Nourishing Women Podcast

Y’all I am so excited about today’s episode! Becca Bristow came on the show today to share about her business, being a mother, her passion for intuitive eating and we also spend a ton of time chatting the benefits of essential oils. Becca is a wonderful educator on how to use essential oils, and if you’ve been wondering why you should add essential oils to your wellness journey and how to do so, this conversation is for you!

If you’ve never heard of the term gentle nutrition before, this is the approach and mindset to applying nutrition in the intuitive eating philosophy. The term gentle nutrition comes from the final of the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, called honor your health with gentle nutrition. Gentle nutrition allows for individuality understanding we all feel different eating different ways, for our own convictions and values, and for our own health needs, too. Today's episode explores this conversation.

Along with our free holiday survival guide e-book, the team of dietitians at Nourishing Minds Nutrition (Kelsey, Megan and myself), wanted to record this episode to help you with how to use intuitive eating strategies to survive the holiday season. Not yet downloaded our free e-book? Check out the link in these shownotes to make sure you get your hands on it!

Today on the show we are sharing what ingredients you should avoid in your skincare and why and simple swaps to safe skincare you can make today. In this episode we discuss: The 4 main ingredients to avoid in your skincare products My favorite skin skincare and green beauty products Tips for making the transition easy, affordable and doable Avoiding greenwashing and companies taking advantage of the natural product movement Intentional shopping and purchasing

Today on the show we have with us Sara Forte of Sprouted Kitchen. Sara is authentically interested in the entire concept of wellness, including mental health, relationships, mindfulness, movement and eating well. She cooks for pleasure, to slow her mind down, and to foster relationships by gathering those she loves around the table. In today's episode we share how to cook and meal plan with ease using the Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club.

In today's episode, Victoria debunks 5 myths about your period and hormonal health. This episode details through why having a natural, monthly period is important to your long term health, why its important to know when you are ovulating, the significance of cervical mucus, why you don't have to follow a strict diet or food protocol to have a healthy period and why intuitive eating is best for hormonal health.

A powerful and often forgot about way to take care of ourselves is through the products we use in our homes. Today on the podcast, we have Allison Evans, one of the founders of the nontoxic cleaning company Branch Basics. In this episode we discussed Allison’s unique and powerful story to how she founded the company Branch Basics with her aunt Marilee and friend Kelly, how toxins, chemicals and fragrances affect our health and so much more.

So many of you have been telling me that you’ve been scared off from intuitive eating because when you try to make peace with food and give yourself the unconditional permission to eat all foods, you then begin binge eating those foods once deemed off limits. Today’s podcast episode defines what is binge eating, why it happens for some as they begin their intuitive eating journey and how to stop binge eating through realizing what is causing it. 

As curators of nationwide wellness events, Hello Wellness, Sarah and Jenna are dedicated to fostering in-person connections between like-minded people. Why? Because they’ve seen and felt firsthand how people can become happier and healthier versions of themselves by cultivating relationships. In this episode we discuss why its important to have in person connections, how to make friends as an adult and how to make yourself healthier through social connection.

Don't make these two common mistakes in your intuitive eating journey: getting all your information about intuitive eating from a social media source and going through this journey alone! Today's podcast episode is to share why these common mistakes will make the process harder for you, and tips and strategies to utilize in order to make your own intuitive eating journey easier, simpler and quicker.

Lex Daddio is back on the show today! Lex Daddio is the primary content creator and inspiring influencer behind @restoringradiance and Restore Your Radiance. She is such a bright light, and gives tips on intuitive eating and shares tons of ideas, recipes and resources for cooking and enjoying food. In this episode we answer your listener questions on intuitive eating and motherhood.

Orthorexia is an eating disorder on the rise, and while it’s not in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual just yet, its a valid, real issue we need to address. This eating disorder is picking up in speed, especially due to the cultural fixation we have on clean eating. In this episode, we discuss the basic definition of Orthorexia, warning signs and symptoms and specific examples of orthorexia. We go over a self help test and what healthy eating looks like in contrast to orthorexia, too.

Let's talk about making peace with weight gain. Today's conversation explores, why this is an important conversation to have, when weight gain may be a possibility in your intuitive eating journey, what is set point theory and how to discover your personal set point range and how to make peace with weight gain through specific tools and strategies shared in the episode.

Anytime I talk about perfectionism on the podcast, you love the episodes and I totally get it! Its something that I struggled with, and while I consider myself a recovering perfectionist for the most part, it is still something I always have to challenge. Perfectionism can often be one of the root problems surrounding disordered eating and orthorexia, so its an important mindset shift to work through and move past for this.

Katina Mountanos is the founder of On Adulting, a viral blog and community of over 20,000 millennials who are figuring out how to navigate adulthood in a conscious, happy way (@onadulting).  She is also a mindset coach, certified yoga + meditation teacher, and start up advisor. In this episode, we discuss Katina's adulting journey, what tuning in to your intuition feels like, creative ways to combat anxiety and what a panic attack feels like.