Somatic Digest | Processing Intuitive Eating, Inner Child healing, and the Gene Keys
By Kim Tasker
Somatic Digest | Processing Intuitive Eating, Inner Child healing, and the Gene KeysMay 15, 2024
#71 | Hack Your Health Trend
Have you watch Hack Your Health? Listen in to this episode to hear about the 20 fruits and vegetable trend.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:15) Hack your health
(5:39) Simple mundane tasks
(9:49) Why 20 fruits and vegetables?
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"We are looking for hacks, tricks to skip steps when it comes to our health."
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#70 | Are you sabotaging your health?
On this episode of the podcast we have a girlfriend chat about ways to sabotaging your health. Listen in to this episode and if you're ready to quit sabotaging you health and make nutrition easy, your next step is to Watch Simple Nutrition, Wholesome Life Masterclass & BTS of Nutrition Made Simple program.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:54) An introduction into yin yoga
(7:10) How are you sabotaging your health?
(8:25) Follow nature for the ebbs and flows
(11:52) Reframing your mindset of exercise
(14:29) Complicating simple things
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Do not let me cancel this. Remind me my body needs to go to yoga."
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#69 | Do you have a diet mindset?
On this episode of the podcast I break down the difference between a diet mindset and a nondiet mindset. Listen in to this episode and if you're ready for simple steps to find your natural way of eating, your next step is to Watch Simple Nutrition, Wholesome Life Masterclass & BTS of Nutrition Made Simple program.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:01) Born an intuitive eater
(2:36) Food as comfort
(3:45) Diet mindset
(5:39) Nondiet mindset
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Spoiler alert! Intuitive Eating is nondiet mentality."
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#68 | The Last Supper Effect
On this episode, Kim breaks down a common food belief that leads to binge eating.
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EPISODE BITES
(3:03) This fuels binge eating
(4:04) Situational circumstances
(6:33) How do you stop doing this?
(7:40) Seasonal Food
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Was it the food in the experience?"
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#67 | Gentle Awareness to change your Internal Environment (Bonus Somatic Practice)
On this episode, Kim breaks down three ways to use gentle awareness to change your internal environment.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:10) Astrology forecast
(7:20) What parts of yourself do you not like?
(11:17) Put the work into practice
(15:31) Working with your biology
(18:10) Somatic practice to anchor in goodness
(21:59) Tell Kim what was your vacation
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Mercury in retrograde is an invitation to slow down."
"True wellness is owning your own well-being."
"Anchoring into your body is where your true north lies."
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#66 | Metabolic Changes to Self-Regulate
I share a study that gives you an insight into how intuitive your body is. I use this study to breakdown your cravings so that you can learn to trust what your body is desiring as way to optimize your health.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:01) A study completed in the 1920s
(4:50) Honoring your cravings
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"This study is evidence that your body will self-regulate."
"The trick to learn your cravings is to understand your body."
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#65 | Prioritizing Quality of Life
I bring in experience as a long-term care dietitian to reframe the focus on weight loss to the focus on your quality of life.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:50) Introduction to Quality of Life
(3:27) Weight as a dietary issue
(3:50) What is happening underneath?
(6:04) A lesson in getting curious
(8:19) The desire for weight loss
(10:02) Nutrition and Quality of Life
(11:27) A quick lesson in diabetes
(12:47) Why is quality of life something we worry about when we are older?
(15:10) Nutrition Made Simple
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"The most effective thing is to get the root of the problem and find a true solution."
"We are way more multifaceted than calories in versus calories out."
"I am not willing to sacrifice my self trust for weight loss."
"We make our choices based on our experience."
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#64 | How to Prioritize Health Without using the Scale
On this weeks episode, I break down other things that you can focus on without using the scale.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:43) Pairing your meals
(3:32) Substituting your cravings
(4:22) Mindful Movement
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"We are thinking it is the cookie and not the situation."
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#63 | Affirming Body Image Comments
On this episode, I get personal with a body image comment and the truth that was going on behind the comment. I share tips on how to handle body image comments and ways that you can ask better questions instead of commenting on body size.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:46) The DM that inspired that podcast
(4:06) Intrusive Body Image thoughts
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(6:58) How comments affirm the behavior?
(14:19) How to ask better questions?
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"It's almost like the pasta was talking to me."
"Finding out what was coming up for me was really foreign."
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#62 | Intuitive Eating Tips on the Go
On this weeks episode, Kim takes you through tips and ways to strengthen your intuitive eater on vacation.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:44) Kim shares Intuitive Eating tips for vacation
(2:37) What are you doing on vacation?
(4:01) Think of the temperature
(5:26) Cooking on vacation
(6:11) Common questions to ask with Intuitive Eating
(9:00) Tangent about snacks on the plane. **Sun butter is sunflower butter that you can bring on the plane if you want to be mindful about peanuts on the plane.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"The most important thing is picking food that you really want to enjoy and make you feel your best."
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#61 | The Intuitive Eating Myth: Eat Whatever, Whenever
If you feel like you are eating intuitively, you eat whatever you want, whenever but you are feeling like it kinda sucks... this is the episode for you. Kim breaks down this common myth and how Intuitive Eating really looks. Grab your ULTIMATE Snack List & Guide EPISODE BITES (3:28) The myth of eating whatever you want
(7:16) Hunger is a physical sensation
(7:30) Do not substitute
(8:26) You have to figure out what feels better in your body
(10:23) What do I want? How do I want to feel?
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON "Hunger is a physical need and if you're using food to cope with an emotional need, you just need another tool."
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#60 | How to have "That Hit the Spot" Moment when Eating
You know those moments when you have something and you feel, "man that really hit the spot." The meal was delicious. You enjoyed the experience. On this episode, Kim breaks down an Intuitive Eating principle Satisfaction Factor. Watch program video Grab your ULTIMATE Snack List & Guide EPISODE BITES (1:24) A glimpse into satisfaction factor
(3:50) Episode inspiration
(5:24) A meal in the dark
(8:50) The experience makes the satisfaction
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON "Intuitive eating is the most natural way of eating."
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#59 | The Conflict of Body Image
There are areas of inner conflict that you may be using food to cope with. You might find yourself overeating or restricting. On this episode Kim brings you into a Gene Key study and shares with you how she traced an subconscious pattern about body image.
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EPISODE BITES
(4:38) Watch program video
(5:44) The conflict of desire
(7:28) A vulnerable story about body image
(11:57) Fearing feeling emotions
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"I desired to have the dress because I wanted to have the confidence."
"There is a conflict going on and its been running through my life for over a decade."
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#58 | A Nervous System Hack No One is Talking About
Embracing the invitation to eat when your hungry is a way to start honoring your body. Kim shares her experience and why she feels eating is a hack to regulating your nervous system. Listen in to hear where to start.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:33) Eating is a way to regulate
(3:48) Drop a review
(4:21) The mental health screen
(6:12) Assessing our needs
(8:12) Eating is inviting the conversation with our body
(8:43) The mental gremlins
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"We are not good at our assessing our needs and our bodies don't trust us."
"I am fighting myself to get my own attention."
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#57 | Intuitive Eating Grocery Shopping Tips
Grocery shopping is difficult, and can be really tempting when you're stuck in diet culture. On this episode, Kim breaks down simple Intuitive Eating grocery shopping tips to make trips to the store easier.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:32) Kim and her mini mic
(3:55) What kind of food do you want to have?
(8:29) Shop the pantry
(9:17) List out your grocery path
(10:51) Stick to the parameter of the store
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Even its like ice cream is on your list."
"Allow yourself to have some food with food."
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#56 | Overcoming the Fear of Food
Fear is a good motivator and is a common emotion used in diet and wellness marketing. The negative thing of being exposed to this fear over a long time is that is may make you feel discouraged and then do nothing. This is the episode for you. Listen in to hear invitations to approach nutrition with a more gentle approach.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:59) Fear is a good motivator
(4:16) What does fear do to your nervous system?
(5:43) The fear of food
(7:48) What is processed food?
(8:33) Drop a rating and review to the podcast
(10:59) Broaden your views on healthy and wellness
(13:31) We know the simple nutrition recommendations
(17:07) The fear makes us so discouraged that we do nothing
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"We try to control things because we are fearful of another outcome."
"Everything, eventually, gets processed."
"When it comes to food, we have tried so many different approaches that we have lost our own."
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#55 | Emotional Eating and an Activated Nervous System
Kim would often find herself bingeing on cold pasta in moments she where she was not hungry. After she learned concrete feelings of hunger she started exploring other feelings in her body and learned how she lived in fight or flight. Listen in to hear how to beat emotional eating by activating your nervous system.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:01) Nervous System Regulation as a buzzword
(3:14) How does an activated nervous system feel?
(5:27) Intuitive Eating as your natural way of eating
(8:29) How I land my plane
(11:31) Don't do anything drastic
(14:08) Checking in with yourself often
(17:05) Meet your needs
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"I got myself to a place where I my mind wasn't second guessing my hunger."
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#54 | The Dilemma of Weight Loss
Does the desire for weight loss ever go away? Listen in to this episode to hear how to surrender to the desire to not get swept up with the diet culture current.
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EPISODE BITES
(3:03) The nitty gritty details of your diet history
(4:12) Your body is a fire
(5:28) A quick apology
(5:55) Simple things that make you tick
(8:37) The desire is in your mind
(11:30) Collect data and counteract your mind
(12:24) The trust piece
(13:52) Watch program video
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"We all this desire for weight loss because we feel like we are lacking."
"When you know its normal, it's easy to shift out of the embarrassment that its there."
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#53 | How the Scale makes you Deaf to Hunger
Ever go a long time without eating and it's almost like you can't feel your hunger until your starving? This is the episode to listen to. Kim breaks down why it may be hard to hear your hunger sensations.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:49) Developing inner awareness
(5:26) Our minds shut down communication
(7:03) Substitutions with food
(7:57) Out of control with cravings
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Intuitive eating is all about understand how your body feels at 1/2, 1/4 tank of gas."
"I am literally choosing not to listen to myself right now."
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#52 | Empowering consistency; what to track in 2024
How can you stay consistent to your priorities for 2024? Listen in to this episode to hear different ways that you can track different actions that support your health and wellness goals.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:04) Lessons in consistency
(4:20) Disclaimer about tracking weight
(6:07) Tracking exercise
(7:26) Reflect on your journey overtime
(9:51) Consistency
(12:05) Let technology work for you
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Everything can be helpful when you create boundaries around."
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#51 | Leave Self-Critical Goal Setting behind; Tips for Compassionate Priorities in 2024
The New Year is right around the corner. On this weeks episode, Kim breaks down how to leave perfectionistic goal setting behind. Listen in for questions to ask yourself as you round into 2024.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:42) A very warm welcome
(2:40) Come into the Facebook Community
(3:53) Setting New Year Priorities
(4:15) New Years Resolution Mindset is procrastination
(6:31) Kim's single question
(9:46) Break it down
(10:38) What does that look like to you?
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Your goal is your priority."
"You have to prioritize something so much so that it becomes a habit."
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#50 | Emilie's Story; "Intuitive Eating is so Natural."
On this weeks episode, Kim welcomes a client to the podcast to share her journey through Intuitive Eating. Listen in to hear where she was before working with Kim, how people pleasing showed up in her food choices and how she has healed throughout the program.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:43) Meet Emilie
(2:21) Unpacking Emilie's relationship to food
(3:33) Gaining the courage to ask for help
(5:07) Normalizing things that may not be normal
(6:46) People pleasing and food choices
(9:52) Hunger checks and body awareness
(11:55) Reframing mindset around food
(17:09) How Emilie's journey evolved
(20:35) An all encompassing journey to self-love
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"It was really a journey of self-love." - Emilie
"What does my body actually want?" - Emilie
"It was crazy how unaware I was." - Emilie
"Its not just about food. Its just hunger." - Emilie
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#49 | Perfectionistic Mindset with Food, Diet and Body
Are you seeing that you have all or nothing thinking or even perfectionistic thinking when it comes to food, diet and even, your body? This is the episode for you. Kim chats all about how this way of thinking may be causing more stress and shares tips to help relax your body.
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EPISODE BITES
(5:04) What does all or nothing/perfectionistic thinking do with food?
(7:07) Questions to ask yourself to see if your fight or flight response
(12:20) What if your anxiety or all or nothing thinking is just a side effect of an activated nervous system?
(13:46) Do the uncomfortable
(16:06) Follow your breathing
(16:50) The importance of eating
(19:33) Limit caffeine and not from a place of restriction
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"What if the all or nothing thinking is a side-effect of an activated nervous system?"
"You have to get it all done or you did nothing today."
"Are you stepping away from your todo list to care for yourself?"
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#48 | Finding stability in Chaos & How to find it within yourself
Ever feel like life is crazy and you're running around with disorganized thoughts from your stressful work and home life? This episode is for you. Kim focuses on food and exercise however, these tips can be applied to any area of your life. Listen to this episode to hear how to build a stable foundation within yourself to maintain stability through the chaos.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:11) If you haven't listed to last weeks episode, we are piggybacking off of this episode
(2:09) The motivating emotions
(2:56) A heavy weighted blanket
(5:10) How do you maintain core stability?
(5:44) How do you find calmness around food?
(8:05) How do you cultivate motivation to move your body out of a place of love?
(10:37) How much do you sit throughout the day?
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Our bodies crave movement."
"I am not doing this because I feel like I am less than."
"You have to be honest to call yourself out."
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#47 | The Temptation to Chase Diet Culture
If you find yourself feeling shameful after hopping on the scale, this is the episode for you. Kim shares her honest perspective from this past weekend where she hopped on the scale. She brings you into her contemplative journey to share the real tips that she used to not feel an ounce of shame.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:13) Kim stepped on the scale and gives you an insight into the contemplative journey
(4:45) Lets set the scene
(5:38) Holiday food is not a habit
(6:53) Kims new diagnosis
(9:40) The human curiosity
(12:41) The last time I got on the scale; Listen to this episode
(14:19) What am I making true from this number?
(15:01) Tracking your cycle
(15:22) Come into the free community
(17:44) The one emotion that did not show up
(19:11) What do I want to be doing that I am not that I feel guilty about?
(23:44) Zooming way out
(27:17) What are you willing to do?
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Holiday food is not a habit and that is the hardest thing about it."
"I have nothing to be ashamed of."
"I am capable to handle whatever comes up."
"I don't recommend getting on the scale."
"I am doing this for the functionality of body in the longterm."
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#46 | Tips to Beat the Holiday Binge
Let's kick off the Holiday Season on the podcast. This weeks episode is sharing tips to overcome overeating, stopping eating when you are full and navigating shaming comments from family. This is an episode that will help you get through the crazy next two months.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:02) A moment of gratitude
(4:08) Treat every holiday the same
(5:47) How do you treat every holiday the same?
(7:14) What if the meal is at a different time?
(9:49) Remixing into tip number 3 - respect your fullness
(12:46) Binge-Free Holiday Guide bonus
(13:28) Removing the fat shame
(17:57) Regulate your nervous system
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"It doesn't happen overnight."
"We don't have the different bandwidth to deal with the different darts coming at us."
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#45 | How the Gene Keys can illuminate self-sabotage
If you are struggling with self-sabotage this is the episode to listen to. Kim discusses the Gene Keys and how to illuminate unconscious fears to help you become more self-aware of thoughts, emotions, actions, and behaviors.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:01) Kim recent Gene Key contemplation
(2:49) Brief introduction to the Gene Keys (5:05) Get your free profile
(6:37) Codon Ring of Matter
(9:02) If its not true in your mind, you don't attach to the judgement
(10:19) Looking at your EQ plus the Codon Ring of Matter
(12:55) A real life of Kim owning her shadows
(15:43) A good place to start...
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"To get out of self-sabotaging patterns, you have so stop being a victim to them."
"Your external world evolves through the lens of your inner world."
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#44 | All or Nothing Thinking and a Sober Curious Journey
If you are feeling pulled to a sober curious journey, listen in to this episode. Kim shares her sober curious journey. She released alcohol almost a year ago. On this episodes Kim shares a lesson in all or nothing thinking and how her Intuitive Eating approach helped her heal her relationship with alcohol.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:26) Alcoholism runs in the family
(5:06) Rest in the gap of not having it
(5:28) This journey started a year ago
(7:33) How did all of nothing thinking surface?
(9:59) We have not found the grey and that is why nothing sticks.
(11:21) A mindful experience
(16:23) Being out of your comfort zone while sober
(19:44) Pay attention to when you want a drink
(23:22) Reframe to Risk versus Benefits
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Without expectation or knowing what the end will look like, I am releasing this."
"You never left a glass of beer regardless of how you feel."
"All or nothing has turned into risk vs. benefits."
"How do you create more lingering moments without alcohol?"
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#43 | Importance of the Vagus Nerve; Where is it, how to activate it & why
Why is the Vagus Nerve important on an Intuitive Eating journey? The Parasympathic Nervous System also known as, Rest and Digest has a wide range of functions throughout the body. It travels around the stomach and into both the small and large intestines and is involved in digestion, decreasing heart rate, and breathing. Activating your Vagus nerve really helps you chill out. Listen to this episode to hear what the Vagus nerve is, how you can regulate it, and why it's helpful.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:25) Piggybacking off of Episode 36
(3:10) The Vagus Nerve is...
(5:59) Why is this important when it comes to Intuitive Eating?
(10:42) Bonus tip: Will this increase or decrease my heart rate?
(13:09) Addicted to the activation
(14:03) Vagus Nerve anatomy
(16:04) How do you activate the Vagus Nerve?
(18:02) Breathing Exercise
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Digesting is processing. Processing food, thoughts, emotions."
"How is my heart rate? What system am I in?"
"Fear is the biggest motivator of diet culture."
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#42 | Gentle Nutrition; How to approach nutrition with compassion
Gentle Nutrition: the 10th Intuitive Eating Principle is a nutrition approach that blossoms self-compassion. The journey to gentle nutrition is a different approach than diet culture because it takes dismantling your food beliefs, actions around food and ways that you cope using food. Listen in to learn how to bring a more gentle approach to your health.
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EPISODE BITES
(1:32) What is Intuitive Eating?
(2:33) What are the Intuitive Eating principles?
(5:52) The true meaning of compassion
(8:43) Is it self-acceptance or compassion that we truly desire?
(9:20) Myth: Intuitive Eating is not healthy
(12:15) Kim's Gentle Nutrition disclaimer
(13:13) Variety, Moderation and Balance
(14:26) Honor your taste
(16:07) Portion Control
(17:47) Increase fruits and vegetables
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"There is such a thing as too much of a good thing."
"Compassion and acceptance dance very closely together."
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#36 | Nervous System Regulation; Why it is Crucial & How to do it
Do you have a hard time sensing your hunger sensations? Are you under a lot of stress? If you are under a stress response your body may have a hard time signaling you to eat. Listen in to this episode to hear the importance of regulating your nervous system and tips on how to do.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:37) What did an unregulated nervous system look like for Kim?
(3:51) A mental health prescription.
(7:01) The importance of grounding into your body.
(9:10) Make yourself a priority.
(10:03) What is a fight or flight response?
(12:22) What is happening physically?
(15:03) Try this Vagus nerve facial massage.
(16:01) What is the Vagus nerve?
(18:47) The impacts of stress on your hunger sensations.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"When I was in a chronic flight or flight response, everything was more important than me."
"I was managing all of it at the expense of myself."
"Fight of flight response slows your digestion."
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#37 | Waste of time; how Intuitive saves you time?
When we have done a lot of different diets in our life, it is normal to wonder if Intuitive will be another waste of time. Listen in to this episode to hear how Intuitive Eating saves you time. Kim shares two different client stories discussing time and how Intuitive Eating comes quick.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:42) Are you viewing Intuitive Eating a diet?
(4:40) Client story about emotional eating
(9:42) Intuitive Eating gets you back to you
(12:26) Do you waste time wondering what to eat?
(15:15) Emotional eating is not something you have to live with
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"With Intuitive Eating, you are coming back to yourself."
"There is no rebounding from this. This is just my life now." - previous client
"There is no guilt or shame with any type of eating."
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#39 | How to reframe your relationship to exercise
We all have experienced the long days in the gym doing the exercises we didn't feel confident doing. If you continue to experience guilt and shame from exercise it may be worth looking into the foundation of your relationship with exercise. Listen in to the episode to hear how to do it.
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EPISODE BITES
(3:43) Movement is important for health
(4:41) Desiring a relationship with a personal trainer
(7:23) Getting to the foundation of what is motivating you
(10:54) The benefits of exercise
(13:23) How diet culture fails you
(14:14) Key indicators that may indicate a negative relationship with exercise
(15:07) How to rebuild your relationship with exercise
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Why does the level of commitment increase when you have a personal trainer?"
"You're not being realistic with your schedule and then you're getting shameful when you miss the gym."
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#40 | The Ugly Truth on Body Acceptance
Body acceptance is challenging and it impacts our food and exercise choices. On this weeks episode, Kim shares insights into body acceptance, the ugly truth behind it and steps to support you on your journey.
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EPISODE BITES
(2:13) Kim shares insights from her journal
(3:08) Body acceptance is a work in progress
(3:28) The destination trap
(5:30) Seriousness demands careful application
(8:33) The ugly truth
(11:40) Fear; the motivator of our choices
(12:29) First step - recognize it within yourself
(15:38) Surrender to the fear
(17:10) Strengthen your wise mind
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Body acceptance is something you cultivate daily."
"Self-acceptance comes when you stop taking yourself so serious."
"Let's stop worrying about the critical voice and focus on the voice that is going to get us out of it."
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#41 | Meet your inner food critic and how to overcome them
We all have different food voices that create and protect our food beliefs. The different voices include: The Food Police, The Nutrition Informant, The Diet Rebel. The voices can be harmful and helpful. The Food Police is the voice that creates shame and guilt that we feel from food. On an Intuitive Eating journey you are transforming these voices into a more compassionate voice; The Nutrition Informant, a protective Diet Rebel, The Food Anthropologist and The Nurturer. Listen to this episode to learn about the different voices and how you can identify them.
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(3:06) How the different food voices sound at a dinner party
(7:56) The Food Police
(11:02) The Nutrition Informant
(17:21) The Diet Rebel
(23:05) The Food Anthropologist
(27:21) The Nurturer
(29:17) The Intuitive Eater
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"We worry so much about the critic in our mind but it is more about the voice that is going to help us stop critique ourselves."
"When you think of a jury there is no room for grey thinking. The food police is saying good or bad and there is no in-between."
"Thanks to the food police, we have a lot of emotion tied to food."
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#38 | Awareness; the first step on the staircase of change
The Health, Nutrition, Fitness world is infiltrated with the desire to change. On this episode, Kim breaks down the steps of change that welcomes more compassion. The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd is mystical in origin but the teachings can be used in many different aspects of our life. Listen in to hear how to apply the teachings to your Intuitive Eating journey.
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(2:33) What are the Gene Keys?
(4:47) How can you tap into your heartbeat?
(8:13) Allow, Accept, Embrace
(8:17) What does allowing look like?
(11:25) Habit stacking and exercise
(13:59) The second step: acceptance
(18:01) If we fully accept something, we can embrace and make changes.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Intuitive eating impacts all aspects of your life."
"If you don't allow something to happen, you are not taking the first step to change."
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#35 | Weight Stigma and Self-Acceptance with Stephen Reeder
Ever wonder the side effects of dieting? Stephen Reeder, MA, LPC, LPCC, CEDS-S, NCC has been a therapist for 15 years. He has worked with substance abuse, domestic violence and eating disorders. This is a jampacked conversation about diet culture, body image concerns and self-acceptance. Listen in to hear advice, statistics and wisdom from Stephen Reeder.
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(1:57) Meet Stephen Reeder, MA, LPC, LPCC, CEDS-S, NCC
(4:37) What is a general understanding of diet culture?
(5:24) The definition of a diet.
(9:03) How does diet culture impact people?
(11:26) What are the implications of disordered eating?
(16:39) Red button issues
(19:48) Why is it so difficult to release the idea that we can't change our bodies?
(23:41) What are the layers of acceptance?
(29:00) What is a lesson to embody for self-acceptance?
(32:75) Logical mind vs. Emotional mind
(40:38) Connect with Stephen Reeder, website, Instagram
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"When we are talking about food, restriction doesn't make sense to me." - Stephen
"Diet culture is the greatest marketing scheme ever performed on us." - Stephen
"Everything gets a bad rap when it comes to nutrition." - Stephen
"The truth is, we don't like what the truth is." - Stephen
"The more attempts you have at dieting, the more likely you are to gain weight." - Stephen
"I want to live a whole life and not a restricted life." - Stephen
"Because of our biases we may look at that one and say, that one is healthier than the other one." - Stephen
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#34 | Cravings versus Coping; how to beat emotional eating
Do you have a hard time knowing the difference between craving your favorite food versus using your favorite food to cope with your emotions? This is the episode for you. Listen in as Kim breaks down the difference of coping versus craving and tips to overcome emotional eating.
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(2:59) Listen in to hear a breakdown of a craving.
(6:39) You should not substitute your cravings. Listen in to hear why.
(9:51) Coping is a way to respond to our emotion sensations. Listen to ways you might use to stuff food down.
(13:59) How to figure out what you need in the moments where you want to grab food.
(16:02) Don't meet yourself on the defense.
(18:35) Pause. Take a moment to embrace your feeling with compassion.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Cravings are the green light to give your body what it needs."
"Cravings are not a bad thing. It your body communicating to you."
"Energy cannot be created nor can it be destroyed." - Albert Einstein
"Cravings are distinct. Coping is vague."
"You have to get your mind to relax and the answers will come."
"Its not emotional eating if you're not eating enough. It's just eating."
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#33 | The Biggest Mistake you make with Food
If you are looking for a health and wellness routine that sticks but continue to find yourself eating to the point that you feel sick, listen to this episode. Kim shares the biggest mistake she sees and has personally done, when it comes to food.
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(5:07) The personal experience that Kim brings to the relationship with food
(8:37) Is there such a thing as unhealthy food?
(10:44) Think of your birthday. Imagine not being able to eat your cake.
(12:32) Nutrition is overwhelming. Listen in to hear how we confuse ourselves.
(14:29) How to take a step back and create a health and wellness routine that fits your life.
(16:28) Hear how Intuitive Eating fits beats the one-size-fits-all approach.
(19:17) Listen in to hear how to beat the food worry.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Food impacts all areas of our life."
"There is a time and a place for all food."
"When it comes to nutrition, everyone has an opinion, because everyone eats."
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#32 | Life After Alcohol with Jess Dennis
On this episode, Kim welcomes our first interview. Kim host Jess Dennis. Jess is a mom to three girls (14, 11 & 3) and a wife to her high school sweetheart of 15 years. She’s been an entrepreneur for the past 15 years, running companies from direct sales to bricks n mortar franchises. She views businesses as creative endeavors and loves bringing a concept to market and then helping it grow into a fully operational, successful business. In 2019 she wrote a book called: The Balanced Entrepreneur which highlights the life lessons she’s learned through entrepreneurship. Her latest passion project is around the sober curious movement with a newsletter called “Life After Alcohol”. The meat and potatoes of the episode is centered around a sober curious journey as Kim and Jess can relate on their journey. The episode talks about anxiety, depression, self-confidence, making big lifestyle changes, and of course, nutrition.
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(1:52) Kim introduces you to Jess Dennis. Jess shares her journey including her most recent adventure, sobriety.
(8:31) Alcohol, depression and anxiety.
(10:44) Maybe she born with it maybe its... resilience.
(12:59) Self-confidence. Jess shares how she developed confidence during a journey with the belief of "why not me?"
(18:47) Jess shares a concept of using nutrition to help sobriety.
(24:23) Alcohol-free, body-image, and nutrition.
(28:39) The role of boundaries.
(31:45) Jess shares how her children responded to her sobriety.
(39:00) Jess shares her latest passion project around the sober curious movement with a newsletter called “Life After Alcohol”. This newsletter chronicles her own journey to stop drinking and offers honest, real talk about what it’s like to question the role alcohol plays in our lives and imagine a life on the other side. Grab the newsletter here.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Everything is figure-out-able." - Jess
"I know I can even if I don't know how. What is one step I can take?" - Jess
"What growth looks, and feels like for the person walking through it is a push-pull." - Jess
"It was all about alcohol when I was trying to avoid alcohol but then it flipped it and it had nothing to do with alcohol." - Jess
"Anger is a secondary emotion." - Jess
"The highlight reel is not what it seems." - Kim
"There is a threshold to taking in information." - Jess
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#31 | Common reasons for food guilt; The tips to stop it
Intuitive eating is a journey on giving yourself unconditional permission to eat food. Any type of food. Sweets. Junk Food. Burgers. Pizza. But how do you do it? Join Kim on this weeks episode to hear the most common fears and how to overcome them.
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(1:52) There is a lot of fear that comes in when you are going to eat "bad" food.
(2:14) What happens to trigger overeating?
(4:41) What is unconditional permission to eat?
(5:47) Listen in to hear what conditional eating looks like.
(8:16) The fear of, "once I start eating..."
(10:14) The issue with heart-hearted commitment.
(11:11) The fear of, "I will never eat healthy."
(12:55) The issue with lack of self-trust
(15:28) How lack of self-trust leads to disordered eating
(17:28) What are all the foods that sound good to you?
(18:54) What foods do you typically eat?
(19:23) Make a date to eat one of them.
(20:23) Make a commitment to have it often.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"The mere perception of making food off-limits can be enough to trigger overeating."
"I am only eating this because so and so said this is better than that."
"You are limiting yourself and your body is like I can't stop!"
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#30 | The hardest part of Intuitive Eating; the honeymoon phase
When you decide to go on an Intuitive Eating journey and allow yourself to eat freely you may find yourself asking, "how is this healthy?" This is the golden question that can either lead you into gentle nutrition or another fad diet. Join Kim on this episode to hear the tricks to release from the honeymoon cycle and continue on your intuitive eating journey.
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(2:40) The honey moon phase of Intuitive Eating
(3:56) The fulcrum of your Intuitive Eating journey
(4:54) Why does it happen?
(9:07) When you ask yourself, how is this healthy for me? Listen in to hear why this is the golden question.
(13:01) Listen to hear how to investigate your mind to understand why you don't enjoy food.
(14:54) Hear why distracted eating makes it hard to understanding how the food makes you feel.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"When you start to ask yourself how is this healthy? is really the pinnacle of your journey."
"If there is any limitation in your mind, your mind is brilliant and knows what you're doing."
"Did it make you feel bloated because you ate too much or was it really the pizza?"
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#29 | Embracing the younger part of you to stop self-sabotaging
On this episode, Kim talks about how embracing her inner child has been lifechanging. We all use food to cope with our emotions and the secret to stop self-sabotaging your body and find control with food is hiding with your inner child. Listen in to this episode to hear Kim's tips for connecting and embracing with your inner child.
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(2:11) What does inner child mean?
(4:59) Why is inner child important in your relationship with food?
(5:58) Eating is a coping mechanism that commonly starts in childhood. Kim shares some client stories.
(7:30) Kim shares why she never eat dinner at the dinner table.
(10:18) The biggest mistake that Kim made when came to inner child healing.
(14:53) Listen in to hear the most important thing Kim has found in her Inner Child Healing
(15:41) The hack for inner child healing.
(16:03) Show up like you have someone waiting for you... because you do.
(17:45) Make a system to evaluate how checking in is going.
(21:36) Got a busy mind? Listen to a tip to dump the thoughts.
(24:41) Anchor into your breathe. Listen for box breathing.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"The 4 F's of an activated nervous system: fight, flight, freeze or fawn."
"It's most likely not even the food. Its the way we cope using the food."
"Inner child healing is an emphases on you embracing your inner child."
"If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I am not interested in or open to your feedback. There are a million cheap seats in the world today filled with people who will never be brave with their own lives, but will spend every ounce of energy they have hurling advice and judgement at those of us trying to dare greatly. Their only contributions are criticism, cynicism, and fear-mongering. If you're criticizing from a place where you're not also putting yourself on the line, I'm not interested in your feedback." - Brene Brown
"Show up like you have someone waiting for you... because you do." "Our normal is to break commitments with ourselves when no one is watching."
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#28 | Food Frenzy; what causes it and how to stop it.
Food Frenzy. Binge. Overeating. Out-of-control. We call it something different but we have all seen it. Those nights where we eat different foods in the pantry trying to feel full. Why do we keep finding ourselves here? Why do we keep eating the food that hurts our stomach? Listen in to this episode to hear why the binge episodes keep happening and how to stop it.
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(1:38) We are wired for progress and diets have conditioned us to focus on external factors.
(4:20) What causes the food frenzy?
(4:58) Comparison is judgement. Listen to hear what happens when we identify with the judgement.
(6:36) The issue is we don't even know what we want.
(7:12) Kim shares the hardest part of starting an Intuitive Eating journey solo.
(9:11) Stop blaming the diet. Listen to hear what the real issue is.
(10:05) Kim shares how it shows up for her clients.
(12:36) How do you embrace the hunger?
(13:38) Be patient and trust the body to do its job.
(15:33) Where does self-love blossom?
(16:59) Position yourself right in the middle of a triangle.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"The outer world evolves at the expense of your inner world."
"Comparison is judgement but the issue is attaching to judgement to make yourself feel secure."
"You are experiencing frustration, anger, and bitterness with your body because you are not letting your body do its job."
"If you want to love yourself, start trusting yourself more."
"The greatest adventure you could ever go on is the journey within your body."
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#27 | How to overcome Food Addiction
Can you relate to using food to fill a void or cope with your emotions? Kim shares a story about being stuck in the food chatter and finding yourself in a food frenzy after a busy day at work. Listen in to this week's episode to hear how to address your physical, emotional, and mental needs to help break the food addiction once and for all.
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(2:15) Our minds are wired for addiction. Listen to hear how our pattern thinking is normal and wires us for addiction.
(4:44) We all eat what we are comfortable with. Does everyone have a food addiction?
(5:10) How do you break the addiction? Listen in to hear how.
(5:31) Can you relate to using food to fill a void or cope with your emotions?
(6:40) Kim shares a client story from the week. Hear what her client did with the gap in her evening.
(8:06) Listen in to hear where the magic is.
(8:34) Hear how to address your physical body when you pause.
(10:58) Listen in to hear how you stop the food chatter and interrupt the food frenzy.
(14:20) Are you scared to feel your emotions? Kim shares how to start metabolizing them.
(16:42) Take a moment to pause. Hear some things you can do.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"Your mindset is the biggest problem you have when it comes to your diet."
"Your mind is trying to get your attention because you are not listening to your body."
"We feel emotions physically."
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#26 | Self-Care for the Mind, Body, and Soul: Prioritize Your Well-Being
This weeks episode is little different. Kim has a good ol' friend chat with you about getting back to the basics to prioritize your well-being. Kim shares things that she is doing to honor her mind, body and soul. Listen in to hear how to approach your well-being as a whole.
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(3:27) Kim found herself feeling more anxious and wants to get back to the basics.
(4:51) The love-hate relationship with the mind. How can you become better friends with your mind?
(8:38) Kim shares one of her best hair hacks with you.
(10:18) What are ways that you can honor your body?
(11:09) How can you honor your body, menstrual cycles, and movement?
(12:33) Is Intuitive Eating really healthy? Listen in to hear about Kim's recent trip to the doctors.
(15:18) How can you build a soul practice?
(17:25) Kim shares ways she creates an energetic reset for herself.
(18:33) Kim gives you her ultimate tip for keeping her orchid alive.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"This is too simple, this isn't doing anything."
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#25 | Common Food Rules and their impact on your mindset
On this weeks episode, Kim breaks down 5 common food rules that she sees with her clients in her program. Listen in hear what the five common food rules are, how they impact you, and how intuitive eating can help you overcome them.
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(3:04) Kim shares some common rules of diet culture. Listen in her to how diet culture starts for you.
(4:17) Kim breaks down the first rule: save the best for last.
(6:44) Do you classify or label food? Listen in to hear how this rule is impacting you.
(11:16) If you do this, then you get a treat! Sound familiar!? Hear how food is a conditioned reward.
(15:11) Listen in to the fourth rule that fuels a lot of shame.
(18:06) Kim shares the fifth rule and gives a real time example from helping one of you in her messages.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"There is no such thing as save the best for last when you allow yourself to have what you want, when you want it."
"Breakfast is a big struggle because there is so much classification of food for that meal."
"You need food to survive. How can you reward yourself with something that you need to survive?"
"We know how we feel. We don't trust how we feel."
"We have mental confusion about our hunger and fullness sensations."
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#24 | The desire for weight loss; how to live without it controlling you
Does the desire for weight loss control you? Join Kim on this episode to hear a clients story with releasing the constriction from diets. Listen in to hear how the desire for weight loss is something we all have and how to live without it controlling you.
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(1:36) You are invited to the Shift the Diet Shame LIVE EVENT on Thursday, June 22. Grab your spot here!
(2:41) Kim shares the progress a client of a client who was fearful what would happen to her body if she started intuitively eating.
(6:28) Dieting is creates the feelings that you are out-of-control; listen in to hear how.
(8:09) Listen to hear the way to rebuild the trust with your body.
(11:19) Journal these questions to break down your desire for weight loss.
(11:50) Why do you want to lose this weight? Listen to Kim coach on this questions.
(14:36) Who told you that you need to lose this weight? Listen to hear Kim's story.
(19:46) Kim chats about the shame from being told you need to lose weight.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"You feel that you can't be trusted with food because you can't."
"Your mind has been controlling your body your whole life."
"You know that your body is not a fashion trend but we are addicted to escaping the shame that we feel from that."
"Our mind doesn't digest food."
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#23 | How to break the diet cycle
On this weeks episode, Kim explains how the diet cycle keeps you trapped. You feel frustrated and angry about continuing to fail diets and you are starting to resent your body. This is a normal side effect of the diet cycle and it is nothing to feel ashamed of. Listen in to the episode to hear how to break the cycle.
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(2:04) You are invited to the Shift the Diet Shame LIVE EVENT. Grab your spot here!
(2:51) If you are using your mind to tell you when and how much to eat. This episode is for you.
(4:58) Curious what the diet cycle really is. Hear Kim's explanation.
(5:44) How do you break this cycle?
(6:40) There are common fears that Kim hears her clients have with Intuitive Eating.
(9:33) How has your diet limited what you can do? Hear how Intuitive Eating doesn't restrict your life.
(10:22) Kim shares common conditioning from childhood that impact the way you eat today.
(11:17) Intuitive Eating unlocks a lot things for you. Hear other things you will benefit from.
(12:35) How does Intuitive Eating help you get into your body?
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"There is no reason to feel shameful or guilty about something we need to live."
"Somatic is relating to the body, separate from the mind."
"You are an Intuitive Eater, you just stuffed the sensations down."
"We don't trust that our bodies have the ability to regulate itself."
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#22 | Obsessed about body weight? How to break it.
Do you feel shameful when you stand on the scale? On this podcast episode, Kim shares the energetics with the scale and how they cause you to feel shameful. Listen in to the podcast episode to hear tips to overcome the shame that you feel when you hop on the scale.
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(1:53) Kim shares how her recent vacation triggered the reflection with her energetics with the scale.
(5:14) Kim hopped on the scale. Listen in to hear how it went for her.
(7:46) When Kim got on the scale she recognized a key word that her mind said to her. Listen to hear how she shifted the shame.
(9:56) Our society has created a monster with the scale. Kim brings you an analogy to understand the scale differently.
(11:39) Listen in to hear what you need to stop avoiding.
(14:17) How can you accept what the scale says? Listen in to hear how.
(16:49) What is something you are not doing that the scale is calling your attention to?
(20:03) The scale grabs on to the guilt of what you're not doing. Listen to how it turns to shame.
SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
"When I jumped on the scale I felt like I should be lighter than that."
"The key word that my mind gave me was should, which means that I feel shameful."
"Should equals shame."
"The scale is not what you prioritize when it comes to health because when you do, you feel like shit."
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