This week on One Body to Love, I'm diving into a topic that creeps into many of our minds each year - the pressure to get “summer body ready”. I open up about the time I thought I was doing everything “right”, counting calories, pushing myself at the gym, but yet still felt unhappy. Maybe you’ve been there too, smiling on the outside while silently obsessing over calories, body checks, or whether your shorts still fit. If you’ve ever felt like your body needed to be fixed before you could fully enjoy summer, this episode is for you. We’re exploring where the summer body myth came from, how it shows up in our lives today, and why it’s time to reclaim our joy, presence, and confidence, not when we shrink, but right now.

In this episode, you will hear:

• 01:51 - The origins of the summer body (and who profits from it)
• 05:09 - The emotional toll: burnout, body obsession, and always feeling behind
• 07:46 - What changed everything for me last summer and how motherhood shaped it
• 10:11 — Reflection: What do you remember from past summers? Was it joy, spontaneity, connection, or shame and restriction? Now ask: How do I want to feel this summer?
• 11:40 - Take the next step toward healing with community and support

If this episode resonated with you, I’d love to hear from you. Send me a message on Instagram and let me know what stood out most. If you’re ready to break the cycle of summer body pressure, not just this year, but for good, my One Body to Love program is here to support you.

Whether you’re listening poolside, on a morning walk, or just trying to survive the change in seasons, remember, you don’t need to change your body to show up for your life. Until next time, be gentle with yourself, you deserve a life of peace with food and your body!

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What if the food noise in your head could finally quiet down? What if food wasn’t a source of guilt, shame, or control? What if peace with your body wasn’t just an idea, but your lived experience? In this powerful and emotional episode, I am joined with Jamie, a founding member of One Body to Love, whose story is a powerful reminder that healing from binge eating is not only possible, it's deeply personal.

Before joining the program, Jamie was overwhelmed with body grief, emotional eating, and the emotional aftermath of chronic illness. In this episode, we talk honestly about what it felt like to be stuck and how Jamie’s relationship with food, body, and self has transformed. This is a story about choice, compassion, and creating peace from the inside out.

In this episode, you will hear:

• 03:06 - The chronic illness that turned her life upside down and how it led to emotional eating as her only coping tool.
• 06:05 - Jamie opens up about grieving her old body, old life, and the role diet culture played.
• 11:33 - The quiet, everyday patterns of binge eating that started to feel unbearable and made her realize something had to change.
• 19:29 – Why being seen, heard, and understood mattered more than the food and how One Body to Love became the first space where Jamie felt truly safe to heal.
• 33:40 - How healing her relationship with food revealed a deeper truth.
• 43:08 - From “diet food” to intuitive choices: how food feels different now.
• 50:21 – How radical honesty was the beginning of everything and Jamie's final thoughts on her journey.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever whispered, “I don’t know how much longer I can keep doing this” It’s about the power of choosing yourself, reconnecting with your body, rewriting your story, and realizing that healing doesn’t mean fixing what’s broken. It means learning how to listen, how to feel safe again, and how to come home to yourself.

If you saw yourself in Jamie’s story, please know, that’s not where your story has to end. I’d love to hear what stood out to you. Message me on Instagram, and if you’re ready to move from feeling stuck to feeling supported, from food chaos to self-trust, One Body to Love is here for you. We do this work together, step by step, with support every single week. Until next time, be gentle with yourself.

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Sometimes the patterns we most want to change are the ones that have kept us afloat. In today’s episode on One Body to Love, I open up about the role binge eating has played in my own life, and how it often serves as a coping strategy when everything else feels like too much. We explore what it looks like to move from control and chaos into safety and softness with food, and why fear doesn’t mean you're not ready, it means this matters to you. If you’ve been spiraling at night, trying to be "good" during the day, or scared of what happens if you stop controlling food, this episode is for you.

In this episode, you will hear:
• 02:41 - How food becomes a release valve when we’re holding everything else together.
• 04:09 - My personal story: restriction, nighttime spirals, and starting over.
• 06:36 - Challenging the cultural script that tells us to shrink.• 08:56 - Learning to respond to your body instead of managing it.
• 09:52 - A closer look at the One Body to Love program: Coaching, journaling, workshops and a supportive community.
• 12:16 - How to register, and what’s coming next on the show.

If you’ve been stuck in the cycle of starting over, feeling like food is either all or nothing, or carrying the weight of shame alone - the One Body to Love program was created to offer you support, structure, and a safe space to heal. If you want more details or you’re curious whether this is the right next step for you, comment “LOVE” on any of my Instagram posts and I’ll send you everything you need to know. If you've been waiting for the sign, this is it.

Don’t forget, Jamie’s story is coming later this week, and her journey from binging in secret to trusting herself again might be exactly what your heart needs to hear. Until next time, be so gentle with yourself. You deserve a life that feels peaceful around food, grounded in your body, and rooted in self-trust.

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If you've ever thought the solution to binge eating was more control, more structure, or more willpower, you’re not alone. But what if binge eating isn’t a failure to be fixed, but a signal to be heard? In this episode of One Body to Love, I’m walking you through a foundational strategy I teach inside my program, the One-Two-Eat Method. Together, we’ll explore how to pause, tune into your body, and interrupt the automatic binge-restrict cycle with awareness and care.

In this episode, you will hear:
• 02:08 - How diet culture teaches us to ignore our body's cues.
• 03:06 - Understanding "food noise" and what it’s really telling you.
• 05:29 - How the One-Two-Eat Method builds a bridge back to body trust.
• 06:32 - Steps 1-3: What’s happening in my body, mind and my needs.
• 09:12 - How creating this pause interrupts the automatic binge-restrict spiral
• 12:06 -What food freedom actually looks and feels like.
• 13:32 – Why you’re not meant to micromanage your body, you’re meant to listen to it.

If this episode resonated with you, I’d love to hear from you. Message me on instagram and let me know what stood out most. And if you're ready to take the next step, my One Body to Love program is opening a live round, this time with weekly group coaching, step-by-step tools, and a supportive community. You'll finally have the guidance you need to rebuild trust with your body and your relationship with food. DM me “LOVE” to get on the early access list. Until next time, be gentle with yourself. You deserve a life of peace with food and your body.

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This week on One Body to Love, we’re exploring the deeply personal and often misunderstood relationship women have with food, particularly focusing on emotional eating and the pressures of caregiving. What feels like “losing control” is often the only place your body finally feels allowed to let go. This isn’t a discipline problem, it’s depletion. We’ll discuss how emotional suppression, over-responsibility and the pressure to be everything for everyone can lead to food becoming your only source of release. The conversation emphasizes that binging is not a failure of willpower but rather an emotional response.

In this episode, you will hear:
• 01:50 - The hidden cost of holding it all together and running on fumes.
• 02:45 - Binging as a release and how your nervous system uses food to decompress.
• 03:34 - A personal example of how parenting, daily stress, and exhaustion reduces emotional capacity for things like movement and self-care.
• 05:27 - How your body responds when you continually ignore its emotional and physical signals and why it often turns to food.
• 06:20 - The shame tied to rest, space, and food, and why we eat in secret when we can’t ask for what we need.
• 07:00 - Prompts to reflect on your relationship with food: What if the eating that feels so chaotic or shameful is actually your body asking for connection? What if binge eating isn’t sabotage, but self-protection?
• 07:25 - The approach inside One Body to Love and how healing begins by listening to what food behaviors are trying to express

If food has become your only form of rest, comfort, or release, I hope this episode shows you a new way forward, with more compassion, capacity, and care. You don't have to keep carrying everything alone and you don't have to keep using food as your only outlet. Inside my One Body to Love program you’ll find everything you need to begin healing your relationship with food, with support every step of the way. If something from today’s episode resonated with you, send me a message on instagram! Until next time, be gentle with yourself. You deserve a life of peace with food and your body.

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You've read the books, you've followed the intuitive eating accounts, and you know dieting doesn't work. But somehow, you still find yourself standing in front of the fridge at 9:00p.m. asking “Why did I just do that again?” This week on One Body to Love, I'm diving into the gap between awareness and embodiment. I share real client stories, explain how physical and mental restriction create biological urgency, and reveal why safety, not willpower, is the missing piece in healing your relationship with food.

In this episode, you will hear:
• 01:25 - My personal journey with dieting, restriction, and realizing that following all the “rules” didn’t heal my relationship with food.
• 03:28 - The Difference Between Knowing and Healing: Understanding the “why” doesn’t give you the “how.” True change happens when you learn to feel safe around food.
• 05:25 - The reality of juggling demanding jobs, family, social lives, and health goals - and why so many women who try to eat "clean" still feel undernourished and disconnected to their body.
• 06:00 - Biological Urgency: How your body responds to long periods without enough food, and why that drives powerful cravings.
• 07:55 - The Myth of Willpower: Why white-knuckling your way through food cravings never works, and how restriction rooted in fear, control, or guilt leads to more binging.
• 10:35 - Introducing the One-to-Eat Method: A simple pause to reconnect with your body’s actual needs
• 14:25 - The powerful shift that happens when you stop trying to “earn” food and start trusting your body’s cues.

Curious about what this journey could look like for you? Send me a DM on instagram with the word LOVE and I'll send you everything you need to get started. My One Body to Love program is here to help you break free from binge eating and find true peace with food.

If you're enjoying the show, one of the best ways to show support me is by leaving a quick rating and review on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening. Your words help more women find this space and feel less alone. Until next time, be gentle with yourself. You deserve a life of peace with food and your body.

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You've probably heard the buzz, Vyvanse is being prescribed for both ADHD and binge eating. But is it truly a breakthrough solution or just another band-aid for a deeper problem? This Week on One Body to Love, I’m shedding light on the connection between ADHD and binge eating, sharing real stories, practical strategies, and a look at how Vyvanse fits into the picture. If you've ever struggled with emotional eating, late-night binges, and ADHD, this conversation is for you. Let's explore the real impact of ADHD on your eating habits and uncover ways to heal that go beyond medication.

In this episode, you will hear:
•01:25 - Jenna’s story: Living with undiagnosed ADHD and how binge eating became a coping mechanism.
• 02:10 - How the link between ADHD and binge eating is more common than you might think.
• 02:44 - Understanding ADHD’s impact on executive functioning and dopamine regulation, leading to impulsive eating patterns.
• 04:20 - Vyvanse: How it works and its downside effects, like decreased appetite, anxiety, insomnia, and why binge eating is a survival response.
• 06:10 - Strategies for combining medication with sustainable habits.
• 07:00 This week’s journaling prompt to explore your own eating patterns when feeling overwhelmed or undernourished.

Weekly Journaling Prompt:
When during the day do I feel the most out of control with food? Am I underfeeding myself earlier in the day? How does my energy and focus fluctuate in relation to my eating habits? What's one small way I can nourish myself consistently this week, even if I'm not physically feeling hungry?

If today's episode spoke to you, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Send me a message on Instagram and share what resonated most with you. If you’re ready to heal your relationship with food and receive compassionate support every step of the way, my One Body to Love program is here to help you break free from binge eating and find true peace with food. And if nighttime cravings are where you struggle most, download my free guide, Five Steps to End Binge Eating at Night. Until next time, be gentle with yourself. You deserve a life of peace with food and your body.

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This Week on One Body to Love we're diving into one of the most misunderstood aspects of wellness culture: the gray space between healthy eating and disordered eating. If you’ve ever skipped meals to “make up” for eating later, felt guilty for breaking food rules, or wondered why eating feels so emotionally loaded, I hope this episode will speak to you. I tell the story of a client who was stuck in a cycle of shame and obsession, and walk you through the differences between disordered eating and clinical eating disorders, and why both deserve compassion, healing, and support.

In this episode, you will hear:
• 00:23 - The question so many women silently ask: Is my eating disordered, or just disciplined?
• 01:25 - A real-life client story: how shame and food rules quietly took over.
• 02:45 - The continuum of eating behaviors and where disordered eating fits.
• 04:30 - “Normal” habits that are actually harmful.
• 05:45 - When disordered eating becomes a clinical diagnosis and how diet culture blurs the line.
• 08:30 - Gentle reflection questions to help you check in with your food relationship.
• 10:38 - This week’s journaling prompt and a reminder that you are not alone.

Weekly Journaling Prompt:
What food rules have I been following, consciously or unconsciously? When did I first start believing that my body needed to be controlled? What would it feel like to nourish myself without guilt or conditions?

If this conversation resonated, I’d love to hear from you. DM me on Instagram @ParallelWellness. And if you’re ready for deeper support, One Body to Love program or my Food Freedom in a Weekend mini course are here to help you reclaim peace with food, for good.

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