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Welcome to Thrive Beyond Size, the podcast that’s all about finding health, joy, and liberation beyond weight. Join Dr. Michelle Tubman as she dives into the latest research and evidence-based strategies for nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and emotional wellbeing. Our mission is to empower you to prioritize your health, not your weight, and to promote a world where everyone can thrive, regardless of their size. Let’s work together to break free from diet culture, enjoy vibrant ...
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**If you're looking for The Joyful Movement Show, you're in the right place. We've got a new name, but same mission and content!** The Power in Motion Podcast is the show for women who are ready for a different approach to movement, food and health. Around here, we're all about nurturing a respectful and trusting relationship with the body you have. In addition to sharing weight neutral fitness and joyful movement motivation, we’ll also talk about intuitive eating and body image, as well as ...
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214 - The Body Remembers: Fascia, the Psoas, and the Weight of Unfelt Trauma
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Today’s episode is a little shorter than usual, but it dives deep—literally—into the body. Michelle shares what she’s been learning about two often-overlooked players in our physical and emotional well-being: the fascia and the psoas muscle. Though rarely discussed in traditional medical training, these structures play a crucial role in how our bod…
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We’ve all heard the statistic: 95% of diets fail. But what about the 5% that don’t? What’s really going on when someone does lose weight and keep it off? In this episode, I share a personal conversation with my husband, Rob, that sparked a deeper dive into what “success” in diet culture actually looks like—and whether the elusive 5% is something we…
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212 - Bare Minimums: Staying Connected When Life Is Hard
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We all have days (or weeks… or seasons) where everything feels like it’s falling apart—when you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and have nothing left to give. So what do you do on those days? In this episode, Michelle shares a deeply personal story about a tough Friday night and the small, nourishing decision that changed everything. It’s a story about …
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Summer is often seen as the season of joy—sunshine, connection, spontaneity, and play. But for many, it also brings body image triggers, food anxiety, and pressure to do summer "right." In this reflective solo episode, Michelle unpacks the paradox of summer: how it can be both a healing balm and a battleground. You'll hear: Why summer can feel more…
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210: Between Extremes: What TikTok Gets Wrong About Food and Bodies
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This week on Thrive Beyond Size, Michelle shares a powerful story of envisioning her future self—a vibrant, joyful, fat elder woman—and the unexpected emotional release that followed. But what started as a profound moment of body acceptance was quickly disrupted by a trip to TikTok that served up a harsh reminder of the world we’re still living in.…
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209 - Slowing Down, Tuning In: Why Woo-Woo Helped Me Heal
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This week on Thrive Beyond Size, we’re lightening things up with a more personal, vulnerable episode. Michelle shares how her intuitive eating journey unexpectedly led her into the world of tarot cards, moon rituals, crystals, and meditation—and why she now embraces practices she once would’ve rolled her eyes at. Far from being flighty or irrationa…
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208 + When Intuitive Eating Doesn’t Work (Yet): Trauma and Safety in the Body
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In this follow-up to last week’s conversation about trauma and weight, Dr. Michelle Tubman explores a crucial truth that doesn’t get talked about enough: you can’t listen to a body you don’t feel safe in. While intuitive eating is often positioned as the antidote to food struggles, it’s not always the right starting point—especially for those navig…
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This week on Thrive Beyond Size, Michelle dives into a growing narrative in the trauma-informed wellness world: that if you heal your trauma, you’ll lose weight. While well-meaning, this belief is not only overly simplistic—it’s harmful. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why trauma can influence weight—but doesn’t always What the ACEs study really tel…
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206 - Lipedema: The Unrecognized Disorder Affecting Millions of Women
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In this urgent and deeply moving episode, Michelle sits down with Emma Cloney and Diana Dimmock—two powerful advocates from Lipedema Canada—to talk about the medical condition most clinicians have never even heard of, despite its potential to affect 1 in 9 women. Together, they dive into: What lipedema actually is—and how it differs from lymphedema…
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205 - Hot Takes with Rob: Gym Selfies, Cheat Days, Dad Bods & More
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What happens when you ask your husband for his unfiltered opinions on diet culture, fitness myths, and wellness fads? You get Hot Takes with Rob—a lighthearted, totally unscripted episode where Rob and I riff on everything from gym selfies and cheat days to dad bods, fat jokes in movies, and whether "no pain, no gain" still has a place in our lives…
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204 - Rethinking Exercise: How to Make Movement Joyful, Not a Chore
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What happens when you want to move your body more—but it always feels like a “should”? In this episode, I’m sharing a personal story from a recent camping trip with my husband, Rob, that sparked a meaningful conversation about movement, motivation, and mindset. Together, we unpacked what’s really getting in the way of consistent, joyful movement—ev…
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203 - When You Rush Through Life (and Reach for Food Instead)
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What if your eating habits could teach you more about how you move through the world than you ever imagined? In this deeply personal episode, I share insights sparked by a recent labyrinth walk—one that cracked open an uncomfortable (but necessary) realization about how I navigate discomfort in all areas of life, not just around food. You’ll hear: …
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Healthism is everywhere—but most of us don’t even know it has a name. In this powerful episode of Thrive Beyond Size, Dr. Michelle Tubman unpacks the hidden force that turns health into a moral responsibility and worth into a measurement of discipline. From the praise of weight loss at any cost to the judgment we place on food, movement, and rest, …
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201: What Fiction Can Teach Us About Diet Culture – A Conversation with Paulette Stout
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This week, I’m joined by award-winning author Paulette Stout for a powerful conversation about her latest novel, What We Give Away—a book that absolutely blew me away. We explore how fiction can illuminate truths in ways facts and figures can’t, and why Paulette’s story of a woman navigating disordered eating, body image, and diet culture feels so …
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200: From Weight Loss to Body Trust – My Full Circle Journey
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Welcome to Episode 200 of Thrive Beyond Size! 🎉 This milestone episode is deeply personal. I'm pulling back the curtain on my full journey—from launching this podcast in my bedroom closet under the name Mindful Weight Loss… to becoming a fierce advocate for body trust, intuitive eating, and weight-inclusive care. In this episode, I share: The truth…
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199: Familiar Comfort vs True Nourishment
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In this episode of Thrive Beyond Size, I'm diving into something that's been showing up in my own intuitive eating journey lately—something sneaky that might be tripping you up too: the difference between pleasure and familiarity. Sometimes we reach for certain foods, habits, or even thought patterns not because they truly bring us joy or nourishme…
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Hello there, and welcome back to the podcast. In last week’s episode, I used the phrase ‘food freedom’ in the context of food being a mirror to show the relationship you have with yourself. But upon reflection, it doesn’t make sense. Food freedom is a phrase that is used a lot in diet culture and weight loss circles. But what is food freedom? It so…
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197: The Mirror Effect - It's Not Just About the Food
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Welcome, everyone. I’m excited to have you back here this week because I want to talk to you about something truly life-changing. I call it the mirror effect. It has to do with diet culture telling us to fix our eating and fix our bodies when really those are not the issues. There’s nothing wrong with our bodies. I want to make the point that true …
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196: The Control Paradox - Why More Food Rules Make You Feel More Out Of Control
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. This episode was partly inspired by my husband returning to school and watching how meticulous he is about his assignments. The effort he puts into things is admirable but not sustainable and I realized that striving for perfection is about the illusion of control. It correlates to healing rela…
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195: Welcome to Nourish Yourself Body+Mind
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Hello friends and welcome back to the podcast! Today I have something truly special to share with you, something that I’ve been pouring my heart and soul into for months. Today I’m announcing the launch of my brand new course: Nourish Yourself Body+Mind. This course, Nourish Yourself Body+Mind, is a roadmap and support system for unlearning what di…
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Friends, welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size. Today I’m talking about intuitive eating and how the heck you do it while on your period. I realized when I instinctively bought cookies that I almost never buy while grocery shopping the other day, that my mind and body are pretty in sync now because a day or two later I got my period. Which explains th…
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I’m happy to have you back with me at Thrive Beyond Size. Last week I was truly fatigued, so exhausted, but this week I’m feeling better and reclaiming energy. And today I want to talk to you about something I’ve struggled with along the course of my own intuitive eating journey: a fear of hunger. Hunger can feel uncomfortable and scary and those f…
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Welcome back, friends. I’m exploring what happens to our food cravings when we’re exhausted. Why is eating and choosing food such a chore when we’re fatigued? How does it affect our decision-making? We’ve all been there, overwhelmed and bone tired, staring at the kitchen and thinking the only option is the fast option. But we’ve been made to feel g…
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191: When Your Favorite Foods No Longer Bring You Joy
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Hello everyone and welcome back! The subject of today’s episode was inspired by an experience I had on a road trip through my home province of Alberta to a medical conference. My husband and I have been making the same trip for 50 years and we have little rituals where we stop for breaks and get favorite snacks. A certain donut shop is one of those…
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190: Raising Intuitive Eaters with Christina Claytor
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Hello everyone! Welcome back to the podcast. It has been a while since I’ve shared an interview with you and I’m excited about this one because I welcome back a former guest and one of the coaches who works inside Wayza Health. Christina Claytor, the founder of Mindful Health Revolution, joins me again but this time to talk about raising her two yo…
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