Nourishing Women Podcast

If you love deep conversations while smiling, laughing and having fun throughout the deep and tough conversations, then this episode is for you! Today I chat with Georgie and Engrid, podcast co-hosts of the Gal Pals Podcast, all about female friendships, having the tough conversations and how to work through limiting beliefs. In this episode we discuss:   Who Georgie and Engrid are and how they decided to start Gal Pals Podcast The hope and mission of the message on the show and why they felt the need to create a community of female friendships that were willing to show up and have the tough conversations The easiest and hardest tough, raw conversations to have (like conversations on jealousy, body image and regrets) What are limiting beliefs and how to work through them How Georgie and Engrid practice wellness without obsession   Listen to Gal Pals Podcast here. Learn more about Georgie at her Instagram and website. Learn more about Engrid here.   Thank you to Primally Pure for sponsoring today’s episode.

Do you have persistent, intense digestive symptoms that dramatically affect your quality of life? Have you just been given the diagnosis of IBS and sent on your way with no resolution? If so, I would highly encourage listening to today’s episode all about Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO). In this episode I share:   What is SIBO and symptoms associated Hydrogen vs methane dominant SIBO Treatment for SIBO Antibiotics vs herbal antibiotics Why diet is not enough to treat SIBO Diet ideas to help manage symptoms Supplements that support symptoms and complete eradication Avoiding relapse Importance of healing relationship with food for those with SIBO and eating disorders   Please note: This episode is not intended to replace medical advice or treatment. Please consult your doctor or health care provider for your specific case and needs.   References and Resources*:   https://ndnr.com/pain-medicine/small-intestine-bacterial-overgrowth/   https://blog.katescarlata.com/2016/12/06/just-diagnosed-sibo-n

Have you ever wondered if, as an intuitive eater, you can still apply nutrition science and information to how you live, including how you workout? If so, then this episode is for you!   In this episode with Cara Harbstreet, the non-dietitian behind Street Smart Nutrition, we discuss how to apply intuitive eating aligned nutrition to support exercise, how to know if you have a healthy relationship with exercise and the question everyone really wants to know...do I need to count my macros to support my exercise?!   More about Cara:  Cara is based in Kansas City and is a nationally-recognized food & nutrition expert, author, and consultant. She founded her private practice in 2016 to offer counseling for sports nutrition, intuitive eating, and HAES-informed nutrition services before transitioning to her current work in media & communications. When she’s not tackling diet culture or working on a new recipe in the kitchen, you can find her digging in to a good book or working on a creative project of some

The purpose of today’s episode is to share the digestive response our bodies have to an eating disorder and how this impacts our gut microbiome.   For the context of this episode, I’m going to refer to eating disorders to include the entire spectrum: chronic dieting, disordered eating, orthorexia, anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. Since I specialize in orthorexia, I’ll really be touching on this quite a bit in this episode, yet all eating disorders (ED) have an effect so this really is an episode to say all forms of ED impact digestion.   According to Marci Evans, 98% of those affected by ED have digestive issues. Specifically functional gut disorders (meaning no structural damage), although structural disorders can absolutely impact those with ED, too. In today’s episode we share why this may be that so many with ED struggle with digestive issues, as well as why those with digestive issues are more prone to develop ED.   There are so many mechanisms at play for how the digestive process is affected when w

So you’ve learned about the menstrual cycle and how you can live ‘according to your cycle’, but what exactly does that look like? In today’s conversation, with guest Jenni Hulburt, we discuss how to sync your exercise and menstrual cycle. Plus we have a conversation on what burnout feels like and how to practice workouts without obsession. Jenni Hulburt, founder of WILD Wellness, is a holistic fitness specialist who helps women live and sweat in sync with nature.  She has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Exercise Science and Sport Psychology, and is a top-ranked essential oil wellness advocate with doTERRA – the world’s leading essential oil company.  The WILD Wellness podcast, programs, and products are for women mindfully exploring holistic health and seeking to embody what nature has always modeled — it’s not a sprint, but a cycle.  www.JenniHulburt.com.   In this episode we discuss in detail: Jenni’s personal experience with burnout and what it felt like Her tips for avoiding burnout How to live a lif

One of the most common complaints I hear from you is feeling annoyed with your hunger and your body’s cues to eat.   I first encourage you to begin my questioning why you feel that way.   Why is it that we find a body’s signal to us annoying? Desire to question it? Or straight up don’t listen to it?   Diet culture is the culprit. So let’s choose otherwise.   Honoring hunger isn’t “giving in”, it’s body respect! It’s self care! It’s listening to your body and one of the first steps to that mind body connection.   Learn more in this episode about primal hunger, hunger and fullness interoceptive cues, the hunger fullness scale, not turning these principles into a diet and the benefits of honoring your hunger and fullness.   Referenced in this episode:  Episodes on  Intuitive Eating Principles Part 1  and Part 2. Episode on what exactly is diet culture. Not turning the hunger and fullness princples into a diet   Mantra for the week via On Adulting.   Thank you to Primally Pure for sponsoring today’s podcast e

But really, wtf is diet culture? It’s a term that’s being used and thrown around a lot, but how do we define it and know if the information we are consuming is diet culture or not?   Today’s podcast episode explores this in detail, sharing the definition of diet culture and giving concrete specific versions of diet culture in detail. Plus, I give you three tips to be able to point out if something is diet culture or not, and end the episode sharing questions you can ask yourself to determine if you’re being influenced by diet culture.    Episodes referenced in this episode: Intuitive Eating Principles Part 1  and Part 2   Click here to get your free how to eat for hormones e-book!   Thank you to today’s podcast sponsor Simple Mills. Simple Mills makes delicious products with simple ingredients, including tons of baking mixes like pancake mix, brownie mix, bread and pizza mixes and muffin mixes too! - which are my favorite esp the banana bread and pumpkin muffin mixes.   While I am personally not gluten free

Really, this episode should be called a day in the life of an intuitive eater, wellness lover, business owner and new momma. I thought this would be a fun episode to record and share a bit more behind the scenes of an intuitive eater, how I incorporate #wellnesswithoutobsession in my life, yet also a bit more about my personal life running my online nutrition business and private practice, and being a new mom. Listen to today’s podcast episode to learn more!     Thank you to Primally Pure for sponsoring today’s podcast episode. Don’t forget to use the code NOURISH for 10% off your order. Favorite products discussed in today’s episode: Double cleansing kit Gua sha stone Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here. Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community. Live Q&As are hosted every Tuesday evening.   Let’s hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN: Victoria’s Ins

There are so many misconceptions about intuitive eating, one of the biggest ones is that it’s anti-health and you cannot care about nutrition, health and wellness. The reasons, however, that health and wellness is pursued as an intuitive eater is very different than the diet culture infused versions of health and wellness.    So can you practice meal planning and food prepping as an intuitive eater?   Absolutely!   Important distinction: make sure you are in a healthy place with it first, though. If you are using it to control your food, it would be important to take a break until you can come back to it in a more fluid, healthy way. Think of it like the exercise conversation, just because we ask at times for exercise breaks, for example pausing on exercise until you get your period back if its missing, that doesn’t mean its a forever thing. Just like exercise too, meal planning and food prepping should enhance your life, bring joy or reduce stress, it shouldn’t be about controlling your body, controlling you

A few episodes ago (in episode 144 on allowing yourself to grieve your here and now body) we discussed one of the first, critical stages of body acceptance. You have to grieve your here and now body and understand how your body image is so directly tied to your self worth and self esteem. Yet, how do you go from hating your body to then accepting it?  Today’s podcast episode explores how to move from hating your body and grieving it, to then feel tolerant and neutral towards it and work towards body (and more importantly, self) acceptance. Our guest on today’s show, Alissa Rumsey, is one of my favorite non-diet dietitians in the intuitive eating space and she’s amazing at chatting about body image work. In this episode, you’ll get tangible tips for how to work to accept your body (in time!) and we also discuss in detail what it actually means to develop and have a healthy body image.  In this episode we discuss in detail: Alissa’s journey to becoming a non-diet dietitian and making the shift in her career to

Cyclic living is essentially how you approach each day, week and your overall actions based off where you are in your menstrual cycle.    Cyclic living understands the changes in your hormones monthly affect your: Mood Energy Eating/exercise habits Work abilities Sex drive Relationships   Today’s episode explains what is cyclic living and how you can apply it in your life period or not. This conversation also explores how to not do it in a diet centric or diet culture way.   Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here. Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community. Live Q&As are hosted every Tuesday evening.   Let’s hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN: Victoria’s Instagram Victoria’s Website Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge has already begun but you can join at anytime, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate. In today’s episode we are joined by Whitney Catalano, the host of the Trust Your Body Project podcast to chat about emotional eating.  Whitney Catalano, RDN is an anti-diet Registered Dietitian helping people break free from the diet/binge cycle, heal their relationship with food, make peace with their bodies, and take the power back from their inner bullies. She is the host of the popular podcast, Trust Your Body Project, where she treats her listeners to interviews with guest experts as well as solo episodes. Trust Your Body Project is not just a podcast but a growing social media movement aimed towards eliminating societal cultures around important topics such as weight stigma, eating disorders, emotional eating, fa

Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge has already begun but you can join at anytime, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate. Brianna (or Bri) Campos is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of NJ. She has experience working with Eating Disorders and has a special interest in body image. She also teaches Introduction To Eating Disorders at St. Thomas Aquinas. She currently works as a body image coach & is passionate about teaching women about Health at Every Size (HAES) and taking an all foods fit approach to finding freedom with food and learning to make peace with your current body.    You can find out more about her or how to work with her find her on instagram @bodyimagewithbri or email her at bodyimagewithbri@gmail.com.   Today’s conversation explores the allowing of body grief. It’s so common in the body positive, health at

Stay tuned to the end of the episode for a very exciting personal life update! Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge starts next Wednesday January 15th, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate in the New Year, No Diet challenge.   This episode is a super special one. I invite my past client, Maddy, on the show to share her personal journey to freedom in food and life. In this episode, Maddy shares her relationship with food growing up, when being the “healthy one” became her identity, realizing she had a problem- orthorexia, and seeking help to recover with a therapist and working with me at Nourishing Minds Nutrition.   Maddy shares what it was like to heal her disordered eating and get her period back, where she is at now and some amazing takeaways she has from her personal journey.   Maddy is a wonderful example of someone who was dedicat

Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge starts next Wednesday January 15th, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate in the New Year, No Diet challenge. In today’s podcast episode, I share five books that have helped shaped me and changed my life and how they did so. Those five books are: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Senciro Inward by Yung Pueblo The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown I am currently reading Heart Talk by Cleo Wade. This week’s mantra from Morgan Harper Nichols: Come alive, come alive  You have come So far Now is  The time To be more Of who You truly are   Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here. Join our FREE support group for like-minded

Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge starts next Wednesday January 15th, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate in the New Year, No Diet challenge. I know everyone is setting resolutions for 2020, but I wanted to share with you what I do instead. I set intentions that are based off values in my own life. Value based living means you are living your life according to what is important to you. How you believe you should live your life, not what others expect, or want of you. Values inspire the desired qualities of ongoing action and can help you be intentional with how you spend your time and live your life. In this episode, I share why I love value based intentions and my own personal intentions going into 2020. This episode ends with a fun new segment called Clapping Back at Diet culture. In this segment, we share some of the current manife

I know the New Year can make you feel that you HAVE to diet and set New Years Resolutions geared towards your eating and exercise habits and focus yet again on another year of trying to change your body. What if there was another way? We are hosting a FREE New Year, No Diet Challenge to help you do so. For every weekday for 30 days starting January 15th, you’ll get an email sent straight to your inbox inspiring you to look at the new year in a fresh new light. Instead of going on yet again another diet this new year, what if you tried a new approach instead? This free email challenge provides you the tools with how to get aligned with your values and what you want to get out of this year, more effective ways you can take your care of yourself this year instead of failed diet or weight loss attempt and how intuitive eating can support your goals to live your best life. Let’s make 2020 the best year yet! You with me? Click here to sign up for the free challenge. This week’s mantra: No one is you, and that is yo

Kait Hurley is a digital entrepreneur and the founder of the KAIT app & Move + Meditate Method. With a background deeply rooted in wellness and over a decade in the fitness industry, Kait helps students cultivate a stronger, more resilient body and mind. She's proud of the growing global community that's getting behind movement and meditation, and she's thrilled to share something that has been so transformative for her. Kait lives in DC with her cat Javier and her husband and business partner, Peter Marks. Connect with her on Instagram at @kait.hurley. In today’s episode we discussed: Kait’s story with anxiety and panic attacks that led her to discover the Move and Meditate Method Inclusivity of all types of movement and all body types found in Kait’s app and why she chose to do this Skills Kait uses to help combat stress and anxiety Kait’s mission to help us all tap into our intuition and inner strength Respecting the origin of dance music and Kait’s desire to respect the cultures that it originated fr

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday week! For the next two weeks, I'll be reposting some of mine and your favorite episodes from 2019. Today's episode is a repost from earlier in the year when my previous co-host, Meg Dixon, and I shared about emotional eating and body dysmorphia. In this episode we discuss: Emotional eating vs binge eating Diet culture’s role in the development of identifying as emotional eaters. The various causes of emotional eating and the deeper meaning behind it. What Victoria and Meg believe about emotional eating and what it means for someone navigating their relationship with food. Body dysmorphia vs. disordered body image Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here. Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community. Live Q&As are hosted every Tuesday evening.   Let’s hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN: Victoria’s Instagram Victoria’s W

As founder and CEO of the wellness brand Beekeeper’s Naturals, Carly’s mission is to improve the health of humans and bees alike, which is why she left her job on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs to launch Beekeeper’s Naturals full-time in 2016.  Beekeeper’s Naturals is on a mission to revamp your medicine cabinet. Rather than relying on conventional products, their potent nutraceuticals are made from plant extracts and powerful remedies from the beehive—like royal jelly, propolis, and bee pollen. To make the most out of what nature has to offer, Carly and her team use scientific rigor to craft the highest quality solutions to everyday health issues—like brain fog, low energy, and scratchy throats.                      As a beekeeper and a tireless advocate for the preservation of the waning global bee population, Carly is dedicated to using her company as a platform to make a difference and raise awareness for the bee cause. Carly was recently recognized as a game-changing entrepreneur on the 2019 Forbes 3