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On today's episode, we talk about people pleasing “...but my priority is my family right now. I don’t have the time to do this work right now or to participate.” We did a survey few months ago and asked our community members what is holding them back from doing the “work” meaning healing their relationship to food & body. People pleasing came in the top 3... specifically #2 . These are the women who knew they had people pleasing behaviors. The funny thing is that the #1 reason holding back women from healing their relationship to food and body was: “I need to lose weight. I can’t bear being in this body right now. Got to fix that first before doing mindset work”.  I say funny because that #1 reason is: people pleasing “in hiding”. So people pleasing is a huge theme in our community! That’s what we are going to deep dive on this episode. Our guest today is Sasha Heinz, PhD and a developmental psychologist. She is an expert in positive psychology, lasting behavioral change, and the science of getting unstuc

On today's episode, we discuss if healthy weight loss is possible and provide and answer, too! Is it possible to lose weight in a healthy way? When is gaining weight enough when I try to eat intuitively? Is it wrong to still want to lose weight? I just want because I don’t feel comfortable in my actual one? These are all super good questions and so valid considering the society we live in. We are surrounded by messages that we should want to lose weight and that we should aim to be in a smaller body. We have been taught from a very young age that: Health = Thinness Happiness = Thinner body That if we aren’t in society standards in our body size, we should be actively working really hard on getting “there” (aka smaller body) If the diet doesn’t work, it’s not the diet’s fault rather it’s our fault. We haven’t tried hard enough, exercised enough, or have enough will power, etc... The desire to lose weight is completely and 100% normal. Many of you know through your own experience that the proposed weight loss

On today's episode, we talk about how to Unfuck Your Brain I wanted to lose weight so that I could be more self-confident. 95% of the women I work with want to or did want to lose weight so that they can be more confident. We are taught by society that if we are thin, we will automatically be confident and ultimately happy. Yet we lose the weight and we aren’t happier. We still don’t feel confident as we should. Then we regain the weight because, spoiler alert, diet doesn’t work long term. That’s until we repeat the cycle again looking for that “confidence”. How many times do we have to repeat the cycle to see that confidence isn’t an external thing?? I did it for 25 years. You? Our guest today, Kara Loewentheil, a Master Confidence Certified Coach with a B.A. from Yale and J.D. from Harvard Law is going to teach us how to become more self-confident today independent of our weight.  The work is all in our mind! What you’ll learn listening to this episode: How patriarchy and socialization thoughts impact our

On today's episode, we talk about weight gain Yes, I’ve gained weight. I’m a nutritionist and I’ve gained weight.  I’m a woman and I’ve gained weight. I’ve gained weight and I’m ok with it. Just 3 short years ago, I would have never considered writing this, recording this. I doing everything I could NOT to gain weight yet I was gaining weight. The more I try the less it worked. On today’s episode, I’ll share my personal journey with weight gain and how I’m living through it.  Some will say “coping with weight gain” and I would have said the same things just 2 short years ago. Today, I’m fully at peace with it. How can this be?  What you’ll learn listening to this episode: 9 lessons I’ve learned from gaining weight My journey through dieting Why and How my perspective on weight gain shifted How I changed my perspective on weight & body Mentioned on the show: Free Body Acceptance Challenge Body Acceptance Project Intuitive Eating Guide Health At every Size Manifesto

On today's episode, we talk about how to liberate your body Only 4% of women will call themselves beautiful. That statistics just broke my heart... The truth is I was part of that 96% not finding themselves beautiful for most of my life. To be real it’s almost an act of courage to accept your body in today’s world. One of the most powerful agents in liberating myself from body shaming has been the studying of the concept of patriarchal beauty standard. The historical and economic reasons behind where we are with women’s body expectations in the year 2000. Fascinating and liberating experience and that’s what I want to share with you today. Our guest today is Jess Baker, an author, international speaker and blogger with a background in mental health where she’s worked as a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Specialist. She described herself as an unabashed fat chick and a proponent of harnessing the magnificent power of shame resilience! What you’ll learn listening to this episode: Why only 4 % of women will call t

    On today's episode, we talk about Healing Body Image with Photography Do you struggle with seeing pictures of you? Avoid them altogether maybe? For all of us women who have struggled with body image, taming our self-image via observing our reflection on picture is a very important step in the process of healing body image. Taking pictures of ourselves and choosing compassion over self-critique is key. On today’s episode, we are joined with a professional photographer who is using photography to heal her own body image struggle and the one of her clients in amazing body love photoshoots. Our guest today is Ashley, a professional photographer from Toronto, Canada. Her work has been published in nationwide campaigns with international brands such as Air Miles, Mattel, and Bluenotes.  Ashley has also co-founded GRLCHILL which is a passion project about friendship, self-love, and womanhood. What you’ll learn listening to this episode: How to harness the power of photography to move forward with healing your b

On today's episode, we discover why I quit Keto I’ve been avoiding recording this episode for nearly 2 years. I’ve been scared of the consequences, hesitated by fear of backlash, started recording it and stopped so many times. Something happened this week that triggered me to finally record this episode... It wasn’t just about me anymore. This episode needed to be recorded for you-the listeners, my clients, my patients and my students. On today’s episode SHE’s Beyond The Food Chapter 3, I'll share with you my personal journey with food and diets... particularly the Ketogenic diet. And today, I’m officially making it public: I’m calling it quits with keto and sharing the reasons that led me to make this choice. This is not the type of quitting after just a few months of being keto or because I didn’t lose weight.  This shift is way beyond this... I wrote a book about the ketogenic diet, lectured at professional conferences about keto, studied and researched ketosis and ultimately created an entire program abo

On today's episode, we discover intuitive eating You are the boss of you, sister.... no one else. So hire, fire and promote accordingly. I’m sure you wouldn’t tolerate anyone telling you what to do in your own house. You wouldn’t let anyone dictate who your date is, right? Yet we let diets control our food choices and the way we feel about ourselves. That’s what we call diet culture. Sisters, it’s time we stop letting diets control our lives. We must take our power back from the latest diet... including the latest keto expert! It’s proven diets not only don’t work they lead to more weight gain. Diet is harmful to the female body. Today, we discover intuitive eating, a proven self-care eating framework that puts YOU back in the driver seat of food choices, body, and health. This way of engaging with food (read here: not a diet) teaches you to be a team with your body. Our guest today Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S is the author of 9 books, with a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, California. Sh

On today's episode, we talk about how to strengthen your intuition Do you wish to have more guidance in your life, to be more certain that you are making the right choices for you? That knowing is accessible to you right now. This intelligence is inside you, me and all women: It’s called our intuition. On today’s episode, we explore together the highest form of intelligence: intuition. We will learn how to connect to this superior source of intelligence and also how to strengthen it so you can be more confident. Our guest today, Dr. Joy Martina is a Psychic Psychologist and a Channeler of Christallin Consciousness specializes in High-Level Intuitive Intelligence Training for entrepreneurs, business owners and celebrities. Dr. Joy will take us through her most recent best-selling book: How to use your intuition to transform your life. What you’ll learn listening to this episode: What is intuition and what is it not. The 5 steps we must take to strengthen our intuition Why being is a state of joy and happiness

On today's episode, we speak with Sheree Clark Are you at a “fork” in the road? You know something needs to change... must change... has to change. You get the feeling that if you don’t make a choice now, life will make one for you. For some, it’s an acute life event that forces them into making a choice... for me, it was collapsing on stage. For other women, their body wisdom takes care of creating this fork in the road with aging and hormones. It’s called menopause. It’s the natural process that moves us from motherhood to coming of wisdom. Coming back to being “just” a woman... no longer the nurturer or caregiver. For many, that’s a hard transition. In today’s episode, Sheree Clark talks about turning midlife crisis into mid-life awakening.  Sheree will help you create a vision for your fork in the road creating opportunities for growth, fun, and achievement. Sheree Clark is a midlife courage coach, TV show host, inspiring speaker and accomplished author. What you'll learn listening to this episode: How S

On today's episode - SHE’s Beyond The Food - Chapter 2: I'll share with you my personal journey with exercise, fitness and sports... and it’s been a wild ride.  Just like most of you, ladies that have a journey of dieting, exercise has been part of my life in a “not so fun way”... never willingly and because I desired to exercise rather because I HAD TO kind of way:  to burn calories, to burn fat, or to punish myself for cheating on my diet and mostly because I needed to alter my body composition, ....   The result of this wild ride is trauma. As my mentor in trauma, Irene Lyon taught me “Trauma is in your nervous system not in the event”. I now can see it in most of my students too. We know we have to but for some “unexplainable” reason we can’t bring ourselves to do it. That “unexplainable” reason is trauma... it’s your nervous system protecting you from what has been in the past a very bad experience.   In fact, trauma can be healed. So does your relationship to exercise. With a load of compassion, accepta

On today's episode, we talk about Feng Shui Get the energy right in your home, closet, and fridge and everything else will follow. Yup, the energy that carries your home is impacting you right now... moving you closer to confidence or further away from peace with your food and body.  Imagine you and your home looking like Charlie Brown’s character, Pigpen. With debris and junk whirling around that “pretty” won’t fix. It is essentially putting lipstick on a pig.   Instead, let’s get your energy and your home’s energy in pristine shape so that when the “pretty” goes in, it uplevels every damn thing in your life.   Who doesn’t want that?  Today’s guest, Amanda Gates is a professionally trained Interior Designer, Feng Shui Practitioner, podcaster and award-winning blogger. She has seamlessly married interior design and Feng Shui for almost 20 years to help clients achieve spaces that feel as beautiful as they look.  What you'll learn listening to this episode: How the energy in your home is expressed through 

On today's episode, we talk about Healing Body Shaming Healing body shaming permeates through every aspect of your life... you finally stop chasing your worth and you get to find your innate female power. You stop working crazy hours trying to prove yourself to your boss that you are worthy of the next promotion. Reconciling yourself with your body finally gives you the power to stop pleasing everyone... become someone you don’t need anyone to tell you you’re worthy. You know! Being confident leads you to attract the right lover... and have the courage to say no to the one that makes you feel like Sh*&%! This is the first installment of “SHE’S beyond the food,” a new monthly episode. This coaching session will be me, me alone, sharing a very vulnerable moment of my life in which I coach myself to go beyond the food. This is raw, uncut version of me, your host, Stephanie Dodier, the woman, not the expert. In this episode, I share how healing another layer of body shaming led me through a massive transforma

Why do I need to go beyond the food to make peace with food and my body That’s the one question I get and yes... that’s a very valid question, and to be honest, a very good starting point for us to have a very powerful conversation. We’ve been trained for years via diet culture to seek a solution to our food, weight and body issues with food and exercise. If we whip in shape our physical body, we will get result. Get thinner... and then, we’ll be happy and healthy. yet it doesn’t work. We know that and hence why you and I are here... Why doesn’t it work... because our relationship with food and body doesn’t stem from our physical body, rather it shows up in our physical body. It originates from our mind, emotions, and spirit. That’s what I’ve found through my own struggle and later on what my training and education has taught me. The 4 layers of the human being is what we address in the Going Beyond the Food Method. It stems from a very old body of work - Holistic health. In today’s episode, will deep dive in

Holistic Approach to Making Peace with Food and Body Why do I need to go beyond the food to make peace with food and my body That’s the one question I get and yes... that’s a very valid question, and to be honest, a very good starting point for us to have a very powerful conversation. We’ve been trained for years via diet culture to seek a solution to our food, weight and body issues with food and exercise. If we whip in shape our physical body, we will get result. Get thinner... and then, we’ll be happy and healthy. yet it doesn’t work. We know that and hence why you and I are here... Why doesn’t it work... because our relationship with food and body doesn’t stem from our physical body, rather it shows up in our physical body. It originates from our mind, emotions, and spirit. That’s what I’ve found through my own struggle and later on what my training and education has taught me. The 4 layers of the human being is what we address in the Going Beyond the Food Method. It stems from a very old body of work - H

Spiritual Body to Making Peace with Food and Body Two questions that keep coming back from new members in our community:  What does it mean to Go Beyond The Food?  And then...   Why would I need to Go Beyond The Food?  These are GOOD questions and to be honest, a very good starting point for us to have a  very powerful conversation.   To answer these 2 questions, we must first recognize that for most of us, women, we’ve been trained since a young age via Diet Culture to seek a diet solution to our “food issues, weight and body” within the constraints of our physical body. The solution being to a-beat our body into shape and b-restrict our food. Ultimately, we’ve been deeply trained to believe that getting a thinner physical body would bring us health and happiness.  Yet it doesn’t work. We know that and hence why you and  I  are  here...   Why doesn’t it work? Because our relationship to food and body doesn’t stem only from our physical body. Our desire to eat and shame ourselves originate from our mind, emot

Holistic Approach to Making Peace with Food and Body Two questions that keep coming back from new members in our community:  What does it mean to Go Beyond The Food?  And then...   Why would I need to Go Beyond The Food?  These are GOOD questions and to be honest, a very good starting point for us to have a  very powerful conversation.   To answer these 2 questions, we must first recognize that for most of us, women, we’ve been trained since a young age via Diet Culture to seek a diet solution to our “food issues, weight and body” within the constraints of our physical body. The solution being to a-beat our body into shape and b-restrict our food. Ultimately, we’ve been deeply trained to believe that getting a thinner physical body would bring us health and happiness.  Yet it doesn’t work. We know that and hence why you and  I  are  here...   Why doesn’t it work? Because our relationship to food and body doesn’t stem only from our physical body. Our desire to eat and shame ourselves originate from our mind, e

Fill Your Cup  Are good are you at meeting your daily needs? That’s what Rachel Molenda refers to as filling your cup. Rachel is a holistic nutritionist who inspires women to take action to meet their daily needs so that they don’t use food to fill the lack of self-care. Rachel will inspire us today to make it happen. Prioritizing your needs to show up the best version of you. In this episode I discuss What "fill your cup" really means The real reason why you should keep your cup full How the "fill your cup" philosophy can be an instrument to developing intuitive eating Last episode I talked about the elephant in the room... yes, I talked about weight loss. If you're one of those women who wanna lose weight, you are not alone. I was there for many years along with millions of other women just like you.   The truth is 91% of women are unhappy about their body and seek weight loss as a solution. It’s a basic human need to be accepted by our tribe and peers, therefore to be “normal”.  All we want to be “normal

This is Part 2 of 2. Part 1 can be accessed here.  Do you want to lose weight?  If so, you are not alone. I was there for many years along with millions of other women just like you.   The truth is 91% of women are unhappy about their body and seek weight loss as a solution.  First, let’s level up on one fundamental point: No one wakes up one morning wanting to be fat, carry extra weight or not be able to lose weight.  It’s a basic human need to be accepted by our tribe and peers, therefore to be “normal”.  All we want to be “normal”, we want to be confident in our body and image.  We are ready to do, what needs to get done to feel “normal” in our body.   For most of us in this community, this desire to be “normal weight” has gone one of two ways: we did lose weight at some point but it didn’t “stick” OR we haven’t yet attempted to lose weight because we are so afraid of failure and change.   Why is it that we can’t do what we deeply desire? That’s what we will cover in this 2-part podcast series: episode 173

Your Past Doesn't Define You Do you let your past failure define your today? Perhaps you think you are limited in your future possibilities because of your past failure? “I have tried so many diets and programs and failed; that I can't bear to go to my husband with another program, especially one that costs $800+. I simply can't go to my husband with yet another "magical pill" .... he won't understand; even if we could afford it." - Going Beyond The Food Academy scholarship applicant This type of message is unfortunately very frequent when we open our scholarship program. It saddens me because so many of us let our past define who we can be in the future. The truth is... You are not the choices you’ve made. You are not the child you once were. No, you are not your failed marriage. You are not the setbacks of yesterday. Neither you are the bad things that have happened to you. You can be that woman that wakes up tomorrow morning and that say I’m not doing this anymore… I’m going to figure this out. I’ll do thi