Join Vanessa Preston, Mental Health Social Worker and Psychotherapist and I as we have a candid conversation about  trauma, shame and building self-compassion. What you’ll learn by listening: How Vanessa's professional and personal experiences have influenced her passions in supporting women to cultivate healthy relationships with food and body The prevalence of shame in diabetes and some associated statistics from Diabetes Australia (https://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/mediarelease/heads-up-end-the-diabetes-blame-and-shame ) The difference between shame and guilt The two things that sh ..read more

Today we explore the topic of fake fullness and how these behaviours can keep us fearful of foods and disconnected from our bodies.  Although diet culture, and anti-fat culture promote such behaviours as supportive of our health pursuits, it is important to recognize the danger in continuing these strategies when working to improve our relationship with food, our body, and our diabetes.   On this episode we discuss: What is fake fullness? How it is often encouraged and normalized to support 'health' 6 ways it can interrupt you from connecting with your intuitive eater The hunger/fu ..read more

Whose ready to establish a more joyful relationship with movement?  Welcome to principle #9 of intuitive eating, movement - feel the difference. When living with diabetes the pressures to exercise can feel even greater, especially if you are feeling added pressures to watch your weight or increase insulin sensitivity.  Such pressures  do little to encourage a more joyous relationship with movement, or help us in finding forms of exercise that we genuinely enjoy.   If you're wanting to learn how to embrace this idea of joyful movement, and are hoping to free yourself of th ..read more

Myth busting time!  On today's episode we explore what a non-diet approach means and tackle some common intuitive eating misconceptions.  I love myth busting, and so this is a fun one as we dive into 7 of the most common intuitive eating misconceptions I hear including  'I won't eat 'healthy' food again', and  'my blood sugars will go crazy'.  Have you thought something like this?  This is the episode for you. On this episode you'll learn: what I mean by the 'life suck' of diet culture why diet culture  made living with diabetes 10x harder for me what is a ..read more

Join me and special guest Jolyn Martin as we chat about the toxicity of fitness culture, and the increasing normalization of disordered movement behaviours.   What you'll learn by listening: Why Jolyn moved from a traditional personal trainer to a non-diet trainer The problematic messages promoted by fitness culture and how they've impacted us personally and culturally Ways we can begin checking in on our relationship with movement and how we can begin making changes to support our whole body - mind, body, and spirit The fine line between disordered exercise behaviours and the eating di ..read more

The desire to be healthy is ubiquitous in our cultural climate, but especially so within the diabetes space.    This need to pay even closer attention to health, because of diabetes can create more hyperconsciousness surrounding food choices and other associated health behaviours.  Behaviours, that for some can turn into an obsession,  leading to the development of disordered eating and eating disorders, including orthorexia.    Given the prominence of diet culture within our cultural climate, and given our increasing backlash in its weight focused messaging, it ..read more

On this episode we are breaking down  yet another barrier that can keep so many from trusting their ability to leave the dieting mindset behind and embrace this whole intuitive eating lifestyle, especially while living with diabetes -  "But what if I can't stop eating?". On the show we discuss: where this belief may come from  the role of restriction the dieting dilemma how we may be restricting without even realizing it and how this impacts our cravings around food the benefits of being able to remove restriction, and being able to trust oneself around food without control or ..read more

It's that time of year again where goals, intentions, resolutions (if you are a resolution making kind of person) are in full swing, but before you start planning out this year's goals, join me for this episode as I outline why SMART goals fail us, and discuss how we can approach goals differently. What you'll learn by listening: What are SMART goals? 6 reasons why SMART goals fall short Why SMART goals parallel diet culture ideals How our intuitive eating journey/food freedom/health habits  journey is not conducive to the SMART goal framework 3 things we can do to approach our goals di ..read more

Are you interested in intuitive eating, but are cautious about moving forward because you are unsure of what you may experience throughout this process?  You are not alone!  This is one of the queries I receive often and is why I wanted to create today's show. On today's show, I will be presenting the 5 stages of awakening your intuitive eater using a diabetes lens.  I have modified these stages from the work of  Evelyn Tribole, and Elyse Resch, authors of Intuitive Eating. In this episode you'll learn: How to know if you are ready to begin the process of becoming an Int ..read more

Balancing your plate.  Eating foods in a certain order.   Is it diet culture or can it be intuitive eating aligned?  Let's chat about it. What you'll learn by listening: I celebrate my 5 years of being diet free What balancing your plate means and why it is often encouraged? If order of food eaten can impact blood glucose and the implications what if these approaches feel icky?  the value in getting curious, taking back your autonomy and agency, the role of gentle nutrition, internal connection versus external drivers, mindset, the weaponization of nutrition knowledge ..read more