We are told that exercise is good for you! So, more exercise should equal more health!

However this is not always the case and more exercise can in some cases can be detrimental to your health.

In this episode we’re going to explore where the boundary lies between healthy and unhealthy relationship with exercise.

We discuss:

• Is there such a thing as the “perfect” amount of exercise?

• Hallmarks of a healthy relationship with exercise

• Why flexibility helps recovery

• Signs that your relationship with exercise is unhealthy

• Personal stories of distorted relationship with exercise

• Why counting “calories out” is misleading

If you enjoyed this episode, find "Heal Binge Eating from Within" on https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heal-from-within or on any major podcast app and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button! 

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• FREE eBook: ⁠www.olgaswellness.com/eBook⁠ 

In today’s day and age FAT is a four letter word.

In other words, the simple macronutrient has become a synonym for “evil”, and having fat upon your person or on your plate is perceived to be very bad indeed.

In this episode, my guest and I  are going to focus on dietary fat and explore why it is not the devil it was set out to be. 

Today, I am joined by Dr Cori Stern. Dr. Cori has been helping people restore and optimize their health naturally since 2001. Her passion for alternative medicine grew out of a sick childhood characterized by a very poor diet, incessant chronic infections, and never-ending cycles of antibiotics. At the young age of 15, she decided to take her health into her own hands and began self-studying topics like the gut-brain connection, toxins, and how diet impacts a person’s overall well being. Later in life, upon re-realizing her childhood dreams of helping those who suffer heal naturally, she decided to become a chiropractor at 32 and graduated at 37. She now assists people all over the world with overcoming health challenges and advocating for their healthcare. Dr. Cori Stern oversees a busy private practice where she also educates other chiropractors on how to achieve optimal results with their clients. She is the creator of the Dr. Cori Stern - Take Control Of Your Health channel known for its bite-sized information on a wide range of modern health topics.

We discussed:

• Where the anti-fat bias comes from

• The fiction of fat in the human body

• What happens if you don’t eat enough fat

• Why dietary fat won’t make you fat

• The nuances of fat, why not every fat was created equal

If you enjoyed our conversation, find "Heal Binge Eating from Within" on https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heal-from-within or on any major podcast app and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button! 

Connect with Dr Cori:

• Website:  www.drcori.com  

• YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DrCoriSternTakeControlOfYourHealth  

• Special Audience Giveaway: https://www.drcori.com/free-gift 

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I firmly believe that binge eating recovery is NOT a miracle.

Rather, it is a result of developing recovery habits.

If you’re willing to put in the effort then, over time, it is inevitable that you WILL get better!

So let us consider what habits are; why they matter and what steps you can take today to start working on your own recovery habits!

We discuss:

• What are “habits”?

• How long it takes to develop a habit

• Why habits matter (looking at you, neuroscience!)

• Examples of recovery habits

• Top tips for developing habits that last

If you enjoyed this episode, find "Heal Binge Eating from Within" on https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heal-from-within or on any major podcast app and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button! 

Study mentioned

Lally, P., van Jaarsveld, C. H. M., Potts, H. W. W., & Wardle, J. (2010). How Are Habits Formed Modelling Habit Formation in the Real World. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 998-1009. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.674 

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Stop crying. Don’t be sad. Girls don’t get angry. Stop being a nuisance.

You may have heard these and other words when you were growing up; and they all amount to one thing: feelings are bad. You shouldn’t feel them. In fact, won’t it be wonderful if you could turn yourself into a robot and not feel anything at all?

Yet despite your best efforts, these plans are doomed to fail. Humans aren’t wired NOT to feel and attempting to do so carries dire consequences be it binge eating or burnout.

So how do you get back in touch with your feelings? That’s what I’m going to discuss with my guest today.

Today, I am joined by Hieke Maagdenberg. Hieke is a breathwork & mindset coach who’s on a mission to help high-achieving, ambitious women create more impact, joy and freedom in their lives. After seeing the other side of the medal herself, she has now created a balanced, fulfilled and unapologetic life on ALL levels, and she shows her clients how to do the same. Her strategies are focused on breathwork, nervous system regulation and feeling your feelings, which result in a deep level of self-trust and confidence, and the ability to reach any goal through fun, ease and play. 

We discussed:

• What we mean by “feeling your feelings”

• Misconceptions about emotions

• How feelings can get stuck in our bodies

• What happens if you keep repressing your emotions

• Steps you can take to get in touch with your feelings

• Hieke shares a breathwork practice with us :) 

• Feeling your feelings as a sensitive person

If you enjoyed our conversation, find "Heal Binge Eating from Within" on https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heal-from-within or on any major podcast app and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button! 

Connect with Hieke:

• Website: www.thefreedomvortex.com

• Instagram/ TikTok: @iamhieke

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• Website: www.olgaswellness.com

• Instagram: @olgas_wellness

• FREE eBook: ⁠www.olgaswellness.com/eBook⁠
  

Weight shaming is just a bit of tough love…. Or is it? There are people who view weight shaming as their moral duty, a way to show that they care deeply about the other’s health. Yet does weight shaming actually lead to positive behaviour change? That’s what we’re going to explore in this episode!

We discussed:

• What weight shaming is

• The three erroneous assumptions of weight shaming: being overweight/obese is bad for you, it is bad for society, not shaming others gives them silent approval.

• What people think weight shaming can do

• Does weight shaming motivate HEALTHY behaviour change?

• The self-destructive behaviour change which is motivated by shaming

• Can weight shaming HELP anyone?

• Alternatives to weight shaming that actually help people

If you enjoyed this episode, find "Heal Binge Eating from Within" on https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heal-from-within or on any major podcast app and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button! 

Articles discussed

Shame DOES motivate behaviour change (however it’s a change coming from a place of self-hate): https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201503/the-surprising-upside-guilt-and-shame

Shame makes people put on weight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49714697

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• FREE eBook: www.olgaswellness.com/eBook

What makes you happy?

A new dress, a fancy car, a big house?

While all these things are nice, the happiness they bring is only temporary and it fades away as quickly as it came.

So perhaps a better question to ask might be: what gives you deep and lasting fulfilment? Or in other words: what helps you flourish in life? My guest today can provide some pointers for you!

Today, I am joined by Dr Maike Neuhaus, the founder of The Flourishing Doc. Dr Maike supports individuals and organisations to help them understand what humans need to flourish, so they can realise their potential and create impacts that excite them. She does so through public speaking, coaching and educating. Dr Maike is a psychologist specialised in self-leadership as well as positive and coaching psychology; and, a researcher and lecturer at a top 50 university.

We discussed:

• Why there is more to “mental health” than the absence of disease

• How flourishing is different from happiness

• Myths about happiness (no, it’s not about your bank account!)

• The secret sauce of flourishing

• Yes, you CAN flourish even if you’re struggling with ED!

• Steps you can take today to flourish more

If you enjoyed our conversation, find "Heal Binge Eating from Within" on https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heal-from-within or on any major podcast app and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button! 

Connect with Dr Maike:

• Website: theflourishingdoc.com

• Email: hello@theflourishingdoc.com

• LinkedIn: Dr Maike Neuhaus https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-maike-neuhaus/

• Instagram / Facebook / TikTok / Pinterest / Mastodon: @theflourishingdoc 

• Newsletter: https://theflourishingdoc.substack.com

• Calendly: https://calendly.com/drmaikeneuhaus

  
  

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Do you hate your kids and want to mess with their lives? You’ve come to the right podcast episode! In this anti-guide, I’m going to cover ways in which parents can induce eating disorder behaviours in their children.

Psssst, just to be clear - I’m being sarcastic here! Please don’t give your kids ED! So take this episode with a pinch of salt ;)

We discussed:

• Three ways in which parents damage their children’s relationship with food

• 1) Equating your worth with your appearance

• 2) Teaching your kids they shouldn’t trust themselves

• 3) Vilifying fat as the worst thing that can happen to you

• Bonus way to damage your kids: Don’t work on your own stuff!

If you enjoyed this episode, find "Heal Binge Eating from Within" on https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heal-from-within or on any major podcast app and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button! 

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• Instagram: @olgas_wellness

• FREE eBook: ⁠www.olgaswellness.com/eBook⁠
  

Imagine eating what your body needs which also happens to be what you genuinely enjoy… sounds far fetched? It’s not! In a nutshell, this is what intuitive eating is all about! That said, there are plenty of myths and misconceptions surrounding this practice and my guest is going to shed some light on it. 

Today, I am joined by Christina Becker, Master in Public Health, Registered Dietician, MPH, RDN, National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach and Reiki Master. Christina is a health, nutrition, and self-care expert. Her mission and passion is to empower women to “Heal, don’t fix” themselves so they can reclaim authentic health & wellness and connect with their life’s purpose. 

Christina’s BODY-MIND-SOUL approach is influenced by science based integrative and 

functional nutrition/medicine, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yoga, mindfulness, the body positive movement, as well as spiritual and metaphysical teachings and healing practices.

Over the past 20 years she has been providing 1:1 & group coaching, inspiring talks, corporate programming and seminars for Silicon Valley Fortune 50 companies, at Stanford, and her private practice, Nourish.

We discussed:

• What intuitive eating is and where it originated from

• The principles of intuitive eating

• Why there’s more to intuitive eating than “just eat it”

• Where intuitive eating can be misunderstood

• Reasons why eating intuitively is healthier than dieting

• Christina shares tips for how you can begin your intuitive eating journey

If you enjoyed our conversation, find "Heal Binge Eating from Within" on https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heal-from-within or on any major podcast app and don’t forget to hit the subscribe button! 

Connect with Christina:

• Website: https://christinabecker.com

• Instagram / Facebook / LinkedIn: @christinabeckernourish

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• FREE eBook: ⁠www.olgaswellness.com/eBook⁠