Podcast appearances and mentions of karen koenig

Communication shapes our world. The words we use don't just reflect our thoughts; they shape our experiences, both internally and in our relationships with others. We often ask: What's the deeper meaning behind someone's struggle with food? What could be going on beneath the surface? While these questions are important, we should also be thinking of how we can apply this understanding to create positive change. In this episode, I am joined by Karen Koenig. Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is a psychotherapist and international, award-winning 8-book author. Her books and blogs for chronic dieters and emotional, binge, and over-eaters are full of humor and practical wisdom and have been called “therapy on the page.” With 35 years of experience in the field of eating psychology, she teaches people how to eat “normally” and create a joyous, healthy, meaningful life for themselves. Her media experience includes scores of TV, radio, print, and podcast interviews. She lives and practices in Sarasota, Florida and her website is http://www.karenrkoenig.com. Tweetable Quotes "There is often a connection to anxiety and depression, and we talk about them differently, but they're kind of the same neurotransmitters." - Karen Koenig "I think stable sense of self and regulated emotional reactions are the places that I often go right to." - Karen Koenig "Emotions are, to me, the richest experience that we'll have." - Rachelle Heinemann "It's okay to just feel that, just name it and be with it." - Karen Koenig "There's a great deal of pain in life, and sometimes the only pain we can avoid is the pain of trying to avoid pain." - Karen Koenig Resources Connect with Karen Koenig Here! Save Your Spot for my Upcoming Webinar Join Our Body Image Group Here! Grab the replay of my Basics of Assessment and Early Treatment of Eating Disorder Webinar Grab my Journal Prompts here! Provide Audio Feedback Here!     LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode. Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter here! You can connect with me on Instagram @rachelleheinemann, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at rachelle@rachelleheinemann.com

Do you realize how important the way you talk to yourself is? What we say about food and our bodies is a major predictor of how we eat and care for ourselves. What you're currently saying to yourself almost guarantees that you'll continue engaging in the same behaviors and gettin the same outcomes. The key, then, to changing your behaviors and the results you get from them, is to change the way you're talking to yourself. Good news - you have 100% power over your self-talk. In today's episode I'm reviewing Words to Eat By by Karen Koenig and you'll learn what is useful vs useless self-talk, understand why you've been stuck in unhealthy patterns for so long, and how to make your self-talk conscious, constructive, and serving of a higher purpose, including the exact words to say to yourself in moments when you're faced with immediate food, exercise, and body image, related challenges. Subscribe, rate, and review this podcast and get a copy of our Weekend Survival Guide as a thank you! Just email a screenshot of your review to admin@estheravant.com and we'll send it over ASAP! Thanks for your support! Get your Weight Loss That Lasts Cheat Sheet at: www.estheravant.com/cheatsheet Learn about our 12-week Gone For Good coaching program: www.estheravant.com/coaching Join the Live Diet-Free FB group: www.facebook.com/groups/livedietfree Connect with Esther on Instagram (shoot me a DM and let me know you listen to the podcast!): www.instagram.com/esther.avant

Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is a psychotherapist, international, award-winning author, and popular blogger. She has treated dysregulated eaters for 30-plus years. Her books include The Rules of “Normal” Eating, The Food and Feelings Workbook, Outsmarting Overeating, Starting Monday, and Words to Eat By. She lives and practices in Sarasota, Florida and can be found at http://www.karenrkoenig.com.  We discuss topics including: The importance of understanding “normal” eating The development of patience, perseverance and curiosity The “weight desire” is based on our culture Using the power of self-talk Learning how to use the word “want” instead of “should”   SHOW NOTES: www.karenrkoenig.com https://www.facebook.com/normaleatingwithkarenrkoenig (book) The Rules of “Normal” Eating (book) The Food and Feelings Workbook (book) Nice Girls Finish Fat (book) What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues (book) Starting Monday (book) Outsmarting Overeating (book) Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating (book) Words to Eat By ____________________________________________ If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: rlgrd@askaboutfood.com You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe. Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”. Your Recovery Resource, Robyn's new online course for navigating your loved one's eating disorder, is available now! For more information on Robyn's book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website. “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

Are you an overeater or binger? Dr. Liz talks about what we say to ourselves that can either stop overeating or a binge or cause it. We talk about: How to change that voice into a positive one that supports your eating goals whether that's just to eat better or lose weight or stop binging and/or overeating. How to choose phrases that are going to be the most effective. Sample phrases to help you get started from the book, "Words to Eat By" by Karen Koenig. Choice points before, during, and after eating and phrases to go with them. Listen to the episode that's all about self-talk: HM206 Self-Hypnosis Hack to Change Negative Self-Talk -------------- Do you have Chronic Insomnia? Find out more about Dr. Liz's Better Sleep Program at https://bit.ly/sleepbetterfeelbetter -------------------- See more about Dr. Liz and get Free hypnosis files at http://bit.ly/drlizhypnosis Search episodes at the Podcast Page http://bit.ly/HM-podcast Help yourself with Hypnosis Downloads by Dr. Liz! http://bit.ly/HypnosisMP3Downloads Twitter @DrLizBonet#hypnotizemepodcast | YouTube  |  FB  |  LinkedIn --------- A problem shared is a problem halved.In person and Online hypnosis for healing and transformation. Schedule your free consultation at https://www.drlizhypnosis.com. Listened to in over 140 countries, Hypnotize Me is the podcast about hypnosis, transformation, and healing. Certified hypnotherapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Dr. Elizabeth Bonet, discusses the research behind hypnosis, interviews professionals doing transformational work, and talks to individuals who have had hypnosis. Free hypnoses are also given from time to time. If you're interested in learning more about the magic of hypnosis, psychotherapy and mindfulness, this is the perfect place to feed your fascination! Thank you for tuning in! Please subscribe to auto-download new episodes to your listening device.

Word power, not willpower will help you lose weight. No more making ourselves do insane crap to lose weight. People ask me all the time, "What did you do to lose 100lbs?" I did a lot of things truth be told. But the things I did to lose weight would've never happened if I didn't ditch my asshole thinking around food like... You should be doing more (each day I walked for 15 minutes). This won't matter (when I was staring at a couple of chicken nuggets Logan didn't eat). You did OK today, hope you don't screw up tomorrow (instead of celebrating that I was showing up for myself). I know if I can teach you ONE THING and ONE THING only about weightloss it would be to change how you talk and think. Today's podcast is all about that. I interviewed Karen Koenig who is the author of some of my favorite books on becoming a normal eater. Her newest book "Words to Eat By" is a must-read! As Karen Koenig said in the podcast... "Self-talk is subtle but extremely powerful. It's the driver of how you show up." I totally agree and you hear me PREACH this ALL THE TIME. In the podcast we discuss: What to do when you first start listening to how you talk (because there could be some shock and awe about what you hear). What a disregulated eater is and how they have an amazing talent for saying just the wrong thing to themselves at the times they need positivity the most. The purpose of shame and its evolutionary role (this might shock you). Why hooting and hollering is a GOOD for women and especially my Binge Eaters. I know you'll love this podcast. You can order the books we mention in the podcast by clicking here.   Get the Free Course here: http://NoBSFreeCourse.com

It's our last money episode for April's Financial Awareness Month. For real this time! On this week's episode, we welcome Money Psychology expert Karen Koenig. Karen walks us through the different types of money personalities, how to get over perfection paralysis, and chats with us about her book. Enjoy! This week’s drink: Rose Scented Strawberry Cocktail Connect with Karen @financiallyempoweringyou www.womanontop.biz Connect with us on Instagram @pressforchampagnepodcast! Dani @culleyavenue Brandi @_brandi_jo_

Karen Koenig is an Author, Speaker and Financial Advisor with over 30 years’ experience in male dominated industries including the military, aerospace, and finances. She became a financial advisor and her own boss 5 years ago. She specializes in sharing her expertise with women entrepreneurs and emerging leaders to help them understand their money and grow her businesses.

Ep #134 - Money! A sore subject for many, including women in divorce. In this empowering chat, Susan shares a conversation with Karen Koenig about divorce and the disadvantage many women find themselves in regarding the managing of money. Karen is the author of , Women on Top: How To Win in a Woman's Way.  In her book she offers strategies to help you get results and feel great about your business and managing your money. Karen is an author and financial empowerment expert. To learn more about Karen: womanontop.biz For information on her book: Woman-Top-How-Win-Womans-ebook For more in Susan: susanburrell.com Live An Empowered Life: A 30-Day Journey Book: susanburrell.com/book  

Do you ever find yourself caught up in emotions so fast that you feel like you can’t think logically? Well, the good news is, you’re human! For most of us, we formed much of our internal compass from our family, including both positive and negative traits. One of the keys to living a happier, more purpose-driven life is the ability to separate our feelings from our thoughts and then move toward things that truly matter to YOU! This process is called “differentiation.” Undifferentiated people struggle to separate feelings and thoughts. Still, they often have trouble separating their thoughts and feelings from others as well, and they look to others to define how they think about situations that they find themselves in. So one of the most important things we can do as adults is self-differentiate, or learn, “to have different opinions and values than your family members but be able to stay emotionally connected to them. It means being able to calmly reflect on a conflicted interaction afterward, realizing your own role in it, and then choosing a different response for the future.” Tony references Karen Koenig’s article “What is self-differentiation and why is it so important?” https://www.karenrkoenig.com/blog/what-is-self-differentiation-and-why-is-it-so-important and he also found information on Dr. Murray Bowen from The Family Systems website https://www.thefsi.com.au/ And Tony mentions two podcasts interviews where he was the guest, first was on Parenting in the Middle, by Kristen Goodman https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting-in-the-middle/id1551041369?i=1000510695615 and The Jones Table hosted by Chelsea Jones https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jones-table/id1524546561?i=1000510124657 Please subscribe to The Virtual Couch YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/ and follow The Virtual Couch on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/virtualcouch/ This episode of The Virtual Couch is sponsored by http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch With the continuing “sheltering” rules that are spreading across the country PLEASE do not think that you can’t continue or begin therapy now. http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch can put you quickly in touch with licensed mental health professionals who can meet through text, email, or videoconference often as soon as 24-48 hours. And if you use the link http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch you will receive 10% off your first month of services. Please make your own mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight. Tony's FREE parenting course, “Tips For Parenting Positively Even In the Not So Positive Times” is available NOW. Just go to https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses-2/ and sign up today. This course will help you understand why it can be so difficult to communicate with and understand your children. You’ll learn how to keep your buttons hidden, how to genuinely give praise that will truly build inner wealth in your child, teen, or even in your adult children, and you’ll learn how to move from being “the punisher” to being someone your children will want to go to when they need help.Tony's new best-selling book "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" is now available on Kindle. https://amzn.to/38mauBoTony Overbay, is the co-author of "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" now available on Amazon https://amzn.to/33fk0U4. The book debuted in the number 1 spot in the Sexual Health Recovery category and remains there as the time of this record. The book has received numerous positive reviews from professionals in the mental health and recovery fields.You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program The Path Back by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com And visit http://tonyoverbay.com and sign up to receive updates on upcoming programs, and podcasts.Tony mentioned a product that he used to take out all of the "uh's" and "um's" that, in his words, "must be created by wizards and magic!" because it's that good! To learn more about Descript click here https://descript.com?lmref=v95myQ

I almost always have two books on the go: one on audible, and one that I can read while sipping tea and cuddling with my cat. If you want some great reads to help you improve your relationship with food, yourself, or to simply keep 'sharpening the saw' on your journey as a fit, vibrant women, you've come to the right place.  I am often asked for book recommendations, and this week I'm joined by Kayla Van Egdom, coach at Ascend Fitness and Lifestyle and in Fit and Vibrant Over 50, to share our top transformational books we have read. And man, was it tough to keep the list to 11! We aimed for 8... but definitely went over :)  Here's our list. Now that I read it... it's  Rules of Normal Eating by Karen Koenig (also a past guest on the Fit + Vibrant You Podcast!) Limitless by Jim Kwik Think Straight, Lose Weight by David Godfrey Beck Diet Solution, by Judith Beck Superbetter, by Jane McGonigal Fat is a Feminist Issue, by Susie Orbach Eating in the Light of the Moon, by Anita Johnston Pussy: A Reclamation, by Regena Thomashauer Atomic Habits, by James Clear Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson Language of Emotions, by Karla McLaren *Contains affiliate links. There's not cost to you but if you do choose to follow the link to purchase, I get a few dollars :) When you’re ready to take the next step, here’s how I can help. ⭐️  For Women Over 50: Discover the 4 Steps that have Helped 100s of Women Achieve their Happy, Healthy Weight, Permanently and Naturally, Without the Obsession: www.fitvibrant50.com ⭐️ Join the Fit + Vibrant You Facebook Community! ⭐️ Subscribe to the Fit + Vibrant YOU Podcast on your favourite podcast player.

Ep. 1432 Karen Koenig, Iowa House District 54 Democratic Candidate (10/7/20 by Radio on the Go

Karen Koenig, LCSW, M. Ed., is a psychotherapist, national educator, international author, and expert on the psychology of eating. In this episode, we discuss eating disorders, developing and maintaining a balanced and healthy approach to food, and what effects our mental health has on our eating habits.

SHOW NOTES: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2020/03/14/karen_koenig/Do you sometimes eat even when you are not hungry, but just feel bored, angry or empty?Are you chronically stressed because you try to be perfect all the time?My conversation with emotional eating expert Karen Koenig ends up being not just about eating, but our deeply unconscious patterns and personality tendencies that hold us back, such as perfectionism and what she calls nice boys and girls syndrome.This conversation was both intimate and practical. We shared some of our journeys, and Karen offered great tips you can immediately use to get off the emotional roller coaster.Whether or not you think you struggle with emotional eating, I think you will learn a lot from this. ABOUT KARENKaren R. Koenig, is a licensed psychotherapist, motivational speaker and international author who has specialised in the field of compulsive, emotional and restrictive eating for more than 30 years.She is a co-founder of the Greater Boston Collaborative for Body Image and Eating Disorders and a former member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Multi-service Eating Disorder Association of Massachusetts.During the past three decades, she has taught and made presentations to many venues from adult education centres to the Business Women's Association.Among other publications, her essays and articles have appeared in numerous journals and magazines. Among three of her books, there are ten foreign-language translations.LINKS:Website: https://www.karenrkoenig.comAmazon: https://www.amazon.com/Karen-R.-Koenig/e/B001JS3E28Facebook App:https://apps.facebook.com/274238316993* To join our tribe, Please visit: https://www.eggshelltherapy.comFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/eggshelltransformationsNewsletters: https://eepurl.com/bykHRzDisclaimers: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/disclaimers

If you struggle with emotional eating, disordered eating, mindless or compulsive eating, restricted eating or the up and down weight gain/ weight loss cycle- this podcast is for you. I am delighted to welcome Karen Koenig to the Fit + Vibrant You Podcast. In our interview, she shares: ✔️What the ‘rules’ of normal eating are, and what a day of normal eating looks like ✔️The personality traits associated with disordered eating (and whether you can change them) ✔️What self compassion and body acceptance actually means- and how it can free you up to live a more meaningful life ✔️Why the typical advice on overcoming emotional eating and binge eating such as “wait 20 minutes so that you can feel full” “drink water” or “just stop binging” don’t work for the long term For over 30 years, Karen has been helping dieters, emotional, compulsive and mindless eaters, and weight-cyclers become “normal” eaters. Karen is a licensed psychotherapist, motivational speaker and international author. She lives, teaches and practices in Sarasota, Florida. Karen is also the co-founder of the Greater Boston Collaborative for Body Image and Eating Disorders and a former member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Multi-service Eating Disorder Association of Massachusetts. Find Karen Online: Her website:www.karenrkoenig.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/normaleatingwithkarenrkoenig We hope you enjoy our conversation. I highly recommend her books to help you on your journey to more peaceful, natural relationship with food and your body. And like always, don’t just listen in- take ACTION. With love, Tanja x

Author Karen Koenig is high stepping here on the edge with her book  "Woman on Top, How to win in a woman's way. Karen is a retired 26yrs veteran of the United States Air Force with a story to tell all women about have build confident, have clarity,  stand with courage and how to teach people how to treat you in life and business.

The boys interview Karen Koenig about Scout Cellar...  This runaway startup is grossing over $20M a year after 19 months in business by selling Clean, Crafted Wine.  Learn what makes a wine "Clean Crafted" and hear about this awesome success story.  Today, it's Bordeaux and Business!!

WOMAN ON TOP Interview With Karen Koenig #200: Daily Mentoring with Trevor Crane on GreatnessQuest.com SUMMARY Today’s show is dedicated to, and all about, Karen Koenig, who just became a #1 Bestselling Author, with her new book, Woman On Top. Not only is she one of our top Epic Author Publishing Clients, but I just wanted to celebrate her successes with you, because…. “Unpacking” her success with help YOU DUPLICATE IT! GET THE APP: Text: TREVOR To: 36260 #greatnessquest #trevorcrane #unstoppable #idealbusiness #ideallife

Alanis sat down with Karen Koenig for this month’s podcast to talk about emotional and restrictive eating and how to maintain a healthy relationship with food. Below are books by Karen Koenig: Starting Monday: Seven Keys to a Permanent, Positive Relationship with Food The Rules of "Normal" Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between! The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues Nice Girls Finish Fat: Put Yourself First and Change Your Eating Forever Outsmarting Overeating: Boost Your Life Skills, End Your Food Problems

Karen Koenig has over 30 years' experience in male-dominated fields. She spent 26 years in the military, 6 years in aerospace, then changed careers entirely and went into financial services in 2015. Tune in to hear Karen's journey, what she learned from her experiences, and how she's put her wisdom into a new book, Woman on Top: How to Win in a Woman's Way!

Karen Koenig has over 30 years' experience in male-dominated fields. She spent 26 years in the military, 6 years in aerospace, then changed careers entirely and went into financial services in 2015. Tune in to hear Karen's journey, what she learned from her experiences, and how she's put her wisdom into a new book, Woman on Top: How to Win in a Woman's Way!

From the moment we are born food and emotions are intertwined. We get fed milk while being held and enjoy connection at the family table. But as time marches on, food can all too easily be used as a way to distract us from difficult emotions or fill an emotional void. This results in dysregulated eating -- eating too much or too little, and spending way too much time thinking about food and weight. The problem is our quick-fix culture searches for answers by making up food rules, tightly controlling goodies, or to simply “thinking positive.” Our expert today says it takes both a mindful eating approach and tuning in to our emotions to get back to what she calls "normal eating." On episode 18 of The Healthy Family Podcast we have on Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., licensed psychotherapist specializing in the field of compulsive, emotional and restrictive eating. She is co-founder of the Greater Boston Collaborative for Body Image and Eating Disorders and a former member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Multi-service Eating Disorder Association of Massachusetts. She is author of several books including The Rules of "Normal" Eating, Outsmarting Overeating and The Food and Feelings Workbook. She will forever change the way you see food and emotions, and that's a good thing.

Today, Kathy is joined by Karen Koenig and their topic is becoming a “normal” eater in the recovery process. They discuss some of the essentials of becoming a “normal” eater while recovering from an eating disorder as well as a handful of other important topics around eating.

Would you consider yourself a food addict? Do you find yourself trying to abstain from certain foods so you don't "lose control?" Are you unsure if food addiction is the right way to describe what you're experiencing? Listen now for some expertise on the latest research and find out more about the truth behind the food addiction model. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. This episode is brought to you by Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass.  Ready to start doing things your way and kiss the corporate world goodbye?  Details here and remember the super secret discount code BOSS for 10% off. Episode's Key Points: Holidays like Easter and Passover can bring foods out of the woodwork that we don't usually eat! (Think: chocolate bunnies, Peeps, jelly beans.) When these foods resurface, because we haven't learned to make them "neutral" yet, it can feel like we're addicted to them when they're finally around. Our bodies don't need to rely on dieting to find health. In fact, dieting HURTS us, and it can lead to bingeing and an OCD experience with food. Eating is just like peeing!!! When you gotta go, you gotta go, and how much or how little you pee doesn't matter. But with hunger, there is so much JUDGMENT attached to it. So what if we took that judgment away? What if we treated eating just like peeing? They're both bodily functions that do just fine on their own without outward policing. So stop judging when you're hungry, or how much or how little you need to eat to feel satisfied! Eating is like peeing. Marci Evans joins to talk about her expert knowledge on food addiction research! Food doesn't need to have so much power!! You are NOT alone... your pain is individual, but your experiences with food are so common. What are the first steps to making peace with food when dealing with these problems?? Compassion! Challenging food addiction in and of itself The food addiction model is problematic and has many limitations! The term "food addiction" is very poorly defined in the research community. Most 0f the research has been done on animals, not humans, and the research that has been done on humans has had a LOT of mixed results. It fails to consider alternatives to the biological response to food that mimics drug use, such as pavlovian conditioning, the fact that food is meant to be rewarding, or the impact of restraint, restriction, or previous dieting on our pleasure reactions. Food is meant to be rewarding!! The pattern of restriction and restraint that then swings to bingeing can lead someone to think they're addicted to food... but that might not be the case! Bingeing is often a reaction to deprivation!! Current food addiction research does NOT account for restraint, restriction, or dieting history. Our natural biology REBELS against restraint!! So how do we move beyond the food addiction model? Remember you are not alone! Consider what "healthy" means to you, and make sure it's BALANCED and SATISFYING. Use resources to support your journey. Notice what's happening in your body instead of what's happening in your brain. Once we take the judgment away, we can really listen to what our body actually needs. Our body craves balance!! Remember, healthy eating includes satiety and pleasure! If you deny these parts of eating, you won't find a peaceful relationship with food. Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Love, Food Podcast Episode 53 Love, Food Podcast Episode 6 with Marci Evans Start your private practice! Click here and use code BOSS to get 10% off Jennifer McGurk's Pursuing Private Practice Masterclass!! Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #1 Eat What You Love and Love What You Eat by Michelle May ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #2 Starting Monday by Karen Koenig ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition #3 Find Marci on Twitter! Eating Disorder Dietitian Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.

Are you trying to reconnect to your own innate wisdom with your body and food? Do you feel obsessed with food, especially during the holiday season? Has "clean-eating" become the focal point of your life, and does the idea of eating non "clean" foods make you anxious? Listen now for some ways to combat the holiday diet stress, and to free yourself from the guilt around food. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Key Points: Food is something that connects us to our family and our culture, but diet culture makes food WAY too important and obsessive, and that preoccupation removes the connecting and pleasurable components of food. Use the hashtag #foodpeace to join in my discussion about alternatives to diets throughout the next few weeks, which are bound to be full of diet talk (January is national dieting month!). Finding pleasure in food contributes to your overall quality of life and health!! Food provides a connection to people around us, and when we get in the way of that, EVERYTHING suffers. Orthorexia: a condition in which a person relates to food in a moralized way (think "good" and "bad" foods) that becomes overwhelming and creates a negative relationship to food. Jennifer McGurk joins for some more insight on food peace! Our culture places so much emphasis on health, and conflates weight loss and clean eating with being healthy. WE GIVE FOOD WAY TOO MUCH POWER!!! How do we change our relationship with food and find food peace? How do we take back our power and control in our lives without trying to exercise power and control over our food? The ways in which we relate to food can be a metaphor for other things that we are struggling with in our lives! Orthorexia may not be a full-blown eating disorder, but it IS a form of disordered eating... we don't know enough about it yet to really have a full grasp of its impact on mental health. First step to healing: make a list of pros and cons of eating in this "clean," controlled way. Pros: control Cons: guilt, disconnection from family and friends around food because you can't join them in certain meals, thoughts and emotions are obsessive about food and make you feel out of control, sacrificing parts of your life! So do the cons outweigh the pros?? Recovery from orthorexia takes time! Working with an eating disorder dietitian can help, as well as proper nutrition education (we need "healthy" foods just as much as we need "unhealthy" foods!). Increased moodiness and decreased sleep is a big sign of disordered eating. Carbohydrates are IMPORTANT!!! Taking the focus off the food and focusing more on individual positive health may be a helpful mindset shift. Let's label food not as "healthy" or "unhealthy," but just as what it is. An apple is an apple, plain and simple. Bring food back to the present, rather than interacting with food in an anxiety-driven, future focused, "Is this food going to kill me????" kind of way. ALL FOODS FIT! "Clean eating is washing your food and making sure that it's cooked to the right temperature. There is no such thing as dirty eating unless your food literally comes from the ground and has dirt on it." - Jennifer Orthorexia carries implications for those around us... if some of us are eating "clean," then are the rest of us eating dirty??? NO! Eating "well" doesn't have to be black and white... we can eat our ice pops and also go to the farmers market. "Our relationships are more important than our food choices." - Julie Nutritional health has a lot more to do with our mental health and our emotional health than we've ever realized before... let's cross our fingers for some more research!! Let's give ourselves permission to have fun with food and our family... Just remember, how would it feel to be at peace with food? The importance of mental health as it impacts our physical health cannot be ignored." - Julie Having such rigid rules around food may actually result in negative consequences to our health. Food is just not as black and white as we want it to be... apples won't cure all ills and cheeseburgers won't kill us! You don't need forgiveness for the food choices you make!! Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. Dr. Steven Bratman's Essay on Orthorexia "How to Take Back Your Power From Food this Holiday Season" by Julie Duffy Dillon Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) Pamela Kelle, RD "No food is healthy. Not even kale." by Michael Ruhlman The Rules of "Normal" Eating by Karen Koenig --> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Jennifer's book on private practice, Pursuing Private Practice Jennifer's Nutrition Counseling and Consulting, Eat With Knowledge  Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series. Give me feedback via Twitter @EatingPermitRD. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Green Mountain at Fox Run. A special promotion for Love Food listeners: Join Green Mountain at Fox Run for their Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive (January 20-22, 2017). Participants will explore personal barriers and how to counter them with evidence-based strategies to prevent eating in response to stress and emotions. For more information or to register, please visit https://www.fitwoman.com/therapy-services-eating-disorder/offerings/binge-eating-intensive-weekend/. Immerse yourself in a practice of mindfulness. Join Green Mountain at Fox Run for "Mindfulness for Women Who Struggle With Food and Body - A Meditative Retreat", designed to help you reduce stress, eat well, move joyfully, and guide the way toward ending eating and food struggles. For dates and registration information, please visit www.fitwoman.com/weight-loss-program-reinvented/2017-mindfulness-weekend/. The Women's Center for Binge and Emotional Eating at Green Mountain at Fox Run is the only clinical program in the nation solely for women suffering with binge & emotional eating. 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For Beyond 50's "Personal Growth" talk, listen to an interview with Karen Koenig. She is an expert on the Psychology of Eating. She'll talk about self-care to transform your poor eating habits. Many turn to food when they're stressed or distressed due to poor life skills to mange life's ups and downs. Find out how to establish and maintain functional relationships, take care of yourself physically and emotionally, think rationally, and create a passionate, joyful, and meaningful life. When these behaviors take root and become automatic, food becomes what it is meant to be: nourishment and one of lifeâ??s many pleasures. Tune in to Beyond 50: America's Variety Talk Radio Show on the natural, holistic, green and sustainable lifestyle. Visit www.Beyond50Radio.com and sign up for our Exclusive Updates.

About the book: From a therapist and expert in emotional eating, the first book to explore the link between weight gain and women who do too much, complete with proven techniques for dropping pounds. Many women put too much on their plates, both literally and figuratively. In Nice Girls Finish Fat, psychotherapist Karen R. Koenig explains the link between the two and gives overweight women detailed advice on how to lose their extra baggage—both emotional and physical—by becoming more assertive in every aspect of life. For the millions of overweight women in America, diet and exercise just aren’t cutting it. That’s because many of these women have emotional issues buried deep beneath those stubborn pounds, issues that must be dealt with first if weight loss plans are to succeed. In this illuminating book, based on decades of professional experience, Karen Koenig offers on-the-page psychotherapy to help readers attack the roots of their food problems. With her engaging personal style, she teaches women about the biological connections between repressed emotions and eating, revealing the ways many women use food to stuff their anger, control their aggression, and assuage their feelings of guilt—all in the pursuit of being “nice.” Giving “good girls” permission to love themselves first, Koenig offers thought-provoking quizzes and questions to help readers identify and overcome the habits that have been holding them back. Empowering readers to gain the confidence they need to lose weight, Nice Girls Finish Fat not only shows women how to stop obsessing about food and develop healthy eating habits, it teaches readers skills to improve every aspect of their lives. From the author: I am a psychotherapist, national educator, international author, and an expert on the psychology of eating—the how and why, not the what, of it. For more than three decades, my mission has been to help people with eating and weight problems learn to eat “normally” and maintain a healthy, stable weight for life without dieting and deprivation. My therapy practice is in Sarasota, FL, where I do tele-coaching and Skype consultation worldwide. As a recovered chronic dieter and binge-eater, I meld my personal recovery wisdom with my professional knowledge and experience to resolve eating problems.

Join Scott Cluthe on FACEBOOK HERE FREE E BOOK - Your Choice from 1,500 titles Scott Cluthe hosts' 2 live guests tonight. In the second half of the show, David C. Taylor joins him to talk about his new pulp fiction novel, Night Life. Taylor has spent over 20 years writing for TV and film in L A.. First Karen Koenig, LCSW,Med., is his guest. Karen has authored Outsmarting Overeating, with a system designed to boost your life skills and end your eating problems. When Karen tried to join me a week ago BTR had some audio issues that are now gone. hopefully ! How can changing your life skills lead to permanent weight loss ? Tune in and find out ! Karen has been a professional eating coach for 30 years.   Taylor's novel, Night Life, is set in the 1950's, with a Cold War backdrop as NYPD detective Michael Cassidy wrestles with both the pressures of digging up criminals and dealing with the smoking hot lady who goes by the name Dylan, and always licks her ice cream spoon clean.

About the book: The reason you turn to food when you’re stressed or distressed is that you don’t have better ways of managing life’s ups and downs. According to Karen R. Koenig, an expert on the psychology of eating, you can transform your eating habits—and your life—by developing effective life skills. When you have enhanced skills, you won’t need to turn to mindless eating to make it through the day and will get the best out of life rather than letting life get the best of you. With Koenig’s guidance, you’ll learn how to establish and maintain functional relationships, take care of yourself physically and emotionally, think rationally, and create a passionate, joyful, and meaningful life. When these behaviors take root and become automatic, food becomes what it is meant to be: nourishment and one of life’s many pleasures. About the author: I am a psychotherapist, national educator, international author, and an expert on the psychology of eating—the how and why, not the what, of it. For more than three decades, my mission has been to help people with eating and weight problems learn to eat “normally” and maintain a healthy, stable weight for life without dieting and deprivation. My therapy practice is in Sarasota, FL, where I do tele-coaching and Skype consultation worldwide. As a recovered chronic dieter and binge-eater, I meld my personal recovery wisdom with my professional knowledge and experience to resolve eating problems. My books are Nice Girls Finish Fat, The Rules of “Normal” Eating, The Food and Feelings Workbook, and What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Treating Eating and Weight Issues.

Join Angela Lauria of the Author Incubator as she interviews psychotherapist, eating coach and author Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed. about the publishing of her book, The Rules of "Normal" Eating. The book is targeted at "disregulated eaters," people who eat too much or too little or both, and is intended to enable readers to reconnect with their appetites by reprogramming dysfunctional beliefs, establishing new eating habits that are attuned to their bodies, and managing emotional discomfort without turning to food. Read more and get the transcript here: Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed. on the Author Incubator.

In this show we interview Karen Koenig, an expert in losing weight and the psychology of dieting and weight loss. Karen is the author of four books on dieting and weight loss including The Rules of "Normal" Eating. You've probably seen Karen before on TV or heard her on the radio as a frequent lecturer on dieting and weight loss. In this show Karen discusses emotional eating - what it is and how to overcome it. Millions of Americans struggle with their weight because of emotional eating. If you've tried dieting before and can't seem to lose the weight, you might need to break your emotional connection to food and start a new, healthier habit. Karen shows you exactly how to do that in this show. For more information about Karen, visit her at www.EatingNormal.com We'd like to thank you for subscribing to the Authentic Health Coaching Nutrition Podcast show - so we're giving away Dr. Corson's Top 5 Nutrition Tips Report for our subscribers at www.AuthenticHealthCoach.com

Join host Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino for a special one hour show with Karen Koenig. Karen R. Koenig—eating coach, psychotherapist, national educator, motivational speaker, and international author of four books on eating and weight—is an expert on the psychology of eating. A recovered chronic dieter and binge-eater, she now teaches others how to think and behave sanely and sensibly around food to maintain a comfortable weight for life without dieting. She lives and practices in Sarasota, FL. Websites:http://www.eatingnormal.com, http://www.nicegirlsfinishfat.com

Please join me for a special live one hour show with Karen Koenig. Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is a psychotherapist, educator, eating coach, national speaker, international author, and expert on the psychology of eating—the WHY and HOW, not the what, of eating—with 30-plus years of experience teaching chronic dieters and overeaters the skills that “normal” eaters use naturally to maintain a comfortable, healthy weight for life without dieting and food restriction. She is the author of Nice Girls Finish Fat—Put Yourself First and Change Your Eating Forever (Fireside/Simon and Schuster, June 2009); What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Treating Eating and Weight Issues (W.W. Norton and Co., 2008); The Food and Feelings Workbook—A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health (Gürze Books, 2007), and The Rules of “Normal” Eating—A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between! (Gürze Books, 2005).