Nourishing Women Podcast

In today's episode, Victoria debunks 5 myths about your period and hormonal health. This episode details through why having a natural, monthly period is important to your long term health, why its important to know when you are ovulating, the significance of cervical mucus, why you don't have to follow a strict diet or food protocol to have a healthy period and why intuitive eating is best for hormonal health.   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK: HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE. How to use intuitive eating to survive the holidays.   Resource discussed in episode on cervical mucus from the Real Life RD blog.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   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

  A powerful and often forgot about way to take care of ourselves is through the products we use in our homes. Today on the podcast, we have Allison Evans, one of the founders of the nontoxic cleaning company Branch Basics.   Allison Evans is a co-founder of Branch Basics and lives in Texas. After experiencing a health crisis during her junior year of college and traveling to specialists across the country to seek relief from chronic pain and motor impairments, Allison finally experienced true healing after moving to the Hill Country to live with her aunt, Marilee Nelson. By removing all toxic chemicals from her environment and eating real, whole foods, Allison’s symptoms completely disappeared. Her healing journey inspired her to co-found Branch Basics to help others experience how to truly thrive in their health. Allison enjoys researching all things natural pregnancy, birth and parenting; finding clean brands to use and recommend; and helping others navigate their health journeys. But most of all, she’s a

  So many of you have been telling me that you’ve been scared off from intuitive eating because when you try to make peace with food and give yourself the unconditional permission to eat all foods, you then begin binge eating those foods once deemed off limits. Today’s podcast episode defines what is binge eating, why it happens for some as they begin their intuitive eating journey and how to stop binge eating through realizing what is causing it.    Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   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: Victori

As curators of nationwide wellness events, Hello Wellness, Sarah and Jenna are dedicated to fostering in-person connections between like-minded people. Why? Because they’ve seen and felt firsthand how people can become happier and healthier versions of themselves by cultivating relationships. In this episode we discuss:    -How Sarah and Jenna met originally and how this manifested into a business years later  -Why Sarah and Jenna felt the need to start a company that takes online relationships offline -The challenge and anxiety surrounding meeting new people -What relationships to keep and let go -How Hello Wellness can help people connect in person -Making and fostering meaningful friendships as adults -Upcoming events of Hello Wellness (use the code NOURISH for 20% off your ticket)   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and ba

Don't make these two common mistakes in your intuitive eating journey: getting all your information about intuitive eating from a social media source and going through this journey alone! Today's podcast episode is to share why these common mistakes will make the process harder for you, and tips and strategies to utilize in order to make your own intuitive eating journey easier, simpler and quicker.   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   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

Lex Daddio is back on the show today! Lex Daddio is the primary content creator and inspiring influencer behind @restoringradiance and Restore Your Radiance. She is such a bright light, and gives tips on intuitive eating and shares tons of ideas, recipes and resources for cooking and enjoying food.   The last time she came on she was pregnant and we chatted intuitive eating during pregnancy. Since then, she had a baby and is now pregnant with a second baby, and I’ve also had a baby! So we used the opportunity to answer your listener questions on intuitive eating and motherhood. We discussed:   How to talk to children about gluten when one of the parents has Celiac disease How to show kids health and wellness without being obsessive and whether or not it is okay to want your children to eat healthy foods Baby led weaning and how this has allowed Lex to introduce foods into her child’s diet in a fun way Body acceptance in the postpartum stage And so much more!   Lex’s first episode on NWP: Episode 29 Binge E

Orthorexia is an eating disorder on the rise, and while it’s not in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual just yet, its a valid, real issue we need to address. This eating disorder is picking up in speed, especially due to the cultural fixation we have on clean eating. In this episode, we discuss:    Basic definition of Orthorexia Warning signs and symptoms you may be struggling with orthorexia Specific examples I’ve seen in clinical practice of orthorexia A self help test from Dr. Bratman What healthy eating and living looks like in contrast to orthorexia   Resources and References:   Nourishing Women Podcast Episode 53: Orthorexia An Eating Disorder on the Rise and in Disguise   Nourishing Women Podcast Episode 98: REPOST Q&A- Recognizing and Combatting Orthorexic Tendencies, the Hallmark Symptoms of SIBO, and Hunger/Fullness Cues During Recovery   https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/by-eating-disorder/other/orthorexia   http://www.orthorexia.com/   https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2

The longer I do this work, the more I realize how much the fear of weight gain is one of the absolute, biggest predictors of why we fear intuitive eating.   And I get it- I really do. I learned about intuitive eating way before I actually began my permission stage, meaning I rejected the belief that I needed to diet and gave myself unconditional permission to eat all foods, and truly listen to my body. If you are trying to start this journey, there are a few factors that you are going to need to work through first, or else you will always get stuck.   With clients, we focus on mindset, values, working through barriers, facing fears...including the fear of weight gain...first before we start detailing through the intuitive eating principles. This allows for better SUCCESS because you’ve made peace and worked on what’s holding you back from, first and foremost.   So this brings me to today’s conversation because its one of the biggest aspects that holds us back from intuitive eating...fear of weight gain.   If

Anytime I talk about perfectionism on the podcast, you love the episodes and I totally get it! Its something that I struggled with, and while I consider myself a recovering perfectionist for the most part, it is still something I always have to challenge. Perfectionism can often be one of the root problems surrounding disordered eating and orthorexia, so its an important mindset shift to work through and move past for this, but even if you don’t struggle with your relationship with food, its still worthwhile to work on. Today’s podcast episodes shares:   Why moving past perfectionism is a worthwhile endeavor Moving past perfectionism by: Practicing enoughness Be willing to be vulnerable Letting go Be purposefully imperfect Progress, not perfection How to move past perfectionism in your food and health habits What moving past perfectionism has given me in my personal life   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Ba

Katina Mountanos is the founder of On Adulting, a viral blog and community of over 20,000 millennials who are figuring out how to navigate adulthood in a conscious, happy way (@onadulting).  She is also a mindset coach, certified yoga + meditation teacher, and start up advisor. Her work has featured on HuffPost, Fast Company, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, Mindbodygreen, and others. She started her career in environmental sustainability at Goldman Sachs, and since then has helped dozens of humans develop conscious decision-making skills, which allow them to make choices that will expand their mindset, happiness and health.  Follow along on Instagram at @onadulting or The Space, a private Facebook group for the O.A. crew!   Website: www.onadulting.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/onadulting Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/onadultingspace Today’s podcast episodes shares:   Katina’s “adulting” journey and how she was able to tune into her intuition and leave a high-paying finance job in order to her own busi

Honestly, I came up with way more than 5 misconceptions about intuitive eating when I was outlining this episode, because there are so many! Intuitive eating is nuanced and complicated for sure, but what makes it even more messy is the misinformation and misconceptions surrounding it. In today’s episode we explore 5 misconceptions and the truths about what intuitive eating is actually all about.   Misconceptions that we debunk in today’s episode. Intuitive eating is anti-health. Intuitive eating is the hunger and fullness diet. Intuitive eating is only for those recovered from an eating disorder. Intuitive eating allows for you to eat cookies, but just one. Intuitive eating is easy and there is something wrong with me if it doesn’t feel that way.   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   Resources for you: Learn m

Adaptogens are all the rage right now, and this is one of the few health trends that I’m here for! Adaptogens are naturally occurring, nontoxic plant substances such as herbs, roots, spices and even mushrooms that have  been used traditionally by Aruvedya (the sister science to yoga and 5,000 year old practice of medicine in India), Chinese medicine, and in Northern European countries for thousands of years. While common in Eastern medicine and application, they are picking up in the West and we are going to explore in today’s podcast episode what constitutes a plant as an adaptogen, what they provide and do for the body, research surrounding them, why you may want to consider them for stress and hormone support and some of my favorite specific types of adaptogens.   At the end of the day, adaptogens should be used in a fun, curious way to see if they benefit you and to consider as part of your wellness routine and/or healing protocol. They are not mandatory to pursue health, but if you notice a difference ta

This episode marks an exciting update to the show, we are now offering two episodes a week!  Tuesday episodes will be shorter in length and Friday episodes will include personal life updates again and usual business updates, and then share the longer length episodes. I’m also thinking Tuesday episodes will be more of thought based conversations and Friday episodes will be for guests or educational, step by step, or more science driven episodes. I promise I’ll always have episodes on Friday no matter what, but the Tuesdays may be just seasons we...or every other week...let’s see how I feel about it on the production side and how you feel about it from the content side and we will go from there! Today we are going to chat how social media can impact your intuitive eating journey. Social media's role in your journey is so important its something I ask every client at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, and included it in my Body Image Reset.  After this episode I want you to do  your own analysis of your relationship wi

On the podcast today we have back on the show Megan Perez, one of the dietitians at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. In this episode, Megan shares her feedback and personal experience trying the whole 30 diet, and how this is not a non-diet approach. We review who the diet was created for, the pros, cons and major takeaways from her experience implementing it. Overall, our goal is to show you that no external sources that tell you what you can and cannot eat is true intuitive eating, and that placing food and good or bad categories creates an all or nothing approach to food. While the episode aims to be open-minded to why someone may implement this in their lives, we feel there is no way it could heal someone's relationship with food or could be sustainable for the long term.   Get Victoria’s FREE E-BOOK on how to ditch the diets.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum Baby oil Baby balm Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   Reso

Today on the podcast we have with us Dylan Murphy. Dylan Murphy is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist working in private practice in Nashville, TN. Living in a diet saturated world, she knows it can be overwhelming to determine what a healthy relationship with food looks like. Women are constantly fed lies that happiness is found in the size of their jeans, the number on the scale and the cups of celery juices they can drink in a day. Her passion is to help women ditch the nonsense of diets and create lives marked with food freedom and body confidence.  She graduated with a degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from Clemson University and completed her Dietetic Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She offers nutrition coaching with a non-diet, HAES approach. In her practice, Dylan Murphy Nutrition, she provides nutrition coaching, using her signature process - The Free Method, to women all across the country. Her focus areas are eating disorders, negative body image, disordered eating, chr

Dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, Kelsey Pukala, is back on the show, this time to help explain to you what happens in the body when you lose your period. Kelsey shares in detail: How the menstrual cycle works Long term health consequences of not having a period How the HPG axis works to create a period What affects the HPG axis How food, exercise, sleep and stress can shut off the HPG axis and cause hypothalamic amennorhea   References from episode: No Period, Now What Book   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Soothing serum. I”ll be doing a giveaway for this next week on IG!   Other Primally Pure favorites:  Baby oil Baby balm Fancy face serum Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   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 Tu

In this episode we have back with us guest Lisa Hayim. Lisa is a registered dietitian and nutritionist who helps her community discover food freedom and learn modern mindful eating with her Instagram account, blog and online course Fork the Noise Fundamentals. We discuss in this episode:   -Lisa’s journey with disordered eating and how she discovered food freedom -What are food fears and specific tools you can use to let go of the fear and have freedom around food choices -How disordered eating is so much deeper than food issues alone -The differences between traditional mindful eating and modern mindful eating -Advice for any bride-to-be for not giving in to dieting behaviors surrounding the wedding -Who Fork the Noise Fundamentals is for, how you may benefit from taking the course and when you can take it (open right now for the last time in 2019!)   Here’s the FREE e-book on beginning your journey to ditch the diets.   My special discount for YOU for Lisa’s Fork the Noise Fundamentals Course. Course enrol

Today on the show we answer three listener questions on preparing mentally and physically for pregnancy, how to know when its time to do an elimination diet for PCOS and how to get your period back besides the basic concept of eat more and exercise less.   Information discussed in the episode:   Here’s the FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR YOUR HORMONES.   SIGN UP FOR THE PERIOD PEACE WORKSHOP. Hosted on Saturday, September 28th at 11am EST this workshop is for any woman who wants to feel educated, connected to and empowered to understand their menstrual cycle and how to support it.   Victoria’s favorite Primally Pure products: Baby oil Baby balm Fancy face serum Body butter For the double cleansing method to clean your face: cleansing oil and baby bar   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 e

Did you know your hormones are in constant shift throughout your monthly cycle? No wonder we feel different throughout different times of the month! Today’s episode goes over in detail how your menstrual cycle works, including what hormones and what body parts are involved with your period bleed monthly. Then, we go over how to track your menstrual cycle through the sympothermal method of Fertility Awareness Method. By using our body’s signals and symptoms, we can predict and then confirm ovulation and then know when our next menstrual cycle is coming.   Information discussed in the episode:   Here’s the FREE E-BOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR YOUR HORMONES.   SIGN UP FOR THE PERIOD PEACE WORKSHOP WAITLIST.   References and resources:   The Fifth Vital Sign Book No Period, Now What Book Understanding Cervical Mucus by the Real Life RD How the Menstrual Cycle Works How to Track Your Cycle with FAM Not Getting Your Period is Not Normal Part One and Part Two NWP Episode 86: Fertility Awareness Method, the Menstrua

Today’s episode we come back to a popular conversation on the podcast, digestion. Have you ever heard of the low FODMAP diet? It’s an evidenced based diet plan that has been clinically shown to reduce symptoms in 3 out of 4 people with IBS. But there’s a lot of confusion and misconceptions around the diet, including how long to follow it. GET THE FULL SHOWNOTES: https://www.victoriamyers.net/blog/nwp-episode-109 FREE EBOOK ON HOW TO EAT FOR HORMONES HERE.