Embodied Nourishment

One of the most liberating shifts I ever made didn’t come from a book, a therapist, or even a mindset practice. It came from coparenting. For years, I had to learn, sometimes the hard way, what it means to let people be wrong about me. To sit with slander. To resist the urge to defend myself. To stay rooted in who I am rather than who someone else needed me to be in their narrative. And the wild part? That skill has radically changed my body image, my business, and my entire sense of self. Because here’s the truth I share in this episode: 👉 When you stop trying to prove yourself, your confidence skyrockets. 👉 When you stop trying to control the narrative, your nervous system finally rests. 👉 When you stop performing “goodness,” you stop abandoning yourself. Just like in Wicked, where someone must always be the “good witch” and someone must always be the “bad witch,” people will always filter you through their own lenses, wounds, and projections. In their story, you might be the villain even when you’re not. In your own story, you get to be free. And the same pattern shows up everywhere: 🌿 In body image: When you stop trying to prove your “discipline,” shrink yourself, or meet impossible standards, your body actually becomes a safer place to live in. Your choices come from self-respect instead of self-surveillance. 💼 In business: When you stop contorting yourself to be palatable to every follower, coach, or gym bro watching, your messaging becomes magnetic. Your offers land. Your confidence becomes regulation instead of performance. And ironically? Your results grow. 🔥 This episode is for women who feel misunderstood… Who are tired of controlling every perception… Who are ready to step out of “good girl energy” and into sovereign self-trust. If you’ve ever struggled with body image, food, perfectionism, or the pressure to prove yourself, this conversation will land deep. It’s time to let people be wrong about you and watch your life expand because of it. 🎧 Listen now to Episode 23: “Let Them Be Wrong About You” Your nervous system, your body, and your business will thank you. If you don’t already, follow me on Instagram @embodied.nourishment

Welcome to an inspiring episode of the Embodied Nourishment Podcast, featuring the badass certified strength and conditioning specialist, Coach Jess Burke who also has a masters in kinesiology. This episode dives deep into reshaping our relationships with exercise without sacrificing our relationship with food. Come with us as we move away from diet culture and towards a more balanced and holistic approach to exercise. Coach Jess shares her personal journey and professional expertise, emphasizing the importance of understanding the synergy between nutrition and exercise. Together, we explore the misconceptions surrounding fitness and diet, dismantling the harmful ideologies that have been ingrained in us from a young age. If you're struggling with the intimidating world of workouts and want to find joy in moving your body, this episode offers valuable insights and practical advice to help you transform your relationship to movement.You can find Coach Jess directly on Instagram @coachjburke and click the link in her bio to get started on working with her directly!

Welcome to the Embodied Nourishment Podcast! In this episode, join me as I delve into the complexities surrounding weight loss, the anti-diet movement, and disordered eating recovery. I share my personal journey as a registered dietitian and offer eye-opening insights into the missing nuance in diet culture discussions. Discover why extreme calorie restriction can harm your metabolism and learn about the significant role of basal metabolic needs in achieving your healthiest weight. Whether you're caught in a cycle of dieting and binging or stuck in perpetual restriction, this episode provides practical strategies to nourish your body, respect your hunger, and find balance without obsession. If you're tired of living in a constant state of food anxiety, tune in to explore how to live a vibrant life while maintaining a healthy relationship with your body and food. Plus, get all the exciting details about my upcoming group coaching program designed to help you break free from the dieting mindset and embrace a life of sustained nourishment and freedom. Join the group program FUELED AND FREE here: Fueled and Free Questions about whether or not it's the right fit for you? DM me on Instagram @embodied.nourishment or send me an email to [email protected]

A little while ago I had been thinking about my different experiences working as a Registered Dietitian. And I can say that the most frustrating area I ever worked was my short time spent as a Lactation Consultant. Babies are the most intuitive feeders. And breastfeeding can be so easy if one were truly able to surrender to the lead of their baby. But it’s our own expectations and rigidity and food rules that project and get in the way, usually making it a stressful and miserable experience. I would try to ease mothers’ concerns about their newborn needing to eat every 20-45 minutes by showing them that their baby’s stomach is only the size of a marble. A marble sized stomach will fill very quickly and will also empty very quickly. It’s normal for them to need to feed every 20-45 minutes. It didn't mean they weren't producing enough milk. It was so frustrating to experience mothers unable to simply accept this as fact. They wanted their baby on a strict schedule eating the same amount at the same time every single day. The lack of trust in one’s body and of their baby’s body was never more apparent in these moments. Mothers would give up, switch to formula and try to shove 4 ounces of formula into a marble sized stomach. The baby would then spit up most of it and I would sit there and listen to the mother suspect that their baby had a milk-protein allergy. While milk-protein allergies in babies exist, they are actually quite rare. Most of the time it isn’t an allergy. It’s just simply the case that you can not shove 4 ounces of liquid inside of a marble. I’ve watched mothers waste thousands of dollars on “special” formula because of this suspected allergy when all that needed to happen was slower, reduced, more frequent feedings. I would get told “yeah but it helped reduce the spit up.” Yes, because babies stomachs grow pretty quickly and in just a few months, they can hold more milk for a longer periods of time. This will happen with breastmilk, regular formula, or super expensive formula. There’s another point I’d like to make. Let me ask you this... How many times a day do you pick up a water bottle to take a quick little drink? For the first 6 months of life, breastmilk or formula is everything to a baby. It is their food and their water. Sometimes they don’t want a whole feeding. Sometimes they just want a “sip of water.” So if you latch your baby and they only take a few sips then unlatch, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you aren’t producing enough milk. They might have just wanted a “sip of water.” I understand that we live in a world that does not privilege mothers to operate at the whim of their babies. We ourselves are on strict schedules so it’s much easier to have our babies conform to us, than us to them. All of this to say, my time as a lactation consultant made me realize that the disembodiment of body trust started with the adults. Not the babies. And that’s why I shifted to working with adults and their relationships to food. In this episode, I dive deeper into body trust through the lens of feeding our babies. Follow me on Instagram @embodied.nourishment Work with me here: Click here!

I know you hate your body and you think that weight loss will make you love it, so you restrict HARD. But a malnourished brain is a brain that can’t perceive things accurately, so the image of yourself becomes increasingly distorted. And then whatever body changes you do experience might make you feel better in some ways, but deep down it doesn’t solve everything. So you might try a different diet...and then a different diet...and then a different diet...etc... All the while body image never really improves, or worse yet, it gets more dysmorphic. Rehabilitating your nutrition intake is the number one, most important part of body image recovery. As long as you fear adequate nourishment, you will continue to live in fear of your body. This might sound cliche BUT the only way to get over your fear is to face your fear. In the cases of severe eating disorders, nutrition rehabilitation is paramount in recovery. In hospital settings, work with a dietitian is prioritized even over the work with a therapist.There are some individuals who can fully heal their eating disorders without ever seeing a therapist, as long as they stay steadfast in their work with their dietitian. (Not throwing shade to ED therapists you guys rock and are totally needed! I know you know that some people are just resistant to therapy or decline it and they can still go a long way on their own).All of this to say, even if you don’t claim a full blown eating disorder, even if your relationship with food is just slightly disordered…you can not underestimate the power of adequate nutrition in feeling better on a holistic level.It is paramount in healing the mind, body, and soul all together.We can talk alllllll dayyyy longgggg about core beliefs and not feeling good enough or worthy or deserving of love and your childhood trauma and your trauma responses etc etc etcBUTUntil you start to finally commit to adequate nourishment, the neurons in your brain that fire together to produce body dysmorphia will NEVER heal. They will NEVER rewire to a positive self image as long as you are engaging in restrictive thoughts and behaviors.This is precisely why I named my nutrition counseling program “Nourish to Flourish.”Nutrition is the most important step 💕 Follow me on Instagram @embodied.nourishment Join Nourish to Flourish here: 1:1 Coaching