Episodes
Day 5: The Middle Ground Between Dieting and Giving Up
Welcome to Day 5, the final episode of the Midlife & Menopause Un-Dieting Mini-Series! Over the last four days, we've explored four pillars that can help you build a more trusting, flexible relationship with food: understanding, self-compassion, attunement, and gentle nutrition. But what happens when you put them all together? In this episode, we're looking […]
Day 4: Add, Don't Subtract – A Better Way to Think About Menopause Nutrition
Welcome back to Day 4 of my Midlife and Menopause Un-Dieting series. Yesterday I asked you to sit with one question: what do I want? It's sometimes easier to outsource "what should I eat?" than to honestly ask what you want. Today we add the other half: what do I need? And that's where gentle […]
Day 3: What Do You Actually Want? How to Stop Overthinking What to Eat
Welcome to day 3 of the Midlife & Menopause Un-Dieting Series. If you’ve spent years following food rules, tracking what you eat, or being told you can’t trust yourself around food, “just listen to your body” can feel like a foreign language. In today’s episode, we’re talking about attunement – what it actually means, why […]
Day 2: "I Know What to Do, I Just Don't Do It" – Why Diets Fail in Midlife
Welcome back to Day 2 of my Midlife and Menopause Un-Dieting series. Yesterday we talked about the diet cycle – the plan, the tracking, the promise that this time you'll have more discipline… until life gets lifey and it all falls apart. Today I want to gently blow up the story we tell ourselves next: […]
Perimenopause Mood Swings, Metabolism Myths, & Fasting – 5 Questions I Get All The Time
Is it perimenopause, or are you just finally fed up with the world? Honestly, it might be both. In this listener Q&A, I'm answering the questions so many of you have been sending me, and they're the kind that probably sound familiar. We start with mood, because so many of us feel more irritable, less […]
#175: Food Guilt in Midlife: Why Your Alarm Keeps Going Off (Even When It’s Just Toast)
What if the loudest voice at your meals isn’t hunger, but an overactive alarm telling you you’re doing it “wrong”? In this episode, I dig into the link between food guilt and relentless food noise, and show how midlife shifts, hormones, sleep, mood, and capacity can crank that alarm even higher. Instead of doubling down […]
Food Guilt Around the Holidays
Let’s talk about food guilt, restriction and the "What the hell" mentality. After a holiday weekend we are often filled with guilt over the weekend and decide to get super strict with our diet or exercise and so you make a plan. ✔️ I just need to eat less and stop snacking at night. ________ […]