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Our minds like to focus on the negative because our brains see that as a way to prevent danger. So we tend to focus on the no. And often in intuitive eating saying no is associated with restricting. The fear of saying no to food leaves many people feeling stuck afraid they’ll go back to […]

The things we trust ourselves to do consistently changes how we show up to them. If you trust yourself to overeat you will. If you trust that you’ll never consistently exercise, then that’ll be true too. The best thing you can do for yourself – for your health and relationship with food – is decide

Often people think once they reach the goal or finish a project their life will finally slow down or be better. That once they lose the weight they’ll plan the trip, go to dinner with friends, try the new exercise class, where the clothes they truly want to wear. But what if that’s just delaying

When intuitive eating sounds good in theory, but you’re worried about your health. Know that’s a normal fear because this approach feels so different from what the common health advice tells you. You’re told to avoid and limit the “bad” foods. Where intuitive eating tells you that you can eat anything you want. In intuitive

Health and wellness culture is full of milestones to check off and feel good about yourself. But if you miss the mark (like missing a workout and only being able to check off 29 of the workouts in a 30 day workout challenge) it usually leaves people feeling guilty and not good enough.  Sometimes we

If your relationship with your body, food, and the scale was a movie, what would the title be? Would the movie depict a journey of up and downs. Of yo-yo diets. A constant lifelong struggle with weight? As we start the new year everyone seems to gain a surge of energy and motivation to change.

This weeks episode of the Better Than Healthy podcast I discuss some of the biggest questions I get around the holidays and intuitive eating. One of the questions I dive into is “How do I manage feeling guilty for still eating more around the Holidays when I’m not planning to diet this year”. Listen to

What you’ll learn in this episode on gentle exercise What’s your motivation for exercise? Losing weight? Increasing health? Or exercising just because it’s something you know you’re supposed to do? The way we are taught to motivate ourselves for exercise doesn’t really help us stay motivated. We try to use external things – like what

This week’s Better Than Healthy podcast episode covers the principle of intuitive eating – body respect. Truly connecting with and respecting our bodies isn’t taught in the current diet culture. Often health culture says to respect our bodies by taking care of ourselves, which sounds a lot like what we discuss in intuitive eating. But

In this week’s episode of the Better Than Healthy podcast, we dive into the topic of emotional eating. Often, emotional eating coaches may give the impression emotional eating is always bad. But the truth is it’s just one way to cope with emotions. It’s easy afterward to judge the time you emotionally eat because you