Nourishing Women Podcast

This year of my life has met me with the most changes, the hardest moments and the most rewarding moments of my life. I’ve never better understood duality of emotions than before this year, and I learned it from both my business and from becoming a mother. I wanted to use today’s episode as an opportunity to get more personal than I usually do with you, and share a lot of the behind the scenes, the emotions...the things I’m afraid to tell you.   In this episode I share how I’ve battled a lot of stress, worry and overcame a lot of fear this year surrounding big changes in my life, becoming a mom, business transitions and all the emotions that came with big life changes.   So here’s to a crazy 2019! You taught me so, so much. And I would be lying if I didn’t say I hope 2020 is  little less all over the place, but if it is I’m here for that too. Here’s to a 2020 of chasing dreams, of living life the way we envision and living according to our values, let’s do that together!     Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK: The H

Rachel Mansfield is back on the podcast today! In this episode she shares how life is now as a mom of a 10 month old, running a business while being a mom, and how she has been feeding Ezra. We also discuss her upcoming cookbook, Just the Good Stuff, which is available for preorder now. Rachel shares the inspiration behind the cookbook, how the recipes are organized in the cookbook and her mission to help get people in the kitchen, by making it as uncomplicated as possible with simple ingredients and easy to follow recipes. We also discuss how Rachel doesn’t follow a particular diet, but she likes to make her recipes accommodating for all, or “food for all” as she calls it.    Follow along with Rachel on her blog, Instagram, her new podcast called Just the Good Stuff and preorder her cookbook, Just the Good Stuff.   Rachel's episode on NWP on her fertility journey.   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK: The Holiday Survival Guide.   Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. R

The purpose of today’s episode is to give anyone out there experiencing digestive issues doable and approachable tools and strategies you can begin using today to have digestive relief. While this conversation is geared towards people with IBS, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome, these strategies can really be used by anyone experiencing digestive symptoms.   It’s been awhile since I’ve shared this so I wanted to give a quick refresher to why I’m so passionate about digestive health and ensuring my clients and community have root cause identified, strategies with lifestyle and food and nutrition to support symptoms and utilizing food as medicine through herbal supplements and probiotics to have symptom relief and let me explain why...   For a decade of my life, I had terrible IBS.   My symptoms affected my quality of life severely. My own digestive issues, and really all my health issues, led me to start a practice that specializes in these areas, because when I was going through it myself, this type of help didn’t

Y’all I am so excited about today’s episode! I started following Becca Bristow about a year ago when we connected on the conversation of Intuitive Eating, and have become RD-online-friends and feel so honored to say that! Becca came on the show today to share about her business, being a mother, her passion for intuitive eating and we also spend a ton of time chatting the benefits of essential oils. Becca is a wonderful educator on how to use essential oils, and if you’ve been wondering why you should add essential oils to your wellness journey and how to do so, this conversation is for you!   If you don’t know Becca, she is a Registered Dietitian, wife, dog lover, content creator, DIY fiend, oily lady, and homebody. She is the content creator of the popular You Tube channel under her name, Becca Bristow, and a very inspiring entrepreneur and dietitian. One of my favorite things about Becca is how she shares tips, education and inspiration in a very laid back, easy to digest way. Conversations on health and nu

If you’ve never heard of the term gentle nutrition before, this is the approach and mindset to applying nutrition in the intuitive eating paradigm. The term gentle nutrition comes from the final of the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, called honor your health with gentle nutrition. Gentle nutrition allows for individuality understanding we all feel different eating different ways, for our own convictions and values, and for our own health needs, too. While its common in the intuitive eating community to avoid the nutrition conversation, this can sometimes lead to more confusion on the subject. I also think understanding nutrition can often help us reject diet mentality and appreciate what food does to us and for us, too.    In this episode I share how we approach the conversation of gentle nutrition with clients, when its appropriate to consider nutrition in your intuitive eating journey and some specific examples of what gentle nutrition looks and feels like. At the end of the day, nutrition is quite simp

Along with our free holiday survival guide e-book, the team of dietitians at Nourishing Minds Nutrition (Kelsey, Megan and myself), wanted to record this episode to help you with how to use intuitive eating strategies to survive the holiday season. Not yet downloaded our free e-book? Check out the link in these shownotes to make sure you get your hands on it!   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK: The Holiday Survival Guide.   Subscribe to Victoria’s email list to get special discounts this holiday season at Nourishing Minds Nutrition and discounts to Victoria’s favorite brands.   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   Abo

I want to start off this conversation by saying...Our bodies are made for detoxing and equipped to handle toxins, chemicals, stress and inflammation- so many of the taboo words in the health and wellness world.   The problem is not that we should avoid all these things forever and freak out if we ever use a soap that has fragrance, or buy a deodorant with aluminum or eat an inflammatory food (whatever that means...because truly everyone has a different opinion and one of my biggest complaints with the clean eating concept).   The problem is when these things because daily and consistent in our lives. Yes, our bodies are equipped, but when the load is daily- it can become too much. And conventional beauty and makeup products can be one of the biggest contributors to that daily toxic load...I mean think about it- how many times a day and how many products do you use daily on your skin and face?   Plus, there are so many factors that are outside of our control, becoming mindful about what we can be intentional a

Sara Forte is a two-time cookbook author, award-winning food blogger at Sprouted Kitchen, co-creator of the Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club, mom of two, and equal opportunity salad and brownie enthusiast living in Southern California. Sara’s food blog, Sprouted Kitchen, launched over a decade ago and has been an adventure Sara pursued with her wildly talented husband, Hugh, who is responsible for all of their food photography. Sara has worked at a grocery store, two farms, and has spent the last decade creating recipes for her blog, two cookbooks, and her weekly meal planning program, Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club. Her intention is to make healthy-ish food that fits into that fits into the everyday life of families. She doesn’t subscribe to particular diets, or label foods as "good" or "bad." Her food philosophy is to try to eat mostly vegetables and listen to your body outside of that. Sara is authentically interested in the entire concept of wellness, including mental health, relationships, mindfulness, move

In today's episode, Victoria debunks 5 myths about your period and hormonal health. This episode details through why having a natural, monthly period is important to your long term health, why its important to know when you are ovulating, the significance of cervical mucus, why you don't have to follow a strict diet or food protocol to have a healthy period and why intuitive eating is best for hormonal health.   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK: HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE. How to use intuitive eating to survive the holidays.   Resource discussed in episode on cervical mucus from the Real Life RD blog.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   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

  A powerful and often forgot about way to take care of ourselves is through the products we use in our homes. Today on the podcast, we have Allison Evans, one of the founders of the nontoxic cleaning company Branch Basics.   Allison Evans is a co-founder of Branch Basics and lives in Texas. After experiencing a health crisis during her junior year of college and traveling to specialists across the country to seek relief from chronic pain and motor impairments, Allison finally experienced true healing after moving to the Hill Country to live with her aunt, Marilee Nelson. By removing all toxic chemicals from her environment and eating real, whole foods, Allison’s symptoms completely disappeared. Her healing journey inspired her to co-found Branch Basics to help others experience how to truly thrive in their health. Allison enjoys researching all things natural pregnancy, birth and parenting; finding clean brands to use and recommend; and helping others navigate their health journeys. But most of all, she’s a

  So many of you have been telling me that you’ve been scared off from intuitive eating because when you try to make peace with food and give yourself the unconditional permission to eat all foods, you then begin binge eating those foods once deemed off limits. Today’s podcast episode defines what is binge eating, why it happens for some as they begin their intuitive eating journey and how to stop binge eating through realizing what is causing it.    Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   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: Victori

As curators of nationwide wellness events, Hello Wellness, Sarah and Jenna are dedicated to fostering in-person connections between like-minded people. Why? Because they’ve seen and felt firsthand how people can become happier and healthier versions of themselves by cultivating relationships. In this episode we discuss:    -How Sarah and Jenna met originally and how this manifested into a business years later  -Why Sarah and Jenna felt the need to start a company that takes online relationships offline -The challenge and anxiety surrounding meeting new people -What relationships to keep and let go -How Hello Wellness can help people connect in person -Making and fostering meaningful friendships as adults -Upcoming events of Hello Wellness (use the code NOURISH for 20% off your ticket)   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and ba

Don't make these two common mistakes in your intuitive eating journey: getting all your information about intuitive eating from a social media source and going through this journey alone! Today's podcast episode is to share why these common mistakes will make the process harder for you, and tips and strategies to utilize in order to make your own intuitive eating journey easier, simpler and quicker.   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   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

Lex Daddio is back on the show today! Lex Daddio is the primary content creator and inspiring influencer behind @restoringradiance and Restore Your Radiance. She is such a bright light, and gives tips on intuitive eating and shares tons of ideas, recipes and resources for cooking and enjoying food.   The last time she came on she was pregnant and we chatted intuitive eating during pregnancy. Since then, she had a baby and is now pregnant with a second baby, and I’ve also had a baby! So we used the opportunity to answer your listener questions on intuitive eating and motherhood. We discussed:   How to talk to children about gluten when one of the parents has Celiac disease How to show kids health and wellness without being obsessive and whether or not it is okay to want your children to eat healthy foods Baby led weaning and how this has allowed Lex to introduce foods into her child’s diet in a fun way Body acceptance in the postpartum stage And so much more!   Lex’s first episode on NWP: Episode 29 Binge E

Orthorexia is an eating disorder on the rise, and while it’s not in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual just yet, its a valid, real issue we need to address. This eating disorder is picking up in speed, especially due to the cultural fixation we have on clean eating. In this episode, we discuss:    Basic definition of Orthorexia Warning signs and symptoms you may be struggling with orthorexia Specific examples I’ve seen in clinical practice of orthorexia A self help test from Dr. Bratman What healthy eating and living looks like in contrast to orthorexia   Resources and References:   Nourishing Women Podcast Episode 53: Orthorexia An Eating Disorder on the Rise and in Disguise   Nourishing Women Podcast Episode 98: REPOST Q&A- Recognizing and Combatting Orthorexic Tendencies, the Hallmark Symptoms of SIBO, and Hunger/Fullness Cues During Recovery   https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/by-eating-disorder/other/orthorexia   http://www.orthorexia.com/   https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2

The longer I do this work, the more I realize how much the fear of weight gain is one of the absolute, biggest predictors of why we fear intuitive eating.   And I get it- I really do. I learned about intuitive eating way before I actually began my permission stage, meaning I rejected the belief that I needed to diet and gave myself unconditional permission to eat all foods, and truly listen to my body. If you are trying to start this journey, there are a few factors that you are going to need to work through first, or else you will always get stuck.   With clients, we focus on mindset, values, working through barriers, facing fears...including the fear of weight gain...first before we start detailing through the intuitive eating principles. This allows for better SUCCESS because you’ve made peace and worked on what’s holding you back from, first and foremost.   So this brings me to today’s conversation because its one of the biggest aspects that holds us back from intuitive eating...fear of weight gain.   If

Anytime I talk about perfectionism on the podcast, you love the episodes and I totally get it! Its something that I struggled with, and while I consider myself a recovering perfectionist for the most part, it is still something I always have to challenge. Perfectionism can often be one of the root problems surrounding disordered eating and orthorexia, so its an important mindset shift to work through and move past for this, but even if you don’t struggle with your relationship with food, its still worthwhile to work on. Today’s podcast episodes shares:   Why moving past perfectionism is a worthwhile endeavor Moving past perfectionism by: Practicing enoughness Be willing to be vulnerable Letting go Be purposefully imperfect Progress, not perfection How to move past perfectionism in your food and health habits What moving past perfectionism has given me in my personal life   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Ba

Katina Mountanos is the founder of On Adulting, a viral blog and community of over 20,000 millennials who are figuring out how to navigate adulthood in a conscious, happy way (@onadulting).  She is also a mindset coach, certified yoga + meditation teacher, and start up advisor. Her work has featured on HuffPost, Fast Company, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, Mindbodygreen, and others. She started her career in environmental sustainability at Goldman Sachs, and since then has helped dozens of humans develop conscious decision-making skills, which allow them to make choices that will expand their mindset, happiness and health.  Follow along on Instagram at @onadulting or The Space, a private Facebook group for the O.A. crew!   Website: www.onadulting.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/onadulting Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/onadultingspace Today’s podcast episodes shares:   Katina’s “adulting” journey and how she was able to tune into her intuition and leave a high-paying finance job in order to her own busi

Honestly, I came up with way more than 5 misconceptions about intuitive eating when I was outlining this episode, because there are so many! Intuitive eating is nuanced and complicated for sure, but what makes it even more messy is the misinformation and misconceptions surrounding it. In today’s episode we explore 5 misconceptions and the truths about what intuitive eating is actually all about.   Misconceptions that we debunk in today’s episode. Intuitive eating is anti-health. Intuitive eating is the hunger and fullness diet. Intuitive eating is only for those recovered from an eating disorder. Intuitive eating allows for you to eat cookies, but just one. Intuitive eating is easy and there is something wrong with me if it doesn’t feel that way.   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   Resources for you: Learn m

Adaptogens are all the rage right now, and this is one of the few health trends that I’m here for! Adaptogens are naturally occurring, nontoxic plant substances such as herbs, roots, spices and even mushrooms that have  been used traditionally by Aruvedya (the sister science to yoga and 5,000 year old practice of medicine in India), Chinese medicine, and in Northern European countries for thousands of years. While common in Eastern medicine and application, they are picking up in the West and we are going to explore in today’s podcast episode what constitutes a plant as an adaptogen, what they provide and do for the body, research surrounding them, why you may want to consider them for stress and hormone support and some of my favorite specific types of adaptogens.   At the end of the day, adaptogens should be used in a fun, curious way to see if they benefit you and to consider as part of your wellness routine and/or healing protocol. They are not mandatory to pursue health, but if you notice a difference ta