It Tastes Like Freedom

As you’re doing the work to heal your relationship with food and your body you will inevitably encounter circumstances that feel overwhelming. Ones that crush your heart and feel like they’ve set you back big time on your path to healing. For many women having a partner who looks at porn can be one of these things.

HEALTHY - This word is everywhere and if you pay close attention it usually has to do with losing weight or being thin. This is diet culture’s marketing at its finest and has the potential to create a lot of distrust in one’s body, massive confusion and encourages unhealthy practices in the pursuit of weight loss.

Growing up surrounded by fat phobic messages and the diet culture’s lies is HARD! Join Chanci and her teen daughter, Celeste, as they chat about Celeste’s personal experiences with her own food struggles, how she found freedom and how she now lives intentionally choosing what’s right for her over society’s lies.

It’s guaranteed that you’ll experience setbacks in your journey of Embodied Eating that’ll make you feel like you want to scream “screw it!” It sucks but can’t be avoided so let’s make sure you’re equipped!

Have you ever thought “How in the heck am I ever going to love my body when I really don’t even like her?” Trust me, this is a question I (Chanci) hear all the time. We are inundated with messages of body love and positivity and so many women feel crappy about not “getting there”. Enter in RESPECT! For me personally, this was exactly what I needed to shift to in my own journey to body confidence and I was thrilled when I saw that Paula was teaching the exact same message! So get ready to feel comforted, seen and incredibly encouraged as you listen to our convo about what it really takes to grow a loving relationship with your body.

Listen in as Jenn Messina (Jenn the dietitian) and Chanci discuss the whys and hows around raising intuitive eaters. There are so many amazing takeaways in this episode including, It’s never too early or too late to start intuitive eating, healing your relationship with food as a family, stopping the food fight, why all food is healthy, how to talk to your kids about food and nutrition, navigating obstacles with blended families and co-parents immersed in diet culture, is sugar really addictive and how feeding your kids more sweets will actually make them desire sugarless.

Hustle, burnout, adrenal fatigue, go go go GO … I say NOPE! There’s a better way to show up for yourself and your goals without burning yourself out. It’s a gentle, compassionate and caring way and IT WORKS! Listen in as Chanci shares how she motivated herself to record this very podcast when all she wanted to do was curl up and binge-watch old Sex and The City Episodes. You matter, your health matters, your goals matter and you can show up for yourself even on your hard days in a way that feels loving and nourishing and kind.

The fear of weight gain is real and potent and needs to be addressed. In this episode, Chanci shares what you can expect while growing into an embodied eater. She digs into the science around the weight set point theory, the relaxation response and how to thrive while trusting your body to do what is best for her.

Your brain is always spewing out thoughts about food and your body. This episode will help you make sense of them and in doing so you’ll create deep awareness and be better equipped to make choices that serve you and your embodied eating goals! Tune in to learn about the 5 different eating voices, what they are and how to use them!

You ARE love! Seriously, you are the very definition of LOVE. Chanci and Dr. Melissa Bird invite you in on their convo about self-compassion, perfectionism, forgiveness and reclaiming your divine right to know who you are and to live it! Other points include Compassion as a superpower, what it means to truly love your body, redefining love - who gets to define body love, reclaiming your natural state of being, self-forgiveness and freedom, you need connection - you are not meant to do this alone, there is absolutely nothing not to love because you are pure love, original sin is ignoring your purpose, the patriarchy and diet culture and it’s your divine right to know who you are at your core and live it!

Here’s another tool for your sparkling toolbox of freedom! Understanding why you eat when you eat and getting compassionately curious when your eating isn’t serving you is a massive step toward becoming an embodied eater aka FREEDOM! In this episode, you will learn the difference between fuel, pleasure, fog and storm eating and why pleasure food is necessary. Discover why there is no “good and bad” eating - ever, and what “serving you” actually means.

Your Body is with you from day one until the end, learn how to build your relationship with her and love her wholeheartedly. In this episode, Chanci and life and marriage coach, Dr. Chavonne Perotte, discuss how to not buy into society’s lies about what your body “should” look like, why loving the body you have is essential to your health goals, how to “love your belly”, why loving your body is a choice, how to navigate painful thoughts about your body, how learning to love all of you is a superpower, why it’s not your partner's job to make you feel attractive, pouring into an empty cup with a hole will never make you feel whole, how to create empowering thoughts on purpose and you can’t divorce your body so let’s learn how to love her!

The hunger scale is one of the best tools you can use to start tuning into and honouring your body’s cues! Join Chanci to learn: What the hunger scale is and how to use it Waking up your hunger cues Why you may need to start by eating on a schedule The magic of stopping at a +2 Hyper Awareness vs Obsession Resource mentioned: The Hunger Scale Pdf: https://chancidawn.com/hungerscale/

The journey to becoming an embodied eater can come with its own challenges. Hey, you’re a human and this is to be expected! Join Chanci as she shares some of the most common challenges and how to choose and use compassion all the way to success!

Curiosity and Compassion are two pillars of embodied eating and learning how to track and honour your menstrual cycle is a powerful way to connect to, build trust in and hold reverence for your body. In this episode, Chanci and menstrual health coach, Tara McCann, explore how tracking can increase confidence and help you be an advocate for your health and needs, hormones and how they influence your mood, cravings, creativity, and intuition at different stages of your cycle, and what do charcuterie boards, people chatting you up, and dancing in the moon have to do with loving and honouring your body and her cycle!