Real Talk With Dana | Nutrition, Health & Fitness With A Healthy Side Of Sarcasm

Today we have a highly requested topic by our listeners and clients – non-diet PCOS management! Joining us today is Amanda Huynh, a registered dietitian in australia who practices from a non-diet approach.She helps women combat restrictive eating patterns and PCOS problems using a unique intuitive eating and hormone balancing nutrition approach so they can...

Welcome to part 3 of our discussion on functional medicine, lab testing, and chronic symptom management from a Whole-Hearted Eating Approach! In this episode we discuss how when you’re dealing with chronic symptoms or labs that are out of range, doctors place a huge emphasis on removing everything inflammatory – foods, lifestyle factors, etc. So...

On today’s episode Cristina and Dr. Colleen Reichmann have a candid chat about the messiness of motherhood! They’re talking about motherhood is such a humbling experience and can be extremely overwhelming, how not to get bogged down in the mess of it, or trying to ‘heal yourself’ before giving yourself permission to parent around complex...

On this part 2 episode in our functional medicine series, we discuss Lab testing 101: the Whole-Hearted Eating Way. Cristina and Dana dig into how they use labs in their practices as a way to bring neutrality to the conversation, the types of labs they use, why they use them. They give you examples of...

Steph Gaudreau joins Dana again to talk about how to make sure we’re eating enough, non-diet nutrition for performance, and how to use strength training as a tool to help improve our body image, self-esteem, and confidence. This episode is for everyone for wants to, or likes to move their body and wants to learn...

This is the first of a three part series on the functional medicine pipeline! Today we’re talking about how so many people go from severe symptoms, to failing to get enough help with western medicine, to functional medicine (and the many issues we see with this paradigm) and feeling like the symptoms are now their...

Dr. Katja Rowell has worked in child feeding for over a dozen years. She teaches the importance of responsive feeding and therapies to parents, pediatric feeding specialists, family support specialists, and childcare staff, and consults with corporate clients, nutrition education, and public health providers (and anyone that will listen!).  She is the author of the...

Jenny Weinar joins us again on the podcast today to talk about some exciting breakthrough therapies in the field of mental health with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Quick disclaimer: this is NOT meant for everyone, nor are we recommending it without a comprehensive assessment from multiple health professionals, including your doctor, therapist, and a specifically trained therapist...

This week’s episode is a deep dive with your two favorite people (us!) all about how having an autoimmune disease, food restrictions, or chronic health condition can create a feeling of food scarcity. This feeling can happen when you don’t feel like all foods are available/safe; not because you don’t have enough food, but because...

Chrissy King, the author of the new book The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom, joins Dana on the podcast today! If I could give this book 100 stars, I would. I want to buy this book for every womxn I know. Everyone needs to...

Cristina interviews Virginia Sole-Smith about her newest book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture; where she explores the impact the “war on childhood obesity” has caused kids of all ages to absorb a daily onslaught of body shame. She offers research-based strategies to help parents name and navigate the anti-fat bias that...

We’re continuing on in our “Help! I’m failing at intuitive eating” series with a popularly requested topic – “I can’t do intuitive eating because…”. We’ve heard this so many times from listeners and clients, that they feel they can’t do intuitive eating for many reasons. And we hear you! We’re breaking down a few different...

We have an informal, catch-up-with-us type episode with Dana & Cristina today, so grab some coffee, tea, etc. and enjoy! We’re sharing what’s been going on with us, how our recent plans for the podcast got totally derailed (and why!), and our plans & upcoming exciting guests/topics for the upcoming spring and summer season for...

Brittany Rogers joins us today to talk about non-diet approaches to IBD treatment, and how our diet-obsessed culture intersects with IBD. Brittany is a Dietitian who specializes in working with people with crohn’s and colitis get into symptom remission so they can focus on living their life instead of living under the constraints of their...

Dr. Meg Mill is a Functional Medicine Practitioner who specializes in helping people end headaches and migraines, increase energy and restore mental clarity without drugs or overwhelming protocols. We’re talking about the most overlooked root cause of migraines and headaches, common co-occurrences, and how headaches and migraines are usually a very loud symptom of a...

Stacie Fanelli, an eating disorder therapist who specializes in neurodivergence, joins Cristina to discuss the intersection of ADHD and eating disorders, and disordered eating patterns. Where does perfectionism play into both cases? Stacie discusses practical tips to stimulate dopamine response and increase your focus, what overstimulation vs. understimulation looks like, and how imposter syndrome can...

Warren Brown, the CEO of Sparkbites joins Dana today to discuss how we know if we have good gut health. They discuss how Warren went from practicing law, to running a bakery franchise called CakeLove, to hosting on the Food Network, to finally launching a gut health snack. How can we measure if we have...

On today’s episode, Cristina interviews Nicola Haggett; a body liberationist, coach, & mentor whose work focuses on supporting folks to move beyond body positivity to unlearn body shame, reconnect to their body, and intentionally practice their way towards a world where each of us has more safety, compassion, and joy in our body. They discuss...

Dana and Cristina dig into how the hunger-fullness scale is commonly used vs. how it can be better used to bring insight to your eating patterns. They also discuss how the dieting and weight loss world has tried to co-opt the hunger-fullness scale as a tool for weight loss, when the intention of this tool...

This one is just for fun! Dana and her friend Kara talk about their best books of 2022, least favorite books of the year, biggest surprises and disappointments, and their top book recommendations for anyone looking to get into (or more into) reading this year! DISCLAIMER: just because we didn’t like a book doesn’t mean...