
#027: Auditing Your Lifestyle for Lasting Habits with Anya Perry and Brianna Wilkerson
02/01/21 • 38 min
Cristina meets with Anya Perry and Brianna Wilkerson to get to the core of how to set realistic, sustainable goals. They explore new year resolutions, why diets don’t work, and the types of habits you should focus on instead to get the results you REALLY want.
TOPICS:
- Meet Anya and Brianna (01:18)
- How to create supportive habits (04:52)
- Common weight loss roadblocks and how to get around them (08:47)
- Why diets don’t work (13:38)
- Creating room for nuance and evolution (18:36)
- Viewing weight loss as a side effect of being healthy (21:37)
- Changing the mindset around your relationship with your body and weight loss (26:16)
- Setting resolutions that stick (27:44)
- The Healthy Body Summit (31:05)
- Get more from Anya and Brianna (35:48)
RESOURCES:
- Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
- Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
- Access the Healthy Body Summit
- Find more from Anya Perry:
- Check out Anya’s website
- Follow Anya on Instagram
- Check out Anya’s Facebook community
- Listen to The Habit Queen Podcast
- Find more from Brianna Wilkerson:
- Check out Brianna’s website
- Follow Brianna on Instagram
- Check out Brianna’s Facebook community
- Listen to The Sustainable Weight Loss Podcast
GET BODY WISE:
- Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
- Join Cristina’s online community and become part of Mi Casa Cooking Club
- Find more from Laura Mar at lovemycycle.com
- Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]
Cristina meets with Anya Perry and Brianna Wilkerson to get to the core of how to set realistic, sustainable goals. They explore new year resolutions, why diets don’t work, and the types of habits you should focus on instead to get the results you REALLY want.
TOPICS:
- Meet Anya and Brianna (01:18)
- How to create supportive habits (04:52)
- Common weight loss roadblocks and how to get around them (08:47)
- Why diets don’t work (13:38)
- Creating room for nuance and evolution (18:36)
- Viewing weight loss as a side effect of being healthy (21:37)
- Changing the mindset around your relationship with your body and weight loss (26:16)
- Setting resolutions that stick (27:44)
- The Healthy Body Summit (31:05)
- Get more from Anya and Brianna (35:48)
RESOURCES:
- Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
- Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
- Access the Healthy Body Summit
- Find more from Anya Perry:
- Check out Anya’s website
- Follow Anya on Instagram
- Check out Anya’s Facebook community
- Listen to The Habit Queen Podcast
- Find more from Brianna Wilkerson:
- Check out Brianna’s website
- Follow Brianna on Instagram
- Check out Brianna’s Facebook community
- Listen to The Sustainable Weight Loss Podcast
GET BODY WISE:
- Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
- Join Cristina’s online community and become part of Mi Casa Cooking Club
- Find more from Laura Mar at lovemycycle.com
- Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]
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#026: The Invisible Corset with Lauren Geertsen
Cristina chats with body connection coach Lauren Geertsen about how we can heal our relationship with food while healing the relationship and trust we have with our bodies. Lauren is the author of The Invisible Corset and has dedicated herself to helping clients around the world trust their bodies and step into their soul purpose.
TOPICS:
- Meet Lauren Geertsen (00:20)
- Where food as medicine worked, and how it fell short (01:20)
- Body connection coaching (03:34)
- How diets fail, why fat people aren’t inherently unhealthy, and fat discrimination (05:10)
- The difference between affirmations and afformations (09:22)
- The power of flower essences (12:15)
- How our disconnection from our bodies harms us (14:22)
- Visualizations, reintroductions, and what to do after we heal (18:42)
- The 5 strings in The Invisible Corset (22:13)
- The history behind controlling the female body (28:51)
- Where body positivity falls short (33:02)
- How the beauty industry disconnects us from our true selves (37:27)
- Our bodies as our true soul mates (50:19)
RESOURCES:
- Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
- Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
- Find more from Lauren Geertsen:
- Check out Lauren’s blog: https://empoweredsustenance.com/
- Follow Lauren on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/body_connection_coach/
- Read more about Lauren’s floral essences: https://floralsong.com/
- Grab a copy of The Invisible Corset: https://invisiblecorset.com/
GET BODY WISE:
- Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
- Join Cristina’s online community and become part of Mi Casa Cooking Club
- Find more from Laura Mar at lovemycycle.com
- Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]
Next Episode

#028: Life After Vulvar Cancer with Heather Cooan
Cristina and Laura get to talk with Heather Coonan about her experience with vulvar cancer. From the diagnosis to treatment, plus the healing process and everything that comes after, Heather shares her story, beyond cancer. Heather’s grace and raw honesty empowers us all to pursue a different path in our individual healing journeys, and in our relationships with our bodies and pleasure as women.
TOPICS:
- Life with lichen sclerosus and the beginning of Heather’s health journey (03:55)
- How Heather self diagnosed correctly (5:22)
- Heather’s official diagnosis and the c-word (06:53)
- Medical trauma, power imbalance, and the struggle of body autonomy from a female perspective (14:01)
- Taking the power back as a patient (19:40)
- Self-advocacy and body autonomy within a cancer treatment plan (21:14)
- Combining conventional healing methods with naturopathic modalities, becoming cancer-free (23:25)
- Making real lifestyle changes for long term health (28:26)
- Life after cancer and supporting survivors (38:36)
- Enjoying sex after a physical trauma (40:47)
- Questioning the normalization of women’s pain (44:55)
- Vulvar cancer, women’s pleasure, and reimagining the conversations we have as a society (53:31)
- Getting clear on your personal values in a health crisis (1:00:48)
PARTNERS:
- Get 25% off Kettle and Fire ready made, shelf stable bone broth with code CASTAWAY
RESOURCES:
- Don’t forget to support Body Wise Podcast by leaving a rating and a review on iTunes.
- Get the show notes and subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
- Find more from Heather Cooan and check out her story of self-healing on her website, HeatherCooan.com
- Follow Heather on Instagram
GET BODY WISE:
- Find more from Cristina Curp at thecastawaykitchen.com, and on social media @thecastawaykitchen
- Join Cristina’s online community and become part of Mi Casa Cooking Club
- Find more from Laura Mar at lovemycycle.com
- Have questions for Laura and Cristina? Send your emails to [email protected]
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