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Intuitive Eating Q&A: Part 3

Intuitive Eating Q&A: Part 3

By Alissa Rumsey | February 1, 2019

Intuitive Eating can be hard to wrap your head around at first. If you are starting the Intuitive Eating journey and are feeling a bit lost you’ve come to the right place. In part 3 of this Q&A series, I’m answering some intuitive eating common questions, such as where does nutrition fit into intuitive eating?…

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How to Embrace Gentle Nutrition

How to Embrace Gentle Nutrition

By Alissa Rumsey | January 23, 2019

Intuitive Eating is a non-diet approach to health that focuses on our internal cues around hunger, fullness and satiety, while also helping to heal our relationship with food and our bodies. The framework of intuitive eating is broken down into 10 pillars that can be explored in any order, depending on your experience and history…

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How to Shift Your Mindset From Scarcity to Abundance

How to Shift Your Mindset From Scarcity to Abundance

By Alissa Rumsey | January 15, 2019

A huge part of moving towards intuitive eating is shifting your mindset from one of restriction or scarcity to one of unconditional permission and abundance. In this post, I share more about ways that you can create an abundance mindset for yourself as you move through your intuitive eating journey.  Your mindset plays a huge role as…

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9 Non-Diet New Years Resolutions

9 Non-Diet New Years Resolutions

By Alissa Rumsey | January 8, 2019

Heading into January, it’s natural to want to start planning ahead and thinking about what you want to accomplish over the next year. If you’re looking to incorporate more of the non-diet approach into your life, check out the non-diet New Years resolution ideas below for some inspiration.  A new year brings a fresh start,…

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Meal Planning with Intuitive Eating: A How-To Guide

Meal Planning with Intuitive Eating: A How-To Guide

By Alissa Rumsey | December 20, 2018

Meal prep food photos and “inspiration” can be found all over the internet, but so often these posts promote rigid, restrictive ways of eating that are reminiscent of dieting. Moving away from dieting and towards intuitive eating doesn’t mean that there can’t be any structure around meals and eating – but there’s a way to…

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How to Deal with Emotional Eating

How to Deal with Emotional Eating

By Alissa Rumsey | December 5, 2018

We’re constantly told that emotional eating – or eating to soothe, suppress or distract from negative or positive emotions including stress, boredom, sadness, anger, excitement or happiness – is a problem and in order to be healthy or have a good relationship with food, we need to stop doing it. But in reality, emotional eating…

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7 Tools to Help You Stay Focused and Productive

7 Tools to Help You Stay Focused and Productive

By Alissa Rumsey | September 27, 2018

As a nutrition entrepreneur, saying I have a lot on my plate would be an understatement. Over the past few years, I’ve relied on several different tools to keep me focused, efficient, and productive. If you’re looking for ways to better focus and produce more work, in less time, try one of these seven productivity…

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Eating for Fullness vs. Satisfaction – What’s the Difference?

Eating for Fullness vs. Satisfaction – What’s the Difference?

By Alissa Rumsey | September 25, 2018

It is common to think that knowing how much to eat is about focusing on how full you feel and how to stop eating when you feel that fullness. In reality, though, eating an amount that works well for your body is less about learning to feel your fullness and more about ensuring you’re not…

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Intuitive Eating Q&A: Part 2

Intuitive Eating Q&A: Part 2

By Alissa Rumsey | September 18, 2018

Intuitive eating can be a difficult process, especially in the beginning. There have been a few questions that came with clients recently that I want to address today. Read on for my answers and tips to help you during your intuitive eating journey.   I’ve been getting a lot of great questions over my Instagram…

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