Vanessa Preston

🌱 Therapist & Trauma Specialist
🌱 Breathwork Facilitator (Pranayama)
🌱 Supporting Body Image & Eating Disorder Healing
🌱 Curiosity & Compassion

11/10/2022

Sending lots of love and compassion to you all 💌
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10/10/2022

I wanted to celebrate my 50th podcast episode with you all!!!! My husband, Ray Dalton, finally agreed to come on the podcast to interview me. He tried to go by an alias but I wouldn't let him😂😂 Thank you so much to my listeners💕 Join us to celebrate🥳

26/09/2022

Lisa Dahl (my guest for today) and I spoke so long that I decided to make this a 2 part episode!

In part 2, we discuss mindful meal planning and meal prepping, practical ways to implement this and overcoming barriers to this.

We discussed the below resources:

1. Plan to Eat app (free two week trial period)
2. “Raising an Intuitive Eater” by Summer Brooks and Amee Severson
3. “Gentle Nutrition” by Rachael Hartley

I love this conversation so much!

A bit about Lisa:
Lisa offers her signature program, “Body Peace & Food Freedom,” to support women on their journey to break free from dieting and diet culture. Through a series of interactive group and individual coaching sessions, participants will engage in reflective practices that create healthy, sustainable relationships with food and their bodies. Lisa’s hallmark emphasis on mindfulness and self-compassion help women find a successful pathway to whole-body wellness. Lisa has certifications in Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, health and wellness coaching, and personal training. She is a skilled group facilitator with credentials from The Body Positive and Gratefulness.org. Lisa is working towards her National Board Certification for Health and Wellness.

25/09/2022

Shame can be an intensely painful emotion and is often tied to not feeling enough...enough for love, attention, affection or kindness. The antidote to shame: connection, safety and self-compassion. If you'd like to learn more, check out my Body and Food Freedom podcast episodes #3, #13 or #22.

24/09/2022

All parts of you deserve compassion and validation❣️

21/09/2022

It's ok to cry ❤️
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20/09/2022

Sometimes the typical body neutral affirmations fall short for me and I don't think I'm alone in this. I think this is especially true for people with chronic illness, trauma or people with bodies where big changes have occurred.
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So here's some affirmations for you ❤️ Notice the importance of "AND". It allows us to hold multiple truths at the same time.
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18/09/2022

From me to you. xo
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12/09/2022

Lisa Dahl (my guest for today) and I spoke so long that I decided to make this a 2 part episode!

In part 1, we discuss Lisa’s own body and food story and all things gentle nutrition. Gentle nutrition is the last principle in the intuitive eating framework and can be challenging!

We discussed the below resources:

1. Plan to Eat app (free two week trial period)
2. “Raising an Intuitive Eater” by Summer Brooks and Amee Severson
3. “Gentle Nutrition” by Rachael Hartley

I loved this conversation so much!

A bit about Lisa:

Lisa offers her signature program, “Body Peace & Food Freedom,” to support women on their journey to break free from dieting and diet culture. Lisa’s hallmark emphasis on mindfulness and self-compassion help women find a successful pathway to whole-body wellness. Lisa has certifications in Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, health and wellness coaching, and personal training. She is a skilled group facilitator with credentials from The Body Positive and Gratefulness.org. Lisa is working towards her National Board Certification for Health and Wellness.

03/09/2022

These are photos I took from my morning walk🌻

Flowers are such a source of beauty and comfort to me partly because my mum was a flourist before she was a nurse. So colourful flowers remind me of simpler times...before adulting got in the way😂

This is a great grounding tool (grounding= ways to anchor back into your environment or your body especially when your mind is busy). Here's 2 ways:

1) As you walk, choose a colour and observe where you see that colour pop up (example: notice all the red things around you)

2) Choose one sound to focus on. I love listening to all the Australian birds.

Once you've done this, see if you can slow and deepen your breath❤️

Something I hear in my private practice from clients is "I know doing these things help but I never do them".

So get curious...what are barriers to practicing things like grounding? What's the resistance to it?

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