It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching

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 rest...

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 li...

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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.

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The Body Image Coaching Immersive is back for its 6th edition — this time as a 2-day intensive on May 1 & 2, 2026.

If you're a health professional ready to confidently coach body dissatisfaction using a proven, weight-neutral framework — this is your training.

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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.

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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.

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 be...

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.

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

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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 eati...

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

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BONUS: Groundwork is open and this is the only time founding pricing exists.

This short bonus episode is one thing: an invitation.

If you know non-diet is right but don't yet know how to coach it from the inside out — Groundwork is where that changes. Not from a textbook. From living the methodology yourself, with me, in a founding cohort of twenty women maximum.

Enrollment closes April 10th. Founding price: $1,500. Full price for all future cohorts: $2,000.

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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.

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Nervous system capacity matters more than pant size. Stephanie Dodier explains why it's the #1 missing piece in women's health and how to build it.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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