Food For Thought - the Podcast

DDG - Drugging

Drug use has been either hidden, villainized or both and neither helped to deal with the whys around why people used. With the legalization of cannabis there have emerged a number of new problems as people feel more comfortable being open about their use, or trying it for the first time. 

Anecdotal evidence has long suggested there were medicinal benefits, but it is only now that we can start to do the research to determine what, how much, when etc. cannabis use can be helpful.

In the meantime, there are regulations in place in the CAF that mean that recreational use still falls within a pretty limited scope and so it is important to know what that scope is so that you don't endanger your career, yourself or others. 

Listen and learn and find out if you are in the green (no pun intended) with respect to your drug use and make sure that you are not a trajectory to health or life problems. 

Thanks for listening - be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! F4T is available to be heard on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In, Spotify, Google Player and of course Apple Podcasts.

Food for Thought is brought to you by Charissa McKay and Nicole Emerson and all our great guests.

All production, post-production and promotion by Charissa McKay, music by UppBeat. Recorded in Edmonton, or Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 land, Metis Nation Region 4, home to the first peoples including the Cree, Dene, Stoney, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Blackfoot.

Find more Health Promotion content at www.cfmws.ca/edmonton and search for Health Promotion Edmonton.

DDG - Drinking

People drink for many reasons - do you know yours? There are both positives and negatives to drinking, the catch is that depending on your motivation for drinking - it can quickly become a slippery slope. 

We know that stress and anxiety, which are a part of life, are reasons some people drink, and we also know that the pandemic has increased the stress and anxiety - which means that the risk for problem drinking has also increased. Even now as we return to more normal routines, there are still many concerns people have related to the everyday life stuff that continue to require coping strategies, and unfortunately, drinking is a coping strategy for many.

Listen to an in-depth discussion of what you need to consider when you are dealing with stress, when drinking might be getting to be a problem or what to look for when you think someone you know might need help. 

Thanks for listening - be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! F4T is available to be heard on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In, Spotify, Google Player and of course Apple Podcasts.

Food for Thought is brought to you by Charissa McKay and Nicole Emerson and all our great guests.

All production, post-production and promotion by Charissa McKay, music by UppBeat. Recorded in Edmonton, or Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 land, Metis Nation Region 4, home to the first peoples including the Cree, Dene, Stoney, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Blackfoot.

Find more Health Promotion content at www.cfmws.ca/edmonton and search for Health Promotion Edmonton.

A4C - New Beginnings: Ditching What Didn’t/Doesn’t Work

Wouldn't it be nice if we could all have a do over or a mulligan?

Well, when it comes to getting to the other side of that finish line - there are as many clean slates as you need! Sound crazy? Well it isn't so much crazy as a radically different way of stopping ourselves from beating ourselves up for making mistakes. Last I checked we were all still human and there is no one that hasn't made mistakes. It's what we choose to do after that really makes or breaks whether you are going to be "successful" or not. 

If you learn to live in the now, appreciate where you are now and then make choices that will help you get to where you think you want to be - using those systems we discussed in Ep 2 or realizing that we need a good and proper relationship with food (Ep 3) - then you will find yourself on the other side of that finish line. 

But beating yourself up after every set back isn't the way to do it. You need to be your best cheerleader - not (only) your worst critic. 

Join your Edmonton Health Promotion Specialists as they wrap up the A4C series looking at ways that new beginnings helps to accomplish happy endings. 

Thanks for listening - be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! F4T is available to be heard on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In, Spotify, Google Player and of course Apple Podcasts.

Food for Thought is brought to you by Charissa McKay and Nicole Emerson and all our great guests.

All production, post-production and promotion by Charissa McKay, music by UppBeat. Recorded in Edmonton, or Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 land, Metis Nation Region 4, home to the first peoples including the Cree, Dene, Stoney, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Blackfoot.

Find more Health Promotion content at www.cfmws.ca/edmonton and search for Health Promotion Edmonton.

A4C - Eat-Repent-Repeat: What is Your Relationship with Food? What Triggers your Eating?

If you still believe that there are good and bad foods and that you are good or bad for eating them, then join your Edmonton Health Promotion Specialists as they smash that notion into far left field. 

We all have a relationship with food - some are just a little more dysfunctional than others. It doesn't mean that you are weird or messed up just that you need to go a little deeper than thinking it's all about the macros if you want to finally get your eating and food choices to where you want them to be. And that is not going to happen without recognizing that food is often both a trigger and a coping strategy. 

If you want to straighten out your relationship with food then this episode is for you. Building on some of what we discussed in Episodes 1 and 2, we'll help you recognize that not until we start to unpack some of the underlying issues that we may have with food that it's unlikely that we are going to be able to stay on the other side of that finish line for very long. The bungee cord of "bad habits and triggered eating" is going to pull you back until you tackle those triggers whether they are situations, people, feelings or whatever. 

Buckle up - this one is a bumpy ride. 

Thanks for listening - be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! F4T is available to be heard on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In, Spotify, Google Player and of course Apple Podcasts.

Food for Thought is brought to you by Charissa McKay and Nicole Emerson and all our great guests.

All production, post-production and promotion by Charissa McKay, music by UppBeat. Recorded in Edmonton, or Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 land, Metis Nation Region 4, home to the first peoples including the Cree, Dene, Stoney, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Blackfoot.

Find more Health Promotion content at www.cfmws.ca/edmonton and search for Health Promotion Edmonton.

A4C - Systems for Success

Have you ever wondered why you keep setting goals and you keep not achieving them? Are you tired of "failing"?

Maybe what you need is a little James Clear and his Atomic Habits to get you sorted!

Join Edmonton's Health Promotion Specialists as they walk you through how getting your systems in order increases the chances that the success you redefined in Episode 1 is going to come to fruition. You may have simply been underestimating the number of steps that went into any one thing - so that the habits, rituals or behaviours that you want to have to get you to the other side of that finish line, never really get off the ground. The intention was there - you just needed to break it down a little more -so listen in and learn how to take it to the next level.

Thanks for listening - be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! F4T is available to be heard on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In, Spotify, Google Player and of course Apple Podcasts.

Food for Thought is brought to you by Charissa McKay and Nicole Emerson and all our great guests.

All production, post-production and promotion by Charissa McKay, music by UppBeat. Recorded in Edmonton, or Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 land, Metis Nation Region 4, home to the first peoples including the Cree, Dene, Stoney, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Blackfoot.

Find more Health Promotion content at www.cfmws.ca/edmonton and search for Health Promotion Edmonton.

A4C Picturing Success and Changing the Conversation

Join Edmonton's Health Promotion Specialists as they discuss what success could mean to you - if you choose to redefine it and picture it in a way that is drastically different from what society has us believe is success. Understand how the conversations that we have with ourselves and the different sources of influence that impact that conversation also impacts how successful we can (or can't be). 

Join us if you are tired of being your worst enemy and want to get off the hamster wheel of guilt and failure and learn how to be better not because you are following some new diet or exercise plan, but because you get to choose what success looks like for you and build on the momentum of those little successes to eventually get you over the other side of the finish line.

Thanks for listening - be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! F4T is available to be heard on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In, Spotify, Google Player and of course Apple Podcasts.

Food for Thought is brought to you by Charissa McKay and Nicole Emerson and all our great guests.

All production, post-production and promotion by Charissa McKay, music by UppBeat. Recorded in Edmonton, or Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 land, Metis Nation Region 4, home to the first peoples including the Cree, Dene, Stoney, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Blackfoot.

Find more Health Promotion content at www.cfmws.ca/edmonton and search for Health Promotion Edmonton.

A4C Trailer

Are you tired of living feeling like you are being controlled by your food, your body image, or what the world is telling us that we should look like, be like, and eat like? If you are ready to have a different conversation with yourself and explore what your relationship with food is and how you would like to take back control - then check out the trailer and tune in for the rest of the series. 

Thanks for listening - be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! F4T is available to be heard on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In, Spotify, Google Player and of course Apple Podcasts.

Food for Thought is brought to you by Charissa McKay and Nicole Emerson and all our great guests.

All production, post-production and promotion by Charissa McKay, music by UppBeat. Recorded in Edmonton, or Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 land, Metis Nation Region 4, home to the first peoples including the Cree, Dene, Stoney, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Blackfoot.

Find more Health Promotion content at www.cfmws.ca/edmonton and search for Health Promotion Edmonton.

Season 3 Ep 4 - BMI Busted!

It's unlikely that you have not heard of the BMI, and it's even less likely that you don't have stories about how BMI impacted (mostly negatively) people's lives and careers. Listen to Nicole and Charissa talk about the interesting history and path that the BMI took from it's mathematical origins to a tool that has in truth, done more harm than good. It's the last episode before the rebrand, so sit back and get ready to learn how we can undo some of the damage that BMI has done and move forward in way where we all end up winners on the other side of that now infamous finish line. 

Thanks for listening - be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! F4T is available to be heard on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In, Spotify, Google Player and of course Apple Podcasts.

Food for Thought is brought to you by Charissa McKay and Nicole Emerson and all our great guests.

All production, post-production and promotion by Charissa McKay, music by UppBeat. Recorded in Edmonton, or Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 land, Metis Nation Region 4, home to the first peoples including the Cree, Dene, Stoney, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Blackfoot.

Find more Health Promotion content at www.cfmws.ca/edmonton and search for Health Promotion Edmonton.