In today's episode were going to chat about how to handle diet culture comments and conversations confidently. Because these and comments like it are uncomfortable, right?!

• "I'm really trying to be good"
• "How do you stay so skinny working in a bakery?
• "I've noticed your eating habits"
• "Wow, you're really indulging today!"
• "You've gained weight, but you look healthy" 
• "No thanks, I need to detox from this weekend."
• "I'm trying to lose another 20"
• "We don't need lunch since were going out to dinner"
• Etc etc etc

Even well-intentioned comments like, "have you lost weight, what's your secret?" can be super triggering. And too much exposure to these types of conversations can impact your mental health, relationship with food, body image, and they also put a stain on relationships. 

So whether it’s coming from friends, family, co-workers or even yourself, I’ll share practical strategies to set boundaries, redirect conversations, and protect your mental and emotional health in a world that’s often obsessed with dieting and weight.

You'll hear me chat about:

• How to recognize when a conversation turns diet culture-y
• How to set clear boundaries without being confrontational
• Practical tips to pivot conversations away from diet culture talk
• How to maintain your mental and emotional well-being during these conversations
• My personal experiences with diet culture talk and how I’ve learned to handle it over the years
• How to encourage a positive dialogue about food and body image in your social circles

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Today's guest, Mary Jelkovsky, is back, and we're diving into something so many of us know all too well—feeling lost, lonely, and realizing that making friends as an adult is HARD. We chat about how significant life transitions and healing your relationship with food and body image can throw you into an existential crisis. Seriously, who hasn't asked, "WTF just happened?" or "Who am I?"

Mary gives us the tea on her journey from battling food and body image issues to becoming a self-love queen, hosting retreats, writing books, and blowing up on social media. We break down the nuances of adulthood, recovery, and the awkward "I'm lost" phase, and why building community as an adult is so damn hard.

Whether you're trying to level up your relationships, figure out who you are, or start a self-love journey, this episode is packed with practical tips, personal stories, and wisdom from two gals who are very much so *still* figuring it out.

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Connect with Mary:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maryscupofteaa
• Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maryscupoftea
• Mary's Cup Of Tea Podcast: https://maryscupoftea.com/podcast/
• Mary's Self-Love Retreats: https://maryscupoftea.com/retreats

Grab a copy of her Self-Love Books:

• The Gift Of Self-Love Workbook: https://maryscupoftea.com/gift-of-self-love
• 100 Days Of Self-Love Guided Journal: https://maryscupoftea.com/100-days-of-self-love

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If you've have children, are thinking about having children, or have an interest in helping today's kiddos navigate their mental and emotional health - this episode is for you. And man, is it eye-opening. This generation of children are showing more signs of anxiety, depression and mental health challenges and left unaddressed these challenges can impact them the rest of their lives.

But fortunately we have some incredible resources and strategies for helping our kids navigate mental health. And to unpack these scienctifacally-proven strategies and steps to help our children, I am joined today by bestselling author and renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Caroline Leaf!

Her newest book releasing August 8th: How To Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess is a guide to building resilience and managing mental health. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to help equip their children to build an unshakable foundation for mental health. You can pre-order the book to recieve super-fun exclusive bonus content HERE. 

Or purchase from your favorite book retailer:

• Amazon
• Christian Book
• Barnes and Noble
• Books A Million
• Baker Book House

Last time Dr. Caroline Leaf was on the podcast we chatted the neuroscience of healing disordered eating and you guys LOVED it. I have no doubt you will love this episode just as much. 

We discuss:

• How our own mental messes from our childhood follow up into adulthood and how those then impact our children AND what we can do about it
• If we should outright talk about our own mental health struggles with our children
• How children's mental health has gotten worse over the last 40 years
• What the neurocycle process is and how we can use to manage our mind and drive neuroplasticity in the right direction
• How a messy mind leads to a messy life
• A simple strategy for helping your kids grow in mental and emotional resilience
• How long it actually takes to reprogram your mind
• What the mental health warning signals are to be aware of
• How do we get out of the cycles of self-sabotage

Other links: 

• Dr. Caroline Leaf's podcast - Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess
• The Neurocycle App - a brain detox app to help you manage stress, anxiety, depression and toxic thinking
• Dr. Caroline Leaf's other book mentioned in the episode - Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess 

It’s the first episode of this 12 part Holiday How-to series! Today Jessi is sharing her best tips on how to enjoy holiday foods without spiraling out of control. We know the Holiday season is an incredible time but can also bring about stress and anxiety. It’s time to set yourself and your mind up for success this holiday season. Jessi dives into mindset, the mind body connection & how to combat last supper mentality. Jessi unpacks 2 powerful tangible tools; future pacing and the build a plate strategy. 

In this episode:

• Jessi shares how powerful your mindset truly is
• Jessi explains what the last supper mentality and how it perpetuates this crazy cycles with food
• How “should-ing” yourself can lead to shame and internal pressure
• What are the holidays really about for you? What matters to you most this holiday season?
• Jessi walks you through what future pacing is and how to use this instead of worrying about all the “what if’s and what “could happen”

Questions for you:

1. What are the thoughts you want to have during this event, conversation, etc.
2. What emotions do you want to be feeling at these events?
3. What behaviors do you want to behave in? How do you want to act?

Links:

Remember to sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she shares exclusive content, PDF's + other tools. *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In this episode, Food Freedom Online Program Client, Tayla bravely shares all about her 10 year struggle with a disordered relationship around food. From her being bullied in school, to believing that a smaller body was a better body to now experiencing complete freedom with food and moving on to become an Eating Psychology coach and help other women, Tayla’s story is one that will inspire you deeply. If you’ve ever felt like you’re stuck with this struggle or that the impulse to binge/overeat will forever be there, Tayla will put that to rest!

In this episode:

• Tayla shares how she was bullied in school and even had family members comment on her food choices or body size which led her to believe that a smaller body is a better body 
• Around 17 Tayla started going to the gym and dieting. When she began losing weight she noticed the bullying subsided ingraining even further that a smaller body is a better body
• Years go by and Tayla left for college and joined a crossfit gym and truly thought it was her way out from dieting but it only made things worse
• Tayla shares her first experience with binge eating and how terrified she was for others to find out 
• Tayla shares how she kept putting off healing.. She would say, “I’ll heal my binge eating when I get the house, when I get the career or xyz
• Tayla shares how she found Jessi and at first struggled with the idea of letting go of the diet/binge cycle until she finally got to the point where she was binging for a whole week and decided to book a call
• Tayla shares that from the free strategy call she learned that an easy, effortless relationship with food is entirely possible
• Tayla then talks about her experience inside the Food Freedom Online Program and how she was able to make lifelong friends and truly open up to them
• Tayla gained the confidence to tell her trusted inner circle about her struggle with binge eating and surprisingly felt totally accepted and not rejected
• Tayla shares how she is now able to leave food on her plate, forget about food, have chocolate in her cabinet and doesn’t over eat often.. If she does she moves on and it doesn’t consume her
• Tayla gives her advice to the women who is scared to give up dieting or fears gaining weight
• Jessi talks about how the allure of all these highly palatable food wears off and your body gets to this natural point of balance
• Tayla shares how she is now going onto become a Certified Eating Psychology Coach and is going to help others who struggled in the same way that she did

Links:

Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In this episode Jessi lays out how she plans on guiding and supporting you through the holiday season. Jessi takes you through a simple guided imagery technique that shows you just how powerful the mind can be. If you’re ready to have a stress free holiday season, listen to this episode, join Jessi's free VIP list and let us know you’re committed by either sending Jessi a DM or leaving us a review!

Links:

Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In this episode, Jessi had the honor of interviewing Arielle Estoria. She is a traveling Spoken Word Poet, self-published author, Dance Party Enthusiast Emcee and Event Host, Speaker, Body Positive Model, Actor and professional feeler. Shamelessly claiming that she is in the business of pulling on heartstrings, her motto, "Words not for the ears but for the soul" stems from her dedication to remind anyone who encounters her and her work that words are meant to be felt and experienced and not just heard. If you’ve ever felt like you are playing small or have been conditioned to be a “good girl”, you’re going to want to tune into this bold yet gentle conversation. 

In this episode:

• Arielle shares how she almost fell into this world of content creation, acting, speaking, modeling and beyond
• Arielle shares how she dips into multiple spaces and allows herself to be multifaceted instead of choosing just one lane!
• The ladies dive into self love and confidence, Arielle shares her experience growing up in a bigger body
• Arielle shares how quiet she was growing up and wanted to hide her physical body until she found the stage and she gave herself permission to love and accept herself
• Arielle shares how she began to focus on what her body could do for her and find confidence in her ability 
• Arielle shares how she was able to step into her magic and what that means for her
• Arielle’s shares a bit of her poem & the meaning behind it, she shares that there's magic in your bones, there's all these beautiful, glorious things that get put on top of that, there's magic in you and there's magic in me. Meaning, we are more than external, tangible beings..we are souls, we are hearts, we are part of something so much more
• Arielle reminds us of our worthiness and the intentionality in how exactly we were designed
• There's magic and enoughness and you and there's also magic and enoughness in others
• Jessi talks about conscious maturity, how valid all of our experiences are & that there is space for all of us to exist
• Arielle shares where her ability to trust God and her intuition came from
• Jessi & Arielle talk about “the good girl” and how we may feel limited by this narrative
• When we step into our fullness & allow ourselves to take up space we are able to break free of our conditioning
• Arielle has been called a ‘professional feeler’ and she shares how beautiful it is to feel, sympathize & empathize
• Arielle shares her poem, Magic In Your Bones

Learn more about Arielle:

Arielle’s website

Instagram: @arielleestoria

Itunes and Spotify: Arielle Estoria

Twitter: @arielleestoria

Facebook page

Sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!*

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program.

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Have you ever felt like you don’t fully fit into one category of disordered eating? OR like you’re the only one who is struggling with the specific thing you’re struggling with? In this episode, Food Freedom Online Program Client, Bryn joins Jessi to share her experience with binge eating and recovery. Bryn shines so much light on what the healing journey may look like and how empowering it is to finally reach out for help. Bryn shares how the scale no longer defines her but she is still a work in progress, uncovering new layers of freedom.

In this episode:

• Bryn shares her first memories of sneaking food and overeating when she was younger
• Bryn talks about when she knew she needed help, during one of the most stressful times when she was binging daily
• Bryn shares how shameful and isolating binging can feel
• Bryn shares how she learned about binge eating disorder for the first time and finally felt understood
• Jessi shares what the typical binge eating definition is and how she didn’t fully fit within one specific category
• What do I do if I don’t fit into one category of the diagnostic category for common disordered eating disorders?
• Jessi normalizes not fitting into just one specific disordered tendency with food
• Majority of people get lumped into what the medical community calls undiagnosable eating disorders
• Bryn shares how challenging it is to hear compliments on your body when you’re mentally struggling with food
• Bryn shares how she found Jessi and how she ultimately found the courage to book a call to see if the Food Freedom Online Program was right for her
• Bryn shares what the first months inside the Food Freedom Online Program were like for her
• Bryn shares how she does struggle with certain aspects of food and body but how she now has so much hope that she can and will conquer this
• Bryn shares how she is no longer defined by the number on the scale
• Bryn shares what one of her favorite aspects of The Food Freedom Online Program is

Links:

Sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!*

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program.

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In today's episode Jessi is sharing a recent interview she had on Cleaning Up The Mental Mess with Dr. Caroline Leaf. She loved this interview so much that she wanted to bring it to you, if you haven't listened already :)

Food can bring people together and just try think about one major event or holiday that is not marked by a shared meal. However, for many people, food can also be crutch, something that holds them back and prevents them from living the life they want. In this podcast, I talk with certified eating psychology coach Jessi Jean about compulsive eating habits and self-sabotaging behaviors, emotional binging, the different kinds of eating disorders, why diets often don't work, and how to find freedom with food.

For more info: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessijeannn Website: https://risewithmeco.com Free Morning Routine Challenge: http://www.risewithmemorningroutine.com/optin36649556 Podcast Highlights 1:45 Why you need to give yourself permission to reinvent yourself 5:11 Why what we are trying to hide from others will eventually explode 9:50 Healing your relationship with food is a multidimensional process 15:26 True behavior change is identity-shifting 17:55 Food and addiction 25:00 What is binge eating? 31:00 How to find freedom with food 39:34 What is the difference between binge eating and behaviors like bulimia and anorexia?

Sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!*

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program.

In this episode, Jessi is joined by a past Food Freedom Online Program client, Rachel. Rachel is filled with light and love, her journey from starting her first diet at the young age of 13 to now having complete food and body freedom is incredible. You will be incredibly inspired and empowered to heal your relationship with food and set a remarkable example for other women all over the world.

In this episode:

• Rachel shares about how her struggles with food and body began at the young age of 13
• Rachel shares how others praise, comments and approval based on her appearance kept her going back to the dieting, restricting, binge cycle
• Rachel shares who a huge motivator to healing her relationship with food was her daughter, Clementine
• Rachel and Jessi share what they wish they knew when they were younger struggling with food + body
• Rachel shares how she once used to have anxiety over food and food choices and now how it doesn’t even phase her!
• Jessi shares that it is actually normal to like binge eating and not want to give it up
• Jessi explains what neuro pathways are in the brain
• Rachel shares what the most beneficial aspects of the Food Freedom Online Program were for her
• Rachel shares how she know has so much more mental space for her family, business and life
• Rachel shares how she wants to be a part of this body positive movement and help other women feel confident in their own skin 

Links:

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Many people let fear creep in and steal the show.. Not Jessi. Jessi has built resilience around fear, self doubt + failure and in this episode she is going to teach you how to breakthrough any level of self doubt so we can reach a new level of freedom. She shares tips from developing self awareness around your current habits instead of slipping into auto pilot. She also shares what she looks for in her inner circle and that it is totally normal for friendships to evolve + sometimes dissolve. You’ll leave this episode ready to face your fears head on and start playing full out.

In this episode:

• Jessi shares where to start with overcoming self doubt: self awareness + introspection
• She asks thought provoking questions like, Am i letting fear + self doubt run the show? If I truly believed I was capable of anything, what would I do? Do you want to play small or do you want to play big?
• Jessi shares that fear is like mold, it grows in the dark places of our mind. We need to share with trusted friends
• Jessi shares how important having vulnerability in friendships is, it is the strongest human connector
• Jessi shares a powerful mantra she uses, “what other people think of me is none of my business”
• Jessi shares how she uses failure as a marker on her journey to success
• She shares how to use fear as motivating energy rather than parayzing
• Jessi shares the powerful shift she made that allowed her stop spiraling down the “but I don’t know how to do xyz”

Links:

Jessi's Instagram

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In this episode, Jessi is joined by a Food Freedom Online Program client, Faith. Faith shares how she developed a disordered relationship with food + body and how it impacted her relationships, social life, confidence + more. Faith shares the ups and downs of healing her relationship with food + body and how she ultimately got to her mountain top.. where she no longer struggles with binge eating at all. Faith’s energy is infectious, she truly is the real deal life of the party! 

In this episode:

• Faith shares why she joined the Food Freedom Online Program
• Faith’s funny story on joining the Food Freedom Online Program
• How Faith resisted healing for a while due to fear of gaining weight  
• How investing in yourself and your health is the best thing you can do 
• How an injury worked as a blessing in disguise for Faith to fully heal + focus on her relationship with food + body
• Faith shares some deep and intrusive thoughts that she had in some dark moments
• How a previous relationship played into her body image struggles
• Faith shares how she hypes herself up and has grown to truly love herself
• Jessi and Faith both share how important it is to not take yourself so seriously
• How Faith is now able to differentiate between binge eating and just enjoying food or eating past fullness on some occasions
• Jessi explains how, “it's not about the food, it's about how we feel about what we do with food” that is the real issue
• How to become more neutral with our food choices
• Faith shares the very real struggles of having an eating disorder and trying to navigate life, social events + insecurities 
• How it can feel like our society shames binge eating but glamorizes anorexia, overexercising + bulimia
• How the set point weight theory was so helpful for Faith
• Faith shares how amazing freedom is and how much it has impacted every part of her life
• You are so much more beautiful than what you see in the mirror

Links:

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In this episode, Jessi is joined by former D1 volleyball player, Ted X speaker + mental health advocate, Victoria Garrick. Victoria shares her experience being a collegiate athlete and how this impacted her relationship with food + body. You will instantly fall in love with Victoria’s real, raw + relatable personality..she's the friend and hype women we all need! You’ll leave this episode feeling encouraged to cultivate compassion for yourself, challenged societal norms + more equipped to tackle the things that are weighing you down.

In this episode:

• Victoria shares her experience as a D1 collegiate volleyball player and how this impact her relationship with food + body
• When + how Victoria started experiencing mental health struggles
• Navigating body changes that came with being a collegiate athlete
• How Victoria developed performance anxiety and started binge eating
• How Victoria realized she was struggle with binge eating
• How Victoria finally worked up the courage to see a therapist and ask for help
• Victoria breaks down the stigma around mental health and normalizes asking for help
• How Victoria got picked to do a Ted X talk & began her work as a mental health advocate
• Victoria shares tangible tips that helped her with food, body image + mental health
• Victoria shares what ego work is and how she has incorporated it into her life
• Victoria shares how she always tries to meet herself with compassion
• How Victoria moved away from all-or-nothing, perfectionism, performative attitude to being able to laugh at herself and not take everything so seriously
• Victoria challenges and pushes back on society's standard of beauty
• Victoria shares how she stopped putting her appearance as the #1 priority
• How to release the unrealistic ideals to look a certain way
• Victoria opens up about what she is feeling most vulnerable with currently
• Victoria and Jessi share that they have both struggled with loneliness and female friendships
• Victoria shares about The Hidden Opponent, an advocacy group that raises awareness for student-athlete mental health

Links:

Victoria’s Instagram

Victoria’s Podcast

Victoria’s Website

The Hidden Opponent

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

If you’re feeling STUCK in a cycle of restrict, behave, stay the course and F*CK IT, feed me, I’ll start over again on Monday, buckle up because on today’s episode we’re chatting about getting off the diet-binge roller coaster and where to start your food freedom journey.

I’m joined today by fellow food freedom advocate and recent nutrition college graduate, Bobby Kasmire and we chat about:

• How we met online and why Bobby decided to take a trip across the country to collaborate with Jessi in Colorado

• What the solution is for those who aren’t ready to dive into a full blown food freedom recovery program but want to get started

• Bobby’s passion for breaking down the stigma of disordered eating struggles and inspiring people to take those 1st few steps

• How we came together to create Hungry For Recovery >> a 23-day mini-course to jumpstart your food freedom journey (with tangible tools and rich inspiration) that will take you from feeling STUCK to UNSTOPPABLE

• Why we wanted a recovery resource that was available for ALL genders 

• How a 6-pack and being super lean ISN’T WORTH IT!

• How the reality that getting started in recovery can feel f*cking scary and overwhelming but is also WORHT IT and really exciting!

• A breakdown of what to expect inside of Hungry For Recovery and why it will continue to inspire and motivate you long after the 23-day challenge

For more details and to jumpstart your Food Freedom Recovery journey visit: hungryforrecovery.jessijean.com - doors Open July 7th, 2023 for our very first cohort! Come join us for the 23-day food freedom challenge that will help you finally begin breaking free of the self-sabotage, binge-restrict, and emotional overeating cycles. Because YOU deserve to experience genuine happiness, confidence and freedom with food. 

Hungry For Recovery was designed specifically for the chronic over-thinker who isn’t entirely sure they’re ready to dive into a full blown recovery program, but is READY to finally feel relief from the exhausting cycles of binge and emotional overeating with tangible tools, techniques and clear steps to help you finally GET STARTED. 

Each morning we will email you 2 short videos (1 educational ~10min & 1 inspirational ~5min), along with a powerful action step to take that day that will help you create meaningful momentum to STOP the fight with food.

Over the next 23-days you’ll learn:

1. What the f*ck went wrong with this whole food thing & why you can’t stop thinking about food & your body image

2. The THREE most important steps to START your food freedom & body image journey and how to stop an urge to overeat in the heat of the moment

3. Why nervous system regulation is often THE MISSING LINK to overcome emotional overeating & two powerful techniques

4. How to STOP losing yourwith sugar & the 4-steps to breaking the pattern of eating past fullness

5. 3 powerful body image hacks to help you immediately start feeling better in your body

6. Why most get intuitive eating all wrong, and how to ACTUALLY do it right.

Regardless of age, gender, or how long you’ve been fighting food and your body, YOU ARE CAPABLE of healing. I’m excited to help you take those 1st few steps and create powerful momentum in the right direction. Join us at: hungryforrecovery.jessijean.com 

You can do it scared. Remember, ready isn’t a feeling. It’s a choice.

In this episode, Jessi is joined by Food Freedom Online Program Client + Big Sister, Morgan. Morgan walks us through her journey with GI issues and how she finally got answers on what was going on in her body. She also shares how her sensitivities played into developing a disordered relationship with food and ultimately how she found complete food freedom and confidence in her everyday life. Bloating, bowel movements, constipation.. We’re covering it all in this one!

In this episode:

• How GI issues impact your relationship with food + body
• How to navigate GI issues while healing your relationship with food and body
• Morgans struggle with GI issues and food intolerances and how that affected her everyday life
• How moving to college, a new relationship and not knowing what to eat slowly began harming her relationship with food 
• How Morgan realized that her relationship with food was not normal
• How Morgan looked into in person treatment centers and why she opted to join the Food Freedom Online Program instead
• How Morgan’s story felt a bit different upon joining since she was dieting/eliminating food to heal her gut rather than to look a certain way but she quickly realized it was ALL food rules that are harmful 
• Morgan’s approach to honoring her body and her sensitivities while always having peace with food
• Morgans mindset shift to abundance rather than elimination or restriction
• How listening to your body rather than listening to everyone else tell you what is best for your body, helped Morgan tremendously 
• How fully healing your gut incorporates multiple factors
• Morgan shares 2 pieces of advice from anyone who may be struggling with something similar to her 
• How finding food freedom has truly changed her life and brought her fiancé into her life

Links:

Morgan’s Instagram

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In this episode, Trauma Informed EMDR therapist, Aundi Kolber joins Jessi to share what it means to try softer in a world that tells us to keep going, keep hustling and keep pretending we're fine. Aundi shares tangible tools to practice self compassion and feel more grounded in our everyday lives. 

In this episode:

• How Aundi got into this line of work
• The difference between talk therapy and what Aundi likes to use both personally and professionally to heal
• Aundi shares what EMDR is: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing 
• How trauma can get stuck in our nervous system and how to reprocess it so your body and brain can reintegrate 
• How a trauma response can sometimes look like over accommodating for other people
• Aundi shares what ‘try softer’ truly means and how it came to be
• Aundi shares basic neurobiology about our body
• What happens to our prefrontal cortex when we’re in our window of tolerance
• The practice of learning to be at home within your body
• Aundi explains what little ‘t’ trauma or interpersonal trauma is and what BIG 'T' trauma is
• How some of our behaviors that we might not like have served a purpose in the past
• Aundi opens up about her own struggles with disordered eating and where it came from
• How we go into fight, flight or freeze mode if something is beyond our capacity 
• Aundi shares how important curiosity + compassion is in healing
• The “I am aware” tool that Aundi uses with her clients
• A self compassion practice that Aundi uses
• How to bring self compassion and non judgment into your awareness
• Using our emotions as information rather than sinking into guilt and shame

Links:

Instagram

Website

Try Softer Book

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Have you ever wanted to pursue healing past trauma but don’t know where to start? Look no further! In this episode, Jessi is joined by trauma resolution educator, coach and author, Rachael Maddox. Rachael shares where to begin with healing trauma and how to let go of past trauma that you’ve been holding onto. Rachael provides us with several thought provoking questions + strategies to start exploring our pain.

In this episode:

• How Rachael discovered her passion and began her work in trauma resolution 
• Rachael breaks down what somatic therapy is 
• She talks us through the 7 archetypes and what they are all designed for 
• Rachael shares where to begin with healing trauma
• Rachael & Jessi share the importance of connection + vulnerability with others 
• Rachael shares the importance of being curious and trusting yourself
• Rachael answers what steps we can take to move closer to healing
• How we must allow space and time to work through trauma
• How the nervous system doesn’t like fast change
• How to let go of past trauma that you’ve been holding onto
• How to move on from something that doesn’t feel like it should be forgiven

Questions to ask yourself:

• What is it that my body didn’t get to do in that experience?
• What’s the thing that you are curious about?

*side note: audio is not as good as it typically is in this episode. The few fuzzy spots are worth it to listen to Rachael's wealth of knowledge. Thank you kindly.

Links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachaelmaddox/

Website: http://rachaelmaddox.com/

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In this episode fitness influencer, Hayley joins Jessi to continue bridging the gap between health + fitness. Hayley shares her journey from competing, losing her period, feeling anxious around food + exercise to now having balance, exercising from a place of self love + inspiring hundreds to do the same. Together the girls provide tips you can make to improve your relationship with food and body.

In this episode:

• Hayley shares her journey from competing to balance
• She shares her ‘aha’ moment where she realized she was not fully living
• Hayley shares how to slowly begin finding more balance with food + exercise
• Hayley normalizes the female body; having cellulite, body fat, rolls + stretch marks
• Hayley shares her view on fitness and setting fitness goals
• She shares how we need to get to the root of the cause instead of covering it up
• Hayley shares what the most common struggle that her audience has
• Jessi shares her struggle with losing her cycle + Hayley shares simple tips on getting it back
• Hayley shares small changes that can help your health and mindset
• The image of health that social media portrays vs. actual health
• Hayley shares how balance has added to her life, reduced her anxiety, allowed for greater appreciation of life, and improved cognitive function
• Health is as much mental health as it is physical health
• Hayley shares what she wished someone had told her when she was younger and struggling with food + body

Links:

Hayley's Instagram

Hayley's Website

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Jessi sits down with us for a solo episode this week and bravely shares about her current struggles. She discusses how we as humans face challenges, bad days, loneliness and that it is totally normal. Jessi shares what her most recent mental breakdown looked like and what helped her through it.

In this episode:

• Jessi normalizes having bad days, mental breakdowns and low energy.
• How social media can trigger funks, anxiety or overwhelm.
• How to the root of what is truly going on within ourselves
• How to break down shame, guilt and loneliness
• That it doesn’t make you weak to break down or struggle
• What to do when you feel like you have to be strong for everyone else
• In these moments that you feel alone, all you have to do is let yourself rest.
• How you can allow yourself to physically emote and release negative energy
• No longer being afraid of breaking down or having an intense emotional experience
• Its not a moment of weakness its a human exprience to be mental tapped out
• How stuffing emotion can lead to numbing out with food
• How our inner child can guide us to see what we are truly longing for
• How we are all going to still face challenged and struggles but we can navigate them in a healthy way and no longer let it derail us

A few questions when you’re feeling in a funk or feeling low:

What do you need most in this moment?

Whats good in your life right now?

What are you thankful for?

Normalize pain, normalize the struggle in your life.. its part of being human. You are not weak, its a human experience.

Please let me know if you enjoyed and can relate to this episode. Send me a DM on Instagram: @jessijeannn 

Links:

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In this episode, Food Freedom Online Program Client, Molly shares her incredible story. Her struggles with food and body began at a young age after her father went to prison. Like many of us, she began using food to cope and numb out. Molly walks us through how she processed many challenging events in her life and ultimately found the courage to rise above and pursue healing. Molly encourages all women who have faced trauma in the past to not let your past define you.

In this episode:

• Where + why her struggles with food started
• Hurtful comments that were made about her body when she was younger
• How food became her coping mechanism for comfort and to numb out 
• How challenging it is to process challenging events when we are children
• How what our parents do with food can affect how we view food
• How her body image struggles started as early as nine years old
• How society wants us to associate beauty with thinness
• The problem with celebrating and praising someone's weight loss
• How being sexually assaulted exacerbated her struggles with food + body
• Where her relationship with food + body is at now
• How she tried multiple things by herself to heal her struggles
• How community and belonging was a key aspect of healing her relationship with food
• How we need to lean into fear and overcome our struggles 
• How your past does not define you and you CAN come out on top

Links:

Body Image Breakthrough Intensive

Free Morning Routine Challenge

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

In this episode, I sit down with mama to be health influencer Carly Ann Dell. Carly shares her journey from high school sports to bikini competing to balance. Carly shares how she once found value in being the smallest version of herself and how she has progressed to understanding more of herself, appreciating the health journey and ultimately recognizing her inherent worth. You will leave this episode feeling encouraged to continue finding balance and reinventing yourself in every season of life. It’s time to embrace the hot mess!

In this episode:

• How we search for titles to feel validated, find safety and belonging
• How her fitness journey began
• How she realized health & fitness are different and what that means
• What health and fitness looks like when its not scheduled in from work or sports
• The strong difference between believing and knowing
• How pain is pain and we don’t need to compare it to others pain
• Appreciating movement rather than just checking it off the list
• Looking at things from a lifestyle and longevity perspective
• How our journey is going to evolve with each season of our life
• How we can reinvent and invent ourselves as many times as we want
• The pressures of being a health and fitness influencer
• Her own struggles with food and body
• How food could trigger a negative mental shift
• Struggling with miscarriage and working through the emotions with her husband
• Navigating body image while pregnant
• How she began embracing and appreciating her body
• How the journey to food freedom is a lifelong practice
• How Carly plans to dive into her relationship with food and body even more in postpartum

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/carlyanndell/

https://carlyanndell.com/

https://carlyanndell.com/podcast

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Today two members at Rise With Me, Carlie and Sydney, sit down with me and discuss what we as a team are doing to end the fight against racism. We are learning, growing + committed to consistent action. We are not experts on racism, just simply sharing our experience and commitments moving forward in an effort to encourage you in your walk as well. Please learn from individuals who are anti-racism experts.

In this episode:

• Before recent current events what was our understanding of racism
• A few takeaways from Chrissy King’s Anti-racism Webinar
• Getting uncomfortable is where the growth is
• What we as a team are doing to end the fight against racism
• We are hosting a book club inside the Food Freedom Online Program and starting with, Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad.
• Conscious Maturity and taking responsibility for our actions and growing from them 
• How we must lean into fear 

Links:

Me and White Supremacy

Chrissy King’s website + Instagram

Color of Change

Center for Policing Equity

Girls for a Change

In this episode, Jessi is joined by one of her very first Food Freedom Online Program clients, Tilda. Tilda shares how far she has come since completing the course. She shares how she has completely transformed her life and gained confidence as a mother, women + author.

In this episode:

• Why she joined the Food Freedom Online Program
• How our eating habits + anxieties affect those around us; kids, friends, marriage
• How once you get to a healthy place with food you can unlock so much more in life
• How much time she gained once she was free from binge eating
• How social media can impact your mental health
• How healing is our responsibility when you are a parent so your children do not adopt an unhealthy relationship with food + body
• The reality of postpartum; insecurities, sleep deprivation and more
• Lowering the bar and no longer striving for perfection with food, motherhood and body
• How you must be vulnerable and shower yourself with grace to heal

Links:

Tilda’s book, This is Post Partum

Instagram

Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Through the Food Freedom online program and social media, Jessi has seen several people discuss their fertility challenges. Many of them are curious about the possibility of their fertility challenges as it relates to their struggles with a disordered or unhealthy relationship with food. In this episode, Jessi had on Dr. Lauren Noel, a naturopathic doctor, host of the Dr. Lo Radio Show and the creator of an online course that helps people with fertility. Jessi and Lauren discuss working on the foundational pieces of your health (and why sleep is SO important). Lauren shares 3 tips for getting back on track and why you should reconsider your thoughts about self-care.  

In this episode:

• What Lauren does as a naturopathic doctor and how she got into this line of work 
• How working on the foundational pieces of your health increases fertility
• Her history with navigating PCOS
• How nutrition and stress levels affect your health
• Her 3 tips for how to get back on track when you’re feeling off
• Why you have to look at self-care differently 
• How different hormone testing isn’t treated equally
• What she does to help support clients through fertility

Links:

Instagram

Website

Dr. Lo Radio Show

Golden Eggs Fertility 

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

It’s been a hot minute since I released an episode but I’m back and ready to share a little bit of unconventional wisdom about learning to SLOWWWWW down and take a career break! Yeah, you heard me - a career BREAK! Sounds simultaneously terrifying and exciting, I know. But the reality is seasons of slowness, taking a step back and maybe even taking a full blown sabbatical should be as much a part of the conversation as goal setting and career advancement.

If you’re feeling burnt out, stretched thin, uninspired, and unmotivated it may be time to consider slowing down and allowing your soul to recharge + reboot. On today’s episode I share:

⁃5 signs it’s time to slow down + maybe even take a career break ⁃How to overcome fears about taking a break and slowing down ⁃How to set yourself up to take a break / sabbatical  ⁃The benefits of entering a season of slowness

I also share a little life update and why I haven’t released an episode in months (hint hint - there’s a tiny human growing inside my uterus! Hello 23 weeks!)

Lastly, I share a little bit about my new 23-day Food Freedom mini-course, Hungry For Recovery launching July 7th, 2023! The course was designed for those who aren’t quite ready to dive into a full blown recovery program, but are ready to lay the foundation and finally get started on their food freedom journey with tangible tools and action plans that will help take you feeling from STUCK to UNSTOPPABLE. 

Join the waitlist HERE to be the 1st to know when doors open!

http://hungryforrecovery.jessijean.com

Opening yourself up to the world of energetics can be transformative. Feeling into your body will give you so much insight about yourself. In this episode, Jessi was joined by a psychic and mindset freedom coach, Tanin Matin. Tanin shares how she got into energetics work after working on Wall Street and being fed up with corporate America. She and Jessi talk about how your body knows what it needs for healing and where you can start to learn about your energy. They discuss how you attract things in your life and why you need to eliminate words that could hinder your progress from your vocabulary. They also talk about what an emotional release session is, how it could help you and why you should be open to additional healing modalities. 

In this episode:

• How she went from working in corporate America to energetics
• Why starting to feel will help you receive insights from your body
• How the body knows exactly what it needs to heal itself
• Where you can start learning about your energy
• How you can change the trajectory of your life by changing what you focus on
• Eliminating words from your vocabulary that you don’t want
• What it means to be in energetic alignment and how to attain that
• What an emotional release session looks like
• Becoming open to more healing modalities

Links:

Instagram

Website

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Did you know that we teach people how to treat us? It’s true. When we’re stretched and pulled outside of our comfort zone by others, those learned behaviors are from a lack of boundaries. In this episode, Jessi had on a FFM client, Caitlin Olsen. Caitlin is a marriage and family therapist who learned about the FFM from another client in her own community. Jessi and Caitlin discuss how Caitlin got into her work as a boundaries coach and why you absolutely need to create boundaries for a healthy life. They discuss how to set boundaries with those around you and how to identify where your boundaries are being violated in your life. 

In this episode:

• What Caitlin does as a marriage and family therapist
• How Caitlin stumbled upon Jessi from another FFM client
• What brought her to this career 
• How she became a boundaries coach
• Why you have to have healthy boundaries for a healthy life
• Her advice to people who aren’t great with boundaries
• How to begin the process of setting boundaries
• How to identify if there are boundary violations in your life

Links:

Website

Caitlin's Instagram

Caitlin's Facebook

029 - HER STORY - How Wife, Mom & FFM Client, Kylie, Beat Binge Eating & Rediscovered Her Passions

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to binging, purging and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

As a mom, healing from struggles with food and body is not only a gift to yourself but to your family too. In this episode, you’ll hear from Joni, a mother of five and client of the FFM who came on to discuss her journey of struggling with food and her body. She opens up about how a loss in her family opened her up to the idea of food as comfort at a young age. Joni shares how her struggles progressed over the years and affected her as a mom and wife. She and Jessi talk about her struggles with binging and purging and how she decided it was time to pull herself out of this struggle. Joni discusses what’s helped her the most through the course and her advice for other people who are pursuing healing. She talks about taking the power back in her life and overcoming dark times she was facing. 

In this episode:

• Where her struggles with food and body started
• How her grief propelled her weight issues which led to dieting at a young age
• How her struggle evolved and affected her journey through motherhood
• What made her realize she needed to make a change
• How she ended up turning to binging and purging as an attempt to lose weight
• Her experience of trying to pull herself out of this struggle alone
• How she stumbled across Jessi and the FFM
• What worked for Joni and helped her the most through the course
• Her advice for someone who is resonating with her story 
• How her life is different as a result of healing from her struggles with food and body
• How there is no right or wrong way to pursue the course
• What Joni hopes that women will take away from her story

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to sexual abuse, trauma, eating disorders and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

Have you ever considered yourself a sugar addict? In this episode, Jessi was joined by FFM client and Swedish actress Julija Green. Julija shares her story of struggling with food and her body for the majority of her life. She talks about how her struggles were brought on after being sexually abused and how she used food, specifically sugary food to numb out. Julija shares how this affected her dating life and how she saw intimacy. She discusses a movie she was working on and how a bad experience prompted her to drop out and create her own films. You’ll hear her experience of thinking she was a sugar addict and advice she’d give to her younger self. She also talks about her experience in the FFM and how her life has transformed since joining the course. 

In this episode:

• What prompted Julija’s struggles with food and body
• What her struggles looked like over the majority of her life
• How her sexual abuse left her feeling broken and using food to numb out
• Not knowing how to be intimate when she reached dating age
• Her experience of getting a part in a movie and being told to lose weight
• Dropping out of that film and deciding to pursue her own films
• How she overcame this trauma and got to where she is right now
• What her relationship looked like before the course and how it evolved
• Why she believed that she was a sugar addict
• The advice Julija would give her younger self
• How the FFM has affected her life and career
• Why Julija recommends using meditation 

Links: Julija Green’s Facebook The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass Rise with Me LIVE 

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again! You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to self-harm, rape, trauma, bi-polar disorder, eating disorders and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

No matter what you go through in life, there’s an opportunity for you to come out stronger on the other side. That’s what happened to the guest in this episode and FFM client, Alesha. Alesha has gone through a lot of trials and tribulations over the course of her life. She navigated the trauma of multiple rapes and sexual assaults and a mysterious illness that eventually led to her eating disorder. She and Jessi chat about her experience of being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and anxiety. Alesha shares her story of surviving a suicide attempt and the life-changing realization this brought her. She opens up about overcoming past traumas in therapy. Alesha also talks about how she found the FFM and got on the journey to recovery from her food and body struggles. 

In this episode:

• What triggered Alesha’s struggles with food and body
• Thinking back on her first dieting experience in 5th grade
• Desperately wanting to fit in and belong and the conflicting beliefs of her dieting experience
• Alesha’s experience with falling ill and doctors not knowing what was wrong
• How steroids catapulted her eating disorder into reality
• How Alesha’s illness randomly went away
• The mental health challenges that came when she overcame her illness
• How the trauma affected Alesha through her high school experience
• Being diagnosed with Bipolar 2 disorder and anxiety in college
• Her experience with rape and being sexually assaulted
• How what you’re doing or wearing isn’t a form of consent
• Alesha’s memory of trying to end her life and being thankful that she survived
• Her path to recovery and working through her layers of trauma
• Setting powerful intentions to focus on her physical health
• How Alesha got connected with Jessi and the FFM
• How her relationship with food has transformed since joining the FFM
• The supportive community and how it promotes healing 
• Why diversity is needed in your social groups
• Where Alesha’s at right now with food and her body
• Her biggest advice for someone who resonates with her story

Links: Adult Chair Podcast Episode 153 - Binge Eating With Jessi Jean Alesha’s Instagram Rise with Me LIVE 

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

As a lot of you might know if you’re listeners of the podcast, Jessi and her husband Hung are no strangers to therapy. The two discussed their relationship back in Episode 044 and why they ended up getting a therapist. In this episode, Jessi talks about why she’s an advocate for having a therapist. She shares how a therapist has helped to strengthen their marriage. Jessi explores all of the reasons why getting a therapist might be a good idea for your relationship and the goals that she and Hung hope to accomplish through their therapy journey. 

In this episode:

• Her and Hung’s experience with their first therapist
• Why a third party perspective will help set you up for greater success as a couple
• How to present couples therapy to your partner
• The reason they want to get back into couples therapy
• How a good therapist will help to rid you of the wedges that drive relationships apart
• What therapists will help you navigate and process
• Their goals for getting back into therapy
• How to sell your partner on the benefits of therapy

Links: 044 - Couples Q&A - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again! You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to eating disorders, depression, self-harm and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

Have you ever realized that something from your childhood still affects you today? It’s not uncommon to hold onto things from childhood even well into your adult years. In this episode, Jessi chats with a client of the FFM, Hana. Hana’s struggles with food and her body started at four years old after she began to suppress her feelings. Suppressing feelings often leads to the use of other coping mechanisms and this is what happened with Hana. She shares how a broken relationship due to cheating confirmed her feelings of worthlessness (and further contributed to her struggles). Hana talks about how she finally decided to seek out help after 15+ years of struggling. She also talks about her experience in the course and finding great friendships with women from across the globe.

In this episode:

• How her struggles with food and body started after suppressing her feelings as a child
• How most parents are doing the best they can
• Feeling unsupported and how a lack of boundaries led to people walking all over her
• Struggling with depression as a teen
• Her story of infidelity and how this confirmed her feelings of worthlessness
• Losing a close friend and the toll the grief took on her
• Coping mechanisms she used to numb from the weight of the pain
• Her experience with therapy, trying to regain weight and overexercising
• Why she got into fitness competing
• Getting nervous system fatigue and being forced to rest
• Believing that you can be free from food and body struggles
• How Hana got connected with Jessi and the FFM
• Her experience in the course and how her relationship with food and body has evolved
• The friendships she’s made in the FFM
• What’s been the most impactful part of the course for her
• How her life has changed since recovering from her struggles with food and body
• How she’s learned to sit in her feelings and embrace emotions

Links: Rise With Me LIVE Morning Routine Challenge Rise with Me LIVE Facebook Group

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Is anxiety getting in the way of your life? If so, you’ll appreciate today’s episode with guest, Stevie Wright. Stevie is a former American Idol contestant and a self-love and breathwork coach. In this episode, Stevie and Jessi talk about how she recovered from her own traumas. Stevie talks about how she learned to step into her queendom. She shares her process of helping clients move through their anxiety. Stevie and Jessi touch on being compassionate toward your inner child and reaching your fullest expression.

In this episode:

• What got Stevie to the place she’s at now
• Her experience of being on American Idol and how traumatizing it was for her
• The difference between identification and observation
• Stepping into your queendom
• How your brain is wired for survival and how this causes anxiety
• Developing the skill of switching into different realities
• Her process for helping clients through anxiety
• Learning to not put yourself in a box
• How Stevie lives a fully expressed life and helps others practice that
• Having compassion for her inner child 
• Her advice for someone who wants to become more fully expressed
• Using anxiety as your friend and changing the story behind the emotion

Links:

Stevie’s Website

Stevie’s Instagram

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Struggling with food and your body for one year, 5 years and even a decade is far too long. Today Jessi is speaking with a FFM client who has dealt with the struggles of food and her body for most of her life. After a 33 year-long battle, Cristina discovered Jessi and the FFM and decided to give it a try. In this episode, Cristina and Jessi talk about Cristina’s journey to recovery and how much her life has changed since pursuing healing. They explore how she learned to feel her feelings, the biggest fears she had to overcome in her journey and her advice for other women who are considering taking the plunge to start their own journey to healing. 

In this episode:

• What her struggles with food and body looked like before discovering the FFM
• Growing up with a house in diet culture
• Her experience in middle school of realizing her body was different and starting the cycle with restricting and binging
• How Cristina found Jessi through a podcast and decided to work with her
• Her biggest fears when starting the course and learning to let go of dieting completely
• The differences that Cristina noticed when she began the course
• Releasing the pressure in whatever way works best for you 
• Why you need to feel safe on the journey to healing
• Learning to feel her feelings on the recovery journey
• Getting herself to commit to using and implementing the tools
• The light bulb moment she got when she learned about the weight set point theory
• Finding out she could do whatever she wanted after limiting herself for most of her life
• How the course has transformed her life and relationships for the better 
• What she’d tell other women who are considering taking the journey of recovery
• Why the support of everyone in the FFM helps you conquer the struggle with food and body

Links:Adult Chair Podcast Episode 153 - Binge Eating With Jessi Jean

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

A lot of people are nervous about gaining weight during the quarantine. Over the past few weeks, there have been jokes and memes all over social media about the “quarantine 15”. Today Jessi dives into how to navigate weight gain and shifts during the quarantine and how to find peace in the midst of chaos. She shares her tips for putting success on autopilot with positive affirmations and why keeping structure to your day will help you during this time. She explores how to debunk your fears around weight gain and why you need to remember that your body is just your earth suit (and you’re SO much more than what you look like on the outside).

In this episode:

• How to cope with weight gain in an ever changing body
• How trying to create control makes us spiral out of control even more
• What Jessi does to feel safer,  grounded and more joyous throughout the days
• Keeping structure in your day with a morning routine
• Reminding yourself that you’re so much more than your body
• Committing yourself to get time outside to soak up a daily dose of vitamin D
• Debunking your fears around weight gain
• Accepting that your body is your earth suit and learning to be confident in your ever changing, aging self
• Taking control of your thoughts and overcoming the self-sabotaging thought cycles by replacing them with positive affirmations

Join me for The Food Freedom Breakthrough Masterclass. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again!

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

We have a very special episode today where Jessi brings in a Food Freedom Online Program client to unpack their journey from the very beginning; how her struggles with food & body started, what she tried in the past to heal & ultimately how she found food freedom. A true redemption story that we hope encourages every woman out there that may think they have to choose between mental freedom and body freedom. If you ever have wondered, can I pursue weight loss, fitness & aesthetic goals? Make sure to give this a listen! Similar to Amelia, you just have to bake your cake in the right order.

Links:

Sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!*

Ready to begin your journey to a peaceful relationship with food & confidence in your own skin? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program.

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to eating disorders, alcohol, drugs and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

Like so many people, Lisa’s struggles with food and her body started at a young age. She remembers growing up and how a well-intentioned comment caused her to begin the cycles of restricting food. In this episode, Jessi and Lisa discuss Lisa’s experience with navigating through this from late childhood, into her teen years, through college and beyond. They talk about how she fell into using drugs like Adderall to give herself more control over restricting food, her struggle with Anorexia and the cycles of binging and restricting. Lisa shares how her life and relationships were impacted by this and how she found Jessi and the FFM. She tells her experience of joining the course, how her body image has shifted and how her relationship with food and her body has changed for the better. 

In this episode:

• What prompted her struggles with food and body 
• Finding herself slowly gaining weight
• Starting the cycle of attempting to restrict her eating
• Realizing that food was way more than a physical sensation for her and feeling controlled by food
• Trying to find herself in college and dealing with an eating disorder
• Using Adderall to help herself restrict food
• The cycles of binging and restricting from food
• How connecting to faith helped her to get on a better path
• The reality of how what she was doing was affecting her health
• Knowing that something had to change 
• Not letting her husband in on her struggles
• How she found the FFM and her fears about joining
• The impact of the community aspect in the course
• What happened in her relationship with food after joining the FFM
• How her breakthroughs have come incrementally through the course
• Where Lisa sees herself going from here and how she feels about her body image
• Why she decided to commit to the Rise with Me Live event
• What mountain top living means to Lisa

Links:

**Update** We now offer something EVEN better then the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program.

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

If you’re listening to this episode, it might be because your loved one is suffering from issues with food and body. This episode is geared toward those who are trying to support someone in the midst of their recovery journey (or even someone who is considering taking the first steps). In this episode, Jessi shares what the struggle with food and body looks like, how our brain and neural pathways are affected by it and why it’s not an issue of willpower. She shares everything from how triggers can cause you to relapse, what the healing process will look like and how you can best support someone during their journey to healing.

In this episode:

• How the struggle with food and body works
• What the patterns of a struggle of food and body might look like 
• The inner dialogue that many people struggle with
• How triggers can cause you to relapse and how your brain stores things as coping mechanisms 
• Why it’s not a willpower issue and how the struggle is similar to any addiction such as addiction to alcohol, pornography, etc. 
• The high that comes from eating for binge eaters, overeaters or emotional eaters
• The mental energy that comes from making decisions with food
• What the FFM does to help women retrain their thinking and help them overcome their struggles with food and body
• What the healing process looks like
• How it takes time to find balance during recovery
• What you can do to best support someone in the process of healing
• Why comments from loved ones can be triggering during the recovery process (even well-intentioned ones)
• Learning to hold space and affirm loved ones for being emotional without the need to try to fix 
• A powerful question you can ask your loved ones when they’re opening up to you
• How Jessi and her team audit incoming FFM clients to make sure they’re a good fit and will get the support they need

Sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content: www.jessijean.com/VIP *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program.

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to eating disorders and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

Have you ever felt scared to eat? Maybe you weren’t sure if you were eating the right food or the right amount and that feeling brought on a lot of anxiety. Today Jessi was joined by a client of the FFM, Hanna, to talk about her journey of recovery. Hanna started recognizing her struggles with food and body at a very young age and found herself being very controlling about food choices to the point where she was scared to eat. In this episode, Jessi and Hanna talk about her struggles and how dealing with this has robbed her of so many joyous life experiences and moments. They talk about how Hanna found FFM, the breaking point where she knew something needed to change and her advice for someone who’s in the depths of a struggle with food and their body. 

In this episode:

• Her first memories about food and body and how this impacted her
• Becoming more controlling of her food as a young child
• Feeling guilty about eating junk food growing up
• Her first experience with learning about binge eating 
• Realizing that other people weren’t scared to eat like she was
• Her experiences with binging and purging
• Reflecting on what God wanted her to learn from her struggles
• Telling the people closest to her about her struggles with food and body
• How things got worse after finishing college
• The breaking point where she reached out for help after having her own children
• How she found the FFM and started working with Jessi
• What happened that rebuilt Hanna’s belief in being able to recover
• The relief she’s felt from being able to enjoy life fully 
• Her advice for someone in the depths of a struggle with food and body
• What her life looks like now and how things are different for her

Remember to sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content: www.jessijean.com/VIP *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Head to: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Right now there’s so much uncertainty and fear. It feels like everywhere we turn there’s more news about the Coronavirus and we don’t know what will happen next. As we all practice social distancing, many people are feeling uneasy about the current state of the world. In this episode, Jessi shares a few tips for how to stay sane during social distancing. She talks about using this time to slow down, rest, reflect and ultimately spend time with those in your immediate family. She makes suggestions for connecting with friends via video chats and getting your body moving. She also discusses why you should maintain a routine as much as possible even when working from home (and shares a thank you for all of the people who are working right now to help hold together our world). 

In this episode:

• How conscious breaths can help you to regulate your nervous system and get grounded
• A thank you for everyone holding together our world right now
• Releasing from trying to plan the future
• Enjoying the present moment
• Why you need to maintain a routine as much as you can
• Avoiding the news first thing in the morning and taking it in in small doses
• How our tendency for control can cause us to spiral out of control 
• Using this time to slow down, rest, reflect and spend time with family
• Making it a point to get connected with people
• Jessi’s tips for avoiding cabin fever
• Get outside and get some vitamin d
• Moving your body in whatever way makes you happy
• Allowing herself to move slower and not accomplish as much
• Feeling into your body and practicing coping difficult emotions without numbing out
• Getting aware of the things you think about on a daily basis and coming up with a replacement thought
• Why you should keep getting ready even if you’re working from home
• Journaling about what makes you feel safe and grounded
• Shifting your focus outward and helping those who need support
• Making your home a sanctuary 

Links:

Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to alcoholism, addiction, eating disorders and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

For so many people, struggles with food and body can start in the early years of life. In this episode, a FFM client named Elizabeth came on to discuss her struggles with food and body. She opens up about growing up around addiction and alcoholism and how this directly correlated with her eating disorder. She shares how her faith and relationship with God has helped her recovery but how she needed more support and found the FFM. Elizabeth and Jessi discuss the power of connection in the healing journey and how you can sometimes evolve mentally before behaviorally. The two talk about how Elizabeth discovered the FFM, her advice for someone who has a similar journey and expanding your perspective of what you want in life. 

In this episode:

• What Elizabeth’s struggles with food and body looked like
• Having a meltdown before her sister’s wedding and how this affected her
• The correlation of emotional trauma and how this exacerbated her eating disorder
• Losing her mom to alcoholism and having to be the strong person in her family
• How her faith has helped her in recovery and trauma
• How Elizabeth found Jessi and the FFM
• Why FFM resonated so heavily with Elizabeth
• Her experience with the program and finding a community of women
• The power of connection in your journey to healing
• How her relationship with food and her body has shifted since joining the program
• Evolving mentally before you evolve behaviorally
• Her intentions and why she’s working on changing her own self-identity
• What advice Elizabeth gives to someone who could relate to her story
• The fears she’s overcome since joining the FFM
• How the process of pursuing healing has changed her whole perception of life
• Focusing on gratitude to help dissipate anxiety 
• Expanding our perspective of what we want from our life 
• Her biggest piece of advice for other women

Links:

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Adult Chair Episode 153 - Binge Eating With Jessi Jean

Update** We now offer something EVEN better then the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Would you believe it if someone told you there was a dark side of chasing your dreams? As you begin to start stepping into confidence and going after what you desire most, you’ll lose people who just aren’t comfortable with seeing you grow and aren’t secure with stepping into their own dreams. After all, nobody in your life can meet you where they haven’t yet gone. In this episode, Jessi explains how paralyzing the fear can be that comes with chasing your dreams and wrestling with who you were and who you’re becoming. She shares why you should let failure be your friend, why you need to immerse yourself in the identity of a new reality and why you need to stop playing small to make other people feel comfortable.

In this episode:

• Stepping into the unknown and getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
• How dealing with insecurity is part of being human 
• The paralyzing anxiety of chasing your dreams
• Wrestling with who you were and who you’re becoming
• Visualizing what it would be like to already have what you desire
• Stepping into the belief that you’re worthy and capable of what you want
• Immersing yourself in the identity of a new reality
• Declaring your new identity to be the truth
• Realizing that you aren’t afraid of failure and making failure your friend
• How you’ll lose people as you step into confidence and start chasing your dreams
• Why you need to stop playing small to let others feel comfortable
• What you can expect from Rise With Me Live 2020
• Normalizing the feeling of pursuing big dreams

Links:

**Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to miscarriage, eating disorders and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

As you overcome the struggles you’ve had with food and your body you may have to start to process emotions and learn to feel feelings that you’ve never felt before. It’s hard, and it’s definitely scary. Today’s guest is someone who has dealt with that and she was astonished by the feelings and emotions that came up that she used to numb out. In this episode, I talk with FFM client, Vanessa. Vanessa’s struggles with food and her body came at a very young age and it was something she navigated throughout most of her life. In this episode, we talk about her devastating experience with miscarriage, how her relationship with food and her body has changed since joining FFM and the power in telling your story. 

In this episode:

• Where Vanessa was at with food and her body before finding FFM
• Navigating through her parent’s divorce and using binging to numb her pain
• The ups and downs of her food and body struggles 
• The tipping point where she realized she needed to make some changes
• How she stumbled across Jessi on Instagram
• The power in telling your own story 
• How her relationship with food changed when she came into the course
• Learning to feel and process emotions that she’d never felt before
• Having a whole new network of women to support her
• How her view on her body image has changed 
• Her experience of going through a miscarriage
• Giving yourself permission to grieve without numbing out
• What helped Vanessa get to the point where she liked her body
• The relationship and trust she’s cultivated with her body
• How her life has changed as a result of the relationship with her food and body changing
• Her advice for any woman going through a miscarriage
• Why it’s worth fighting for yourself

Links: Vanessa’s Instagram

Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

If you want to change your life, here’s a powerful secret to getting you started: a morning routine. That’s right, there is a huge night and day difference in what a morning routine can do for your entire life. It can completely transform the way you move throughout your entire day. In this episode, Jessi dives into why she started a morning routine after noticing how the successful people she looked up to had one they practiced daily. She talks about becoming a master of your energy and elevating your energetic capacity through your morning routine. She gives you a tour into what her morning routine looks like and how it can help you move through the way with more ease, peace and groundedness. Jessi also shares a new challenge that she’s created to help listeners start their own morning routine (and hold each other accountable) and she discusses her upcoming event, Rise With Me Live 2020. 

In this episode:

• How success leaves clues and noticing that people she looked up to had specific morning routines
• Her reservations for starting a morning routine
• The crazy benefits of a morning routine
• Starting the Rise With Me Live Morning Routine Challenge to hold herself accountable
• Why we all need accountability as humans
• The first step of her morning routine and why gentle movement helps to change your physical state
• The second steps of her morning routine and why she implements breathwork and meditation into her morning routine
• Focusing on a mantra when you’re meditating and letting go of your thoughts
• Why self-confidence is necessary to live the most fulfilling life possible 
• The third part of her morning routine of gratitude and affirmations
• Why affirmations need to feel authentic and genuine to have power in your life
• What affirmations Jessi shifted to when she was feeling insecure in her body
• Using future pacing to get clear on what you want to think, feel and behave
• Taking a few moments to honor your spirituality 
• Giving yourself the grace to standardize your morning routine before optimizing it

Links:

Update! We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge mentioned in this episode. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! www.jessijean.com/VIP

011 - My Morning Routine

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Today on the podcast Jessi was joined by her husband Hung. They shared the story of how they met and how their relationship developed. The two dive into how they started seeing a therapist at the beginning of their relationship and share a personal story about how their therapist saved their engagement from ending after a huge challenge they encountered. Jessi and Hung discuss diet culture, being intimate while on the journey to healing from food and body struggles and so much more! This episode is filled with great pieces of wisdom for couples dealing with food and body struggles who want to overcome it together as a team. 

In this episode:

• Jessi and Hung’s recollection of how they met
• How their dating relationship began
• What it was like dating and getting to know each other
• Why he ghosted her after she wasn’t sure if she wanted to date
• How they ended up making it official
• Why they decided to go to therapy at the beginning of their relationship
• Going through challenges during their engagement 
• How Hung felt as he saw her relationship with food and body evolve
• Why men want you to enjoy being intimate
• How Hung feels about exercise and diet culture
• His struggles with binging and overeating after competitions
• Sharing memories with your person and being in flow together
• How to be a supportive partner in someone’s journey to healing and growth
• How they’ve overcome communication barriers 
• The hardest thing they’ve ever been through as a couple
• Jessi’s past engagement before she met Hung 
• How their therapist helped them to overcome a big relationship challenge
• How Hung felt about his addiction 
• Choosing commitment and not expecting perfection out of each other
• Continuously working to build trust in their relationship
• Getting to a place where you feel comfortable with intimacy while going through these changes
• Why you shouldn’t withhold intimacy from your partner 
• Placing more intention in getting to know your partner on all levels
• Discussing each other’s insecurities 
• Their biggest piece of relationship advice 
• Their advice for other couples in interracial relationships
• A fire round of questions about their relationship

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You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Have you ever taken a photo with family or friends and after seeing it, immediately felt your heart drop? You beg for it to be deleted and to never see the light of day which causes you to want to hide out and not be captured in pictures. If this resonated with you at all, then today’s episode is for you. Jessi talks about the disservice in beating yourself up for how you look in photos or in the reflection or in the mirror. She shares tangible strategies for making peace with seeing your own reflection and why you need to put quality gasoline in your tank with positive self-respect and self-talk. 

In this episode:

• How it’s a disservice to your soul to beat yourself for how you look
• Tangible strategies to make peace with seeing yourself
• Knowing that you’re so much more than your image
• Stopping yourself from getting overly emotional 
• Putting quality gasoline in your tank with positive self-respect and self-talk
• Jessi’s challenge for listeners 
• Looking back on photos and practicing body neutrality
• Practicing being satisfied with who you are

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Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Are you feeling unmotivated & overwhelmed when it comes to exercise? Do you want to get back into an exercise schedule without slipping back into old toxic patterns? Or maybe you’re a brand new beginner looking to simply get started! On today’s episode, Jessi provides us with simple tips that we can implement this week to reignite a healthy relationship with movement. Remember, diet culture doesn’t own a game plan or fitness!

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to eating disorders, suicide and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

When you’re breaking free from the weight of emotions that you carry when struggling with food and body, it helps to have a supportive person there cheering you on. Today you’ll hear from Nat Weston. Ever since joining the FFM, Nat has been one of the most incredible cheerleaders for other women inside the group. In this episode, she opens up about her eating disorder and what breaking points she’s faced over the years. She and Jessi chat about how Nat found the FFM and decided to give it a try. She opens up about her transformation processes and the techniques that were most powerful for her healing journey. They talk about why community is one of the most important aspects of recovery and the freedom that she’s felt after being a part of the FFM for one year.

In this episode:

• How Nat began to struggle with an eating disorder as a child and teen
• What it felt like struggling with her eating disorder
• Having to open up in her relationship about her struggles with food and body
• Breaking points that she had throughout the years
• How Nat found the FFM and what resonated with her about it
• Navigating out of the hard emotions to pursue healing
• Getting reassurance from other people in the FFM
• How slowing down helped those food thoughts to disappear 
• What techniques and tools were most powerful for Nat in her transformation process
• How she started to find balance after joining the FFM
• How having a morning routine has helped her journey
• Why the community is such an important aspect in recovery
• Her reflections on the one year anniversary of joining the FFM
• The freedom she feels within herself and the weight of emotions she’s been set free from
• How she navigated through the fear of not feeling good in her own skin
• The support of her husband and how it’s helped her recovery journey
• What words of wisdom Nat would give her former self 

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036 - How To Be Confident When Your Body Doesn't Fit Thin Ideals with Ariel Doctoroff

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Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

If you’ve ever felt a fear of failure or felt stuck then this is the episode for you. Today Jessi explains how to overcome the fear of failure and what the fear of failure actually is. She dives into how to set up your beliefs, thoughts and behaviors to align with your goals and how to practice the art of surrendering. She shares how you can step into your new identity and learn to feel more emotions without the need for numbing out. You’ll also learn why failure is imperative for success and how to embrace more courage in your life.

In this episode:

• How Jessi’s relationship with her husband has taught her how to let go of things
• Setting up your beliefs, thoughts and behaviors to align with what she wants
• Releasing your attachment to the outcome 
• Practicing the art of surrender
• What the fear of failure actually means
• Mourning detachment from your old identity so you can step into your new identity
• Learning to feel more emotions without the need to check out
• Building yourself up from affirmations
• Why successful people don’t fear failure 
• Realizing that failure is a beautiful teacher and a fact of life
• Looking at the environments you’re putting yourself in that are driving you to take action out of fear
• Embracing more courage in your life
• Helping other people in your life to get into momentum
• Why they created the big sister program in the FFM
• Different groups that are within the FFM 

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039 - Elevate Your Energy From Self-Hate to Self-Confidence

Remember to sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content: www.jessijean.com/VIP *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to eating disorders, suicide and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

When you’re on your way to recovery from your struggles with food and body, you might find yourself wrestling with fears. In this episode, Jessi and her guest, Amanda Ownbey talk about leaning into fear and doing it scared. Amanda is a client in the FFM who has an amazing story about overcoming her eating disorder and what happened that made her realize it was time for some change. They talk about the importance of doctors during recovery, why you need support on your journey to recovery and what breakthroughs she’s made since joining the FFM. 

In this episode:

• What happened that caused Amanda to struggle with an eating disorder
• How her relationship with food and body escalated as she grew up
• The shame she felt and how this affected her struggle 
• How her eating disorder affected her health
• The moment that changed everything
• Why you need a doctor when you’re recovering
• How Amanda stumbled across Jessi and the FFM
• Knowing that she needed more support
• Learning to listen to your body 
• Feeling the fear and leaning into it 
• Applying the tools you’ve learned into your everyday life 
• Breakthrough moments that Amanda has had 
• Why the struggle of recovery is worth it 
• Amanda’s experience of falling back in love with herself and developing a relationship with herself
• Amanda’s vision for her life and what she wants to do
• Her advice for anyone struggling with food and body

Remember to sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content: www.jessijean.com/VIP *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!