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From Body Struggles to Body Peace: Kristina Sim’s Transformative Path

This episode is packed with practical advice and compassionate wisdom for anyone looking to embark on a journey of self-acceptance, healing, and finding peace with their body.
Kristina Sims shares her personal and professional journey of overcoming body struggles to find a place of peace and acceptance.
She opens up about her early struggles with body image and how these challenges set the stage for her journey towards healing and self-discovery. Tune in to this compelling episode to discover how you too can embark on a transformative path towards body peace and holistic wellness.

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Spiritual Feasts: Food, Heritage, and Intuitive Eating

In this heartfelt episode, Holly Toscanini explores the multi-dimensional aspects of our relationship with food. Starting with the universal experience of gathering around a table, the episode digs deep into how food serves as a living connection to our ancestry, heritage, and even spirituality. Holly …

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Reclaiming Self-Love and Body Acceptance

Anniversary Special: One Year of Liberating Minds and Bodies

Can you believe it’s been a year already? In this milestone episode, we celebrate a year of breaking free from diet culture’s grasp and journeying toward authentic self-love and body acceptance. Consider this episode your ultimate roadmap to emancipation from societal norms that have held you captive.

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I’m A Diet Culture Dropout.

When I decided to walk away from diet culture, my mindset was wrapped up in the idea that I needed to fix myself plus I had all these thoughts that I wasn’t good enough the way that I was.
The root cause of my problem was my unwillingness to acknowledge and feel all my feelings, especially the ones that made me uncomfortable. I had this fantasy that I absolutely believed in that once my problem (weight loss) was solved, everything aspect of my life would be perfect and I wouldn’t ever have to deal with my negative emotions.

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How To Recover From Chronic Dieting.

Wanna know how to start recovering from chronic dieting?

First, you have to recognize your diet mindset and how it shows up in your life and decide to walk away from diet culture.

Second, learn about intuitive eating, and adopt a more neutral attitude about your body.

Next, introduce mindfulness to help you stay in the present moment instead of constantly thinking about the past or worrying about the future.

Then, start practicing self-compassion and curiosity instead of judgment.

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If You Avoid Eating Socially, That May Be A Bad Thing.

Do you try not to eat in front of others? Does it make you feel uncomfortable or self-conscious? This could be a sign of something deeper going on. It may be a sign you have a ton of judgment around food and what you should or shouldn’t eat.

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Don’t Love Your Body? It’s Not Your Fault.

If you have a poor body image is totally normal-it’s not your fault that you don’t love your body. Let’s face it, your whole life you’ve been bombarded with messages from diet culture that tell you you’re not good enough if you don’t look a …

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Do You Suffer From Shiny Object Syndrome?

Shiny object syndrome describes a situation where someone is constantly distracted by the “next big thing”. This can happen in business, personal relationships, exercise programs, and especially nutrition.

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Are You A Chronic Dieter?

As chronic dieters, we become people-pleasers and perfectionists and numb ourselves from feeling anything uncomfortable with food, TV and social media, drugs, or alcohol. We do anything that helps us feel more in control, safe, or loved. Controlling our weight helps us feel accepted and worthy. Unfortunately, even if we do lose weight we never …

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Healing Body Image

Challenging Impossible Ideals of Beauty

Today Holly focuses on the negative impact of cultural influences on our perception of beauty. She also discusses how those influences contribute to creating negative body images.

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