Wellness: Rebranded - Intuitive eating, diet culture, mental health, weight training, food freedom, food relationship

How Much Exercise Per Week Is Enough? Find Your Minimum Effective Dose for Better Health (Without Spending Hours at the Gym) / Ep #211

Do you know the exercise guidelines by heart and still skip the workout because you'll never hit them? Have you wondered whether a ten-minute walk is worth putting your s

Weight Neutral Communities: Creating Better Conversations Around Diet Culture, Body Image, Food, and Fitness Without Making Weight the Focus / Ep 210

What does it actually look like to build a healthy relationship with food, movement, and your body without making weight the main focus? In this episode, we’re talking a

Is Your Personal Growth Costing You? Why Others Get Uncomfortable When You Stop Shrinking Yourself and Choose the Woman You're Becoming / Ep 209

Have you ever started taking better care of yourself and watched the people around you get uncomfortable? In this episode, Maria shares what happens to your relationship

Is Exercise Supposed to Change How You Look? How Strength Training for Women Over 40 Builds Balance, Endurance, and Functional Fitness / Ep 208

Would you still exercise if you knew for certain it wouldn't change how you look? In this episode, we're talking about what sits underneath the things you do for your he

GLP-1 Weight Loss and Body Image: How to Handle Social Comparison Without Letting Other People’s Changing Bodies Define Your Self-Worth / Ep 207

What happens to your body image when it feels like everyone around you is shrinking? Is it possible to be genuinely happy for someone else's weight loss and still feel co

What a Therapist Wishes Every Mom Knew About Parenting Anxiety: The False Sense of Control Behind Oreogate / Ep 206

Two Oreos in a kindergarten lunchbox. That's all it took for one mom to text the whole class asking them to stop packing cookies because her family doesn't eat them, and

How to Stop “Starting Over” With Food, Build Healthier Eating Patterns, and Feel More Consistent / Ep 205

Does your eating feel off after a summer with no set routine? Now, you want to feel better—without getting stuck in the failed dieting cycle that works for awhile but ult

How To Let Go Of Food Guilt And Food Rules Using Intuitive Eating To Build A Better Relationship With Food / Ep 204

For so many women, diet culture never looked like a diet. It looked like discipline, like being "the healthy one," like a body image built around control. You made food r

Craving Deeper Female Friendship in Midlife? Here's Why Your Old Circle Faded and What Building Community Actually Takes Now / Ep 203

Somewhere along the way, the friendships that used to happen on their own stopped happening. The school pickups ended, the schedules changed, and one day you looked aroun

Hurt by Someone’s Body Comments? How to Protect Your Body Image Without Explaining or Apologizing for Yourself / Ep 202

For so many people, a single body comment has stayed with them for years. Someone remarks on what's on your plate, or how you look compared to last time they saw you, and

Do It Scared: How Taking Action Before You're Ready Becomes Your Fastest Path to Building Confidence (and Proof You Can Handle Anything) / Ep 201

What if confidence was never supposed to come before an action? In this episode, we're talking about what happened when each of us was forced to act long before we felt

Carrying the Invisible Weight? How Women Wellness Starts With Naming Your Emotional Stress and Body Cues / Ep 200

Are you carrying emotional weight that no one else can see? Do stress symptoms show up in your stomach, chest, shoulders, or sleep? Have you ever wondered whether your bo

The Truth About Menopause Metabolism: How to Support Energy, Sleep, and Body Changes (Without Cutting Carbs) with Jenn Salib Huber, RD, ND / Ep 199

What if menopause was never supposed to be something you had to fix? So many women reach midlife hearing the same message over and over: lose the weight, cut the carbs,

Soil Health and Nutrition 101: What Regenerative Organic Food Can Teach You About Trusting Your Body and Feeling Nourished Again with Sarela Herrada of SIMPLi / Ep 198

What if the food in your pantry could tell you more than what is on the nutrition label? So many of us walk through the grocery store looking for foods that seem healthy

The Pre-Burnout Stage Nobody Warns You About: How Chronic Stress Takes Over Your Energy and Focus (And The First Step Toward Burnout Prevention) with Chetna Sethi / Ep 197

Stress does not always announce itself loudly. Sometimes it shows up quietly, in the way you lose patience faster, feel drained before the day begins, or keep pushing thr

When Self-Love Gets Twisted Into Weight Loss: How To Spot Beauty Culture Before It Shapes Your Worth (And Stop Measuring Your Value By The Number On The Scale) / Ep 196

What if beauty was never supposed to be something you had to earn? So many women reach midlife carrying the same message they were handed for years: Lose the weight, do

Diet Culture, Food Restriction, and Hunger Hormones: Understanding the Restrict Binge Cycle / Ep 195

Have you ever eaten past the point of fullness and immediately thought, “What is wrong with me?”  Maybe you told yourself you had no self-control. Maybe you promised you

People Pleasing in Relationships Explained: The Real Reason Saying No Feels Impossible (and the 3 Shifts That'll Help You Stop Saying Yes on Autopilot) / Ep 194

Have you ever said yes and felt your stomach drop the second the word left your mouth? Have you ever gone along with something, not because you wanted to, but because say

What Boutique Fitness Understands About Women That Traditional Gyms Never Did / Ep 193

What if the reason you hate working out isn’t because you’re lazy, but because the space was never built with you in mind? Most of us have been there. You walk into a gy

Is Your Metabolism Broken? How Women Can Support Metabolic Health With Strength Training and Cardio That Actually Works with DocLyss Fitness / Ep 192

For so many women, the word "metabolism" has become tied to frustration, body shame, and the feeling that something must be wrong with them. You try to eat less, move mor