Hungry: Trust Your Body. Free Your Mind. is a podcast for those on a journey to move beyond dieting, restricted eating and emotional eating and want to connect with, nourish and honor their bodies. Tara Whitney, CPA and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor shares her own journey, insights and practices to support you along your journey. She also has amazing conversations with those that have evolved their own relationship with food. They share what life is like now that their minds are free ...
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#118: The Final Episode! The Importance of Closure, Unexpected Outcomes and What Happens When You Trust Yourself
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This is the final episode of the podcast! Tara shares her big takeaways from publishing over 100 episodes, including why closure is so important, some unexpected outcomes from the podcast and what happened when she trusted herself and the energy she was noticing. Tara also shares her vision for her next podcast.…
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#117: Your Body, Your Best Friend with Erica Mather
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Erica Mather is a certified Yoga Therapist and the author of “Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty Standards & Embrace Your True Power”. She brings her own struggles with body image from a young age and transformational yoga principles to guiding people to feel better in their bodies, no matter what…
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#116: Improving Health Without Focusing on the Scale With Adrien Paczosa
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Adrien Paczosa believes that dietetic care with a health at every size approach should be accessible and affordable nationwide. Thanks to her vision, she founded Nourish, a virtual-first nutrition group with affordable access to nutrition care. On the podcast, we talked about how focusing on body weight only creates harmful weight cycling, how ever…
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#115: 6 Ways to Feel Better About Your Body
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When you feel better about your body this holiday season, you’ll have the energy and emotional resilience to be more present and available. On the podcast, Tara offers you six strategies that will support you to feel better about your body and also feel better living inside of your body. These simple and practical strategies can be practiced all ye…
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#114: How to Survive New Year Diet Commercials
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Diet and weight loss commercials are in full force in the holiday season and it can feel pretty overwhelming. On the podcast, Tara shares why this is happening and offers some concrete strategies with media, social media and in your relationships on how to set boundaries so you can continue along your non-diet and intuitive eating practices with mo…
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#113: A New Framework around Holiday Stress Eating
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Holiday stress eating is often seen as a problem that needs to be solved by changing what you eat. But this strategy only makes you focus on food as the problem and distracts you from why you need relief in the first place. On the podcast, Tara offers you a new framework around holiday stress eating that’s based around needs and feelings. Stress ea…
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#112: Strategies To Free Yourself From Food and Body Shame This Holiday Season
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The holiday season is an intense time, and it’s not surprising that folks may feel more shame around their patterns of eating and their bodies. On the podcast, Tara shares what the mechanism of shame is and how it works, why you may be feeling more shame during this time of year, and how shame around food and shame around your body are two differen…
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#111: Reclaiming Body Trust with Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kenavey
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On the podcast, Tara speaks with the founders of the Center for Body Trust, Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kenavey. They co-authored “Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path To Healing and Liberation”, which was recently published. Hillary and Dana describe diet culture as a shapeshifter that’s incredibly deceptive. They also share how destructive it is because …
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#110: Why It’s Time to Stop Calling Food “Junk” or “Healthy”
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I can just say “junk food” and you know immediately what foods fit into that category. You also know what foods are “healthy”. We’ve learned which foods are which from our parents, teachers, social media, friends, and diet programs. But do these labels change whether you eat those foods or not? Or, do you just feel better or worse when you eat them…
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#109: 5 Things To Keep In Mind When You Start Intuitive Eating
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You may have hit diet rockbottom and refuse to go on another diet again. Or, you’re just frustrated with your relationship with food and you’re ready for something different and new. Or, you stumbled upon intuitive eating and are curious. In this episode, Tara shares six things (she added one at the end) to keep in mind while you’re starting your i…
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#108: Want to Avoid Halloween Candy? A Common Sense (and possibly unconventional) Approach
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With Halloween around the corner, the idea of being around so much candy may be giving you a real fright (sorry, I couldn’t help it). And I get it. There was a time when being around candy felt so conflicting to me. I wanted to eat it, but not eat too much of it. I wanted to enjoy my favorites, but more often than not, when I started to eat one Sni…
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#107: Explaining Intuitive Eating to Skeptical Loved Ones
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Have you started eating intuitively, but are having a hard time explaining what you’re doing to your friends and family? Are you feeling self-conscious about your food choices because now you’re eating foods that your family are not used to seeing you eat? Are loved ones concerned because they think you’re not being “healthy”? Navigating intuitive …
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I got this question from a friend and I knew it was time to go back to basics. I use the term “overeating” so often, but it’s important that you have a clear understanding of what overeating is and why you may be doing it. On the podcast, I share why we’ve been conditioned to believe that overeating is wrong and bad. We don’t worry if we haven’t ha…
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#105: Advice for Parents of Teens with Eating Disorders with Kayla Douthitt
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Kayla Douthitt, anti-diet advocate, is passionate about offering parents of teens with eating disorders more support and education. On the podcast, she shares the signs for parents to look for if they are concerned that their child may have an eating disorder, like excessive exercise, weighing themselves regularly, trying to monitor food intake and…
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Something happens when you start your intuitive eating journey. You start to wake up to the signals your body shares with you. Some of those signals are lovely, like the sun on your skin and when your belly hurts because you’ve been laughing so hard. And some are not so lovely, like when you’re tired and have a headache after drinking a couple of g…
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#103: Ditching the Rules and Joyful Movement with Barb Puzanovova
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When Barb Puzanovova (she/her), aka The Non-Diet Trainer, was struggling with orthorexia and compulsive exercise in college, she realized she was spending way too much time thinking about food and exercise. Her life felt out of sync. One question that opened her eyes was “Have you had a day without a (food and training) goal?”. On the podcast, Barb…
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#102: Diet Culture, Thin Privilege and Thin Fragility
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After sharing a post about how exhausting I felt talking about diet culture (see post below), I realized a few things that I needed to name and share. On the podcast, I shared the post I shared, why it was an important piece for me to share openly, the reaction I received from the community, and two surprising take-aways; thin privilege and thin fr…
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