Think To Thrive

Heyyyyyyyyy fam. I missed an episode last week. Because all hell broke loose in my home, city, and state. Also, the pod is pressing PAUSE for ~ a month so I can be a full yes to traveling the West Coast in a camper van for a month with my lover and 2 cats. Further also, Empowered in the Bedroom (previously called Loverfest) is postponed until sometime in April due to previously mentioned reasons. CONNECT WITH ME IN THE INTERIM: Blog- https://www.jennieloerch.com/blog Email list- https://www.jennieloerch.com/connect/ Insta- https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/ SENDING Y'ALL SO MUCH LOVE -Jennie

Today I have another amazing woman to share with you. Ahhh I loved this conversation. Her name is Bridget Shannon. On a mission to reclaim wellness from diet culture, Bridget is a health coach, podcast host, and co-founder at Wellness Lately. After becoming a Certified Health Coach, spending 10 years working in the health industry (while seeing a lot of kale-infused, lycra-clad bullshit), and healing her own history with disordered eating and body image challenges, she’s passionate about helping women ditch dieting and embrace a version of wellness that actually feels good, through Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size and body liberation. To learn the five shifts she used to break the diet-binge cycle herself, watch the free class at wellnesslately.com/masterclass. Bridget has the beautiful energy of someone who is strong in their sense of self, comfortable with who she is, isn’t here to try to prove anything to anyone. She’s light and enjoyable yet knowledgeable as shit. MM this is a good one. She shares how she shifted her health journey from feeling frustrated, eratic, & sad, to peaceful, joyful, and neutral. Some key points we cover in our convo are: • How the BMI scale is whacked out and damaging • How a wellness obsession can be a guise for deep disordered eating • Breaking out of the mentality of waiting on losing weight to live life • The power of getting clear and taking action on life desires • Starting the recovery journey with self-kindness • The identity death + rebirth that comes along with this journey • Why pushing your comfort zone in the body you have is key AND SO MUCH MORE CONNECT W/ BRIDGET: website- https://www.wellnesslately.com/ insta- https://www.instagram.com/wellness_lately/ podcast- https://www.wellnesslately.com/podcast/ SIGN UP FOR LOVER FEST: https://www.jennieloerch.com/loverfest HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

Hello and welcome back to the 50th EPISODE. Of the think to thrive podcast. 50 whopping episodes. To celebrate this milestone I am bringing on a guest that is actually one of my dream guests. And her story as well as her line of work is going to shake things up a bit on the pod, and stretch what we’re comfortbale with. Which, what better way to celebrate a milestone than stretching the ol comfort zone?? Today my guest is the magnetic, Nadine Lee. Nadine is the founder of Tantric Alchemy, her company that helps people awaken the divine femenine, in union with the divine masculine and return home to themselves. She is a Teacher of the Feminine Tantric Arts; Feminine Embodiment Coach & Nutritionist. At the core of her work, she is here to expand your mind body & soul. She helps you break down conditionings & stories that bind you & hold you back from living your truest potential. Nadine shares her transformational journey going from a place with food + body + exercise she describes as non-acceptance, pain, discomfort- to where she is now which she describes as intuitive, nourishing, and authentic. Some of the key points we cover in our convo are: • The healing power of sacred sexuality • The role of sexual abuse at age 6 played into her struggle • All the ways we can become disconnected from our bodies, and how to reconnect through feminine embodiment • Eating according to the phase of your menstrual cycle • How transitions + feeling out of control exacerbated her struggles AND SO MUCH MORE I love this conversation and story because Nadine is at a total and complete intuitive place in her relationship with food and body and exercise, and she’s never even heard of intuitive eating. Her path ahs been all about reconnecting with herself with her body and really living from an intuitive place. CONNECT WITH NADINE: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/tantric.alchemy/ Website: https://www.tantricalchemy.net/ HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

Aaaaaand we're stayin spiritual, folks. Elizabeth Tripp is a New York based Lifestyle Design Coach and Spiritual Teacher. As a featured radio talk show host on TalkRadio.NYC, a Thrive Global Contributor, and a national public speaker, Elizabeth is recognized as a thought leader in spirituality, well-being, and prosperity. She is the owner and founder of ElizabethTripp.com, a coaching practice where she awakens ambitious women and men to the beauty of their soul's journey by helping them see the true beauty of their body and their life. It is Elizabeth's calling to empower other people to feel truly healthy, happy, and radiate with joy because they love themselves and their life more than they ever have before. She believes the secret to loving your body and your life starts with believing you deserve to. Elizabeth teaches her clients to see their own journey and create their own path by helping people to understand who they really are and the purpose behind why they have chosen their body and the life they're leading. With Elizabeth's unique capacity for sensing and understanding the feelings of others as well as her ability to feel and communicate with spirit guides and past loved ones, she helps her clients believe it's possible to love their body and their life and therefore dissolve their struggles with their well-being once and for all. Elizabeth shares about: • A pivotal moment getting bullied in middle school that led to 20 years of chasing beauty and enough-ness • Losing 76 pounds in one year and getting mad attention and validation, but still not feeling worthy on the inside • Becoming an RD and feeling like a fraud because of binge eating + drugs + drinking + over exercising • Being a deeply sensitive and empathetic human without the tools to process emotions as a youngin • Trying to be like other people to like herself • Wondering what the point of life was after a long time relationship ended • The spiritual mentor/moment that led her to realize she could let go of the external stories and value assigned to her • The path to seeing herself as beautiful, and how that led to her treating herself beautifully • The challenges and setbacks of the journey ….And SO much more CONNECT WITH ELIZABETH: Empowered Soul FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1104936926541678 Insta https://www.instagram.com/elizabethmtripp/ LISTENER CONNECT FORM https://forms.gle/E4jcT3NcbCe1jemR8 HANG W ME ON INSTA https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

Tyler is an an Anti diet dietician and intuitive eating coach and founder of food, body, & soul. She helps women leaders overcome binge eating + compulsive exercise, so that they can thrive in life and in business.Tyler takes a deeply healing spiritual approach to guide her clients towards releasing what’s in the way of connecting with their feminine power and true essence. Tyler is with us today to share her transformative journey going from a place in her health journey she describes as lonely, misunderstood, unworthy, and guilty To a place she describes as expansive, nourishing, and liberating. This conversation is so fire. It is so fascinating how many layers there are to peel back to understand the root of our relationship with food, fitness, and our body, and tyler truly takes it down to the level of the spirit. Tyler shares about: • A challenging home life + big transitions led her to clamp down and control food + her body + exercise • Being stuck in the restrict/binge/compensatory exercise loop for years • The deeper root of her struggles of trying to prove her worth and value • How powerful inner child work is, and how to do it • What radical acceptance actually means and how it creates openness • How we are available for different levels of growth at different parts of our journey • Her first exposure to Intuitive Eating and how it allowed her to phase out restricting & bingeing • Learning how to truly love herself and take care of herself • The modalities that supported her along the way • The importance of connecting to a higher power, and entering into the body somatically sensitive • The importance of allowing ourselves to fully experience being human And sooo much more. CONNECT WITH TYLER: https://www.instagram.com/tyler.rolling.rd/ https://www.tylerrollingrd.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/foodbodysoul/ BE A DEAR FILL OUT THIS FORM: https://forms.gle/yMgDBCK2iw1EvgVK7 HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

The fire roll continues with our guest today! Kaitlin Bolt-Lovett is a Registered Dietitian whose practice embraces each unique individual and works to empower through reflection, education, and healing. She focuses FIRST on the relationship with food and body image, with a goal of creating confidence and harmony between them. She values the personal intricacies of each client’s experience and approaches the relationship with an inclusive, tailored perspective. After battling through her own sport induced eating disorder for over 2 decades, Kaitlin wanted to build a private practice based on healing relationships with both food and body. Through her own experiences and continuing education, she found the social justice movement HAES(R), intuitive eating, and taking an inclusive approach to her work to be powerful and compelling. She emphasizes creating a safe space for clients to feel empowered to explore their relationship with themselves while providing an opportunity to turn inward instead of constantly looking to the external. This generates a self-awareness and trust that can break through the societal biases that often work against our ability to feel WHOLE. She’s here with us today to share her story of healing and transformation, going from being in a place in her relationship with food, body, exercise, and herself that she describes as rigid, disconnected, and sad. To one she describes as integrative, gentle, and versatile. Some themes that pop up in our conversation today are • The impact that life transitions have on our relationship with food, body, and self, • Perfectionism and being caught in the loop of NOT ENOUGH • Being an introvert and not understanding or accepting this and the anxiety that causes • The powerrrrr of self-compassion • How yoga allows for connection with breath and body • How working an extremely stressful and demanding job can exacerbate binge eating and ED tendencies • Working with a therapist to built the skill of recognizing emotions, acknowledging them, and learning how to meet our own needs • Healing does not mean brokenness • How we never “arrive” at an ideal place in our health journey, it’s ever evolving • How transforming these parts of ourselves opens up a new and freer way to experience life And sooooo much more. CONNECT WITH KAITLIN: https://www.alifenourished.com/ https://www.instagram.com/alifenourished/ RESPOND TO THE SURVEY: https://forms.gle/kda7mx8jLmThpSaG9 HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

YEEHAW we're entering into 2021 with a BANG. Mindy Gorman-Plutzer brings 25 years of experience to her private practice as a Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner and Eating Psychology Coach. Mindy’s life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body science; introducing a compassionate resolution to physical and emotional challenges resulting from chronic and complex health issues, as they relate to Eating Disorders. She’s the author of The Freedom Promise: 7 Steps To Stop Fearing What Food Will Do TO You and Start Embracing What It Can Do FOR You. In today's epi Mindy shares her journey of recovery. It began in her late 30's after she was 2 pounds away from being hospitalized. For years she went through the motions of "doing" recovery, and only through peeling back the layers and growing in connection with her deepest innermost self, beyond externally imposed labels, did she find true connection with her body and thus true recovery. She covers the 7 principles that allowed her to BE recovered, and that she now guides clients through professionally. CONNECT WITH MINDY https://thefreedompromise.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thefreedompromise/ LISTENER CONNECT FORM :D https://forms.gle/tHDpK75skH6bGJqH6 I'm so excited to hear from you!!!

Okayyyyyyyy skip the niceties because I think this is my favorite episode yet. Our guest today is the empowerd af Kristen Ales. Kristen is a therapist who specializes in disordered eating and body image based in Bend, Oregon. She is also the founder of Wild and Weightless, an organization that aims to inspire those affected by disordered eating, chronic dieting and negative body image to seek out empowerment through outdoor adventure and community. Kristen's work is centered Body Trust, Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating. When Kristen is not being a therapist you will find her skiing, hiking, and spending time with her boyfriend and dog. Kristin shares about how she got seriously bullied for being both tall and living in a larger body, how this led to her going on a diet at age 14, losing weight, getting a ton of recognition and praise, and then developing anorexia and silently dealing with it for many years. She shares how getting a job as a nature guide and spending allll her time in nature was the catalyst in her healing her relash with food and body and exercise, and ultimately returning to her truest self, and what her journey to freedom and thriving looked like from there. She drops wisdom about how to make body acceptance a practice, how to stay embodied and connected to yourself, how to make peace with a fluctuating body, and sooo much more. CONNECT W/ KRISTEN: https://www.instagram.com/wildandweightless/ https://www.wildandweightless.com/ GRAB THE BALANCED HOLIDAY BUNDLE COACHING PACKAGE: https://www.jennieloerch.com/balancedholidaybundle HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

"I felt good on a surface level because I was like, I'm chasing weight loss, isn't that what I'm supposed to be doing?" Christina Montalvo has been working in the wellness industry for 8 years and kicked off her career as a weight loss coach. She struggled for years with a chaotic relationship with food, obsessing about her body, and witnessing her clients experience the similar challenges. After hitting diet rock bottom she started making some serious shifts both in the way she was treating herself and also working with clients. She shares some mad wisdom about: -The problematic sides of dieting + body image obsession -The major impact our beliefs have on our thoughts + behavior -Why it's so important to focus on how we feel -The Body Positive social justice movement And so much more! CONNECT W/ CHRISTINA: https://www.instagram.com/christina_montalvo/ GRAB THE BALANCED HOLIDAY BUNDLE: https://www.jennieloerch.com/balancedholidaybundle HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/ RESOURCES MENTIONED: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-confidence-project/id1137496285?i=1000440611947 ^^The Confidence Project epi 138 -Health At Every Size, Linda Bacon -Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch & Evelyn Tribole

Oh my gosh y’all. The conversation and human I have to share with you today. Is so rich. So good. So insightful. Katelyn Parsons is an Entrepreneur, Speaker, Certified Intuitive Eating + Body Image Coach, as well as the host of The Modern Girl Podcast. After years of struggling with bulimia and disordered eating, she not only found recovery but recognized a crucial missing link in the wellness industry- empowerment + individual sustainability around health. This inspired her entrepreneurial journey and life mission to shift the conversation toward healing our relationship with food and body. For the past 4 years, Katelyn has helped countless high-achieving women transform their relationship with food and body image through an integrative, evidence-based process so that they can move through each day feeling more present, empowered, and comfortable in their skin, without worrying about what to eat. You’ll also find Katelyn strolling the beach in sunny San Diego with her husband and their pup Winnie. These days Katelyn describes her relationship with food+body+fitness as free, expressive, and grounding. The way she described it in the past is fucking train wreck. Today Katelyn shares with us how she struggled for years and years with binge eating which then escalated to purging and full out bullemia. How the roots of this began literally out of the womb when she experienced restriction due to a milk allergy, and how it further developed later into middle school because she was involved in sports and theater where her body was on display, and had the first thoughts of “ I have to achieve the perfect body.” How her disordered eating patterns would calm down and then flare up due to different transitions and emotions, how she finally said yes to getting support, and all the bumps and learnings in her journey from there. She shares how deeply perfectionism, people pleasing, anxiety, lack of emotional regulation and healthy communication were all woven into her struggles with food and body. CONNECT WITH KATELYN Website: https://www.katelynparsons.com Weekly Email: https://www.katelynparsons.com/newsletter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katelyn.parsons/ The Modern Girl Podcast: https://www.katelynparsons.com/podcast BALANCED HOLIDAY BUNDLE COACHING PACKAGE: https://www.jennieloerch.com/balancedholidaybundle HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

Want to feel inner peace about your health journey this holiday season? To feel *good* about what you're eating and how you're moving? Pop in those ear buds and grab a writing utensil- Cause you’re about to learn how to do just that. You’ll walk away from this interactive epi with a bomb a$$ strategy on how to have your most holistically healthy, empowered, joyful holiday season yet. BALANCED HOLIDAY BUNDLE: https://www.jennieloerch.com/balancedholidaybundle QUESTIONS? EMAIL: Jennieloerch09@gmail.com HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

What a splendid, value-add conversation I have to bring you today! Allison Mosso is a Soulful Health Coach, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Personal Trainer. With a non-restrictive approach, she helps women who are perfectionists and people-pleasers break free from diet cycling, make peace with all foods, cultivate a healthy relationship with exercise, and re-align with their intuition and develop body respect. She is a soulful sister - an active listener to your needs, a foundation of support for you to break through your own limitations and your guiding light to feel at home in your body. Mm. You’ll definitely feel that soulfulness shine thorugh this convo. Allison shares her story today about being super into nutrition and fitness in high school, how it started innocently, but realized later it was very much rooted in the desire to control things in her life. Getting into college her interest began to lead toward obsession. She had noticed her whole life that her body was typically bigger than her friends, and as she started working in the fitness industry that comparson and inner negativity really took hold. After a traumatic incident where a role model of hers basically told her to be successful she needed to lose weight, she became ultra consumed and fixated on shrinking her body, while struggling with chornic emotional eating binge eating, and overeating. Everything changed when she found intuitive eating, and I’ll let her fill you in on what the actual journey was like. My favorite thing about this conversation is how much Allison talks about the intrapersonal ways she grew through intuitive eating and how much her life experience expanded. I think you’ll have a renewed appreciation for play and lightheartedness after this one  CONNECT W/ ALLISON Insta: https://www.instagram.com/allison_mosso/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mossonutritionandfitness Website: https://www.mossonutritionandfitness.com/ BALANCED THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS SIGN UP: https://www.jennieloerch.com/balancedthroughtheholidays HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

Are y'all as obsessed with season 2 of the pod as I am? Bethany K is here with us today and she brings the heat. Bethany Konaszczuk is an anti-diet dietitian located in Minnesota. She works virtually with women to help them reclaim their life using Intuitive Eating, break down food rules, and finally make peace with their body. Bethany is also a certified therapeutic horseback riding instructor, where she helps people with different disabilities find freedom in their body while on top of a horse. Bethany has a powerful story and a light bubbly energy with this refreshingly uplifting giggle that I hope you appreciate as much as I did. She shares about growing up in a household full of chronic dieters and the ways she saw that define her beliefs about her own body, starting restrictive behaviors in high school and how it spiraled to being in the gym 7 days a week in college and an obsession with macro counting. How her sucky relationship with her body, and endlessly trying to shrink it ruled her life and robbed her of experiences in college, and the moment she discovered intuitive eating and how it shifted her path. And how easy, chill, content, and happy her relationship with food, body, and fitness feels now. We also have a really enlightening exchange at the end about neutralizing the word fat that I think is really important. CONNECT WITH BETHANY: https://www.instagram.com/imperfectnutrition/ BALANCED THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS SIGNUP: https://www.jennieloerch.com/balancedthroughtheholidays HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

Okay the fire ball trail of guests continues with today’s guest, Victoria Yates. Victoria is a Health Coach and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor who helps women ditch calorie counting and learn to trust their bodies through intuitive eating. Her background is as a Registered Nurse and she uses her love of science and teaching to empower women in knowledge about their bodies. She believes that when we understand how our bodies work and are unhindered by diet culture we not only are able to give our bodies what they need physically, but also mentally and spiritually. She also helps women get their periods back and balance out their hormones after a history of restrictive eating. Her own story of struggling with orthorexia and obsessive eating as well as hypothalamic amenorrhea are what inspires her to do what she does today... passionately help women live in freedom from food so they can be who they are meant to be. Mm. Victoria has such a sweet, gentle energy but then drops all these powerful ass insights. It’s a cool combo. Today she shares how she initially began to turn to food and exercise as a way to feel a sense of control when her mom becoming seriously ill left her life feeling very out of control. She talks about how it started out innocent and continued to spiral until she was in a place where she was so focused on eating “perfectly healthy” that her food intake dropped, and how sitting still freaked her because she wasn’t burning calories- thus she lost weight and her body shrank and got more toned. She shares how much this way of being was detracting from her life experience. She talks about each of the puzzle pieces, as she calls them, that gradually fell into place on her journey. How her relationship with food, body, and fitness feels so free, so fun, and so good. CONNECT WITH VICTORIA Insta: https://www.instagram.com/nondiet_rn/ Webstie: https://victoria-yates.com/ SIGN UP FOR THE FREE BALANCE TRAINING: https://www.jennieloerch.com/balancedthroughtheholidays HANG W/ ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

Okay seriously buckle up for this one y'all. Kris is such a great communicator and shares amazing wisdom. Kristin Dobvniak is a certified holistic health coach, certified intuitive eating counselor and trained chef. Her passion is to help women uncomplicate eating and stress less about food to bring joy back into eating again! She serves women worldwide through her podcast, The Healthy Balanced Mama Podcast and her online courses by integrating intuition and intention for a less-stressed, healthier and more joyful relationship with food. She lives on an island off the coast of New England with her sailor husband and her two sweet and spunky sous chefs, Sage and Wren, where you can usually find her in the kitchen. Okay not only does Kris have the speaking voice of a Disney princess, and not only is she so well spoken & expressed I’m talkin no filler words, inflection galore. She shares some powerful and informative things in this convo. Kris is with us today to share her story of how unintentional weight loss at a young age and the praise that accompanied it set her down the path of developing a full blown eating disorder. How she bandaid healed this but still struggled for years with her actual relationship with food and her body which presented itself as an endless cycle of dieting and fear and bingeing and weight fluctuations and fitness obsessions. How rooting into a deeper “why” led her to truly find healing and freedom. How she avoids post dieting chaos by utilizing flexible routines and rythms instead of rigid trapped structure and teaches other women to do the same! And sooo much more juiciness CONNECT WITH KRISTIN Insta: https://www.instagram.com/healthymamakris/ Website: www.healthymamakris.com Uncomplicated Eating™ Course: www.uncomplicatedeating.com The Healthy Balanced Mama Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-healthy-balanced-mama-podcast/id1450501536 JOIN MY CHALLENGE https://www.jennieloerch.com/teamupchallenge HANG W ME ON ISNTA https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

Do you experience anxiety? This epi is especially for you. I have the wonderful Lauren Sharp to share with you today. Lauren holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition & Dietetics from the University of Delaware and completed her dietetic internship at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital. She loves food and is so passionate about how food is integrated into our lifestyles that she decided to make it her career! Through lots of personal experience and 6+ years of education Lauren has created The Empower Method to help her clients stop struggling and obsessing over food to finally feeling FREE. I really love this conversation because it’s a different flavor than we’ve had on the show before because Lauren really opens up about her struggle with anxiety, with really intense anxiety, how it was correlated to her perceived need to feel like she was in control. Lauren does a great job of highlighting how clamping down didn’t make her feel safer or freer, but only exacerbated her anxiety. Lauren’s journey is also unique in that she didn’t have one big rock bottom wakeup call. It was a collection of micro-turning points where her mind and perspective opened and she was slowly able to find the place of amazing flexibility and freedom with food and fitness that she is today. During our chat she shares about how her quest to cure her anxiety through wellness turned into an unhealthy obsession and fixation on being thin, how her identity was tied into being the “healthy girl” in college and how that praise and recognition validated her unhealthy behaviors and made it challenging to realize she wasn’t in a great place, and how the flexibility she’s found with food, fitness and her body has affected her entire life and made her into a “fun” person. And loads more juice. CONNECT WITH LAUREN https://www.instagram.com/loandlemons/ JOIN THE TEAM UP CHALLENGE Jennieloerch.com/teamupchallenge HANG W ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

Today I am just so bubbling with joy and anticipation to share this conversation with you. Our guest is the incredible, Simi Botic. Simi is a certified holistic health coach, Intuitive Eating counselor, doula in training, and the author of Letting Go Of Leo: How I Broke Up With Perfection a memoir about overcoming her decades long struggle with feeling like she wasn't enough. She's also a barre instructor and the founder of UNMEASURED, a virtual monthly barre membership that celebrates your body through movement. Through her work, she helps women all over the world ditch perfection and heal their relationships with food and body image so they can begin to embrace their beautifully imperfect lives. She’s is with us today to tell her story going from this place of constantly trying to fix herself. Feeling like a problem to be solved and the areas that that manifested most heavily, as you might imagine, was in her relationship with food, with her body, and fitness. She was in law school and had an extensive list of food rules, tracked every morsel of food that went in her mouth, if she ate one bad food, it would send her into an intense binge episode. She was obsessively exercising 1 if not 2 times per day, pushing herself past body limits, and would feel panicked if she missed a workout. To where she is now. Flexibility, openness, and freedom. She doesn’t even call herself an intuitive eater, She just a normal eater. She has a gentle, fun relationship with movement. And she never dreamed this state was possible for her. She shares the moment everything changed for her on her honeymoon, and what the journey to freedom actually looked like and what it took to change how she showed up for herself. This one is powerful y’all. Buckle up. CONNECT WITH SIMI: https://www.simibotic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/simibotic/ https://www.instagram.com/movementunmeasured/ JOIN THE TEAM UP BODY IMAGE CHALLENGE: Jennieloerch.com/teamupchallenge HANG W ME ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/

What a beautiful human to share with you today. Paige Schmidt is a Certified Intuitive Eating & Financial Coach who helps women enjoy a healthier relationship with food & money. Paige has an amazing relationship with food, her body, fitness, and herself. She describes it as calm, happy, and fun. But, my good lassie, it wasn’t always like this. For YEARS she was caught up in dieting- counting and measuring everything that went into her mouth and thinking about it constantly. She received a ton of praise for her weight loss at a young age and it led her to associate her worth and value as a woman with her thinness (and a lot of fear around food and gaining weight) When she found true connection through her church and experienced the fullness that her faith gave her, the consuming dieting thoughts and behaviors began to fall to the background. I'll let her tell you all about the ups and downs of the journey in the epi. Paige shares mad wisdom in this one. Prepared to be uplifted and inspired! Connect with paige: https://www.instagram.com/paigeschmidt/ Paigeschmidt.com Hang with me on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/ Grab the Liberation Launchpad Toolkit: jennieloerch.com/liberation

This convo is VIBEY Marissa Kai Miluk is an Intuitive Eating Dietitian in South Carolina. She works virtually with women who struggle with binge eating break the restrict/binge cycle, re-learn how to listen to their body, and find healthful movement and nutrition habits that they enjoy! Marissa has her own personal story with binge eating which is what inspired her to become a Registered Dietitian; so she could help others who were trying to find food freedom on their own. Through her coaching, she helps young women heal their relationship with food so they can create a life where they feel amazing. My fav quote from the episode: "yeah it's vey nice to be on the other side and have more important things to focus on" She shares her story of her battle with binge eating, being misunderstood and dismissed by people she shared with, moving to LA to be an actress and being expected to keep her body looking like a 15 year olds, finding her path to intuitive eating, tinkering for a while then finally going ALL IN and finding a beautiful easy relationship with food, body, exercise and a deeper appreciation for life, to now the work she does supporting her clients through binge recovery as well. She shares a ton of juicy knowledge and wisdom throughout our chat. So good. To get the full bullet list recap of the episode and all the resources Marissa mentions in this epi, visit the show notes here: https://www.jennieloerch.com/podcast/34 Hang with me on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/ Grab the Liberation Launchpad Toolkit: jennieloerch.com/liberation

HEY FAM I've got another spicy guest here to support you Kelsey Pukala is a non-diet Registered Dietician who helps women find freedom with food, exercise, their body, and health. She understands that “health” looks different for everyone and she helps women navigate and discover what it means to them. She believes satisfaction and freely enjoying food without guilt is soo important which is why she fully enjoys oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate chips, and eating cereal out of over-sized coffee mugs. Her goal is to help women learn how to trust their body, honor their health and embrace the grey between black and white thinking. She fully embraces intuitive eating and health at every size in her practice and hopes to empower women to make peace with food and their natural body size. She’s here with us today to share her story going from controlling food and exercise in attempts to shrink her body, going through treatment that she now recognizes was very inadequate and inspired the work she does today, years spend in “pseudo-recovery” which we’ll expand more on, and where she is now. A place of joy and satisfaction with food, peace and flexibility with exercise, empowered view of her body. She also shares a tonnn of juicy wisdom and knowledge throughout our chat. Man this was so so good. My fav quote from the episdoe: “You never arrive at some place with intuitive eating or with your body where it’s perfect and you never have to work on it or tweak it again. It’s a journey.” To get the full bullet list recap of the show and all the resources Kelsey mentions in this epi, visit the show notes here: https://www.jennieloerch.com/podcast/33 Hang with me on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/ Grab the Liberation Launchpad Toolkit: jennieloerch.com/liberation

Jamie Mendell is a Life Alchemist who helps women transcend the inner blocks that keep them from stepping into that juicy next-level version of themselves — and life — they’ve always longed for. Through her mindset and lifestyle-driven coaching method, she shows her clients how to elevate the way they see and treat themselves so that they can embody who they need to be to design their dream life in the present. She is a Certified Nutrition Consultant, and a Certified Holistic Health Coach. She is also certified in the Transformational Coaching Method from Holistic MBA. She graduated at the top of her class from Emory University. She has been a contributor to major publications such as The Huffington Post, Women’s Health, Real Simple and MindBodyGreen, and her work has been featured on various health and wellness websites and podcasts. Fave quote from the epi: “this process of coming back to myself through intuitive eating really set me on a path of doing everything in my life from this intuitive, aligned place” To learn more about Jamie Mendel and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes Hang with me on Insta https://www.instagram.com/jenniesthriving/ Grab the Liberation Launchpad Toolkit

Woah baby, this is the series wrapup for the relationship with food series, aka what this whole podcast has been covering since luanching a year and a half ago. In this epi we're recapping the 10 mental shifts you can implement to mend and improve your relash with food, and get you closer to thriving. Cheers to the closing of chapters and the opening of new ones :D STAY TUNED for the exciting things to come on the pod

Did you know.... It's possible to experience pleasure and enjoyment in your health journey? (And that doesn't mean eating cake with every meal) Ease and enjoyment before during and after eating is your BIRTHRIGHT! It just gets lost amidst the diet culture shuffle. Tune in to hear the 3 biggest blocks in the way of you sinking into a relationship with food full of ejoyment. You'll walk away from this epi clear on why prioritizing ejoyment is important, what's preventing you, and feeling hyfie to get started. ~Have you checked out my mindset management meditation yet? This 5 minute guided affirmation session will help you feel aligned with your ideal relationship with food & body thus making your desires reality. Click the link to get instant access. mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindse…anagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @jenniesthriving

We're unpacking the 5 things that are keeping you disconnected from your power- (power is the ability to affect change and acheive purpose) and keeping you stuck in a sucky relationship with food + body. Let go of these 5 things and create space for what's already inside of you to come forth: A peaceful, flowy, intuitive health journey ~Have you checked out my mindset management meditation yet? This 5 minute guided affirmation session will help you feel aligned with your ideal relationship with food + body thus making your desires reality. Click the link to get instant access. mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindse…anagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @jenniesthriving

Everybody knows gratitude is hot hot hot. Here's where you'll learn how to apply it to your relationship with food and the powerful transformation that comes along with this shift. Gratitude helps you shift from being AT WAR with food and your body, to being appreciative and in awe. Get on the same team as food and your body

We have another unsung hero, people. SELF. COMPASSION. For all you “self movement” skeptics out there, this one is especially for you. The pure MAGIC of self-compassion has been researched for over a decade (aka its impact is science backed.) Tune in to find out how to utilize self-compassion to help you move FORWARD on your health journey, where before you’d remain stuck. You’ll walk away from this epi with a clear understanding and appreciation of self-compassion, and feel empowered to utilize it in your health journey. ~Have you checked out my mindset management meditation yet? This 5 minute guided affirmation session will help you feel aligned with your ideal relationship with food + body thus making your desires reality. Click the link to get instant access. mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindse…anagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @jenniesthriving

We are BACK, BAYBEH. Missed y'all. We are continuing on through the relationship with food series with mental shift number 6, Practice Mindful Eating. In this epi Jennie unpacks the 4 pillars of mindful eating she utilizes that will aid you on your quest to finding a more balanced, flowy health journey. Said pillars are: 1)Thinking through food decisions 2) Being fully present at mealtimes 3) Tuning into your body 4) Letting go of noise You'll walk away from this epi with an enlightened understanding of what mindful eating is and how to deploy it in your health journey today (with a non-diet mentality.) ~Have you checked out my mindset management meditation yet? This 5 minute guided affirmation session will help you feel aligned with your ideal relationship with food + body. Click the link to get instant access. mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindse…anagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @jenniesthriving

"After making peace with my changing body I was able to discover this beautiful balance of pursuing health because it felt good in my body, but also being just like a normal eater." Our amazing guest, Victoria Myers, is the dietitian and owner of the virtual private practice and online education center Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Victoria and her staff specialize in empowering women to ditch diets, regulate hormones, heal digestion and learn to practice wellness without obsession. She is also the host of the popular intuitive eating and wellness podcast, the Nourishing Women Podcast. Her mission for her community is to help them let go of the unhealthy obsession with eating healthy, make peace with their body and live their lives to the fullest. In this epi she shares: -Her journey from being stuck in the diet-binge cycle for 10 years to a place of complete food freedom, body love, and intuitive movement. -A fresh perspective on emotional eating -How our self-worth ties into our health journey -How curiosity allows for us to take on the role of observer rather than harsh critic -Intuitive Eating and Health At Every Size -What it means to practice wellness without obsession And SO much more. This is juicy one. Buckle up Connect with Victoria! blog: https://www.victoriamyers.net/ business: https://www.nourishingmindsnutrition.com/ insta: @victoriamyers_ @nourishingmindsnutrition podcast: Nourishing Women Podcast

All hail curiosity! Tune in and discover the 3 outcomes/value adds of applying curiosity to your health journey and relash with food. Also nerd out with me about your brain on curiosity. You'll walk away from this epi feeling like applying curiosity to your relationship with food is worthwhile and feel confident to try it out for yourself + adopt this practice. https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @jennsthriving

Tune in and discover the lesser recognized power of simply getting curious about elements of your health journey. We're exploring the 5 areas you can apply curiosity and experience the benefits: less stress and downward spirals in your relash with food, and feeling more spaciousness + ease instead. You'll walk away from this epi understanding the value that applying a little curiosity to your relationship with food and overall health journey can have, and be ready to experiment! https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @jennsthriving

A special quarantine survival guide episode to help you navigate a potentially challenging, triggering time in your health journey. These 10 mindset tweaks will help neutralize the pressure, drama, and negativity that is arising for a lot of us right now around food+exercise+our bodies. You'll walk away with a fresh perspective and new encouragement to help you cruise through this wild ride and experience more peace and ease in your health journey https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @jennsthriving

"I had just reached a place of complete peace with my body because I had finally shifted my mindset. It wasn't about controlling my body it was about taking care of my body" ^^THE MOST perfect guest to talk about mental shift number 3, self-care not self-control Blair Badenhop is a self-made, mega successful entrepreneur who experienced an extremely challenging relationship with food. After a health scare, she leaned into cultivating an inner world of love and caring for her body, and things just seemed to click into place from there. In this epi Blair shares: -How comparison to other girls led to her disordered eating -Her struggle with emotional eating and the accompanying weight fluctuation -Her realization that her eating struggles were a product of being disconnected from herself -How asking a new question, "what can I do to help my body heal?" changed her relationship to food + her body -What it felt like when effort gave way to ease in her health journey -How her focus on personal growth + a foundation of self-love has allowed her to experience motherhood differently than most and much more! Connect with us on insta: @blairbadenhop @jennsthriving https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation

Strap in as we unpack the 5 lesser explored reasons why self-control sucks, and self-care rocks. You'll walk away from this episode with a robust understanding of the ways self-control and self-care affect your relationship with food and your overall health journey, and also with a 5 step game plan to help you access and utilize self-care in ways you likely haven't before. All to help aid your journey towards THRIVING

Understanding WHY you believe & do what you do is a key step towards change. In this epi we take a closer look at the ways cultural norms influence our thinking and actions towards food + our health journeys- not always for our benefit. You'll walk away with a more enlightened awareness of the way your beliefs + practices are informed by the messages you're absorbing, and the option to choose differently. https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @jennsthriving

GREAT another millennial talking about self-care... ;D In this epi we're taking a deep dive into self-care + self-control, and going back to their essence The outcome goal for today’s episode is that you walk away with a new and deeper understanding of both self-control and self-care in regards to your relationship with food.

If you're not clear about where you're headed, you'll never get there. In this epi Jennie guides you through a short visioning session to get clear about where you're headed and put some fuel in your amplified relash with food fire. You'll leave this episode with a vision to guide you, rooted in your unique values.

Jennie shares from her own transformative journey to give you a vicarious example of going from a rigid place of self-control, to a softer place of self-care with her food decisions. This epi will get you primed up and ready to learn more about mental shift #3, and to begin to see the effects in your life + health journey. https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^ Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect! Find me on insta @jennsthriving

"You're not going to feel any better about yourself if you lose 60 pounds and still view life this way." Cassidy Vaughn isn't a health + wellness professional, but she IS an expert on her own transformative health journey. From a downward spiral of emotional attachment to food, binge eating, inability to stick to exercise, and cruel self-dialogue; to a self-love driven, nourished lifestyle focused on her entire wellbeing + people outside herself. In this interview Cassidy openly shares the insights, advice and wisdom she gained from her amazing journey, including: -why cultivating self love is SO necessary -how to find traction when you're feeling stuck -how shifting her focus to how she felt changed everything -what it looked like for her to build an intimate, respectful bond with her body -how changing her lifestyle allowed her to tap into her inner power AND SO MUCH MORE This chat is wholesome and juicy. You'll feel encouraged, understood, and uplifted wherever you are in your health journey

Before true transformation and enduring change can take effect in your life, you must cultivate an internal environment where growth can take root. In this episode we understand the synergistic process of shifting the focus, and I share my 5 tips + strategies for effectively implementing ths mental shift. This epi will help you find more ease in your relationship with food and help smooth out your health journey. Cheers to thriving! mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindse…anagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Other Resources: (instagram) @christina_montalvo @simibotic @thewellnecessities (books) Intuitive eating, Evelyn Tribole The F*ck It Diet, Caroline Dooner Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison (podcasts) The Confidence Project Podcast, Nourishing Women Podcast

For most people the main reason they set out to eat better is to drop a few pounds. What if there was a more effective way to pursue eating well and being well? One that allowed more flow and ease, and led to regularity and routine... In this epi we explore 5 lesser known compelling benefits of shifting the focus from how you look to how you feel. https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @Jennsthriving

Why won't my healthy habits just STICK? In this epi we explore this question and also what might be keeping you in a less than ideal place in your relationship with food and your health journey. https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditaion Let's connect on insta! Find me @jennsthriving

What if a simple mindset shift could be the catalyst for transformation in your health journey? We're kicking off another mental shift in the Relationship with Food Series: shifting the focus from how you look to how you feel. Jennie shares openly and vulnerably in this epi about her own tumultuous journey. You'll hear about the drastic effect implementing this simple mindset shift had on transforming her health journey into a peaceful enduring one, and how a similar outcome is yours for the taking. https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^ Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect! Find me on insta @jennsthriving

Do you often find yourself in a downward food + exercise + body image spiral this time of year? The 10 tips offered in this epi will help you stay grounded in an internal place of calm as you navigate the food and body challenges that can accompany the holiday season. Enjoy! Episodes will resume again January 8th https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect on insta! Find me @jennsthriving

"I felt good on a surface level because I was like, I'm chasing weight loss, isn't that what I'm supposed to be doing?" *****HEADS UP this episode contains cuss words****** Our guest, Christina Montalvo, is a women's strength & conditioning coach, and anti diet (intuitive eating)coach. She shares some mad wisdom about: -The problematic sides of dieting + body image obsession -The major impact our beliefs have on our thoughts + behavior -Why it's so important to focus on how we feel -The Body Positive social justice movement And much more! Christina has been working in the wellness industry for 7 years and kicked off her career as a weight loss coach. After hitting diet rock bottom, she decided to make some serious changes both in the way she was treating herself and also working with clients. ~THE MOST perfect wrap up to mental shift #2, blow up the wagon~ Resources mentioned: 1. https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation 2. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-confidence-project/id1137496285?i=1000440611947 ^^The Confidence Project epi 138 3. Health At Every Size, Linda Bacon 4. Intuitive Eating, Elyse Resch & Evelyn Tribole Let's connect on insta! Find Christina @christina_montalvo Find Jennie @jennsthriving

Quick fixes aren't effective or enduring. These 5 strategies are heavy on the necessity of tending to your mind, and filled with resources to help you do just that. We'll explore some important health misconceptions and paradoxes, and highlight the value of going against the flow of Diet Culture. https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Other Resources Mentioned: (instagram) @christina_montalvo @simibotic @thewellnecessities (books) Intuitive eating, Evelyn Tribole The F*ck It Diet, Caroline Dooner Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison (podcasts) The Confidence Project Podcast, Nourishing Women Podcast

Common practice doesn't always equal best practice! We're unpacking some lesser-known reasons why all or nothing "wagon" mentality sucks and isn't serving you. We continue to explore and understand this mentality to set us up to implement the solutions and strategies offered next epi (to blow up the wagon!) https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^Mindset Management Meditation Find me on insta! @jennsthriving

The first step towards lasting change is having a deep understanding of your current state of operating. In this epi we begin unpacking and understanding the old familiar, ever common "wagon" approach towards eating; I'm all on the wagon eating only kale + chia seeds, or I'm OFF eating only pizza + ice cream. These next few episodes will help you let go of this rigid way of thinking (blow up the wagon) and allow you to embrace a more peaceful, sustainable mentality towards food- getting you closer to the healthy lifestyle of your dreams! https://mailchi.mp/d60a86e2a5b6/mindsetmanagementmeditation ^^ Link to the Mindset Management Meditation Let's connect! Find me on insta @jennsthriving

Hannah Lareau is a certified wellness coach and shares her knowledge about health from a holistic standpoint We talk about: -Her story of “figuring out food” and body image -Her perspective on labeling, not food, but ourselves! And how it leads to shame and blame -Some helpful non trigger language -How starting with why helps us think bigger about health -Diet culture and how we fall victim to media and marketing -Her journey of struggle with fertility -Finding freedom with food and exercise -“Getting her body back” post baby Connect with Hannah on instagram: @hannahlareauwellness Hannah's website: hannahlareauwellness.com

This is a continuation of the previous episode. Last epi we talked about how a restrictive mindset SUCKS, and in this one you'll learn 4 strategies to help you let go of a rigid, restrictive mindset towards food. Flexible=freedom! Connect with me! I'd love to hear from you on instagram @jennsthriving Here are some of my favorite people to follow: @shutthekaleup @christina_montalvo @nourishingmindsnutrition @kelseypukala_rd

Do you ever struggle with emotional eating, over eating, binge eating, or feeling like you lack self-control around food? Ever consider that you're playing games with yourself when you're thinking about food in restrictive ways? Ever delve deep and consider how a$$-backwards our approach to eating is? Well in this episode of the Improving Your Relationship with Food series, we explore the various angles of common food mentalities and practices, to help you mitigate some eating struggles. Connect with me! I'd love to hear from you on instagram @jennsthriving Sign up for my biweekly newsletter, ThriveThoughts, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4xcAGVwXXE-zMu_Abn00R_5v8ptA-f8cK1TVNgVHmUTV3zA/viewform?usp=sf_link Take the Mindset Towards Food survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdcA7ZWr-jnZuxEp1VEaI17vFORgD2XWqsGk69upqWbeu9sA/viewform?usp=sf_link

How do Adam and Eve tie into your relationship with food??? Find out in this episode where we’ll take a deep dive into the compelling reasons to consider dropping the labels you have on food. After listening you’ll feel well-informed and ready to take steps forward on your journey towards improving your relationship with food, and getting to your ideal health journey. Connect with me! I'd love to hear from you on instagram @jennsthriving Sign up for my biweekly newsletter, ThriveThoughts, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4xcAGVwXXE-zMu_Abn00R_5v8ptA-f8cK1TVNgVHmUTV3zA/viewform?usp=sf_link Take the Mindset Towards Food survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdcA7ZWr-jnZuxEp1VEaI17vFORgD2XWqsGk69upqWbeu9sA/viewform?usp=sf_link