Whole, Full, & Alive (Caitie Corradino)

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Find inspiration in Heather's story of self and body acceptance to help you on your journey as well

2. Widen your lens! Become aware of how society impacts our views on body image and self-acceptance

3. Explore and find out what works for your unique body regarding fitness and movement

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Listen to the Love Your Bodd Podcast with Heather Boddy: Episode 44: F.I.T. 4 ALL Part I: Redefining Fitness 4 You & Episode 45: F.I.T. 4 ALL Part II: You Belong in Your Body

▪️Geeknasium

▪️The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

▪️Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina String

▪️Connect with Heather: Website | Instagram

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Whole, Full, & Alive explores the art and science of falling in love…with your life, with your story, and with who you truly are.

Caitie Corradino is a Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist, certified fitness and yoga instructor, eating disorder recovery coach, and founder of Full Soul Nutrition. Every Monday, Caitie shares no-bullshit stories, actionable tools, and creative journal prompts to help you feel unshakably worthy, fuel your body for adventures, and embrace every second of being alive.

Are you ready to enjoy your life, devour each day, take care of your body, and feel really freakin' good? This podcast reminds you how to start getting after ALL of that TODAY, wherever you are. What you need is within you. It's not in a degree. It's not in a job title. It's not in a body size. And it's not in a romantic partner. You have everything you need within you to feel whole, full, and alive. Right here, right now.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Types of "alternative" therapy modalities like EMDR, music therapy, somatic therapies, embodiment, and polarity
2. Embodiment as a practice and a way of being - where you experience positive AND negative emotions to the fullest extent to feel fully alive
3. The phases of eating disorder recovery and "recovery grad school," a phase where you truly experience wholeness, fullness, and aliveness

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What are weight loss drugs and how do they impact your body?

📘Resources

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. The difference between attracting the right person and playing games in dating and relationships

2. How to approach dating when it feels like you’ll never find love

3. Tapping into the energy of receiving in dating

📘Resources

▪️Raise Your Love Signal by Chantal Landreville

Chantal Landreville is an author and certified love & relationships coach.

Website | Instagram

Thanks for listening!💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What it means to feel "alive"
2. Why sensitivity, creativity, and energy are key elements of aliveness
3. 5 specific tools that will help you cultivate a deeper sense of aliveness

📘Resources

▪️Nutrition & Intuition Retreat Waitlist

▪️1:1 counseling - single session and long-term support

▪️Back To You Monthly Community Group

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Is FULL recovery from disordered eating and body dysmorphia even possible?
2. How did we know when we were recovered?
3. What is a good definition of "health?"

📘Resources

• Monthly Community Group

Lily Thorpe, LCSW, is the founder of Thrope Therapy LCSW PLLC, a psychotherapy practice located in Midtown Manhattan. Thrope Therapy specializes in supporting individuals who experience eating disorders, disordered eating, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and LGBTQIA-related issues. Lily is also a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and HAES aligned.

Lily helps her clients find the confidence to face these issues and find ways to live their happiest and most authentic lives. Lily is committed to fostering an environment where the client is the expert of their own story and therefore has integral skills for working towards their therapy goals.

Connect with Lily: Thrope Therapy I Instagram  

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to Caitie’s website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Take inspiration from Maria’s journey to finding her authentic self through her childhood, and find your authentic self in turn.
2. Recognize that diet culture is a systemic issue and that health encompasses more than diet and exercise. 
3. How to remove the pressure of exercising and repair your relationship with movement.

📘Resources

• Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 
• Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!
• Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit
• Download the Nike Run Club
• Listen to Rest Days
• Connect with me: Website | Instagram
• Connect with Maria: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn 

About Maria

Maria Terry is a registered dietitian in New Orleans, LA. She was a former English teacher and school administrator before she changed her career to nutrition. Her goal as a dietitian is to guide you toward a better understanding of yourself and break through the all-or-nothing approach to what you eat. 

Connect with Maria: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn 

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What it felt like to run a half marathon a few years after healing from an eating disorder and compulsive exercise

2. The unexpected life lessons I learned through committing to running

3. Practical tips and advice on the must-have gear that makes running enjoyable

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to learn more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Call

▪️HOKA Running Shoes

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What does “attractive” mean to you and how to navigate the pressures of wanting and/or needing to feel attractive in dating

2. Dealing with body image triggers that come up while dating

3. Tangible tips that have helped me process relationships and my dating experiences

📘Resources

• ⁠Sign up for my New Year's Retreat in Portugal!⁠

• Body Image Breakfast Club - monthly group

• Tools to Step Out of Body Avoidance and Access Self-Confidence & Intuition

• It’s Time to Feel ALIVE Again: Tools to Feel Yourself Again this October podcast episode⁠
• Join the Alive in October Challenge

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website⁠ for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Tips for making journaling feel less overwhelming

2. How Ted Lasso’s themes are relevant to examining your own life

3. Finding community and chosen family wherever you are

📘Resources

▪️1:1 counseling - single session and long-term support

▪️Make Meals Easy Group

▪️Unfck Your Body Image Group

▪️Deep Relief Group

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. How to use boundaries, self-examination, and introspection to make sure you are friends with the right people

2. The powerful role friendship plays on your health - especially as an adult

3. How to navigate losing or outgrowing certain friendships over the course of your life

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

▪️Connect with Shelagh: Website | LinkedIn | Instagram

About Shelagh

Shelagh Curran is a registered dietitian and the founder of Shelagh Rose Nutrition. She chose to work in the field of nutrition because of her love for food. After finding out she has PCOS and other conditions, she successfully navigated her health through functional nutrition. Now, Shelagh specializes in PCOS and hormone functional medicine, and nutrition. She has worked with hundreds of women to take back their health and feel better in their bodies.

Connect with Shelagh: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn 

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Important tools for navigating loss and grief

2. The major gap that Ada found in the skincare industry and how she started developing her natural + sustainable skincare brand

3. How developing a basic skincare routine and prioritizing it in your life is self-care and healthcare

📘Resources

▪️Asian Sewist Podcast 

▪️Chuan’s Promise skincare website

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

▪️Connect with Ada: Website | Instagram | Pinterest | TikTok 

About Ada 

Ada Chen Ada is the founder and CEO of Chuan's Promise, a Denver-based sustainable natural skincare line. Ada launched her brand in November 2020, while caregiving for her late dad - a process that taught her the true importance of self-care.

Connect with Ada: Website | Instagram | Pinterest | TikTok

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

• Book a free consultation for 1:1 coaching!
• Whole, Full, & Alive Toolkit
• Finding AND Maintaining a Sense of Self-Confidence podcast episode
• "Not a Runner": 10 Things I Learned from Running My First Half Marathon podcast episode
• Connect with my amazing dance teacher Aimee here

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. How slowing down and incorporating more rest without guilt creates a more abundant life

2. How to stop fragmenting your energy to cultivate a greater sense of meaning and productivity

3. Specific steps for setting boundaries with social media to prevent overwhelm

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Call.

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Embodied Meditations by Tara Brach

▪️The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss by Marc David. 

▪️The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection by Michael A. Singer

▪️Mike Dooley’s Books

▪️Connect with Maria: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Email

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

About Maria

Maria Macsay is a certified holistic life coach, movement facilitator, somatic breathwork practitioner, and yoga teacher. Maria has been on a mission for the past nine years - to help her clients find their way back to themselves. Through the power of movement, meditation, breathwork, and mindset alignment, she has provided her clients with the clarity, joy, freedom, and confidence they've been longing for in their lives. 

Learn more about Maria’s work through her website, or you can visit her Instagram or Facebook.

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What it means to be a trauma informed practitioner

2. What energy work is and why it’s important to incorporate with practical recovery work

3. Moving through the need to prove yourself to other people and honoring where you’re at

Dr. Danielle is a Doctor of Chiropractic who specializes in trauma and energetic work. She has worked with a wide range of clients from families to professional athletes. Some of her extended training includes Polyvagal Theory, Trauma Informed Practice, Ancient Medicine and Akashic Healing. She assists her clients in embodying safety, connection, and sovereignty within ones mental, physical, emotional, and energetic system.

Website | Instagram

Thanks for listening!💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Failure, pivoting, and the winding road to becoming a Registered Dieitian
2. The difference between nutritionists, dietitians, and therapists.
3. Why we DON'T focus on the pursuit of intentional weight loss at our practice

📘Resources

• Check out the Whole Full and Alive online course if you enjoyed this podcast!

• Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!
• Connect with me: Website | Instagram 
• Pursuit of Intentional Weight Loss - A study by Caitie 

📌Episode Highlights

[01:38] Kindness for Yourself

• Take a quiet moment to be kind to yourself and spread that kindness with each other.
• Being kind to yourself can give you the energy to do things and build good relationships.

[12:03] Who is Christina?

• Christina Constantinou is a registered dietitian with experience working in different roles. She is a clinical dietitian and fills an outpatient role at Full Soul Nutrition.
• Her Greek origins are a significant part of her identity.
• Many would describe her as a warm, cozy, and down-to-earth person. People often find themselves comfortable talking to her.
• Christina’s work as a dietitian brought out the best of these characteristics within her.

[15:41] The Many Hats of a Dietitian

• As a clinical dietitian, Christina works in an inpatient setting at a hospital alongside doctors and other dietitians.
• She counsels patients whose treatments include diet and lifestyle changes. Usually, she would only have a short time with them.
• Christina works one-on-one with her patients for an hour each at Full Soul Nutrition. She discusses several different things regarding nutrition and better health.
• The counseling skills she honed as a clinical dietitian carry over in her outpatient role.
• Christina first was a relatively new dietitian when the pandemic hit. She learned to be adaptable and work well under pressure.

[21:24] Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming a Dietitian

• Christina’s journey to becoming a dietitian was one of her biggest challenges.
• The first step is to take prerequisite nutrition and science courses in your undergraduate studies.
• The next step is to apply and match with a dietetic internship and complete hours of supervised work.
• To match for an internship, you have to apply to different offered programs and rank them. There's a 50% chance of matching with your preferred program.
• Lastly, you must pass your board exam to become a registered dietitian.

[25:30] Overcoming Obstacles

• One of Christina's terrifying moments in her journey was when she didn't match with any of her preferred programs.
• Fortunately, she found out that she could apply for programs that hadn't filled their spots. She applied everywhere she could.
• Christina matched with a program from home and moved her whole life from New Jersey to Missouri.
• Despite the change, she completed her internship and passed the board exam on her second try.
• Christina and I both found that the real learning starts once you begin your career as a dietitian.

[32:03] Christina’s Internship Experiences

• Christina had to move to Missouri at 21 years old and face terrifying challenges alone. Despite that, she found it was one of her best decisions.
• Christina’s struggles made her stronger. What she thought was the end of the career she dreamed of became the beginning of her journey.
• She learned to be more sensitive and find value in her experiences. It's hard to do what's best for you, but Christina persevered.

Christina: “Taking each day by day and really finding value in each of these experiences and everything that was happening in my life at that time. Professionally, personally, and spiritually, all of these things made me so much stronger. It made me such a better clinician.”

• Christina had thought she was an incompetent dietitian because of her failings. Similarly, I also faced failure in the form of other people's judgments. 
• Our failures don’t define our abilities as dietitians. Instead, it built our resilience and taught us to grow stronger.

[42:46] Defining Dietitians

• Dietitians vs. Nutritionists: dietitians must be licensed or registered to practice. However, nutritionists are not regulated.
• Dietitians vs. Therapists: therapists often work to understand the reasons behind your behavior, thoughts, and feelings. They take action to improve mental health.
• Dietitians won’t psychoanalyze you. Though there may be overlap, they focus on proper nutrition for better health.
• Dietitians educate their patients about nutrition and explore their relationship with food and their bodies.
• It’s okay to have a therapeutic relationship with your nutrition counselor. Working as a dietitian goes beyond teaching what’s healthy and not.

[50:31] Weight Loss and Better Health

• Restriction of food is one of the most consistent predictors of weight gain. Focusing on weight loss can mean focusing on shame.
• Restrictions stop you from being your whole self. It promotes negative emotions rather than a positive mindset.

Christina: “If the end goal is supposed to be positive, how are we going to get there with all of these negative emotions and negative steps? So I think shifting the light and shifting the mindset of noticing and realizing that if you're going to be at your most positive and best self, you have to do so in a positive way and in positive mindsets.”

• Remember that weight is not a reliable indicator of health. It’s more important to look at behaviors.

Caitie: “Weight is not a behavior, individuals and an individual's body shape or size does not tell you anything about how they live their lives and how they do or do not intend to pursue health.” 

• Society today is fatphobic; this stigma negatively impacts your health more than weight.
• Stay tuned for part two of this episode, where Christina and I answer more of your questions!

About Christina

Christina Constantinou is an Associate Dietitian at Full Soul Nutrition and a clinical dietitian. She's a registered and licensed dietitian, a certified Intuitive Eating Counselor in Training, and has a Master's degree in Health Communication and a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition Science. Her individualized approach to nutrition helps her educate and empower people's relationships with food.

Connect with Christina and learn more about her on Full Soul Nutrition’s website.

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Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Q&A - movement without weight loss anxiety & suggestions for nutrition goals in the new year

2. Choosing a word of the year as your guidepost and theme for the year

3. My word of the year

📘 Resources

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. The difference between hypothalamic amenorrhea & polycystic ovary syndrome 

2. Assessing menstrual health while taking birth control pills

3. Why carbs and fats are more important than protein in period recovery

📘Resources

▪️The Period Recovery Podcast

Cynthia Donovan is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with over 10 years of extensive experience in the field. Her primary focus lies in serving women with Hypothalamic Amenorrhea, employing her expertise to assist them in regaining their period, restoring their fertility and truly becoming healthy. Passionate about this cause from personal & professional experience Cynthia established the Eat to Regain Your Period Program in April 2020, where she has successfully collaborated with hundreds of women, helping them reclaim both their period, fertility and overall well-being. When she’s not serving women with period recovery you can find her in nature, travelling and having fun with her 5 & 7 year old boys! Website | Instagram | TikTok

Thanks for listening!💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What it means to "hold space" and why it's critical to find a therapist or provider who can do that
2. What is energy healing and somatic healing and why is it useful in conjunction with psychotherapy
3. What "the body keeps the score" means

📘Resources

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

• Connect with Amanda: Website | Instagram
• Check out Amanda’s Feminine Rising program and tap into your feminine energy.
• Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!
• Connect with Caitie: Website | Instagram

📌Episode Highlights

[06:56] What Makes Amanda

• Amanda is analytical and observant. For her, the world is infused with meaning that she enjoys exploring.
• She loves psychology and her role as a witness and observer of the world around her and its people.
• Amanda describes herself as creative and heart-centered. Her core principles include being service-oriented and a person of integrity.
• Simply being around her encourages you to empower yourself. 
• Amanda maintains positive energy by being grounded in her body and knowing she is safe. She doesn't let herself be swept away by negative thoughts.

[11:10] What Does Amanda Do?

• Amanda has a master’s degree in psychology from Columbia University. There, she combined spirituality and psychology. 
• She is also a yoga teacher and a Reiki master teacher. 
• She wants to help women reconnect with their womb space and in turn, reconnect with their bodies and feminine energy as well.
• The womb space is an energetic space located beneath the belly button, and is connected to a person's sexuality and sensuality.
• Amanda found her spiritual awakening in yoga and meditation. She thought of integrating spirituality with Western theory to bridge the mind-body connection.

[15:14] Understanding a New Perspective

• Understand that you are an energetic being more than your physical body. Everyone is interconnected in the universe.

Amanda: “We are beyond just our physical body. We are energetic beings. Everything in the universe from the scientific perspective is made up of particles of atoms and cells. And so in that same way, we are interconnected with everything that exists in the universe.” 

• Within your energy body are your chakra systems, also known as energy centers.
• The Sacral Chakra and the Root Chakra are under the belly button. These chakras are how you experience pleasure, joy, and different emotions.
• The Root Chakra is where we develop energetically from. The Sacral Chakra is associated with creation and life force energy.
• When shame builds up inside us, it can block the chakras and prevent us from fully enjoying life.

[20:00] Healing From an Energetic New Perspective

• Humans can create different defense mechanisms from pain. Unfortunately, this can also make it challenging to find and tackle the root cause of their pain.
• The unconscious realm is a space full of the unknown. In this realm, you might find the root causes of what troubles you.
• The chakra system and Reiki practice help you dive into the unconscious. 
• Diving into your body energetically discovers your body's record of experiences. You can honor and validate what you've gone through to feel wholeness.
• Energy and somatic work can help you clear out the stagnation that’s blocking your system.

[26:55] Learning to Hold Space

• Amanda met many amazing facilitators from different healing circles. They had a beautiful way of holding a space where others feel safe and share their voice.
• Her naturally analytical, curious, and observant nature gave Amanda what she needed to hold space.
• Holding space means recognizing each individual’s reality and human experience. This space is where they are allowed and encouraged to share that.

Amanda: “I think that that's also what holding space is all about. It’s recognizing that there are infinite realities, which means that each person is living in their own world and has their own experiences. And when we hold space, we give them the opportunity to share what their human experience is like.”

• Amanda met someone who held space for others in their position of power. They were judgmental, dominated by their emotions, and failed to make others feel safe.
• It's from that person that she learned what to avoid. Amanda continuously strives to be aware and ensure she holds a safe space for people to heal.

[33:22] The Experience of Holding Space

• A person who’s holding space should be non-judgmental and empathic. They shouldn’t try to interject and bring in their own experiences and emotions.
• People need a space to be witnessed and share their experiences and emotions, not someone to instruct them.

Amanda: “Sometimes I think what people really need is that space to be witnessed, to really be witnessed in their process of feeling whatever it is that they need to feel without being given advice or judged or criticized.”

• Holding space means letting others have their emotional release and let go of the blocks in their bodies.
• Unfortunately, most therapists and professionals aren't trained to hold space.
• One such experience was in a master's program that tackled trauma. Despite being a class for therapists, the class felt unsafe for Amanda.

[42:18] Advice and Agenda

• Advice can be good and beautiful. However, projecting an agenda dictates how others should act and feel.
• When you hold space, be mindful of the line between giving advice and projecting an agenda. 
• You don't necessarily know what's best for others. Allow them to go through their process, trust themselves, and make their own decisions.
• You can better hold space for others when you're grounded in your body and have done your healing work. Be sure you're able to regulate your own emotions.
• People who hold space for others to emotionally melt and open up can leave a positive mark on others.

[50:00] Amanda’s Rituals

• One of the first things Amanda does in the morning is greet her dog.
• She makes sure to be present and focused while enjoying her breakfast.
• Her morning ritual includes walking her dogs. She takes the time to be mindful of her environment and connects with the sun's warmth on these walks.
• At night, Amanda’s rituals focus on winding down. She sometimes lights a candle and takes the time to reflect on her day.
• After going through the seriousness of her profession, she unwinds by watching a funny show and having a laugh.

About Amanda

Amanda Vazquez is the founder of The Psychospiritual Coach. She has a master's degree in Psychology from Columbia University, and is a yoga teacher, reiki master, and a student of indigenous medicine. She combines what she learned from western theory with ancient healing traditions to help others heal and reconnect with their bodies.

Connect with Amanda and learn more about her on her website and Instagram.

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Thanks for listenin

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Embracing your feelings and living more fully (AKA aliveness!)

2. The power of reconnecting with energy, sensitivity, and creativity

3. Actionable steps to help you cultivate aliveness

📘Resources

• Learn more on my website about my In New Year's Retreat and sign up with a discount when you complete the Alive in October Challenge
• Join the Alive in October Challenge

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Why building a career that makes you feel fulfilled in the long term is important for your mental, emotional, and financial health

2. How working less is an important part of being more productive

3. Specific tools that will help you be present, honor your personal values, and create actual balance in your life

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Connect with Shelley Kay: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

About Shelley

Shelley Kay is a coach for high-achieving corporate women, helping them leverage their skills and experience to create a balanced career they are passionate about. Using her Embody method, she aims to help career-driven women work less, be present, live more, and love their jobs — without having to work themselves to the bone. Before her coaching career, Shelley was an HR professional at top Fortune 100 companies like Google and PepsiCo. 

Connect with Shelley on her LinkedIn or Instagram.

You can also visit her website for more details on her career coaching. 

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. How much protein do you need and is it possible to eat too much?

2. Why I don't recommend juice cleanses

3. The importance of self-worth in nutrition

📘Resources

▪️1:1 counseling - single session and long-term support

▪️Make Meals Easy Group

▪️Unfck Your Body Image Group

▪️Deep Relief Group

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

📘Resources

• Check out the Whole Full and Alive online course if you enjoyed this podcast!

• Whole Full and Alive episodes:
• Episode 1 - Wholeness: How to Feel Complete as You Are Now
• Episode 6 - Intuition or Anxiety: How to Tell Which is Making the Decision
• Episode 8 - Openness: Accepting Life As It Is, While Also Honoring Your Desires
• Episode 12 - Feeling It All: Reflections From 6 Months of Heartbreak, Change, and Adventure
• Episode 14 - A Healing Space: Things to Look For in a Therapist + More With Amanda Vasquez
• Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!
• Connect with me and reach out to her to learn more about somatic breathwork on her website and Instagram 

📌Episode Highlights

[02:46] No Shame About Who You Are

• I've felt that I sounded too fiery in my past few episodes.
• People are often too critical of themselves. However, being whole, full, and alive means showing authenticity.
• My fiery side and softer side are both parts of me - and I feel no shame about being who I fully am.

[07:27] Losing My Soul

• I felt like I lost my soul during the end of my time in New York and the closing of my last long-term relationship.
• The soul is the intangible essence unique to every person. I needed an internal sense of safety and regulation to save mine.
• On a recent retreat, I learned about the impact of somatic breathwork and started practicing it.
• Despite the constant travel and change, I found a constant, healing relationship in my somatic breathwork sessions with my facilitator.
• Somatic breathwork saved my soul. With it, I undid the limiting belief that I was inherently a bad person.

Caitie: “I feel like I could admit to mistakes that I've made in the past. I could admit to things that I feel shame about and know that I'm still good, that I'm still okay, and that I'm still lovable. These things are not actually unlovable about me. These things are actually things that I've learned from and grown from.”

[19:37] Taking Space For Yourself

• It’s rare for people to take the time to sit, be with themselves, and tune into their bodies.
• Too often, people try to fill every part of their lives. We end up suppressing our emotions and pushing through them.
• Taking space allows you to process, learn, and heal from your experience. It's in silence where intangible energy can be processed and exchanged.
• When you take space, you don’t suppress, ignore, or distract yourself from feeling your emotions.
• Another option is to have someone else hold space for you. 

Caitie: “Having space gives you the ability to digest your experiences. It gives you the space to actually integrate all the things that are happening to you in your life. And learn something from them, heal from them and kind of crystallize them into wisdom. That sounds a little cheesy. But having space allows you to really integrate all the experiences you're having in your life.”

[30:18] How to Practice Somatic Breathwork

• There are multiple ways to practice breathwork other than somatic. Some types use over-breathing or relaxed breathing techniques.
• When practicing somatic breathing, you first inhale and exhale through your mouth. This action stimulates your nervous system and helps you feel what needs to be released.
• Next, hold your breath for a moment. During this time, you might feel an intense download.
• Finally, go into the regulating phase. Inhale and exhale through your nose to regulate your nervous system.

[34:44] Releasing Emotions

• The first half of your breathwork allows you to feel the suppressed emotions that have built up within your body.
• If you don’t let yourself fully feel and integrate these emotions, your body will gravitate towards similar experiences. 
• I harbored feelings of deep sadness and unworthiness. Because of that, I tended to have relationships with people who treated me inadequately.
• Your body stores traumatic experiences. No matter how much you intellectualize or try to think through it, it won't be processed until you fully feel it.
• Somatic breathwork allows you to process and release that emotion that’s keeping your body in a survival state.

[40:03] Space for Both the Good and the Bad

• As you practice somatic breathwork, you move from stimulation to relaxation of your body. A regulated system like this can help you feel soothed, safe, and at peace.
• When I started practicing, I found I was more able to be neutral and look at my life experiences without getting stuck.
• One of my facilitators was able to hold space for his parents. He talked about his parents' difficulties and how they loved him with grace and neutrality.
• Somatic breathwork can help you achieve a capacity for things to be good and bad simultaneously.

[44:21] How Somatic Breathwork Helped Me

• After I released so much, I could fully receive each experience of my life. 
• Breathwork also helped me stop avoiding my body. I could further process the emotions within me and feel safe.

Caitie: “When you take space to really just breathe, and let yourself feel and be with yourself fully, you're open to receiving life, you're open to receiving presence.”

• I could see the world without the lens of trauma.
• Therapy can help you understand and process your experiences. It can help you navigate relationships, make decisions and create meaning.
• However, your body continues to remember and hold everything. Breathwork allows you to release what you've experienced.

[50:56] Learning to Hold Space with Deep Breathing

• Somatic breathwork was my anchor throughout my travels.
• It changed my view of life and the world and helped me improve at holding space for my clients.
• Through breathwork, I learned to stop rushing and to slow down to create space.
• It's vital to trust that every person has an innate intelligence. Their body is trying to protect and regulate them.
• Don't assume you know what's best and push your agenda. Instead, assess the other person's experience and give more space for them to be able to feel and release.

[54:09] This Week’s Processing Prompt and Actionable Experiment

• Processing Prompt: What do you want to receive?
• This question

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Why eating disorders often go unnoticed and how fitness culture contributes to them.
2. Why eating disorder recovery is personal; no single solution works for everyone.
3. How you can use therapy, nutrition therapy, and other modalities to sit in discomfort and ultimately heal from food anxiety and eating-related challenges. 

📘Resources

• Check out the Whole, Full, & Alive’s official trailer to learn more about me and the podcast. 
• Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!
• Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit
• Connect with me: Website | Instagram
• Connect with Lily: Thrope Therapy I Instagram  

About Lily 

Lily Thorpe, LCSW, is the founder of Thrope Therapy LCSW PLLC, a psychotherapy practice located in Midtown Manhattan. Thrope Therapy specializes in supporting individuals who experience eating disorders, disordered eating, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and LGBTQIA-related issues. Lily is also a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and HAES aligned. 

Lily helps her clients find the confidence to face these issues and find ways to live their happiest and most authentic lives. Lily is committed to fostering an environment where the client is the expert of their own story and therefore has integral skills for working towards their therapy goals.

Connect with Lily: Thrope Therapy I Instagram  

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What to do when a negative or maladaptive thinking pattern that you thought you let go of comes back up

2. Why relationships and other vulnerable experiences might cause us to lean into old habits

3. Three powerful tools for breaking free from negative body image and other harmful thinking patterns based on my own recent experiences and experiences with clients

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my one-on-one and group nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Whole, Full, And Alive Episodes: Episode 1:  Wholeness: How to Feel Complete as You Are Now & Episode 34:  Heather Boddy’s Guide to Self and Body Acceptance

▪️We Can Do Hard Things Podcast with Glennon Doyle

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Concrete steps for relaxing and letting go of the need to always be productive

2. What being fully present and embodied does for the quality of your life and creativity

3. How my most easeful and relaxed month led to my most successful month in business

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Four concrete tools that can help you feel ready to take leaps that allow you to live the life you desire

2. Why taking risks and surrendering is a requirement for having a fulfilling life and a fulfilling relationship with your body

3. How to navigate the difficult feelings and fears that come up with taking risks and surrendering

📘Resources

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my one-on-one nutrition coaching program and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call! 

▪️You can also check out my group coaching program!

▪️Listen to Whole, Full, & Alive Episode 2:  Fullness: The Foundations for Becoming an Intuitive Eater

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. The power of family constellations in healing generational trauma

2. Letting go of your parents' or family's approval of your values and life path

3. Different types of generational trauma

📘 Resources

▪️Nutrition & Intuition Retreat - Book a Commitment Free Discovery Call!

▪️I have one space open for 1:1 coaching! Learn more here.

Tamara Ardeljan is a family constellation therapist and systemic coach. Working with women to heal transgenerational trauma and solve blockages that hold them back to create the life they desire. She does that by using some of the latest tools of science to go to the root cause and help improve the life of women long term. You can connect with Tamara on her website or Instagram.

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Q&A - friendship breakups & body comparison

2. Why our friendship has lasted the test of time

3. Qualities we want the each other to celebrate more and show the world more

📘Resources

▪️Nutrition & Intuition Retreat - Book a Commitment Free Discovery Call!

▪️Tools to Step Out of Body Avoidance And Access Self-Confidence & Intuition podcast episode

Nicole Garfunkel is a personal stylist and body image consultant who works specifically with people who are recovering from disordered eating and navigating changes in their body and inevitable changes in their closets. And she's also my Director of Operations at Full Soul Nutrition. You can learn more about Nicole on her website & instagram.

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to Caitie's website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Four concrete tools that can help you feel ready to take leaps that allow you to live the life you desire

2. Why taking risks and surrendering is a requirement for having a fulfilling life and a fulfilling relationship with your body

3. How to navigate the difficult feelings and fears that come up with taking risks and surrendering

📘Resources

▪️Learn more on my website about my In Real Life Retreat and join the early bird list for exclusive discounts & freebies

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Weight loss drugs causing appetite suppression and disconnection from hunger and fullness cues

📘Resources

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Loneliness as a very normal part of the human experience

2. How to sit with loneliness when it comes up

3. Creating community wherever you are

📘 Resources

▪️Nutrition & Intuition Retreat - Book a Commitment Free Discovery Call!

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Whether fully recovering from an eating disorder is possible

2. Moving through the last stages of eating disorder treatment

3. Insights into my own eating disorder recovery

📘 Resources

▪️Nutrition & Intuition Retreat - Book a Commitment Free Discovery Call!

▪️I have one space open for 1:1 coaching! Learn more here.

▪️National Eating Disorders Association 

▪️National Alliance For Eating Disorders

▪️Diversity Dietetics 

▪️FEDUP Collective

▪️Project HEAL

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Tapping into gentle structure with nutrition in the new year

2. Nutrition Q&A

3. Five mindset shifts for a positive relationship with food

📘 Resources

▪️Book a free consultation for 1:1 coaching! 

▪️Come on my Nutrition & Intuition Retreat in March 2024!

▪️Practical Tips That Will Help You Finally Stick with Home Cooking w/ Micole Rondinone

▪️The Podcast Episode For The Person Who Is Trying to Lost The Last Ten Pounds

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Tools for the process of cultivating body neutrality and acceptance

2. Plastic surgery as a trend and the effect it has on mental and physical health

3. Tips on how to make your shopping experience more empowering and enjoyable

📘Resources

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive Toolkit

▪️Galaxy Light

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, & Alive’s official trailer to learn more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

▪️Connect with Nicole: Styling Confidential | Instagram 

About Nicole 

Nicole Garfunkel is a stylist, image consultant, and the creator of Styling Confidential, a space for women to step into their power, using personal style as a tool to heal body image and insecurity.

Visit her website Styling Confidential and Instagram for inspiration and empowerment.

Connect with Nicole: Website | Instagram

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. How to resist urges to go back to dieting and the diet-mentality
2. Our initial impressions of the intuitive eating framework
3. Dealing with being one of the few people who does not diet

📘Resources

• Sign up for my New Year's Retreat in Portugal!
• The BodyLove Project with Jessi Haggerty
• Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
• Learn more about Intuitive Eating

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Why finding and addressing the underlying cause of eating disorders is the path to healing.
2. How to form a more easeful and creative relationship with cooking.
3. How to reset your relationship with social media and alcohol.

📘Resources

• The Cooking Club

• Connect with Tiffany: Website | Instagram | Medium

• Check out the Whole Full and Alive online toolkit if you enjoyed this podcast! 
• Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!
• Connect with me and reach out to learn more about somatic breathwork on my website and Instagram 

About Tiffany

Tiffany Swan is an executive chef, food scientist, nutritionist, and sommelier. She believes that food not only fills bellies but also souls. It’s a way to create connections and bring people together over shared food and laughter. Her love for food and her guests is put into every plate she prepares. Tiffany’s 25 years of experience gave them the skills and techniques she now shares through her classes, intensives, and retreats.

Connect with Tiffany: Website | Instagram | Medium

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Three steps to help you identify what you need in moments of body image anxiety

2. How body image anxiety, like all anxiety, is rooted in fear

3. The similarity between body image healing and accessing intuition

📘Resources

▪️1:1 counseling - single session and long-term support

▪️Make Meals Easy Group

▪️Unfck Your Body Image Group

▪️Deep Relief Group

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

📘Resources

• Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 
• Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!
• Connect with me: Website | Instagram
• Connect with Christina: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn

📌Episode Highlights

[05:46] “Cleansing” Your System

• ‘Doing a detox’ is unnecessary because our bodies have their own cleansing systems.
• To feel more centered after a period of eating unbalanced meals, ask yourself: what was missing? 
• Learn to nourish your body regularly. 
• Devise a system that allows you to eat what you want while still getting balanced meals.

[10:42] Christina: “And so the detox isn't going to do anything for you, other than drain your bank account.”

[12:45] Learn not to Feel Ashamed 

• There’s no shame in indulging in a more spontaneous and flexible diet once in a while. 
• Honor the needs of your body. 
• Shame is a complex emotion that must be processed to achieve balance.

[15:54] Mute, Block, and Unfollow

• If someone continues to make comments about their diet, body, or food — or worse, your diet/food choices or body — you can implement my mute, unfollow, or block framework.
• Muting the person looks like completely changing the subject.
• Unfollowing them would be walking away from the conversation and physically distancing yourself from the person.
• The block is the toughest one. This looks like straight-up setting a boundary and what this entails exactly depends on you and your relationship with the person. 
• Whatever you choose to do at the moment is right for you.
• Don't pretend to agree with someone if you don't.
• Engage with positive content, conversations, and people. 

[18:02] Catie: “If you're trying to heal your relationship with food, your relationship with yourself, your relationship with your body, get the F out of there! Prioritize yourself. You deserve better–especially if you're doing the hard work of healing right now” 

[21:36] On Weddings and Diet Culture 

• It’s not shameful to show up as your authentic self during weddings. 

[23:00] Catie: “Let's not pretend that we don't get really moody when we don't have enough carbohydrates. Let's not pretend that our personality doesn't change when we're calorie restricting or hyper-focusing on the serving size of rice. It's really important to note that going on extreme and restrictive diets and shaming yourself into losing weight really does change your mood.” 

• Restrictive diets can only bring superficial and fragile confidence. 
• Dispel the myth that one must diet before attending a wedding.
• Body shaming is a problem that spans generations.

[27:15] What's a Body Image Coach? 

• Body image coaches have the skills necessary to assist their clients in healing their relationship with their bodies so they can make long-term nutritional changes.
• Consider how you arrived at your assumptions about your body image.
• It's essential to work with a professional who understands you.
• Spend some time experiencing and being in your body.

[34:21] Energizing Routines

• To brighten your mornings, spend some time in the sun.
• Always make time to do what you love. 
• Learn how Christina prepares simple and nutritious meals in the upcoming Whole, Full, and Alive online course!

[37:59] This Week’s Action Experiment

• Step 1: Recognize why a detox seems appealing to you.
• Step 2: Determine which habits can support you in regaining your center and feeling grounded.
• Step 3: Use the mute, unfollow, and block framework to set boundaries.  

About Christina

Christina Constantinou is an Associate Dietitian at Full Soul Nutrition and a clinical dietitian. She's a registered and licensed dietitian, a certified Intuitive Eating Counselor in Training, and has a Master's degree in Health Communication and a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition Science. Her individualized approach to nutrition helps her educate and empower people's relationships with food.

Connect with Christina and learn more about her on Full Soul Nutrition’s website.

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Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Why it's more important (scientifically) to pursue health over weight loss

2. Uncovering your blocks around implementing nutrition and wellness practices

3. Self-love reminders that you can tap into today

📘Resources

▪️75 Minute Intensives - on sale June 20 through the end of summer!

▪️The Podcast For the Person Who Is Trying to Lose The Last 10 Pounds

▪️Back to Nutrition: Food Q&A and Nutrition Shifts for 2024

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. How to discern the difference between intuition and procrastination

2. How to trust your gut and honour dramatic transitions in your life

3. The nuances of embracing being single beyond loneliness and the biological clock

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Connect with Whitney Catalano: Website | Instagram | Twitter

▪️You can also listen to Whitney’s podcast, It’s All Made Up, Anyway

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

About Whitney

Whitney Catalano is a Self-Sabotage, Accountability, & Alignment coach who helps creatives, ADHD’ers, and multi-passionates master habits, confidence, money mindset, & self-trust so they can embody that person they've always dreamed of being.

Connect with Whitney on her Instagram and Twitter

You can also visit her website for more details on her business coaching. 

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Tools you can use to reset your energy and nervous system when difficult things are happening in your life 

2. Specific things to include in your morning and nighttime routine to improve your mental health

3. The impact that music, breathwork, and enjoyable movement have on regulating your nervous system

📘Resources

▪️Galaxy Lights - I love these for when I want to shift my lighting

▪️I Love You B*tch by Lizzo 

▪️I Am Here by P!nk

▪️No Time for Tears by Little Mix

▪️Faith’s Hymn by Beautiful Chorus

▪️Bam Bam by Camilla Cabello ft Ed Sheeran

▪️Sign up here for my Weekly Wednesday newsletter, Back to You  

▪️Breathe by James Nester (book)

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram 

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. The difference between body avoidance and body negativity

2. Letting go of people’s judgements about your body

3. Tool for letting go of body avoidance and stepping into a life of embodiment

📘Resources

• Sign up for my New Year's Retreat in Portugal!
• Somatic Breathwork: How Deep Breathing Saved my Soul podcast episode
• I Started Having Negative Thoughts About My Body Again. Here's What I Did... podcast episode

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Tips for breaking free from Instagram (and social media) addiction

2. How to not miss out on all of the positive things that can come from Instagram 

3. The all or nothing mentality with social media

📘Resources

Kelly Mosser is a startup strategist, founder of Hell Yes Media, and host of The Aligned Success Show. You can learn more about Kelly on her website and Instagram.

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to Caitie’s website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What I encountered in 2023

2. How I made each of the things I went through harder for myself

3. How I learned to make my experiences easier

📘 Resources

▪️Book a free consultation for 1:1 coaching! 

▪️Come on my Nutrition & Intuition Retreat in March 2024!

▪️Whole, Full, & Alive Toolkit

▪️Changing Your Mind: How to Trust Yourself to Make a Big Pivot podcast episode

▪️Failing and Falling by Jack Gilbert

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources. 

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Q&A - How long did it take me to recover from my eating disorder?

2. How and why it's important to uncomplicated health, wellness, and other things and life

3. Simple truths to starting healing your relationship with food, body image, exercise, dating, and more

📘Resources

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What does love mean when we talk about loving our bodies?

2. Parallels between loving someone else and loving your body

3. Loving your body through action

📘Resources

▪️Learn more on my website about my In Real Life Retreat and join the early bird list for exclusive discounts & freebies

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Optimizing your nutrition is not real

2. Images of faces you see are often not real

3. Intense rom-com, fairy tale love is not real

📘Resources

▪️Learn more on my website about my In Real Life Retreat and join the early bird list for exclusive discounts & freebies

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. The difference between body avoidance and body negativity

2. Letting go of people’s judgements about your body

3. Tool for letting go of body avoidance and stepping into a life of embodiment

📘Resources

▪️Somatic Breathwork: How Deep Breathing Saved my Soul podcast episode

▪️I Started Having Negative Thoughts About My Body Again. Here's What I Did... podcast episode

▪️Back To You Breathwork & Intention Setting Ceremony

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to Caitie’s website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Tangible tools for feeling complete as you are now, feeling whole as a single person, and tapping into a sense of self-worth.
2. Tangible tools for eating more intuitively and healing your relationship with food.
3. Tools and mindset shifts for feeling more alive and tapping into a sense of freedom.  

📘Resources

• Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!
• Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit
• Whole Full and Alive Podcast episodes:
• Episode 1 - Wholeness: How to Feel Complete as You Are Now 
• Episode 12 - Feeling It All: Reflections from 6 Months of Heartbreak, Change, and Adventure
• Mark Groves Podcast
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Whole Full and Alive Group Coaching Program
• Connect with me: Website | Instagram

Thanks for listening! 💖 Stay tuned to my website for more episode updates and other exciting programs and resources.

3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. It's never too late to search for and be your authentic self

2. How to reflect on the best and the worst experiences of your life to find who you really are

3. Why understanding the why behind what you do is essential for understanding who you are

📘Resources

▪️Check out the Whole, Full, and Alive’s official trailer to know more about me and the podcast. 

▪️Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!

▪️Whole, Full, and Alive - Making Your Job More Fulfilling Without Changing Jobs with Shelley Kay

▪️Martha Beck Podcasts

▪️The L Word TV Series (2004-2009)

▪️Colin Bedell Instagram

▪️Untamed by Glennon Doyle

▪️Women Don’t Owe You Pretty by Given Florence

▪️Eat Pray Love Book | Film (2010)

▪️Elizabeth Gilbert Instagram

▪️Connect with me: Website | Instagram

▪️Connect with Maria: Instagram (personal) | Instagram (Be Conscious PR)

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. How to let go of control and lean into more self-love when photographing yourself.
2. The steps Sami and I created to help you find purpose in your career.
3. Sami’s experience on how photos and videos can capture your true essence and how to lean in to it.

📘Resources

• Check out the Whole, Full, & Alive’s official trailer to learn more about me and the podcast. 
• Release restrictive dieting, break free from body shame, & create habits that help you live fully! Sign up for my nutrition coaching program and community, Whole, Full, and Alive, and get a FREE 20 Minute Discovery Call!
• Download the Whole, Full, and Alive toolkit
• Connect with me: Website | Instagram
• Connect with Sami: Website | Email | Instagram 

About Sami 

Sami Hobbs is a business coach, brand photographer and brand designer based in Sarasota, Florida. In February 2019, she left the corporate world in search of community, connection, and sense of purpose. Soon after, she founded Her Inner Wisdom to help heart-centered healers cultivate clarity in their brand & business, build unwavering confidence in themselves, and ultimately, to lead an unstoppable business rooted in their own intuitive wisdom.

Visit Her Inner Wisdom website and its instagram for holistic business mentorship.

Connect with Sami: Website | Email | Instagram

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Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Anxiety and the unknown becomes easier to move through with collaboration and making it more fun

2. The beauty of cultivating community through retreats

3. Travel as a portal for adventure and self-development

✨You can learn more about Diana on her website and Instagram!

🏔️Learn more about Caitie's Scotland retreat & Diana's Ecuador retreat on their websites or by sending them a DM on Instagram!

Caitie's Website | Instagram | Book a Discovery Call

Diana's Website | Instagram 

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Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. The difference between toxic positivity and genuine positivity 

2. Tangible positive psychology tools for living a happier life today

3. Processing the human experience with savoring

📘Resources

▪️1:1 counseling - single session and long-term support

▪️Make Meals Easy Group

▪️Unfck Your Body Image Group

▪️Deep Relief Group

▪️Tools For Finding & Maintaining Aligned Friendships with Nicole Garfunkel

▪️Loneliness: When to Just Sit With It & When to Solve It

Cecilie is a positive psychology practitioner & a trauma-informed yoga & mindfulness teacher.

Website | Instagram

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Types of untraditional therapy modalities like EMDR, music therapy, somatic therapies, embodiment, and polarity
2. Embodiment as a practice and a way of being - where you experience positive AND negative emotions to the fullest extent to feel fully alive
3. The phases of eating disorder recovery and "recovery grad school," a phase where you truly experience wholeness, fullness, and aliveness

📘Resources

▪️Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR (one of Alex's therapeutic modalities)

▪️Tattoos on the Heart:The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle

▪️The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck

▪️Eating in the Light of the Moon by Dr Anita Johnston

▪️Brené Brown (researcher & speaker)

⭐️About Alex

Alex Leff is a licensed creative arts Therapist who has specialized in working with people with eating disorders, trauma and addiction for the last 10 years. She is currently in private practice and is building programs and retreats to support women in combining traditional therapy with several other forms of healing that Alex has been focusing her work and training on the past several years. Alex believes in the body’s intuitive wisdom as a driving force in all treatment and healing, and works with clients to help them strengthen their relationship to their own body, energetic alignment and pleasure to find freedom and liberation in their recovery and their lives.

You can learn more about Alex and her work on her website and instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/antidiettherapist/

https://www.alexleff.com/

Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. Q&A - I am starting to date again, but I feel like people won't be attracted to me because of my body size. How do I heal from this?

2. What is the difference between a therapist and a coach, and which should you hire

3. How to advocate for yourself in healthcare and build trust with your providers 

📘Resources:

▪️Nutrition & Intuition Retreat - Book a Commitment Free Discovery Call!

▪️I have one space open for 1:1 coaching! Learn more here.

▪️Dating & Body Image: Agency+Pleasure podcast episode

▪️Simple Truths to Heal Your Relationships w/ Food, Body Image, Exercise, & Relationships podcast episode

Brianna Campos is is a Licensed Professional Counselor focusing on eating disorder recovery. Briana helps clients with body image through a weight-inclusive lens. In particular, she uses the Health at Every Size (HAES) paradigm to help clients find freedom and peace with food and their body. Brianna has also worked as an adjunct professor, teaching Introduction to Eating Disorders.

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3 Things We Dive Into In This Episode:

1. What is "perfectionism" - really? And what are the sneaky ways that it might be holding you back in relationships, work, and other areas of your life?

2. The importance of setting and maintaining boundaries and how to repair relationships when boundaries cause friction

3. How to let go of perfectionism in relationship to our bodies as they change and adapt throughout our lives

📘Resources

▪️Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (one of Noni's favorite therapeutic modalities)

▪️The Vanishing Half (book)

▪️Safe Word podcast (Noni's favorite podcast)

▪️Alison Roman (chef)

⭐️ About Noni

Noni Vaughn-Pollard is a mental health counselor and psychotherapist in New York City. She studied nutrition at NYU as an undergrad, then pivoted to mental health counseling and got a master’s degree in mental health. Noni specializes in working with people who struggle with perfectionism and is passionate about helping people cope with the fear of disappointing others. In switching from nutrition to mental health counseling Noni had to grapple with her own perfectionism and let go of her expectations of herself and others to go after what she really wanted.

You can learn more about Noni and her work on her website and instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/afroandappetite/

https://afroandappetite.wordpress.com/

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