THE FEMINIST WELL-BEING PODCAST
It’s Beyond the Food Podcast
Join well-being expert Stephanie Dodier as she guides on how to feel damn good by reshaping your mind instead of your body. Let’s go beyond the food and fight diet culture & patriarchy by living powerfully. Through solo episodes and special guest interviews, you’ll walk away with ressources to embrace your well-being & health in a way that will expand your freedom and power.
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THE WELL-BEING FEMINIST PODCAST
It’s Beyond the Food Podcast
Join well-being expert Stephanie Dodier as she guides on how to feel damn good by reshaping your mind instead of your body. Let’s go beyond the food and fight diet culture & patriarchy by living powerfully. Through solo episodes and special guest interviews, you’ll walk away with ressources to embrace your well-being & health in a way that will expand your freedom and power.
Subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast platform.
Our Most Recent Episodes
207- Self-Coaching for Intuitive Eating and Beyond
What is self-coaching?
The word “coaching” is an identified process used to transport people from where they are to where they want to be. It’s a form of development, a process of supporting someone towards a goal.
Self-coaching is when we become our own coach. We know what’s best for us. That’s the innate wisdom we all have. The same wisdom that directs our hunger and fullness cues within the framework of intuitive eating. This innate wisdom is how we are the expert in our own life.
Self-Coaching and Intuitive Eating
Intuitive eating is the process to learn how to tap in the innate wisdom of our body to know what, when, and how much to eat. Tap into this innate wisdom that all of us have to feed ourselves.
Intuitive Eating is a proven and well-researched self-care eating framework that makes YOU the boss of YOU. Intuitive eating teaches us to have a healthy relationship with food empowering you to trust your ability to meet your needs, distinguish between physical and emotional hungers and ultimately developing your connection with your innate body wisdom. My mentor, Evelyn Tribole says it best: Intuitive eating is making YOU the Boss of You.
Intuitive eating is the process of learning to self-coach around food. With time and practice of intuitive eating, you become the boss of your own life.
On today’s episode, you’ll learn to self-coach toward intuitive eating. I’ll teach you a framework to coaching yourself.
What you’ll learn listening to this episode:
- What is self-coaching?
- Coaching versus training?
- History of self-coaching?
- Coaching versus self-coaching?
- Research on self-coaching
- How to do self-coaching?
Mentioned on the show:
October 2019 Intuitive Eating Project Registration
Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating
Going Beyond the Food Academy Registration
Is Intuitive Eating Right For You?
Joseph Lucian Assessment on Self-Coaching
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206-She’s Beyond The Food Chapter 6 – My Story 2.0-2019 Update
On today’s episode, we’ll talk about ‘She’s Beyond the Food Chapter 6-My Journey 2.0’
From Shame to Fame.
That was the title of episode 101 of The Beyond The Food Show Podcast in which I shared my in-depth personal story for the first time. I asked one of my friends Sean Croxton to interview me. I gave him carte blanche… the result was amazing.
My Story 1.0
As a public figure, I had shared my origin story in occasion before mainly inside my programs or during my public workshop but never to this level of vulnerability of this interview. Certainly, I remember being very anxious before, during, and after the recording.
But the greatest gift came a few days after the interview when it hit me: I no longer need to hide my imperfections, my mistakes, my errors. That is to say, although I was scared of what people would say, the relief of being completely transparent was by far greater.
From Shame to Fame episode 101 of our Intuitive Eating podcast was just another chapter in my story…
She’s Beyond the Food: My Life Story
From that interview, I gradually became more confident in sharing the events in my life that brought me to the greatest learning. To synthesize the failure into learning. To process the lowest points in my life into inspiring stories that support my life’s teaching.
She’s Beyond The Food podcast episode series was born in March 2019 with Chapter 1 when I shared my business struggle. I shared with the audience how I faced a business failure and how I changed this event. It was by far one of the most well-received episodes because of the vulnerability I was willing to express and share. The lesson here: the teacher teaches best when not perfect.
So, I decided to build upon this impactful episode and released:
- Episode 183-Chapter 2: I shared my life long struggle with exercise
- Episode 187-Chapter 3: I shared my journey quitting Keto
- Episode 190-Chapter 4: My experience gaining weight in public eyes
- Episode 195–Chapter 5: My journey in accepting my body
She’s Beyond the Food Chapter 6
Today’s episode is about She’s Beyond The Food Chapter 6-it’s my story 2.0. It’s a follow up to episode 101 From Shame to Fame in which I shared 7 lessons learned from my experienced life up to now. The stories that made me who I’m today. The stories that crafted the Going Beyond The Food Method.
- Lesson 1: Weight stigma is real and freaking powerful
- Lesson 2: Diet Culture is a powerful monster but it’s optional
- Lesson 3: Repeat or evolve… my choice.
- Lesson 4: It’s Beyond the Food
- Lesson 5: Wellness Diet & healthy body
- Lesson 6: You can’t hate yourself to happiness or health
- Lesson 7: Intuitive Eating: gateway to health & happiness
Life happens to me or for me
One of the biggest lessons I shared in this episode is the shift that I had to do in my late thirties where I stopped looking at life happening to me but instead life happening for me. I spent 25 years believing that I was the victim of the external circumstances and that life was working against me. In other words, I was in the victim mindset…
That victim mindset kept me going in circle for 25 years chasing one diet after another and with every failure I was angrier at the world and resentful of my life. In fact, I lost and gain large amounts of weight at least 12 times never learning anything from each failure but instead repeating the same formula the next time.
And then one day, every part of me collapsed. I hit my rock bottom and was forced to look at myself and my life from a different perspective. With faith and coaching, I gradually shifted to a mindset of “Life happens for me, not to me”.
I began the process of asking myself: What can I learn from this event? What is this person trying to teach me? With every question came learning, growth, and transformation. I took back my power and my life. I shifted to being in charge of my life instead of being the victim of life.
Are you willing to be uncomfortable?
Knowing what I know today, what I’ve learned from my lessons and my teachers is that what was holding me back in the victim mindset, the life-happens-to-me-not-for-me mindset, was the unwillingness to be uncomfortable.
When you shift to being empowered, one thing becomes clear really quickly… things will get uncomfortable. Why? Simply because you have no one else to blame but you! You see when you assume full responsibility, you must be willing to be uncomfortable.
The willingness to be uncomfortable is what kept me stuck for 25 years but at the same time crafted the most beautiful journey for my life. It’s also what keeps some of my students from transforming when they start feeling discomfort, they disappear and go back to their comfort zone.
I hope that today’s episode She’s Beyond The Food Chapter 6 – My story 2.0 inspires you to begin the process of writing your own story. Of asking yourself “What is there for me to learn in this event? What is this person trying to teach me?
Mentioned on the show:
Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating
October 2019 Intuitive Eating Project Registration
205-Cyclical Living & Surrendering Control to Connect with Your Inner Cues with Kate Northrup
On today’s episode, we’ll talk about cyclical living
If our body is wise enough to know what to eat, when to eat and how to eat… what else can it do for us?
What else can we learn from our womanly body?
According to a study from the Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, fluctuations of hormones over the monthly menstrual cycle play a crucial role in our emotional status, appetite, thought processes, and so much more. Women reported high levels of well-being and self-esteem during the middle of the cycle in the study. Increased feelings of anxiety, hostility, and depression were reported before their period.
Cyclical Living
Our egg wisdom is perhaps for us women another expression of our innate body wisdom. When I say egg wisdom, I’m referring to the wisdom of our female cycle. This wisdom that is our female cycle is wise enough to create life from… an egg and a sperm. What else can it do for us?
Over the last year, I became really acquainted with my female cycle and discovered a whole new world of intuition. The more I got familiar with how my body spoke to me through my cycle, the more I realized that this is the extension of intuitive eating and also body neutrality.
Source: Cycle Synching
Body Neutrality & Cycle Synching
Body neutrality teaches us to engage with our body as a whole and be grateful for all that it does for us… to care for our body. To build a relationship of trust and respect with our body and for all that it does for us.
As women, having a relationship with our cycle is part of body neutrality. Cycling is an exponential opportunity for us to connect with our body at a much deeper level. It’s no secret that at different stages of our cycle, we look, feel, and act differently. Moreover, observing our cycles and all that it creates in our bodies allows us to gather information and fully comprehend how symbiotic we are as women.
Intuitive Eating & Cyclical Living
Intuitive eating requires us to shift from external cues to internal cues when it comes to eating and health. To eat intuitively, we need to be able to connect with our innate body wisdom just like with cyclical living.
Intuitive eating teaches us that we have this innate ability to know how to nourish our bodies via our intuition. What else can we learn from our intuitive food decision?
In my opinion, there’s a deep connection between cyclical living and intuitive eating.
The stepping stone to eating intuitively is to develop interoception. This is the ability to feel and tap into our internal body cues. In the case of intuitive eating, these cues are hunger, fullness, and satisfaction. Practicing cyclical living will enhance your ability to be an intuitive eater.
On today’s episode, Kate Northrup, an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and mother is going to teach us how to tap into the wisdom of our cycle to do less and improve our self-worth.
Kate has built a digital empire and is committed to supporting ambitious women to light up the world without burning themselves out in the process.
What you’ll learn listening to episode 205 of the Going Beyond The Food podcast:
- How we’ve learned to seek self-worth externally
- The impact of patriarchal society on women’s self-worth
- Why seeking self-worth externally is a forever never-ending loop
- What is cyclical living and how you can implement it in your life
- The deep connection between our cycle wisdom and body image
- How to connect Intuitive Eating and cyclical living
Mentioned on the show:
Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating
The Secret Pleasure of Menopause
Rebecca Campbell Rise sister rise
Connect with our Guest
204-BE DO HAVE – Formula for Health Success
On today’s episode, we’ll talk about the BE DO HAVE formula for success
That you want to change your health habits, stop overeating or make peace with your body, HOW you go about the process of transformation will determine your success.
The process that most of us have been thought to apply when wanting to create something new in our life has been the DO HAVE BE model.
In order to BE successful, for example, we need to first DO the things that HAVE the Success. When we DO enough of the “things, we hope to be rewarded by finally BEING successful.
DO BE HAVE in health transformation
Take the example of the goal of being happy & healthy for women in today’s society. We are taught that in order for us, women to be happy and healthy, must HAVE thinness. We must fit in the proper BMI and have the “normal thin” body. In order for us to have the thin & a proper BMI body, we must DO diets (control food and / or exercise). When we have thinness and proper BMI, we will be rewarded by being healthy and happy.
Normal right? Perhaps normal to society standards but not right.
The problem is that it doesn’t work… I mean 95% of diets fail and dieters regain the weight which means that 95% of the population doesn’t have access to health and happiness?
DO HAVE BE keeps us stuck
That model DO HAVE BE keeps us stuck in a state of depression, fear, guilt, and shame which leads us straight to a repeated cycle of failure. The results are that we are forever chasing health and happiness, but never getting “there”.
You’ve been there and perhaps are still there. I know I was for nearly 25 years. Stuck in a forever state of personal failure when it came to my weight, body, and food habits. But it wasn’t my fault just like it’s not yours either.
I was never taught how to actually create personal success in my life. I knew how to create success when it came to business and money but not personal behaviors.
BE DO HAVE formula for success is the solution
To be successful with human personal transformation, we must instead apply the Be Do Have model. What is the difference between DO HAVE BE versus DO BE HAVE?
In order to HAVE what you want, something that you currently do not have, you are going to have to do things you haven’t done before. You’re going to have to do things differently. In order to DO the things you haven’t done before, you are going to have to BE someone you haven’t been before.
In this podcast episode, we will teach the most effective way of making changes in your health: The Be Do Have formula.
What you’ll learn today:
- Why we self-sabotage on our way towards our goals
- Why self-criticism doesn’t work as a means of motivation
- DO HAVE BE versus BE DO HAVE
- 3 steps toward any goal achievement using BE DO HAVE approach
Mentioned on the show:
Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating
Free Workshop to discover the Academy
Academy Register directly for the Academy
203- Perfectionist Paradigm Shift (…the secret to sustainable habits)
On today’s episode, we’ll talk about the Perfectionist Paradigm Shift
Do you struggle in creating new long-lasting habits in your life? Particularly around food and health?
Maybe it’s exercise: you pay your new subscription to the gym with excitement and enthusiasm and plan to go 5 days a week before work.
Yet 6 weeks later, you’re not going to the gym anymore and your brain is going crazy with very self-critical thoughts as to why you once again failed yourself and all the things that are wrong with you.
Is that you? That was me until I learned to shift my paradigm about perfection.
Perfectionist, is that you?
The perfectionist is a personality trait characterized by a person’s striving for flawlessness and setting high-performance standards, accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others’ evaluations.
Is that an accurate description of you?
Perfectionism is a trait of character present in many women that have been dieting for a long time. Our diet brain tells us that we need to be perfect at food & exercise if we hope to ever change our body… and diets reinforce this need for perfection via their food rules and need to be “on plan” all the time.
Worse, when we fail to achieve our diet goals, guess whose fault is it? Ours. The reason diet culture gives is that we are flawed… and if we were good enough aka had more discipline, it would have worked for us. So, we keep striving to be better and attempt to offset our flaw with a burning desire to be perfect.
Perfectionist Paradigm Shift and Habit Creation
The problem with perfectionist fantasy is that we set ourselves up for failure, which results in a lack of integrity with ourselves.
And we feel bad about that, too! Not only are we flawed for not being able to diet successfully, but now we can’t even trust ourselves. So, we fantasize even more about our perfect meal plan and exercise regimen and hope that tomorrow will be the right day.
The problem is that in order to be able to create consistent long-term habits, we need to trust and believe in ourselves. We need to be able to start small to be able to grow big but diet brain hates that!
Minimum Baseline
Minimum baseline is the anti-dote to perfection.
It is how you can recover from perfectionism and diet brain all in one.
Minimum baseline is how you will repair your integrity with yourself and begin a trustworthy relationship with YOU.
Minimum baseline is simple… too simple for our perfectionistic brain. It will be hard to manage your mind and all the self-critical thoughts that will come along.
In this episode, I teach you how to use the model of minimum baseline to successfully create new habits in your life when you have a diet brain! This model will shift your paradigm about needing to be perfect!
What you’ll learn today:
- The relationship between us being a perfectionist and dieting
- What needs to come first before creating new habits
- The perfectionist paradigm shift to implement in your life
- The key to consistent lifetime habits
- What is minimum baseline and how to implement in your life
Mentioned on the show:
Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating
202-Stepping Beyond The Struggle
On today’s episode, we’ll talk about stepping beyond the struggle
In a way, this podcast is not just a message to those of you who are struggling, but it’s also a message to my former self.
It’s the advice I wish someone shared with me when I was struggling.
It’s the advice I wish I had when I went through so many dark times.
My struggle was my weight. Like most of you… for 25 years, that struggle occupied my life. It caused me lots of emotional pain, physical pain with crazy exercise protocols, tears, break up, missed relationships, the struggle of my body and weight caused a lot of drama in my life.
And for 25 years, I believed that the only way to stop the struggle to get over that pain was to lose weight.
Some say… but you did lose weight.
Yes, I did multiple times but here’s where it gets really crazy… when I did lose weight, you’d think struggle would be over right?
No, it didn’t. Instead, I just moved on to the next expression of the problem: saggy skin, soft skin on my belly, I’m still not thin enough for a partner to desire my body…
I was addicted to the weight problem… I was addicted to the drama it created in my life.
So, what did I do to step beyond the struggle? That what we will explore in today’s podcast.
What you’ll learn listening to this episode:
- What is Diet Brain and how it plays within your struggle
- How we get addicted to the problem at the center of our struggle
- The importance of your mind in stepping beyond the struggle
- How to step beyond the struggle
Mindset Model
First model: become aware of your thought
Second model: reframe-change your thought
T: What is the trigger? What event typically or currently trigger the negative body self-talk?
T: What am I saying to myself in this situation? What are my thoughts? Before reframing…
F: How does this thinking make me feel?
A: How am I reacting (or wanting to react) behaviorally to this experience? What will be my new way of thinking about this trigger? New thinking, new choices, new decision.
Mentioned on the show:
Academy Scholarship application
Academy registration for Fall 2019
Get Started with Intuitive Eating with our FREE Guide
201-What’s Missing From Your Program?
On today’s episode, we’ll talk about what’s missing from your program
As I shared on the last episode #200, we are in the midst of an epidemic and no, it’s not an obesity epidemic.
It’s the Diet Culture epidemic.
It has become completely normal to not like our body. It’s expected that we shame ourselves and our body if it doesn’t fit the “thin ideal”.
It has also become the norm to be on some kind of health programs that restrict the way we live our life. These same programs require that we disconnect from our body in order to be successful.
This has led us to no longer respect and trust our bodies. This is huge!
We live in an approximately 3 cubic foot space (our physical body) that we disrespect & doubt nearly every day. Without a healthy, respectful and trustworthy relationship, how can we expect our body to support us towards our goals?
There is one universal law that is common to all religions and spiritual beliefs that I’m aware of (and please correct me if I’m wrong😀): Love is always the answer.
In this episode, we dive deeper in what’s missing from your program and provide you with solution to fill the gap!
What you’ll learn listening to this episode:
- Why it has become completely normal to ignore these 2 ”things” from nearly all health programs
- What are the signs that something is missing from your program
- 5 steps you can take to begin implementing to fill the gap in your life and health program
- A quick exercise to help you shift your mindset around what’s missing on your program
Mentioned on the show:
Get Started with our FREE Intuitive Eating Introduction Course
200-How to Get Started with Intuitive Eating
On this episode, we dissect this concept of intuitive eating and why it’s so effective for chronic dieters.
We are in the middle of an epidemic. One that is destroying the quality and longevity of our life.
It affects not only us but our children and their children.
While it’s been around for a while, it’s growing at an alarming rate. Not only here… but all around the world. You’d be hard-pressed to find a culture that isn’t struggling with it.
… and no, it’s not Obesity. It’s our obsession with weight and diet.
97% of women surveyed by Glamour magazine in 2011 said they felt hatred towards their body at least 1x day and often much more.
8/10 women are unhappy with their reflection.
So we diet… and diet some more. Never really getting “there” and then at some point after decades of trying you think to yourself…
“That’s crazy I can’t do this for the rest of my life?” but then what?
There is a solution to help you stop dieting, a solution that will provide some structure around how you engage with food that will lead you to eat better consistently without restricting or being on a diet.
That solution is Intuitive Eating.
In this episode, we are going to the basics and I’ll be sharing with you a FREE tool to get started with ending your relationship with dieting and starting a new one with your body.
What you’ll learn listening to this episode:
- The latest “epidemic” that you need to watch out for
- What is Diet Culture?
- Why you have a choice to diet or not
- 5 steps to gently start undieting and healthy beginning with Intuitive eating
- Share a FREE tool that will be a game changer for you!
Mentioned on the show:
Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating
Intuitive Eating Book by Evelyn Tribole
Health At Every Size by Linda Bacon
199-Good or Bad Food: Healthy versus Unhealthy Food?
On today’s episode, we dissect this concept of food labeling
Although we’ve learned to drop the magical thinking when it comes to weather, crops or other natural phenomena, we still think of food as magical.
We label food in hopes that doing so will bring us closer to our desires and goals. The concept is that if we consume the “good” ones, well control our health and body. Unfortunately, what comes along is shame & guilt when we do eat the “bad” ones.
In today’s society, not being able to control our food choices makes us weak people. That’s what we think as a result of being told so by diet culture and also according to all the health experts who want us to finally “release the unhealthy weight”.
But is it true that there is such a thing as good or bad food? If so, what are the healthy foods?
Here’s a sample of the myths we will cover:
- What are the good and bad foods?
- Why are we so obsessed with labeling foods?
- What motivates our need for food labeling?
- Side effects of labeling foods
- If there is an option for labeling foods , what is it and how can we implement it in our life?
Mentioned on the show:
Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating
198-13 Popular Intuitive Eating Myths (and why they’re bogus)
On today’s episode, we talk about what intuitive eating is and is not
Want to give Intuitive Eating a try?
These 13 misconceptions may make intuitive eating more challenging and increase the odds of you giving up.
Intuitive Eating is picking popularity over the last 12 months… In fact, this Anti-diet approach to eating has been called the next health trend to look forward to in 2020. Not surprising when we consider the 95% failure rate of traditional diets.
There no stopping Intuitive Eating and I couldn’t be more excited for what’s in store for 2020. And with every “trend” or popular movement comes questions, doubts, and naysayers.
On today’s episode, we are going to debunk 13 popular Intuitive Eating myths. 13 myths about eating intuitively, this proven and well-researched eating framework, that you should stop believing.
These 13 myths, we first are going to give them context and then bring facts forward as to why each one is false… or frankly said, bogus!
Here’s a sample of the myths we will cover:
- Intuitive eating will make me gain weight.
- Eating intuitively leads to binge eating.
- Intuitive eating means I gave up on myself.
- Eating intuitively is for healthy-minded people only.
- Eating intuitively is unhealthy.
- And 8 more super popular Intuitive Eating myths!
Mentioned on the show:
Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating
Research:
Impact of weight cycling on risk of morbidity and mortality
The “Health and Wellness in Obesity” study
197-Intuitive Eating & Cravings
On today’s episode, we talk about intuitive eating and cravings
Is intuitive Eating not just a way of giving in to your cravings?
When women first get introduced to intuitive eating, their diet brain then ignites the thought that Intuitive Eating is a just a way to eat whatever we want and, in some cases, to validate laziness…
Intuitive way of eating is such a departure from dieting way of eating that it often ignites cognitive dissonance in women. You know that feeling of discomfort from the new information that is presented to you when it is opposite to the way YOU have been living your life?
You fight the new information! And come up with all good facts, science and reason why the new information is wrong…
On today’s episode, we answer that specific question. Is eating intuitively not just a way of giving in to your cravings? If not, how do you manage cravings in the framework of intuitive eating?
What you’ll learn listening to this episode:
- We answer the question, “Is eating intuitively not just a way of giving in to your cravings?”
- What is Intuitive Eating?
- What exactly is considered a craving and when it’s “bad”
- How we can “manage” our cravings with intuitive eating
- The one word that can shift everything about cravings
Mentioned on the show:
Grab your FREE guide to Intuitive Eating
196-Finding Your Intuitive Voice & Release Perfectionism with Kelly Covert
On today’s episode, we talk about intuitive voice
In the same way that Intuitive Eating teaches you to tap into your innate body wisdom to know what to eat, you can tap into this same body wisdom to be guided in all the other segments of your life.
The body wisdom we’ve been gifted by embodying our human body is awaiting us to notice her and engage with her with trust and respect.
Some will call this body wisdom intuition others will say inner voice… all the same.
When we do not engage and respect this wisdom, we tend to be engaged in perfectionism as a way to control life… control our life, control our future, control our body. Control so it can be the way it should be.
But it doesn’t work… and we try harder. Control more. And we fail harder.
On today’s episode, Kelly Covert, an inner voice coach will help us interrupt this pattern. Kelly has a passion for helping women believe and achieve their big vision by connecting deeply with the wisdom that is inside of them all while owning their worthiness each and every day.
What you’ll learn listening to this episode:
- What is our inner voice?
- Our intuition, what exactly is it?
- How does intuitive voice show up in our day to day life?
- How to hear our inner voice and learn from it.
- Concrete exercise to practice tapping into our innate body wisdom or intuition.
Mentioned on the show:
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Welcome!
I’m Stephanie Dodier
Feminist Nutritionist & Coach.
I guide women on how to feel damn good by reshaping their mind instead of their body. Let’s go beyond the food and fight diet culture & patriarchy by living powerfully. You’ll walk away with ressources to embrace your well-being & health in a way that will expand your freedom and power.
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