break the diet cycle podcast

Today we’ve enlisted Zoë Bisbing, an eating disorder therapist, activist, mother of three and co-founder of @fullbloomproject to talk about body positive parenting skills and inner child work. If you’ve ever felt like you *WANT* to be body positive (so you can push back on the very diet culture that hurt you!)…but struggle to feel positive about YOUR OWN larger or changing body, you’re not alone.  We talk about where the disconnect between your body positive heart and mind, why it's so hard to heal from past diet trauma, and what you can do to move forward, while preventing harm to others around you.  In this episode you’ll learn: The difference between your body genetics and...

What if you could experience food joy instead of food guilt this holiday? You can! Before Melissa and the podcast go on break - she'll teach you how to plan ahead for food joy at upcoming celebrations using Satisfaction skills from the Intuitive Eating framework. To get you to this point where you're no longer in food guilt and extremes, Melissa will cover how to: heal from the idea "you love food too much" to be trusted with Intuitive Eating  ask yourself simple, impactful questions to easily guide your food choices at your next holiday party use mindful eating tools without getting restrictive, "diety", and obsessed  actually listen to your body! While Melissa is on break -...

For years, Summer didn’t even consider her dieting to be a “problem”. How could it be? A self proclaimed “good girl’ - she was convinced clean eating and weight loss were good girl things to do. Her takeaway when diets failed her? SHE was the problem. Coming from a family of generational dieters, and eager to do whatever it took to get dieting “right", Summer eventually wound up in a scary, restrictive on-and-off dieting pattern.  Today, Summer speaks about her experiences with chronic dieting recovery, including insights from her 1:1 coaching work with Melissa inside the No More Guilt Coaching program. This episode will help you: make meaning of the sadly, all-too-common generational...

How long have you been dieting? Has it been an ACTUAL lifetime? Extended exposure to dieting may come new worries: can you really change after all this time? Is it worth even trying at this point? Can you be healthy as you get older AND recover your relationship with food at the same time? Too many women tell themselves their struggle with food "is not that bad" - and it only further perpetuates the never ending diet cycle within their families. And then there are clients like Patrice. In this episode Melissa interviews her former client Patrice so she can share her successes inside the No More Guilt 3 month program after dieting for 50+ years. As a retired woman in her 60s, Patrice talks...

Do you ever just wish your family was “normal’ when it came to food and body image stuff? Especially as you start to learn more about Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size, you can’t help but grieve what could have been if only YOUR mother had learned to break the diet cycle so that you didn't have to.  What would life be like if diet culture weren't such a big part of your family's story? I think about that all the time for my own family. And the truth is, we both may never know. What I do know is that grief around your experience with family diet trauma can feel more tender around the holidays as you may be spending more time back inside the family unit your diet trauma came...