Welcome to the Whole-Hearted Eating Podcast!

Welcome to the Whole-Hearted Eating podcast: where non-diet nutrition, weight-inclusive care, and integrative health collide. Whole-Hearted Eating is a philosophy created by your hosts, Dana Monsees (hey, that’s me!) and Cristina Hoyt (my co-host and business partner in crime!), Licensed Integrative Clinical Nutritionists and Body Image Coaches. We believe you deserve to have a joyful relationship with food and your body even if you have a chronic health condition or symptoms that just won’t quit. This show goes beyond introducing you to new, expanded ideas – we’re bringing the real talk (no BS) vibe with tangible tools to get you officially out of the all or nothing mentality, learn to accept your body, and how to untangle nutrition from diet and wellness culture.
WHERE TO LISTEN to the Whole-Hearted Eating Podcast:
PLUS ANYWHERE PODCASTS CAN BE FOUND! Have a topic you’d love me to cover? email us at hello@wholeheartedeating.com OR comment on a podcast episode blog post (linked below) with your idea!
Latest episodes
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Best books of 2025
Welcome to our annual best books episode! This year we’re switching things up and doing book awards and superlatives for each category, like best book of the year, best series, biggest gut punch, etc. We hope you get lots of recommendations from this episode, and send us your recommendations with favorites from this year too!…
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Hypermobility and hEDS: how it affects nutrition, gut health, and more with Cheryl Harris RD
Let’s talk about being bendy. For some people, hypermobility is purely a fun party trick, or they’re “just more bendy” than others. They could drop into a split as a kid, crush ballet/gymnastics, have no issues getting into weird positions for sports or weightlifting — and that was the end of the story. But for…
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What is food noise? And is it all bad?
If you’ve been on social media or anywhere but living under a rock lately, you’ve probably seen the phrase “food noise” popping up—often alongside weight loss medications like Ozempic. It’s being marketed as something we should all want to get rid of. But what is food noise really? And is it as much of a…
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“Summer bodies” are a scam
Let’s talk about the summer body scam: why you can (and I highly recommend that you) opt out. Summer is one of my favorite times of the year. Sunshine, summer swim season, pool days, popsicles… and the onslaught of “get beach-ready” messages that make you want to crawl into a hoodie and hide until October….
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Burnout is wrecking your body image. (Here’s why)
Ever notice how the more burned out you feel, the worse your body image gets? You’re not imagining it. In this week’s episode of The Millennial Body Image Project, we dive into the connection between burnout, a dysregulated nervous system, and increased body checking. Think: mirror-checking, zooming in on every flaw in selfies, or constantly…

