How To Handle Body Grief in PCOS with Steph Prangley, NTP – The Fed and Fearless Podcast Episode 84
Nearly everyone has had expectations of what their body should look like or what it should be able to do. These ideas come from many places, usually external, unhealthy ones. And when you fail to live up to them, the result can commonly be grief and unhealthy habits. Today’s guest helps her clients reframe how they understand their bodies so that they can build new healthier mindsets and practices.
LISTEN TO EPISODE 84 OF THE FED AND FEARLESS PODCAST
Or listen and subscribe for free on your favorite app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Android | TuneIn
About Steph Prangley
Steph Prangley is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and owner of Infinity Hill Nutrition, a virtual private practice specializing in women’s hormone health. She helps women with PCOS gain energy, improve ovulation, and stabilize moods so they can accomplish all of their important life goals while being fully present in their relationships.
Steph believes it’s possible to gain freedom from the painful and embarrassing symptoms of PCOS by reframing body grief to body acceptance and learning how to trust your body and read its signals. With compassion and kindness, she gently guides her clients with mindset work, nutrition, lifestyle, and their own intuition to build body trust and successfully manage symptoms for the long run.
Reversing the Disconnection Between You and Your Body
Body grief gets in the way of healing. It removes you from the present moment as you grieve for the loss of some imaginary future or the way your body used to be. Steph describes how this disconnect can be reversed by accepting and honoring your body.
Once this is achieved, you can learn how to listen to what your body is telling you. When you understand your body’s signals you can cut through all the outside noise of society and positive changes will follow. With this comes the understanding that healing is not only possible, but you’re in control of it.
An Intuitive Approach to Healing
As you can imagine, mindset is essential to this. It’s important to remember that just because somebody has an “ideal” body, it doesn’t mean that they’re happy. Detaching your emotional state from health outcomes while also working towards your goal is the key.
Steph teaches her clients to do this by helping them hone their intuitive senses. When you find yourself craving food or feeling a certain way, it’s time to stop and examine the source of those feelings. This approach helps you remove self-judgment and identify healthy choices for your body.
How can you start intuitively listening to your body’s signals? Leave a comment below!
Got a question you’d love to hear me answer on the show? Leave me a voice message here!
IN THIS EPISODE
- How Steph found a passion in helping women with their hormonal health [4:28]
- What body grief is and why it interferes with healing [14:26]
- Giving yourself permission to be okay with your body’s current state [20:38]
- Achieving the balance of being content with the present moment while still pursuing your goals [27:36]
- Building body trust through cultivating intuition [34:41]
QUOTES
“People always say to say no to the things that aren’t serving you. But when you have to say no to the things that you love doing, that’s a whole new level of grief, or emotional grief that you have to deal with.” [15:34]
“Humans are messy and we make mistakes. Our life changes. Thankfully we’re adaptable and we can ebb and flow with that. I think we get into trouble when we try to make things flat and straight with no variability.” [24:32]
“You’re the only expert in your body. I can’t even really tell you what to eat. I can give you education on the science behind nutrients and what we know about how all of these things play into our health overall, but the only long-term strategy we can have is getting in touch with the inner-self.” [47:16]
LINKS
Sign up for 100 Leads in 30 Days
Follow Steph on Facebook | Instagram
Download the FREE Guide: The 3 BIGGEST Mistakes to Avoid With PCOS
Use this coupon code FEARLESS before June 30 to save $150
Review Fed and Fearless on Apple Podcasts! Send a screenshot of your review to [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram, and I’ll send you my Overcoming Undereating eBook. If you post your favorite episode in your Insta stories and tag me @LauraSchoenfeldRD, I’ll also send you my 14-Day Calorie Challenge Recipe Guide!
Learn more about business coaching with me
Got a question you’d love to hear me answer on the show? Leave me a voice message here!
Follow me on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Pinterest
Podcast production & marketing support by the team at Counterweight Creative
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission.
Most business advice assumes everyone should sell, lead, and grow the same way. They shouldn’t.
Your CEO Type helps you see where you create the most value, how you make decisions, and which work fits you best.
The goal isn’t to remove you from the business. It’s to keep you focused on the work where your expertise matters most and build the rest on purpose, so growth doesn’t require more of your time.
Take the free quiz to discover your CEO Type, your natural strengths, and where your business might be asking too much of you.
Build a Better Business by Understanding How You're Actually Wired to Lead
take the quiz
I'm a strategic advisor and diagnostic thinker obsessed with helping established coaches and experts build businesses that actually fit who they are, so they can keep more of what they earn and stop swimming against the current in their own business.
Glad you're here.
Hi, I'm Laura Schoenfeld
The brain behind the blog
