This week, Beatriz Victoria Albina returns to Insatiable for part two of our conversation on ending emotional outsourcing — the habit of looking outside ourselves for validation, safety, and worth.

In this episode, we explore the practices that help you come back home to yourself: tuning into your needs, regulating your nervous system, returning to your body, and reclaiming your center.

It all begins with one simple but powerful question: What feels good right now?

Join us as we explore what it means to live from that place of connection and self-trust.

We discuss:

• How to reconnect with your biological impulses
• Functional freeze and how to feel your feelings (not think them)
• Why wellness is not about coffee enemas or random supplements
• The dangers of emotionally outsourcing to wellness professionals
• How we’re trained to prioritize productivity
• Somatic practice and praxis

More about our guest: Beatriz (Béa) Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP (she/her) is a UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, author of End Emotional Outsourcing: a Guide to Overcoming Codependent, Perfectionist and People Pleasing Habits and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping humans socialized as women to reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems and rewire their minds, so they can break free from codependency, perfectionism and people pleasing and reclaim their joy.

She is the host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, holds a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health and a BA in Latin American Studies from Oberlin College. Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Béa grew up in the great state of Rhode Island. She has been working in health & wellness for over 20 years and lives with her wife, Billey Albina and their handsome all-black cat Wade.

Connect with Béa:

• Website
• Book Website
• Instagram: @beatrizvictoriaalbinanp
• Podcast: Feminist Wellness
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Free Meditations

Today, I’m joined by Beatriz Victoria Albina for a conversation about the emotions that often hide beneath common gut issues—and why codependency isn’t the real problem (and boundaries aren’t the full solution).

We also dive into her new book, End Emotional Outsourcing: A Guide to Overcoming Codependent, Perfectionist, and People-Pleasing Habits, where Beatriz offers powerful reframes on parenting, community, and self-trust.

This episode feels like a deep exhale—a reminder that healing isn’t about fixing yourself, but coming home to yourself.

Join us for part one today, and come back next week for part two.

We discuss:

• Our backgrounds with functional medicine
• What it means to end emotional outsourcing
• Why codependency isn’t the problem and boundaries aren’t the answer
• How patriarchy undermines caring for each other and ourselves
• Why perfectionism isn’t an identity - it’s a habit
• Attachment styles and “good enough” parenting
• How to stop striving and actually relax
• Polyvagal theory for healthy skeptics
• Functional freeze and why we dissociate from joy
• Why people-pleasing isn’t a problem — it’s a protection strategy

More about our guest: Beatriz (Béa) Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP (she/her) is a UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, author of End Emotional Outsourcing: a Guide to Overcoming Codependent, Perfectionist and People Pleasing Habits and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping humans socialized as women to reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems and rewire their minds, so they can break free from codependency, perfectionism and people pleasing and reclaim their joy.

She is the host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, holds a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health and a BA in Latin American Studies from Oberlin College. Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Béa grew up in the great state of Rhode Island. She has been working in health & wellness for over 20 years and lives with her wife, Billey Albina and their handsome all-black cat Wade.

Connect with Béa:

• Website
• Book Website
• Instagram: @beatrizvictoriaalbinanp
• Podcast: Feminist Wellness
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Free Meditations

Body Stories is back — and we’re halfway through the journey.

Sas Petherick returns to share what she’s learning six months into her year-long holistic weight loss experiment. She opens up about how her relationship with food is evolving, what strength feels like in her body now, and how all of it is reshaping her work as a coach.

Together, we explore what it means to approach weight loss as an act of care — not punishment — especially in midlife, when everything from metabolism to motivation starts to shift.

If you’re tired of all-or-nothing thinking about your health, this one’s for you. And if you're ready to untangle your own food triggers, RSVP for my free workshop on September 3rd.

We discuss:

• The power of loving limits and keeping promises to yourself
• How diet culture, wellness influencers, and capitalism shape your body story
• What “complexity fitness” means — and why it matters for you to hold the nuance
• Why taking a break from Instagram can change how you see yourself
• Why a glucose monitor won’t give you all the answers
• Letting yourself be more high-maintenance

More about our guest: Sas Petherick believes that healing our self-doubt is one of the most important contributions we can make to ourselves, our families, our work, and the world.

Sas holds a Master's degree from Oxford, and her research on self-doubt was published in the International Journal of Coaching and Mentoring. She has developed an evidence-based, trauma-informed, ICF-accredited coaching methodology for cultivating self-belief.

For over a decade, Sas has coached with hundreds of women experiencing self-doubt in their professional and personal lives. Sas hosts the top 1% rated self-doubt podcast Courage & Spice which has enjoyed over half a million downloads. She is also an accomplished speaker and has developed coaching workshops and programmes for clients like BBC Worldwide and Pinterest. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines.

After 25 years in the UK, Sas currently lives by the beach in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, with her partner Ash and pooch Bohdi, imagining a post-capitalist world, exploring consciousness, and listening to obscure UFO podcasts.

Connect with Sas Petherick:

• Visits Sas’s website
• Follow Sas on Instagram
• Subscribe to Sas’s newsletter Courage & Spice

⭐️ Ready to catch yourself before you fall off track? RSVP for my free workshop on September 3rd.

Hospitals are the safest place to have your baby. Doctor’s are using evidence-based care. Right? Not exactly. In this episode, we get into the unreported side of birth so you know the full range of your choices from whether to be induced to understanding why what’s often the “normal”, standard of care might not be right for you.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• Belief versus evidence-based care around due dates, labor and pain management choices
• The 4 qualities of a satisfying birth experience for Mothers
• An important practice to ensure a confident transition into Motherhood

To join our Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

After giving birth, all the attention shifts to the baby. Yet Mothers have just gone through a rebirth themselves. Ayurveda says 40 days of care for 40 years of health are necessary for women post-childbirth. Kimberly Johnson shares with us how to cultivate a 4th trimester that sets a strong foundation for this new life phase.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Kimberly’s story about not having the 4th trimester she needed
• Why you need to design a 4th trimester and how willpower, self-sufficiency and resourcefulness aren’t enough to power through post-birth
• The five postpartum needs and when you can incorporate postpartum care into your life even if you’re past the postpartum period to cultivate resilience and thrive

To join our Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

Conventional nutrition guidelines and myths like “you can eat for two” influence how we eat in pregnancy. Layered on is managing weight gain fears and expectations. For those with a history of battling food, pregnancy can leave us overwhelmed with how to eat and enjoy this time.

In this episode, Ali will look at pre-natal nutrition and the psychology of pregnancy nutrition, including:

• How mainstream nutrition recommendations are outdated and how to find what works for your body amidst expectations that you are powerless over cravings, fatigue, and constipation
  
  
• Easy and simple dietary tweaks that will empower you to grow a healthy baby and feel great during your pregnancy
  
  
• Weight gain expectations and how to trust your body's own weight response to pregnancy

To join our Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

Rachelle Garcia Seliga takes us on a riveting ride of midwifery history and how understanding our physiology can facilitate an empowered birth experience, support our health from womb to tomb and birth the culture change we need to support maternal health. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• How the witch hunts —which targeted midwives—and racism have influenced how we understand gynecology and what’s “normal” for women’s reproductive care and birth
  
  
• The three physiologic requirements a woman has in labor and birth to feel empowered by her birth experience 
  
  
• The #1 need we have in labor, birth and postpartum to be able to lay the foundation for transforming our health and relationship to our bodies post-pregnancy

To join our Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

When trying to get pregnant, we can focus only on nutrition or what’s wrong with our body. And often, Western Medicine’s fertility metrics — whether discouraging or “normal”— aren’t the whole picture we need to pay attention to.

Dr. Joy, a naturopathic physician who helped Ali overcome her infertility diagnosis, shares with us:

• The difference between functional medicine and naturopathy when it comes to fertility and overall health (including a mindset shift to improve your fertility and the health of you and your baby).
  
  
• Common root causes that make conceiving and staying pregnant difficult even with normal fertility numbers because Western Medicine doesn’t know to test for these issues 
  
  
• How you can incorporate natural medicine and fertility assistance like IUI and IVF to maximize your fertility and the health of your baby
  
  

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A woman’s period is considered her fifth vital sign. The health of our period is an indicator of fertility and hormonal health, with our hormones influencing our weight and health. In this episode, women’s health pioneer Alisa Vitti shares with us:

• The science we need to know around our period so we can make informed, empowered choices about our fertility and health
• Why women in their fertile years need carbs and keto and intermittent fasting doesn’t work long-term.
• The energy shifts during our cycle to pay attention so you aren’t eating carbs to push through
  
  

To join our Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

Conception, navigating a healthy pregnancy, and childbirth can be an invitation into owning your self. Or as Dr. Brogan says, “not giving your power away”. In this episode we discuss:

• How Dr. Brogan’s pregnancy and two patient’s stillbirths following the flu shot were her awakening to taking back her mind, body and soul
• The A-plus life we miss out on when we bypass our pain
• Dr. Brogan’s two very different unmedicated births and how each of them were what she needed at that time
• The postpartum period, which is similar to the pre-menstrual and perimenopause/menopause phases, as powerful catalysts into self-actualization
  
  

To join our Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

We're on hiatus until the 18th of September, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 18th of September, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 18th of September, enjoy this podcast episode.

Today Elise Loehnen returns to Insatiable for a much-needed reminder that you don’t have to be good. And in fact, focusing on being “good” or “nice” might perpetuate your battle with food and leave you feeling deeply unfulfilled.

In this conversation, we unpack what it means to be whole, why it’s fine if some people don’t like you, and how to stop seeking external approval. We also tap into how the stories we tell about goodness impact our relationship to food and our body (including what the deepest layer of body image is really about).

Tune in for a huge permission slip to rest and replenish — even when you’d rather push through (and learn how this supports staying on track with your food). And stick around until the end for a great reframe for envy!

We discuss:

• How your desire to be “good” shows up in your daily life
• Ways to unhook from external validation
• The shadow & why it matters in midlife, health included
• Rejecting the “sin” of sloth & learning to rest
• MAHA and why it’s not selfish yet essential to tend to your inner life during political turmoil
• Envy as a GPS for your soul

More about our guest: Elise Loehnen Fissmer is a writer and editor living in Los Angeles with her husband, Rob, and their sons, Max and Sam. She is the host of *Pulling the Thread* where she interviews cultural luminaries on the big questions of the day. While she’s co-written 12 books, including five New York Times Best Sellers, her first book under her own name, *On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good* (Dial Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House), was also an instant New York Times bestseller. Previously, she was the chief content officer of goop, where she co-hosted The goop Podcast and The goop Lab on Netflix, and led the brand’s content strategy and programming, including the launch of a magazine with Condé Nast and a book imprint.

Connect with Elise:

• Preorder Elise’s new workbook Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness: A Process for Reclaiming Your Full Self
• Get Elise’s book On Our Best Behavior
• Listen to Elise’s podcast Pulling the Thread
• Follow Elise on Instagram @EliseLoehnen

Mentioned in this episode:

• Why Am I Eating This Now? — Get the free masterclass and earlybird pricing here
• Rethinking Food Guilt, Gluttony, and “Goodness” with Elise Loehnen
• Women’s Bodies, Envy, and Scarcity with Elise Loehnen (Part 2)

We're on hiatus until the 18th of September, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 18th of September, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 18th of September, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 18th of September, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 18th of September, enjoy this podcast episode.

We often think, “once work gets less crazy” or “once I get through this”, then I’ll get back on track with my eating and health. Stress, otherwise known as “real life” doesn’t have to make us fall off track with our food or goals. In this episode, Ali discusses:

• The root cause of stress and overwhelm
• The three-step patterns that make us fall off track with our goal and intentions.
• Optimal Conflict, the sweet spot where you don’t just stress less but live more by leveling up your results

To join our Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

Motivation is the key too consistency. Right? In this episode, Kelly Scott, founder of the Wellness Boulevard will share:

• When motivation backfires
• How motivation can lead to exercise intolerance
• Why we put in all this effort only to get no results, making us feel like it’s us, not being motivated in the wrong direction!
• How to motivate ourselves in a supportive way that gets the results are indeed, fully capable of achieving.

• We’ve inherited stories that contain low expectations around our bodies and selves. In this episode, Sas Petherick shares:
• How practically dying gave her more trust in her body
• How our unconscious stories make us think “this is who I am” and sabotages sustainable change
• The freedom, creativity, and results inherent when we rewrite our stories.

Most behavior change and self-help targets our brain and thoughts. Yet the ability to think clearly (instead of spiraling) and be in choice consistently rests largely on the state of our nervous system. Renowned Breathworker Ashley Neese shares with us:

• How breathwork can help us resolve the root cause of our hard-to-break habits
• How breathwork helps us be in choice around our emotions (and why this is more important than control)
• Simple, accessible ways to integrate breathwork into your life

To join our new Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

Consistency requires evolving based on the seasons, real-life interruptions or emerging dreams we have for ourselves. In today’s episode, 2 times NY Times Best Selling author Diane SanFilippo will share with us how evolving is her key to showing up consistently to achieving her health and life goals.

We’ll discuss: 1. How Diane’s nutrition and how she supports her community have changed, 2. how she deals with setbacks and disappointments so she keeps showing up and 3. the self-awareness surprises that have influenced Diane’s remarkable success

A few months ago, my exercise routine stopped working for me. I’d been focusing on strength training for years, but I just didn’t want to go to the gym anymore. I felt super apathetic.

At first, I chalked it up to bad sleep and low energy. But then I realized that some sneaky Menopause 101 messaging was actually holding me back from doing what felt right for my body.

In this episode, I take you behind-the-scenes on how I noticed I was falling off track and the method that helped me return to movement again.

Tune in to hear about:

• How to bridge the Knowing-But-Not-Doing gap
• My experience with Orange Theory as a cardio-skeptic
• How to find the triggers that get you off track
• Polarity lessons I’ve learned from HIIT classes
• The results I’ve noticed with my sleep, my energy, my mental health, and my weight since reintroducing cardio

Mentioned in this episode:

• Next Level by Dr. Stacy Sims
• Listen to Dr. Stacy Sims on Insatiable podcast
• Try a free Orange Theory class
• Get my free Masterclass: Untangle Your Food Triggers: Catch Yourself Before You Fall Off Track
• Learn about the Truce Coaching Certification
• Special thanks to Juliet for her expert guidance. Learn more or work with Juliet here.

Overeating and bingeing often happen when we don’t feel satisfied with just one piece of cake, feel heartbreakingly alone, and/or empty of meaning in our jobs. All of these feelings are tributaries back to one root cause: a sense of disconnection from ourselves.

In today’s episode, we’ll 1. Map how a lack of connection with ourselves is why we are inconsistent with our eating and self-care goals, 2. discover belonging, the deepest form of connection, as a skill set we can all learn and 3. how working with our dreams and rewriting our stories allows us to offer our gifts to the world, which is integral to belonging.

Willpower has become this catch-all, root cause of why we struggle with our nutrition, food, and weight loss goals. In today’s episode, we’ll 1. Expose how believing “I need more willpower” sabotages us, 2. illuminate how “moments of weakness”

We're on hiatus until the 5th of June, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 5th of June, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 5th of June, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 5th of June, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 5th of June, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 5th of June, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 5th of June, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 5th of June, enjoy this podcast episode.

Our Body Stories series is back with another installment of my friend Sas Petherick’s intentional weight loss journey.

We’re three months in now, and she’s discovering how her new routines are integrating into her daily life and reshaping her identity in the process.

Tune in to hear us unpack the emotional body, the power of habits, and how to actually stop treating food as an escape.

We discuss:

• Self-authoring and redefining what it means to “work out”
• How to cultivate self-compassion without resignation
• Ways that Sas is handling “bad days” without turning to food as an escape
• Rated of Perceived Exertion (RPE) & the reasons we underestimate our ability
• Why support from others is so important
• The Kardashians' new food product
• How much weight Sas has lost so far (stick around to the end for that!)

More about our guest: Sas Petherick believes that healing our self-doubt is one of the most important contributions we can make to ourselves, our families, our work, and the world.

Sas holds a Master's degree from Oxford, and her research on self-doubt was published in the International Journal of Coaching and Mentoring. She has developed an evidence-based, trauma-informed, ICF-accredited coaching methodology for cultivating self-belief.

For over a decade, Sas has coached with hundreds of women experiencing self-doubt in their professional and personal lives. Sas hosts the top 1% rated self-doubt podcast Courage & Spice which has enjoyed over half a million downloads. She is also an accomplished speaker and has developed coaching workshops and programmes for clients like BBC Worldwide and Pinterest. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines.

After 25 years in the UK, Sas currently lives by the beach in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, with her partner Ash and pooch Bohdi, imagining a post-capitalist world, exploring consciousness, and listening to obscure UFO podcasts.

Connect with Sas Petherick:

• Visits Sas’s website
• Follow Sas on Instagram
• Subscribe to Sas’s newsletter Courage & Spice

Mentioned in this episode:

• 291. How to Lose Weight AND Love Yourself (because you can do both!) with Sas Petherick [Body Series #1]
• 295. “We’re the Brave Ones” — Discipline vs Devotion, Macros & Being “Sporty” with Sas Petherick [Body Stories Series #2]

We're on hiatus until the 5th of June, enjoy this podcast episode.

There are many paths to become an intuitive eater. In this episode, Ali looks at the 10-step self-care Intuitive Eating framework offers, the gaps in Intuitive Eating because it doesn’t address the root cause of food and body image issues and how the goal of feeling in tune and satisfied from your food is often more triggering than restriction or bingeing!

To join our new Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

When does learning more about your health choices backfire? Whether it’s conflicting information or hearing things that sound too good to be true, learning more isn’t always helpful. In this episode, Ali’s client Sherri shares her path to separate marketing from health info, getting over the fear of missing out and how she found the most wellbeing in unsubscribing from most health sources to make room to hear herself.

Weight Watchers is trying to change their story from weight loss to wellness. Have they really changed? We'll welcome my former client Dr. Tina Boogren on to discuss the one change she did so that WW worked for her this time, why WW can support one person and sabotage another and how WW promotes snacking and zero point foods but you might want to not follow this for long-term success.

To join our new Insatiable community, visit https://alishapiro.com/IC2019

In today’s episode, Dr. Will Cole stops by to discuss the pros and limitations of keto, why he created the ketotarian approach, including how to start on the keto path based on where you are, travel and eating out hacks to get healthy fats, stress’s affect on our ketosis potential and when the keto diet can be a way of avoiding doing the emotional work around food.

Insatiable podcast host Ali Shapiro goes into her history with functional medicine and how it was both the catalyst for her radical healing and also the bridge to her leaving functional medicine behind!

The right health coach can be life-changing. However, depending upon where you are in your journey and with the varied education of health coaches, health coaching has lots of pros and cons. Courtney and Ali discuss when it makes sense to work with a health coach, the possibilities and limits of working with a health coach and how to choose the right health coach for you.

The elimination diet can be a useful tool or it can be a way to further restrict your eating. Jennifer Fugo stops by to discuss the pros and cons of the elimination diet, including how eliminating foods in and of itself doesn’t address the root causes of health challenges, whether or not you need expensive food allergy and sensitivity test and the foundational steps to do before you embark on an elimination diet.

We're on hiatus until the 13th of February, enjoy this podcast episode.

We're on hiatus until the 13th of February, enjoy this podcast episode.

Today we continue our Body Stories series with Sas Petherick!

She joined me on Insatiable last month (listen here!) to talk about her intentional weight loss journey. This week she returns so we can catch up on how things are going one month in.

Tune in as we explore public weight loss, before and after photos, psychological flexibility, how it feels to eat more calories, healing our childhood wounds around sports, and more.

And if you relate to anything in this episode, join me (Ali) for Your Emotional Eating Blueprint this spring! You can enroll or sign-up for a free sneak peek here: https://alishapiro.com/blueprint/

We discuss:

• Why we shouldn’t judge a celebrity (or anyone) who loses weight
• How it feels to be bombarded by before & after photos
• Rejecting weight loss as a “hero’s journey”
• Discipline vs devotion & the myth of consistency
• Where Sas is going for support with eating, food & workouts
• How Sas felt when her trainer suggested she eat more calories per day
• Learning about macros & how they impact satiation
• The stories we have around sports & who’s “sporty”
• What’s shifting for Sas around movement & being active

More about our guest: Sas Petherick believes that healing our self-doubt is one of the most important contributions we can make to ourselves, our families, our work, and the world.

Sas holds a Master's degree from Oxford, and her research on self-doubt was published in the International Journal of Coaching and Mentoring. She has developed an evidence-based, trauma-informed, ICF-accredited coaching methodology for cultivating self-belief.

For over a decade, Sas has coached with hundreds of women experiencing self-doubt in their professional and personal lives. Sas hosts the top 1% rated self-doubt podcast Courage & Spice which has enjoyed over half a million downloads. She is also an accomplished speaker and has developed coaching workshops and programmes for clients like BBC Worldwide and Pinterest. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines.

After 25 years in the UK, Sas currently lives by the beach in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, with her partner Ash and pooch Bohdi, imagining a post-capitalist world, exploring consciousness, and listening to obscure UFO podcasts.

Connect with Sas Petherick:

• Visits Sas’s website
• Follow Sas on Instagram
• Subscribe to Sas’s newsletter Courage & Spice

Mentioned in this episode:

• 291. How to Lose Weight AND Love Yourself (because you can do both!) with Sas Petherick
• 269. Let’s Get Triggered: Oprah, Ozempic, and Our Outrage
• Registration for Your Emotional Eating Blueprint is now open. You can enroll or sign-up for a free sneak peek here: https://alishapiro.com/blueprint/

We're on hiatus until the 13th of February, enjoy this podcast interview I was on.

We're on hiatus until the 13th of February, enjoy this podcast interview I was on.

We're on hiatus until the 13th of February, enjoy this podcast interview I was on.