Well and Weird

I'm taking the remainder of August & September to enjoy this beautiful summer, as well as restock my interviews for next season! But because I can't imagine departing from you completely for the next 6-8 weeks, I'm going to be releasing mini episodes where I answer listener questions each week.  If you have a question you want me to weigh in on, you can send it my way via insta, OR join my next community coaching call on August 21st. 

This week we have another installment of my solo series where we hash through a recent article on 'health', wellness, dieting, and food, and discuss the actual facts behind the bold claims being made in these spaces. And you guessed it, this week we're talking about the Keto Diet, how it impacts our body, what ACTUALLY happens in our bodies when we restrict our carbohydrate intake, and how we are impacted physically and psychologically in the short and long term.

This week we're talking with Rochelle Bilow. She's a chef, yoga teacher, fellow recovery advocate, farmer, author (and seriously, so much more) and I can't wait for you to sink your teeth into this episode.  We talk about her process of recovery, what perpetuated her body dissatisfaction in her younger years, letting go of exercise that doesn't serve us, intuitive cookimg, watching out for the 'shouldy' wellness circles on the internet, and more. 

This week we're doing a long awaited Q+A episode! We're digging deep into binge eating, and how permission can (and should) play a part in decreasing binge episodes. We're talking about how to get out of the self comparison with food and what other people are eating, my tips for going shopping for new clothes without freaking out, and how to get over the fear of eating carbohydrates. This episode is jam packed with little nuggets of eating disorder recovery TRUTH. Hope you love it!

Cathlin Walker of Walker Whole Health is joining us on the pod this week, sharing her deeeeeep wisdom around all things self care, body acceptance, demoralizing 'health', working mindfulness into the mundane parts of our lives and so much more juicy stuff around health, food and bodies. 

On this week's installment of Well + Weird, I'm detangling the recently trendy topic of Intermittent Fasting, and laying out exactly why you should not partake. 

Nina Boyce and Liz Garster of the Wine & Shine podcast are this week's guests (yaaaas for group chats!) and we're talking about coping with anxiety -and some of what has worked for us in the name of prevention. We talk about recovering from disordered eating and perfectionistic tendencies. We talk about burnout and adrenal fatigue 101. We talk about asking for help and granting ourselves space to be with our hard-to-feel feelings.

In this solo segment, Holly is addressing some of the links between perfectionistic tendencies & eating disorder recovery. She digs deep into why it's so important to embrace the IMperfection and messiness of our lives and recovery processes, because in that imperfect space is where we grow, learn, expand and heal.  Tune in for holly's advice on how to step away from our perfectionistic tendencies so that we can create more space for joy, pleasure, love, connection and personal growth.

Holli Zehring is a rockstar of a parent, incredible body acceptance advocate and eating disorder recovery, and generally just an all around boss lady She and I have the pleasure of working together at Ophelia's Place, a non-profit dedicated to empowering individuals impacted by disordered eating and body dissatisfaction. We talk about some of her experiences as a parent who's teaching her children how to eat and live intuitively, the connections between depression and her ED and her own recovery story

In this episode of Well and Weird Abbie Plouff, the Northern Lights Witch, shares her work, and her story of coming to a place of embodiment. As a proud, radical, queer witch, Abbie uses the tarot (and magic in general) to help make her own life and and the lives of her clients richer and more aligned. This episode offers so much medicine in the name of body acceptance, self acceptance and tapping into your innate wisdom- your intuition, you won't want to miss it.

In this solo episode, we're digging into some of the problematic points raised by a recent article from Healthyish- a blog geared toward foodies and wellness seekers.  The article tries to address some of the problems with moralizing food, trying to make everything we eat "healthy," and how diet foods really just end up leaving us unsatisfied. But in my opinion, it really misses the bar and could do a whole lot better to revolutionize the wellness movement to make it more inclusive. 

Jess Sprengle is a licensed professional counselor, Eating Disorder specialist, Intuitive Eating/HAES/body acceptance advocate, and intersectional feminist. Jess shares her story of recovery, as well as some of her insights from her experience as a professional counselor. We talk about how it's important to WAIT before attempting Intuitive Eating until you've gone through the re-feeding process, reconnecting to your body, the importance of trauma work, the toxic things we're seeing on Instagram & more. 

In another solo episode, Holly Lowery is diving deep into the spiral nature of the recovery process. She shares one of her recent, vulnerable dressing room moments, how to be OKAY with not being okay, how recovery requires an active choice every single day to detach from the thoughts, how to recognize the difference between the eating disorder voice and your own, and more. 

In this conversation, Barbara Erochina and I dig deep into sitting with and FEELING our feelings. We talk about her journey with spirituality and her experience as a queer woman in the evangelical community. We talked about being able to set boundaries with friends and family, especially when you're going through a hard time (like recovery, for example!). She shared her experience with intuitive eating and her relationship with her body, and how this process is has a repetition of rejecting diet culture

Today, we're talking about the most commonly googled phrase in the eating disorder field, 'Do I have an eating disorder?" I made this episode because when I was most struggling with my eating disorder, I didn't know how many of the things I was experiencing were actually symptoms of my disordered eating behaviors. My hope is that this episode opens the door for you to get curious about your own relationship with food, movement and your body so that you can start to get the support you need to recover.