In today's show you will learn:

• What intuitive eating means
• How our food preferences develop
• Why removing emotion from a child's eating is key
• Why you shouldn't expect your kids to eat anything that you won't
• The importance of using experiences as a reward instead of food
• Why you should never force your kid to eat when they don't want to
• What our role as parents is and how we can shape our children's intuitive eating principles
• Why my husband still won't eat his peas
• How to get your kids to think about the food choices they are making
• How we've taught our oldest daughter to connect the food she eats to how she feels

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Expectations have a way of wreaking havoc on life. It can really suck the joy out of all things.

I say this knowing full well what living in a life full of expectations can do. The problem was for the longest time I never realized that expectations were the root of a lot of arguments, anger, and let-downs. I truly believed that expectations were, well expected in this life.

I mean it's kind of ingrained in us from the time we were little ones. There's no escaping it, from expecting our children to behave well, to expect to get paid on time, to expecting everything in your day to go perfectly planned or how about expecting to lose weight on your next "diet". And the list continues.

But what happens when reality strikes, your kids fall apart, your paycheck comes in a few days late or you get stuck in traffic only to be late for your 8:00 am meeting? You become reactive. In my case, reactive means angry, distraught and anxious about the realities that have actually happened that seem to be far from what I expected.

Maybe it's the fantasy land we create or believe others are living simply because of the perfection of social media. Maybe it is just a human tendency to want to be right. I'm not really sure where the urge to create unending expectations comes in but the reality, they're sabotaging our chances of actually getting what we've set out to get, of meeting our goals.

So before you get into today's episode on preventing expectations and all of the reasons you should change it up and forget them I want to ask you, are your expectations met? What happens when they aren't? How does it make you feel and why do you even make them?

Just a little light thinking for you ;)

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This episode is very near and dear to my heart. It's my personal story of hitting my lowest of lows and through that learning, growing and transforming myself and Simple Roots with a new direction. I'll take you on a journey of finding myself and fully believing in something bigger than me and my recommended steps for you to write your own story.

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You asked and I delivered. In this bonus episode I will give you advice, tips, tricks and hacks on how to get the most vibrant and youthful skin. From why birth control pills work, the alternatives, balancing hormones for clear skin, my favorite beauty products and more.

Our mouth is one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated systems of the body. But if we dig further we can see just how vital the mouth is. If you thought dentistry was just about cleanings and fillings you're going to want to tune in.

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One transformation story of a self-sabotaging young girl turned fitness model who experienced rejection over 40 times before realizing what it takes to succeed in life. It's an episode to showcase that if you struggle with shame and lack of confidence, you are not alone. That even cover models have been through it, experience it and yet no matter who you are there are simple ways to overcome this. Find out more in this deep and meaningful episode with Lori Harder.

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