#184: How Your Childhood Food Rules Still Control Your Eating Habits
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
Release Date: 05/13/2025
#211: Stressed About Holiday Meals? 3 Simple Strategies for Intuitive Eating at Thanksgiving
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
If Thanksgiving makes you anxious about overeating, losing control around certain foods, or gaining weight, this episode is going to feel like a deep breath for you. I’m walking you through 3 simple, empowering strategies that will help you build a holiday plate you feel confident about while actually listening to your body. These strategies are designed to help you enjoy Thanksgiving…REALLY enjoy it…with more ease, more satisfaction, and trust in yourself. Whether this is your first holiday season practicing intuitive eating or you’re deepening the work, you’ll walk away with...
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#210: From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: Rebuilding Confidence with Aly Breathe
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
In this episode, I’m joined by Aly Breathe, a mindset and self-trust coach. Aly moved solo to Canada at just 22 and rebuilt her life and business from the ground up. Through that experience, she learned that self-trust isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build one decision at a time. We talk about how self-doubt can show up in sneaky, rational ways, the mindset shifts that help women stop second-guessing themselves, and why confidence isn’t about “faking it till you make it.” Aly also shares simple daily practices to strengthen your self-trust muscle and tune...
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#209: Writing Your Own Rules When It Comes to Fitness With Courtney McCarthy
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
What if exercise didn’t feel like a chore, or something that you “have to” do each week, but rather something you WANT to do for reasons that have nothing to do with burning calories or controlling your weight? I know that might sound too good to be true, but my buddy Courtney McCarthy is here to share how to do this. With over 10 years of fitness and coaching experience, Courtney has worked with hundreds of women to heal their relationship with both their body and with exercise. Courtney's mission, as the CEO and founder of Loyobo, an online fitness community for women, is to...
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#208: Fact vs. Fiction: What Perimenopause Nutrition Advice Gets Wrong
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
Let’s be real…there’s so much noise out there about what women “should” eat during perimenopause. From cutting carbs to loading up on protein shakes to “balancing your hormones” with some magic supplement. It’s EXHAUSTING and CONFUSING. In this episode, I’m cutting through the clutter and breaking down the 5 biggest nutrition myths about perimenopause so you can finally feel confident about how to nourish your body. Here’s what we’re diving into: why dieting to lose belly fat is one of the worst things you can do for your metabolism (and what actually...
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#207: The Truth Behind Why You Can't "Trust Yourself" With Halloween Candy
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
Do you ever tell yourself you can’t be trusted around Halloween candy? You swear you’ll “just have one,” but somehow you end up knee-deep in wrappers feeling guilty and frustrated with yourself. It’s not a willpower problem. It’s because the candy has “charm.” In this episode will help you finally understand what exactly “charm” is and how it works. Spoiler alert: it has nothing to do with willpower or discipline. It’s because years of diet culture messaging have trained you to see candy as “bad,” creating guilt, restriction, and the urge to overeat the very thing...
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#206: 5 Things I Had to Stop Doing to Become an Intuitive Eater
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
How to get out of your own way. Sometimes the necessary thing for becoming an intuitive eater isn’t more mindfulness skills or gentle nutrition strategies - it’s letting go of certain behaviors. In this episode, I’m outlining the 5 key things that I had to quit doing that cleared the path for me to fully make peace with food and become an intuitive eater. Quitting each of these things felt uncomfortable in the moment, but it was exactly what I needed in order to break free from the grip that diet culture still had on me. If you’ve ever felt stuck trying to...
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#205: You CAN Trust Yourself and Your Body with Emily Romero
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
After years of dieting, many women find themselves stuck in a cycle of self-doubt, overthinking, and questioning every decision they make about food, movement, and their bodies. In this episode, I’m joined by trauma therapist turned author Emily Romero, creator of The Self-Trust Model™, to talk about what it really means to rebuild self-trust, especially after years of trying to “fix” your body. We explore how trauma shows up in our relationships with food, what it means to listen to your parts without judgment, and how to start trusting your body even if it feels foreign or...
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#204: Brutally Honest Conversations that Happen Inside Hot Seat Coaching
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
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#203: 3 Ways to Make Intuitive Eating Go Faster For You
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
If you’ve been on an intuitive eating journey, and you feel like it’s going at a snail’s pace, then this is the episode for you. We’re digging into 3 specific strategies you can use right away that will speed up the process for you, so that you don’t have to keep spinning your wheels and feeling frustrated. This isn’t about turning intuitive eating into a “quick fix” or skipping over the important parts. It’s about moving the needle forward, without doing mediocre work - because you’re going to be focusing your energy on taking action on the things that...
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#202: Why You Do Awesome On Diets (And Then It All Falls Apart)
Rebuilding Trust With Your Body
Do you feel like dieting is where you shine? Where you can follow the plan, feel in control, and you feel like you’re doing something positive for yourself?...But when you’re not dieting everything falls to pieces and suddenly you’re stuffing your face with cookies and feeling like crap? Dieting offers a sense of structure, security, and the hope that if you just “stick with it” and “do it right” that you’ll have the body (and life) of your dreams. My guest today is a client of mine who grew up in a home shaped by diet culture where her mother was...
info_outlineDid you grow up being told things like "finish your plate" or "you can't have dessert until you eat your veggies"? It’s quite possible that these old food rules are still controlling what you eat - even if you don’t realize it.
In this episode, we’re diving into how those childhood food rules have stayed with you over the years, and how they’ve morphed through the input from diet culture.
Even if you’re technically not dieting anymore, you might still feel stuck in “no man’s land” between food guilt and food freedom, and these sneaky old rules are often the reason why. I’ll walk you through how to recognize these rules, why they’re so hard to break, and how to start letting them go so you can finally trust yourself around food.
Episode Highlights
-They psychology of early food rules
-How these rules morph in adulthood
-Why this isn’t fixed by ‘just listening to your body’
-How to identify + let go of your childhood food rules
Today’s Wellness Woo is genetic tests for diet and exercise.
Resources Mentioned
- Join the June 2025 Cohort of Stepping Off The Dieting Rollercoaster
Read the full episode show notes here.
Resources for Your Intuitive Eating Journey
- Intuitive eating education on the blog
- Work with Katy
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