080. Healing from Chronic Illness While Eating Intuitively with Grace Secker, LPC, C-IAYT

Ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels and just keep getting no where in your binge eating to food freedom journey? They’re miighhttt be something going on with self sabotage and binge eating behind the scenes. Tune into this episode to find out more about how overcoming binge eating and self sabotage are related, and how you can truly free your mind.  Our guest, Kennedy, is a Growth Mindset + Binge Eating coach who struggled with binge eating for as long as she could remember but is now nearing 7 years binge free. She believes when you heal a part of you that you thought was stuck with you forever - everything else opens up elsewhere and you can experience more life!  In this episode, we chat about:  Why binge eating can be so hard to shake 3 reasons we feel “stuck” in our binge eating struggles  The 9 hungers framework to reduce binges What self sabotage really is  The fears beneath self sabotage you might not realize  How to break free from self sabotage and binge eating  Shifting your identity as a way to heal   Links: 🍪 Join the Food Freedom Circle Membership  💗 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 Our Guest’s Links:  📱 Connect with Kennedy on Instagram (@themindbodyteacher)  💻 Check out Kennedy’s freebie: Break the Binge with the 9 Hungers 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!

Do you feel like the Halloween candy, or sweets any time of year, are tempting you from the other side of the cupboard whenever they’re in the house?! Listen to this short and sweet episode to help you get your power back in this situation and start feeling more in control around the candy and sweets. With a special guided audio at the end!  ⭐ Want even more guidance on your binge eating to food freedom journey? Join us inside of the Food Freedom Circle Membership today! In this episode, we chat about:  3 tips for when you feel out of control with candy or sweets in the house How to actually normalize these foods  The all-or-nothing mentality trap Foundational eating you just cannot miss Guided audio at the end to walk you through feel better in this scenario! (if you’re here for just the guided audio skip to 10:20)  Links: 🍪 Join the Food Freedom Circle Membership 💗 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!

An intuitive eating journey is truly not just about the food. Intuitive eating and food freedom are all about being connected to yourself, your body, your thoughts, your emotions, and your needs. What I believe really propelled me even further along my own personal intuitive eating journey was how I also worked to get really connected with my true authentic self. Tune into this episode to learn why you should do this too!  In this episode, we chat about:  Why a food freedom journey is not just about the food How connecting to my authentic self deepened my intuitive eating journey  Ways that I practice connecting with myself How you can practice this too!  Links: 🍪 Join the Food Freedom Circle Membership 💗 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!

I wish that overcoming binge eating was as simple as keeping your binge trigger foods out of the house. I think I speak for us all collectively when I say, if it were really that simple, we wouldn’t have gone through the struggle with bingeing for as long as we did.  But it's just not that simple. And actually, keeping your binge trigger foods out of the house actually makes bingeing worse. It’s like a bandaid solution that’s not actually addressing the root cause of why you’re feeling out of control around those foods in the first place. I’m all about tackling the root causes, so let’s dive into this topic!  In this episode, we chat about:  The reasons why keeping your binge trigger foods out of the house is making bingeing worse  Fears about keeping those foods in the house  How to make the process of making peace with food less overwhelming  6 tips to make keeping binge trigger foods in the house more manageable  Links: 🍪 Join the Food Freedom Circle Membership 💗 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!

Oh oh oh… Ozempic! As much as I hate that the catchy commercial jingle is forever stuck in my head, let’s chat about Ozempic. Really, let’s chat about the weight loss drug (aka. semaglutides & GLP-1 medications) craze that’s been going on the past year or so.  Our guest, Kirsten Morrisson, is an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. She is the Host of Intuitive Bites Podcast and runs her own virtual private practice helping women heal their relationships to food and body. Kirsten also previously worked in a bariatric clinic (weight loss surgery) and understands all the nuances of what people go through when pursuing intentional weight loss.  In this episode, we chat about:  Kirsten’s background working as a bariatric dietitian in a weight loss clinic  The unrealistic expectations that are place upon folks looking to lose weight  What Ozempic and other similar drugs really are  The side effects that come along with the use of Ozempic or similar drugs How Ozempic really works, and why it's not so glamorous  The long term effects and consequences of taking something like Ozempic  How you can stay grounded in your food freedom journey during the Ozempic craze  Links: 🍪 Join the Food Freedom Circle Membership (⭐ 50% OFF Founding Member Pricing ends September 30th, 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 Our Guest’s Links:  📱 Connect with Kirsten on Instagram (@theintuitive_rd) 🎙️ Check out Kirsten’s podcast, Intuitive Bites Podcast 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 5 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 membership program – the Food Freedom Circle! ✨ Join the Food Freedom Circle here! ✨ In this episode (Part 5 of the series), we’re pulling everything from this series together and tying it up with a nice little bow. We’re diving into how to take what you learned and actually implement it into your life, and how to do so with more ease. Because I want you to get out of your own way and actually make lasting, meaningful change in your relationship with food!    In this episode, we chat about:  A recap of everything that you learned in this juicy free series How to actually take action to get you unstuck The aligned action steps to implement to help you stop feeling out of control with food A little tough love for you on your food freedom journey  Why the Food Freedom Circle is a great next step All the details about the Food Freedom Circle so you can know if it’s aligned for you and your journey!  Links: 🍪 Join the Food Freedom Circle Membership (⭐ 50% OFF Founding Member Pricing ends September 30th, 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 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!