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The things we think about food. The things we do with it. And the things we rarely say out loud.
After more than twenty years in private practice, Monique Etkind has heard what happens behind the healthy intentions. The skipped lunch. The promise to be good tomorrow. The person who can manage a business, a family and everyone else’s needs, but still feels defeated by food. With warmth, humour and an experienced eye, Monique opens up conversations that help people understand themselves and see everyday eating differently.
Monique’s expertise is the foundation. Her perspective is the reason to invite her.
“I know what to do. I just don’t do it.”
What sits behind that sentence? Monique explores the gap between knowing about food and living with it: the rules we inherit, the stories we tell ourselves and the expectations we carry into every meal. It is an honest conversation about why eating can feel so complicated, and what becomes possible when we understand our relationship with it.
The darker side of diet culture, and what happens when “being healthy” leaves you anxious about eating.
Good foods. Bad foods. Cheat meals. Clean eating. Earning your dinner. What sounds like everyday diet talk can turn eating into a constant test of character. A meal becomes something to get right. Enjoyment comes with guilt. And confidence gives way to second-guessing. Monique explores the misconceptions that make people distrust their appetite, question their choices and feel that struggling with food means something is wrong with them. With warmth and candour, she asks: how much of this anxiety have we been taught, and what would it take to feel more at ease with food?
Each topic can be shaped for the room, the audience and the conversation already waiting to happen.
When did taking care of everyone else become a reason to leave yourself out?
Coffee counts as breakfast. Lunch happens over the sink. Dinner is whatever is left after everyone else has eaten. Monique talks about the food habits that form when you become the organiser, the carer and the person who will sort herself out later, and how to make room for yourself without creating another job.
Meetings get a booking. Lunch gets whatever’s left.
We talk about performance, focus and looking after ourselves. Then we build working days with barely a moment to eat. Monique explores the collision between workplace expectations and everyday food, and asks what happens when eating becomes something we squeeze in only after everything else is done.
Another fresh start. Another ambitious plan. Another ordinary week getting in the way.
Monique unpacks the appeal of the reset: why capable, determined people keep returning to plans that depend on life behaving perfectly. It is a conversation about ambition, food and learning to keep going when the week stops cooperating.
What happens to your relationship with food when hunger feels different?
Family dinners, work lunches, holidays and celebrations continue when appetite changes. Monique explores everyday questions around eating alongside GLP-1 treatment: what feels different, what still needs attention and what people want to ask their treating team.
A food plan is one thing. Understanding the person using it is another.
When Monique and Stacey Key built meforme™, they faced a question: how do you carry the experience of a consulting room into someone’s everyday life? Monique shares the choices, tensions and lessons behind turning a practitioner’s method into a digital health program.
The advice made sense in the room. Then life happened.
Monique explores what sits between a useful consultation and the next appointment: family expectations, familiar routines, difficult days and decisions made in a hurry. It is a candid professional conversation about making advice usable in the circumstances where people actually eat.
The food rules we inherit. The habits we hide. The Monday promises. The quiet loss of confidence behind “I know what to do”.
Monique brings an experienced, compassionate perspective to conversations about food, everyday life and the expectations we place on ourselves. Bring your audience’s questions. Let’s have a conversation worth hearing.
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Monique Etkind is an Accredited Practising Dietitian, speaker and co-founder of meforme™. With more than twenty years in private practice, she explores the often unspoken relationship between food, everyday habits and self-confidence. Her approach is warm, candid and practical. Her philosophy: steady is a skill.
Monique Etkind is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with more than twenty years in private practice and a contributor to the Australian edition of What to Expect When You’re Expecting.
Her work explores the relationship people have with food: the rules they inherit, the patterns they develop and the expectations they bring to everyday eating. Through speaking and media conversations, Monique brings a warm, experienced perspective to diet culture, food confidence and the gap between knowing what to do and making it work in real life.
She is co-founder of meforme™, a personalised nutrition program delivered through an app and built around The Monique Method™. Monique leads its clinical method, food education and guidance; co-founder Stacey Key leads development, translation and scale.
Our guest is Monique Etkind, an Accredited Practising Dietitian who has spent more than twenty years listening to what people really think, feel and do around food. She is co-founder of meforme™ and joins us to explore [selected topic].
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