We so often hear about why stress is bad. Stress is toxic! Stress will give you a heart attack! Stress is the burden you’ll never, ever be able to shake. Ok, yes. Stress can do all of those things and more, but to liberate yourself from the box of “all stress is bad stress”… you first have to learn why some stress is GOOD stress. Like, what does stress offer us? How can we understand the signals in our bodies when we are feeling stressed? Basically, if you’ve ever felt stressed out before or GUILTY for feeling stressed out–this is the episode for you!

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Brianna Firestone is the founder of The School of Betty, a platform that teaches women how to manage their money, time, and energy so they can build financial freedom, lessens stress and live a badass life. Brianna’s expert advice has been featured in: Mind Body Green, The Financial Diet, Reader’s Digest, Business Insider, Reign, 5280 and on the popular lifestyle blog and podcast, PaleOMG & PaleOMG Uncensored. Listen along with my amazing conversation with Brianna to learn SO MUCH about how your finances affect your health, how your mindset around money needs a serious (and loving) overhaul, and how the heck you can do it! Because guess what–you totally can!! You can find Brianna at www.theschoolofbetty.com or on Instagram at @theschoolofbetty.

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Now that we’re a few weeks into the new year, maybe you’re over the New Year, New You vibes. I know I am! And at the same time, I am definitely holding space for the growth in my life that inevitably occurs during the month of January. The days are getting longer, the holidays are behind us, there’s a new quarter and we can map out each month of our lives for the next year if we desire. On the show I discuss our ability to observe how and why we choose intentions–and what to do to make sure yours are here to serve you in 2019!

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Aimee Suen is the blogger and nutritional therapy practitioner behind small-eats.com! Small-eats.com is an amazing blog where she helps people take small steps towards building the health and wellness they desire. In addition, she is also is the host of the Small Steps podcast where she brings on a wide array of guests and dives deep into the subjects that surround mental health, wellness, body image and beyond. I met Aimee online in the wild world of Instagram this year. We realized a few months later that we were both signed up to be in the same Foundations of Social Justice course, run by Dr. Tee. Listen on to today’s episode where Aimee shares her story on how stress was the catalyst to changing her life–one step at a time.

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Dr. Tee Williams 

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In episode 27 of the Essential Omnivore Podcast, I describe why gaining 20+ pounds made me happier over the last year. Tune in to learn more about my top five reasons why weight gain made me happier, and learn the backstory about my reluctance to discuss weight loss, weight gain, and body mass on social media (but why I talk about it with private nutrition clients!)

Do you notice how your body weight fluctuates? What are the drivers? How does society make you feel about your body being a responsive masterpiece? Too often we’re boxed into the category of being a static object. Being unchanging makes the world a neat and tidy place. Like we can Marie Kondo ourselves into perfection. But, ah. We’re always shifting and morphing! So, instead, how can we make sure that we can join WITH our bodies? That we can embrace their changing nature as just that–nature? Listen on for my ideas.

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Jessica Flanigan works in the unified field of Loving. What is this, you may ask? Jessica has been a clinical nutritionist for 20 years and works privately with clients to support their unique path to health. She often works with clients who experience differences in their chronic or autoimmune health. Today Jessica and I discuss what Loving is, and how this practice, term and experience can support any person as they navigate the path that is their life, and their health. I cannot wait for you to listen to this one.

So often in the nutrition and wellness world we can become divided over the “best” diet, the most healing protocols, or the most pure or clean styles of eating. These divides, and this reductionistic style of thinking when it comes to health unfortunately leaves out one big piece of wellness–heart! Your heart, your soul, these more nebulous concepts DO impact your wellness. Today, Jessica teaches us how this is, and what to do.

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Tis the season where we’re all thinking about… DIETS! YIKES.

Here are my five questions I need you to ask yourself before stepping on the diet train… and wait for it… listen to the full episode because there’s a spoiler at the end…

• What are my intentions?

• Is this change short term or long term?

• Does this change try to erase my current lifestyle?

• When I am tired, overwhelmed or feel out of sorts, does this plan take those factors into account? (or is it only manageable on perfect days)

• Do I have a support system in place?

Download Appetite Autonomy today to begin to build your ability to learn what YOU want in your nutrition!

Join Know Your Nourishment this January for group nutrition support. Spots are limited and already filling up!

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Emily Field is a registered dietician who teaches women a balanced eating approach. This helps them to finally break up with depriving diet behaviors and nonsense food rules for good. Through flexible dieting and tracking macros, and tailoring nutrition around effective exercise her clients? Well, they’re all enjoying more food, feeling stronger, leaner and more confident than ever before. Tune in today to hear Emily’s personal wellness journey and why she is so intent on changing the lives of others’ through their food, nutrition and beyond! Learn how finding community has been integral in Emily’s health during her life in a new city, why counting macros is a powerful health tool, and how Emily’s thyroid health was the catalyst for positive change in her life.

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On today’s episode, join Lucia as she breaks down just how social media drastically impacts your wellness goals, desires and actions. I mean, you may think it’s insignificant, but our very fast-paced world and hyper-connectivity actually has real life impact on our bodies. And I don’t just mean eye strain. So, listen on for your tangible takeaways on how YOU can reclaim your wellness online AND offline. Drop me a comment on Apple Podcasts about what it’s been like to take control of your social media accounts! Do you feel different? Or, is it useful? I want to hear from YOU!

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Zoë Levin is an entrepreneur who has leveraged her experience as a professional pooper with IBD to pioneer Bim Bam Boo. Listen up, because Bim Bam Boo is the first toxin-free toilet paper formulated with hypoallergenic bamboo! This is amazing, folx! Today, Zoë and I talk all things stress, butt explosions and how food is a first step towards wellness. And, after that very first step, how there are plenty more to take while on our personal wellness journeys! So, tune in today to learn from Zoë’s story. Plus, check the show notes for her bonus downloadable self-care checklist!

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Bim Bam Boo

Zoe’s Self-care Checklist

Reset Breaths

Can you really just eat in moderation? Can you learn how to eat in moderation? And, does this actually help you with your goals? Listen in on how:

• I think moderation works
• why it’s an important subject to discuss
• my tangible tips to help you understand how moderation will work for you

No matter where you are on your wellness journey, learning about moderation will be helpful!

Did you like this episode? Take three minutes and do me a solid, will ya? Awesome! Please review the Essential Omnivore Podcast on Apple Podcasts. Having written reviews will help my podcast place on the charts, which then gets new eyes and more importantly, new EARS listening to this life-changing information!

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In today’s episode, I ask you… is it really the food that’s keeping you from your ideal wellness? If so–cool. If not… well, that’s actually really cool, too!

Don’t forget, if you are loving what you’re learn about on the podcast? PLEASE! Please, leave a review on Apple Podcasts for me. Not only is it helpful feedback for me personally, but it helps the show reach new ears and eyes by placing it on the alternative wellness charts over on Apple Podcasts! Do me a solid. I’ll be over here continuing to release episodes every week!

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Today’s episode is all about the foods we crave, why we have cravings and the four different types of cravings I want you to be thinking about this week. What are food cravings? Learn the behind the scenes reasons behind your cravings! Most of the time, they’re totally figure out-able. I promise! It is easy to learn these types. If you’re loving learning from this podcast, don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts! Each review helps the podcast get closer to ranking on charts so more eyes can see and and ears can listen!

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In today’s episode, we chat all about:

• projecting health and wellness goals onto each other
• why your health is so damn personal and NO ONE’s business
• how our culture influences this hyper-sharing
• what to do about all of the above!

YOU, dear friend, have so much autonomy over your wellness. If you’re here listening and reading along, it’s because you’re interested in growing that autonomy even more. Don’t you worry, because you can do it. I’m here to help and offer questions, thoughts and ideas along the way! And remember, if you’re liking this show, please do me a favor and leave a review on Apple Podcasts! It takes only a few minutes and has lasting impact on the health (pun intended) of this show. More reviews help the show reach new audiences. I want as many people as possible to reclaim their wellness, ASAP!

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Ever feel like:

• you’re spinning wheels when it comes to meal prep?
• like you try SO hard but never get anywhere?
• that you meal prep all this food every week and it’s the LAST thing you want to eat when you open the fridge?

I’ve got you covered! Listen to today’s episode and learn simple strategies to assess how and why you are using meal prepping and meal planning to best serve you and YOUR life. Drop me a review in Apple Podcasts to help the Essential Omnivore Podcast reach new ears so more people can take the fear out of food! It only takes a few minutes of your time and has a lasting, positive effect on the show!

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What are the defaults of our dieting society when it comes to changing, seeking or shifting our wellness? Do you know how to define your health? Do these defaults make sense for YOU and your needs, or are you falling back on them because you don’t know where else to turn? Listen to Lucia describe a few ways you can question what you’re doing and then PIVOT and make the real changes you need in order to both better understand your definition of health as well as the steps you need to take in order to achieve that health. Please subscribe in Apple Podcasts and leave a review! It helps this podcast grow and reach new ears!

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Rebecca Hass is a teacher, musician, creative and coach for creatives living in Minneapolis, MN. Rebecca is on the podcast today talking about her experience as a creative and performer with anxiety. Learn how the journey towards reclaiming her relationship with anxiety has created space for her to continue to grow in the ways she desires. Plus, learn how that’s a moving target… and what to do about it! Like what you’re hearing? Great! Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, this is the fastest and easiest way to support the podcast and help it grow. By leaving a review, you encourage the show to chart. This means new eyes and ears have the chance to listen!

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A quickie episode on why habituating rest in this current culture is counter culture and revolutionary. Learn why resting helps you lose weight. AND. Why resting is counter culture and revolutionary, and just why our diet culture doesn’t ever want you to slow down. Like what you’re hearing? Great! Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, this is the fastest and easiest way to support the podcast and help it grow. By leaving a review, you encourage the show to chart. This means new eyes and ears have the chance to listen!

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The seasonal pattern of diets may be making you feel like you’re off your rocker–and guess what? It ain’t you, baby. Like, it’s the start of the fall! Hello, September! Hi, school for some! Bonjour, end of summer! Welcome, diets? Hello, strict protocols? Hello, shame and hurting yourself? Wait, what? How did we even get THERE? I mean, if you’re starting a “new” protocol for the fifth time, this episode is for you. Because really, your new recommitment to the same protocol you’ve tried before, even when you feel great while doing that protocol, probably speaks to a pattern that isn’t serving you. Yep, that’s right. I said it and I’m going there!

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Today Anthony Ongaro joins Lucia on the show for an amazing conversation. If you’ve ever told yourself that THIS is the time you’re going to stick to a new habit? Yeah, and then two weeks later that habit is nowhere to be found? Well, this is the episode for you. Anthony Ongaro runs Break The Twitch, an intentional living and minimalism blog which helps you reduce the distractions in your life. This helps you do more of what matters. Catch my drift? In the show we chat about Anthony’s relationship to food and exercise, and how he has built solid and enjoyable habits. This change in habit is very intentional, as you’ll learn.

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Break The Twitch

Youtube: Break The Twitch

Break The Twitch Member Community

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What’s up! Here’s my quick minisode, solopod, whatever you’d like to call it. 15 minutes of a discussion on how and why we can build boundaries around diet culture.

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Did you hear the homework? Great! Go do it this week and report back to me, I’d love to know what you find out and notice.

Hey everyone! You’re listening to episode 10 of the Essential Omnivore Podcast. Today I’ve got Jackson Gillies on the show, a musician based out of Santa Barbara. Jackson advocates for more awareness about Type 1 Diabetes and Hidradenitis Suppurativa (also known as HS), and we’ll be speaking more in-depth about his own journey towards discovering what wellness looks like for him.

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http://www.jacksonsings.com

Jackson’s Youtube Channel

Ted x Santa Barbara

Facebook

Instagram: @jackson.gillies

HS Diet Connection Group

The Hidden Plague

No big show notes for today! A 15 minute episode about how the popularity of the ancestral health movement can catch the eye of diet culture, and how business will market products (which is awesome!) and then push products on us–whether we actually need those products or not is up to us to decide… not business! So if you haven’t been sure whether to believe the hype behind collagen peptides and fish oil, this episode is for you. And drop me a review in Apple Podcasts when you’re done! Your effort is so appreciated as I continue to grow this podcast.

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Hey everyone! You’re listening to episode 8 of the Essential Omnivore podcast. Today I’m talking with Genevieve Blair, an aesthetician and professional make up artist and owner of Sparkoal Beauty, a safer wellness product company. Genevieve is joining me today to share with us not only her own health journey, but also the unique health journey of her two children and the diagnoses and almost-diagnoses they have. Find out how they came to choosing a high fat, ketogenic style of eating to support their varying wellness needs. Let’s dive in!

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http://www.Rebelheartradio.com

http://www.youtube.com/gennybbeauty

@gennybbeauty on Instagram

@rebelheartradio on Instagram

Sparkoal Beauty

What are some different ways to conceptualize the difference between a diet and a dietary style? Listen on as I offer my ideas, without taking sides or making the choice to use either a diet or a dietary style as a negative, which is where I believe our current culture so often takes diets (for body composition changes or health changes) towards… and I’ll explain more in the episode!

Angelena Luckeroth lives in Minneapolis and today details her experience with eczema, topical steroid addiction (also known as TSA or Red Skin Syndrome) and the information from her story that she hopes creates continued advocacy about a condition that is directly caused by topical medication use.

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https://itsan.org

Penny George Institute

Preventable: A Documentary

Cary Hakam, L.Ac. at the Qi House 

Bob Ekdahl and I are chatting today so we can hear the story of how he’s come to his current place and relationship with his body, and how this relationship has changed over the years and the impact this has had on his life. We also discuss the social influence that society and others have put on Bob, as well as his desire to cut through the noise and not only follow, but create his own path to defining his wellness.

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Follow Bob on Instagram at @the.iron.change

Liz Winters is a nutritional therapy practitioner, certified athletic coach, Birthfit regional director and owner of Sprout Wellness. Liz supports women and female-identified people to feel empowered and well during their prenatal, postnatal and everywhere-in-between lives. Listen on as Liz describes how and why she became passionate about nutrition and wellness.

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Sprout Wellness

Portland Outdoor Fitness

Birthfit

Balanced Bites Podcast

Kookoolan Farms

Eat Wild

Butcher Box

Dr. Terry Wahls

Nutritional Therapy Association

Lauren Bielenberg is a yoga teacher who embraces her life’s journey back to ‘being.’ she embodies a spirit of healing and growth, following her experiences with orthorexia and SIBO. she hopes to inspire people to live their fullest and most meaningful lives through vulnerability, compassion, and mind-body connections.

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–Kathy Gehlken MA, RDN/CAP. CMP (Ayurvedic Wellness)

-The Lotus Collaborative (eating disorder in and out patient, free weekly community and supporters groups)

Amber Link is the owner, recipe developer and nutritional therapy consultant behind Empowering Nourishment, a real food recipe blog aimed towards being a resource for anyone and everyone with an array of different nutrition and dietary healing needs. Today on the show Amber will be sharing her own wellness journey with autoimmune diseases such as Lupus, a diagnosis of Celiac disease and more, and why she is so passionate about empowering others to listen to their bodies through real foods and more in order to create wellness and healing. Hint: we end up talking a wholeeeee lot about STRESS!

Resources:

www.nourishingempowerment.com

www.instagram.com/empowering_nourishment

The first episode of the Essential Omnivore Podcast is here! I’m really excited to share this–this podcast is a platform to share stories. When I was co-host of the You Have a Body Podcast, I was always blown away by the courage and vulnerability of our guests and their personal stories they gave us the privilege to not only listen to, but to take away so many lessons from. I found every interview to be really, really powerful–and I didn’t want that to stop! So this podcast may have some episodes here and there with a few nutrition factoids plopped in, but the intention of this show is to highlight and witness just how much we can learn from one another. We’re taking the fear out of food one bite, and one conversation, at a time.