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 like inside all of it. Sam's team is already seeing the first wave of clients coming off these medications. The work you do with clients now determines what happens when they do.

What you will learn:

• Why turning away a client on GLP-1 who wants intuitive eating support may be unethical
• How GLP-1 disrupts interoception and what that means for eating cue coaching
• Why food noise on GLP-1 is a muted symptom — not a solved problem
• What body image work looks like with a client still pursuing intentional weight loss
• The beach ball effect: what happens when clients come off without having done the belief work
• How to prepare clients for life after GLP-1 before they ever make that transition

Mentioned in the show:

Sam Previte: Find Food Freedom:https://find-foodfreedom.com/about/

Episode on Sam's podcast that sparked this conversation (February 2025): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-you-take-a-glp-1-on-an-intuitive-eating-journey/id1561021438?i=1000751327153

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

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.

You’ll learn:

• Why the desire to lose weight is a thought—not a fact
• How to uncover what’s really behind your client’s weight loss goals
• The truth about “putting weight loss on the back burner”
• What to say when a client says, “But I need to lose weight”
• Why intrinsic motivators create lasting health changes
• The one question that changed my life—and how it can shift your client’s journey too
• A free script you can use in your next client session

Mentioned in the show:

1. In a study of midlife women, those exercising for weight loss walked 2.5x less than those motivated by stress relief or energy (Segar et al., 2006). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21884579/

2 People who exercised for well-being reasons (e.g., better mood) stuck with it 1 year later.

Those who exercised for appearance or weight loss reasons did not maintain the habit. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30314419/

The Groundwork: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Free Guide - What to Say When Clients Want to Lose Weight: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/guide

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop/

Work With Me: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/work-with-stephanie/

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.

In this episode you will learn:

• The 2015 Novo Nordisk marketing roadmap that predicted everything we are living through now
• Why many obesity researchers are now functioning as pharmaceutical sales representatives
• What weight cycling is and why it is missing from the GLP-1 conversation
• What a health professional's informed consent process should look like
• Why Louise is cautiously optimistic that GLP-1 research will inadvertently strengthen the case for weight inclusive medicine in the next decadE

Mentioned in the show:

Listen to the entire Beyond GLP-1 podcast series: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/beyond-glp-1

Louise Adams' paper: GLP-1 medication for weight loss, a triumph of marketing over patient care -- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21604851.2026.2646492

Louise Adams -- meet Louise and her work: https://untrapped.com.au/meet-louise/

Louise Adams' newsletter and podcast All Fired Up: untrapped.com.au

Ragen Chastain's Weight and Healthcare Substack: weightandhealthcare.substack.com

AWIM GLP-1 Informed Consent document: https://sizeinclusivemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MSSI-GLP1-Informed-Consent-1-1.pdf

HAES Health Sheets: https://haeshealthsheets.com/

Non-Diet Coaching Assessment Tool: stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

The Groundwork waitlist: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

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.

What you will learn:

• Why binary thinking is the #1 cognitive pattern blocking food peace and body image work
• How diet culture and systems of oppression use binary thinking to keep women compliant
• The CBC three-step framework for separating facts from thoughts and tracing the behavior chain
• Why more information will not fix all-or-nothing thinking, and what actually will

Mentioned in the show:

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

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.

In this episode you will learn:

• What journaling is, what the research says, and exactly what it does and does not do
• What thought work is and how it accesses the three levels of thought that journaling cannot reach
• The difference between CBT and CBC and which one applies to coaching
• How to decide which tool to use with your client based on where they are in their journey
• Why CBC is the evidence-backed gold standard for body image and eating behavior change

Mentioned in the show:

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Groundwork Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

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 examples from my own life — including a chronic pain flare up and a feminist graphic tee that didn't go as planned — and what body image healing actually looks like when it's working.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• What body image perfectionism is and why it's keeping you stuck
• Why body neutrality — not body positivity — is the actual goal
• What it means to ride the body image experience instead of chasing perfectionism
• How chronic health conditions and healthism feed the same perfectionism trap
• What health professionals must understand before coaching body image effectively

Mentioned in the show:

The Body Image Coaching Immersive: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/body-image-coaching-mentorship-immersive/

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

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.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why healing is a spiral, not a straight line, and what that actually looks like in practice
• What oscillation means and why the hard moments are the most healing phases of the journey
• How to coach clients through "setbacks" with curiosity instead of judgment
• Why bad body image days are a skill-building opportunity, not evidence that something went wrong
• The onion layer your clients don't expect: why body image work always leads to self-worth

Mentioned in the show:

The Body Image Coaching Immersive: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/body-image-coaching-mentorship-immersive/

The Groundwork: https://program.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

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 episode, you'll learn:

• What performative eating actually is and how to recognize it in your daily life
• Why overriding your body's signals to "perform" health is the root of disordered eating
• How conditional self-esteem fuels food choices based on others' opinions
• Why this pattern shows up differently across body size, culture, and identity
• What health professionals must do first before coaching anyone on eating behavior

Mentioned on the show:

Groundwork: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/groundwork

Non-Diet Coaching Certification Waitlist: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/non-diet-coaching-certification/

Non-Diet Client Assessment Tool: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/clientassessment

Coach Corner Vault: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/coach-corner

Weight-Neutral Coaching Training: https://www.stephaniedodier.com/shop