Ep 16: Blood, Sweat, and Açaí: The Karma of Superfoods

Intuitive Eating is an incredible approach for people seeking to heal their relationships with food and their bodies. But it's not without its challenges. In this episode I speak with the wonderful Jenna Hollenstein, who brings years of experience as a non-diet dietitian and meditation teacher to the table to help us understand how to tolerate the discomfort that so often arises in one's journey into intuitive eating. 

We talk about:

• What do meditation and Buddhism have to offer those on the Intuitive eating path?
• The importance of eating enough
• How one starts to make peace with food, and challenge food rules that seem second nature
• What is interoception, and why is it important? 
• The co-opting of mindfulness
•  The difference between doing this work as self-improvement VS doing it as self care
• Intuitive eating and mindfulness can be doorways into a pleasure practice 
  
  

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The Pre-Ovulatory Phase or "Inner Spring" starts from the cessation of menstrual bleeding to a few days before ovulation. In a typical 28-day cycle, this approximately corresponds to day 6 until day 11.  This phase has traditionally been seen as a time of dynamism, of rising energy levels and growing confidence. Here are my top tips for deeply nourishing yourself during this phase, nutritionally and otherwise. 

This is second in a series of FIVE on nourishing yourself throughout your entire hormonal cycle.

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The cyclical nature of your menstrual cycle communicates your constantly changing needs: physically, mentally and emotionally. The Menstrual Phase starts from the first to the last day of bleeding, lasting around 3 to 7 days.  Here are my top tips for deeply nourishing yourself during this phase, nutritionally and otherwise. It might not be what you think!

This is first in a series of five on nourishing yourself throughout your entire hormonal cycle.

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Iron-rich liver pâté recipe: https://www.funkyforest.com.au/blog/liver-pate-recipe

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What do you get when you combine a cacao ceremony, hypoxia-inducing breathwork, a bunch of influences from disparate spiritual cultures, partner yoga with intrusive eye-gazing, and really loud music? All that culturally appropriated pseudo-spiritual jazz, otherwise known as The Modern Spiritual Experience.

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The 8 limbs of yoga fundamentally support anti-racism, diversity, and body acceptance - and yet yoga in the west has been largely inaccessible to anyone who isn’t white, wealthy, thin, and able-bodied. In this episode I speak with the incredible Dianne Bondy, and she delivers truth-bombs with her characteristic vivacious spirit!

We talk about the commodification and cultural misappropriation of yoga, performative activism, anti-racism in yoga, and ways we can decolonise yoga in the west and finally make it accessible for people who have historically been denied access to these life-affirming practices.

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My personal journey with movement: how I got into yoga, how yoga contributed to my developing and recovering from an eating disorder, discovering the benefits and limits of strength training, and what my practice looks like nowadays.

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By neutralising body size, not focussing on weight loss and instead emphasising the importance of enjoying movement and caring for our bodies, Anna Hearn is reimagining what the fitness industry could look like. Plus, we discuss the elephant in the room: thin privilege.

SHOW NOTES:

00:56    A personal update
07:18    What is thin privilege?
15:07    How and why Anna’s body inclusive fitness and yoga studio, Haven Wellness was born
18:28    Moving the focus away from body transformations, fat loss and “no pain, no gain” – and towards balance, self-compassion and body attunement
19:30    Speaking to clients and fitness professionals about HAES, weight neutrality and body acceptance, and creating a safe and comfortable environment for movement
30:32    The value of sharing your own story and vulnerabilities as a fitness professional
32:02    Thin privilege, Lindo Bacon and the ways other forms of privilege show up in the HAES movement
38:00    Anna’s favourite resources and teachers in the HAES and body inclusive fitness and yoga worlds.

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Patriarchy seeks to control and exert power over nature generally, and the bodies of women specifically.  Beneath marketable wellness concepts like "clean eating" lie deep ties to body control, and culturally imposed shame over women’s bodies and processes like menstruation. But there is an alternative, more feminist and inclusive approach to food and our bodies that is honouring of our menstrual cycles, seasonal cycles, and different life stages.

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Here I offer some compassion and gentle guidance to anyone who has experienced an increase in their body weight that concerns them. By taking a naturopathic, holistic and HAES-aligned approach, I want to help you get on board with your body and understand at a deep level what might be going on. Hint: it's not just about “calories in, calories out”.

SHOW NOTES:

07:48: What is meant by "addressing the root cause"?
12:25: 5 reasons people gain weight that we can’t do much about – and how to make peace with and accept these
26:40: 8 reasons why people gain weight that we could potentially address – usually involving bringing certain body systems back into balance – and the caveats of this
57:05: Solutions! 7 things to consider when you’re a practitioner faced with a client who wants to lose weight, or if you’re that person

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There is an inherent fat phobia and weight stigma in the natural health and wellness communities. Leanness is conflated with health: we're consistently told that fat is the problem, and weight loss is the solution. But focussing on weight loss directly opposes the naturopathic principle of "first, do no harm". Here's why, and what we can do instead.