Can you tell that it's winter and dark at 6:45pm?!? The season is upon us! Today I am here with Sydney Bell, MSW, RSW from Embracing The Body Divine. Sydney is a counsellor and body image coach and has some awesome tips to share about how to not get hooked by negative thoughts about your body (because we are never free of them), how to not blame your body/yourself when you don't look like the latest "beauty ideal", and her amazing triad for supporting your very own body sover

The idea of feeling confident and happy with our body often feels like a luxury for the super fit and thin. It holds us back from doing things that we love, from trying new things and from feeling worthy of the most important thing in the world, unconditional love and belonging. Our negative relationship with our body trickles into every facet of our life and ends up sabotaging hopes and dreams before they even have a chance to begin. We squash our own joy because of what we

What a treat it was to spend time chatting with the wonderful Anna Chapman! Anna is a Body and Size Diversity Advocate as well as a movement teacher. She is passionate about body justice as well as providing a safe and inclusive space for folx of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds, and abilities to move their body. She has just recently launched a Body Love Yoga series for you to do in the comfort of your own home! You can find it at www.bodylove.joyn.co. In this episode, Anna sh

Meredith Noble from Made on a Generous Plan is here with me today. Meredith is a Food and Body Peace Coach for Plus-Size People and is here to chat with us today a little about her story, diet culture, how it gets its hooks in us (and highjacks our life), how we can start to recognize it and live our life for ourselves not for the sake of changing or trying to control the size and shape of our body. We chat about tuning into your inner voice, quieting the noise out there that

Sarah Thompson of Resilient Fat Goddess (www.resilientfatgoddess.com) is here with me today chatting a bit about their healing and process with working through an eating disorder. Sarah is an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, Writer, and also a fellow Body Trust® Advocate. I just love how they articulate being able to get to truly know themselves as they let go of trying to conform to all the ways we are taught our bodies are supposed to look and be in the world. Helping folks

This week's edition is with my dear friend and fellow Body Trust® practitioner Nicole Eikenberry of Mindful Food & Motion. Nicole is a Registered Dietitian and Intuitive Eating Counsellor who focuses on helping folks come back into a kinder relationship with food and their body. Through mindful and intuitive eating she helps her clients pull back the layers of past diets and beliefs to start to disentangle their emotions with eating. What a wonderful conversation we had about

Amanda is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, Registered Social Worker in Waterloo Region, and also has her own private practice, Savour Life Therapy. SLT was born from Amanda's many years of living in diet culture and surviving an eating disorder, and eventually coming home to a place of healing and a desire to help others get out of it. She loves talking about rejecting the diet mentality and finding pleasure in food and your body and creating space to live authentical

The theme for this month from our Body Trust® core elements is, "reconnect to your body's needs and boundaries". Here is me chatting a little bit about my experience with this element and what's to come for the rest of the month! I just love the frozen face!!!! Wild at Heart, Dana #humpdayhiatus #bodytrust #reclaimingthewild

Welcome to Wednesday! My scheduled guest for today was Melissa Toler and seeing as we aired on Sunday I wanted to take this opportunity to share a bit with you about my journey, why the language around health and beauty is so damaging in our current culture, and PLEASURE! Pleasure has become a guiding principle in my life. Slowly over the last year I have invited more and more of this elusive creature into my life and contrary to my beliefs, I actually feel like I am more gro

What a joy! I had such a fabulous time today chatting with Melissa about how dieting and diet culture requires us to abandon pieces of ourselves in order to perform or strive for impossible cultural standards of beauty, thinness and health. Melissa is a speaker, writer, and educator. Her work encourages people to make the connection between our culture's oppressive beauty standards and our personal struggle with self-acceptance. She has written extensively on diet culture and