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Kelsey Ellis (she/her) is a Body Positive Health and Fitness Expert and the owner of the personal wellness brand 'Healthy With Kelsey'. She operates from her home-based business in Vancouver British Columbia with a mission to help people take the shame out of their wellness game through joyful movement, making peace with food and stepping into their personal power so they can live whole-hearted and fulfilling lives.

In this episode, Kelsey tells us how she got started with a career in health and fitness and how her perspective on what it means to be healthy and fit has drastically shifted over time. She also shares how being introduced to dieting and weight loss as a child impacted her. 

We then  dive into all things body positive fitness. Kelsey tells us more about what that means for her and her work and how it's different than conventional ideas of fitness. Then Kelsey leaves us with some super helpful tips on what we can do to start cultivating more body acceptance and a body positive fitness practice. 

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TW: Eating Disorders

Barb Puzanovova, aka The Non-Diet Trainer (@nondiet_trainer) is a Health at Every Size, weight-neutral, and inclusive ACE-certified Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, Behavior Change Specialist, and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. Due to her own story of recovering from an eating disorder, she empowers people to step off the scale and into their life so they can move their body with less rules and more joy.

Barb and I kick off the episode by talking about common perceptions or ideas of what it means to be a trainer - we talk about how often people think trainers have to look a certain way to do their jobs and that leads us into talking about how Barb's work has changed since the pandemic. 

Barb shares how her definition of healthy and fit has changed over the years and in this she shares how dance and other forms of movement helped her learn to regulate and cope with her emotions, which is super cool. 

We talk a little bit about identity, specifically, identifying with a form of movement or as an athlete or exerciser and how some of the expectations we often hold with being or doing that thing can impact us if our ability to be or do that thing is at stake for example if we get injured or are sick or something. Barb also shares also how identifying so strongly with exercise might lead into disordered habits or eating disorders like Barb experienced. 

We also chat about red flags and green flags when it comes to finding a non-diet or HAES trainer, the important of creating agency and autonomy with clients, and Joyful movement - what it is and what are some steps you can take to move from conventional ideas of exercise to joyful movement.

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Laura is a 35 year old feminist, nurse, mom of two boys ages 10 and 5 and a spouse to a dental student at the college of dentistry. She has survived two babies with colic and post-partum depression and all the boys in her house have ADHD which is another daily struggle she deals with. Laura has had a mixed relationship with her body since she was pretty young and is a previous disordered eater. She was on the University of Iowa Women’s rowing team for a short while, which you’ll hear helped with some of her restrictive eating patterns at the time. Laura is currently at the heaviest weight she has ever been and says that she is, “doing daily work to appreciate all the things this body has done instead of focusing on what I wish it looked like.”

In this episode Laura and I dive into a variety of topics. We talk about her work in healthcare and how she has witnessed folks in larger bodies not receiving proper care due to their size. Laura details her experience with disordered eating and how her relationship with food and movement has changed overtime, sharing how it started after a break up and has morphed and shapeshifted over the years. We do discuss specific calorie counts and restrictive behaviors that may be triggering for folks who are struggling with their relationship with food. We chat about the role control has played in both of our choices with food and movement and the importance of grooming your social media. We also talk a little bit about food marketing and labeling after we both listened to episode 315 of the Armchair Expert Podcast with Dax Shephard and we thought it was really interesting so we wanted to talk about it. Laura talks parenting and body changes, and so much more. A really cool episode with an amazing woman.

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If you were left feeling crappy after stepping on the scale recently, this episode is for you! In this episode, I review 4 tips you can try out after stepping on the scale to avoid getting sucked back into another diet. 

1. Recognize how you feel 

2. Remind yourself that the scale does not tell the whole story of your health

3. Reflect on how you were feeling before stepping on the scale

4. Resist the urge to fall back to harm patterns of over-exercising and undereating. 

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Lara is a certified nutrition coach, personal trainer, and yoga instructor who is on a mission to change the world, one woman at a time! While many nutrition programs only give advice about food, Lara aims to help each amazing client transform from the inside out. Lara focuses on improving your mindset, unlearning your past conditioning, and creating productive daily habits so that you can find food freedom and step into your power!

In this episode Lara and I chat about how her definition of what it means to be healthy and fit has changed over the years both personally and professionally for her. Lara explains the difference between a nutrition coach and a Registered Dietitian which was super informative. We also talk about her experience with Crossfit and what she gained by participating in the sport. Lara tells us more about what food freedom means to her and how she helps her clients achieve it. She gives us a rundown of her services and towards the end we talk more about the scholarships she offers for her Nutrition Empowerment Project and why it's important for more wellness professionals to understand the impact that systemic racism plays in their work. 

To learn more from Lara, follow her on Instagram @lara.days

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In this highly anticipated episode, I chat all things menstrual cups! I start out by explaining what periods and menstrual cups have to do with GTB and why I decided to switch from single use period products to a menstrual cup. I then break down my experience from beginning to end or should I say insertion to removal! 

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Tianna Smith is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. For ten years she has specialized in eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image. It is her mission to help teens and women learn to trust their body so they can repair their relationships with food and their body. Tianna owns her own private practice, Realistic Roots Nutrition Counseling and hosts an online intuitive eating and body image course, Food Freedom University. 

In this episode we chat all things fad diets, Intuitive Eating, and body image with Tianna. We cover what some of the popular diets are right now and some implications for participating in them. Tianna also talks Intuitive Eating - how to get started and some red flags to look out for when looking into an Intuitive Eating program. We talk about food sensitivity tests and she shares a really good point about how the anxiety we feel around certain foods can impact how our body responds to eating them. And Lastly, Tianna shares a super helpful metaphor to use when thinking about improving our body image that I think you will really like. 

You can follow Tianna on Instagram @dietitian.tianna

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Erica Tafavoti is the host of Unwell with Erica, a podcast where she has candid conversations about mental health and wellness. She’s also a digital marketing professional, amateur golfer, and avid weightlifter who soaks up every bit of Pacific Northwest living in the great outdoors.

I really appreciate Erica's perspective on body changes and and fitness in general. She takes a super moderate approach and I think you'll hear that in this episode. We talk a lot about her podcast, UnWell with Erica - what it's about and how it got started. We cover COVID - both how it has impacted her mental and physical health and what it has taught her about fitness. We also chat about social media and how her perspectives on social media and health have changed over the years. 

You can find Erica on Instagram @unwellwitherica and @baconandbraids (food blogging/more personal page). And you can listen to her podcast wherever you are listening to GTB!! 

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In this episode I speak with Dr. Gregory Dodell, a board certified endocrinologist. We chat about ways to maintain hormone balance, how telling someone to lose weight to manage their chronic condition like diabetes is harmful, and he shares how mindfulness and meditation became an important part of his life.

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In this solo episode I talk a little bit about my body image - when I started to become aware of my body and how that informed my body image for most of my life, and self-objectification - what it is, how I learned about it and why I'm not surprised that it's a thing. I also mention a couple helpful journaling prompts that may help you to see yourself as more than a body.  I mention the book More Than a Body by Lindsey and Lexie Kite in this episode and highly recommend you check it out.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/giveemthebirdpodcast/support