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Welcome to Thrive Beyond Size, the podcast that’s all about finding health, joy, and liberation beyond weight. Join Dr. Michelle Tubman as she dives into the latest research and evidence-based strategies for nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and emotional wellbeing. Our mission is to empower you to prioritize your health, not your weight, and to promote a world where everyone can thrive, regardless of their size. Let’s work together to break free from diet culture, enjoy vibrant ...
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**If you're looking for The Joyful Movement Show, you're in the right place. We've got a new name, but same mission and content!** The Power in Motion Podcast is the show for women who are ready for a different approach to movement, food and health. Around here, we're all about nurturing a respectful and trusting relationship with the body you have. In addition to sharing weight neutral fitness and joyful movement motivation, we’ll also talk about intuitive eating and body image, as well as ...
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In this episode, Kim welcomes back Dr. Michelle Tubman to the podcast for an in-depth discussion on the popular GLP-1 agonists, such as Ozempic and Wegovy. Dr. Tubman, a physician specializing in emergency, obesity, and lifestyle medicine, breaks down everything you need to know about these medications: How injectable weight loss drugs work Side ef…
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CW: conversations on binge eating and disordered eating Friends welcome to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. Many of you regular listeners may recall that this podcast went by a different name for the first one hundred episodes and had a different focus. It was called Mindful Weight Loss and was very focused on the weight loss and diet space. …
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Welcome back, friends! Today’s episode is about something I don’t have personal experience with but something that many of my clients live with and have questions about. And that is children. Specifically pre-teens. I don’t have children but so many of my clients do and they constantly ask how to talk to their pre-teens, and how to effectively comm…
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Hello everyone, welcome to another episode that I’m so excited to share with you all. It focuses on a topic that’s talked about a lot these days, and that’s trauma. Trauma happens to us all but there are a lot of misconceptions around it. So I’ve invited Ramona Kossowan, a personal empowerment coach and Gentle Trauma Release Practitioner, to join m…
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Welcome, friends! I’ve missed you! I’m so glad to be back with you. Over the past few months, I’ve had interviews with some absolutely brilliant women who have excited and challenged me, given me new ideas to share, and just helped me grow. It’s so amazing and I love it. Through my conversation with Frankie last week I started thinking about my jou…
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Insulin resistance in perimenopause is a term that's been buzzing in health circles lately. On this episode we welcome back Kate Williams Stone, a health and life coach for women in perimenopause to teach us about this phenomenon which she calls “metabolic inflexibility”. While often blamed on weight, the truth is insulin resistance affects people …
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Welcome, friends, and I have to tell you right away how much I love spending time with you all every week. It’s such a pleasure to record these episodes for you. I am so moved and so lit up by the amazing people I meet through this podcast that it’s just become such a pleasurable part of my life. I was recently at a conference that was just other w…
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Welcome to this bonus episode of The Power in Motion Podcast. In this episode, I’m sharing a recent interview I did with Tami Stackelhouse on her podcast, The Fibromyalgia podcast. I discovered Tami and her work as I was looking for resources to support myself through my own recent diagnosis of fibromyalgia and I can honestly say her podcast has ma…
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Hello friends, welcome to an exciting episode of Thrive Beyond Size. It’s exciting because if you’ve been listening for a while, you know I love anything related to the brain. Brain science, neuroscience, neuropsychology, it all fascinates me because we can use the brain to get us closer to our goals and I found an expert in all things brain and sc…
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Do you love your body? As the creator of Love Your Body, Love Yourself, today's guest helps women access their yes! to that question. Marla Mervis Hartmann joins us on the show today to talk to us all about loving our body and loving ourselves ... But not in the way that we typically think about loving our body where we try to convince ourselves to…
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Welcome, friends, to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. Today’s topic is inspired by a beautiful conversation my husband Rob and I had during a rare lunch date the other day. He told a story about how when he and his fellow firefighters drive the engine past an elementary school while the kids are outside, the kids all run to the fence grinning…
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Can you believe this is Episode 155 already? Time really does fly when you’re having fun. And we’re going to have fun today because we’re talking about meditation! My guest is Ann Swanson, an absolute expert in the neuroscience and research behind meditation and author of the new book “Meditation for the Real World”. I love geeking out over the sci…
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"You don’t have to make your body smaller to get pregnant. You are so worthy of getting any help and care you need to reach your goal right now. You're not broken, and you don't need fixing." In this episode Kim welcomes Nicola Salmon to talk about her journey with fertility and the impact of weight stigma on accessing fertility care. The conversat…
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Hello friends! Today I’m talking about something I am lucky enough not to struggle with personally but which so many people do struggle with. And that is sleep. Sleep is my superpower, according to my husband, and I can fall asleep anywhere. Most people do not have this superpower, however, so every now and then I talk to a sleep expert here on the…
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This is a bonus episode, where you'll hear ME be interviewed by my friend Unyime Oguta on HER podcast "Permission Granted" If the idea of moving your body makes you want to run for the hills, you’re not alone. As we wrap up our series on pleasure, our guest, Kim Hagle of Radiant Vitality is unpacking why movement sometimes feel punitive and unattai…
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CW: Talk about weight loss and experienced medical weight stigma, use of the terms obese and obesity Welcome to today’s episode, everyone, where we address a topic that’s not easy for us to talk about. We’re talking about weight stigma in the healthcare system. Why does weight stigma exist in our healthcare system? How does it show up and who does …
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This week we’re joined by Holly Toscanini, a non-diet health and life coach, who shares a powerful message about the often toxic relationship women have with food and their bodies due to societal beauty standards. Holly shares her personal journey of overcoming body dissatisfaction and transitioning from a career in medical weight loss to non-diet …
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Hello there everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I’m sure many of you have read the title of this episode and asked “Why is Michelle having a conversation about money on a podcast entitled Thrive Beyond Size?” At first glance it doesn’t seem to fit, I know. But here’s the reason why: there are a lot of similarities between our relationship with f…
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Friends, I’m excited to share this episode with you all because it’s on a subject I’ve been struggling with recently. We’re going to talk about movement. My relationship with movement has gone up and down, if you’ve been listening to this podcast from the beginning, and part of the struggle is that there’s part of me that still connects exercise to…
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In this episode of the Power in Motion podcast, we sit down with Amy Kotha, a mother turned coach for parents of neurodivergent children. Amy shares her personal journey from a career in IT and real estate to becoming a dedicated advocate and coach for parents of neurodivergent kids, stemming from her experiences parenting two adopted, neurodiverge…
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I’m happy you’re all here to join me in a deep dive on a topic that comes up a lot on this podcast and in my coaching programs. That topic is embodiment. People these days are trying to understand the importance of alignment, of making decisions for themselves and their bodies, and there’s a spiritual need associated with it. That’s why this topic …
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On today’s episode we discuss why it’s important for ALL of us to see all sizes of bodies represented in the fitness space. Our guest, Dr. Rachel Millner is on a mission to make fitness more accessible to folks in larger bodies . During this conversation Rachel and I talked about: Rachel’s personal eating disorder history and how that was handled w…
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CW: Talk about eating disorders, bulimia, binge eating disorder, restricted eating, purging I’m so glad to be back in front of the microphone with you all because I recorded so many episodes before going on an African vacation that I feel I haven’t reached out in a very long time! It feels good to connect again. I had a wonderful trip and you’ll he…
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If you live with a chronic illness and feel like you and your body are in a constant battle, this is the episode for you. Today I’m joined by Tami Stackelhouse, a certified fibromyalgia coach and host of The Fibromyalgia Podcast. But this episode isn't just relevant for people with fibromyalgia - whether you live with chronic pain or illness or jus…
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CW: Discussion on sex, sexuality, and fatphobia Friends, I hope you were able to join me last week for part one of this conversation with my guest Angela Corry. Angela is a clinical and sexual health educator, an expert in fatphobia and sex, and last week we talked about body image and fatphobia and how perceptions have changed throughout history. …
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On this episode we speak with Sherry Andrew, a former manufacturing plant worker turned financial coach, who shares her personal journey from getting fired to mastering her finances and helping others do the same. Sherry discusses the impact of a single-income household on budgeting, the importance of aligning finances with personal values, and the…
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Friends welcome to another episode of Thrive Beyond Size. Today’s topic is so big that you’ll hear from my guest twice. We’re doing a two-parter, part one this week and part two next week. My guest is Angela Corry and she’s a clinical and sexual health educator from right here in my hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. Angela and I are going to talk abou…
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In this episode, our guest Al, a woman I’ve had the pleasure of coaching 1:1 for the past 6 months, shares her personal journey of overcoming lifelong yo-yo dieting using exercise as punishment. Growing up in a household where dieting was normalized, Al details how she grew up believing that she could not trust herself to make good choices about fo…
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Hello friends! I’m excited to share what I’ve learned with you all today because I have been down a rabbit hole for this topic. The question that prompted my research was “Where does the statistic that 95% of diets fail come from?” And I dug deep. I don’t advise you to go my route and Google, I did it so you don’t have to. But amongst all the fat s…
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**Content Warning**. This episode discusses eating disorders and binge eating. In this episode of the Power in Motion podcast, Dr. Marianne Miller discusses her journey into the field of eating disorder treatment, focusing specifically on binge eating disorder. In our conversation, Dr Marianne shared her personal experience with eating disorders wh…
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Content Warning: conversation on eating disorders and disordered eating: mentions of anorexia nervosa, bulimia, weight bias, and suicidal ideation Hello friends. Today’s topic is a big one and a sensitive one as well; today we’re talking about eating disorders. It’s a different type of conversation, though, because we’re not going to talk about wha…
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If you’ve ever been told you have to lose weight for health reasons, or if your medical problems always get blamed on your weight, or you fear going to the doctor because they might comment on your weight - this is the episode for you! Our guest today is Dr. Michelle Tubman a Canadian physician who operates from a health at every size approach. In …
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