Synopsis
Nourishing Women Podcast is hosted by Meg Dixon and Victoria Myers. Meg and Victoria are registered dietitians, owners and founders of the integrative nutrition practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Blending evidenced based research with ancestral wisdom, Meg and Victoria give you real life advice on all things nutrition, health, wellness and so much more. They specialize in helping women ditch the diets, heal their digestion, regulate their hormones and learn to balance holistic living without obsession. We guarantee you'll be entertained, enlightened, inspired!
Episodes
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443: How to be Healthy Without Dieting
03/10/2023 Duration: 15minSo you want to be healthy but you don't want to diet anymore? Actually, you realize the dieting is NOT making you healthy at all. So what do you do? How do you be healthy without dieting? You focus on your mindset AND habits, and if that sounds interesting to you, listen to today's episode to learn more! Today's episode is brought to you by Primally Pure. Primally Pure is the only skincare company I have used consistently, every single day, since 2017. My absolute favorite products are the fancy face serum, body butter, heal and tone spray and the gua sha stone. You can use the code NOURISHINGMINDSNUTRITION10 for 10% off every order! A few important announcements: -Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and body peace. Megan, our lead dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, is currently accepting new clients. Click here to learn more! -Looking instead for eating disorder recovery support? Click here to learn about our individual eating disorder counseling sessions. -O
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Join My 30 Day Neurobic Exercise Challenge!
29/09/2023 Duration: 03minListen to learn more about an exciting challenge I'm hosting on TikTok and Instagram to help you build neural pathways in your brain, faster. This means you create more positive thoughts about your body, without changing it. Listen to learn more!
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442: The Connection Between People Pleasing and Body Image
20/09/2023 Duration: 19minHave you ever considered that your concerns of how others perceive you is impacting your own body image? In today's podcast episode, we unpack many examples of how people pleasing shows up in our own body relationships. Don't forget the Body Glimmers Masterclass is THIS Saturday, September 23rd at 9am ET! Replay available to all who purchase, this is the final week to grab your ticket (this masterclass will not be available for purchase following the live event). CLICK HERE TO GRAB YOUR TICKET! Today's episode is brought to you by Primally Pure. Primally Pure is the only skincare company I have used consistently, every single day, since 2017. My absolute favorite products are the fancy face serum, body butter, heal and tone spray and the gua sha stone. You can use the code NOURISHINGMINDSNUTRITION10 for 10% off every order! A few important announcements: -Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and body peace. Megan, our lead dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, is
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441: Why Body Discomfort like Bloating + Period Cramps Cause Bad Body Image Days
12/09/2023 Duration: 20minThere is a way you can have days where you're bloated or on your period and not let it influence how you THINK and TREAT your body. The Body Glimmers Masterclass is a deep dive into the specifics of how to feel more daily appreciation for your body. This will allow you to move through negative feelings towards your body, especially on days where youre bloated or on your period, so that you can still think and treat your body with the care and respect it deserves. And what this really means? How you eat, move your body, care for your health is not dictated by your body image, mood or body discomfort of the day. You can still care for your body no matter the obstacle of the day. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKET FOR THE LIVE MASTERCLASS! (replay available to all who purchase) Listen to today's episode to learn WHY body discomfort like bloating and period cramps cause such bad body image days, and what you can do to move through that discomfort more easily. Today's episode is brought to you by Primally Pure. P
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440: Breaking Free from the 'Bounce Back' Myth (And the Many Reasons This is So Hard!)
06/09/2023 Duration: 22minThis episode is for all my postpartum mamas out there! There are SO many reasons postpartum body image can be so tough, and in today's episode we will talk about examples from my own personal experience, and stories you've shared with me, so that you can break free from the bounce back myth. If you are struggling with postpartum body image, don't forget to purchase your ticket to the Body Glimmers Masterclass. The masterclass will be live on Saturday, September 23rd at 9am ET with a replay available to all who purchase. In this masterclass, I'll help you work through your triggers in the postpartum, so that you can experience daily body glimmers (feeling appreciation for your body) and feel more comfortable in your here and now body. Today's episode is brought to you by Primally Pure. Primally Pure is the only skincare company I have used consistently, every single day, since 2017. My absolute favorite products are the fancy face serum, body butter, heal and tone spray and the gua sha stone. You can use the
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439: When It’s the End of Summer and You Still Hate Your Body (Listen to Learn How to Change That!)
29/08/2023 Duration: 12minThe Body Glimmers Masterclass is happening Saturday, September 23rd at 9am ET, listen to today’s episode to learn more! This episode is airing the week before Labor Day weekend. Which means its the end of summer, and we are slowly but surely entering into the fall season. But I want to rewind for a moment and take us back to before the summer. Because I would bet many of you listening to this episode went into this summer trying to change your body in order to feel comfortable in your body this summer. Let’s talk about why this happens and how to change that! This to learn more AND learn about our brand new masterclass, the Body Glimmers Masterclass. Masterclasses are an affordable way to learn and grow in a specific topic AND get coached directly by me. I’ll teach for about 60 minutes, and then open the floor for 30 minutes of coaching. In this Body Glimmers Masterclass I’ll help you: -Understand your personal triggers so that you can easily identify when they’re happening in real time, -Cope with t
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438: I'm Back! My Birth Story, Life Update and Q&A on Baby #2!
22/08/2023 Duration: 27minI'm back with a brand NEW episode now that I'm officially back from maternity leave! In today's episode I share a personal life update with you including my birth story, what life is like right now and answering your questions about life with two kids. I'll be honest I laughed pretty hard listening back to this episode in preparation to release it, you can definitely tell I have mom brain! Enjoy the multiple wrong words used (my cervix did indeed dilate, I just never had it checked) and hope you love the personal episode. Today's episode is brought to you by Primally Pure. Primally Pure is the only skincare company I have used consistently, every single day, since 2017. My absolute favorite products are the fancy face serum, body butter, heal and tone spray and the gua sha stone. You can use the code NOURISHINGMINDSNUTRITION10 for 10% off every order! A few important announcements: Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and body peace. Megan, our lead dietitian at Nouri
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437: PCOS: How a Non-diet Approach Differs from a Traditional Approach with Megan Perez RD/N and Client Alexandra
08/08/2023 Duration: 35minExciting announcement! Victoria will be back to work in early September and currently has 3 spots available for private coaching packages to work with her. These very limited spots and first come, first serve! Listen to today’s podcast episode to hear such an incredible conversation with lead dietitian, Megan Perez, and her client Alexandra. Alexandra is herself is a certified intuitive eating counselor, and when she was diagnosed with PCOS decided to work with Megan to approach her diagnosis from an anti-diet, intuitive eating lens. Alexandra’s Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/intuitivelyalexandra/ A few important announcements: Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and body peace. Megan, our lead dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, is currently accepting new clients. Click here to learn more! Our newest free guide is the Body Trust Meditation. Use this meditation to learn how to trust your body and food choices, so that you can experience freedom
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436: The Reasons for These 3 PCOS Symptoms with Megan Perez RD/N
01/08/2023 Duration: 26minExciting announcement! Victoria will be back to work in early September and currently has 3 spots available for private coaching packages to work with her. These very limited spots and first come, first serve! Listen to today’s podcast episode to learn from our lead dietitian, Megan Perez, why these three common PCOS symptoms happen and how to manage them through an anti-diet, intuitive eating lens! A few important announcements: Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and body peace. Megan, our lead dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, is currently accepting new clients. Click here to learn more! Our newest free guide is the Body Trust Meditation. Use this meditation to learn how to trust your body and food choices, so that you can experience freedom with food. Help us grow the podcast! By leaving a written review and taking a screenshot of that review and emailing it to me at hello@nourishingmindsnutrition.com, I'll send you back your choice of the Meal Plannin
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435: Best of: How to Dress Yourself To Feel Confident & Comfortable in Your Body with Megan LaRussa Chenoweth
26/07/2023 Duration: 48minIn this best of episode I have guest and style coach, Megan LaRussa Chenoweth on the show. Megan’s mission as a Style Coach is to empower, educate and inspire women to dress for the life they desire. She has worked with hundreds of women through VIP 1:1 Style Coaching, and her online Style Yourself Chic programs to help them dress to showcase their best self, and feel confident wherever the day takes them. In this episode we discuss: Megan shares who she is and the work she does as a style coach. Megan’s mission to empower, educate and inspire real women just like you to dress for the life you desire. Why clothing can make such a difference in improving body image, helping you feel confident and comfortable. The Style Yourself Chic method to dress yourself and dress for each body type. How to curate your closet for a wardrobe you absolutely love. How Megan practices wellness without obsession. A few important announcements: Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and
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434: Best of: How OCD Impacts Orthorexia Recovery with Mimi Cole
18/07/2023 Duration: 32minIn this best of episode guest and therapist, Mimi Cole, shares about her passion educating on 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 treatment and recovery. Why Mimi’s IG account is called the lovely becoming and her goal to create a community for humans who are becoming. How Mimi pr
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433: Best of: How to Have More Orgasms with Sex Therapist Vanessa Marin
11/07/2023 Duration: 41minIn this best of episode, we are here to release the shame and taboo around ALL conversations that surround women’s health, including sex education. In this episode, guest and sex expert and therapist Vanessa Marin, shares how to have more orgasms and improve your sex life. In this episode we discuss: When Vanessa knew she wanted to study sex therapy as she was becoming a psychotherapist. I have a lot of women who listen to the show struggle with their relationships with their bodies. This can translate into a hard time being comfortable in the bedroom, speaking up for what they want, and pleasing others before themselves. Vanessa shares tips to help you begin to speak up for yourself and your needs. Where you start if you are not having enough orgasms, and how to know if you are having an orgasms. How to speak up and share with your partner what you like and what feels good. How Vanessa practices wellness without obsession. A few important announcements: Private coaching offers you personalized support t
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432: Best of: Q&A on Birth Control for HA, Lab Values and How to Get Your Period Back
04/07/2023 Duration: 22minToday’s best of episode is an Ask Me Anything Q&A with Kate, asking me your listener questions. In this episode we cover in detail birth control for hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA), how long it takes to recover from HA, how to heal from HA as a college athlete and lab values that confirm or deny HA. A few important announcements: Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and body peace. Megan, our lead dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, is currently accepting new clients. Click here to learn more! The annual Summer Reset is officially ready for you! If you are ready to say NO to "get bikini body ready" messages and reset how you view food, exercise and your body this summer, download our free mini-course to help you learn how to reset your mindset. Help us grow the podcast! By leaving a written review and taking a screenshot of that review and emailing it to me at hello@nourishingmindsnutrition.com, I'll send you back your choice of the Meal Planning Guide, Gentle
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431: Best of: 5 Ways Intuitive Eating Makes Vacation Even Better
27/06/2023 Duration: 13minThis episode was recorded after I recently traveled to Greece and felt so inspired by this trip and how intuitive eating (and body image healing) made my vacation even better, that I recorded this episode when I got back home. Listen to today’s episode to learn the 5 ways intuitive eating makes vacation EVEN better! A few important announcements: Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and body peace. Megan, our lead dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, is currently accepting new clients. Click here to learn more! The annual Summer Reset is officially ready for you! If you are ready to say NO to "get bikini body ready" messages and reset how you view food, exercise and your body this summer, download our free mini-course to help you learn how to reset your mindset. Help us grow the podcast! By leaving a written review and taking a screenshot of that review and emailing it to me at hello@nourishingmindsnutrition.com, I'll send you back your choice of the Meal Planni
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430: Best of: Improving Your Digestion with Vagus Nerve Stimulation
20/06/2023 Duration: 16minOUR ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT FLASH SALE IS THIS WEEK THURSDAY-SATURDAY. USE CODE HAPPYBIRTHDAY AT CHECKOUT FOR 50% ALL WELLNESS WITHOUT OBSESSION SHOP OFFERS! The vagus nerve is associated with many different functions and brain regions, and research shows the positive effects of vagal stimulation on a variety of conditions, including digestive issues. So in today's episode, we focus on the many ways to stimulate the vagus nerve to improve your digestion! A few important announcements: Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and body peace. Megan, our lead dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, is currently accepting new clients. Click here to learn more! The annual Summer Reset is officially ready for you! If you are ready to say NO to "get bikini body ready" messages and reset how you view food, exercise and your body this summer, download our free mini-course to help you learn how to reset your mindset. Help us grow the podcast! By leaving a written review and taki
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429: Best of: Clean Eating Offers an Escape from Dieting
13/06/2023 Duration: 19minKeep listening, this episode is NOT going where you think it is, I promise you. In today’s episode we talk about the appeal of clean eating, the focus on whole foods, as you begin to leave dieting and the numbers behind. We talk about why this happens, why it’s not complete freedom and examples of orthorexia in detail. Listen to learn more! A few important announcements: Private coaching offers you personalized support to reach your goals of food and body peace. Megan, our lead dietitian at Nourishing Minds Nutrition, is currently accepting new clients. Click here to learn more! The annual Summer Reset is officially ready for you! If you are ready to say NO to "get bikini body ready" messages and reset how you view food, exercise and your body this summer, download our free mini-course to help you learn how to reset your mindset. Help us grow the podcast! By leaving a written review and taking a screenshot of that review and emailing it to me at hello@nourishingmindsnutrition.com, I'll send you back your
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428: Energy Hygiene Practices You Can Do Starting Today to Come Home to Your Body with Special Guest, My Sister, Kat Beck
06/06/2023 Duration: 35minWe are big fans here at Nourishing Women Podcast of talk therapy and mindset work, but as I study and coach on body image work, the more fascinated and focused I become on integrating body work into my own practice. But if you are disconnected from your body, possibly controlling your food intake or experiencing negative body image, in can be SO challenging to come back in to your body. So in today’s episode, I asked my sister, Kat Beck, to come on the show to give us all energy hygiene practices we can all do (myself included!) to come back home to your body. Kat Beck of mystic medicine is an intuitive healing guide + embodiment artist. She’s on a mission to make energy hygiene + embodied movement practices accessible for all. You can click here to learn more about her services, here for her membership and here for her Instagram account. Today’s important announcements: The annual Summer Reset is officially ready for you! If you are ready to say NO to "get bikini body ready" messages and reset how you vie
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427: Is Set Point Theory Fat Phobic with Body Image Expert Bri Campos
30/05/2023 Duration: 42minSet point theory is a VERY popular discussed conversation in the anti-diet space, and one of the most common topics discussed with clients in our virtual practice. When working with clients, we can get into the nuance behind why we get focused on “finding” our set point, but that can be harder to do for you, my wonderful podcast community! So I asked body image expert, Bri Campos, to come on the show today to discuss some of that nuance to set point theory and why we often fixate on it in hopes it may mean we will lose weight as an intuitive eater. We also talk to fellow coaches and providers in this episode, giving you lots to think about if you work in the body image space. Listen to today’s episode to learn more! Brianna (or Bri) Campos is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of NJ. She 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
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426: Is Intuitive Eating for You if You Want or Need to Lose Weight?
23/05/2023 Duration: 14minDid you push play on this episode thinking that THIS episode was going to address how you feel in your body. Like you want to do this thing called intuitive eating, but you strongly feel that you need or WANT to lose weight first? If you feel this way, I want you to know you are not alone. I’m not sure there’s a single human out there that doesn’t feel that way initially. And yet, it’s important to know: This episode is NOT going to be what you think it is. Because here’s the truth, if you see anyone telling you that you can intentionally lose weight and practice intuitive eating, run far, far away. Today’s episode is to briefly share what can happen to your weight as you enter into intuitive eating, but the main purpose of this episode is to walk you through the many emotions involved with the desire to change our bodies and lose weight. I’m so excited to share with you that we are celebrating May (and my upcoming maternity leave!) with a month-long special to book a 60 minute breakthrough session with our
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425: 5 Easy Steps to Take if You Struggle with Daily Digestive Issues
16/05/2023 Duration: 12minAre you someone who regularly experiences IBS symptoms, heartburn, nausea, or indigestion? If so, do you also find yourself feeling overly bloated and struggling with regular constipation or loose stools? Many of our clients at Nourishing Minds Nutrition are suffering from some type of digestive distress in addition to disordered eating when they begin working with us. Whether it’s chronic bloating or chronic fatigue, I find that it is almost always linked to the gut-brain connection. In today’s episode we explore with this is, and 5 easy steps to take if you struggle with daily digestive issues. I’m so excited to share with you that we are celebrating May (and my upcoming maternity leave!) with a month-long special to book a 60 minute breakthrough session with our lead dietitian, Megan Perez, for only $150! Breakthrough sessions give you the opportunity to meet with an intuitive eating and body image expert to help you identify 1-2 key areas where you are currently stuck, so that you can breakthrough to dis