Millennial Body Image Project – Details, episodes & analysis

We're diving into how to navigate holiday food noise and diet talk during the holidays! With Thanksgiving and the December holidays coming up, conversations around diet and body image can be triggering and pervasive. This episode offers tips and scripts for responding to diet talk, creating boundaries, and protecting your mental health. Whether you choose to engage or step away, we've got practical advice and a downloadable PDF guide to help you handle these situations with confidence - or avoidance! 

Download the guide: Navigating Diet Talk at Holiday Events

...or Grab our full holiday food & body image support series (including the PDF above) on Patreon

In our holiday support series, you'll learn how to reframe your mindset, set boundaries, and ensure you can enjoy the holiday season without letting food noise or body image issues disqualify you from the joy and connection that this time of year brings. This includes 9 episodes and 3 PDF resources, including a holiday recipes ebook! 

Find your hosts:

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject 
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

If you don't know what "normal" eating feels like any more, or you're confused about how much you "should" be eating, this episode is for you.

Let's talk about overeating, binge eating, and binge eating disorder — and what actually separates them. We'll explore the spectrum of eating experiences — from neutral or emotional eating all the way to diagnosable binge eating disorder — and why understanding the why behind your behaviors matters more than slapping on a label. If you've ever felt confused, ashamed, or stuck in patterns with food, this one's for you.

Holiday food & body image support series - https://www.patreon.com/collection/873080

Find your hosts:

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject 
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Welcome to our semi-annual episode where we talk about books, just for fun! All the books we talked about in this episode are listed here. Check out our previous episodes here: (Best of 2024, All Time Favorite Reads, Favorite books of 2023)

Full list of recommendations from this episode <>

To learn more about banned books in the US:

• The American Library Association
• PEN America

Join our Patreon community to get access to our end-of-month episodes and "after the episode" deep dives! Plus, you'll get TWO years of bonus episodes and deep dive content.

Find your hosts:

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject 
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Find Kara:

• Instagram: @kara_mccartney
• Website: karamccartney.com

Stacie Fanelli, an eating disorder therapist who specializes in neurodivergence, joins Cristina to discuss the intersection of ADHD and eating disorders, and disordered eating patterns. Where does perfectionism play into both cases? Stacie discusses practical tips to stimulate dopamine response and increase your focus, what overstimulation vs. understimulation looks like, and how imposter syndrome can play a role in ADHD and eating disorders. She also discusses ARFID (avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder) and how it can be a missing piece in many peoples' stories.

• Youtube: How to ADHD
• ARFID Resources
• Work with Stacie
• Instagram: @edadhd_therapist

•  Non-Diet Nutrition for ADHD and binge eating with Becca King
• The OCD and eating disorders connection with Alegra Kastens
• Self-compassion for eating disorders and autoimmune disease with Jessica Flanigan Brown 

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at –  https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject 
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
• Book Cristina HERE – https://p.bttr.to/2OVE5L1

Warren Brown, the CEO of Sparkbites joins Dana today to discuss how we know if we have good gut health. They discuss how Warren went from practicing law, to running a bakery franchise called CakeLove, to hosting on the Food Network, to finally launching a gut health snack. How can we measure if we have good gut health in an easy, free way? What can we do if things aren't quite going how we'd like them to go?

• Instagram: @sparkbites
• Find sparkbites!
• Warren's book, coming out in spring 2023: Men Are Doomed

• Plant-based gut health nutrition & Intersectional food policy with Ayten Salahi
• How fermented foods and kombucha impact gut health with Daina Trout
• Gut Health, Immune Support & Probiotics Problems with Tina Anderson
• Prebiotics & Probiotics 101: Your Questions, Answered!

Bio: Warren Brown is the owner of Countertop Productions, Inc. a boutique manufacturer of innovative packaged snacks. He is an entrepreneur at heart with an unconventional career path that embodies what it means to pursue one's passion. He hosted two seasons of Sugar Rush on the Food Network from 2005-2007. Currently Warren pours his innovative spirit into his line of energy snacks: "Spark Bites." He also makes and markets a line of cake jars: "Don't Forget Cake." No stranger to passion projects, Brown is self-publishing a sci-fi, psychological thriller series that brings his multidisciplinary background together in intriguing ways.

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at –  https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject 
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
• Book Cristina HERE – https://p.bttr.to/2OVE5L1

On today's episode, Cristina interviews Nicola Haggett; a body liberationist, coach, & mentor whose work focuses on supporting folks to move beyond body positivity to unlearn body shame, reconnect to their body, and intentionally practice their way towards a world where each of us has more safety, compassion, and joy in our body. They discuss how grief plays an integral part of the body liberation practice, as well as practical tools to help disrupt body shame and rewrite body stories to help us move forward in our own body image journeys.

• Instagram: @nicolahaggett 
• Nicolahaggett.com

Bio: Nicola Haggett (she/her) is a body liberationist, coach, & mentor whose work focuses on supporting folks to move beyond body positivity to unlearn body shame, reconnect to their body, and intentionally practice their way towards a world where each of us has more safety, compassion, and joy in our body. She also mentors and provides peer supervision for coaches, dietitians, & therapists who are exploring the edges of their own body acceptance. Nicola is a professionally trained and experienced life coach, Certified Body Trust® Provider, and Gestalt Therapist in training She is also a fat, neurodivergent, and chronically ill human and her lived experiences navigating the world through these social positions are an important part of what she brings to her work.  Nicola sees clients online from her home in East London, where she lives with her husband, Ricky, and their two kids.

•  Reclaiming Body Trust with Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant
• Redefining beauty and building body image resilience with Dr Lindsay Kite
• What is extra weight? Accepting body changes with an 'all foods fit' approach

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at –  https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject 
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
• Book Cristina HERE – https://p.bttr.to/2OVE5L1

Dana and Cristina dig into how the hunger-fullness scale is commonly used vs. how it can be better used to bring insight to your eating patterns. They also discuss how the dieting and weight loss world has tried to co-opt the hunger-fullness scale as a tool for weight loss, when the intention of this tool was never to be used for weight loss. What are the pitfalls of the hunger-fullness scale, and how can it contribute to disordered eating patterns? What happens if you don't have any physical hunger cues? How can we use this tool in a positive way to understand our bodies' signals, and learn to trust our bodies again, and improve our relationship with food?

•  Trauma-Informed Nutrition Care with Fiona Sutherland
• The OCD and eating disorders connection with Alegra Kastens
• HAES myths and emotional eating with Dr. Alexis Conason
• Self-compassion for eating disorders and autoimmune disease with Jessica Flanigan Brown 

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at –  https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject 
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
• Book Cristina HERE – https://p.bttr.to/2OVE5L1

This one is just for fun! Dana and her friend Kara talk about their best books of 2022, least favorite books of the year, biggest surprises and disappointments, and their top book recommendations for anyone looking to get into (or more into) reading this year! DISCLAIMER: just because we didn't like a book doesn't mean it's awful or that you won't like it. This is just a fun episode to break up some of the more intense stuff we've been talking about lately.

So tell us - what were your best books of 2022? Biggest surprises or disappointments? If you guys like this episode we'd be happy to do another one, maybe halfway through the year.

• Instagram: @kara_mccartney
• Website for Copywriting & Website Design services: www.karamccartney.com
• Podcast recommendation: Friends We Meet Reading

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at –  https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject 
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
• Book Cristina HERE – https://p.bttr.to/2OVE5L1

On this week's episode we dive into: what is a normal relationship with food? How is that different from an optimal relationship with food? Where does the nutrition jungle play a role in this? And while new years' diets are co-opting anti-diet and intuitive eating language, which may  make you feel like you can get to a 'good' relationship with food by following their diet…we know that's not true. So what can we do about it?

•  Red Flags on your health journey with Brenna O'Malley
• Self-compassion for eating disorders and autoimmune disease with Jessica Flanigan Brown 
• Help! I'm failing at Intuitive Eating
• How to reconcile wanting to lose weight and intuitive eating

Join our Patreon community to get access to TWO+ years of bonus episodes, exclusive resources, and access to the final episode of each month. You'll also get behind the scenes bonus content and a safe space community to discuss the nuance of body image and food! Check it out at –  https://www.patreon.com/millennialbodyimageproject

• millennialbodyimageproject.com
• @millennialbodyimageproject 
• @danamonsees_cns
• @cristinahoytnutrition

Looking for 1×1 Nutrition counseling? Book a free 15-minute intro call:

• Book Dana HERE – https://l.bttr.to/RggiP
• Book Cristina HERE – https://p.bttr.to/2OVE5L1