control our eating and improve our body image. Until such time, we finally realized that diet...
Apr 09, 2020•54 min
In today's episode, we'll explore non-diet health strategies, supporting your well-being and immune system. The last thing we need is more stress or fear-mongering health scare. We need love, hope, and ease. And, that’s what I intend to give you in this episode of the podcast. In this episode, I’ll teach you non-diet, non-restrictive health & wellness strategies for today’s situation that require no supplements or special products...and specific for women who struggle with food and body imag...
Apr 02, 2020•47 min
In today's episode, we'll learn how to manage your mind and emotions in time of the coronavirus This is a very special episode of the podcast... for the first time ever I’m sharing the recording of a coaching call from the Going Beyond the Food Academy. I’ve never done this before... these are special times with the coronavirus. In this episode, you will learn how to manage your mind and emotions with COVID-19; The Coronavirus is a neutral event…. The #1 thing you can do to remain calm How to pr...
Mar 26, 2020•35 min
In today's episode, we'll talk about stress eating in the time of uncertainty. I keep thinking about a time in the future when we will be older, sitting on the porch rocking our chairs, recalling this time. We will remember the time the Coronavirus came into our lives and made us go within. We were isolated, became quiet. That’s what happened to me. I first made sure I was safe and that my loved ones were taken care of. Then I asked myself… How does Beyond The Food fit into this? What is my role...
Mar 18, 2020•45 min
In today's episode, we'll learn about your child's body image. “How can I positively influence my child's body image?” That’s a reoccurring thought in many mom’s minds. Many moms will say openly: “The last thing I want to teach my daughter is to pass on my issues with food and body”. If this is you, you’ve got to listen to this episode of the Going Beyond The Food Show. I recently discovered an amazing book that will help you as a mom to open the communication about body image with your child “H...
Mar 12, 2020•43 min
In today's episode, we'll talk about how the fear of gaining weight is holding you back. “I’m terrified to gain weight!” So, we did a survey a few weeks back following the opening of the Going Beyond The Food Academy and we ask women who have shown interest in joining the program and ended up not to – why? Why did they decide not to join us? The answers were fascinating and very revealing... “I can’t seem to overcome the fear of weight gain and trust the process” “I haven’t FULLY been able to em...
Mar 05, 2020•37 min
In today's episode, we'll explore eating intuitively with diabetes. Can you blend intuitive eating and diabetes together? I know this may feel counter-intuitive. As a matter of fact, I hear and get this question very frequently because let’s be honest, food restriction and weight loss are what Dr.Google tells us we must do in order to live with diabetes. Unfortunately, as with most health education available on the internet, it’s not the whole truth...or the truth at all. I wanted to create the ...
Feb 27, 2020•1 hr 12 min
, In today's episode, we'll explore the anti-diet approach to health, the 5 steps to genuine self-care Does adopting an anti-diet lifestyle mean not focusing on health? For people who have adopted intuitive eating answering this question will be obvious: NO! For anyone looking from the outside that doesn’t understand (or for may know of) what the framework of intuitive eating, the answer is not so clear: You mean not following a diet is healthy? Umm... I get it... we live in a society that is no...
Feb 20, 2020•34 min
In today's episode, we'll explore about Healthism: The Desire to Be Healthy Gone Wrong with Dana Sturtevant -Be Nourished (Warning: Explicit Content) Healthism is a term new to most of us. Healthism can be defined as the preoccupation with personal health as a primary focus for the definition and achievement of well-being; a goal which is to be attained primarily through the modification of lifestyles. When I first read on healthism 6 or 7 years ago, I refute the concept. I thought it was my dut...
Feb 13, 2020•1 hr 10 min
In today's episode, we'll explore fat fertility & pregnancy with Nicola Salmon & Ashley Dorough It was a Tuesday night in early December and I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and started watching stories from my friend and client Ashley Dorough. What I saw was highly disturbing... it sent a chill down my spine. Testimonial after testimonial of women’s fertility journey: “I had to get a lap band surgery to be accepted in a fertility treatment” “The fertility clinic is refusing to ...
Feb 06, 2020•1 hr 14 min
In today's episode, we'll explore about post-traumatic dieting disorder, the intersection between trauma and dieting with Irene Lyon For 25 years, I was stuck in fear mode when it came to food. I was obsessed with controlling my eating has this was the only way that I could control my body weight. I was on high alert about food and the way my body appeared to others. Over time, I unconsciously disconnected myself from my body. In an attempt to self-protect, I numbed myself from feeling my emotio...
Jan 30, 2020•1 hr 23 min
In today's episode, we'll explore why intuitive eating isn't working for you I often get messages of this nature “… but intuitive eating isn’t working for me” Or “Intuitive eating sounds good but it’s not going to work for me because....” Is this you? I know it was me when I first encounter intuitive eating years ago. After years of chronic dieting, I was convinced that something was wrong with me that couldn’t be fixed by intuitive eating. In some way, I thought I was special... The truth is yo...
Jan 23, 2020•46 min
In today's episode, we'll explore about anti-diet movement with Christy Harrison Diet is quickly becoming the dirtiest word in wellness. The anti-diet movement is growing very, very rapidly. But what does it mean “anti-diet”? Anti-diet means anti-diet culture. Diet Culture is the system of oppression that promotes thinness and equates it to health and moral virtue. It promotes weight loss as a mean of attaining a higher status and demonize certain ways of eating while elevating others. However, ...
Jan 16, 2020•52 min
In today's episode, we'll talk about diet culture antidote What is the most potent diet culture antidote? Have you recently discovered that you have been under the spell of Diet Culture and want out? You are not alone, sister... In fact, there are millions of us looking for the solution. The most effective countermeasure to the influence of diet culture is self-compassion. An antidote is defined as a drug, substance, or a chemical that counteracts (neutralizes) the effects of another drug or a p...
Jan 09, 2020•33 min
