Explore every episode of the podcast It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching

You never see a 50-year-old tradwife on Instagram. Ask yourself why.

Pediatrician Dr. Whitney Casares grew up in a conservative family where a woman's role was to find a man, keep a man, and stay small enough to keep him.

In this conversation we connect tradwife culture to diet culture, and both to the body shame mothers hand to their daughters, often without saying a word.

Then I ask her the hardest question I had: how her own medical association went from "don't talk about weight" to recommending GLP-1s for 12-year-olds.

What you'll learn

• How tradwife culture and diet culture keep women small in the same way
• How body shame gets passed from one generation to the next
• What happens to kids' bodies in puberty, from a practicing pediatrician
• Why the AAP's 2023 guidance on GLP-1s and surgery is so contested
• How to handle a weight conversation at your child's pediatrician

Mentioned in the show:

Raising Body-Confident Kids by Dr. Whitney Casares: https://www.raisingbodyconfidentkids.com/books

Free pediatric visit guide and resources: raisingbodyconfidentkids.com

Whitney's free body talk guide: https://calm-tree-605.myflodesk.com/bodytalk

Whitney on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/modernmommydoc

Whitney on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/modernmommydoc

Confident, my program on body acceptance: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

If you restrict all week and crash on the weekend, look at how you work before a deadline.

My guest Sabrina Magnan healed her relationship with food. Then the same pattern followed her into her business. Overwork, launch, burn out, feel the shame, try harder.

We talk about why this isn't a discipline problem, and what changes when you stop trying to fix yourself and start learning to feel.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why the belief driving restriction is often the same belief driving overwork
• The difference between survival energy and regulated energy behind your choices
• How internal family systems explains protective behaviors like overeating and perfectionism
• What it means to feel an emotion in your body, and how that capacity grows
• How small, doable actions build internal safety and make behavior change possible

Mentioned in the show:

Sabrina's website: http://sabrinamagnan.com

Food Freedom Academy: https://sabrinamagnan.com/ffa

Sabrina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sabrina.magnan.health

Sabrina on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabrina.magnan.health

Live Unrestricted podcast (Sabrina's show): https://open.spotify.com/show/1rGqpkqxaM72vpt5fRJ9DI

Confident: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

You were told to lose weight and cut carbs. What if neither one is the treatment for type 2 diabetes?

I was diagnosed with prediabetes at 38, right after my last diet. Today I don't have diabetes, and I'm in a bigger body than I was then.

So I brought every type 2 diabetes myth I've heard in 10 years of coaching to Kristie Messerli, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes care and education specialist who works weight-neutral.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What type 2 diabetes actually is, and why it starts years before the diagnosis
• Why sugar and body size are not the causes you were told they were
• How weight cycling affects insulin resistance over time
• Why cutting carbs can backfire, and what to do instead
• The difference between reversal and remission, and why medication is not a moral failure

Mentioned in the show:

Kristie's website: https://dietitiankristie.com/

Kristie on Instagram (@type2diabetes.nutritionist): https://www.instagram.com/type2diabetes.nutritionist/

Kristie's podcast, Simplifying Diabetes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/simplifying-diabetes/id1895055236

Confident, my program on body acceptance and the confidence that grows from it: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Your child was born trusting their body. Somewhere between the high chair and kindergarten, the adults around them start teaching them not to.

Registered dietitian and mom of three Kerry Miller joins me to talk about body trust in kids. She is the author of Violet Learns to Pause, a picture book about listening to your body.

Kerry spent years working with women who traced their struggles with food back to childhood. A parent on a diet. A doctor's comment. A relative watching them go for seconds.

We talk about what to say at the dinner table, what to say about bodies, and what to say about GLP-1s.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What interoception is and why it is the foundation of body trust
• Why picky eating can take 20 to 30 exposures to shift, and how to stay pressure-free
• What to say when your child asks "Do I look pretty?"
• How to respond when another kid calls your child fat
• How to talk to your kids about GLP-1s, including if you take one

Mentioned in the show:

Violet Learns to Pause on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/106787870X

Kerry's website: https://violetlearns.com/

Companion resources for families: https://families.violetlearns.com/

Kerry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kerry.millerrd

Join the Confident waitlist: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

You can't learn to trust your hunger while taking a drug designed to switch it off.

Elyse Resch co-created Intuitive Eating. She has 44 years of practice in eating disorders and disordered eating, and she is updating the fifth edition of the book right now.

In this conversation, we talk about what GLP-1s at weight loss doses do to hunger, appetite, and pleasure. We talk about what happens when the drug stops. And we take on food addiction, teens, and neurodivergence.

What you'll learn:

• Why GLP-1s for intentional weight loss and intuitive eating pull in opposite directions
• What happens to hunger and fullness signals after stopping the drug
• Why Elyse rejects the idea of food addiction, and what the studies leave out
• How to help teens resist diet culture without banning everything
• Why neurodivergence doesn't rule anyone out of intuitive eating

Mentioned in the show:

Confident 5-Week Body Acceptance Challenge: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Elyse Resch: https://elyseresch.com/EResch/

Intué, the official Intuitive Eating app: https://www.intue.app/

Informed consent for GLP-1 (free PDF): https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/glp1/

Elyse on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elyseresch/

Elyse on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elyse.resch

The GLP-1 isn't what puts your muscle at risk. Not eating enough is.

Registered dietitian Aoife McMahon has worked in weight-loss clinics, bariatric surgery, and weight-loss drug prescribing. Today she practices from a weight-inclusive lens, with a background in eating disorders.

In this episode of the Beyond GLP-1 series, we talk about sarcopenia, bariatric surgery, and why so many of the answers people are looking for don't exist yet.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What sarcopenia is, and why muscle mass and muscle function are two different things
• How appetite suppression can quietly lead to undernourishment and muscle loss
• Why "I lost weight and I could move better" doesn't tell the whole story
• What the research does and doesn't say about weightlifting as protection
• Why eating disorder screening and informed consent are missing from most GLP-1 prescribing

Mentioned in the show:

CONFIDENT 5-week Body Acceptance Challenge: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/confident

Aoife on Instagram - That Irish Dietitian: https://www.instagram.com/thatirishdietitian

Inside Bariatrics podcast (Aoife's show): https://open.spotify.com/show/033nYDCJmhWHC3zZ8Uh3H7?si=46ed876255a14e04

Aoife's professional training: https://centreforliberatingnutrition.com/for-professionals/

You do not need to eat perfectly to be healthy, and one snack will not undo you.

I just spent five months living out of a quarter of a fridge. Coming home to my own pantry nearly knocked me over.

Eight garbage bags later, I finally understood what gentle nutrition actually is, and what it is not.

This classic episode breaks down Evelyn Tribole's definition of gentle nutrition, why intuitive eating is a process and not an endpoint, and why food and exercise only account for 15% of your health.

What you'll learn:

• What gentle nutrition actually means, straight from the woman who coined the term
• Why wellness culture sells the same fraud as diet culture, just with a healthier label
• The real reason obsessing over nutrition rarely makes you healthier
• How to tell the difference between gentle nutrition and healthism
• Why intuitive eating is a process, and gentle nutrition is where it leads

Mentioned in the show:

Confident - Join the waitlist: https://stephaniedodier.com/confident

Your doctor said lose weight. Science never actually proved that was the fix.

This is the episode I keep sending new listeners to, and now I am sending it to you.

I walk through the real research on weight, health, and control, and the six things that actually move your health forward without a diet in sight.

What you'll learn:

• Why no disease exists exclusively in higher weight bodies
• The history of the BMI index and who it was actually built for
• What the World Health Organization says health really is
• The one question to ask your doctor when weight comes up
• Six things you can do for your health that have nothing to do with the scale

Mentioned in the show:

Confident: https://stephaniedodier.com/confident

Everyone is making less money right now, and almost nobody is saying it out loud.

Hilary Kinavey has been doing weight-neutral work for twenty-five years. Right now, she is making less money. So am I.

In this conversation we name the shame underneath that, and the grief of watching the anti-diet movement lose ground to GLP-1 marketing.

Then we get practical. How to market without betraying your values. Why your email list is the one asset that actually belongs to you. What a lifestyle business looks like when you build it on purpose.

What you'll learn:

• Why weight-neutral clinicians are making less money right now, and what to do with the shame that comes with it
• How to market ethically in a landscape built on false promises
• Why personal branding is outperforming clinical content right now
• What a lifestyle business is, and how to build one that supports your life instead of consuming it
• What Hilary's Ember program is, and who it is for

Mentioned in the show:

Episode 227 with Dana Sturtevant, Center for Body Trust (2020). https://stephaniedodier.com/episodes/227-healthism-the-desire-to-be-healthy-gone-wrong-with-dana-sturtevant/

Hilary Kinavey website: hilarykinavey.com

Hilary Kinavey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilarykin

Hilary Kinavey on Facebook: facebook.com/people/Hilary-Kinavey/100000200748021

Center for Body Trust: https://centerforbodytrust.com/

Center for Body Trust on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/center4bodytrust

Ember, Hilary's business container for clinicians. www.hilarykinavey.com/ember

Beyond GLP-1 series: program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Non-Diet Coaching Certification: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Most women who call themselves a binge eater are just eating normally after years of restricting.

Dr. Sarah Cooke was an NHS doctor for twelve years before a Crohn's diagnosis sent her down a completely different path.

Now she works exclusively with women untangling binge eating, emotional eating, and the belief that they have no off switch with food.

In this conversation we get specific about what actually separates binge eating from overeating from normal eating, why the “no off switch” feeling almost always traces back to restriction, and what the emerging research on GLP-1 for binge eating is actually showing.

What you'll learn:

• The real difference between binge eating, overeating, and normal eating
• Where the “no off switch” feeling actually comes from
• Why food noise is so hard to research, and what it actually is
• Sarah's clinical take on GLP-1 medications for binge eating specifically
• How to tell if occasional emotional eating is a problem or just being human

Mentioned in the show:

Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions

NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Connect with our guest:

• Dr. Sarah Cooke's Instagram: instagram.com/drscnutrition
• Dr. Sarah Cooke's Facebook: facebook.com/drscnutrition
• Dr. Sarah Cooke's Free 7-Step Guide: sarahcookenutrition.lpages.co/entry-offer-lead-magnet-7-steps-registration-page
• Dr. Sarah Cooke's Podcast: When Food Feels Hard: https://open.spotify.com/show/66AUrj0RUROUykrwOKPQD9

You can look at another woman's body and see nothing but beauty. Look at your own, and the story changes completely.

That gap has a name and a research base behind it. In this episode I teach the psychology of body acceptance in two parts: why the gap exists, and what actually moves you through it once you're ready to close it.

What you'll learn:

• The psychological theory that explains why women learn to see their bodies as objects before they see themselves as people
• Why body positivity keeps women in the same trap as body hatred, and what body neutrality does differently
• The real reason resistance shows up once you've decided to change your relationship to your body
• A three-step process, compassionate self-leadership, internal safety, and self-consent, to build the self-trust that makes lasting change possible

Mentioned in the show:

Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions

NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1



Most people who start a GLP-1 will stop taking it eventually.

When they do, the weight comes back. Often fast.

This episode is for anyone coaching a client through that moment, GLP-1 or not.

In this episode you will learn

• The six reframes to hold before coaching anyone through weight regain
• How to acknowledge thin privilege without making it about you
• The exact questions to ask when a client wants to quit over weight gain
• Why solving weight gain does not mean losing weight
• What Stephanie predicts for the industry starting in 2027

Mentioned in the show:

Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions

NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

GLP-1 clients are already in your practice. The question is whether you have a clinical framework for what comes next.

After the Beyond GLP-1 series and months of supervision conversations with my mentoring students, I compiled the list that keeps getting longer: 15 clinical considerations every non-diet practitioner needs when working with clients who are on GLP-1, thinking about it, or coming off it.

This is not a position statement. It is a framework built from what I am seeing in the field right now.

What you will learn:

• How GLP-1 disrupts hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues — and how to coach each one
• Why the food noise that goes quiet on GLP-1 comes back with a vengeance when the medication stops
• Why body image work is non-negotiable and why I am predicting a body image crisis in 2027
• The bridge analogy and the one coaching question that opens everything
• Why group coaching is the wrong container for this work
• What post-GLP-1 coaching actually looks like, including the first six weeks
• My answer to the episode question: yes, but

Mentioned in the show:

Thursday Sessions- Free training (Until Sept 2, 2026) - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/thursday-sessions

NDCC - Registration - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Intake assessment Forms - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Beyond GLP-1 series - https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

The Thursday Sessions are a series of conversations on the underpinning of why we, as women, keep going back to wanting to shrink our bodies as the thing that finally lets us have the life we want. 

Moving forward together, stronger, in a non-diet approach to health, at the peak of the medicated weight loss era.

👉 Details and Registration

Confidence is not a personality trait you either have or don't.

That is the conversation in this episode. Denise Wogan, a psychotherapist and Non-Diet Coaching Certification graduate, joins me four years after we worked together on the exact thing she was too scared to build: her own business.

She has since done her first national TV interview, finished a psychotherapy degree, and started building a bricks and mortar clinic in Ireland. We talk about what actually changed.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why confidence is created, not inherited
• The difference between fake confidence and the quiet, unshakable kind
• What self-trust actually feels like in the body
• Why anxiety is a messenger, not an enemy
• How eating became one woman's practice ground for trusting herself everywhere else

Denise Wogan on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/denisewogan_wellbeing

Coach Corner Vault - https://stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool - https://stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist - https://stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist - https://stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Right as weight-inclusive medicine started gaining real ground, GLP-1 walked in and put BMI back at the center of the conversation.

Dr. Lesley Williams has spent the last several years practicing weight-inclusive medicine inside a system built around this class of drugs.

She is not on a side. She is in the room, every day, holding both a weight-neutral framework and a patient who wants a prescription.

This conversation goes into what that actually looks like in practice.

• Why the rise of GLP-1 felt like a step backwards for weight-inclusive medicine, even to a practitioner who believes in it
• The shared decision-making framework she uses before ever discussing medication
• Why rapport has to outrank advocacy if a practitioner wants to stay in the room long term
• What she is already seeing: early adopters starting to come off the medication
• Where she believes weight-inclusive care is headed over the next five to ten years

Mentioned in the show:

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Dr. Lesley Williams website: http://www.lesleywilliamsmd.com

Dr. Lesley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrLesleyW/

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

PCOS has a new name, and the internet has a lot of opinions about why.

It's called PMOS now. Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. Returning guest Julie Duffy Dillon joins me to break down what changed, what didn't, and what the research actually shows about GLP-1 medications and PCOS beyond weight loss.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why PCOS was renamed PMOS after more than a decade of research
• What the name change does and doesn't change about your care
• What the research shows about GLP-1s and PCOS insulin resistance, triglycerides, and androgens
• Why insurance mostly covers the wrong dose, and who that leaves behind
• What to do when your provider starts talking about your weight again

Mentioned in the show:

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Julie's Substack: https://findyourfoodvoice.substack.com/

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

We have a body autonomy problem and a body liberation problem, and they are not the same thing.

Abbie Attwood joins me to talk about the conversation everyone is having badly right now. Celebrities, GLP-1s, and what it actually means to comment, or not comment, on someone else's body.

• Why body autonomy and body liberation are not the same conversation
• What it means to critique a culture without critiquing a person
• Why transparency about GLP-1 use does not erase the impact of the message
• How neurodivergence and chronic illness shape vulnerability to diet culture
• What informed consent actually requires in the GLP-1 conversation

Mentioned in the show:

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Abbie's Substack: abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com

Abbie on Instagram: instagram.com/abbieattwoodwellness

Full Plate Podcast (Abbie's podcast)

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Food noise isn't a diagnosis. It's not a brain disorder. It might be the most cleverly marketed word for something that's been happening to diet-culture survivors for decades.

Dr. Erin Knopf is triple-board certified in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, and she specializes in eating disorders. In this episode of the Beyond GLP-1 series, she breaks down what food noise actually is in the brain, what GLP-1 medications do to it, and why silencing it with an injection is not the same as healing it.

What you'll learn:

• The clinical definition of food noise — and why it's really hunger shaped by restriction and shame
• What GLP-1s actually do in the brain to quiet food preoccupation (and what that doesn't solve)
• Why there are only two published papers on food noise and no validated tool to measure it
• What 'body noise' is and how it shows up differently from food noise
• Why Dr. Knopf is deeply concerned about GLP-1 use in children and adolescents

Mentioned in the show:

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Dr. Erin Knopf's Food Noise Reality Roadmap: https://foodnoiserealityroadmap.com/

VERY | Virtual Eating Recovery: https://very.health

Dr. Knopf on Instagram: @drerinknopf

Research: Food noise — concept and measurement (Nature, 2025): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41387-025-00382-x

Research: Food cue reactivity framework (PMC, 2023): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10674813/

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Nobody screens you for disordered eating before prescribing a GLP-1. That is not an accident. It is a gap in the entire informed consent process, and it is the subject of this conversation.

I talk with Dr. Michelle Tubman, an emergency physician, about what informed consent for GLP-1 medications should actually include and rarely does.

In this episode you will learn:

• What Michelle sees in the emergency room after patients start GLP-1 medications
• Why most people never connect their symptoms back to the medication
• What the two-year Ozempic study actually found about weight regain
• Why disordered eating screening is not required before a GLP-1 prescription
• What true informed consent would require, modeled on how oncologists handle chemotherapy

Mentioned in the show:

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Dr. Michelle Tubman Community: http://enough.wayzhealth.com

Dr. Michelle Tubman on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wayzahealth/

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

GLP-1 medications are changing how people experience food. What no one is telling you is they may also be changing how people experience everything else.

In this episode I sit down with Olivia Palmer, chartered health psychologist and behavioral science specialist, to look at what these drugs are actually doing to the brain. Not the metabolic picture — the psychological one. We get into anhedonia, the flattening of the reward system, and what happens when the drive that was dampened for food also dampens motivation, connection, and the desire to pursue a meaningful life.

Olivia also challenges one of the most common arguments circulating right now: that GLP-1 can serve as a behavioral kickstart that makes lasting health change easier. Her read of the behavioral science says otherwise.

In this episode:

• What anhedonia is and how GLP-1 interacts with the brain's reward circuitry
• Why the reward dampening effect is not selective to food
• What behavioral science says about building health behaviors while biology is altered
• The gap in research — and why no one is asking the right questions
• What to actually focus on for sustainable health behavior change, with or without GLP-1

Mentioned in the show:

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Website-Olivia Palmer: http://oliviapalmer.co.uk

Olivia Palmer Substack: https://substack.com/@oliviapalmerhealth

Instagram - Olivia Palmer: https://www.instagram.com/oliviapalmerhealth/

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

The Ozempic era did not create weight stigma. It just showed us how shallow the acceptance always was.

Dr. Angela Meadows is a social psychologist, weight stigma researcher, and founder of the International Weight Stigma Conference. She has spent her career studying how weight stigma operates at the individual, relational, and systemic level. In this conversation, she brings her research lens directly to the GLP-1 moment.

This is the conversation mainstream health is not having.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Social identity theory — why the GLP-1 era exposed what body positivity was always missing
• What weight stigma actually is at the structural level, and why interpersonal niceness cannot fix a systemic problem
• The public health data on GLP-1 that is buried in supplementary materials and not being read
• How medicalized weight stigma is shifting — and why refusing GLP-1 is becoming its own form of clinical target
• Whether it is possible to live in this culture and not internalize weight stigma, and what intentional protection requires

Mentioned in the show:

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

International Weight Stigma Conference: https://weightstigmaconference.com/

GLP-1 Informed Consent Resource — Size Inclusive Medicine: https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MSSI-GLP1-Informed-Consent-1-1.pdf

Related episode — Beyond GLP-1 with Ragen Chastain: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/episodes/glp-1-science-research-weight-loss/

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

GLP-1 medications are being prescribed with no eating disorder screening and no monitoring. What could go wrong? According to eating disorder specialist and registered dietitian Marci Evans, quite a lot.

Marci has spent her career at the intersection of body image and eating disorder care. In this conversation, she shares what she is actually seeing in her clinical practice and why it frightens her.

What you will learn in this episode:

• Why weight loss does not reliably improve body image, even for people who want it
• How GLP-1 medications can fuel and accelerate existing eating disorder behaviors
• Why there is almost no research on GLP-1 and body image, and what that tells us
• What the absence of screening and monitoring means for eating disorder risk
• How weight-neutral practitioners can hold space for clients on GLP-1 without abandoning their clinical ethics

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Marci Evans Newsletter on her website: https://marcird.com/

Marci Evans on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcird/

Research — GLP-1 and body image: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40267815/

Research — GLP-1 and binge eating disorder: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11156433/

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

The science on GLP-1 drugs is not what the marketing says it is.

Ragen Chastain has been studying weight science, weight stigma, and healthcare practice for over 20 years. In this episode, she gives us the clearest breakdown yet of what the research actually supports — as of May 2026 — and how to tell the difference between evidence and pharmaceutical strategy.

This is part of the Beyond GLP-1 expert interview series on It's Beyond The Food.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why GLP-1 drugs are solid for type 2 diabetes but how the weight loss dose is a fundamentally different use
• What the weight regain data actually shows — including what happens while people are still on the drug
• How secondary use claims get built and why the cardiovascular trial results apply to far fewer people than the approval suggests
• What the death data shows — and why Novo Nordisk was cited for under-reporting serious adverse events
• Specific questions to ask your provider before starting a GLP-1 medication — and how to ask for weight-inclusive care

Mentioned in the show:

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Ragen Chastain's Weight and Healthcare Substack: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/

Dances With Fat: https://danceswithfat.org/

Ragen's speaking website — Sized for Success: https://www.sizedforsuccess.com/

Dr. Rachel Fox's anti-obesity assemblage dissertation: https://www.rachelefox.com/research.html

GLP-1 Informed Consent (Medical Students for Size Inclusivity, 2023): https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MSSI-GLP1-Informed-Consent-1-1.pdf

Louise Adams on GLP-1 — listen to the earlier episode in the Beyond GLP-1 series: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/468-beyond-glp-1-a-triumph-of-marketing-over/id1172102796?i=1000766587046

GLP-1s did not just change medicine. They changed a movement.

Virgie Tovar is a weight stigma expert, activist, and journalist who has been watching this unfold from a perspective most voices in this conversation don't have. In this episode, she traces exactly what happened to body positivity and fat activism when Ozempic entered the room, and she does not soften the analysis.

In this episode:

• The real difference between body positivity and fat activism, and why that distinction has never mattered more
• How body autonomy became a political shield for choices that carry collective consequences
• What "lab coat washing" means, and how GLP-1 marketing uses it to disguise a financial machine as a health intervention
• Why GLP-1s work through starvation states, and what that does to desire, mood, and the capacity to resist
• The intergenerational fallout Stephanie is already seeing coming in the next wave of clients

Mentioned in the show:

Beyond GLP-1 Expert Podcast Series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Virgie Tovar's Substack: http://virgietovar.substack.com

Virgie Tovar's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/virgietovar

Virgie Tovar's GLP-1 Truth Serum Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1t00VeiyyzD7ITDxjDzGnC

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

The reason the non-diet approach didn't work isn't the approach. It's that the work stayed too surface level.

Most weight-neutral health coaching teaches behaviors. It doesn't touch identity. And without identity work — without building the version of yourself you are becoming — the old patterns always come back. This episode is about the piece that's been missing.

What you'll learn:

• What future self work actually is and why it's grounded in behavioral science, not manifesting
• The two phases of future self work — unintentional model first, future self construction second
• Why the future self feels like a stranger and what neuroscience says about why
• The specific socialization patterns that make this work harder for women
• The daily question to use in micro-decisions to start aligning with who you are becoming

Mentioned in the show:

The Groundwork: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

The Stranger Effect study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2656877

Connecting to our future self & behavior change study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666518223000323

Beyond GLP-1 expert interview series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Free Non-Diet Coaching Assessment: stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Your clients are going to bring GLP-1 into the room whether you are ready or not. The only question is whether you have a clinical framework for it.

In this episode, I sit down with Sam Previt — registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and founder of Find Food Freedom, the largest intuitive eating dietitian practice in the US — for the conversation our field has been avoiding.

We go through what this intersection actually looks like clinically: how GLP-1 affects hunger, fullness, satisfaction, food noise, and body image — and what weight-neutral coaching looks like inside all of it. Sam's team is already seeing the first wave of clients coming off these medications. The work you do with clients now determines what happens when they do.

What you will learn:

• Why turning away a client on GLP-1 who wants intuitive eating support may be unethical
• How GLP-1 disrupts interoception and what that means for eating cue coaching
• Why food noise on GLP-1 is a muted symptom — not a solved problem
• What body image work looks like with a client still pursuing intentional weight loss
• The beach ball effect: what happens when clients come off without having done the belief work
• How to prepare clients for life after GLP-1 before they ever make that transition

Mentioned in the show:

Sam Previte: Find Food Freedom:https://find-foodfreedom.com/about/

Episode on Sam's podcast that sparked this conversation (February 2025): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-you-take-a-glp-1-on-an-intuitive-eating-journey/id1561021438?i=1000751327153

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

What if your client wants to lose weight—but you don’t coach weight loss?

In this episode, I’m giving you the exact tools and mindset shifts to navigate that moment with confidence and compassion.

You’ll learn how to coach through the desire to lose weight—without gaslighting your client or abandoning your non-diet values.

We’ll explore where this desire comes from and how to respond in a way that builds trust and drives real behavior change.

You’ll learn:

• Why the desire to lose weight is a thought—not a fact
• How to uncover what’s really behind your client’s weight loss goals
• The truth about “putting weight loss on the back burner”
• What to say when a client says, “But I need to lose weight”
• Why intrinsic motivators create lasting health changes
• The one question that changed my life—and how it can shift your client’s journey too
• A free script you can use in your next client session

Mentioned in the show:

1. In a study of midlife women, those exercising for weight loss walked 2.5x less than those motivated by stress relief or energy (Segar et al., 2006). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21884579/

2 People who exercised for well-being reasons (e.g., better mood) stuck with it 1 year later.

Those who exercised for appearance or weight loss reasons did not maintain the habit. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30314419/

The Groundwork: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Guide - What to Say When Clients Want to Lose Weight: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/guide

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop/

Work With Me: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/work-with-stephanie/

The drugs have been sold as a miracle. The science has been quietly shaped by the companies profiting from them. And the deaths are not yet being called a scandal.

Clinical psychologist Louise Adams co-authored a paper that has already been read more than 7,500 times in its first ten days. She joins me to trace the three-pronged pharmaceutical marketing strategy behind GLP-1 drugs, follow the money through conflict-of-interest research, celebrity spokespeople, and government lobbying, and tell us what real informed consent would actually require.

In this episode you will learn:

• The 2015 Novo Nordisk marketing roadmap that predicted everything we are living through now
• Why many obesity researchers are now functioning as pharmaceutical sales representatives
• What weight cycling is and why it is missing from the GLP-1 conversation
• What a health professional's informed consent process should look like
• Why Louise is cautiously optimistic that GLP-1 research will inadvertently strengthen the case for weight inclusive medicine in the next decadE

Mentioned in the show:

Listen to the entire Beyond GLP-1 podcast series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Louise Adams' paper: GLP-1 medication for weight loss, a triumph of marketing over patient care -- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21604851.2026.2646492

Louise Adams -- meet Louise and her work: https://untrapped.com.au/meet-louise/

Louise Adams' newsletter and podcast All Fired Up: untrapped.com.au

Ragen Chastain's Weight and Healthcare Substack: weightandhealthcare.substack.com

AWIM GLP-1 Informed Consent document: https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MSSI-GLP1-Informed-Consent-1-1.pdf

HAES Health Sheets: https://haeshealthsheets.com/

Non-Diet Coaching Assessment Tool: stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

The Groundwork waitlist: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Binary thinking is not a character flaw. It is a survival mechanism. And it is the #1 thing keeping women stuck in their relationship with food.

In this episode I go into the grey zone: what it is, why the brain defaults to all-or-nothing thinking, and what it actually takes to build the capacity to live in the nuanced middle.

What you will learn:

• Why binary thinking is the #1 cognitive pattern blocking food peace and body image work
• How diet culture and systems of oppression use binary thinking to keep women compliant
• The CBC three-step framework for separating facts from thoughts and tracing the behavior chain
• Why more information will not fix all-or-nothing thinking, and what actually will

Mentioned in the show:

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Journaling and thought work are not the same thing. And if you've been mixing them up, the change you're looking for may be stalled at the surface.

In this Coach Corner, I answer a real question from a Groundwork client who has been deep in the podcast. She noticed I keep talking about thought work and cognitive behavioral coaching, and she asked: is that the same as what I'm doing when I journal?

It's not. And knowing the difference changes everything.

In this episode you will learn:

• What journaling is, what the research says, and exactly what it does and does not do
• What thought work is and how it accesses the three levels of thought that journaling cannot reach
• The difference between CBT and CBC and which one applies to coaching
• How to decide which tool to use with your client based on where they are in their journey
• Why CBC is the evidence-backed gold standard for body image and eating behavior change

Mentioned in the show:

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

You've been doing the body image work. So why are you still having " bad body image days?"

Because the goal was never to stop having them.

In this episode, I'm breaking down body image perfectionism — the belief that if you heal enough, do the work long enough, follow the protocol closely enough, you'll arrive at a place where your body never bothers you again. That's not healing. That's perfectionism with a wellness label on it.

I share the DM conversation that sparked this episode, real examples from my own life — including a chronic pain flare up and a feminist graphic tee that didn't go as planned — and what body image healing actually looks like when it's working.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• What body image perfectionism is and why it's keeping you stuck
• Why body neutrality — not body positivity — is the actual goal
• What it means to ride the body image experience instead of chasing perfectionism
• How chronic health conditions and healthism feed the same perfectionism trap
• What health professionals must understand before coaching body image effectively

Mentioned in the show:

The Body Image Coaching Immersive: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/body-image-coaching-mentorship-immersive/

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Bad body image days aren't failures. They're the mechanism. Stephanie teaches the healing spiral and why oscillation is how real body image work actually moves forward.

In this Coach Corner episode, I teach two concepts that created a light bulb moment inside the first session of The Groundwork: the oscillation of body image and the healing spiral. These are not abstract ideas. They are the reframe that changes how you coach, and how you live in your own body.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why healing is a spiral, not a straight line, and what that actually looks like in practice
• What oscillation means and why the hard moments are the most healing phases of the journey
• How to coach clients through "setbacks" with curiosity instead of judgment
• Why bad body image days are a skill-building opportunity, not evidence that something went wrong
• The onion layer your clients don't expect: why body image work always leads to self-worth

Mentioned in the show:

The Body Image Coaching Immersive: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/body-image-coaching-mentorship-immersive/

The Groundwork: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Performative eating is when you choose food based on how others perceive you — not hunger or satisfaction. Learn what drives it and how to stop.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What performative eating actually is and how to recognize it in your daily life
• Why overriding your body's signals to "perform" health is the root of disordered eating
• How conditional self-esteem fuels food choices based on others' opinions
• Why this pattern shows up differently across body size, culture, and identity
• What health professionals must do first before coaching anyone on eating behavior

Mentioned on the show:

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

What does a non-diet health professional's quarterly business review actually look like? I'm showing you mine.

In this episode, I walk you through the exact process I use to review my business every three months — what worked, what to stop, and what to add. Then I share my real goals for Q2 of 2026, including the market shifts I'm responding to and why I'm restructuring my offers right now.

This is the behind-the-scenes of running a lifestyle business with a weight-neutral framework. No fluff. Just the real process.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The three questions every non-diet health professional should ask in a quarterly business review
• Why I'm shifting to shorter, immersive program formats — and what the market is telling me
• How behavioral science applies to your business decisions, not just your client work
• The habit coupling technique I used to build a new health behavior in 90 days
• My Q2 tagline and why credibility is the most important business asset you have right now

Mentioned in the show:

BIZ SPRING RESET Registration: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/offers/z2z6dVX5/checkout

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Post traumatic growth is possible after diet culture. Learn how to move beyond anger and into a richer life using the Beyond The Food Method.

In this episode, I'm sharing a concept that has the power to completely change what you believe is possible after leaving diet culture behind. Post-traumatic growth is real, it's backed by psychology, and for some people — it's the missing piece.

I'll walk you through what it actually looks like, why it doesn't happen for everyone, and what conditions have to exist for it to become possible. This one is for the woman on her personal journey and the health professional leading others through this work.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• What post-traumatic growth is and where the psychological theory comes from
• Why some women get stuck in the anger stage of diet culture unlearning and never move beyond it
• Five real-life areas where post-traumatic growth shows up beyond food and body
• The specific tools that create the conditions for post-traumatic growth in your clients
• Two reflection questions that will shift how you use your diet culture experience going forward

Mentioned on the show:

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

When your client hits a wall in body image healing, it is not a sign something went wrong. It is a sign you are doing the work right.

In this Coach Corner episode, I answer a question I get more than almost any other. A practitioner has done everything correctly with her client. Intuitive eating. Body image tools. Mirror work. Six weeks of solid sessions. And now she is stuck.

I explain exactly what is happening and what to do next.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why "hitting a wall" with a client is actually a sign of progress, not failure
• What the Model Behind the Model is and how to use it at every layer of client stagnation
• The question you need to ask your client about her body that she has likely never asked herself
• How the Six Layers of Why tool moves clients from personal blame to systemic understanding
• Why this work has very little to do with food and everything to do with power, patriarchy, and social conditioning

Mentioned in the show:

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Client Assessment tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/what-to-say-when-clients-want-to-lose-weight

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

Discover how hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues work and why diet culture disrupted them. Learn to rebuild interoception for real food freedom.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why wellness culture sends you chasing hormones you cannot control
• What interoception awareness is and how dieting dials it down
• Why feeling full is a shameful experience for most women and what that costs them
• How the thin ideal disconnects women from their body's built-in eating signals
• Why physiology and emotional regulation are the same system and cannot be worked on separately

Mentioned in the show:

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/what-to-say-when-clients-want-to-lose-weight

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

What really drives your food choices? Learn the psychology of eating — and why it must come before any nutrition conversation.

In this episode, I break down the psychology of eating: the belief-to-behavior chain that drives every food choice, why diet culture structurally depends on keeping you disconnected from your own psychology, and what actually changes when you start addressing the root.

This is part one of a two-part series. Part two covers the physiology of eating. Together, they are the foundation of how I think about eating behavior — and eating behavior is what determines your nutritional outcome.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why nutrition is the outcome of eating, not the other way around
• How your belief system, thoughts, and emotions create your eating behavior
• Why restricting comfort foods carries a psychological cost most practitioners never address
• How diet culture is structurally designed to keep you disconnected from your own psychology
• The first steps to evaluate and address the psychological factors influencing your relationship to food

Mentioned in the show:

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/what-to-say-when-clients-want-to-lose-weight

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

Why feminist identity (not just beliefs) protects women from disordered eating, and what that means for non-diet health coaching.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why feminist identity protects against body dissatisfaction and disordered eating, and what the research actually says
• The difference between holding a belief and embodying it, and why that gap is the reason your clients get stuck
• Why socialization, not willpower or readiness, is what drives client resistance
• What healthism is and why it's the layer most health professionals haven't addressed yet
• Why feminism is a clinical tool in the Beyond The Food Method, not a political stance

Mentioned in the show:

Study mentioned in the episode: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4999297/

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/what-to-say-when-clients-want-to-lose-weight

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

You've been told consistency is the goal. But what if chasing it is actually what's keeping you stuck?

In this episode, I'm introducing a concept I call the consistency fetish — the belief that being consistent is a moral indicator of your worth. I'm breaking down why women are especially conditioned to chase it, how it mirrors the thin ideal, and what we need to build instead.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why consistency has been moralized — and how it mirrors chasing the ideal body size
• The two root causes behind the consistency obsession: gender socialization and the nervous system threat system
• What coaches get wrong when they coach clients toward consistency
• The two skills that actually create long-term sustainable results: behavioral flexibility and return rates
• How to start building nervous system capacity to handle failure without spiraling

Groundwork: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/what-to-say-when-clients-want-to-lose-weight

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

What you'll learn:

• What nervous system capacity is — and why thinking of it as a muscle changes everything
• How low capacity shows up in your clients through body image, emotional reactivity, and eating behavior
• Why it's the hidden driver behind patterns like starting and stopping, coping behaviors, and helplessness
• How greater nervous system capacity creates the internal safety needed for lasting behavior change
• The first steps to building it — in yourself and with your clients

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/what-to-say-when-clients-want-to-lose-weight

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

What if your self-worth isn't broken — it's just conditional? Learn the difference, the signs, and how to rebuild it from the inside out.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The critical difference between self-esteem and self-worth — and why confusing them keeps clients stuck
• How social conditioning wires women to seek worth externally — and what that looks like across body image, health, and career
• The key signs that your self-worth (or your client's) is still conditional
• Why body image work alone isn't enough — and what must happen alongside it
• The three-part framework for rebuilding unconditional self-worth from the inside out

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/what-to-say-when-clients-want-to-lose-weight

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

Food noise is dominating the cultural conversation — but it's not a new phenomenon, and it's not a disease. In this Coach Corner episode, Stephanie Dodier breaks down what food noise actually is, what causes it, and how health professionals can coach clients through it using a Cognitive Behavioral Coaching framework — no pharmaceutical intervention required.

Health professionals will learn how to address food noise at all three levels: the cognitive (food rules), the somatic (eating cues including the often-missing satisfaction cue), and the identity level (untethering food from body size).

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why food noise is a signal from your body, not a malfunction to be silenced
• How diet culture created the problem GLP-1 is being sold to fix
• The cognitive tools to dismantle food rules driving the mental chatter
• Why the satisfaction cue is the most overlooked piece of the puzzle
• Why body image work is a clinical prerequisite — not an add-on

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/what-to-say-when-clients-want-to-lose-weight

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop

Study Mentioned in the podcast: Hayashi et al. (2023) — What Is Food Noise? A Conceptual Model of Food Cue Reactivity: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10674813/

Minnesota Starvation Study: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/10/hunger

Ragen Chastain: What is food noise?: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/reader-question-what-is-food-noise

Body positivity isn’t dead. It was hijacked by influencers.

In this episode, I unpack the cultural narrative claiming the body positivity movement is over. I explain how a radical activism movement slowly became influencer-friendly content.

I also break down why expertise matters in conversations about health, body image, and wellbeing. Finally, I share evidence-based frameworks that actually support lasting change.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why body positivity was hijacked by influencers
• The difference between self-improvement messaging and social change
• The risks of treating influencers as health experts
• Evidence-based frameworks that support body acceptance and wellbeing
• Why expertise matters more than follower count

Mentioned in the show:

Virgie Tovar article on body positivity :https://www.forbes.com/sites/virgietovar/2026/02/22/the-split-inside-body-positivity-boils-down-to-this-one-thing/

Interview on Today Show: https://www.today.com/video/how-weight-loss-drugs-have-impacted-body-positivity-movements-258761285520

New York Times opinion piece https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010675137/body-positivity-social-media-weight-loss-feed.html

The GroundWork: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/waitlist-the-groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Beyond The Food - The Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://wwwstephaniedodiercom/shop

The non-diet coaching industry is about to shift fast in 2026, and you need to be ready.

In this episode, I share my annual industry predictions and the seven major shifts that will shape your work in the year ahead.

You will hear why these changes matter and how to adjust your coaching, content, and business strategy with confidence.

This episode gives you a clear and simple roadmap for a stronger 2026.

• Why selling information no longer works in 2026.
• How customization becomes essential in client work.
• Why AI-smart professionals will grow faster next year.
• What the GLP-1 rebound era means for your niche.
• How long-form content becomes your most powerful funnel.

Mentioned in the show:

Coach Corner Vault: https://bit.ly/coachcornerpodcastsn

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://bit.ly/ndccpodcastsn

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/guide

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop/

Fear of “not eating healthy” is common in intuitive eating. But it has nothing to do with food.

In this Coach Corner, I answer two powerful questions about intuitive eating and mobility.

I break down why the fear of losing healthy eating habits shows up.

I also explain how to support mobility without slipping into weight-loss thinking.

This episode gives you practical tools you can use right away.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why intuitive eating triggers fears around “eating healthy”
• How performative eating shapes food choices
• What the pendulum swing looks like in early intuitive eating
• Why mobility does not depend on weight
• How to coach mobility from a weight-neutral lens

Mentioned in the show:

Coach Corner Vault: https://bit.ly/coachcornerpodcastsn

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://bit.ly/ndccpodcastsn

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/guide

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop/

You cannot coach food freedom until you understand normal eating vs intuitive eating.

In this episode, I break down the eating behavior spectrum.

I explain the difference between normal eating and intuitive eating.

I also unpack the body weight set point theory in simple terms.

You’ll learn how these concepts shape your clients’ behavior and why they matter for effective coaching.

What you'll learn:

• The real difference between normal eating and intuitive eating.
• Why intuitive eating is a process, not the end goal.
• How diet culture thoughts block normal eating.
• What the body weight set point theory means for your clients.
• Why weight cycling continues, even with diets or medication.

Mentioned in the show:

Coach Corner Vault: https://bit.ly/coachcornerpodcastsn

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://bit.ly/ndccpodcastsn

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/guide

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop/

The pendulum swing is not a problem. It is a predictable part of healing.

In this episode, I answer two coaching questions that show up with almost every non-diet client.

You will learn simple tools to coach the pendulum swing with confidence.

You will also learn why body comparison spikes during body image work and how to shift your client back into safety.

This episode is packed with practical guidance for coaching the pendulum swing in non-diet clients.

What you'll learn:

• Why the pendulum swing happens during non-diet work
• How to coach clients through autonomy and psychological reactance
• How hidden mental restriction keeps the swing alive
• Why body comparison intensifies for clients in transition
• How to help clients build new beliefs with compassion

Mentioned in the show:

Coach Corner Vault: https://bit.ly/coachcornerpodcastsn

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://bit.ly/ndccpodcastsn

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/guide

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop/

Most people think health starts with weight loss, but this episode shows why that belief is wrong.

Today, I answer one powerful question:

What do you do when a client is told to lose weight “to get healthier”?

I break down where the weight-equals-health belief comes from.

I explain why clients hold onto it so tightly.

And I show how to guide them toward weight and health without dieting using a weight-neutral approach.

What you'll learn:

• Why many practitioners were trained to link weight and health
• How labels like “overweight” and “obese” create harm
• A simple coaching exercise that shifts beliefs fast
• What real health looks like without focusing on weight
• Key behaviors that support long-term wellbeing

Mentioned in the show:

Coach Corner Vault: https://bit.ly/coachcornerpodcastsn

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://bit.ly/ndccpodcastsn

What To Say When Clients Want To Lose Weight Guide: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/guide