Today’s guest is Danie van Kay, body positive facilitator, health coach and eating disorder intuitive therapy coach. She is an anorexia survivor and she suffers from chronic Lyme Disease, which I didn’t know much about until I chatted with her, so needless to say she is working hard to raise awareness for chronic invisible illnesses, like Lyme Disease and I am so glad to introduce you to her today. Her story is an inspiring example of resilience, positivity and strength and I[...]
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Today’s solo episode is very near and dear to my heart, because I will be sharing with you how I overcame my mindset of perfectionism with food, the mistakes I made while I was trying to recover from orthorexia – an obsession with eating healthy and, let’s be honest, an obsession with dieting – and how I allowed myself to finally relax around food and stop dieting for good. This episode will be super helpful for you if you’re currently in the mindset of “I just don’t un[...]
As you know, I don't support any restrictive way of eating. I am a huge fan of eating foods that bring you pleasure, nourish your body AND nourish your soul.
Today’s guest is Dr. Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED. She is the Founder and Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale. From 2008 to 2016, she was one of the leaders of the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders at Denver Health. She left after serving as its Medical Director and as an As[...]
Hey everyone and welcome back to the Own it Babe podcast. How are you?? I took a little bit of a break this past week, wasn’t hanging out on Instagram much, didn’t do much work and feel like I haven’t talked to you in forever! I hope you are doing well and maybe not going through what I’m going through right now. OMG, that sounded so dramatic, right? Today’s episode is about anxiety and some important thoughts I want to pass on to you when it comes to dealing with it.[...]
Hey everyone and welcome to the Own it Babe Podcast! First off, I want to thank all of you for the amazing feedback and messages I received after my episode last week. I totally did not plan on giving you a 20 minute life update and rambling away on what's going on in my brain, but clearly it resonated with a lot of you, so I am glad I shared the episode despite feeling a bit nervous or even embarrassed by what I shared… Today’s episode is an amazing one if you are currently[...]
In this episode, I am giving you a major and honest life update about my personal life and my business. Just a heads up that if you are not interested in that to skip ahead to minute 23:00 of this show where I dive into the topic of overcoming the diet mentality as we're starting out on our intuitive eating journey. In this episode I am sharing what helped me: Get out of the diet-binge-restrict cycleStop sabotaging my health with restriction, over-exercise and my[...]
Today's guest Dr. Barbara Shabazz, founder of Intentional Activities, is a psychologist by trade, and a certified personal and executive coach by choice. After being laid off twice in one year from two academic positions, Intentional Activities was born out of her need to make lemonade out of the lemons. As an intentional life coach, she uses intentional activities (positive cognitive and behavioral tasks, actions, or exercises that require some degree of daily personal effort, and ult[...]
In this episode I am answering the following 3 questions from you: 1. What were the most challenging physical changes you went through in recovery and how did you navigate them? 2. How do I know if I actually have disordered eating or if I just prefer to eat a certain way? 3. Did you deal with binge eating in recovery? If so, how did you go about it and when did it stop? Weight inclusive treatment and resources http://www.gaudianiclinic.com https://lindab[...]
Let me tell you about my 2016 vs. 2019 priorities: 2016: Abs. 2019: Life. Memories. Connection. Love. Laughter. Being present. Purpose. Joy. The price I had to pay to have abs Obsessive calorie- and macro counting. Brain fog. Secret binge eating. Isolation. No social life. Excruciating workouts. Hating my body. Suffering from eating disorders for over 12 years. In secret. Being hooked on the outside world’s approval to feel worthy. Trying to fill up on massive[...]