The word “self care” is central to many of my teaching because I strongly believe and know that if you don’t take care of yourself…no one will. Nothing new for most of you but the big challenge is HOW to put yourself first without the guilt. If you can wrap your head around practicing self care without feeling guilty, the magic will happen. It’s possible and it’s just another mindset hack to be understood.

This episode of The Beyond The Food Show is an experiment… If you like it, we will do it again. I recorded a live Q&A with the members of my community. I answered questions about: self compassion, hormonal imbalance, social eating, amenorrhea, sugar cravings, fermented food, and our favorite supplement, collagen!

What is the #1 strategy to break emotional eating ? This powerful question is from our Beyond The Food Community. I felt the need to share the answer with the world because I know it will help many of you…Likely, my answer is not what you expect!

If you have been listening to the Crave Cure series, you may have noticed that we didn’t touch on food restriction behaviors. This is exactly what today’s show is all about. In this segment of She Shares Her Story, Meghan Doll​ will take us through her journey in healing from food restriction and disorder. Whether we restrict or overeat, the healing path is the same!

Do you want to know the secret on how to start believing in yourself? If you have been struggling implementing ANY changes in your life, not knowing how to apply this simple concept may be the reason why you keep failing and restarting again and again.

Sugar addiction is real thing and Karen Thomson is a living proof of this fact. She was physically and emotionally addicted to sugar to the extent that she needed to go to a detox center. She shares her story and the lessons from her courageous and powerful journey. Truly an inspirational story!

What if I told you that you detox every minute of the day, otherwise you would die? It’s true the human body knows how to detox BUT modern living gets in the way of our bodies doing this thing…so we might need to help our bodies. That’s what Megan Rand is teaching us today: how we can help ourselves detox better.

Do you consider yourself a perfectionist? If your answer is “No, I’m not there yet…I’m not perfect,” you’re likely just like me. You believe that you’re not perfect enough just yet, and that is a sign of perfectionism. Our desire for perfection is the driving force behind our many of our behaviors. Perfection recovery is a process and it starts with the 80/20 rule.

Intuitive eating might seem like a New Age type of diet. But in fact, intuitive eating has been part of our evolution as humans. Let’s face it, 1,000 years ago, there was no vegan or paleo type of eating… we ate what we needed to survive and evolve and what was available around us. Intuitive eating is actually the oldest diet.

Consistency is more important than perfection… Our desire for perfection actually gets in the way of consistency. There are 3 foundational elements that you must understand to achieve consistency in your journey.

We all have a list of habits we would love to break up with and we want to acquire new ones in the process. But we find it so hard! Dr. Amy Johnson has a new perspective on habits that will likely change the way you look at your habits, too. More so it will profoundly change your ability to break up with “bad” habits.

Self-sabotage can take many forms: from procrastination, to holding on to a negative belief about yourself to self-medication with your favorite drug of choice ( food to wine to Netflix… ). Whatever the case, self-sabotage interferes with you reaching your goals. The acts of self-sabotage feel good in the moment, but ultimately, they undermine us. There is a way out…