HERStory on a Plate with Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson
Gain a new perspective on food, diet and body image within our diverse cultures. HERstory on a Plate is a conversation about food, diet culture and how it impacts women in today’s world. Food is a unifier connecting women from different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. It tells a story about who we are, where we come from and what impacts how we feel in our bodies. Join hosts Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer as they share their stories around food, culture, body image and how it has shaped their personal stories. They are committed to ending the stigma of diet culture and instead, show how embracing food traditions can be healing. In today’s diet-obsessed world this podcast will help you see food in a whole new way.
Episodes
August 8, 2025 • 29 mins
In this powerful and deeply personal episode of the Body Peace Podcast, Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer explore the emotional, cultural, and intergenerational dynamics between mothers and daughters—and how these relationships shape our body image and food beliefs.
Drawing from their own stories, client experiences, and decades of clinical insight, Nina and Jennie invite listeners into a nuanced conversation. They dismantle simplis...
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August 8, 2025 • 28 mins
In this episode of Body Peace Podcast , Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson invite listeners into an honest, compassionate, and clinically grounded exploration of emotional eating—a behavior that so many experience, yet so few feel permission to speak about without shame.
The conversation begins with a powerful original poem by Nina, A Poem for Anyone Who's Ever Eaten Their Feelings, setting the tone for an episode rooted in curiosity...
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August 8, 2025 • 32 mins
What happens when your self-worth gets tied to a number? In this episode, Jennie Kramer and body relationship expert Nina Manolson dive into the emotional minefield of stepping on the scale.
Together, they unpack the weight stigma embedded in medical settings, the subtle (and not-so-subtle) pressures of body checking, and the internalized beliefs that often drive disordered patterns. Through stories and clinical insight, they exp...
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August 8, 2025 • 27 mins
We’ve been conditioned to fear aging—to see wrinkles as something to fight, signs of time as something to erase, and youth as the ultimate ideal. But what if everything we’ve been taught about aging is misguided? In this powerful episode of Body Peace Podcast, hosts Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson explore the deeply ingrained beliefs that make us resist aging rather than embrace it.
They dive into the $80 billion anti-aging indust...
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Can I Allow Myself to Experience Pleasure?
In this deeply insightful conversation, hosts Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson sit down with certified sex therapist Dana D’Alessandro to explore the intersections of body image, sexuality, and pleasure. They discuss the pressures that women face—from societal expectations to self-judgment—and how these shape our sense of intimacy and self-connection. Dana shares her expertise on how our p...
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August 8, 2025 • 29 mins
We are so excited to bring you the Body Peace Podcast—a space for deep, compassionate, and real conversations about our relationships with our bodies, food, and the world around us.
For so many of us, the journey with our bodies and food feels like an endless cycle—moments of confidence and care followed by frustrating setbacks into familiar, painful patterns. We try so hard to be kind to ourselves, only to feel defeated when old ...
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June 25, 2025 • 34 mins
What Your Brain is Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading Your Cognitive Well-Being with Lisa Feiner
In this episode of The Body Peace Podcast, hosts Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson sit down with Lisa Feiner, co-founder of Sharp Again, to explore the evolving relationship we have with our brain health across the life spectrum. Rather than focusing on surface-level wellness checklists, this conversation invites us to gently...
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March 6, 2025 • 38 mins
Unpacking Diet Culture and the Journey to Empowerment with Dr. Kim Daniels
In this powerful conversation, clinical psychologist and host of the Emotional Eating and Everything Else podcast, Dr. Kim Daniels, joins Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer to explore the intersections of therapy, diet culture, and healing. Dr. Daniels shares her personal and professional journey into therapy, emphasizing the pervasive cultural pressures that s...
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December 4, 2024 • 43 mins
Hosts Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer dive into the transformative concept of Unburdened Eating with Dr. Jeanne Catanzaro. Dr. Catanzaro, a clinical psychologist specializing in eating disorders and trauma for over 25 years, and the author of the thought-provoking book, Unburdened Eating: Healing Your Relationship with Food and Your Body Using an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Approach.
Dr. Catanzaro explains how Internal Family Sys...
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November 20, 2024 • 27 mins
The podcast episode with Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer dives deep into the emotional and cultural dynamics behind a seemingly small habit many women have—the "shirt tug." It’s not just about adjusting clothing; it’s about addressing the relationship we have with our bodies and the cultural messages that shape how we see ourselves.
Nina and Jennie unpack how the shirt tug reflects deeper feelings of self-consciousness and body dis...
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October 22, 2024 • 26 mins
Embrace Your Authentic Self: The Power of Showing Up in Photos
In a world driven by visual media, it's no surprise that many of us feel nervous or even avoid being in front of the camera. In a recent conversation between body image experts Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson, they explored this common fear and shared powerful insights on how to embrace being seen, imperfections and all.
The Pressure to Look Perfect
Jennie candidly adm...
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October 8, 2024 • 34 mins
Journey of Recovery and Healing in Midlife
In this episode, hosts Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer talk with Betsy Brenner. She shares her deeply personal story of battling an eating disorder in midlife and the profound lessons she has learned through her recovery journey.
Brenner’s 2021 memoir, The Longest Match: Rallying to Defeat an Eating Disorder in Midlife, details her experience of emotional trauma, anxiety, and depression...
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September 24, 2024 • 32 mins
Break Free from Diet Culture and Embrace Body Autonomy
In today’s episode, Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson talk about the pitfalls of diet culture, the emotional toll of restrictive eating, and the path to reclaiming your body autonomy.
Both Jennie and Nina share personal experiences and insights from working with clients who have struggled for years with the allure of diets, promising a quick fix for deeper issues.
As they hig...
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September 17, 2024 • 29 mins
The Critical Link Between Sleep and Your Relationship with Food
In this episode hosts, Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer discuss the importance of sleep and its profound connection to how we manage food, hunger, and overall well-being.
Their conversation touches on the challenges that affect lots of women, from balancing busy schedules to managing the impacts of hormonal changes and menopause, all of which disrupt sleep patterns a...
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July 11, 2024 • 36 mins
Embracing Movement on Our Own Terms
In a recent enlightening discussion with hosts Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer, guest Ragen
Chastain shares her experience with the often-complex relationship with movement. This conversation sheds light on how societal pressures and diet culture have influenced our views on exercise and body movement.
The Influence of Diet Culture on Movement
Ragen highlights the profound impact of diet culture...
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June 27, 2024 • 34 mins
Reframe Your
Relationship with Food and Cooking
This episode has co-host Jenny Kramer talking with co-host Nina Manolson about how she
learned to cook. It also highlights our relationship to food and what that means to each of them.
Together they explore the idea that cooking can be enjoyable and manageable for everyone, regardless of skill level or background. It challenges the notion that complex recipes and
fancy presentations ...
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June 13, 2024 • 37 mins
For too many women, what to wear, how to dress and all the decisions around fashion brings anxiety. It can be so stressful that many avoid thinking about how they really feel and what makes them happy. Today’s conversation is going to spark a welcome bit of joy around all things wardrobe related.
In a captivating discussion with hosts Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer, Manny
Martins-Karman, an extraordinary artist and social media i...
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June 6, 2024 • 34 mins
Body Image, Weight Loss, and Food Noise: What You Need to Know
Hosts Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer unpack the cultural messages around weight loss and weight loss drugs, specifically the GLP-1 medications. They also delve into the concept of "food noise" – that constant chatter in our heads about food and body size.
Oprah isn’t the only celebrity to use weight loss medication, but she may be the most visible in terms of messaging...
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March 8, 2024 • 26 mins
Co-hosts Nina Manolson and Jennie Kramer are back and today
they’re talking about how we all compare ourselves to others and the negative
consequences of this behavior.
Imposter syndrome is real, for even the most accomplished
and confident among us. Hear how this has shown up for both Jennie and Nina and how they address it for themselves and how they help their clients with this
universal issue.
Steps to combat negative compariso...
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March 8, 2024 • 29 mins
Listen to this in-depth conversation between Nancy Loeffler
and hosts Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson about Nancy's journey through grief
and her book, "The Alchemy of Grief: Your Journey to Wholeness."
Nancy shares her personal story of loss, the process of excavating her life to
find meaning and purpose after her daughter's death, and the importance of
acknowledging and processing grief in its various forms.
Connect
with Nancy
Th...
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