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Joy With Food
by Deena Barselah
Deena Barselah, Holistic and Integrative Health Coach, is redefining family food so you can find more joy, confidence, and peace when it comes to everyday mealtime. A few times per week, Deena will guide you with kitchen tips, new or old ideas to challenge, nutritional wisdom to embrace, methods to meal plan that actually work, fun and inviting ways to involve your kid/s, simple ways to decode food behaviors, and ideas for making mealtime sacred, special, and joyful.This podcast is the inspiring, warm, and understanding friend we all wish we had right beside us in the kitchen.
Episodes
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20. Helping Kids Become More Capable In The Kitchen
Helping kids become more skilled in the kitchen starts with creating an environment where confidence, capability, and curiosity can grow over time. In this episode of Joy With Food, I'm sharing four shifts that have shaped my work with families for years. We explore how to create a kitchen that...
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19. Food Rules: Which Ones Are Worth Keeping?
In this episode of Joy With Food, we're talking about food rules: the ones we consciously choose, the ones we absorb without realizing it, and the ones we may want to question. In this episode, you'll hear: Why food rules aren't inherently bad and can actually create clarity, boundaries, and ease...
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18: What's Changed in Our Kitchen (and Why)
In this episode of Joy With Food, I'm sharing some of the ways our family's rhythms around food have changed over the past several months and, more importantly, why. In this episode, you'll hear: Why families' ways around food can and should change over time The food rhythms I've loosened my grip...
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17: Talking Food with My 11-Year-Old
My 11-year-old son, Zeke, joins me for a conversation about being in the kitchen, cooking shows, mystery basket challenges, making his own lunches, favorite ingredients, kitchen mistakes, and what makes cooking memorable and fun for him. I hope this episode leaves you smiling and inspired to…
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16: The Real Work Winter Food is Doing for Your Body
In this episode, you'll hear why winter can feel challenging around food — and why it’s also the most nourishing season when we stop fighting it and start working with it instead. The wisdom and magic of this season can be felt so deeply in your body if you let it. This conversation is about...
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15: Taking Care of Your Future Self
As we move into a new year, it’s easy to feel pressure to fix, optimize, or reinvent ourselves, especially around food and motherhood. This offers a different invitation. Taking Care of Your Future Self is a conversation about devotion instead of discipline, listening instead of fixing, and why...
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The Sugar Episode
Sugar isn’t just a food issue — it’s an emotional, physiological, cultural, and relational one. If it feels heavy or confusing in your home, you’re not alone, and you’re not doing anything wrong. In this episode, I walk you through five core themes that explain why sugar feels so hard for so many...
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Do this to reduce mental load
In this episode of Joy With Food, I’m sharing the “Decide Once” principle — a simple but powerful way to reduce decision fatigue, lighten the mental load, and create more room for joy (especially in the kitchen). You’ll hear real-life examples both inside and outside of food, why this matters so...
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Avoiding Burnout in Family Food
In this episode, I share what’s really behind food burnout — and it’s deeper than decision fatigue or meal planning. We explore how masculine and feminine energies show up in your kitchen and your body, and how a consistent imbalance between the two can quietly drain your joy. I talk about what...
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Moms & Midday Meals: A Must
If you tend to skip lunch, grab coffee or a bar instead of a meal, or suddenly realize you’re starving hours after you should’ve eaten… this episode is for you. As mothers, we put so much care and attention into what our kids eat—carefully packing their lunches, thinking through their snacks,...
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How to get out of a food rut and bring the energy of spring into your kitchen
Does food feel the same season after season? Spring is a season of renewal, and it's the perfect time to refresh our kitchens, our meals, and ourselves. In this episode, we explore how to embrace the energy of spring through food, color, and small shifts that invite lightness and growth into your...
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Life and food in difficult times
This is a personal update on how I've been feeling lately, noticing shifts in eating behaviors, and using food as source of support. I talk through: Personal life update Cravings How we listen to our bodies The one question to can ask yourself Practical ways to support yourself with food in...
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Cooking tutorial from Zeke (my 9 year old son)
This is a great episode to play for the kids! In this episode, my son goes through the ingredients you need and the step-by-step for how to make deviled eggs, a personal favorite of his these days. He shares how he got inspired to make them in the first place and how much he loves being in the...
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Don't stop eating food you love!
If you find yourself cutting out foods from your diet that you love because family members don't share that love, this episode is for you! I go into three really important reasons why this really doesn't help anyone. And this is especially important if you have a picky eater in your family! It's...
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One of my favorite sources for food inspo
Ever find yourself in a rut and not sure where to get food ideas from? Cookbooks can be such an under-utilized source for recipes, ideas, and creative inspiration! In this episode I break down how I use cookbooks, ways to test them out before adding them to your shelf, and why they are at the top...
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The best start to any meal
Do you usually just take a bite of food without considering the transition to eating? Join me as I share exactly what I do before each meal and why it's so important! Ritual is essential when it comes to food if we want it to feel embodied, connected, and joyful. Try this practice on and see how…
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Embracing springtime food
We are in the height of Springtime seasonal transition right now in the northern hemisphere and this window provides such a beautiful way to connect differently with food. In today's episode I walk you through how to connect with this energy, what to try out that's specific to Spring, and the…
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Food preferences change
In today's episode I walk you through a new paradigm around, what's often labeled as, "picky eating." Preferences change throughout our lives and certainly for our growing kids. I promise that, for most kids, you don't need to do the guessing game dance every day around what they may eat or just...
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Eating by yourself
What's it like when you eat by yourself? When your attention isn't on conversation or being with your kids? How many other things are you doing? Do you even take the time for a meal? If family mealtime is stressful, frustrating, or overwhelming, this episode is your starting point. Give yourself...
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My story
In this first episode I go into detail sharing my story when it comes to food and my body- from early childhood through today and all the pivotal moments along the way. I want you to have a good sense of who this is behind the mic and the life experiences that shape why I do what I do! I hope you...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Deena Barselah, Holistic and Integrative Health Coach, is redefining family food so you can find more joy, confidence, and peace when it comes to everyday mealtime. A few times per week, Deena will guide you with kitchen tips, new or old ideas to challenge, nutritional wisdom to embrace, methods to meal plan that actually work, fun and inviting ways to involve your kid/s, simple ways to decode food behaviors, and ideas for making mealtime sacred, special, and joyful.This podcast is the inspiring, warm, and understanding friend we all wish we had right beside us in the kitchen.
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Deena Barselah
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Deena Barselah, Holistic and Integrative Health Coach, is redefining family food so you can find more joy, confidence, and peace when it comes to everyday mealtime. A few times per week, Deena will guide you with kitchen tips, new or old ideas to challenge, nutritional wisdom to embrace, methods to...
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Joy With Food is created and hosted by Deena Barselah.
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