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It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
It’s Beyond The Food: The Non-Diet Podcast takes nutrition and health beyond diet culture into the psychology of eating and behavior change, health mindset, body image and weight-neutral health.
Hosted by Stephanie Dodier, Non-Diet Nutritionist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Cognitive Behavior Coach, each episode teaches evidence-based coaching tools to change health behaviors in a way that will expand freedom, power and well-being.
This podcast is an essential resource for any…
Episodes
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
496-Trad Wife, Diet Culture and Kids Generational Trauma with Dr. Whitney Casares
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
495-The Link Between Work, Burnout and Food Behaviors with Sabrina Magnan
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
494-Type 2: A Non-Diet Approach To Diabetes with Kristie Messerli
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
493-How To Talk Food & Body Image With Kids With Kerry Miller
Your child was born trusting their body. Somewhere between the high chair and kindergarten, the adults around them start teaching them not to. Registered…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
492-Intuitive Eating In A GLP-1 Era With Elyse Resch, Co-Creator Of Intuitive Eating
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
491-Beyond GLP-1: Sarcopenia, Bariatric Surgery in GLP-1 Era with Aoife McMahon
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
490-Greatest Hit - Gentle Nutrition 101
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
489-Greatest Hit - How To Be Healthier Without Losing Weigh
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
488-Grieving Your Past Business in the GLP-1 Era with Hilary Kinavey
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
487-Binge Eating- Turning On the "Food Off Switch" with Dr. Sarah Cooke
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
486-The Psychology of Body Acceptance
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
485-Coaching Weight Gain in the GLP-1 Era
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
484-Intuitive Eating and GLP-1: 15 Clinical Considerations
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
BONUS: Free Training - The Thursday Sessions in August!
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
483-She Was Scared Shit to Start Her Business. Four Years Later, She Was on National TV.
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
482-Beyond GLP-1: Weight-Inclusive Care in the Context of GLP-1 with Dr. Lesley Williams MD
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
481- Beyond GLP-1: PCOS now PMOS in the GLP-1 era with Julie Duffy Dillon
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
480- Beyond GLP-1: Celebrity Weight Loss, Body Commenting in the GLP-1 Era with Abbie Attwood
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
479-Beyond GLP-1: Food Noise with Dr. Erin Knopf
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
478-Beyond GLP-1: What Informed Consent for GLP-1 Actually Looks Like with Dr. Michelle Tubman
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
477-Beyond GLP-1 Series: Anhedonia & Health Behavior Change in the Ozempandemic Era
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
476-Beyond GLP-1 Series: Weight Stigma in the GLP-1 Era with Dr. Angela Meadows
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
475-Beyond GLP-1 Series: Body Image Healing & Eating Disorder In The Era Of GLP-1 With Marci Evans
GLP-1 medications are being prescribed with no eating disorder screening and no monitoring. What could go wrong? According to eating disorder specialist and…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
474-Beyond GLP-1 Series: What Does Science Really Say About GLP-1? with Ragen Chastain
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
472-Beyond GLP-1 Series: Body Positivity and Activism in the "Ozempic Era" with Virgie Tovar
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
471-The Psychology Of Future Self
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
470-Beyond GLP-1 Series: Can Intuitive Eating And GLP-1 Coexist? with Sam Previte
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
469-Coaching When Clients Still Want To Lose Weight (Greatest Hits)
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
468-Beyond GLP-1 Series: A Triumph Of Marketing Over Patient Care With Louise Adams
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
467-The Grey Zone: Why It's So Hard Yet So Potent
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
466-Coach Corner: Journaling vs. Thought Work — What's Best for Diet Mindset?
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
465-Body Image Perfectionism
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
464-The Oscillation of Body Image: Why Healing Is a Spiral, Not a Straight Line
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
463-Performative Eating
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
462-Coach Corner: Biz Spring Reset: My Goals for Q2 & Q1 Review
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
461-Post Traumatic Growth
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
460-Coach Corner: The Model Behind The Model
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
459-The Physiology Of Eating (Part 2/2)
Discover how hunger, fullness, and satisfaction cues work and why diet culture disrupted them. Learn to rebuild interoception for real food freedom. What…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
458-The Psychology of Eating (Part 1/2)
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
457-Coach Corner: Protective Effect Of Feminist Values On Eating Behavior & Body Image
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
456-Consistency Fetish
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
455-Coach Corner: Nervous System Capacity Over Pant Size
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. What you'll…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
454-Conditional Self-Worth
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
453-Coach Corner: How to Stop Food Noise Without GLP-1
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
452-Body Positivity Isn't Dead. It Was Hijacked by Influencers
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
451-7 Industry Shifts Non-Diet Health Professionals Must Be Ready For in 2026
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
450-Coach Corner: When Clients Fear “Not Eating Healthy" & Coaching Mobility Concerns Without Reinforcing Weight Loss
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
449-Coach Corner: Normal Eating VS Intuitive Eating-Are they the same? & What is My Body Weight Set Point?
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
448-Coaching the Pendulum Swing of "Not dieting" and Body Comparison Patterns in Clients
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
447-Coach Corner: Don’t People Need To Lose Weight To Be Healthier?
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…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
446-Coaching the “I Know It, But I Don’t Believe It” Moment & Coaching the “I’m Angry at Fatphobia” Phase
Feel like your client “gets it” but still doesn’t believe it? In this episode, I’m answering two real coaching questions from our community. You’ll learn how…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
445-Coach Corner: "... but I want to physically feel better" & Coaching the Gap Between Wanting Change and Doing It
“But I want to physically feel better…” — sound familiar? This is one of the most common client statements. In this episode, I show you how to coach through…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
444-Coach Corner: Accepting Other People’s Diverse Body, But Not Mine & Combining Health Issue with Intuitive Eating
Can you really practice intuitive eating with a health condition? This question stops so many coaches in their tracks — and today, I’m giving you a clear…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
443-Coach Corner: Helping Client Getting "Unstuck" & Trusting Their Body: Moving Through The Resistance
Feeling stuck? Your clients are too—here’s how to help. In this Coach Corner episode, I’m unpacking the real reason clients (and coaches!) feel stuck—and what…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
442-Coach Corner: Gentle Nutrition vs Restrictive Eating & Reconnecting with Hunger and Fullness Cues
Are your clients making empowered food choices—or are they still stuck in diet culture? In this first Coach Corner episode, I break down the critical…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
441-How the Good Girl Syndrome Shapes Women’s Relationship with Food and Body
Ever wonder why smart, self-aware women still struggle with body image—even when they know diets don’t work? In this episode, I dive into the Good Girl…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
440-Healing Relationship to Food Using Creative Writing with Kayla McDonald
In this powerful episode, I talk with Kayla MacDonald, a former personal trainer whose journey took a radical turn after attending one of my workshops. Without…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
438-What Our Students Have to Say About The Non-Diet Coaching Certification
Thinking about becoming a non-diet coach? Hear directly from the women inside the program! In this episode, I hand the mic over to my current students in…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
437-How to Onboard and Assess New Clients Without Diet Culture
Feel lost when starting with a new non-diet client? This episode gives you the exact tool and steps to confidently assess them. Whether you're brand-new to…
- It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
436-What If Clients Gain Weight? How to Coach (And Sell) Without Diet Culture
What if your client gains weight—and wants to quit? This is one of the toughest moments you’ll face as a non-diet coach. But it doesn’t have to shake your…