Nourishing Women Podcast

What is your Knowing? And how can you better connect to it? Listen to today’s podcast episode, with guest Casey Newman, to help you feel nurtured and supported in how to use journaling, yoga and other mindfulness practices to better connect to your intuition.   Casey is a certified holistic health coach and yoga teacher. She is here to help you step into the BEST version of yourself using more than just the foods you eat. She is committed to helping you release toxic patterns and live the life you deserve, unapologetically. Casey loves getting real with her instagram captions with messages of empowerment, confidence and self-worth. Her signature Reset to Rise program is designed to help you find the courage to release toxic cycles and create daily rituals infused with intention.   In this episode we discuss: Casey’s journey like to pursue her work  and what inspired her love for mindfulness, yoga and wellness. How the struggle with perfectionism and disordered eating create a very challenging time understand

Welcome to the next round of our Ask Me Anything Q&A series! In this episode, my lovely assistant Kate asks me your listener questions about protein intake, probiotics and habitual eating habits.   Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones.   Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.  Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support. Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop. Join the waitlist for our new program coming in May, Get Your Period Back Playbook.   Let’s hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN: Victoria’s Instagram Victoria’s Website Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

Today on the podcast we have the honor of having Racheal Hartley, author of the new book Gentle Nutrition, on the show.   Rachael’s book Gentle Nutrition explores what healthy eating looks like from a non-diet perspective. It teaches you how to improve your relationship with food and how take care of your body with real life tips and tools that have helped my clients. By taking food off it’s pedestal as the end all, be all of health, Gentle Nutrition creates space for engaging with nutrition in a more relaxed, and sustainable manner. When we leave diet culture and the assumption that weight equals health behind, we can focus on truly honoring our health and well-being.   Rachael Hartley, RD, LD, is a Columbia, SC-based nutrition therapist, certified intuitive eating counselor and nationally-recognized food and nutrition expert. In 2014, Rachael  opened her private practice, where she specializes in intuitive eating, disordered eating and eating disorders, women's health, and digestive disorders. She also runs

Listen to today’s podcast episode to understand how eating enough and intuitive eating is the #1, most important thing you can do to boost your metabolism. When you’ve been undereating and following low calorie diets it feels like you need to continue to decrease calories to get ‘results’. If this is how you feel, then listen to today’s podcast episode!   As a reminder, today is the FINAL day to join Permission Stage Playbook, our online program on intuitive eating. Enrollment will not open again for 6+ months, so now is the time to join! If you join today, you’ll be sent a final bonus offer on how to boost your metabolism with intuitive eating.   Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.  Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support. Take a look at our new online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.   Let’s hang out! Connect with Victoria an

Click here to join Permission Stage Playbook, you have 3 final days left to join until we re-open enrollment for fall 2021!   Welcome to such a special episode! I had the pleasure of being a guest on Sabreen Haziq’s podcast, the Lavender Fix Project, where she asked me her honest questions about how exactly intuitive eating works. I asked her to come on the Nourishing Women Podcast, to ask me her honest and raw questions and allow me to coach her through the process! Enjoy listening to this episode to hear how I would coach you through the very real questions you have about how intuitive eating works.    Sabreen Haziq is the host of The Lavender Fix (a humble project born Amid COVID19), a self-help podcast dedicated to sharing stories of perseverance & resilience from real people with real life experiences. Lavender represents the part of the psyche that, untouched by the weary and troubles of years, retains the vigor and vitality of youth.  ​ Learn  more about Sabreen: My episode on the Lavender Fix. Sab

I’m sure friend you turned on this episode with major curiosity because if you have food fears, it seems impossible to just let them go and move on...and doing it in 3 steps, how in the world does that happen? I am here to help.   I want to start by sharing this is actually an excerpt from one of the many lessons you’ll find inside our online program on IE, Permission Stage Playbook. It’s open for enrollment currently and if this was helpful, you’ll love the education, step by step guidance, and community you’ll find inside the program. Enrollment is only open for 6 more days so now is the time to join!   When working to go from food fears to food freedom, the three step method is try, evaluate and free. Listen to this episode to learn more!   Click here to join Permission Stage Playbook and click here to watch the replay of the 5 Steps to Confidently  Become an Intuitive Eater webinar!   Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clien

Unapologetic eating means eating what you want, when you want, and how you want without feeling guilty or ashamed. Unapologetic Eating is also the name of Alissa’s new book that we discuss in detail in today’s podcast episode.   Alissa Rumsey, MS, RD, CDN, CSCS is a registered dietitian, nutrition therapist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and the author of Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace With Food and Transform Your Life. Alissa is passionate about advocating for women to reclaim the space to eat and live unapologetically. She is the founder of Alissa Rumsey Nutrition and Wellness, a weight-inclusive nutrition practice that offers virtual counseling and online programs to help people liberate themselves from dieting, cultivate a peaceful relationship to food and their bodies, and live a more authentic, connected life. Her expertise has been featured in hundreds of media outlets and she speaks regularly at events, online trainings, and conferences around the country. She calls New York City home and spe

I recently shared this Instagram post: “I’m not anti weight loss. I’m anti the system of beliefs, corporations, businesses, health care providers and influencers telling you the pursuit of thinness should be your highest ambition in life.”   I do not judge you for wanting to lose weight. And I'm not anti weight loss altogether. But if you think this is going to be an episode encouraging you to pursue intentional weight loss and intuitive eating, keep listening...   As hard as it will absolutely be, you have to put aside intentional weight loss to fully be free to rediscover intuitive eating.   One of my favorite quotes from the Intuitive Eating book shares, “If you allow even one small hope to linger that a new and better diet might be lurking around the corner, it will prevent you from being free to rediscover Intuitive Eating.”   When someone tells you that you can practice mindful eating or IE or food freedom and lose weight, and even diet and lose weight (in the long term) they’re promising you something

Erin is a leadership coach, specializing in Human Design. Erin uses Human Design to help thousands of individuals and companies step into their work and their lives as their truest selves and to their highest potential. Her work as a guide, coach, and speaker has attracted a growing community of over 60,000 people who turn to her teachings for practical tools, digestible tips, and deeper self-knowledge they can access to live with greater ease and authenticity every single day. Erin’s insights are highly sought-after because she makes Human Design pragmatic, tangible, accessible — and immediately applicable to everyday life (which was my favorite part of today’s conversation). Human Design is a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern science that sheds light on a person’s energetic makeup, as well as specific tools you can use to live at your happiest, healthiest, highest potential. It doesn’t change who you are; it teaches you who you are. It offers insight into what’s possible, and highlights the significanc

Today on the podcast we brought back my lovely assistant Kate, to answer your listener questions for another round of Ask Me Anything Q&A!   Questions we answered in today’s podcast episode: What’s your favorite part of being an intuitive eater? What probiotics actually do what they’re supposed to?  Thoughts on the IGG food sensitivity test? Do people really need to avoid all foods flagged? What can I do to better my digestion without being restrictive?    Past episodes on probiotics and digestion: Episode 100: Disordered Eating as a Root Cause to Digestive Issues Episode 101: Probiotics 101: What, Why & How Episode 134: Get Digestive Relief from IBS Starting Today Episode 162: The Difference Between Prebiotics and Probiotics with Kelsey Kinney RD/N   Today through February 10th we are doing something so INCREDIBLY SPECIAL. We are sharing a sneak peak inside our online program, Permission Stage Playbook, so you can get a feel for the juicy details and step by step guidance shared inside our course t

Kendra Tolbert MS, RDN, CDN, LD, RYT, Cert AT is a registered dietitian nutritionist, registered yoga teacher, and certified aromatherapist specializing in PCOS, fertility, and PMS. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences from Howard University and her Master of Science in Nutrition and Public Health from Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2017, She was awarded the Emerging Professional Award from the Women's Health Dietetic Practice Group. Kendra has experience helping individuals, families, and communities make improvements to their wellbeing and quality of life by adopting healthier habits. Her areas of expertise include women's health, PCOS, fertility, mind-body practices, and community nutrition.  Kendra is passionate about helping women live fertile. To LIVE FERTILE is to live the most joyful, productive, and fruitful life you can by caring for your body, mind, and soul. Whether your goal is to have more energy, make peace with your body, or get pregnant, living F.E.R.T.I.L.

We are bringing you such a special and fun episode today! I had the pleasure of having my amazing assistant, Kate, on the show to ask me the questions you submitted for this Ask Me Anything Q&A series. If you enjoy this format please let me know on Instagram, and we can keep creating them for you!   Today through February 10th we are doing something so INCREDIBLY SPECIAL. We are sharing a sneak peak inside our online program, Permission Stage Playbook, so you can get a feel for the juicy details and step by step guidance shared inside our course to help you confidently become an intuitive eater. For totally free, you can get the first three lessons of module 1, so you can start your journey through the permission stage of intuitive eating starting today.   Questions we answered in today’s podcast episode: How important is breakfast? If I’m not hungry in the morning do I need something like a piece of fruit to break the fast? Is it ok to wait several hours to eat a meal? How do you go from disordered eati

Today’s conversation is one of the most important episodes we have had on the show to date! I had the honor of having James Rose on the podcast to discuss the intersection of gender identity and eating disorders. Body dysmorphia and eating disorders are an extremely prevalent issue within the trans and non-binary community, yet it is so rarely discussed and further perpetuates the stereotype that only white, thin cis-gendered women struggle with eating disorders.   James Rose (they/them) is a non-binary New York City based actor, Health at Every Size Personal Trainer, trauma-informed yoga teacher, and co-host of the Full Soul Nutrition Podcast. They write about gender, eating disorder recovery, sex, their feelings, & their exes on their Instagram (@jamesissmiling) where they hope to leave the internet a little bit better than they found it.   In this episode we discuss:  James’ story and what led James to be passionate about acting, personal training, yoga and eating disorder recovery. James shares thei

I think we are ALL in agreement that we are so glad 2020 is over. Wow, what a year. In this episode I’ll give you my honest and raw reflections on 2020, and how I want to show up for myself, my family and my business in 2021.   2020 was a weird year for me. In so many ways I felt stuck inside (literally and figuratively), in my head. Questioning my choices. Numbing more than I am used to, particularly with social media and watching just about every show on Netflix and re-watching the Office and Parks and Rec too many times to count.  And I also had a good year in many ways, too. All the questioning and digging with myself about who I was and what my business stood for, finally paid off when I began to feel more CLEAR on who/what I am/do more than ever.   I think this year would have felt much, much shitter had I not consistently be experiencing such gratitude. Listen to today’s episode to learn what I felt so grateful for, how I feel going into 2021 and my word for 2021. I’m excited to be open and honest with

Today we have on the show, author of the Invisible Corset (now available for purchase!) and body connection coach. In this episode, Lauren shares the invisible corset is a set of culturally-inherited beliefs that make women as restricted and uncomfortable in their bodies as traditional corsets did. Wearing the invisible corset, women fear, dominate, disconnect, mechanize and coerce our bodies. When we get free, we not escape the generational cycle of female body hate, we also reconnect to the intuitive wisdom of our bodies.   In this episode we discuss:   Lauren’s healing journey and what inspired her to become a body connection coach Lauren’s journey to discover and realize that the invisible corset exists, and ways in which she was wearing it. We discuss Lauren’s definition of the invisible corset and specific examples of the invisible corset in our lives. Lauren takes us through the different feminist movements and how the marketing messages of the day were promoted to challenge them and how now, the ‘pro

Hello my fellow recovering perfectionists! You are going to love today’s conversation, with guest Kara Loewentheil, about how to truly create self confidence by rewiring your brain and thoughts, and letting go of perfectionist fantasies around New Year's resolutions.   Kara Loewentheil, J.D., is a Master Certified Coach, Host of the top-rated podcast UnF*ck Your Brain, and creator of The Clutch: A feminist mindset revolution. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, she did what every Ivy League feminist lawyer should do: Quit a prestigious academic career to become a life coach! Her Jewish parents have almost recovered; the fact that she built her business from zero to seven figures in three years didn't hurt. Five years after leaving the law she has taught thousands of women how to identify the ways that sexist socialization impacts their brains, and how to literally rewire their thought patterns to create true authentic confidence from within.    Her podcast, UnF*ck Your Brain, which combines evo

Click here to receive our newest freebie, the New Year, Non-Diet Intention Setting Worksheet! Today I am so excited to have guest, Mimi Cole, on the show today. Mimi is in school to become a therapist, and is particularly passionate about OCD through her own lived experience and research. Mimi shares in this episode what exactly is OCD, how this differentiates from someone who is organized or just “so OCD” and some specific examples of how OCD manifests. We also chat at length how OCD connects to orthorexia and what recovery with OCD and an eating disorder looks like. In this episode we discuss: Mimi walks us through her journey to decide to go back to school to become a mental health counselor.  What exactly is OCD and what differentiates OCD from the desire to just be organized. Most common examples of how OCD manifests and how to know if you are potentially struggling with OCD. The connection between OCD and disordered eating such as orthorexia. If someone with an ED also had OCD needs to know about treat

Please help us make the podcast even better in 2021 by taking two minutes to fill out this brief survey. Click here to receive our newest freebie, the New Year, Non-Diet Intention Setting Worksheet! I am SO thrilled to have guest Simi Botic back on the show. Simi was last on the show in episode 78 sharing about overcoming perfectionism and the power of reinterpreting events. And today she is back to share about unmeasured movement to support your intuitive eating and living journey. Simi is one of my absolute favorite intuitive eating coaches and if you describe yourself as a perfectionist, you’re going to want to follow her and learn all that she has to share! In this episode we discuss:  What Simi has been up to since last on the show, and her 2020 goal to discuss intuitive movement. What inspired Simi to create your Barre membership group, Unmeasured. Simi shares why its called Unmeasured and why she believes movement should be aboud joy, not punishment. Simi shares tips for ways we can let go of the p

Please help us make 2021 the best podcast year yet, by taking this brief survey! Today on the podcast we have guest Kate Eskuri. When I found Kate it was like finding a long lost like minded sister in this world of holistic health and well being! Kate is a registered nurse, going back to school to get her doctorate in integrative health. She believes in traditional practices backed by modern research, which is totally up my alley. In this episode, you’ll hear us geek out on our love for blending Eastern and Western philosophies, how to be less black and white about your health and wellness rituals and what it means to practice holistic and realistic self care. Kate is the author and founder of the Foundation blog and I know if you enjoy today’s episode you’ll love learning from her blog and following her on Instagram.  In this episode we discuss: Kate’s origin story to beginning the Foundation Blog What does foundation mean to Kate and 3  tips or takeaways of foundational health Kate shares about Maslo

Please help us make 2021 the best podcast year yet, by taking this brief survey!   Today on the show we have an amazing dietitian who specializes in PCOS, Melissa Groves Azzaro (aka the Hormone Dietitian on Instagram).   Melissa’s mission is to help women live healthy and symptom-free lives using whole-foods nutrition and lifestyle changes to overcome hormone imbalances during the reproductive years so they can thrive through their whole lives. She uses a functional medicine approach to figure out the root causes of your symptoms, and together, we develop a personalized plan to get you feeling better and living your best life.   Melissa spent the first 15 years of my career working as a copywriter in New York City medical advertising—so, she understands the challenges of incorporating healthy habits into a busy lifestyle.   Melissa lives in Portsmouth with her husband and our 4 cats. She sees clients virtually from the comfort of your own home one-on-one and in group programs, and hundreds of women have take