Nourishing Women Podcast

There are so many misconceptions about intuitive eating, one of the biggest ones is that it’s anti-health and you cannot care about nutrition, health and wellness. The reasons, however, that health and wellness is pursued as an intuitive eater is very different than the diet culture infused versions of health and wellness.    So can you practice meal planning and food prepping as an intuitive eater?   Absolutely!   Important distinction: make sure you are in a healthy place with it first, though. If you are using it to control your food, it would be important to take a break until you can come back to it in a more fluid, healthy way. Think of it like the exercise conversation, just because we ask at times for exercise breaks, for example pausing on exercise until you get your period back if its missing, that doesn’t mean its a forever thing. Just like exercise too, meal planning and food prepping should enhance your life, bring joy or reduce stress, it shouldn’t be about controlling your body, controlling you

A few episodes ago (in episode 144 on allowing yourself to grieve your here and now body) we discussed one of the first, critical stages of body acceptance. You have to grieve your here and now body and understand how your body image is so directly tied to your self worth and self esteem. Yet, how do you go from hating your body to then accepting it?  Today’s podcast episode explores how to move from hating your body and grieving it, to then feel tolerant and neutral towards it and work towards body (and more importantly, self) acceptance. Our guest on today’s show, Alissa Rumsey, is one of my favorite non-diet dietitians in the intuitive eating space and she’s amazing at chatting about body image work. In this episode, you’ll get tangible tips for how to work to accept your body (in time!) and we also discuss in detail what it actually means to develop and have a healthy body image.  In this episode we discuss in detail: Alissa’s journey to becoming a non-diet dietitian and making the shift in her career to

Cyclic living is essentially how you approach each day, week and your overall actions based off where you are in your menstrual cycle.    Cyclic living understands the changes in your hormones monthly affect your: Mood Energy Eating/exercise habits Work abilities Sex drive Relationships   Today’s episode explains what is cyclic living and how you can apply it in your life period or not. This conversation also explores how to not do it in a diet centric or diet culture way.   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. Live Q&As are hosted every Tuesday evening.   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

Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge has already begun but you can join at anytime, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate. In today’s episode we are joined by Whitney Catalano, the host of the Trust Your Body Project podcast to chat about emotional eating.  Whitney Catalano, RDN is an anti-diet Registered Dietitian helping people break free from the diet/binge cycle, heal their relationship with food, make peace with their bodies, and take the power back from their inner bullies. She is the host of the popular podcast, Trust Your Body Project, where she treats her listeners to interviews with guest experts as well as solo episodes. Trust Your Body Project is not just a podcast but a growing social media movement aimed towards eliminating societal cultures around important topics such as weight stigma, eating disorders, emotional eating, fa

Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge has already begun but you can join at anytime, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate. Brianna (or Bri) Campos is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of NJ. She has experience working with Eating Disorders and has a special interest in body image. She also teaches Introduction To Eating Disorders at St. Thomas Aquinas. She currently works as a body image coach & is passionate about teaching women about Health at Every Size (HAES) and taking an all foods fit approach to finding freedom with food and learning to make peace with your current body.    You can find out more about her or how to work with her find her on instagram @bodyimagewithbri or email her at bodyimagewithbri@gmail.com.   Today’s conversation explores the allowing of body grief. It’s so common in the body positive, health at

Stay tuned to the end of the episode for a very exciting personal life update! Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge starts next Wednesday January 15th, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate in the New Year, No Diet challenge.   This episode is a super special one. I invite my past client, Maddy, on the show to share her personal journey to freedom in food and life. In this episode, Maddy shares her relationship with food growing up, when being the “healthy one” became her identity, realizing she had a problem- orthorexia, and seeking help to recover with a therapist and working with me at Nourishing Minds Nutrition.   Maddy shares what it was like to heal her disordered eating and get her period back, where she is at now and some amazing takeaways she has from her personal journey.   Maddy is a wonderful example of someone who was dedicat

Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge starts next Wednesday January 15th, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate in the New Year, No Diet challenge. In today’s podcast episode, I share five books that have helped shaped me and changed my life and how they did so. Those five books are: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Senciro Inward by Yung Pueblo The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown I am currently reading Heart Talk by Cleo Wade. This week’s mantra from Morgan Harper Nichols: Come alive, come alive  You have come So far Now is  The time To be more Of who You truly are   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

Don’t forget to join the New Year, No Diet Challenge! This free challenge starts next Wednesday January 15th, and will provide inspiration, education, tips and tools for how to start this New Year off in a fresh, new light (aka without any diet culture BS). Click here to participate in the New Year, No Diet challenge. I know everyone is setting resolutions for 2020, but I wanted to share with you what I do instead. I set intentions that are based off values in my own life. Value based living means you are living your life according to what is important to you. How you believe you should live your life, not what others expect, or want of you. Values inspire the desired qualities of ongoing action and can help you be intentional with how you spend your time and live your life. In this episode, I share why I love value based intentions and my own personal intentions going into 2020. This episode ends with a fun new segment called Clapping Back at Diet culture. In this segment, we share some of the current manife

I know the New Year can make you feel that you HAVE to diet and set New Years Resolutions geared towards your eating and exercise habits and focus yet again on another year of trying to change your body. What if there was another way? We are hosting a FREE New Year, No Diet Challenge to help you do so. For every weekday for 30 days starting January 15th, you’ll get an email sent straight to your inbox inspiring you to look at the new year in a fresh new light. Instead of going on yet again another diet this new year, what if you tried a new approach instead? This free email challenge provides you the tools with how to get aligned with your values and what you want to get out of this year, more effective ways you can take your care of yourself this year instead of failed diet or weight loss attempt and how intuitive eating can support your goals to live your best life. Let’s make 2020 the best year yet! You with me? Click here to sign up for the free challenge. This week’s mantra: No one is you, and that is yo

Kait Hurley is a digital entrepreneur and the founder of the KAIT app & Move + Meditate Method. With a background deeply rooted in wellness and over a decade in the fitness industry, Kait helps students cultivate a stronger, more resilient body and mind. She's proud of the growing global community that's getting behind movement and meditation, and she's thrilled to share something that has been so transformative for her. Kait lives in DC with her cat Javier and her husband and business partner, Peter Marks. Connect with her on Instagram at @kait.hurley. In today’s episode we discussed: Kait’s story with anxiety and panic attacks that led her to discover the Move and Meditate Method Inclusivity of all types of movement and all body types found in Kait’s app and why she chose to do this Skills Kait uses to help combat stress and anxiety Kait’s mission to help us all tap into our intuition and inner strength Respecting the origin of dance music and Kait’s desire to respect the cultures that it originated fr

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday week! For the next two weeks, I'll be reposting some of mine and your favorite episodes from 2019. Today's episode is a repost from earlier in the year when my previous co-host, Meg Dixon, and I shared about emotional eating and body dysmorphia. In this episode we discuss: Emotional eating vs binge eating Diet culture’s role in the development of identifying as emotional eaters. The various causes of emotional eating and the deeper meaning behind it. What Victoria and Meg believe about emotional eating and what it means for someone navigating their relationship with food. Body dysmorphia vs. disordered body image 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. Live Q&As are hosted every Tuesday evening.   Let’s hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN: Victoria’s Instagram Victoria’s W

As founder and CEO of the wellness brand Beekeeper’s Naturals, Carly’s mission is to improve the health of humans and bees alike, which is why she left her job on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs to launch Beekeeper’s Naturals full-time in 2016.  Beekeeper’s Naturals is on a mission to revamp your medicine cabinet. Rather than relying on conventional products, their potent nutraceuticals are made from plant extracts and powerful remedies from the beehive—like royal jelly, propolis, and bee pollen. To make the most out of what nature has to offer, Carly and her team use scientific rigor to craft the highest quality solutions to everyday health issues—like brain fog, low energy, and scratchy throats.                      As a beekeeper and a tireless advocate for the preservation of the waning global bee population, Carly is dedicated to using her company as a platform to make a difference and raise awareness for the bee cause. Carly was recently recognized as a game-changing entrepreneur on the 2019 Forbes 3

This year of my life has met me with the most changes, the hardest moments and the most rewarding moments of my life. I’ve never better understood duality of emotions than before this year, and I learned it from both my business and from becoming a mother. I wanted to use today’s episode as an opportunity to get more personal than I usually do with you, and share a lot of the behind the scenes, the emotions...the things I’m afraid to tell you.   In this episode I share how I’ve battled a lot of stress, worry and overcame a lot of fear this year surrounding big changes in my life, becoming a mom, business transitions and all the emotions that came with big life changes.   So here’s to a crazy 2019! You taught me so, so much. And I would be lying if I didn’t say I hope 2020 is  little less all over the place, but if it is I’m here for that too. Here’s to a 2020 of chasing dreams, of living life the way we envision and living according to our values, let’s do that together!     Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK: The H

Rachel Mansfield is back on the podcast today! In this episode she shares how life is now as a mom of a 10 month old, running a business while being a mom, and how she has been feeding Ezra. We also discuss her upcoming cookbook, Just the Good Stuff, which is available for preorder now. Rachel shares the inspiration behind the cookbook, how the recipes are organized in the cookbook and her mission to help get people in the kitchen, by making it as uncomplicated as possible with simple ingredients and easy to follow recipes. We also discuss how Rachel doesn’t follow a particular diet, but she likes to make her recipes accommodating for all, or “food for all” as she calls it.    Follow along with Rachel on her blog, Instagram, her new podcast called Just the Good Stuff and preorder her cookbook, Just the Good Stuff.   Rachel's episode on NWP on her fertility journey.   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK: The Holiday Survival Guide.   Resources for you: Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. R

The purpose of today’s episode is to give anyone out there experiencing digestive issues doable and approachable tools and strategies you can begin using today to have digestive relief. While this conversation is geared towards people with IBS, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome, these strategies can really be used by anyone experiencing digestive symptoms.   It’s been awhile since I’ve shared this so I wanted to give a quick refresher to why I’m so passionate about digestive health and ensuring my clients and community have root cause identified, strategies with lifestyle and food and nutrition to support symptoms and utilizing food as medicine through herbal supplements and probiotics to have symptom relief and let me explain why...   For a decade of my life, I had terrible IBS.   My symptoms affected my quality of life severely. My own digestive issues, and really all my health issues, led me to start a practice that specializes in these areas, because when I was going through it myself, this type of help didn’t

Y’all I am so excited about today’s episode! I started following Becca Bristow about a year ago when we connected on the conversation of Intuitive Eating, and have become RD-online-friends and feel so honored to say that! Becca came on the show today to share about her business, being a mother, her passion for intuitive eating and we also spend a ton of time chatting the benefits of essential oils. Becca is a wonderful educator on how to use essential oils, and if you’ve been wondering why you should add essential oils to your wellness journey and how to do so, this conversation is for you!   If you don’t know Becca, she is a Registered Dietitian, wife, dog lover, content creator, DIY fiend, oily lady, and homebody. She is the content creator of the popular You Tube channel under her name, Becca Bristow, and a very inspiring entrepreneur and dietitian. One of my favorite things about Becca is how she shares tips, education and inspiration in a very laid back, easy to digest way. Conversations on health and nu

If you’ve never heard of the term gentle nutrition before, this is the approach and mindset to applying nutrition in the intuitive eating paradigm. The term gentle nutrition comes from the final of the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, called honor your health with gentle nutrition. Gentle nutrition allows for individuality understanding we all feel different eating different ways, for our own convictions and values, and for our own health needs, too. While its common in the intuitive eating community to avoid the nutrition conversation, this can sometimes lead to more confusion on the subject. I also think understanding nutrition can often help us reject diet mentality and appreciate what food does to us and for us, too.    In this episode I share how we approach the conversation of gentle nutrition with clients, when its appropriate to consider nutrition in your intuitive eating journey and some specific examples of what gentle nutrition looks and feels like. At the end of the day, nutrition is quite simp

Along with our free holiday survival guide e-book, the team of dietitians at Nourishing Minds Nutrition (Kelsey, Megan and myself), wanted to record this episode to help you with how to use intuitive eating strategies to survive the holiday season. Not yet downloaded our free e-book? Check out the link in these shownotes to make sure you get your hands on it!   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK: The Holiday Survival Guide.   Subscribe to Victoria’s email list to get special discounts this holiday season at Nourishing Minds Nutrition and discounts to Victoria’s favorite brands.   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. Live Q&As are hosted every Tuesday evening.   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   Abo

I want to start off this conversation by saying...Our bodies are made for detoxing and equipped to handle toxins, chemicals, stress and inflammation- so many of the taboo words in the health and wellness world.   The problem is not that we should avoid all these things forever and freak out if we ever use a soap that has fragrance, or buy a deodorant with aluminum or eat an inflammatory food (whatever that means...because truly everyone has a different opinion and one of my biggest complaints with the clean eating concept).   The problem is when these things because daily and consistent in our lives. Yes, our bodies are equipped, but when the load is daily- it can become too much. And conventional beauty and makeup products can be one of the biggest contributors to that daily toxic load...I mean think about it- how many times a day and how many products do you use daily on your skin and face?   Plus, there are so many factors that are outside of our control, becoming mindful about what we can be intentional a

Sara Forte is a two-time cookbook author, award-winning food blogger at Sprouted Kitchen, co-creator of the Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club, mom of two, and equal opportunity salad and brownie enthusiast living in Southern California. Sara’s food blog, Sprouted Kitchen, launched over a decade ago and has been an adventure Sara pursued with her wildly talented husband, Hugh, who is responsible for all of their food photography. Sara has worked at a grocery store, two farms, and has spent the last decade creating recipes for her blog, two cookbooks, and her weekly meal planning program, Sprouted Kitchen Cooking Club. Her intention is to make healthy-ish food that fits into that fits into the everyday life of families. She doesn’t subscribe to particular diets, or label foods as "good" or "bad." Her food philosophy is to try to eat mostly vegetables and listen to your body outside of that. Sara is authentically interested in the entire concept of wellness, including mental health, relationships, mindfulness, move