Podcasts about body neutral

Hello there, and welcome back to the podcast. In last week's episode, I used the phrase ‘food freedom' in the context of food being a mirror to show the relationship you have with yourself. But upon reflection, it doesn't make sense. Food freedom is a phrase that is used a lot in diet culture and weight loss circles. But what is food freedom? It sounds catchy, but it's an illusion. We don't actually need freedom from food because food is not the problem. Rules around food are the thing keeping us hostage. That's what I look into in this episode.     The guilt and shame we feel around food are because we have been taught that certain foods are bad or that there are food rules we must follow. We are taught to be afraid of carbs or sweets or emotional eating, and so we feel like we're held hostage by food. That's where the idea of food freedom comes from. But when we understand that food is not the problem and rules are, the idea of food freedom falls apart. Food is neutral. Hunger is normal. There is no perfect way to eat. We don't have to fear food. We're free to eat without guilt. Those are the five things I explore in this episode, breaking apart the idea that we need freedom from food.  __About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome, everyone. I'm excited to have you back here this week because I want to talk to you about something truly life-changing. I call it the mirror effect. It has to do with diet culture telling us to fix our eating and fix our bodies when really those are not the issues. There's nothing wrong with our bodies. I want to make the point that true freedom is releasing ourselves from the belief that we have to change our bodies to change our lives. If food isn't the problem, maybe the way we eat is actually a mirror for how we relate to ourselves. So join me as I explore that.     When diet culture drills into us the idea that we have to think about food in isolation, it makes food just food, just fuel, just calories in and calories out, we then believe that anything we do in regards to overeating or emotional eating or cravings is a problem to be solved. But what if we got curious instead and asked what our eating is reflecting back to us? If I focus just on the fact that I binge at night because I'm starving, I'll miss the point that I'm not structuring my days in a way that allows for self-care and meeting my needs. We need to start asking what we truly need right now, rather than vilifying food or eating. How do we do that? What steps do we take to begin to understand the mirror effect? How do we gain a deeper understanding of why we're eating? Those are the questions I ask and hopefully address for you in this episode.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello everyone and welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. This episode was partly inspired by my husband returning to school and watching how meticulous he is about his assignments. The effort he puts into things is admirable but not sustainable and I realized that striving for perfection is about the illusion of control. It correlates to healing relationships with food in a very real way. If you've spent years trying to control food, just holding onto the reins of your relationship with food so tightly, you probably believe that you have control and are safe, right? But something I call the control paradox comes into play which is that the tighter we clamp down, the less control we actually have. The more we restrict, the more chaotic and compulsive things become. So today I dive into the control paradox: what it means, how it works, and how to break free.    I explore three very important questions: 1) Why do we believe that control equals safety in the first place? 2) How do restriction and rigid food rules backfire on us, making food feel even more chaotic? 3) How can we step out of this control paradox and into a place of more trust and freedom with food? A lot of our food rules are shaped from a very young age and when we also factor diet culture into the mix, we take in the primary message that our bodies can't be trusted and control is the answer. Control makes us feel like we might be safe. But as soon as we slip up, we spiral into chaos and feel very unsafe. So the answer actually lies in trust. Learning to trust our bodies again. And that's what I explore: why trust is so scary but vital to intuitive eating and breaking out of the control paradox.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello friends and welcome back to the podcast! Today I have something truly special to share with you, something that I've been pouring my heart and soul into for months. Today I'm announcing the launch of my brand new course: Nourish Yourself Body+Mind. This course, Nourish Yourself Body+Mind, is a roadmap and support system for unlearning what diet culture has taught, rebuilding a foundation of trusting yourself, and finding a completely new way of relating to food. This isn't just another intuitive eating course, this is an in-depth whole-self transformation that helps you move along the healing process.   Nourish Yourself Body+Mind will go through the reasons why you might feel out of control around food, reasons that pertain to biology and not simply willpower. The course will look at how to stop the food chatter in your head, it will look at emotional eating and eating struggles, it will examine new ways to take care of yourself. It is designed to support you through every step of the journey of healing relationships with food and self. Letting go of self-criticism. Letting go of the daily scale and body critiques. Cultivating self-compassion. Unpacking the ways in which diet culture has kept you small emotionally, mentally, and socially. It's a 12 module course with each module containing between 10 and 14 lessons. There's a video, a workbook, and audio that go with each module. Join me as I really unpack my motivation and passion for the Nourish Yourself Body+Mind course and what it can do for you. __About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Resources mentioned in this episode:$50 podcast listener discount on Body+Mind course - Code: podcast__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Friends, welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. Today I'm talking about intuitive eating and how the heck you do it while on your period. I realized when I instinctively bought cookies that I almost never buy while grocery shopping the other day, that my mind and body are pretty in sync now because a day or two later I got my period. Which explains the cookie craving. We're used to cravings, especially for sugar, during PMS, but today I'm exploring how our menstrual cycles truly affect our relationship with food and how to work intuitive eating into that.   Diet culture has conditioned us to believe that we need to follow a strict eating routine and follow it day in and day out, but in reality our bodies don't work like that. We're not designed to function that way. Hunger fluctuates throughout the month, and as hormones shift during our menstrual cycles, everything from metabolism to cravings and energy levels changes, too. We simply need different things through different stages of our cycle. I'm going to go through our menstrual cycle stage by stage, looking at what actually happens bodily at each point. Then I'm going to talk about how to work intuitive eating into that. What we need changes, so what we eat will change too and that's okay. Why do we crave sugar at one point, and nutrient-dense food at another? Let's find out together and break down the myth about routine diets as we do.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

I'm happy to have you back with me at Thrive Beyond Size. Last week I was truly fatigued, so exhausted, but this week I'm feeling better and reclaiming energy. And today I want to talk to you about something I've struggled with along the course of my own intuitive eating journey: a fear of hunger. Hunger can feel uncomfortable and scary and those feelings can stem from experiences in childhood or because we've started to feel, through suppression of hunger, that it just feels too big to manage. We develop a fear that we'll just overeat if we can't conquer hunger. So today I'm exploring why diet culture teaches us to fear hunger and how ignoring hunger affects us in mind and body.   Diet culture teaches us to fear hunger in many ways. It instructs us that hunger is something we need discipline to move through. Or we find unique ways to ignore hunger just to stick to our diet plan. Or a really low calorie meal plan leaves us constantly unsatisfied and hungry. But every strategy is actually teaching us to ignore our body's most basic and life-sustaining signal. Believing that hunger is bad is dangerous. So let's explore how it's dangerous. What does ignoring hunger actually do to our bodies? How does that then impact our mindset with guilt and blame? And what can we do about it? Well, we can come to terms with our fear through small steps that reclaim hunger as positive. I have advice, tips, and insight to share so we can all learn to embrace hunger as natural and good and learn to not to fear it or fear food.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome back, friends. I'm exploring what happens to our food cravings when we're exhausted. Why is eating and choosing food such a chore when we're fatigued? How does it affect our decision-making? We've all been there, overwhelmed and bone tired, staring at the kitchen and thinking the only option is the fast option. But we've been made to feel guilty about that. Like we're failing when we can't face food choices due to exhaustion. I'm talking about self-compassion in those moments instead. I'll explain why fatigue affects hunger and decision-making and then we'll see why the fast option in those times is perfectly acceptable.   The first thing to note is that fatigue affects intuitive eating in a few ways. Our hunger and fullness hormones become unbalanced when we're fatigued and the result is that we feel hungrier than usual and it takes more food than usual to make us feel full. It's our bodies trying to get more energy because we're running on empty. Once we understand what happening we can give ourselves more of a break. When we crave carbs and sugar while exhausted or don't have the ability to make meal choices, it's because our intuitive eating signals are mixed up by our exhaustion. And that's okay. How do we deal with those feelings? And how can we make simple fast food choices without feeling guilty? I'll share my personal journey with those feelings and some pointers that work for me.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello everyone and welcome back! The subject of today's episode was inspired by an experience I had on a road trip through my home province of Alberta to a medical conference. My husband and I have been making the same trip for 50 years and we have little rituals where we stop for breaks and get favorite snacks. A certain donut shop is one of those stops. But this time I didn't enjoy the donuts that I look forward to every trip. What happened? The donuts hadn't changed. I realized that this isn't the first time I've had this experience. And that's what I want to talk about: the changing shift in foods when we focus on intuitive eating. How we lose touch with former favorites and why things change, that's what I'm exploring with you today.  Sometimes what happens is that as we let go of the rigidity we held around food rules and we open ourselves up to permission to enjoy foods we love, they no longer become the forbidden fruit and lose some of their appeal. If something formerly forbidden is always open to us now, the sense of rebellious indulgence is gone. Sometimes a comfort food just no longer feels comforting like it once did. It's not always psychological, either. There's a shift in our bodies as we eat intuitively. Our gut bacteria and microbiomes change. That can influence what feels good to eat. It can feel like a loss when we lose that connection with former favorite foods. So today I talk about how to regard the loss as an expansion instead. How to find that comfort or indulgence in things other than food. And how to approach the changes in food relationships with openness and curiosity for new experiences. Join me as I share the journey of losing the joy of a favorite food and how to embrace the change as something positive.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello everyone! Welcome back to the podcast. It has been a while since I've shared an interview with you and I'm excited about this one because I welcome back a former guest and one of the coaches who works inside Wayza Health. Christina Claytor, the founder of Mindful Health Revolution, joins me again but this time to talk about raising her two young daughters as intuitive eaters. She's here to enlighten us with her story and the truth about what it really takes to instill and maintain intuitive eating in your children.Christina's two daughters are 4 and nearly 2 and she and her husband are raising them as intuitive eaters. So what does that look like? Christina explains the many conversations that go into helping her kids navigate food and hunger but also the many conversations with family members about how she is raising her daughters to avoid food rules and diet culture. She explains her experience with the common myth that if you let kids eat sugar that's all they'll eat, how to still say no and set reasonable boundaries without labelling food as good or bad, and how to navigate your feelings about food waste and snacks when guiding kids through intuitive eating. This episode is a glimpse into the reality of bringing intuitive eating into children's lives and teaching them mindfulness about food.__About Christina Claytor:Christina Claytor is the founder of The Mindful Health Revolution where she helps clients break up with overwhelming diets and workout plans so they can stop feeling like a failure and start confidently taking action to have health on their own terms.__Resources discussed in this episode:“How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence” by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson“Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture” by Virginia Sole-SmithEpisode 143: Operationalizing Your Goals with Christina Claytor__Learn more about Christina Claytor:Website: TheMindfulHealthRevolution.comInstagramFacebookLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size! I'm so happy to have you here. Today's topic is the concept of food rules. What are food rules, you ask? I'm talking about the rigid and often unspoken guidelines that we lay down for ourselves that dictate all the decisions we make around eating. Things like carbs are bad or don't eat after 7 pm or yogurt has too much sugar. Some of them are choices we have consciously made but some are just ingrained in our brains in response to the diet culture we've been mired in for so long. I want to explore food rules today. Why do we make them? How are they interrupting our relationships with food and our bodies? What can we do to change them?  One of the problems with food rules is that we feel like a failure when we break one. If, for example, we have a rule about not eating cake and then we have a piece of cake on somebody's birthday, we feel terrible and guilty and we don't even enjoy it. So that food rule is harming our perception of ourselves and our ability to simply enjoy cake on a special occasion. Food rules often come with a sense of morality or judgment. They're ingrained in our minds, dictating our eating. Letting go of these food rules is vital because they're creating unnecessary stress and creating this idea that our bodies cannot be trusted to communicate their needs to us. I'm going to address how adept our bodies are at letting us know what they need. I'm going to talk about intuitive eating. I'm going to talk about letting go of shame when we let go of food rules. And I'm going to talk about how to do it. How to dismantle those unspoken rules.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello everyone! Right now, at the end of January, I feel an urge to talk about something that seems more important than ever. Rest. In my commitment to rhythm this year, I'm noticing that I also need a little more rest and that it's actually in my rhythm to have a tough time at the end of January going into February. It's a thing I've noticed I need: more sleep and slowing down. The type of rest I'm talking about is a radical act of self-care. It's about reclaiming our time, energy, and health in a world that's constantly demanding more of us. We all need that. Rest is resistance against our hustle culture. So I'm going to talk about how we can reframe rest as a necessity instead of regard it as a luxury. How often do we hear people bragging about how busy they are? It's a mindset that glorifies productivity as though their worth is measured by how many things they can juggle at once. We even remove rest from weekends with ideas like “work hard, play hard”. And while there's nothing wrong with goals or working hard, there is a problem with making productivity our primary source of self-worth. This hustle culture even shows up in food and in how we view our bodies: we need more restriction, more exercise, more control. But we don't just need to be pushed, we need to rest. We're not wasting time or being lazy when we rest, we're replenishing our energy and supporting our health. We're creating the conditions we need for more meaningful connections. So join me as I explore how we can reclaim our right to rest and reframe it as the necessity it is.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome back to another episode, everyone. I'm very excited about the year ahead. Learning is one of my core values and last year I started doing training in trauma. At first, I simply wanted to have a trauma-informed approach to my coaching but the process intrigued me and opened so many realizations about the connection between trauma and healing around food and body. So now I'm doing true trauma training, the Gentle Trauma Release method, and I want to talk about why I'm doing that in today's episode. Why it's so important and why I think it's essential for me to learn. So join me as I explore why trauma is relevant to building body trust. It's first important to define trauma, I believe. Many people think about big life events when we talk about trauma, like the wildfires in LA right now or violence or loss. But trauma can also be broader and include smaller less obvious experiences. Being bullied as a child or growing up constantly criticized. And these traumas overwhelm our ability to cope. Trauma often shows up as physical symptoms like headaches, fatigue or digestive issues or in emotional symptoms like difficulty trusting. And all these effects interrupt our relationships with our bodies and with food. And that's what I talk about in this episode. How trauma is affecting our body trust. How our nervous systems are responding. What we can do to heal trauma and create a safe supportive space for ourselves and our bodies again. __About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello and welcome to 2025, everyone! It's the start of a new year and the time of resolutions. We've all fallen into that trap of making a resolution that just didn't stick. Maybe we resolved to eat better or exercise every day and we did well for a week or two but fell off around mid-January. I think resolutions are too rigid to allow flexibility and too focused on external expectations. So instead, I focus on things I'm leaving behind. Things that no longer serve me this year. It allows me to be flexible and to also focus on my word of the year: rhythm. Rhythm, to me, is a steady comforting pace. And that's what I want to talk about today. In letting go of the things that no longer serve me, instead of making a resolution to do better, I am instead acknowledging that I'm already enough. I'm enough as I am and the changes I make are about growth and alignment, not punishment in some way. I'm leaving behind clutter - digital, physical, and emotional. I'm leaving behind overconsumption. I'm adding joy, nurturing relationships, and putting myself first. And I'm finding my rhythm in life. I'm finding that pace that feels good, that isn't rushed or chaotic. The rhythm that will create a flow that supports my well-being through my days and weeks. What sort of things could you leave behind to enhance your joy? And what sort of things could you add to help with your rhythm? Join me and let's find out together.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello friends and welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. It's been quite a while since I've shared an interview with you so I'm very excited to share one today. I've become passionate about advocating for weight-inclusive care in healthcare and addressing anti-fat bias and weight discrimination in the world and now I'm introducing you to someone who fights weight discrimination in spas. A spa trip is a day to feel relaxed, pampered, and rejuvenated, but often if you live in a bigger body, a spa visit is anything but. So I'm thrilled to introduce Sherilyn Trompetter, the co-founder of the Larger Luxury Certification that designates businesses as welcoming to bodies of all sizes.Sherilyn Trompetter and her co-founder, Sky McLaughlan, were international business professionals travelling around the world and simply visiting spas worldwide for rest and relaxation. But after another humiliating spa visit that happened only because she is a person in a larger body in a spa, Sherilyn decided nobody else would be hurt the way she was and Larger Luxury was born. I talked to Sherilyn about her personal experiences and how Larger Luxury makes a difference through its online education and certification. Sherilyn explains the many things that negatively impact a spa experience for people with bigger bodies: everything from not having large enough robes to not having tables weight-rated for larger bodies. She also breaks down how easy these issues are to address and how to convey messages of inclusivity in marketing. This conversation is so necessary and the work Larger Luxury is doing is so profound. I enjoyed talking with Sherilyn so much and I truly hope you all find our conversation as encouraging as I did.__About Sherilyn Trompetter:Sherilyn is a compassionate and authentic professional who has worked in various themes of diversity, equity and inclusion for over two decades. Sherilyn brings a trauma-informed approach to consulting organizations and coaching individuals and groups. A masterful facilitator, Sherilyn is able to elicit powerful insights and initiate transformative experiences. Sherilyn has extensive community service and volunteer experience. She co-founded ACT Alberta: the Action Coalition on Human Trafficking, the leading research-based and outcome-focused human trafficking organization in Alberta. She has a passion for multiculturalism, social justice and community service and has over 15 years of board experience.Sherilyn has extensive experience working for and with complex and hierarchical unionized environments such as the University of Alberta, the Government of Alberta, and various law enforcement agencies including the RCMP, and the Canadian Red Cross. She has successfully managed projects upwards of $10 million specializing in the development and training of people and systems improvement.__Resources discussed in this episode:RG Spa in Edmonton, AB__Learn more about Sherilyn Trompetter:Website: LargerLuxury.comLinktr.ee: LargerLuxuryOfficialLarger Luxury on InstagramLarger Luxury on LinkedInSherilyn Trompetter on LinkedInEmail SherilynLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello, lovelies, and welcome back! I've been focusing a lot on healing our relationships with food and our bodies and I'll always explore that, that's at the heart of acceptance. But something else is at the heart of healing our food and body relationships and that's a sense of connection. This time of year, the holidays, is especially focused on connection which is part of why I love it so much. We need it more than just once a year, though. So I'm going to talk about how to start prioritizing connections throughout our lives.  While breaking free from diet culture and working on intuitive eating and body trust are quite personal internal processes, real authentic connections make that change sustainable over the long run. I'm talking about connection with ourselves, with other people, and with the world at large. Connection grounds and supports us, and reminds us we're not alone. I'm going to talk about why connection is so important and how to explore different connections in your life. So I'm going to talk about mindfulness, interoception, relationships and community, and the joyful experience of life. All these connections - to self, each other, and nature - help us combat feelings of overwhelm and disconnectedness. So join me as I talk us through nurturing connection that will in turn help heal our relationships with food and our bodies. __About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello and Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! The last few episodes have centered around guilt, cravings, and how to manage ourselves in everything we feel around the holidays. Today I want to talk about overeating, something that often happens at this time of year, but I want to approach it in a compassionate way. I want to focus on how we can be more compassionate with ourselves during holiday overeating and at any time of the year. I want us to avoid the shame and the guilt. Overeating is not a moral failure. I want to unpack the concept of overeating, look at it as a neutral experience, and look at it as something that's natural and can teach us about our needs.   Overeating is often defined as eating more than what is physically comfortable or more than what we should be eating. But the word ‘should' is a reflection of diet culture, not our actual needs. Diet culture teaches that there's a right amount of food to eat but I want us to remember that those arbitrary rules don't account for natural fluctuations in our hunger and fullness, especially during times of abundance. So I'm going to examine the feelings that arise around overeating, how to talk to ourselves about it, how to normalize eating more than usual while still checking in on hunger and fullness and share some pointers on how to navigate all of these emotions. And remember that overeating does not define you and it doesn't say anything about your character, worth, or health. Join me in talking about nourishment and compassion during this beautiful holiday season.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello hello and welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. Today I'm tackling a topic that's especially tricky during the holiday season. Emotional eating. Many clients are asking about it in calls and it's coming up in my own life as well. This season is the most amazing and most stressful time for us so it can be overwhelming. We deal with excitement, nostalgia, sadness, and a whole range of other emotions. And when our emotions run high, food becomes part of the equation. Maybe we eat too much. Maybe we avoid some foods. I want to talk about that and I want to first state that emotional eating is not bad. It's human. I just want to unpack it and examine it.   This time of year just feels so much more intense than any other season and that directly affects our relationship with food. There are so many people, memories, grief, joy and time demands on us that we really do start to run on empty. Food becomes a way to cope with vulnerability and creates a sense of comfort. Then we're bombarded with messages to let go and indulge but also stay on track to get control back in January. The messaging is conflicting. “[But] mindful eating isn't about eating perfectly, it's about being present with your food.” Find satisfaction and eat without guilt. So this episode is not about how to fix or eliminate emotional eating, but rather explore it as something to understand. I'll talk more about why the holiday season amplifies our emotions. I'll reframe emotional eating. And I'll share some practical tools for navigating it with curiosity, compassion, and body trust. Let's respond to ourselves with kindness this season.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello there, friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I love this time of year. The twinkle lights, the snow, the frost on the trees, it all makes me so happy. I love Christmas music, yes, and I love all the Christmas decorations everywhere. I love the get-togethers, eggnog, treats, and parties. But there are also a lot of challenges that are brought up at this time of year, especially around body trust. The holidays are associated with family gatherings, friends, festive meals and food. It sometimes stirs up complicated feelings around eating, hunger, and around body image. It can be very stressful. So how should you approach it? What can we all do to make things easier on ourselves over the holiday season? That's what this episode is all about.   What does it actually mean to practice body trust during the holiday season?  It's about staying connected to your own needs and approaching food with a joyful mindset instead of a pressured one. And it's about navigating challenging family dynamics and conversations. We often give ourselves these pep talks to “enjoy but in moderation” or “indulge but not too much” and “get back on track in January” but that just creates an exhausting tug of war inside us. So today I talk about how you can enjoy this time of year without being excessive or restrictive. I talk about staying present with food throughout the meal. Don't tune out and eat mindlessly but truly enjoy what you're eating. It's okay to stop when you're full and it's okay to have seconds if you aren't. Listen to your body, not the people around you. I talk about paying attention to self-care so we don't lose ourselves in all the hustle and bustle. And I talk about how to set boundaries during gatherings to avoid triggering conversations about weight. Join me as we talk about truly enjoying the holidays with body trust and a sense of peace in place.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size, friends. Heading into winter and the holiday season, I've been really leaning into my crafts. I've done crafting my whole life, things like DIY kits and paint by numbers, and I've just found it very comforting and relaxing for me. So I want to talk about how doing crafts can support your journey with intuitive eating. I know! You're saying “What the hell does one have to do with the other” but bear with me. Crafting helps cultivate mindfulness by keeping us in the present moment. It helps us reconnect with the pleasure principle and reduces stress and these are all the same things we work on when we engage with intuitive eating. So let's explore that.    There are clear links between creativity and self-care. There's a level of mindfulness and being present that being immersed in doing a craft brings to us. We get more in tune with our bodies, our senses, how the yarn feels, and what the paint colors look like, and that awareness is also what helps us tune into our body's hunger cues. Like many things, we are not always masters of the crafts we pick up. They're not about the finished product and having a side hustle, they're about relaxation and creative expression. So by that metric, we learn to embrace a more compassionate attitude towards mistakes which also helps us in our attitude towards food. And that's what I dive into in this episode. How we can thrive by having a sense of agency, by channelling energy into a craft, and by creating a sense of joy and satisfaction which is a direct parallel to what we cultivate within our bodies when we practice intuitive eating.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

In this week's episode, Sarah and Stef welcome Laura Khoudari, a trauma-informed personal trainer, writer, and the author of "Lifting Heavy Things." Laura shares her unique approach to strength training, which prioritizes the nervous system and emotional well-being over traditional fitness goals. Throughout the interview, Laura opens up about her personal journey from dealing with chronic pain and binge eating disorder to finding empowerment through strength training. She also discusses what it means to be a trauma-informed personal trainer and how this differs from conventional personal training methods. Listeners will gain insights into the importance of creating a safe and supportive environment for exercise, recognizing the signs of hyperarousal and hypoarousal, and the role of mindfulness in physical training. Laura offers practical tips for individuals seeking empowerment and safety through movement. The episode also explores Laura's relationship with food and body image, her recovery process, and how she finds joy and safety in cooking by breaking down food-related rules and finding balance in wellness. Finally, Laura talks about her Substack newsletter, "A Tender at the Desk and Stove," where she shares personal essays and wellness tips. She encourages listeners to find nourishment and well-being in ways that feel right for them. Whether you're looking to transform your approach to fitness or gain a deeper understanding of trauma-informed practices, this episode is packed with valuable insights and heartfelt stories. Laura Khoudari is a writer and speaker. Her work as a leader in trauma-informed weight lifting and her book, Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at Time, have been recognized across the fitness and mental health industries as well as by NPR and The New York Times. She was a runner-up in Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Essay Writing Contest and her personal essays have appeared in Archetype and Human Shift.  Learn more about her and her work at laurakhoudari.com, on Instagram @laurakhoudari, and through her newsletter Tender at The Desk and Stove. Join our growing support community. This community is for you if you want a safe space to work through your daily struggles with food and body image. Community membership includes livestream episode recordings (online), monthly Zoom support meetings, a private Facebook group and member-only Q&A episodes. For more information go to: https://www.patreon.com/lifeafterdiets Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast Email – hello@lifeafterdietspod.com Connect with Stefanie Michele, ED Recovery Coach, Somatic Therapist IT Stef's Binge Recovery Course -- www.iamstefaniemichele.com/iamstefaniemichelecourse Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com Instagram – www.instagram.com/iamstefaniemichele Connect with Sarah Dosanjh, Author & Psychotherapist Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com Instagram – www.instagram.com/the_binge_eating_therapist YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon If you find this episode helpful, you can subscribe to the Life After Diets podcast, leave us a review, and share your thoughts with us on Instagram and YouTube (@lifeafterdietspodcast). Your feedback helps us create content that matters to you.

Hello friends. Today I'm tackling a question I receive a lot from potential clients and people interested in intuitive eating. The question is can I still practice intuitive eating if I'm taking a GLP-1 medication? I've spoken about these medications a lot on this podcast. They're prescribed for people managing type 2 diabetes but sometimes they are also prescribed for weight loss. They control blood sugar levels and can also impact appetite. So today I want to talk about how they operate and then explore how intuitive eating can still be practiced while on a medication that alters hunger cues.    It's important to understand exactly what intuitive eating actually is in order to fully discuss this question. Intuitive eating was developed by two dieticians in the mid-1990s, Evelyn Tribble and Elise Risch, and it's based on ten principles. At the core of all the principles is rebuilding trust with your body and tuning in to hunger and fullness cues to honour your body's needs. So how does this work if you're using a medication that alters hunger cues? Well, it is possible, let me answer the question directly, but it requires adapting some of the principles of intuitive eating to fit your unique experience. I talk about how GLP-1 medications work, what they don't fix, and how to approach intuitive eating differently, with the mindset of approaching food with curiosity and some respect. I will talk about body trust and releasing the idea that our food choices define our worth. So join me as I dive into this question, one I get all the time, so we can understand it together.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome, friends, to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size! I just got back from a vacation, an eight-day cruise with my husband Rob, and it was wonderful. I didn't use my phone once, I put it in my bag, I didn't take it out, and it was an amazing real break. After the cruise, I attended a medical conference in Orlando, Florida, on lifestyle medicine. One of the pillars of lifestyle medicine is eating a plant-based or plant-forward diet. There's a lot of evidence to support that such a diet is great for health but what I'm looking at is how choices like these can lead to a feeling of superiority about food choices. Sometimes our new clean eating obsession can get quite obsessive and can even lead to an overlooked eating disorder called orthorexia. And that's what I want to talk about today.   Orthorexia literally means “correct appetite” and it describes an unhealthy obsession with eating foods that are considered clean or pure. Unlike other eating disorders, orthorexia is not about the amount of food eaten but is more about the quality and purity of the food. What I want to look at is this new movement about clean eating and how it can disguise what is essentially diet talk in a new format. I want to examine how an obsession with clean eating can lead to orthorexia, discuss signs for identifying orthorexia, and talk about how such an obsession can lead to feelings of superiority about food and a tendency to evangelize. I'll also talk about how to step back from such an obsessive mindset and why it's important to enjoy our food and not obsess over it to the point of restriction or health impacts. So join me as I share some insight on this overlooked eating disorder and talk about how to manage it.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hi friends! I'm excited to bring you a bit of a lighter episode today. I know the last few episodes have been on the heavier side so it's time to lighten things up a bit. I want to talk about what the heck you eat when you're hungry but don't know what you want. Do you ever feel that? You know you're hungry and you stand at the fridge and just stare into it and can't figure out what you want? Or sometimes you're at a restaurant and can't pick anything off the menu. When it happens to me it's sometimes because I'm overwhelmed by choices but also sometimes I'm hungry and nothing sounds right, nothing sounds like what I want. So today I'm talking about how to navigate that.    In our society of diet culture and food restriction, sometimes those rules get stuck in our brains even when we choose to stop following them. So we might be hungry and searching for something to eat but we won't allow ourselves to have what we really want because it's not “right” or “healthy enough”. So sometimes we just don't eat at all. Or eat something that doesn't actually satisfy us. How do we navigate that? I'm going to share a list of questions to ask yourself to determine what's going on inside. Are you really hungry? What are you hungry for? What does your body feel like? What kind of food are you craving? I want us to get back in tune with our bodies so we can actually understand our hunger and what we need without old habits getting in the way. I'll talk about how to meal plan with flexibility, how to let go of this notion of only doing “what's right”, and how to try eating in different ways to really satisfy your hunger. Join me as we figure out how the heck to eat when we don't know what we want.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome back to the podcast, everyone! I'm very glad you're here. I've been reading a book called “Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture” by Virginia Sole-Smith and even though I'm just a third of the way through it, it floors me every time I turn the page. The author is talking about the effects anti-fat bias can have on families and she shares some stories that break my heart. Imagine if your child was taken away from you because they're fat. Just simply because of their body size. This nightmare was real for some families and I want to talk about weight discrimination and how harmful it can be.    One of the cases talked about in the book was the case of Anamarie Regino, a girl who was removed from her parents at a young age because of her size. State authorities decided her weight was a form of child abuse or neglect so they took her away. Anamarie's parents fought back and argued that she had an undiagnosed medical condition that contributed to her size but it took months of court battle to return her to her family. I want to talk about how interventions like this and even well-intentioned health initiatives like Michelle Obama's “Let's Move” campaign, which heavily emphasized the “epidemic” of childhood obesity, contribute to stigma and harm. I explore the myth that a child's weight is the parent's fault, the messages that being fat is inherently dangerous that are sent by interventions like Anamarie's, and the impact all the discourse on weight and a specific mold of physical health has on children. So join me as I dive into why we need to speak out against anti-fat bias. __About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Resources discussed in this episode:“Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture” by Virginia Sole-Smith__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Friends, welcome to Episode 175 of Thrive Beyond Size. Can you believe it's the 175th episode? That means I've done this podcast for 175 weeks in a row without missing a single week. I'm really proud of this accomplishment because I think it's the longest commitment I've ever made. When I started the podcast I was so nervous. I was terrified, actually. I did everything anyone told me to make it perfect. But as I recorded more my mindset changed so I was able to aim for B+ instead of perfection and it made everything easier. That ability to change your mindset to make something easier is what I want to talk about today. There are four key personality traits that tend to make relationships with food, among other things, more challenging for us. But good news! Mindsets can change.    The four key personality traits often standing in our way are perfectionism, the all or nothing thinking, people pleasing, and neglecting our own self-care. The most common is perfectionism. I identify as a perfectionist and even though it sounds like a positive it comes with rigid expectations that don't allow us flexibility. All or nothing thinking often goes hand-in-hand with perfectionism. Either we're really good or we've blown it entirely and we just give up. We've already had a piece of cake so we just eat whatever we want all weekend. People pleasing is that desire to please others and with food this might mean eating what everyone else is eating at a party or saying yes to dessert so you don't offend the host. And neglecting our own self-care often comes with juggling a lot of responsibilities. It's just easier to push our needs to the bottom of the list. If any of these sound like you, this episode is for you. I'll get in-depth on all four and talk about how to shift your mindset to alter these patterns of behavior for the better.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome back, beautiful friends, to the podcast. Last week we talked about how it's not your fault, your body is not broken, and you are not broken. Today is a bit related to that because I want to talk about food control. That constant food chatter in our minds, a constant obsession about food, feeling like we have to control food but also feeling out of control, that's what I want to talk about because when I do, I often get the response of “I don't actually food restrict, I haven't been on a diet in forever and this doesn't apply to me”. But here's the thing: I think because so many of us are used to the messages we receive day in and day out from diet culture, we're just used to a baseline of eating much less than we used to. We don't actually think we're restricting but we're constantly feeding ourselves fewer calories than what our bodies need to function well. And that's what I am going to address here today.    It's important to talk about how many of us feel like we're no longer dieting but we have this baseline of not eating enough and we're still caught in a cycle of food obsession, guilt, and even bingeing. Why is that happening if we're not restricting? Let's talk about how calorie restriction and nutrient deprivation affect our bodies and brains and how they sneak into our lives when we're not looking. It's a subtle restriction, like choosing a smaller portion than we need or not eating when we're hungry between meals. I'm going to talk all about things like energy conservation mode and how our hypothalamus monitors energy intake and expenditure, macronutrients and micronutrients, the body's built-in mechanism called homeostasis, the subtle signs we're still restricting without knowing it, and what to do about it. It's okay if this is you. You're not broken. We've all been there and being aware is the first step towards healing. So join me on this exploration of exactly how food restriction is hiding in plain sight keeping us from a fully healthy relationship with food, and how to move forward. __About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello friends, welcome to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. I've been going through a real transition period this Fall and it's prompted me to continually remind myself “You're not broken”. All the changes from dropping half my shifts at work to spend more time with my husband and clients and shifting my priorities on how I spend my time, all of the things I'm working on have made me more in tune with my body. But it's also caused me to freak out sometimes. And when the stress freak-out happens, my relationship with my body tanks and I blame it for everything wrong. So I keep saying “You are not broken”. And that's what we're talking about today: that you are not broken.    If you have ever struggled with your relationship with food or your body, it's not your fault. You are not broken. Your body is not broken. But I want to explore deeper and explain the biology of what happens when food restriction occurs. I want to talk about why the solution isn't more restriction. I'm going to talk about how we were hard-wired to eat and how we eat now, what fasting does, why hunger ramps up, and how cravings work. We're going to get into it all so that we can understand exactly what's going on biologically when we're stressed out and our bodies are stressed out. The pressures that lead us to binges aren't a sign of us being broken. There are ways we can alter the biology, ways to reconnect with our bodies, and we'll talk about those. But most importantly we will say, together, “You are not broken”. __About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello friends, and welcome back to the podcast! I'm going to start with a question so obvious that it sounds laughable: how do you know when you have to pee? That sounds wild, right? But can you feel your heart beating? Not your pulse with your fingers, but just the beating of your heart inside you? How can you tell if you're hungry? Or full? There is an answer to these questions and it's a topic called interoception. Interoception is your body's ability to sense its internal states. Hunger, thirst, pain and even needing to take a deep breath. That's interoception. It's your body's way of communicating needs to your brain. And it's a key component of intuitive eating which is why I'm going to talk all about it today.     When you are better in tune with your internal signals, you are better able to practice intuitive eating. But we live in a culture that encourages us to ignore our body signals in favour of relying on external rules to guide our eating. Things like the “right time” of day to eat, not snacking between meals, and finishing everything on our plates even if we're full, are all rigid rules we put in place to control our bodies and they effectively make us a lot less aware of our interoception cues than we should be. How can we develop our internal awareness again? How can we learn to step outside of the rules we've arbitrarily laid out so we can tune into our own bodies? That's what I want to talk about. Being aware of interoception is a skill that 100% can be developed with practice. So join me as I share tips, advice, and practices on how to strengthen your interoceptive awareness. __About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode. Today I really want to talk about something important that starts with a personal story. The story is from when Rob and I were camping a couple of weeks ago and has to do with how I felt about shopping for and trying on clothes in my favorite clothing store in Canmore. I love a certain brand and I know they fit well but I decided to try on a new brand in my size and it did not flatter at all. It was constricting and felt terrible. And I had already felt out of place walking in because I'd come straight off a hike with Rob and was dusty and in hiking gear. All of this culminated in this thought popping into my head: “I feel fat.” And I want to talk about what we actually mean when we think that. I want to break that down and take away its power today.    The truth is that when we say we “feel fat” we are actually talking about something else. Because fat is not a feeling. It's not an emotion. But the word ‘fat' does carry a lot of weight in our thin-obsessed society and it is a loaded term. We use it to express feelings of inadequacy or discomfort or, in my case, even failure. So I want us to think about what we're really saying when we say “I feel fat”. When I said that, I projected all my feelings onto my body. I projected society's idea of fatness as equal to being undesirable or worthless onto my own body. But my body was not the problem. My emotions were what I needed to deal with. Let me say that directly to each of you. Just because you feel discomfort in your body doesn't mean your body is the problem. I want to help you shift your focus away from blaming your body and help you build a more compassionate relationship with it. I want to help reframe what we mean when we say “I feel fat”. Join me in this episode as I unpack what's really behind that sentence and how we can remove our bodies as the target of our emotions.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello again, friends! I want to confess something to you all today. I'm not perfect. The past week was terrible for my intuitive eating practice, I just haven't been doing it, and I'm only just getting back on track now. That's what I want to confess. What I want to share is my experience with why I fell out of my practice this week and how intuitive eating is a journey and not a destination. I want you to understand what is important to know about yourself and intuitive eating before you start and I believe sharing my struggles with you will be helpful for all of us. So here it is, how the week from hell made me fall out of intuitive eating.   The week started with my husband Rob and I coming home from camping. When we're camping, I'm really good at intuitive eating. We have to plan what to bring, I'm not stressed, I can listen to my body, it's a beautiful thing. But we came home hungry to an empty kitchen. Not a big deal. We ordered pizza. And that's allowed! Waking up for an early day the next morning is when things got tricky, though. We still didn't have groceries, I didn't have breakfast, I had a bunch of meetings and I was driving on an empty stomach. I ended up eating drive-thru and because Rob had a similarly busy day, we ordered pizza for dinner again. That's how the week went. I couldn't get on top of my schedule and I was so busy I was far too hungry to listen to my body and instead just grabbed whatever food I could to stop the hunger. This is what's important to know about intuitive eating: you can't do it when you feel starving. A hungry brain won't let your body make intuitively good choices. And sometimes it's just like that. It's a journey, not a destination. So join me in this episode as I share what I know we've all experienced at some point and I encourage you to keep up with your own intuitive eating just like I'm doing.__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello there, friends. Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. As you probably guessed from the title, today I want to talk about Simone Biles, the world's best and most decorated gymnast, who recently blew us away with her grace and incomparable physical skill in Paris. She won 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the Paris Olympics. But I think back on her bowing out of the Tokyo Olympics four years earlier as a different kind of shining example of courage and skill. She stepped down to take care of her mental health. She knew her body was ready but there was a disconnect in her mind and she acknowledged how important it was to be mentally ready too, to have mind and body work in harmony. That was a beautiful decision. But it must have been challenging for her to do. And that's what I want to talk about, doing the difficult thing that's best for us.   When I look at my own life struggle with diet culture and weight loss, and I hear the stories I'm privileged to have other women share with me, I often realize that the reason we aren't taking charge of our health is because it's too big of a change right now. It's frightening. It's hard. And what I now teach people to do is what I had to do myself. That is take a look at where we've been for years and years, the way we've treated and showed up for our bodies, and make that incredibly challenging decision, much like Simone Biles, to step down from all of that and embrace a new way of thinking. I talk about how part of the fear is the sunk cost fallacy, that we've already invested so much of our time into dieting that we don't want it to be a waste, and part of it is that we're terrified of giving our bodies what they actually need which is the idea behind intuitive eating. In order to change direction and take care of ourselves mind and body, we need to first make that big bold courageous decision to step away from dieting and embrace something different. Something healthier. So join me because we're going to talk about exactly that in today's episode. I'm going to share my journey and we're going to explore what we can learn from Simone Biles. __Resources mentioned in this episode:CNN: Simone Biles reflects on Tokyo Olympics in ‘Rising'Episode 137: Talking About Your Body in Relationships with Rob Issa__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.As the old adage goes, how we do one thing is how we do everything. It's very true that how we do food is often how we do life too. And if we've been struggling with food and body image, there's a good chance that other domains of our lives are contributing - relationships, family, work, money, sexuality, stress. Michelle knows that coaching us through all of this is what leads to our true transformation - from the inside out.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello friends! I am so excited to share this week's episode with you. I interviewed the amazing Diana Dimmock, founder of Accessibility 4 Every Body, who I found in a Facebook group when I asked if anyone would be willing to share their stories of experiencing anti-fat bias or weight discrimination in healthcare. Diana wasn't only willing, she was so articulate and had so many important points to make and such a strength for advocacy, that I knew I had to have her on the podcast right away. Diana shares personal experiences and also advice on how to advocate for yourself when navigating daily life.Diana is a consultant who works with people with disabilities and people who live in larger bodies to assist them in learning to advocate for themselves with businesses, governmental agencies, and public spaces. Diana says she takes her life experience as a fat person and her own honed ability to advocate for herself and applies that to other people. We share stories about times when we've come up against fat bias or weight discrimination. Diana also shares how advocacy can affect change by relating a story about a business that changed everything to accommodate bigger bodies due to a comment she made. One very important aspect of what we discussed was how to learn to advocate for ourselves, even when it's hard, even when we're afraid of being shamed. Diana shared a list of how to prepare and assess your readiness for advocacy, and things to evaluate: 1. Awareness, 2. Get curious, 3. Look at the best options, 4. Capacity, and 5. Follow up. Our conversation is vulnerable but hopeful, full of lived experience and a determination not to be silenced on what we need. Perhaps Diana said it best when she said “Our bodies are not a problem to be fixed.”__About Diana Dimmock:Diana Dimmock is the founder of Accessibility 4 Every Body, a consulting service dedicated to educating and advocating for individuals with disabilities as well as promoting inclusivity for people of all body sizes. Accessibility 4 Every Body provides educational resources that raise public awareness and empower individuals to effectively articulate their concerns regarding the inclusion of larger bodies within businesses and regulatory agencies.__Resources discussed in this episode:Bare Affair Waxing in Sherwood Park, Alberta__Learn more about Diana Dimmock:LinkedIn: Diana DFacebook: Accessibility 4 Every BodyLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size! This week I have another great interview for you all, with Coach and Founder of The Ally Method, Allison Yamamoto. Allison's business is built around helping active women stop over-training and under-fueling in order to regulate their periods and assist them in achieving freedom around food and exercise. While it's common to not have a period for a while, especially while training hard, it's not normal and it's a sign that something is wrong. Allison's story is compelling, she's a dynamic speaker and very relatable. I think this episode will resonate with a lot of us. We tend to applaud when anyone says they're doing something for their health, even if that thing is contributing to disease or lack of health or wellness. It's a hustle culture where discipline and overwork are prized, especially in sports training, and we're celebrated for that. But whether the issue is eating too much or not enough or exercising too much or not enough, we can all learn from what Allison has to share about the underlying causes. Allison first talks about being a cheerleader in college and her interest in running, training, and nutrition after college. She was exhibiting a lot of control over her exercise and food, which earned her praise for being healthy, but she also wasn't getting a period. We talk about how medical professionals dismissed her lack of period because she was focused on healthy activities, how there are a lot of ways to experience disordered eating, how we compare ourselves to the standards and discipline of others, and how with nearsighted goals we can tend towards over-exercising and falling into behaviors that are too disciplined and rigid to be healthy. Allison shares how she works with women now to understand their motivations and how they can have healthy goals that are not rigid and detrimental to well-being. This is such an important conversation and I'm so grateful for Allison for having this talk with me.__About Allison Yamamoto:Allison is a founder and coach who has built a business that helps active women stop overtraining and under-fueling in order to regulate their period and gain freedom around food & exercise.As a former NCAA cheerleader, health tech executive, and marathoner, Allison struggled with disordered eating and RED-S for years, and her recovery journey inspired her to help others do the same.Her business Ally has now helped hundreds of others improve their relationship with food, exercise, and their bodies.__Resources discussed in this episode:Free resource from Allison to help us understand what's keeping us trapped in our routines around food and exercise__Learn more about Allison Yamamoto:Website: TheAllyMethod.comInstagramTikTokLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello friends, welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size! Today's episode was born out of some things I've been thinking about and some things my husband Rob and I have been discussing. Specifically about our future. What do we want for our future? What do we have to do today to get out of our own way, take care of our health, and achieve the future we want in our retirement? We made a dream list and thought “Well that will never happen” but then I wondered “Why not?”. Nothing was outrageous. So today I welcome Lucie Ptasznik to talk to us about getting what we need and want out of life. Lucie is a speaker, coach, and entrepreneur who teaches people specific tools and techniques to rewire subconscious minds and take action toward goals. She wants us all to step outside our comfort zones and be the best version of ourselves we can be. One of the first things Lucie shares is her very inspirational entrepreneurship journey involving horses. She self-trained herself to train horses and manifested a wild opportunity to buy and sell horses en route to the slaughterhouse to save them. From there she opened the most popular public trail riding company in Michigan then went on to corporate America. But now she's interested in connecting us all with the power we have within to be intentional about what we focus on, intentional about our desires, and how meditation and mindset can truly help us achieve our goals. Lucie talks about how the thoughts we harbor about ourselves can affect us physically either positively or negatively, she explains how awareness is the key to accepting that we have the power to change, and she speaks to the truth of how affirmations work. Our conversation is about not limiting ourselves, about freeing ourselves from the judgements of others and embracing the potential we have inside ourselves to tap into the power of the universe for the betterment of our lives. I really hope you find this as fascinating as I did.__About Lucie Ptasznik:Lucie is a speaker, coach & entrepreneur who quit corporate America to pursue her passion for horses. She went on to create a 7 figure business buying, training & selling horses all over the country. Today she teaches people specific tools & techniques to rewire their subconscious mind, transform their identity and take massive action toward their goals. She challenges you to step outside of your comfort zone & become the best version of yourself mentally, physically, financially & spiritually.__Resources discussed in this episode:Dr. Joe DispenzaUltimateSuccessBlueprint.com code: THRIVETransformation Nation on Facebook__Learn more about Lucie Ptasznik:Website: LucieLynn.comInstagramFacebookYouTubeLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

CW: conversations on binge eating and disordered eatingFriends welcome to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. Many of you regular listeners may recall that this podcast went by a different name for the first one hundred episodes and had a different focus. It was called Mindful Weight Loss and was very focused on the weight loss and diet space. When I made the pivot for Episode 101, I shared the main reason why I wanted to shift to a health at every size focus but I didn't fully share everything. You'll hear that story today in my conversation with the absolutely wonderful Erin Murnane. Erin is a Dietician working in Australia and the UK with a virtual private practice that specializes in binge eating disorders. I connected so deeply with Erin and her work in our talk.One of the things I struggled with during the pivot to Thrive Beyond Size was feeling deeply alone in this health at every size space. I felt lonely in the sea of intense talk about weight loss from every angle. Meeting Erin was a breath of fresh air as she shares a mindset and career focus similar to mine. She helps people who struggle with disordered eating from a non-diet and intuitive eating framework. Erin shares openly about her work, what motivated her to move in this direction, and information on how disordered eating can be approached. I suffered from binge eating disorder early in my medical residency and I keenly remember the feeling of shame. Erin wants to help people move past that shame into healing relationships with food and themselves. She is a marvellous person, understanding and knowledgeable, very upfront. This conversation brought back memories that I am happy now to share in the hopes that it helps others struggling as I was.__About Erin Murnane:Erin Murnane is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian with ten years of experience working in Australia and the UK. She currently runs a virtual private practice specializing in binge eating disorders.Erin uses HAES, non-diet and intuitive eating frameworks to help her clients feel their best without dieting or restricting their favourite foods. She's on a mission to free people from body hate, unrelenting food (and beauty) standards, and noisy diet culture so we can enjoy our one freaking fabulous life!__Learn more about Erin Murnane:Website/Podcast: BalanceAndBite.com.auInstagramFacebookLinkedInTikTokLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome back, friends! Today's episode is about something I don't have personal experience with but something that many of my clients live with and have questions about. And that is children. Specifically pre-teens. I don't have children but so many of my clients do and they constantly ask how to talk to their pre-teens, and how to effectively communicate with them. So I'm thrilled to introduce you all to M. Aurelius Higgs. Marcus is a Communication Coach for Parents of Preteens. He specializes in teaching parents how to show up for and connect with their pre-teens. I had a conversation with Marcus where I asked him all the questions you want answers to.Marcus uses beautiful language when speaking about his work and the pre-teens he helps parents navigate, you can just hear how much he loves communication. He describes what's happening in the pre-teen mind and world, what their mindset is, and what the parental role should be. So how do you talk to them? Well, Marcus shares a lot of insights on that, including working to grow trust between you, learning the skill of empathy, understanding their need for a safe and supportive environment, and how to model and talk with them about vital things like body image and nutrition. The need for pre-teens to have a safe space from which to explore independence is paramount. But so is a sense of supportive framework. Marcus has so much experience with kids that he draws on and so much knowledge about communication to share. Our conversation was enlightening and fascinating and I hope all of you who are parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and friends of someone parenting a pre-teen find this episode engaging and useful like I did.__About M. Aurelius Higgs:Marcus is a communication coach for parents of preteens. He helps parents effectively show up and connect with their preteen during their key formative years, in order to secure a relationship that lasts a lifetime. In his 15+ year career, he has worked with learners from over 20 countries, giving him a deep insight into how young people relate to their parents, family, and our world. And on a lighter note, when he's not deep in conversation with parents or teens, he's Latin dancing or doing Crossfit, and he's passionate about positive psychology, philosophy and what it means to live a good life.__Resources discussed in this episode:“Grit” by Angela Duckworth“Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection” by Charles Duhigg“The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens” by Ellen Galinsky__Learn more about  M. Aurelius Higgs:Website: MarcusHiggs.comLinkedInLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode that I'm so excited to share with you all. It focuses on a topic that's talked about a lot these days, and that's trauma. Trauma happens to us all but there are a lot of misconceptions around it. So I've invited Ramona Kossowan, a personal empowerment coach and Gentle Trauma Release Practitioner, to join me in discussing how things we experience induce patterns in our lives that keep us stuck in cycles that don't serve us well. Ramona has made it her business to help women process these patterns to feel empowered and at peace with their bodies.Trauma can cause an unconscious bodily response that originally functioned to keep us safe, but that response gets embedded into our daily lives so we aren't breaking free of what hurt us. Ramona explains how she works with women at the emotional level but also the physical in terms of fitness for strength in order to calm the nervous system and reconnect with their bodies. We talk about addressing the trauma that's holding us back and how if self-love is too big a leap we can start with self-kindness. Ramona shares some of her own story with me and we really talk a lot about how trauma looks, why we hold onto the patterns it forms, and why we deserve freedom from it. We deserve to feel strong and empowered. We deserve to heal. Ramona gets right to the heart of that, right to the place where we're being held back. She's so insightful and warm and knowledgeable that I just know you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did.__About Ramona Kossowan:An authentic, insightful catalyst for change, Ramona Kossowan walks her talk. Having taken charge of her own life at a point where she felt directionless and disempowered, she intentionally transformed herself, moving from a place of unfulfillment, exhaustion, and self-sabotage to become the strong, centred, confident leader she is today, now thriving in her rewarding role as the founder of Ramona K coaching.Extremely passionate about making that same profound difference for her clients, Ramona makes their ultimate well-being her priority for real, readily accessible results. Employing her talents and training as a personal empowerment coach, fitness professional and Gentle Trauma Release Practitioner, this compassionate thought leader guides women to reconnect with their own innate wisdom and reaffirm their true essence, and feel fabulous in their own bodies again. Thus, they have the means to heal any debilitating feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness that are holding them back from the vibrant, exciting, limitless life they deserve. It's never too late to stop living life by default. Choose to embrace your greatness and live life by design!Ramona Kossowan - dedicated to helping generations of women finally heal the effects of generations of pain.__Learn more about Ramona Kossowan:Website: RamonaKCoaching.comLinkedInInstagramFacebookLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome, friends! I've missed you! I'm so glad to be back with you. Over the past few months, I've had interviews with some absolutely brilliant women who have excited and challenged me, given me new ideas to share, and just helped me grow. It's so amazing and I love it. Through my conversation with Frankie last week I started thinking about my journey into self-confidence and how much I've learned and grown. I haven't had a chance to share that with you all because I've been so focused on interviews. So today I'm giving you an update on what's happening in my life: where I'm working, where I'm rocking, where I'm struggling, and everything in between.   May was a month, I had a lot going on, and if you're a regular listener you know that perimenopause has been a regular feature in my life of late. It's fascinating to pay attention to my body and get curious about all the changes and how I'm responding. Sometimes I don't give myself enough grace but mostly I feel I am treating myself with more compassion. I've been to a medical conference with all female doctors that was so uplifting, I ended up in the ER as a patient (I'm alright!) which made me reflect on my future career path, and I've been thinking about the idea of weight discrimination and fat bias in medicine a lot. I think I'm looking at the world with a new lens and I have some decisions to make, and courses to launch, that I'll share with you in this episode. I've also seen such triumph in how I relate to food through intuitive eating and listening to my body's needs. I'm sharing all this and more with you in this episode and I'm so glad you're with me on this journey!__About Dr. Michelle Tubman:Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.__Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome, friends, and I have to tell you right away how much I love spending time with you all every week. It's such a pleasure to record these episodes for you. I am so moved and so lit up by the amazing people I meet through this podcast that it's just become such a pleasurable part of my life. I was recently at a conference that was just other women physicians, more than 1200 of us, and I attended it with two of my best friends from medical school who still inspire and support me now. The whole week was so uplifting and I thought how amazing would it be if we as women just came together to lift each other up in the outside world. And that's why I invited the beautiful Frankie Kououho to the show today. Frankie is a Professional Coach at the Space Wellness and Yoga Sanctuary in Cave Creek, Arizona, who works at helping people reclaim their confidence by mastering their mindset and conquering depression.Frankie shared some of her story with me and it involves a very terrible loss in 2006 that dropped her into a deep depression where she lacked self-esteem and self-confidence and was suffering so much she questioned everything. She shares how she came out of it and how she then began to recognize when other women were struggling with the same things, intense loss, deep depression, and so she dived into becoming a mindset coach to help them. Frankie and I talk about how to understand that we each matter, how to give ourselves grace and find our purpose. She talks a lot about personal confidence in accepting herself. How being healthy emotionally, mentally, and physically starts in our minds and works out from there. Frankie shared so many beautiful thoughts on how to embrace ourselves and reject the criticism of others, how to be patient with ourselves, and how to make the decision to champion ourselves. This conversation was so meaningful and full of inspiration and insight and I'm so excited to share it with you. Frankie is just a wonderful communicator and positive light and I loved talking with her so much.__About Frankie Kounouho:Frankie Kounouho is an International Coaching Federation, Master Level Certified Professional Coach. She works virtually and in person at The Space Wellness/Yoga Sanctuary in Cave Creek, Arizona, where she helps individuals reclaim their confidence by mastering their mindset and conquering depression naturally. Outside of coaching, Frankie enjoys yoga, pilates, travelling, and curling up with a great book.__Resources mentioned in this episode: “Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It” by Kamal Ravikant__Learn more about Frankie Kounouho:Website: MBTCoaching.orgInstagramFacebookLinkedInLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Hello friends, welcome to an exciting episode of Thrive Beyond Size. It's exciting because if you've been listening for a while, you know I love anything related to the brain. Brain science, neuroscience, neuropsychology, it all fascinates me because we can use the brain to get us closer to our goals and I found an expert in all things brain and science-related, Dominika Staniewicz. Dominika, or Coach D, is a dual elite neuro encoding specialist, Brain Health Coach at Dr. Amen, and author of the No. 1 Kindle release “The Magic of Dreaming Big, Acting Small, and Achieving Success”. I talked with Dominika about the science behind the brain, everything from how it can regenerate itself to the science behind intuition and everything in between. This conversation is full of so many great insights and actionable advice, and I'm so excited to share it with you!Dominika talks about the science behind meditation and breathwork, activities people dismiss as ‘crazy' but which have a lot of science behind them. One of the things she stresses is how to treat our brains right and that includes letting our brain soak up the outdoors, morning light, and no less than 7.5 hours of sleep per night for optimal functioning. We talk about the mirror exercise and why it works, why our culture is a quick-fix one and dismisses natural healing like exercise and the outdoors to aid in alleviating depression, and why coaching fulfills her. Our brains have an amazing ability to help us if we help them first and Dominika is so good at explaining the scientific why and how of the brain's ability. She explains how to make affirmations and meditation work for our brains, and how to train brains into positive thinking, and I just know you'll get so much out of our conversation.__About Dominika Staniewicz:Dominika Staniewicz M.S, a dual elite Neuroencoding specialist, Brain Health Coach at Dr. Amen, and author of the No. 1 Kindle Release "The Magic of Dreaming Big, Acting Small, and Achieving Success." Coach D transcends the ordinary life coaching realm, wielding neuroscience prowess with actionable Neuroencoding strategies. Picture firecracker charisma fused with scientific wisdom. On top of that she is a Founder member of the Neuroencoding Institute, she's advised the Polish president and taken part in national labor negotiations. A Shadow Cabinet Member at the Business Center Club, University Adjunct for 11+ years, and speaker on European Union and US stages, she's earned accolades like Woman Entrepreneur of the Year. Coach D, will help you eliminate, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and self-loathing head-on. She is the proud mom of 24-year-old twin girls.__Resources mentioned in this episode: “Unleashing the Power of the Female Brain: Supercharging Yours for Better Health, Energy, Mood, Focus, and Sex” by Daniel G. Amen, MD__Learn more about Dominika Staniewicz:Website: YourBrainCoachD.comBook: “The Magic of Dreaming BIG, Acting small, and Achieving success” by Dominika D StaniewiczInstagramFacebookYoutubeLinkedInLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Welcome, friends, to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. Today's topic is inspired by a beautiful conversation my husband Rob and I had during a rare lunch date the other day. He told a story about how when he and his fellow firefighters drive the engine past an elementary school while the kids are outside, the kids all run to the fence grinning and laughing as the firefighters honk the horn and blast the sirens for them. Which makes the firefighters grin in turn. And that led us to the topic of joy. We as adults don't allow ourselves to delight in the small joys anymore and that's why I invited Kim Mosiman, an author and a coach, to the podcast to talk about spiritual and physical wellness and joy.Kim's new book, “Reflections of Joy”, is not a ‘how to' book, it doesn't offer diet or exercise plans, but instead, it's about loving herself and how she learned to do that. And it's about finding joy and enjoying it. Earlier in her career, Kim was a gym owner and for that, she achieved a certification from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition as well as Precision Nutrition One and Two. The gym was doing well but she closed it intentionally because her husband was retiring and she wanted to travel with him. But without the same drive, purpose, or schedule that she had when she owned a gym, she fell out of love with herself. Kim shares how she found her way back into loving herself, why she embraces the term body responsibility, how she notices little things every day that bring joy to her life, and why the routine of journaling honors her and sparks her creativity. I resonated with so much of what Kim and I talked about. Her wisdom around health, joy, and body responsibility is welcome in a world where we often don't let ourselves feel joy.__About Kim Mosiman:Kim Mosiman is a wife, mom, and loving grandma. As an author and coach, Kim specializes in empowering women embarking on their "second act."  She is a nutritionist, with certifications from Precision Nutrition and The Institute of Integrative Nutrition and a wellness coach. With her faith-driven approach and experience as a gym owner, Kim offers a unique blend of spiritual and physical wellness. Her book, "Reflections of Joy," provides practical, faith-infused strategies to inspire strength, beauty, and holistic growth in every aspect of life.__Learn more about Kim Mosiman:Website: KimMosimanWellness.comBook: “Reflections of Joy” by Kim MosimanInstagramFacebookPinterestLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Can you believe this is Episode 155 already? Time really does fly when you're having fun. And we're going to have fun today because we're talking about meditation! My guest is Ann Swanson, an absolute expert in the neuroscience and research behind meditation and author of the new book “Meditation for the Real World”. I love geeking out over the science of things, as you know, and Ann provides lots of science. But she's also able to make meditation available to everyone for everyday practice in very real and accessible ways. I really enjoyed talking with Ann.Ann came to meditation through yoga and she wasn't a naturally ‘chill' person so she didn't take to meditation easily at all. What she found is that maybe she wasn't using the right technique for the right situation which is something a lot of people struggle with. So Ann defines the differences between mindfulness, which is a real buzzword right now, and meditation. Mindfulness is a technique used in meditation but generally speaking, meditation is simply focusing in a relaxed way. Ann really worked at combining East and West, taking the ancient practices that have been available for so long and integrating some of the most cutting-edge research on brain tissue and neuroscience into her practices. Talking with Ann is so amazing because she dispels a lot of myths surrounding meditation and in doing so, makes it much more accessible. We talk about how it doesn't have to be spiritual, the benefits of five-minute meditations as opposed to hour-long sessions, decreases in stress hormones and increases in key immune factors, building strong habits, and the easiest meditation which is what she calls the five senses meditation. Ann's advice is research-based, easy to follow, focused on creating physically safe spaces and grounded in the benefits to health and brain function. I loved talking with Ann and I think you'll love listening to our conversation just as much as we loved having it.__About Ann Swanson:Ann Swanson is the author of the internationally bestselling books SCIENCE OF YOGA and MEDITATION FOR THE REAL WORLD, which illuminates the fascinating science behind meditation with step-by-step practices to help you find peace in everyday life. Ann wasn't a naturally “chill person,” and meditation didn't come easy to her. Overcoming chronic pain and anxiety led her to India to study yoga, to China to explore tai chi, and to earn a Master of Science in Yoga Therapy. Ann blends cutting-edge research with ancient wisdom, resulting in realistic techniques. Order her new book at MeditationForTheRealWorld.com for exclusive bonuses available to podcast listeners.__Learn more about Ann Swanson:Website: MeditationForTheRealWorld.comBook: “Meditation for the Real World: Finding Peace in Everyday Life” by Ann Swanson with illustrations by Michelle Mildenberg LaraInstagramYouTubeLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

In this episode I get to talk to the beautifully inspiring Nicole Marsh. Nicole and I grew up in the same small town and happened to connect again thanks to the world of Instagram. Nicole is your go-to fitness, CrossFit and gym bestie. She has a way of sharing pieces of her life with authenticity that make her both relatable and also someone you would want to learn from. We discuss body image, memories of being a teenage girl, and how even when you think you've found love for your body, there are days when that love is harder to find. Nicole shares a pivotal moment in her life which was when she was at a CrossFit event. It allowed her to see women of all shapes and sizes show their strength and compete without focusing on looks.    I highly recommend connecting with Nicole on IG and purchasing her digital program Be Your Own Bestie!  

Friends, I'm excited to share this episode with you all because it's on a subject I've been struggling with recently. We're going to talk about movement. My relationship with movement has gone up and down, if you've been listening to this podcast from the beginning, and part of the struggle is that there's part of me that still connects exercise to weight loss and that makes it feel a bit like punishment. So I keep researching movement and one of the people I've met who has been wonderful at helping and coaching me through this disconnect is my guest today: Kim Hagle. Kim is a size-inclusive fitness specialist, a non-diet nutritionist, and a body image coach who founded Radiant Vitality Wellness. She and her company offer weight neutral fitness training and transformational coaching and she also hosts the Power in Motion podcast on which I've been a guest! I'm so glad you get to meet her today, she is amazing.The first thing Kim shares is her personal journey with fitness, sports, movement, and dieting and how it led her eventually to making her fitness career weight neutral and size inclusive. She had some powerful revelations in her own life that helped her get here. In our conversation, Kim and I talk about how most fitness facilities are not seat up for people in larger bodies, from the physical space to the imagery to the mirrors, and how we need to not assume everyone entering a fitness center has weight loss as a goal. Kim speaks to how movement can incorporate anything that gets us moving and contributes to health in our bodies, what clothing we can wear to work out so we don't have to feel pressured into tiny spandex, having flexibility built into training goals, and the overall joy we should find in movement. Kim is warm and supportive and has helped change my perspective a lot, which I appreciate. Talking with her is so inspirational to me and I hope you all find similar inspiration from this episode. __About Kim Hagle:Kim Hagle (she/her) is a Size Inclusive Fitness Specialist,  Non-Diet Nutritionist, Body Image Coach and founder of Radiant Vitality Wellness.__Resources mentioned in this episode:Size Inclusive Training Academy__Learn more about Kim Hagle:Website: RadiantVitality.caPodcast: The Power in Motion PodcastInstagramFacebookYouTubeLinkedInPinterestLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and Instagram

This conversation discusses the challenges of confronting the aging process, with Sarah sharing a recent moment of seeing photographs of herself and thinking she looked...well, older. This introspection is mirrored by a conversation about Stef's Wednesday Weekly email, which talked about the "emergency" feeling of noticing differences in sagging skin and redistribution of body proportions approaching middle age. As the conversation unfolds, it touches upon a broader philosophical reflection on aging, not just as a physical process but as an emotional and existential journey. We contemplate the societal and personal implications of aging, from the fear of invisibility and loss of value in a youth-centric culture to the liberating aspects of growing older, such as gaining freedom. We talk about the complexity of body image issues, drawing parallels between the struggles with weight and the acceptance of aging. And don't forget, if you'd like to meet us for an in-person event, we've got two coming up in May 2024. We're teaming up with Marcus Kain of Strong Not Starving for an evening social & talks in Brighton, and a day retreat for nervous system regulation at Bournemouth Beach. Join the LAD Membership Life After Diets on Instagram The LAD Website Email us @ lifeafterdietspodcast@gmail.com Stefanie's Website Stefanie on Instagram Stef's Body Image Webinar + Workbook Sarah's website Sarah's YouTube Channel Sarah's book, I Can't Stop Eating, is available on Amazon

I am bringing Sam Christy back on the pod for this episode! Sam is a registered dietitian, body-neutral personal trainer, and founder of Triple A Wellness in Cleveland, Ohio whose mission is to empower people to live their best lives through movement and balanced nutritional practices.   We are talking about my personal trainer assessment (episode 53) and getting her perspective on it as a body neutral personal trainer. She has other factors to look for instead of just relying on a body scan to tell you about your body. She also gives advice to those who do these scans and end up feeling shame or guilt about what was said to them.   You can follow Sam on Instagram @tripleawellnessbysam or on TikTok. You can check out her website www.tripleawellness.com.    Ready for some new socks? Check out Sock Guy and use my code serena20 for 20% off your order! Want to talk more about this episode? DM me on Instagram @serenamarierd

*This podcast talks about weight loss and issues surrounding body image* I love the sentiment around body positivity today. Models of all sizes cover magazines, and performers in larger bodies headline tours. But I don't know if I will ever get there. I grew up in the 90s where being thin was socially rewarded. It wasn't until I met Penn that I realized how you look doesn't have an impact on how you're loved or what you are capable of accomplishing.I talk more about this in a recent blog post, but it got me thinking... do I have to be body positive? Is body neutral an option? Enter expert Anne Poirier to talk to us about what it means to be body neutral and actionable ways we can give gratitude to these amazing bodies we have. Learn more about Anne and the work she is doing here: https://shapingperspectives.com/Want to play our new game What The Flock? with us on our next podcast? Email us at podcast@theholdernessfamily.com!Join Our NewsletterPlay Our GameShop Our MerchGrab Our BookKim and Penn are online content creators known for their award-winning videos, including original music, song parodies, and comedy sketches. Their videos have resulted in over 2 billion views and 8 million followers across their social media platforms since they (accidentally) went viral in 2013. They have a best-selling book on marriage communication, a top-rated podcast, a fun-filled family card game, and most recently, they were the winners on Season 33 of The Amazing Race.The Holderness Family Podcast is edited and engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media and produced by Ann Marie Taepke, Sam Allen, and Ashley Cimino.Follow us on YouTubeFollow us on InstagramFollow us on TikTok Follow us on Facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two annoucements! Join our mailing list if you want to be in the know about upcoming events in the UK this May 2024; and our next four episodes will be a Back To Basics Series. Now on to this week's episode...we're reflecting on the past year and looking ahead to the new one, but not in the mainstream fashion of toxic positivity or or New Year New Me crap. If you need to get away from that energy, this one's for you. It's a silly-ish one. Our words and intentions for 2023 -- how did we do?? Writing a book? Sarah's reflection on her year of nomading and her new word for 2024 Sarah helps Stef pick a word because she doesn't want to pick a word but also sort of does What does makeup have to do with it? Frivolous bullshit What can you possibly take from this episode? (we do get there) Join the LAD Membership Connect with the show! Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterdietspodcast/ Email – lifeafterdietspodcast@gmail.com Website – www.lifeafterdietspodcast.com Connect with Sarah Dosanjh Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist  Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon Connect with Stefanie Michele Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com Somatic Experiencing and Nervous System Regulation Course (for beginners - starts January 29 2024): https://www.iamstefaniemichele.com/sebegin   

Have you experienced challenges in accepting and loving your body?   Welcome to another bonus episode of the “Embrace Your Real” podcast. I know that loving your body is a journey that takes time, and there are days when it seems impossible. And this struggle is universal. That's why in this episode, we will dive into the complexities of body positivity and the journey towards self-love. We'll also explore the concept of body neutrality and provide five affirmations to help you cultivate a more positive relationship with your body.    What I discuss:   “My body is my home. It's where I live, but now who I am.” “My body is allowed to change.” “My body deserves respect.” “My body has needs, and I will listen to them.” “Your body is God's creation”    If you loved this episode, be sure to tune in to… Episode 45 - Body Neutrality vs. Body Positivity: Why You Need to Know the Difference     If you want more from me, be sure to check out... Follow me on Instagram: @juliealedbetter | @embraceyourreal | @movementwithjulie Movement With Julie | App: https://sale.movementwithjulie.com/ Macro Counting Made Simple Online Academy: https://www.macrocountingmadesimple.com/ Website: www.juliealedbetter.com Get my eBook: FREE Macro Counting Ebook Amazon Storefront: Julie Ledbetter's Amazon Page  

Jessi Kneeland (@JessiKneeland) is a body image coach who gets real about their own issues and what brought them to this work. In this episode, Jessi's second visit to the podcast, they talk about self-perception as well as what the struggle can be like for trans people today. They also discuss the workings and merits of non-monogamous relationships. Be sure to check out Jessi's new book, Body Neutral. Jessi's website: https://www.jessikneeland.com/The page on body neutrality, if you like: https://www.jessikneeland.com/bodyneutrality Her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessikneeland or @jessikneelandTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jessikneeland?lang=en or @jessikneelandHer podcast— This Is (Not) About Your Body: https://rss.com/podcasts/jessikneeland/ Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JessiKneelandWAYS TO HELP THE PODCASTSubscribe via iTunes and leave a review. It costs nothing. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-illness-happy-hour/id427377900?mt=2Spread the word via social media. It costs nothing.Our website is www.mentalpod.com our FB is www.Facebook.com/mentalpod and our Twitter and Instagram are both @Mentalpod Become a much-needed Patreon monthly-donor (with occasional rewards) for as little as $1/month at www.Patreon.com/mentalpod Become a one-time or monthly donor via Paypal or Zelle (make payment to mentalpod@gmail.com) or Venmo @MentalpodTry Our Sponsor's Products/ServicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.