085. Healthcare is Political, but Health Isn’t with Shana Minei Spence, MS, RDN, CDN

Welcome to Part 4 of the 5-Part Break the Binge Series here on the podcast! Where you will learn how to break free of the (seemingly) never-ending binge eating & overeating cycle with aligned action steps to finally get you UNSTUCK.  This series is in honour of my brand NEW program – the Food Freedom Circle membership! ✨ Join the Food Freedom Circle here! ✨ In this episode (Part 4 of the series), we’re talking all things mindset! Shifting and rewiring your mind is so important to improving your relationship with food. How we think about food really matter! So together we’ll uncover how to kick that nasty inner food police voice to the curb so your mind can actually chill out around food.  In this episode, we chat about:  What mental deprivation is Why you end up wanting foods MORE when you put them off limits  “F it” eating  Why how you talk and think about food is so important  Feeling guilty about food choices How to start letting go of the inner food police voice Your aligned action step to take for Part 4!   Links: 🍪 Join the Food Freedom Circle Membership (⭐ 50% OFF Founding Member Pricing ends September 9th, 2024)  💗 Details about 1:1 private food freedom coaching support  🍦 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

Welcome to Part 3 of the 5-Part Break the Binge Series here on the podcast! Where you will learn how to break free of the (seemingly) never-ending binge eating & overeating cycle with aligned action steps to finally get you UNSTUCK.  This series is in honour of my brand NEW program ✨ The Food Freedom Circle Membership ✨ In this episode (Part 3 of the series), we’ll be chatting about how to start rebuilding trust with yourself and your body. Dieting and diet culture absolutely smashes our sense of self trust. But by truly caring for ourselves in a deeply nourishing way, we can rebuild that self trust that oh so helpful for a positive relationship with food.  In this episode, we chat about:  What nervous system regulation has to do with binge eating  What having a dysregulated nervous system really means How to care for your nervous system to prevent binges and overeating  Emotional eating’s role in binge eating  Tending to our emotional needs The two questions you’ll want to keep in your back pocket  Your aligned action step to take for Part 3!  Links: 🍪 Check out the Food Freedom Circle Membership  ⭐ Save your free seat for the LIVE Break the Binge Workshop (August 29th, 2024)  💗 Details about 1:1 private food freedom coaching support  🍦 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

Welcome to Part 2 of the 5-Part Break the Binge Series here on the podcast! Where you will learn how to break free of the (seemingly) never-ending binge eating & overeating cycle with aligned action steps to finally get you UNSTUCK.  This series is in honour of my brand NEW program ✨ The Food Freedom Circle Membership ✨Join the waitlist here!  In this episode (Part 2 of the series) we’ll be chatting about the key thing you cannot skip to be able to eat without rules and stop feeling out of control with food while doing so. Renourishing your body is foundational to start feeling “normal” around food again.  In this episode, we chat about:  Why dieting doesn’t work, and won’t work  How “clean eating” or “trying to eat better” is keeping you stuck  What happens when you’re not eating enough The eating foundation your body is begging you for How to renourish your body  Your aligned action step to take for Part 2!  Links: 🍪 Join the Waitlist for the Food Freedom Circle Membership  ⭐ Save your free seat for the LIVE Break the Binge Workshop (August 29th, 2024)  💗 Details about 1:1 private food freedom coaching support  🍦 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

Welcome to Part 1 of the 5-Part Break the Binge Series here on the podcast! Where you will learn how to break free of the (seemingly) never-ending binge eating & overeating cycle with aligned action steps to finally get you UNSTUCK.   This series is in honour of my brand NEW program ✨ The Food Freedom Circle Membership ✨Join the waitlist here! In this episode (Part 1 of the series) we’ll be building the foundation for the rest of the series. I’ll be diving into my 3-part holistic approach to stop binge eating & overeating with you to show you exactly what areas you need to be focusing on to truly create food freedom in your life.  In this episode, we chat about:  What to expect from the Break the Binge series My 3-part holistic approach to stop binge eating The root causes behind why you binge eating and overeat  How what we’re taught about food is actually making your struggles worse  A personal assessment to shed light on what YOU truly need   Links: 🍪 Join the Waitlist for the Food Freedom Circle Membership  ⭐ Save your free seat for the LIVE Break the Binge Workshop (August 29th, 2024)  💗 Details about 1:1 private food freedom coaching support  🍦 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

It can feel beyond frustrating to live in the diet culture infested world that we live in. Adding in the layers of healthism, elitism, discrimination, racism, and more can make it feel like a nightmare to attain society’s unrealistic ideals of “health.” In this episode, our guest Shana Spence and I break down these big systemic problems, shed light on them, and talk about how you can overcome them. Our guest, Shana, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist based in Brooklyn, New York. She currently works in public health for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, doing community nutrition lessons, and also owns her own company, The Nutrition Tea ®. She describes herself as an "all foods fit" dietitian and creates a platform for open discussion on nutrition and wellness topics that are inclusive, non-diet, and weight-neutral, all with an intersectionality of social justice. In this episode, we chat about:  The important factors of health that are overlooked  Why ‘healthcare is political, health is not’  Healthism and how it might be impacting you How diet culture contributes to social justice issues like elitism, discrimination, and more Stigma, xenophobia, and racism surrounding cultural foods Processed foods and why they aren’t the ‘big bad thing’ you may think they are What you as an individual can do to work through all these systemic diet culture issues Links: ⭐ Get your Free Urge to Eat Guided Audio 🍪 Join the waitlist for the Food Freedom Circle Membership  💗 Details about how to work with me & get 1:1 food freedom support – Currently accepting new 1:1 coaching clients!  🍦 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes Our Guest’s Links:  📙 Check out Shana’s NEW book here – Live Nourished: Make Peace with Food, Banish Body Shame, and Reclaim Joy 📱 Connect with Shana on Instagram (@thenutritiontea) 💻 Shana’s website, thenutritiontea.com If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

⭐ Get your Free Urge to Eat Guided Audio here!  Have you ever found yourself caught in this loop?: You tell yourself "I'll be better next time." Then, next time rolls around. The urge to eat is overpowering. It feels out of control. You can't seem to stop yourself no matter how much willpower you try to use. It takes over. You binge or overeat. You feel crummy. The cycle repeats. In this episode, I’m going to teach you the how + why behind getting through the urge to binge eat or mindlessly eat. It's time to break the binge eating & overeating cycle!   In this episode, we chat about:  What to do as soon as the urge to binge comes up  The steps to take to get through that urge to eat with ease Why somatic regulation techniques are key The power of visualization and mental rehearsal  The free resource you can use to have me walk you through this all, in real time!  Other episodes mentioned:  083. Why it Feels so Hard to Stop Binge Eating 027. How to Stop Binge Eating: A Guide Links: ⭐ Get your Free Urge to Eat Guided Audio 🍪 Join the waitlist for the Food Freedom Circle Membership  💗 Details about how to work with me & get 1:1 food freedom support – Currently accepting new 1:1 coaching clients!  🍦 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

“Why can’t I stop binge eating?!” – Something you may have asked yourself many times before, just as my past self did too. It can feel beyond frustrating to feel out of control with food and like you can’t stop this habit of binge eating.  I’m here to let you know that it IS possible to stop binge eating. And in this episode, I’m going to help you uncover some things that may be keeping you from actually stopping binge eating. In this episode, we chat about:  6 reasons why it feels so hard to stop binge eating How to escape the binge eating cycle The 3 things you should be focusing on  Habits loops and a little neuroscience of binges Getting the support you need to finally overcome binge eating Links: ⭐ Apply for 1:1 private coaching here 💗 Details about how to work with me & get food freedom support – Currently accepting new 1:1 coaching clients!  🍪 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

A decade ago I was in the *thick* of things with my binge eating & dieting struggles. It felt like I was pushing a boulder up a mountain that had no peak, and the boulder kept slipping, and getting bigger and bigger, and harder to push, as I went. It was exhausting.  I was so tired of trying to eat so "good" and “healthy," only to end up eating everything in the pantry until I felt sick to my stomach.    Knowing what I know now, there are SO many things that I wish I could go back and tell that younger version of myself. And I'm here to support YOU the best I can, so I'm trusting that in sharing this, some of these messages will be just what you need to hear now as well. In this episode, we chat about:  What my relationship with food looked like a decade ago  5 things I wish I knew a decade ago  How you can use this healing and knowledge for your benefit to improve your relationship with food, your body, and yourself  My 50% OFF birthday SALE for you (July 8th, 2024 only) 👀 Other Episodes Mentioned:  073. Shift Your Focus from Weight Loss to Healthful Behaviours 023. How to Trust Yourself Around Food Links: 🎉 Food Freedom Mindset Bundle (on sale 50% OFF, 24 hours only July, 8th 2024!)  ⭐ Apply for 1:1 private coaching here 💗 Details about how to work with me & get food freedom support – Currently accepting new 1:1 coaching clients!  🍪 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

The summertime long weekends are coming in hot. And I know long weekends can be a difficult time if you struggle with your relationship with food. Anything from the fear of having lots of fun foods around, to being afraid that you won’t be able to “control” yourself from overeating or bingeing on all the delicious food. I’m here to support you through all the food-related stress and challenges that come with long weekends (or any kind of eating out/BBQs/parties/etc.) in this episode!  In this episode, we chat about:  The biggest thing I DON’T want you to do How to allow yourself to eat what you’re craving without overdoing it  Fostering a food freedom mindset for long weekends Nourishing your body so you feel your best Some bonus tips related to alcohol and drinking  What to do if you do happen to overeat or binge Links: ⭐ Apply for 1:1 private coaching here 💗 Details about how to work with me & get food freedom support – Currently accepting new 1:1 coaching clients!  🍪 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!

Have you ever wondered if healing from chronic illnesses AND eating intuitively could co-exist? It might come as a surprise, but they actually can! In this conversation with our guest, we dig through the common misconceptions about healing & being healthy. Truth is, you can prioritize taking care of your health, chronic illness, and your relationship with food all at the same time – without the expense of the other.  Grace Secker, the founder of Elevate Therapy and Wellness, is a holistic licensed psychotherapist, certified yoga therapist, nervous system & chronic pain coach. Her Mind-Body Healing Method combines 10+ years of professional experience with decades of personal mental, physical, and spiritual healing to support people with chronic pain, fatigue, and disordered eating.  In this episode, we chat about:  What ‘chronic illness’ encompasses  How you can do more than just manage symptoms  The problem with “food is medicine”  The role our nervous system plays in our health Overwhelm on a healing journey  How clean eating can actually make you more sick The all-systems approach to health & wellness Links: 💗 Work with me & get food freedom support – Currently accepting new 1:1 coaching clients!  🍪 Take the Free ‘Why Do You Binge Eat’ Quiz  📱 Connect with Jenn on Instagram (@the.intuitive.nutritionist) 🎧 Podcast Show Notes Our Guest’s Links:  📱 Connect with Grace on Instagram (@heal.with.grace) 🌱 Free Nervous System Training 💻 Grace’s website, elevatetherapywellness.com 🎙️ Grace’s Podcast, Heal with Grace If you’re enjoying the Intuitively You Podcast, please be sure to leave a rating or review! This helps us spread these important messages to more lovely humans. Grateful for you, keep on living intuitively you!