Shoulders Down
Leah Kern
When you live in the diet mindset, you spend much of your time living in your head- constantly tallying, dwelling, and stressing over your food and lifestyle choices. When you become an intuitive eater, you learn to drop into your body and start living shoulders down. The territory below your shoulders contains your innate wisdom and power. Shoulders Down is a podcast designed to teach you how to harness your intuition to govern not just how you eat but also how you live. Shoulders Down Podcast is hosted by Anti-Diet Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Leah Kern, who works with clients to heal their relationships with food in her private practice, Leah Kern Nutrition. Disclaimer: All content in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The information and education provided is not intended or implied to supplement or replace professional medical treatment, advice, and/or diagnosis.
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💛 Fat-Positive Fertility with Nicola Salmon
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05/06/24 • 57 min
In this week’s episode, I’m joined by advocate, author, and fat positive fertility specialist, Nicola Salmon. Nicola is a prominent figure in the world of fat activism, and the leading voice for fat folks seeking fertility support. She’s also the author of the groundbreaking book “Fat and Fertile.”
Together, we discuss:
- Why it’s time to ditch the myth that fat people have more challenges with fertility
- How to honor the body’s nervous system response when seeking out fertility support
- The misconception of calorie restriction for fertility improvement
- What it looks like to take a holistic approach towards health that spans beyond weight
Mentioned in the episode:
More from Nicola:
- Follow Nicola on Instagram
- Nicola's Website
- Nicola’s Book: Fat and Fertile
More from Leah:
- Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course
- Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
- Join my self-paced course, The Return
- Subscribe to my personal Substack
- Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
- Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
- Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
- Send me a voice message
- Email me: [email protected]
🩺 Can You Manage Your Cholesterol with Intuitive Eating?
Shoulders Down
02/24/25 • 55 min
In this episode, I cover:
- What is cholesterol
- What is HDL, what is LDL, why is one often considered good and one bad
- How much does dietary cholesterol impct blood cholesterol levels
- What are the components that contribute to cholesterol levels
- Weight neutral, non-diet approaches to managingcholesterol
- Is your cholesterol your fault?
Resources mentioned:
- SDOH blog post: https://leahkernrd.com/the-social-determinants-of-health-and-intuitive-eating/
- egg study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26864369/
- The Rosetto Effect: https://www.pbs.org/video/italian-americans-introduction/
- 5 reasons why weight doesnt determine health: https://leahkernrd.com/👉-5-reasons-why-your-weight-doesnt-determine-your-health/
- Cholesterol HAES Health Sheet: https://haeshealthsheets.com/high-cholesterol/
More From Leah:
- Download your free Intuitive Eating Starter Pack
- Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
- Join my self-paced course, The Return
- Subscribe to Leah's Youtube Channel
- Subscribe to my personal Substack
- Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
- Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
- Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
- Send me a voice message on Speakpipe
- Email me: [email protected]
💁🏻♂️ Intuitive Eating For Men with Jeff Ash
Shoulders Down
06/06/23 • 76 min
In this episode, we are joined by Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and personal trainer, Jeff Ash. In this episode, we discuss:
- Jeff's story with his relationship with food and body
- How to know that we can trust IE research over diet research
- Actionable tips for men in heterosexual relationships on how to support their female partners on their IE journey
- How your partner can support you on your IE journey even if they're not fully onboard with IE themself
- Advice for men trying to divest from conventional “bro gym culture”
- How to still have performance goals for exercise while staying within the IE framework
Visit Jeff's website to learn more about his work.
Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Submit your question(s) here for chance to have it answered on an upcoming podcast episode
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
Email me: [email protected]
05/23/23 • 70 min
In this episode, we are joined by certified eating disorder RD and Somatic Experiencing practitioner, Anastasia Nevin. In this episode, we discuss:
- Anastasia's story with her relationship with food and body
- How Anastasia decided to pursue Somatic Experiencing work
- Somatic Experiencing as a tool for healing relationship with food and body
- Practical self-regulation SE tools to get through distressful body image spirals
- IE as a spiritual framework
Visit Anastasia's website to learn more about her offerings
Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Submit your question(s) here for chance to have it answered on an upcoming podcast episode
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
Email me: [email protected]
🎢 My Story (unfiltered, the whole saga)
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03/28/23 • 71 min
This week I'm flying solo to bring you a special episode to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Shoulders Down podcast! In this episode, I'm sharing my whole, unfiltered story about my own struggles with disordered eating. I talk about:
- What my relationship with food and body was like from childhood up until present day
- My rock bottom moment in diet culture
- How I discovered Intuitive Eating for the first time
- What my journey to becoming an intuitive eater looked like
- The parts of healing my relationship with food that took the longest for me
- How my relationship with my body and exercise has changed over the years
Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Submit your question(s) here for chance to have it answered on an upcoming podcast episode
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
Client Spotlight: Erica's Story
Shoulders Down
08/16/22 • 66 min
In this week's episode, we catch up with Erica, a graduate of my 1:1 coaching program, The Embodied Method. In this episode, we discuss:
- Erica’s story with her long history of dieting and trying to manipulate the size shape of her body
- How her relationship with food and body has changed since doing The Embodied Method and becoming an Intuitive Eater
- The ripple effects of becoming an Intuitive Eater in Erica’s life
- The aspects of Intuitive Eating that were most surprising to Erica
- Erica's advice to someone who is on the fence about going all in with Intuitive Eating
Before diving into the interview with Erica, we answer a listener question on how to navigate a situation where you're caring for children (babysitting, teaching, camp counselor, etc.) who come from a diet culture homes.
Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Submit your question(s) here for chance to have it answered on an upcoming podcast episode
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
03/11/24 • 65 min
In this episode, I’m joined by Jenn Baswick, a food freedom dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor passionate about helping women find peace with food and their bodies. She is the founder of The Intuitive Nutritionist and the host of The Intuitively You podcast.
Together, we discuss:
- Studying nutrition from a place of disordered eating
- Reconciling with “woo-woo”
- Why mindset is important for healing
- Affirmations vs. bridging core beliefs
- Overcoming inner food police voices
- Tools to reframe mindset
More from Jenn:
- Jenn’s Instagram
- Visit her website
- The Intuitively You podcast
- Free binge eating quiz
- Food Freedom Vision Guide
More from Leah:
- Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course
- Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
- Join my self-paced course, The Return
- Subscribe to my personal Substack
- Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
- Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
- Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
- Send me a voice message
- Email me: [email protected]
05/31/22 • 101 min
This week we are joined by Chris Irish, a fellow anti-diet dietitian. In this episode, we discuss:
- Chris’s story with his relationship with food and body
- Chris’s unlikely journey into the dietetics career path
- How studying to become a dietitian changed Chris’s relationship with food
- Common “bro science” myths and the danger of taking advice from other people's anecdotal experiences
- Why so many men are obsessed with protein
- The unique ways in which body image struggles manifest amongst the male community and how Chris helps clients through these struggles
- Why college creates the “perfect storm” for disordered eating behaviors
Before diving into this week's guest interview, I answer a listener question on how to navigate diet culture comments coming from loved ones. Click here to download the FREE resource I mention while answering the listener question.
Connect with Chris on Instagram @chris.irish.rd
Inquire about Chris's services here
Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Submit your question(s) here for chance to have it answered on an upcoming podcast episode
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
🧁 Unpacking Emotional Eating with Dr. Diana Gordon
Shoulders Down
11/01/22 • 77 min
This week we are joined by Dr. Diana Gordon, a licensed psychologist, coach, and content creator specializing in Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size (HAES). In this episode we talk about:
- Diana's story with her relationship with food and body
- The social justice element of Intuitive Eating and HAES
- Why emotional eating gets a bad reputation
- How emotional eating can actually be a helpful tool
- The intersection of Intuitive Eating and spirituality
- How wellness culture seeps into the spirituality world and how to steer clear of these sneaky form of elitist threads
Books referenced in the episode:
- Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
- The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Connect with Diana on instagram @drdianagordon
Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Submit your question(s) here for chance to have it answered on an upcoming podcast episode
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
04/08/24 • 46 min
In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Debbie Saroufim, a body acceptance coach and food trauma healer who helps women, teens and tweens make peace with their body and build up their immunity to diet culture. Debbie’s first children’s book, Fat & Beautiful: A Book About Why You Can Be Both, was published this spring.
Together, we discuss:
- Debbie’s journey from actress to trainer to body acceptance coach
- The moralization of health and wellness
- Learning to identify diet culture in our self-talk
- Being a thin person in the fat acceptance movement
- Conversations between parents and children
- Self-compassionate intuition and recovery
More from Debbie:
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More from Leah:
- Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course
- Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
- Join my self-paced course, The Return
- Subscribe to my personal Substack
- Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
- Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
- Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
- Send me a voice message
- Email me: [email protected]
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FAQ
How many episodes does Shoulders Down have?
Shoulders Down currently has 110 episodes available.
What topics does Shoulders Down cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Intuitive Eating, Religion & Spirituality and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on Shoulders Down?
The episode title '🥒 The Wellness Trap: When an Innocent Interest in Wellness Turns Disordered with Christy Harrison' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Shoulders Down?
The average episode length on Shoulders Down is 56 minutes.
How often are episodes of Shoulders Down released?
Episodes of Shoulders Down are typically released every 7 days, 1 hour.
When was the first episode of Shoulders Down?
The first episode of Shoulders Down was released on Mar 30, 2022.
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