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Conditioned Food Sensitivity
by Wendy Busse Consulting Ltd.
Welcome to the Conditioned Food Sensitivity Podcast. My name is Wendy Busse, I am a Registered Dietitian and director of the FAST Freedom Program. FAST stands for the Food Avoidance & Sensitivity Trap. We help people rebuild their body and food trust, so they can break out of the trap, soften their conditioned food sensitivities and expand their diet. Conditioned food sensitivity is an unconsciously learned, physical reaction to food. Each podcast episode explores practical strategies that will help you look at your food sensitivities from a different perspective and find a better quality of life. If you would like a written summary of the practical strategies after each episode, you can subscribe on our FAST Freedom Program website.
Episodes
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Bringing Connection and Joy Back into Your Life
In Episode 63 — Bringing Connection and Joy Back intoYour Life — I’m joined by registered dietitian Cristel Moubarak for a thoughtful conversation about the importance of joy, connection, and flexibility in our overall wellbeing. Restrictive diets and food sensitivity fear can slowly take the...
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Soften the Stress Response to Maximize Healing
Dr. Ric Arseneau shares practical tools that are good for everyone but are especially helpful for those living with chronic conditions such as mast cell disease, fibromyalgia, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, and others. While stress does not cause these...
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Exploring Food Restriction Due to Sensory Differences
In this episode, Susan Watson and I explore the challengespeople face when certain foods feel uncomfortable due to their sensory characteristics — such as smell, taste, or texture. Susan shares both her personal experience with sensory differences and the valuable insights she’s gained through…
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Positive Visualization: Focused Use of Imagination to Change Habitual Patterns
Positive visualization can help us reshape the beliefs andpatterns that hold us back — yet creating personal audio recordings isn’t always easy. In this episode, we break down the process step by step, exploring how to write your own visualization script, record it with confidence, andweave it…
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Year-End Reflection
In this year-end episode, Wendy looks back onsome of the most powerful insights shared by her 2025 podcast guests—especiallyaround the theme of acceptance. Drawing from conversations with her guests, sheexplores how acceptance of symptoms, emotions, and lived experience can reducesuffering and...
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Help Your Child Develop a Positive Eating Relationship, Even if You Struggle with Food Fear
A parent/caregiver's food relationship impacts how their child's feeding relationship develops. For example, many children pick up food fear from a parent. Jaclyn shares tips on how to turn these challenges into teachable moments with your child. A parent/caregiver's relationship to food has a...
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Elimination Diet Red Flags: Stay out of the C-FAST
Elimination diets are a primary risk factor for getting stuck in the Conditioned Food Avoidance and Sensitivity Trap. Julia Cassidy joined me for an insightful discussion on this topic. She highlights the key warning signs that you may have developed a fearful relationship with food and what to…
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Watching Other People Eat Your Restricted Foods
Watching other people eat foods you are restricting can be challenging. Janelle shares how she has come to a place of acceptance and compassion over the last 15 years of living with celiac disease. Janelle Smith, MS, RDN, CEDS (she/her) is a registered dietitian nutritionist and Certified Eating...
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Change Your Food Reactions Through Visualization
Visualization is a powerful tool to rewire our brain's circuitry and create new pathways that lead to success. Visualization can change our relationship with food and help us move past conditioned food avoidance and sensitivity. Aaron Volpatti is a cognitive performance and injury coach, speaker,...
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Beth's Turning Point: Finding the Right Tools For My Toolbox
Beth Rosen shares her story of accepting that her digestive discomfort was chronic but also realizing there were many treatments she could explore to get back to a great quality of life. She shares her top tips on travelling this road with persistence and patience. Beth Rosen, MS, RD, CDN, is a...
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The Paradoxical Effect of Food and Symptom Journalling
Food and symptom journalling can be effective when used properly. However, it can also pull you into symptom hypervigilance and the Conditioned Food Avoidance and Sensitivity Trap (C-FAST). Join Wendy and Dr. Melissa Hunt for tips on avoiding these pitfalls. We will also discuss how the brain...
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Ep 52: Annie's Story of Healing and Resilience
Annie shares her story of how the bulimia she developed as a teenager morphed into food sensitivity restrictions while she was enrolled in a "wellness" program. She developed chronic health problems and believed that food was the cause and that a restricted diet was the cure. Annie shares how…
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Ep 51: Brain Training to Relieve Chronic Pain
Amy Slabaugh is a returning podcast guest. We released an episode in September 2023 talking about her journey with chronic, debilitating headaches and the importance of taking one road at a time (i.e. systematically trialling new treatments). Through this approach, she discovered brain training...
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Ep 50: Research Highlight - Dr. Jessica Biesiekierski
Dr. Biesiekierski discusses her groundbreaking research, highlighting the interaction between mind and body in food sensitivity reactions in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Her research was a key finding to support IBS (and other conditions) being classified as Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction...
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Ep 49: Navigating Food Reintroduction with a Flexible Mindset
Dr. Laurie Keefer discusses how a flexible, curious and resilient mindset makes food reintroduction easier. She will also share her expertise and practical tips on how to make this change. Dr Laurie Keefer, PhD is a GI Health Psychologist and Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the Icahn…
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Ep 48: Health Psychology vs. General Mental Health Counselling
Health psychology focuses on how biological, social and psychological factors influence all aspects of health. However, many people are reluctant to see a health psychologist because the recommendation can sound like, "Your symptoms are in your head" or "Your symptoms are caused by stress; just...
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Ep 47: Symptom Expectancy and Food Sensitivity
Food sensitivity is rarely a simple cause and effect. Biological and psychological factors interplay to produce symptoms. We will talk about the role of symptom expectancy (i.e., nocebo response) in exacerbating symptom severity and how minimizing expectancy can dramatically improve quality of...
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Ep 46: Calming the Gut-Brain Axis
We will discuss how signals between the gut and the brain (gut-brain access) become amplified in irritable bowel syndrome and strategies for calming this communication. The brain similarly communicates with other body parts, so the concepts and strategies apply to symptoms throughout the body....
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Ep 45: The Journey to Wellness – One Road at a Time
When there is no clear treatment path for your symptoms, you may feel lost or confused by the contradicting treatment options. The frustration often leads to not doing anything (being stuck) or jumping from one thing to the next. Amy will talk about her journey exploring one road at a time. Amy...
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Ep 44: Food Exposure Can Improve Symptoms
You are probably familiar with the vicious cycle of food avoidance leading to additional sensitivities. Dr. Burton Murray will share her clinical experience, and research showing this cycle can be reversed! She describes avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) and how cognitive…
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Ep 43: Becoming Proactive when Feeling Helpless and Other Lessons from Gut Feelings: The Patient's Story
When patients do not have a diagnosis and concrete management plan for their symptoms, they typically feel helpless and out of control. Johannah Ruddy shares her story of working with Dr. Drossman to take charge of her health. Subscribe to receive a summary of the valuable tips after each…
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Ep 42: Getting Away from Labelling Food as Safe or Unsafe
Language around food sensitivities is often black-and-white, and foods get labelled as "safe" or "unsafe." Dédé Wilson and I will talk about the impact of this black-and-white approach. Softening your language can change your relationship with food and make space for freedom. Subscribe to receive…
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Ep 41: Start 2023 By Reinvigorating Your Ojas (Vitality & Immunity)
Food and health struggles can drain your body's energy - leaving you feeling weak, helpless and frustrated. Lisa Marie Rankin will share self-care rituals and practices to re-energize and strengthen your ojas. Start 2023 on the right track with Lisa's inspiring tips! Lisa Marie Rankin is an…
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Ep 40: Elimination Diets Without Jeopardizing Your Health
When done properly, elimination diets can be extremely beneficial. Unfortunately, most people approach elimination diets haphazardly and jeopardize their long-term physical and mental health. I will discuss my top nine tips for planning and working through systematic diet elimination. With a…
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Ep 39: Retrain Your Brain to Feel Safe Around Food
Retraining your brain is a common buzzword these days. But what exactly does it mean and how does it apply to food sensitivities? Simone Albert will share her insights on the overlap between fear and food reactions and how to change these automatic reactions. Simone is the principle counsellor…
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Ep 38: Responding to a Traumatic Food-Associated Experience
Traumatic experiences associated with food can quickly pull us into the FAST and lead to conditioned food sensitivity. Makena Osborne shares a scary event that she recently went through and how she navigated through the fear. Makena is a student at the University of British Columbia, majoring in...
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Ep 37: Ditching the Shame on Your Road to Recovery
Shame - an inevitable part of chronic illness - can be a roadblock to recovery. Johannah shares the impact of shame on her health and how she found the courage to move past it. In addition to softening her symptoms, this journey has positively influenced every aspect of her life. Johannah has a...
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Ep 36: Is Your Diet Too Strict?
I discuss five key points to help you reflect on this crucial question. I challenge black-and-white misperceptions about sensitivities and offer listeners a different perspective on how to approach food and their health.
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Ep 35: Freedom Through Batch Cooking
When you have sensitivities, food can dominate your life. Batch cooking may be the answer to help you spend less time thinking about food or working in the kitchen. Kathlena (aka The Allergy Chef) tells us how batch cooking can bring time, financial, emotional and mental freedom. You can reach...
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Ep 34: My Journey as a FAST Freedom Dietitian
Audrey has been a FAST Freedom coach for six months and has done a fantastic job helping her clients move past their restricted diet struggles. She shares inspiring stories and examples of what changes have made the most significant difference in her clients' lives. Audrey is an IBS specialist...
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Ep 33: Food Sensitivities and Depression
Depression is common for those suffering from food sensitivities or mysterious symptoms. I will discuss the reasons for this connection and strategies to get out of the rut and live a full life.
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Ep 32: From Hopeless to an Effective Management Plan
Johannah tells her moving story of feeling helpless when every doctor dismissed her symptoms. Eventually, she withdrew from the medical system and assumed her only option was to live with her debilitating symptoms. Luckily, Johannah met Dr. Drossman and learned that her symptoms stemmed from a...
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Ep 31: Building a Supportive Partnership with Your Doctor
Communicating with your doctor can be challenging – especially if your symptoms are difficult to explain and there is no straightforward treatment. Patients often feel disrespected and shut down during their appointments. However, a supportive partnership with your doctor is possible. Dr.…
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Ep 30: Looking Beyond Food as a Cause of Digestive Distress
Dr. Drossman explains how we need to look at the big picture when searching for the cause of distressing symptoms (i.e. disorders of the gut-brain interaction). For example, when patients focus exclusively on the role of food, they may miss the treatments that are most likely to help them get…
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Ep 29: Breathing: Long, Smooth, Soft
Shelly answers one of my burning questions about the benefits of observing the breath vs regulating it. She takes us through a meditation to encourage longer, smoother and softer breathing (but not necessarily deep). This practice can help calm the nervous system, decrease hypervigilance and...
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Ep 28: Enrich Your Life with Non-Food Sources of Joy
When you lose the joy of eating because of a restricted diet, life can become bland. However, non-food sources of joy can bring back some pleasure and excitement. Melanie reminds us why joy is vital and how we can intentionally create opportunities to enrich our lives. Melanie Mitchell Epp is an...
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Ep 27: Bring Joy Back To Your Meals: Create an Inviting Environment
When you have sensitivities, getting overly focused on food and forgetting about your eating environment is easy. Instead, take the time to create an inviting environment and bring enjoyment back to your meal! In addition to more enjoyment, a better relationship with food can reduce your...
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Ep 26: Bring Joy Back To Your Meals: Creative Preparation
When you have food sensitivities, it is easy to get in a repetitive-food rut and resent food. Kathlena's stories and creative meal ideas will empower you to break out of this rut and rediscover the joy of eating. Kathlena has over 200 food allergies & intolerances, including most water. The…
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Ep 25: Is it Anxiety or a Food Reactions?
After a severe food anaphylactic reaction, Kristina experienced significant anxiety when eating out. She shares her stories of how she got back to a comfortable relationship with food by rebuilding her body and food trust. Kristina Seefeldt has navigated anaphylactic food allergies her whole…
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Ep 24: A Healthy Degree of Food Restriction Vigilance
Vigilance describes how careful you are with your food restrictions. Your quality of life will suffer if you are either under- or over-vigilant. Kristina shares her journey of finding a healthy degree of vigilance. Kristina Seefeldt has navigated anaphylactic food allergies her whole life. Born…
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Ep 23 - Thriving Through the Holidays: Keep Food Sensitivity Explanations to a Minimum
It is easy to get caught in a futile struggle to try and get other people to understand and accept your food sensitivities. Christine shares stories of how this led to frustration and why she keeps her explanations to a minimum. Christine Myers is a wife and a mom of two. She is a chronic illness...
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Ep 22: Thriving Through the Holidays: Moving Past Food Restriction Grief
Christine shares her anger and frustration with food restriction and her journey to thriving and helping others. If you are stuck in food-restriction grief, Christine's down-to-earth stories will help you take steps forward. Christine Myers is a wife and a mom of two. She is a chronic illness...
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Ep 21: Limbic System Hypervigilance Can Make Harmless Physical Sensations Feel Like Dangerous Symptoms
A hypervigilant limbic system looks for danger around every corner. When fear drives our awareness, we experience physical sensations more intensely and worry that it is the beginning of a symptom flare. Balanced awareness helps us differentiate between harmless physical sensations and symptoms....
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Ep 20: Food and Health Labels Can Lead to Unnecessary Food Restriction
Food labels (this food is high in histamine) and health labels (I am histamine intolerant) are easy to pick up from our fear-based media. Unfortunately, they profoundly affect our relationship with food and may lead to unnecessary restrictions. Let go of those labels and find the freedom to…
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Ep 19: Regret and Shame with Potentially Unnecessary Restrictions
Reintroducing dairy brought new freedom to Judy's life, but her inner dialogue questioned if the fifteen-year restriction was necessary or if she had unwittingly complicated her life. Judy describes how self-compassion helped her overcome this shame and regret.
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Ep 18: When Does Focusing on Gut Health Become Unhealthy?
Brooke describes how wellness culture can lead us down a path that makes the symptoms we are trying to "fix" worse. For example, we are bombarded by messages that the "right diet" will heal the gut and is a panacea for a myriad of medically unexplained symptoms. But with so many conflicting...
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Ep 17: Foster a Joyful Relationship with Food, Despite Severe Food Allergies
Kristina and her mom, Pat, reminisce about Kristina's challenges growing up with multiple, severe anaphylactic food allergies. Despite these restrictions, the family continued their foodie ways, and Kristina grew up with a positive relationship with food. They share the family rituals and...
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Ep 16: Intentional Versus Impulsive Food Reintroduction
Madeline started her diet expansion journey with impulsive reintroductions. These unsuccessful attempts reinforced her fear and food restrictions. When she learned to step back and make intentional changes, she found success and ended her restricted diet struggles. Madeline Erlich is a Registered...
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Ep 15: Connecting with Ourselves When the Present Moment is Challenging
After recording our initial self-compassion podcast, I realized that my inner dialogue was not as kind as I thought, and I asked Kristy for a follow-up episode. She shares her wisdom about softening resistance and connecting compassionately with ourselves when the present moment is challenging....
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Ep 14: Self-Compassion When You Are Facing the Uncertainty of Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Kristy talks about the importance of self-compassion when struggling with medically unexplained symptoms – especially when we feel frustrated and uncertain. We often look outside ourselves for nurturing in times of distress, but our inner champion is our greatest source of comfort. Kristy Arbon,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Conditioned Food Sensitivity Podcast. My name is Wendy Busse, I am a Registered Dietitian and director of the FAST Freedom Program. FAST stands for the Food Avoidance & Sensitivity Trap. We help people rebuild their body and food trust, so they can break out of the trap, soften their conditioned food sensitivities and expand their diet. Conditioned food sensitivity is an unconsciously learned, physical reaction to food. Each podcast episode explores practical strategies that will help you look at your food sensitivities from a different perspective and find a better quality of life. If you would like a written summary of the practical strategies after each episode, you can subscribe on our FAST Freedom Program website.
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