Insatiable with Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC

Depression is not a disease, it’s a symptom. Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use the world over, with 1 in 4 women starting their day with medication. With her groundbreaking, science-based and holistic approach, Dr. Brogan shatters the mythology conventional medicine has built around the causes and treatment of depression. According to Dr. Kelly Brogan, antidepressants not only over promise and under deliver, but their use may permanently disable the body’s self-healing potential.Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Sas has a Masters degree in Coaching & Mentoring from Oxford Brookes, and is a Certified Dr. Martha Beck Life Coach. She has also been coaching women leaders for the past 6 years in adaptive challenges. Find out why it’s great news that you only made it to day 9 of your Whole30 cleanse or your resolutions have already gone to shit. It turns out even though you think weight watchers, whole 30 or Ketogenic diets are all different , the way the approach nutrition is actually the same, which gives the power to the food. In today’s episode learn the difference between technical and adaptive change and why weight loss is an adaptive problem that we try to use technical solutions for like cleanses and marathon training. But it simply doesn’t work!Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Agency is a word rarely associated with weight loss and healthy eating. Yet it’s a root cause of emotional eating and bingeing. In this episode, Ali shares:1. What agency is and why it’s critical to weight loss and health2. How the degree of agency we have determines if we overeat or full out binge3. Coaches Insatiable listener Stephanie Cahill on where she’s lacking agency today and beginning steps to transform into someone with more agency and power to eliminate “I deserve this” eating.Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

October 15 marked 10 years for me as an entrepreneur in the wellness space, studying, practicing and synthesizing what it means to be well. In today’s episode, I want to share 10 wellness truths my clients and I have experienced. I hope these insights will help invigorate your journey if you have momentum or support you to get you unstuck if you’re struggling.Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

What a milestone. In today’s episode, my client Liza turns the tables and interviews me! We get into the influences of my work, the important healing reasons I designed Truce with Food the way it is and what I’m working on in my own health and with my work to support more people becoming liberated in their bodies and lives.Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

For many people, the feeling of I need to diet is the background music of their lives. Sometimes it’s at lower volumes and then sometimes, it’s at so loud it drives a panic to find a new diet or approach to quiet the thoughts down.In today’s episode, we talk with my client Laura Folkes about:1. Her journey of losing 60 pounds yet finding herself trapped in the fear of gaining the weight back that lead to a battle with food2. How adding in this food group was life-changing and helped stabilize her thoughts and appetite around food3. What she discovered was really happening underneath feeling fat and like she needed to count points again to lose weightSend me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Most people think they aren’t reaching their health goals because of a lack of willpower. In this episode, I dispel this myth and discuss:1. The different types of discipline required to be consistent with working out versus food2. The importance of not pushing through your physical hunger and how that back fires3. How to start to build the discipline required to understand your makes no sense eatingSend me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Many people have an image of physical therapy based on a bad experience from a friend or family member or that it’s only relevant after a major trauma like a stroke. But that’s not true! One of it’s superpowers is the ability to get to the root cause of chronic pain issues like back and neck pain.In today’s episode, I sit down with my client Karen Emery, who is a physical therapist to discuss how the you can use PT in your own life.We discuss:1. The unexpected reasons you might want to see a PT instead of starting to explore your pain with an MRI or CT scan.2. How your doctor might not even be aware of when to refer you to a PT and how you can be a better advocate for getting pain relief3. How to access and find a phenomenal PT for you as well as movement guidelines for health and better postureSend me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

It’s been six months since we caught up with my Truce with Food client Linda. We all know we can make changes for a little bit. But what does it really take to make changes that stick? Turns out it’s all about the inner world of your emotions. Last time we left off, Linda’s health goal was to get off her antidepressants and of course, maintain all her progress. Has she maintained and made progress now that she’s not in the Truce with Food program? And now off anti-depressants?In today’s episode, we discuss:1.1. How Linda’s dealing with stress and overwhelm without food or her antidepressants for more rewarding outcomes2.2. How work with her emotions has become a powerful source of confidence, improved many of her relationships and has led to her taking risks with and at work.3.3. What’s happening with Linda’s nighttime eating and why she’s not freaking out about it at allSend me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.

Dr. Blum is back with us today to talk about arthritis and the latest research on the gut microbiome and the influence of stress and trauma on all sorts of arthritis and autoimmune conditions, which arthritis is one. Arthritis is not a condition for old people. It also affects women more than men.In today’s episode, we discuss:1. The role trauma plays into triggering autoimmune conditions like arthritis and how stress can reactivate dormant symptoms2. The role resilience plays in both finishing the healing protocols we start and managing stress, including different types of tools to be able to see stress as resilience building instead of something negative.3. Gut biome entertypoes and an in-depth discussion of what researchers are coming to believe about if we can change the nature of our gut biome.Send me (Ali) a text message. Connect with Ali & Insatiable: Click here to text Insatiable (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won’t be able to text back. Please don’t delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for us.