Up next in the Intuitive Eating series is principle #5 Feel Your Fullness. I am joined with Christine McPhail. A Registered Dietitian who is also working on her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. We start to review the various aspects when working on discovering what it means to find fullness. Listen to the podcast […]

This delicious creamy carrot ginger soup will add colour to any meal. Highlighting flavours of ginger, caramelized onions, and carrot, this magical combination is sure to be a crowd pleaser. This colourful recipe makes about 6 servings of this luscious soup! Note: you will need a blender, handheld blender, or food processor for this recipe. […]

This hearty homemade chicken noodle soup is sure to bring comfort and warmth. Perfect for sick days and chilly winter nights. Just like grandma used to make! Not only is this recipe delicious but it is quick, easy, and helps use up that extra chicken in the fridge- bonus!    Note: I used leftover cooked […]

Sweet Potato Cauliflower Soup   This one-pot Sweet Potato Cauliflower Soup is sure to warm your stomach and your heart! It is gluten free, vegetarian and may be vegan with a modification.    There is nothing like a hot soup on a chilly day- so what better to share than a collection of belly-warming recipes? […]

Come join the conversation I had with Lori Short- Zamudio a kick ass non-diet Registered Dietitian. We talk about the fourth principle of Intuitive Eating which is Challenge the Food Police on the Diet Culture Dropout Podcast. The food police are the unreasonable rules diet culture creates. The police station is housed in your brain […]

It’s 2022- and what a wild journey it has been. The new year is that interesting time when diet companies thrive on their talks about promising quick weight loss and the promotion of ‘resolutions’ installing pressures and guilt to meet strict intentions. This year, we are shaking things up. If there is one thing I […]

  Moving right along in the series we are at the third principle in the Intuitive Eating journey which is Make Peace with Food. Yes, this means all food! Letting go of the binary thinking and labeling of foods being “good vs bad” or “healthy vs unhealthy.” Making all foods neutral and legal is the […]

What does dieting do to our hunger signals? When we diet, ignore and suppress our hunger signals our body responds by turning down the signals intensity or silences it. You are not allowed to honour your hunger. Rather we are encouraged to turn away due to external rules from diet culture. Many people are unaware […]

This new year learn about Intuitive Eating I wanted to invite people this upcoming new years an alternative to the “new year new you” or a new diet/wellness option. Diet culture is so loud. So instead of that option I am proposing you to learn about intuitive eating and choose to improve your relationship with […]

In this week’s podcast I had the privilege to interview a local primary school teacher Kate Winn. She has made some big shifts in the classroom to support her students autonomy with food and provide a supportive culture around food. Some small but impactful tweaks to change the classroom feeding dynamics. Listen to the full […]