Self-Care Cafe
Hang with us as we spill the tea about breaking up with dieting and making up with your body through self-care (because self-care is more than massages and bubble baths!).
We are certified Intuitive Eating Counselors, health professionals, and moms—and we've struggled, too. We're here for the real talk so you can find freedom from diet culture and start living. Guilt and shame about food and your body are not on our menu! Grab your favorite cuppa and join us!
Episodes
36 episodes
Episode 36. Making Up With Your Body—Gentle Nutrition
The last episode in our Intuitive Eating series covers nutrition! You've learned how to break up with dieting and how to get to know your body—let's chat about how to make food choices for your health goals without turning to dieting. W...
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Episode 35. Making Up With Your Body—Respect Your Body
R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Does respecting your body sound like a stretch? It doesn't have to be. Body respect is a great way to work on your confidence, trust, and even your health. Let's chat about how to make up with your body through bo...
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Episode 34. Making Up With Your Body—Movement
We've moved on to the Making Up With Your Body phase of Intuitive Eating! This phase is all about using what you've learned from the Breaking Up With Dieting phase and Getting to Know Your Body phase and applying it to Making Up Wi...
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Episode 33. Getting to Know Your Body—Emotional Eating
We're covering Intuitive Eating principle 'Cope With Your Emotions With Kindness'—which is everything emotional eating! Do you feel like you eat emotionally? Do you have a hard time stopping when you eat? Let's chat about how to n...
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Episode 32. Getting to Know Your Body—Feel Your Fullness
Fullness has gotten a bad rap just like hunger. Many of us may not know what comfortable fullness feels like in our body or may be fearful of being full. Let's chat about what may be disrupting your fullness cues (hello clean plat...
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Episode 31. Getting to Know Your Body—Discover the Satisfaction Factor
We've come to Phase Two of the Intuitive Eating series—Getting to Know Your Body. We're done with the diet break-up and we're moving on to getting to know our bodies. In this episode we cover Principle 5 of Intuitive Eating: Discov...
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Episode 30. Breaking Up With Dieting Part IV—Challenge the Food Police
Welcome to the last part of our Breaking Up With Dieting Phase...Challenge the Food Police!Let's chat about who the food police are, how they influence your food choices, why they aren't helpful in the long-run, and some ideas for banis...
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Episode 29. Breaking Up With Dieting Part III—Make Peace With Food
Welcome back to our Intuitive Eating series! We're talking all about the Breaking Up With Dieting phase. This time we're covering the third principle of Intuitive Eating—Make Peace With Food.It might sound too good to be true but it is ...
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Episode 28. Breaking Up With Dieting Part II—Honor Your Hunger
CW: Mention of eating disorders and specific calorie numbersWe're back for part two of the Breaking Up With Dieting phase of Intuitive Eating. Let's chat all about hunger! We cover what it may feel like for you, di...
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Episode 27. Breaking Up With Dieting Part I
Let's chat more about Intuitive Eating! Intuitive Eating has ten main principles and we've broken them up into 3 phases:Breaking Up With DietingGetting to Know Your BodyMaking Up With Your BodyIn Break...
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Episode 26. The 10,000 Steps a Day Recommendation: Truth or Myth?
It seems like common knowledge that we're supposed to get 10,000 steps per day to maintain good health—but where did this recommendation come from? You might be surprised!Let's chat about if 10,000 steps per day is actually beneficial t...
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Episode 25. Tempted to Set New Year's Resolutions...Again? Here's Why You Shouldn't
Has setting resolutions worked for you before? No? It's not you...it's the resolution. Why not try something different this year?Let's chat about the differences between resolutions, goals, and intentions. This isn't just for the New Ye...
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Episode 24. Are You an All-or-Nothing Kind of Person? Then This Episode Is for You!
Do you find that you are an all-or-nothing person? Either you're doing it all, or you're doing nothing? Let's chat about how to find some middle ground between structure and flexibility to make you feel less overwhelmed, especially duri...
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Episode 23. Can Practicing Gratitude Bring More Success & Happiness in Your Life?
Yes, we know. It's kind of cliche to discuss gratitude in November...But, did you know? There's solid science behind practicing gratitude and some real health benefits.Let's chat about what a gratitude practice is, how it can he...
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Episode 22. Sugar & Food Addiction—Fact or Fiction?
Most of us have already decided whether we think sugar and food are addictive or not based on media headlines and personal experiences. This subject can certainly be hard to talk about! Let's break it down and chat about what we know ab...
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Episode 21. How to Deal with the Holiday Food Frenzy
Halloween is here and we feel like this is the unofficial start of the "Holiday Season." Stress! Food! Let's be honest—that's how most of us feel about the holiday season. Let's chat about: Ideas for staying sane&n...
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Episode 20. Do You Really Need Breakfast? Here's What You Need to Know
To eat breakfast or not to eat breakfast? That is the question! There's so much conflicting information about whether to eat breakfast out there. Let's chat about:How Intermittent Fasting plays a role in your deci...
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Episode 19. Which of These Nutrition Beliefs Are Really Myths? Part II
Let's keep myth busting! In Part II we spill the tea on these common nutrition beliefs and more.You shouldn't eat after 7pm.You shouldn't eat processed foods.You can't trust your body.Let ...
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Episode 18. Which of These Nutrition Beliefs Are Really Myths? Part I
We get it...there is SO much nutrition information out there it's hard to tell what is actually true and what is misinformation. Let's chat about the tea on some common nutrition beliefs like:"This worked for me, so it ...
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Episode 17. Do You Need to Lose Weight for Your Health?
The health messages we constantly get are all about "lose weight to be healthier." This is the system that has been in place for a long time but it seems like the more we try, the worse our health becomes. Let's chat about the diff...
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Episode 16. Thirteen Ideas for Trading in Calorie-Tracking for Getting to Know Your Body Better
Tracking certain things, like calories for example, reduces your food and body to numbers and cuts off—literally blocks—your mind's connection to your body. That's why we usually don't recommend tracking things!Shifting from a diet ment...
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Episode 15. Help! I'm Having a Bad Body Day
We ALL have these days. Days where we just don't feel good in our bodies—thanks diet culture! Let's chat about what might trigger us into a bad body day spiral, what might really be going on (hint: it's not that your body is wrong!...
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Episode 14. The Truth about before & after Photos
Let's chat about how we *really* feel about before and after photos! When we see these before & after photos it usually makes us feel insecure and like we need to "fix" our own bodies. Find out how to stop the cycle—wh...
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Episode 13. Is People Pleasing Keeping You Stuck?
Are you saying yes to everything that's asked of you? Are you burnt out? This might be a sign that you're people pleasing. You might be thinking, "But wait, I like to do things for other people, is that people pleasing?" <...
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Episode 12. Ten Things You’re Doing for Your Health That Aren't Actually Healthy
Ever wonder why the things you're doing for your health feel like they're not working?We know you want to be healthy and work hard on it—even if it's just sometimes! If you find yourself on a roller coaster with your health habits, this...
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