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In this episode, we welcome back David French, columnist for The New York Times , former constitutional attorney, and author of Divided We Fall . We discuss the current state of American democracy, the challenges of political division, and how we can engage in civil discourse despite deep ideological differences. David also shares a personal update on his family and reflects on the profound trials and growth that come with adversity. 📌 What We Discuss: ✔️ How David and his family navigated the challenges of a serious health crisis. ✔️ The rise of political polarization and the factors driving it. ✔️ Why distinguishing between “unwise, unethical, and unlawful” is crucial in analyzing political actions. ✔️ How consuming different perspectives (even opposing ones) helps in understanding political dynamics. ✔️ The role of Christian values in politics and how they are being redefined. ⏳ Episode Highlights 📍 [00:01:00] – David French’s background and his journey from litigation to journalism. 📍 [00:02:30] – Personal update: David shares his wife Nancy’s battle with cancer and their journey as a family. 📍 [00:06:00] – How to navigate personal trials while maintaining faith and resilience. 📍 [00:10:00] – The danger of political paranoia and the pitfalls of extreme polarization. 📍 [00:18:00] – The "friend-enemy" paradigm in American politics and its influence in Christian fundamentalism. 📍 [00:24:00] – Revisiting Divided We Fall : How America’s divisions have devolved since 2020. 📍 [00:40:00] – The categories and differences of unwise, unethical, and unlawful political actions. 📍 [00:55:00] – The balance between justice, kindness, and humility in political engagement. 📍 [01:00:00] – The After Party initiative: A Christian approach to politics focused on values rather than policy. 💬 Featured Quotes 🔹 "You don't know who you truly are until your values are tested." – David French 🔹 "If we focus on the relational, we can have better conversations even across deep differences." – Corey Nathan 🔹 "Justice, kindness, and humility—if you're missing one, you're doing it wrong." – David French 🔹 "The United States has a history of shifting without repenting. We just move on." – David French 📚 Resources Mentioned David French’s Writing: New York Times David’s Book: Divided We Fall The After Party Initiative – More Info Advisory Opinions Podcast (with Sarah Isgur & David French) – Listen Here 📣 Call to Action If you found this conversation insightful, please: ✅ Subscribe to Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other on your favorite podcast platform. ✅ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen: ratethispodcast.com/goodfaithpolitics ✅ Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/politicsandreligion ✅ Watch the full conversation and subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/@politicsandreligion 🔗 Connect With Us on Social Media @coreysnathan: Bluesky LinkedIn Instagram Threads Facebook Substack David French: 🔗 Twitter | BlueSky | New York Times Our Sponsors Meza Wealth Management: www.mezawealth.com Prolux Autogroup: www.proluxautogroup.com or www.granadahillsairporttransportation.com Let’s keep talking politics and religion—with gentleness and respect. 🎙️💡…

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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 health, and challenge the weight stigma that affects us all.

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195: Welcome to Nourish Yourself Body+Mind 18:18

6 days ago18:18

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Hello friends and welcome back to the podcast! Today I have something truly special to share with you, something that I’ve been pouring my heart and soul into for months. Today I’m announcing the launch of my brand new course: Nourish Yourself Body+Mind. This course, Nourish Yourself Body+Mind, is a roadmap and support system for unlearning what diet culture has taught, rebuilding a foundation of trusting yourself, and finding a completely new way of relating to food. This isn’t just another intuitive eating course, this is an in-depth whole-self transformation that helps you move along the healing process. Nourish Yourself Body+Mind will go through the reasons why you might feel out of control around food, reasons that pertain to biology and not simply willpower. The course will look at how to stop the food chatter in your head, it will look at emotional eating and eating struggles, it will examine new ways to take care of yourself. It is designed to support you through every step of the journey of healing relationships with food and self. Letting go of self-criticism. Letting go of the daily scale and body critiques. Cultivating self-compassion. Unpacking the ways in which diet culture has kept you small emotionally, mentally, and socially. It’s a 12 module course with each module containing between 10 and 14 lessons. There’s a video, a workbook, and audio that go with each module. Join me as I really unpack my motivation and passion for the Nourish Yourself Body+Mind course and what it can do for you. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Resources mentioned in this episode: $50 podcast listener discount on Body+Mind course - Code: podcast __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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194: Intuitive Eating and Your Period 34:51

13 days ago34:51

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Friends, welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. Today I’m talking about intuitive eating and how the heck you do it while on your period. I realized when I instinctively bought cookies that I almost never buy while grocery shopping the other day, that my mind and body are pretty in sync now because a day or two later I got my period. Which explains the cookie craving. We’re used to cravings, especially for sugar, during PMS, but today I’m exploring how our menstrual cycles truly affect our relationship with food and how to work intuitive eating into that. Diet culture has conditioned us to believe that we need to follow a strict eating routine and follow it day in and day out, but in reality our bodies don’t work like that. We’re not designed to function that way. Hunger fluctuates throughout the month, and as hormones shift during our menstrual cycles, everything from metabolism to cravings and energy levels changes, too. We simply need different things through different stages of our cycle. I’m going to go through our menstrual cycle stage by stage, looking at what actually happens bodily at each point. Then I’m going to talk about how to work intuitive eating into that. What we need changes, so what we eat will change too and that’s okay. Why do we crave sugar at one point, and nutrient-dense food at another? Let’s find out together and break down the myth about routine diets as we do. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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193: Fear of Hunger 23:39

20 days ago23:39

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I’m happy to have you back with me at Thrive Beyond Size. Last week I was truly fatigued, so exhausted, but this week I’m feeling better and reclaiming energy. And today I want to talk to you about something I’ve struggled with along the course of my own intuitive eating journey: a fear of hunger. Hunger can feel uncomfortable and scary and those feelings can stem from experiences in childhood or because we’ve started to feel, through suppression of hunger, that it just feels too big to manage. We develop a fear that we’ll just overeat if we can’t conquer hunger. So today I’m exploring why diet culture teaches us to fear hunger and how ignoring hunger affects us in mind and body. Diet culture teaches us to fear hunger in many ways. It instructs us that hunger is something we need discipline to move through. Or we find unique ways to ignore hunger just to stick to our diet plan. Or a really low calorie meal plan leaves us constantly unsatisfied and hungry. But every strategy is actually teaching us to ignore our body’s most basic and life-sustaining signal. Believing that hunger is bad is dangerous. So let’s explore how it’s dangerous. What does ignoring hunger actually do to our bodies? How does that then impact our mindset with guilt and blame? And what can we do about it? Well, we can come to terms with our fear through small steps that reclaim hunger as positive. I have advice, tips, and insight to share so we can all learn to embrace hunger as natural and good and learn to not to fear it or fear food. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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192: Intuitive Eating When You're Tired 21:32

27 days ago21:32

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Welcome back, friends. I’m exploring what happens to our food cravings when we’re exhausted. Why is eating and choosing food such a chore when we’re fatigued? How does it affect our decision-making? We’ve all been there, overwhelmed and bone tired, staring at the kitchen and thinking the only option is the fast option. But we’ve been made to feel guilty about that. Like we’re failing when we can’t face food choices due to exhaustion. I’m talking about self-compassion in those moments instead. I’ll explain why fatigue affects hunger and decision-making and then we’ll see why the fast option in those times is perfectly acceptable. The first thing to note is that fatigue affects intuitive eating in a few ways. Our hunger and fullness hormones become unbalanced when we’re fatigued and the result is that we feel hungrier than usual and it takes more food than usual to make us feel full. It’s our bodies trying to get more energy because we’re running on empty. Once we understand what happening we can give ourselves more of a break. When we crave carbs and sugar while exhausted or don’t have the ability to make meal choices, it’s because our intuitive eating signals are mixed up by our exhaustion. And that’s okay. How do we deal with those feelings? And how can we make simple fast food choices without feeling guilty? I’ll share my personal journey with those feelings and some pointers that work for me. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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191: When Your Favorite Foods No Longer Bring You Joy 36:44

5 weeks ago36:44

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Hello everyone and welcome back! The subject of today’s episode was inspired by an experience I had on a road trip through my home province of Alberta to a medical conference. My husband and I have been making the same trip for 50 years and we have little rituals where we stop for breaks and get favorite snacks. A certain donut shop is one of those stops. But this time I didn’t enjoy the donuts that I look forward to every trip. What happened? The donuts hadn’t changed. I realized that this isn’t the first time I’ve had this experience. And that’s what I want to talk about: the changing shift in foods when we focus on intuitive eating. How we lose touch with former favorites and why things change, that’s what I’m exploring with you today. Sometimes what happens is that as we let go of the rigidity we held around food rules and we open ourselves up to permission to enjoy foods we love, they no longer become the forbidden fruit and lose some of their appeal. If something formerly forbidden is always open to us now, the sense of rebellious indulgence is gone. Sometimes a comfort food just no longer feels comforting like it once did. It’s not always psychological, either. There’s a shift in our bodies as we eat intuitively. Our gut bacteria and microbiomes change. That can influence what feels good to eat. It can feel like a loss when we lose that connection with former favorite foods. So today I talk about how to regard the loss as an expansion instead. How to find that comfort or indulgence in things other than food. And how to approach the changes in food relationships with openness and curiosity for new experiences. Join me as I share the journey of losing the joy of a favorite food and how to embrace the change as something positive. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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190: Raising Intuitive Eaters with Christina Claytor 1:03:36

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Hello everyone! Welcome back to the podcast. It has been a while since I’ve shared an interview with you and I’m excited about this one because I welcome back a former guest and one of the coaches who works inside Wayza Health. Christina Claytor, the founder of Mindful Health Revolution, joins me again but this time to talk about raising her two young daughters as intuitive eaters. She’s here to enlighten us with her story and the truth about what it really takes to instill and maintain intuitive eating in your children. Christina’s two daughters are 4 and nearly 2 and she and her husband are raising them as intuitive eaters. So what does that look like? Christina explains the many conversations that go into helping her kids navigate food and hunger but also the many conversations with family members about how she is raising her daughters to avoid food rules and diet culture. She explains her experience with the common myth that if you let kids eat sugar that’s all they’ll eat, how to still say no and set reasonable boundaries without labelling food as good or bad, and how to navigate your feelings about food waste and snacks when guiding kids through intuitive eating. This episode is a glimpse into the reality of bringing intuitive eating into children’s lives and teaching them mindfulness about food. __ About Christina Claytor: Christina Claytor is the founder of The Mindful Health Revolution where she helps clients break up with overwhelming diets and workout plans so they can stop feeling like a failure and start confidently taking action to have health on their own terms. __ Resources discussed in this episode: “How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence” by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson “Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture” by Virginia Sole-Smith Episode 143: Operationalizing Your Goals with Christina Claytor __ Learn more about Christina Claytor: Website: TheMindfulHealthRevolution.com Instagram Facebook Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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189: How to Stop Food Rules from Controlling Your Life 37:36

7 weeks ago37:36

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Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size! I'm so happy to have you here. Today’s topic is the concept of food rules. What are food rules, you ask? I’m talking about the rigid and often unspoken guidelines that we lay down for ourselves that dictate all the decisions we make around eating. Things like carbs are bad or don’t eat after 7 pm or yogurt has too much sugar. Some of them are choices we have consciously made but some are just ingrained in our brains in response to the diet culture we’ve been mired in for so long. I want to explore food rules today. Why do we make them? How are they interrupting our relationships with food and our bodies? What can we do to change them? One of the problems with food rules is that we feel like a failure when we break one. If, for example, we have a rule about not eating cake and then we have a piece of cake on somebody’s birthday, we feel terrible and guilty and we don’t even enjoy it. So that food rule is harming our perception of ourselves and our ability to simply enjoy cake on a special occasion. Food rules often come with a sense of morality or judgment. They’re ingrained in our minds, dictating our eating. Letting go of these food rules is vital because they’re creating unnecessary stress and creating this idea that our bodies cannot be trusted to communicate their needs to us. I’m going to address how adept our bodies are at letting us know what they need. I’m going to talk about intuitive eating. I’m going to talk about letting go of shame when we let go of food rules. And I’m going to talk about how to do it. How to dismantle those unspoken rules. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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188: Rest as Resistance - Reclaiming the Right to Slow Down 34:30

8 weeks ago34:30

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Hello everyone! Right now, at the end of January, I feel an urge to talk about something that seems more important than ever. Rest. In my commitment to rhythm this year, I’m noticing that I also need a little more rest and that it’s actually in my rhythm to have a tough time at the end of January going into February. It’s a thing I’ve noticed I need: more sleep and slowing down. The type of rest I’m talking about is a radical act of self-care. It’s about reclaiming our time, energy, and health in a world that’s constantly demanding more of us. We all need that. Rest is resistance against our hustle culture. So I’m going to talk about how we can reframe rest as a necessity instead of regard it as a luxury. How often do we hear people bragging about how busy they are? It’s a mindset that glorifies productivity as though their worth is measured by how many things they can juggle at once. We even remove rest from weekends with ideas like “work hard, play hard”. And while there’s nothing wrong with goals or working hard, there is a problem with making productivity our primary source of self-worth. This hustle culture even shows up in food and in how we view our bodies: we need more restriction, more exercise, more control. But we don’t just need to be pushed, we need to rest. We’re not wasting time or being lazy when we rest, we’re replenishing our energy and supporting our health. We’re creating the conditions we need for more meaningful connections. So join me as I explore how we can reclaim our right to rest and reframe it as the necessity it is. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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187: Trauma and Body Trust - What You Need To Know 26:00

9 weeks ago26:00

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Welcome back to another episode, everyone. I’m very excited about the year ahead. Learning is one of my core values and last year I started doing training in trauma. At first, I simply wanted to have a trauma-informed approach to my coaching but the process intrigued me and opened so many realizations about the connection between trauma and healing around food and body. So now I’m doing true trauma training, the Gentle Trauma Release method, and I want to talk about why I’m doing that in today’s episode. Why it’s so important and why I think it’s essential for me to learn. So join me as I explore why trauma is relevant to building body trust. It’s first important to define trauma, I believe. Many people think about big life events when we talk about trauma, like the wildfires in LA right now or violence or loss. But trauma can also be broader and include smaller less obvious experiences. Being bullied as a child or growing up constantly criticized. And these traumas overwhelm our ability to cope. Trauma often shows up as physical symptoms like headaches, fatigue or digestive issues or in emotional symptoms like difficulty trusting. And all these effects interrupt our relationships with our bodies and with food. And that’s what I talk about in this episode. How trauma is affecting our body trust. How our nervous systems are responding. What we can do to heal trauma and create a safe supportive space for ourselves and our bodies again. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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186: Reflecting on Rhythm for 2025 43:42

10 weeks ago43:42

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Hello and welcome to 2025, everyone! It’s the start of a new year and the time of resolutions. We’ve all fallen into that trap of making a resolution that just didn’t stick. Maybe we resolved to eat better or exercise every day and we did well for a week or two but fell off around mid-January. I think resolutions are too rigid to allow flexibility and too focused on external expectations. So instead, I focus on things I’m leaving behind. Things that no longer serve me this year. It allows me to be flexible and to also focus on my word of the year: rhythm. Rhythm, to me, is a steady comforting pace. And that’s what I want to talk about today. In letting go of the things that no longer serve me, instead of making a resolution to do better, I am instead acknowledging that I’m already enough. I’m enough as I am and the changes I make are about growth and alignment, not punishment in some way. I’m leaving behind clutter - digital, physical, and emotional. I’m leaving behind overconsumption. I’m adding joy, nurturing relationships, and putting myself first. And I’m finding my rhythm in life. I’m finding that pace that feels good, that isn’t rushed or chaotic. The rhythm that will create a flow that supports my well-being through my days and weeks. What sort of things could you leave behind to enhance your joy? And what sort of things could you add to help with your rhythm? Join me and let’s find out together. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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185: Larger Luxury with Sherilyn Trompetter 44:56

11 weeks ago44:56

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Hello friends and welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. It’s been quite a while since I’ve shared an interview with you so I’m very excited to share one today. I’ve become passionate about advocating for weight-inclusive care in healthcare and addressing anti-fat bias and weight discrimination in the world and now I’m introducing you to someone who fights weight discrimination in spas. A spa trip is a day to feel relaxed, pampered, and rejuvenated, but often if you live in a bigger body, a spa visit is anything but. So I’m thrilled to introduce Sherilyn Trompetter, the co-founder of the Larger Luxury Certification that designates businesses as welcoming to bodies of all sizes. Sherilyn Trompetter and her co-founder, Sky McLaughlan, were international business professionals travelling around the world and simply visiting spas worldwide for rest and relaxation. But after another humiliating spa visit that happened only because she is a person in a larger body in a spa, Sherilyn decided nobody else would be hurt the way she was and Larger Luxury was born. I talked to Sherilyn about her personal experiences and how Larger Luxury makes a difference through its online education and certification. Sherilyn explains the many things that negatively impact a spa experience for people with bigger bodies: everything from not having large enough robes to not having tables weight-rated for larger bodies. She also breaks down how easy these issues are to address and how to convey messages of inclusivity in marketing. This conversation is so necessary and the work Larger Luxury is doing is so profound. I enjoyed talking with Sherilyn so much and I truly hope you all find our conversation as encouraging as I did. __ About Sherilyn Trompetter: Sherilyn is a compassionate and authentic professional who has worked in various themes of diversity, equity and inclusion for over two decades. Sherilyn brings a trauma-informed approach to consulting organizations and coaching individuals and groups. A masterful facilitator, Sherilyn is able to elicit powerful insights and initiate transformative experiences. Sherilyn has extensive community service and volunteer experience. She co-founded ACT Alberta: the Action Coalition on Human Trafficking, the leading research-based and outcome-focused human trafficking organization in Alberta. She has a passion for multiculturalism, social justice and community service and has over 15 years of board experience. Sherilyn has extensive experience working for and with complex and hierarchical unionized environments such as the University of Alberta, the Government of Alberta, and various law enforcement agencies including the RCMP, and the Canadian Red Cross. She has successfully managed projects upwards of $10 million specializing in the development and training of people and systems improvement. __ Resources discussed in this episode: RG Spa in Edmonton, AB __ Learn more about Sherilyn Trompetter: Website: LargerLuxury.com Linktr.ee: LargerLuxuryOfficial Larger Luxury on Instagram Larger Luxury on LinkedIn Sherilyn Trompetter on LinkedIn Email Sherilyn Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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184: The Power of Connection 29:52

12 weeks ago29:52

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Hello, lovelies, and welcome back! I’ve been focusing a lot on healing our relationships with food and our bodies and I’ll always explore that, that’s at the heart of acceptance. But something else is at the heart of healing our food and body relationships and that’s a sense of connection. This time of year, the holidays, is especially focused on connection which is part of why I love it so much. We need it more than just once a year, though. So I’m going to talk about how to start prioritizing connections throughout our lives. While breaking free from diet culture and working on intuitive eating and body trust are quite personal internal processes, real authentic connections make that change sustainable over the long run. I’m talking about connection with ourselves, with other people, and with the world at large. Connection grounds and supports us, and reminds us we’re not alone. I’m going to talk about why connection is so important and how to explore different connections in your life. So I’m going to talk about mindfulness, interoception, relationships and community, and the joyful experience of life. All these connections - to self, each other, and nature - help us combat feelings of overwhelm and disconnectedness. So join me as I talk us through nurturing connection that will in turn help heal our relationships with food and our bodies. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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183: Reframing Overeating- A Compassionate Approach to Holiday Eating 22:56

13 weeks ago22:56

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Hello and Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! The last few episodes have centered around guilt, cravings, and how to manage ourselves in everything we feel around the holidays. Today I want to talk about overeating, something that often happens at this time of year, but I want to approach it in a compassionate way. I want to focus on how we can be more compassionate with ourselves during holiday overeating and at any time of the year. I want us to avoid the shame and the guilt. Overeating is not a moral failure. I want to unpack the concept of overeating, look at it as a neutral experience, and look at it as something that’s natural and can teach us about our needs. Overeating is often defined as eating more than what is physically comfortable or more than what we should be eating. But the word ‘should’ is a reflection of diet culture, not our actual needs. Diet culture teaches that there’s a right amount of food to eat but I want us to remember that those arbitrary rules don’t account for natural fluctuations in our hunger and fullness, especially during times of abundance. So I’m going to examine the feelings that arise around overeating, how to talk to ourselves about it, how to normalize eating more than usual while still checking in on hunger and fullness and share some pointers on how to navigate all of these emotions. And remember that overeating does not define you and it doesn’t say anything about your character, worth, or health. Join me in talking about nourishment and compassion during this beautiful holiday season. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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182: Emotional Eating During the Holidays 22:06

14 weeks ago22:06

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Hello hello and welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. Today I’m tackling a topic that’s especially tricky during the holiday season. Emotional eating. Many clients are asking about it in calls and it’s coming up in my own life as well. This season is the most amazing and most stressful time for us so it can be overwhelming. We deal with excitement, nostalgia, sadness, and a whole range of other emotions. And when our emotions run high, food becomes part of the equation. Maybe we eat too much. Maybe we avoid some foods. I want to talk about that and I want to first state that emotional eating is not bad. It’s human. I just want to unpack it and examine it. This time of year just feels so much more intense than any other season and that directly affects our relationship with food. There are so many people, memories, grief, joy and time demands on us that we really do start to run on empty. Food becomes a way to cope with vulnerability and creates a sense of comfort. Then we’re bombarded with messages to let go and indulge but also stay on track to get control back in January. The messaging is conflicting. “[But] mindful eating isn't about eating perfectly, it's about being present with your food.” Find satisfaction and eat without guilt. So this episode is not about how to fix or eliminate emotional eating, but rather explore it as something to understand. I’ll talk more about why the holiday season amplifies our emotions. I’ll reframe emotional eating. And I’ll share some practical tools for navigating it with curiosity, compassion, and body trust. Let’s respond to ourselves with kindness this season. __ About Dr. Michelle Tubman: Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches. She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible. __ Learn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health: Website: www.wayzahealth.com Follow me on Facebook and Instagram Email Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com…

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181: Body Trust Through the Holiday Season 21:30

15 weeks ago21:30