What you’ll learn listening to this episode, Diet Brain: What is Diet Brain? The 4 mindf*cks of diet brain How to liberate yourself of diet brain What is Diet Brain? It's a term that I created a few years back after my own 25 years career and having worked with hundreds of women that have a similar journey as me. We all try to solve our lack of confidence, perfectionist habits, people-pleasing behaviours, and all-or-nothing mindset with band-aids like weight loss. Diet Brain is a term I coined t...
Jun 10, 2021•27 min
One of the most profound questions I get on consultation is this one: How do I know if I’m ready to help clients in a Non-Diet Approach? First off, You’ll never feel totally ready. Waiting for this moment where you will feel ready to go out into the world and launch your program, I’m sorry to say, but you’ll likely wait forever. Why is it that we never really feel ready? One answer: The Human Brain. This question is one of the main reasons why I created a mentorship program and NOT a certificati...
May 25, 2021•30 min
I recorded this on Sunday, May 16th, 2021. Enrollment to the waitlist for the next cohort of the Non-Diet Mentorship Program is officially closed. I'm so excited because we have folks joining us from all professional background: Nutritionist Health Coach Social Worker Psychologist Registered Nurse Fitness Professional The Non-Diet Approach is for All Health Profession The Non-Diet Approach is for all health professions for one simple reason: Diet Culture is present everywhere and in everyone. We...
May 18, 2021•41 min
When is it time to go full-time in your non-diet practice? This could mean starting a new business. Or This could mean transitioning your practice to a non-diet approach. This question is a frequent one and a good one. On the podcast today, I discuss this question with my guest Kelsey Murphy. Kelsey Murphy is a Business & Life Coach working with Fortune 500 companies like Facebook & Twitter and industry thought leaders like Marie Forleo and her B-Schoolers. As a primer to this discussion...
May 11, 2021•47 min
Today we will answer two major questions I get when I teach health professionals about the non-diet approach. Usually, these questions come right on the tail end of the first time being introduced to the Non-Diet Approach. What are those questions that almost all health professionals have at their first encounter with the non-Diet approach? But, what about health? And What about nutrition? These two questions reveal how entrenched diet and wellness culture along with weight stigma in our educati...
May 04, 2021•37 min
How to attract clients that are ready to do the work? Right now, clients coming to me want to lose weight? What should I do? These are the questions that the newest episode of the Beyond The Food Pro series podcast will be answering. Inside of our Non-Diet Mentorship program, we spend two months crafting our marketing strategy, implement a non-diet marketing funnel and practicing. Although it would be impossible for me to share all that we do, I’ve extracted what I think will help you attract cl...
Apr 27, 2021•27 min
Welcome back to Season 3 of The Beyond The Food Pro series We polled our community earlier this year and asked you which question you would love to have discussed on the Pro Series podcast. This is how we created our line-up for Season 3. We answer the following question: How do you run a non-diet coaching session? (Episode 1) How do I attract the client that is ready to stop dieting? (Episode 2) But what about Health? But what about Nutrition? (Episode 3) When is it time to go full-time in your...
Apr 20, 2021•28 min
Digestive health... or as wellness culture calls it gut health is a hot topic these days. According to wellness culture, many diseases could be prevented and treated with a gut health protocol. In short: restrictive dieting in the name of health with a side of supplements and detox sprinkle with infra-red sauna. Gut health is a major concern for many people wanting to leave the world of diet culture. One question I get a lot is : but what about my food sensitivities and intuitive eating? Or anot...
Apr 15, 2021•57 min
Is there a Non-diet Approach to PCOS? In case you do not know PCOS is the medical abbreviation for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome which affects roughly 10% of women of childbearing age in America. That’s 5 million women. The top 2 treatment recommendations for PCOS are a very low carbohydrate diet with the hope to lower insulin levels and weight loss. Makes me think of diet culture... The Non-Diet Way to PCOS To answer the starting question: YES, there’s a way to address PCOS without co-opting diet c...
Apr 08, 2021•54 min
This is part 2 and the final episode in this 2-part series on thought work. If you haven’t listened to Part 1, and especially if you are new to thought work, I’d suggest you go and listen to Part 1 first. In part one, I told you if you are at war with yourself, knowing you can’t go back on a diet but refuse to accept your body... stuck in the duality. Ready to untangle this duality? Thought work to undiet your life Let me introduce you to Diet Brain. Diet Brain is a coaching concept I created af...
Apr 01, 2021•28 min
This is going to be a 2-part podcast… Why 2 parts? Well, this is such an important topic, and I want to be sure I can unpack it well for you. I want to give you time to reflect in between. Most importantly, I want to teach you the basics of TW, and so I can teach you how specifically it applies to women and diet culture. I believe that thought work is the most important skill a woman can learn. In fact, it is not taught in any schooling system… for a reason. Get into this in Part 2. When a woman...
Mar 25, 2021•28 min
In my opinion, being pregnant, giving birth, and raising a child is the most magical power of women. In fact, our bodies as women are capable of creating life. That is to say, we have the power to bring another human to life. Can we let that sink in for a minute? We create life. Our bodies have the capacity to expand in such a way that we can create and develop another human life. Yet as soon as women are done giving birth to this new human, patriarchy and diet culture expect women to shrink bac...
Mar 18, 2021•39 min
Co-opting intuitive eating is frustrating, problematic and dangerous, but it’s not a surprise. Intuitive eating is growing in popularity and growing fast. Take a look at the google trend search over the last 5 years. It’s clear: people are starting to be done with dieting. That is to say, people want out from diet culture and are looking for options. Certainly, the weight loss & wellness industry are paying attention. For instance, just think of Weight Watcher rebrand in 2019 to WW-Wellness ...
Mar 11, 2021•49 min
Let’s look at a few questions: Do you think that the ultimate goal of making peace with your body is to love your body? I mean, being able to look at your body in the mirror and love every part of it? Perhaps you think that you should be able to put on a bikini and be able to show off your body to everyone looking with pride? Perhaps you think that when you finally “heal your body image,” it will mean that you’ll never have a negative thought about your body, and instead, you’ll have adoration t...
Mar 04, 2021•26 min
I’ll be teaching a in depth live class titled "Normalizing Weight Gain Masterclass" I’ll share what I have learn in my own journey of gaining weight following years of dieting and restriction. After going thru my own journey and coaching hundreds of women thru this process I have developed a comprehensive & let’s just say unique to neutralize weight gain. In this Masterclass I’ll teach the step-by step process so that you can release the fear and anxiety typically associated with weight gain...
Mar 01, 2021•3 min
Weight gain is a very sensitive, vulnerable and emotional topic for most women. The ability and willingness to openly talk about weight gain is different for each one of us. It’s estimated that by the time most women hit their 45th birthday, statistically speaking, we’ve tried 61 diets, plans, programs, detoxes, cleanses, meal plans, regime, an eating system. In an unending battle to shrink our body and, hopefully, change our life. I want to recognize that simply tuning in to listen to this epis...
Feb 25, 2021•27 min
I have been wanting to talk about gentle nutrition for years but couldn’t or rather choose not to until now. I hold a great level of responsibility for the topic I chose to discuss on this podcast. Moreover, what could happen after the episode is over. In the case of intuitive eating & nutrition, I couldn’t send you to any entry-level resources beyond my own programs. Up to now, the only nutrition books & cookbooks available on the market were filled with diet culture, weight stigma, and...
Feb 18, 2021•43 min
A few years back, I was browsing Instagram, and I noticed a hashtag trending #womeneatingfood. I scrolled through and what I saw was magical: thousands of women eating food absolutely without giving an ounce of worry. Women eating unapologetically. That’s how I discovered Alissa Rumsey. And since then, Alissa has been on the podcast twice and been teaching inside my Non-Diet Mentorship Program. Unapologetic Eating: The Book Today, Alissa is launching a book: Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace With ...
Feb 11, 2021•45 min
Dieting backlash is the counter-reaction to food restriction, aka dieting. Things like "food cravings," urges to eat the restricted foods, nighttime eating, "overeating," binging, weight regain, depression, anxiety… that's all dieting backlash, also known as rebound eating. Here's where it gets interesting... women who deliberately restrict their food intake when under a diet are more likely to overeat, especially in response to an emotional state. What we think as emotional eating may actually ...
Feb 04, 2021•25 min
Let's unpack comfort eating or eating for comfort. Comfort is defined as a state of ease and freedom from pain or constraint. When we eat for comfort, we feel uncomfortable; we don't want to feel discomfort, so we look for a solution to not feel comfortable and that solution is food. So we comfort eat. Sounds like a pretty legitimate action… it is a coping tool. It's a variation of the larger family of emotional eating- whereby you eat in response to an emotion. Most often, uncomfortable emotion...
Jan 28, 2021•24 min
People-pleasing isn't a character trait or, for that matter, a personality trait that we are born with. In fact, people-pleasing is a belief, a set of thoughts that we as women are socialized to. More precisely, we aren't socialized or educated to be people-pleasers… we are socialized to be "good girls". The Good Girl Syndrome is like a character we are asked to play as women and from a very young age. As people identifying as women, we are socialized to be polite, modest, quiet, not to argue, n...
Jan 21, 2021•29 min
This podcast is going to be for every woman - every woman who has been targeted by dieting ads. I have chosen this title for a reason: "Tuning out the weight loss industry" instead of "tuning out diet culture" for a reason: to reach more women. When you are at the beginning of your journey shifting out of dieting, the word diet culture doesn't mean a thing… actually, for many, it means being on a diet. Diet culture is a new term that is not part of women's vocabulary, and for a good reason. As w...
Jan 14, 2021•28 min
“I want to move with joy” “I want to get out of the funk of not movement” “I know exercise is good for me… just can’t bring myself to do it” “How do I motivate myself to move more without dreading it.” That you are at the beginning stage of challenging the concept of dieting or an advanced intuitive eater that now wants to work on reclaiming their relationship to exercise. Or that you have made peace with food already and now want to tackle your relationship to movement. This podcast going to he...
Jan 07, 2021•29 min
What you’ll learn listening to this episode on my goals for 2021: The reflective process for 2020 The 6 questions to use to reflect on 2020 My 4 lessons learned in 2020 The goals I have for 2021 Mentioned on the show: Podcast Roadmap Conquer & Thrive
Dec 29, 2020•29 min
"Nothing is easy for the unwilling." When we set a goal or desire to change an aspect of our life or self, we often get “stuck” into inaction. The fear of taking action in the unknown and the paralysis into stagnation is normal. It’s present for most of us women. This fear is a normal reaction from our brain to command us into staying put instead of moving ourselves into the unknown. It’s our brain’s duty to prevent us from taking action. To create any new result in your life: becoming an intuit...
Dec 22, 2020•29 min
Smart Goals are to goal setting what dieting is to Diet Culture. For years, I set goals the diet Culture way… you know, the SMART GOALS. Every year the pattern repeated itself. Give up by the 5th week. Just like diet culture, SMART goals are anchored on external results, accomplishment of actions, grounded into avoidance of failure and perfectionism. It’s archaic, sexist and builds on elitist principles. Just like dieting doesn’t work, SMART goals do not work because it disregards how humans fun...
Dec 17, 2020•25 min
“It feels terrible as a mom to put yourself first... it’s easy to say self-care when you don’t have kids”. This is such a sensitive topic for moms... Me, the single woman with no kids telling them to take time for themselves. I have avoided doing a topic on this subject because let’s face it, it’s true: I don’t get it. That’s until today... I have a guest expert who can speak about this from a lived experience. She’s a mom of 3 kids under 12, with a professional career and now starting a busines...
Dec 10, 2020•42 min
This is going to be a fun episode... I’m answering 25 questions our listeners have submitted. Short to the point answer on all subjects related to the non-diet approach... You’ll get an answer for each of these 25 non-diet approach & business questions. You keep referring to PROs... I’m a health coach so I’m not a professional right? How do I make money as a non-diet coach? How do I create a stable income so I have no doubt in my income? I can’t launch my BIZ until I’m perfect in my IE and B...
Dec 08, 2020•26 min
The end of a year in our current culture serves as a point of reflection: what went well, what didn’t go so well, for me what I’ve learned….what we accomplished and then we also use this time to set ourselves goals, objective, intention for the new year. This process of reflection and intention setting is a very powerful process for us and should be done. Dec 1 is typically the date when the real hardcore holiday marketing frenzy takes over mass media, and right now, we’re about to be hit by New...
Dec 03, 2020•30 min
The Non-Diet Business Mindset discourse is vastly different from the traditional business mindset discourse you might have heard. Why? Simply because the same system of oppression that is in place to keep women stuck in diet culture is present in the business world. One of our guest expert teachers, Dr. Michelle Mazur is Ph.D. in sales psychology as an expert coined the term “Bro Marketing” to describe this phenomenon. This episode gets very heated… there are 3 solid rants that may trigger you. ...
Dec 01, 2020•30 min
