Next on the Intuitive Eating Series is principle #8 Respect Your Body.  I dive into this principle with Renee Hamati a Zumba instructor and Intuitive Eating Counsellor from New York.   Listen to the full episode to learn more      In this loaded episode we cover: – How do you begin to define body […]

NEW PODCAST EPISODE IS LIVE Listen here This week I review principle #7 Cope with Your Feelings With Kindness. I dive into this principle with Dr. Megan Gallagher a Clinical Psychologist at Integrated Wellness in Ottawa.           In this loaded episode we cover: What coping mechanisms are Why they are essential […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

This week on my podcast Diet Culture Dropout I begin to define what diet culture is. Check out the full episode here. Where do I begin!?  Diet culture is really loud, toxic and has seeped into all facets of our lives. We daily have reminders from diet culture telling us we are not good enough […]