072: Savouring Healthy Weight with Psychologist Deb Thompson

Deb Thompson is a Psychologist and Integral Master CoachTM who empowers women to shed shame and build nourished lives so they can savour lasting weight wellness. This is a journey she knows firsthand. Six months to her 40th birthday, in 2003, Deb was carrying 222 lbs. on her 5’5′ frame. The vicious circles of fatigue, discouragement, inactivity, overeating and overworking had her absolutely stuck. A huge pivot was to seek weight loss on behalf of being worthy of wellness and vitality, rather than to become worthy. Deb began to nourish herself with good food, movement, play, rest, belonging and meaningfulness, developing new habits and mindsets, ultimately allowing her to lose and keep off 85 lbs for over 13 years now. She has recently created Your Nourished Life as the offspring of her own journey and years of counselling and coaching women who struggle with weight.  Deb offers 1:1 coaching around the world via videoconferencing. You can taste her approach with a free email mini-course: Eff Overeating — The Five Day Fix (sign up at www.yournourishedlife.com), and join her Facebook group for thoughtful, whole-hearted, full-bodied women seeking a compassionate, creative and customized approach to weight wellness. Transcript: Welcome to The Art of Living big. I’m your host, Betsy Pake, and this podcast is designed to share interviews and new ideas to help you redefine what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. today’s podcast is brought to you by audible. Get a free audio book download and a 30 day free trial at audible trial, comm backslash live big. There’s over 180,000 different titles to choose from. And you can listen on your iPhone, your Android, your Kindle, or your mp3 player. Now here’s the show. Hey, everybody, welcome to the show. I’m here today with my friend Deb Thompson. Hey, Deb. Hi, Betsy. How are you? Hey, I’m awesome. I’m excited to have you on the show. I’m stoked to. So tell everybody about a little bit about you and what you do. Hmm. So I’m a psychologist, I’m a clinical psychologist, I went to grad school for a long time. So my mom gets to send birthday cards to Dr. Deb Thompson. And, and then I’m also I went back to school and did some more more. I don’t know just more holistic training as a type of coach. And I’m a mom of three young adults and one Airedale terrier. And now I’m moving more into I guess I’ve been working with women around wellness, and specifically weight wellness for about 10 years one on one, and I’m just trying to get some of that material together. So that maybe more people can tap into what what I found to be to be really helpful in my own life and, and and with my clients. You know, I think weight is an issue that in the United States, at least, it is something that’s on the top of our minds, right? Like, I’m gonna say constantly or for most people, it’s something that they think about at different times throughout the day. But when you say weight wellness, what is what do you mean by that? Hmm. Well, I think that when people are certainly in extremely overweight or obese health and well being are compromised physically in terms of risk of things like diabetes and heart disease, and also usually vitality energy Mojo pep in your step, you know, it’s I used to be I weighed 222 pounds, and I’m only five foot five. So I myself was was in that landscape for about 20 years from 19 to 39. Yeah, and then over about a two year span, I dropped 85 pounds.