Nutrition Matters Podcast
Join Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist, as she explores popular topics in nutrition and interviews experts in the fields of wellness and health. Paige explores questions in nutrition that really matter and uncovers the practical ways you can see food and your body in a whole new way.
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182: Goodbye — context, thank you, parting advice and some social commentary
11/25/2020
182: Goodbye — context, thank you, parting advice and some social commentary
After 5 1/2 years, I'm ending the podcast! It's been so rewarding to put this podcast on, but the time has come for me to move on. This last episode of the podcast gives context for this decision and hopefully helps you know how grateful I am to you for listening through the years! Consider joining one of the courses in the Positive Nutrition Academy: https://www.positive-nutrition.com/academy
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181: Intuitive Exercise & How to Train Happy
08/31/2020
181: Intuitive Exercise & How to Train Happy
"If exercise had zero impact on your weight and appearance, would you still work out? If you answered 'yes', would you work out differently from how you do now? Would you do more or less?" These are the first lines of Tally's Rye's book and a very important set of questions to consider as you navigate your relationship with exercise. Tally and Paige dig into these questions and more all about cultivating more peace with exercise and movement. Tally Rye is a Personal Trainer, podcaster and author from London, England working in fitness for 5 years. Through experiencing her own complicated relationship with food and exercise, she is passionate about changing the fitness landscape to help others avoid the pitfalls of diet culture within a fitness setting. She is a advocates for ditching diet culture, reconnecting with our bodies and cultivating intuition. Links mentioned: Tally's website: book by Tally Rye : online courses and webinars Positive Nutrition
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180: Eating Disorders & the Higher Level of Care
08/17/2020
180: Eating Disorders & the Higher Level of Care
In this episode, Paige and Amy Hanneke discuss the higher level of care for eating disorders: how to know if it's the right choice for your treatment, what to expect, how to get the most out of the experience and tips for family members/support people who love someone in treatment. Links mentioned: : online courses and webinars Become a and receive 3 additional exclusive podcast episodes per month for $5/mo Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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179: Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch on Intuitive Eating Fourth Edition
08/03/2020
179: Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch on Intuitive Eating Fourth Edition
Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch, authors of the revolutionary book Intuitive Eating, join Paige to talk about the newest edition of the book. Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., is an award-winning registered dietitian with a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, CA. She was the nutrition expert forGood Morning America and was a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association for six years. Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, is a nutrition therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills, CA, with over thirty-eight years of experience specializing in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size. Links mentioned: Purchase the new edition of Intuitive Eating: Learn more about the Intuitive Eating framework: : online courses and webinars Become a and receive 3 additional exclusive podcast episodes per month for $5/mo Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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178: Rest, Play, Humor & our Health
07/20/2020
178: Rest, Play, Humor & our Health
Shana Spence joins Paige to talk about the importance of challenging productivity beliefs and embracing rest, play, creativity and humor as we engage in our health and wellbeing. Shana is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist based in New York in the public health. She promotes a weight-inclusive approach to health and nutrition and is passionate about helping people find a healthy relationship with food. Links mentioned: Shana's website: : online courses and webinars Become a and receive 3 additional exclusive podcast episodes per month for $5/mo Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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177: What to do if You're Afraid of Food
07/06/2020
177: What to do if You're Afraid of Food
Amee Severson joins Paige to talk about her own history of fearing food and explains how she worked through it. Amee is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist whose work focuses on body positivity, fat acceptance, and intuitive eating through a social justice lens. With a mission to break the stereotype that all RD’s live in small bodies and only eat certain foods, Amee cultivates rebellion and liberation on social media, showcasing the possibility for health and happiness in any body. Amee encourages the belief that food can be enjoyed without guilt or shame. She believes that recovery from disordered eating is possible for everyone and that every person deserves to feel trust in their body. Amee doesn’t believe in one-size-fits-all nutrition and health, so she works with clients to make health and nutrition fit into their current life, not the other way around. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Food and Nutrition from Montana State University, is a dietitian registered in the State of Washington, and is currently working toward becoming a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. Links mentioned: Amee's website: : online courses and webinars Become a and receive 3 additional exclusive podcast episodes per month for $5/mo Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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176: Menopause—Weight, Health, Changing Bodies and Eating Disorders in ages 50+
06/22/2020
176: Menopause—Weight, Health, Changing Bodies and Eating Disorders in ages 50+
Erica Leon is a registered dietitian who is passionate about speaking up about the changes that occur with bodies, weight, food, relationships, etc. during menopause. She and Paige explore the science behind menopause and body changes and talk about how to avoid the pitfalls of diet culture unique to this time. Erica Leon is the owner of Erica Leon Nutrition, an outpatient group nutrition practice in White Plains, NY. With more than 30 years of experience, she and her team help individuals develop a positive relationship with food and work tirelessly to treat and prevent eating disorders and disordered eating in adults, adolescents, children and families. She is certified as an eating disorder dietitian with The International Association for Eating Disorder Professionals, and as an Intuitive Eating Counselor. She has taken a special interest in recent years to create more resources and spaces for women experiencing menopause and body changes that accompany this time of life. Links mentioned: Erica's website: : online courses and webinars Become a and receive 3 additional exclusive podcast episodes per month for $5/mo Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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175: Exploring what Healthy Really Means and Reclaiming it for Good
06/08/2020
175: Exploring what Healthy Really Means and Reclaiming it for Good
The word 'healthy' gets thrown around all the time, but what does it actually mean? And, is the concept actually helpful for us? Meghan and Paige unpack these ideas and explore ways we all can reclaim the true meaning of health for good in our lives. Meghan Kacmarcik is a registered dietitian and nutrition therapist based in Boston, MA. She works locally in the Boston area and is the owner of New Moon Nutrition, a virtual practice where she helps people unlearn diet culture, recover from disordered eating, and heal their relationships with food and their body. Her practice is rooted in Health at Every Size and she uses intuitive eating as a guidepost in all her work. In addition to dismantling diet culture and fighting for a more weight-inclusive world, she enjoys reading good books, drinking good coffee, and snuggling with her cat Potato. Links mentioned: Meghan's website: : online courses and webinars Become a and receive 3 additional exclusive podcast episodes per month for $5/mo Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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174: Pregnancy & Postpartum Body Image
05/25/2020
174: Pregnancy & Postpartum Body Image
Catie Lynch Shockey, LCSW is an eating disorder and body image therapist located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is a licensed clinical social worker who graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South and Tulane University. After recovering from her own eating disorder, Catie began to specialize in eating disorders and body image concerns. She is a mother of two girls—a two year old and an infant. Having girls has made dismantling diet culture and creating peace around food even more important to Catie. Catie joined Paige to talk about pregnancy and postpartum body image. They discuss what the struggles are, why it's important to work on body image at any phase of parenthood (aka it's not too late wherever you are right now!), and some practical ideas to work toward more peace with your body. Links mentioned: Catie's website: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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173: Finding Your Authentic Voice in Challenging Diet Culture
05/11/2020
173: Finding Your Authentic Voice in Challenging Diet Culture
Cara Harbstreet is a Kansas City based Intuitive Eating Registered Dietitian and nationally-recognized food and nutrition expert, author, and consultant. In 2016, Cara founded her private practice and began focusing on sports nutrition, intuitive eating, and applying the Health At Every Size model for clients in the Kansas City area. She is passionate about helping people rediscover joy in eating deeply nourishing meals without restriction or fear, and enjoys candid conversations about the food system, nutrition, and cooking. Cara is also an active volunteer in the dietetics field and has transitioned her business to a media and communications focus to help spread an anti-diet message to more diverse audiences. Find her on social media or learn more about her work at . Cara joined Paige to talk about Cara's process in finding her authentic voice and how her experiences can inform our own process with healing our relationships with food and body. Links mentioned: Cara's website: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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172: Medical Nutrition Therapy & Intuitive Eating: How Nutrition Improves with Connection & Kindness
04/27/2020
172: Medical Nutrition Therapy & Intuitive Eating: How Nutrition Improves with Connection & Kindness
Click to support the podcast and receive 3 extra episodes per month! Kirsten Ackerman is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Registered Dietitian and proud anti-diet advocate. During the day, Kirsten works as a renal dietitian, helping patients with end stage renal disease navigate their eating while receiving life-saving treatments. Outside of her day job, Kirsten hosts the Intuitive Bites podcast, puts out phenomenal content on social media and is currently writing a book. Kirsten joined Paige to talk about a common question they both get as intuitive eating dietitians. Together, they explore the common sticking point of wondering if medical nutrition therapy and intuitive eating go together. In other words, they explore how intuitive eating and other non-diet frameworks enhance nutrition and health and are inherently pro-health interventions. Links mentioned: Kirsten's website: : online courses and webinars Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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171: Fat-Phobia in the Eating Disorder Treatment Community
04/13/2020
171: Fat-Phobia in the Eating Disorder Treatment Community
Shira Rosenbluth, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in New York City. She has a passion for helping people feel their best in their body at any size and specializes in the treatment of disordered eating, eating disorders, and body-image dissatisfaction using a weight-neutral approach. She’s also the author of , a popular body positive style blog with inclusive sizing and you can find her on Instagram, . Links mentioned: Shira's fashion blog: Shira's professional website: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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170: Navigating our New Normal—Adjusting to Social Distancing
04/06/2020
170: Navigating our New Normal—Adjusting to Social Distancing
of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format for easy, on-the-go learning. Click here to support the podcast: In this episode, Paige and Shannon Ricks, LMFT discuss common themes that are coming up with their clients going adjusting to the pandemic and social distancing. Links mentioned: Shannon's website: on Instagram on Instagram : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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169: Ditching Diets and Practicing Body Acceptance in the Latina Community
03/31/2020
169: Ditching Diets and Practicing Body Acceptance in the Latina Community
of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format for easy, on-the-go learning. Click here to support the podcast: In this episode, Paige interviews Dalina Soto about her passion and commitment for increasing awareness of intuitive eating and weight inclusive philosophies. Dalina Soto, MA, RD, LDN, is founder and bilingual registered dietitian at , based in Philadelphia. Dalina received her bachelor’s in nutritional sciences from Penn State University and completed her master’s and dietetic internship at Immaculata University. Throughout her career, Dalina has worked in the community of Philadelphia as one of the only Spanish Speaking RDs helping clients ditch diets and eat healthy. Through instagram she has been able to expand and reach Latinas all over the world and has helped them ditch the diets and practice body acceptance. Links mentioned: Dalina's website: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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Coronavirus Thoughts — What a Year this Week has Been
03/23/2020
Coronavirus Thoughts — What a Year this Week has Been
Hi Friends! I'm coming to you again this week as a human (read: not an expert) with some thoughts about the coronavirus pandemic. Many of you reached out last week letting me know last week's check-in was helpful so I decided to record another episode. In this episode, I talk about how #nuancematters in our current situation. I talk about some of the things I'm noticing as I've had more time adapting to this new normal. I share what's been working for me and answer I common question I've been getting from family and followers about carbs, cravings in quarantine. I explore how there's no right or wrong here, and how we can continue to nourish ourselves in a very challenging time. At the end of the episode, I invite all of you to send in a short essay or mp3 clip of you explaining what the gift of time or boredom has been teaching you so far. Send the email to: [email protected] Helpful links: Make an appointment (I have openings!): for regular updates about coping with our current situation
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168: The Role of Intention, Flexibility, & Self-Compassion in Gentle Nutrition
03/16/2020
168: The Role of Intention, Flexibility, & Self-Compassion in Gentle Nutrition
of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format for easy, on-the-go learning. Click here to support the podcast: In this episode, Paige and Rachel Goodman discuss gentle nutrition. Links mentioned: Rachel's website: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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We're in this Together — Mindset & Practical Ideas for Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic
03/15/2020
We're in this Together — Mindset & Practical Ideas for Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hi Friends, I want to use my platform for good. I wanted to provide some thoughts and resources during this time. In this episode, provide some mindset ideas as well as practical thoughts for navigating working from home while also homeschooling kids. I share some ideas I have for involving grandparents and community members in sharing the burden of making all of this work. I hope you enjoy this and I hope it's helpful. I'll continue to update regularly about how things are going on my . Feel free to follow me there. Here's my initial schedule for homeschooling my kids (Kindergarten and second grade) Some helpful resources: Making Sense Podcast episodes answering questions about COVID-19: Joe Rogan (I haven't listened to this personally, but many close to me have listened and enjoyed):
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167: Intuitive Eating and Weight-Inclusive Care in Black Communities
03/02/2020
167: Intuitive Eating and Weight-Inclusive Care in Black Communities
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166: Shame Spirals & Wounded Healers
02/17/2020
166: Shame Spirals & Wounded Healers
of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format for easy, on-the-go learning. Click here to support the podcast: In this episode, Paige and Linda go deeper into the concept of Enoughness as a follow up from Linda Tucker is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Body Image Coach. She "helps people walk away from diet culture" while learning how to care for themselves using compassion and kindness rather than fear and/or shame. Linda uses insight from own disordered eating recovery, while also trying to manage her chronic illnesses, to create a space of curiosity, empathy, and radical acceptance. Links mentioned: Linda's website: Self Compassion Info: Brene Brown Shame Ted Talk: : online courses and webinars of the podcast for $5/month Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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165: What One Doctor Wished Every Doctor Knew About their Patients with Eating Disorders
02/03/2020
165: What One Doctor Wished Every Doctor Knew About their Patients with Eating Disorders
of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format for easy, on-the-go learning. Click here to support the podcast: In this episode, Paige interviews Dr. Stefani Reinold about what she wished fellow physicians knew about their patients with eating disorders. Dr. Stefani Reinold is a board certified psychiatrist, eating disorders specialist and perinatal mental health expert. She is author of the book, Let Your Heart Out, creator of the HEART Method® and podcast host of the show, It's Not about the Food where she discusses all the reasons we struggle with food and our bodies because, as the title implies, "it's not about the food." As a long survivor of an eating disorder herself, she is passionate about helping women ditch dieting, heal emotionally, and reconnect with their real selves- the self that diet culture stole from them. Links mentioned: Stefani's website: : online courses and webinars of the podcast for $5/month Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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164: How the Binge-Restrict Pattern Shows Up in Other Areas of Life
01/20/2020
164: How the Binge-Restrict Pattern Shows Up in Other Areas of Life
of the podcast for $5/month and receive exclusive access to monthly Q&A episodes, guided meditations about food and body, and a monthly nutrition lesson. All exclusive content is available directly in your podcast player in audio format for easy, on-the-go learning. Click here to support the podcast: In this episode, Paige interviews Dr. Jenn Hardy about how the diet-binge cycle can show up in areas of life beyond food and body. Links mentioned: Jenn's website: : online courses and webinars of the podcast for $5/month Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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163: Q&A—Peace with Food During the Holidays
12/04/2019
163: Q&A—Peace with Food During the Holidays
In this episode, Paige answers a few questions about food and the holidays. Here's an outline of the talking points for this episode: When you've been told you need to lose weight but also need a healthy relationship with food Resolutions and how they can be potentially dangerous How to discuss IE with family to help alleviate meal pressure When you feel like you had IE down and then went nuts on food on Thanksgiving Links mentioned: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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162: What Every LDS Missionary Should Know About Food, Nutrition & Body Image Before Serving
11/18/2019
162: What Every LDS Missionary Should Know About Food, Nutrition & Body Image Before Serving
In this podcast episode, Emily Fonnesbeck joined Paige to discuss the topic of LDS missionaries and how they can cultivate and foster a healthy relationship with food and body before, during and after missionary service. In this episode, we discuss what it's like to be on a mission and how it can bring up food and body image struggled for the 18-21 year-olds who serve. We discuss the nutritional implications for these young people, and explore how missionaries and mission leadership can help the young missionaries stay mentally and physically well during their service. Here's an outline of the talking points for this episode: Setting the stage so that everyone understands (no matter their background) what it’s like to be a missionary and why this can be a potentially tricky time for food and body image Behaviors we (as dietitians in Utah) commonly see missionaries struggling with What we wished mission leadership knew as far as how they can support their missionaries who might be struggling What we wished missionaries knew about what to expect as far as weight and food on missions How missionaries can tactfully say no to food pushers The importance of self-compassion and boundaries in this context Links mentioned: Emily's website: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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161: The Diet-Binge Cycle and How Isabel Foxen Duke Finally Stopped Fighting Food
11/04/2019
161: The Diet-Binge Cycle and How Isabel Foxen Duke Finally Stopped Fighting Food
Isabel Foxen Duke shares her personal story of chronic dieting and how her quest for thinness ultimately led her to treatment for an addiction to cocaine. She shares her recovery story and how her struggles with food and body image went unnoticed for decades because her body wasn't "thin enough" to alert people in her life. She shares about how she recovered, moments of clarity she had, and insight into her healing process. She talks about the perils of the hunger and fullness diet and how she broke free from it. Isabel Foxen Duke is the Creator of — a free video training program for women who want to "stop feeling crazy around food." After years of trying to overcome emotional eating, binge-eating and chronic weight-cycling through "traditional" and alternative approaches, Isabel discovered some radical new ways to get women over their "food issues" once and for all — not just by shifting the mindsets of individuals, but by challenging the dominant diet culture as a whole. A fixture and thought-leader in the greater body-positive movement, Isabel has been featured in the Huffington Post, Elle Magazine, XOJane, and has been praised by Ricki Lake. Her writing and free guide, How To Not Eat Cake, can be found at and you can watch her free video training series at . Links mentioned: Isabel's website: Podcast episode where Isabel talks about her experiences in OA / 12-step program for food Podcast episodes where Isabel talks about her "surrender moment" and : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on Also... You can catch Isabel's FREE video training series at and her group coaching program at
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160: Intentionally Diversifying Who you Learn From Online and In-Person
10/21/2019
160: Intentionally Diversifying Who you Learn From Online and In-Person
Take a quick inventory of your social circles both in-person and online. If you see that everyone you spend time around is the same as you, registered dietitian Christyna Johnson is on a mission to shine a light on the importance of diversifying your learning circles. Intentionally finding people to follow or friends to make that are different from you in terms of philosophy, beliefs, background, race, history, socioeconomic status, and various other identities is an important part of cultivating our own growth. Christyna came on the podcast to share her perspective of why this is important and how to do this on a practical level. She also shares how making these efforts can yield a more positive and peaceful relationship with food. Christyna Johnson is a registered dietitian nutritionist based in Dallas, Texas. Her nutrition practice is rooted in intuitive eating and Health at Every Size ®. She is dedicated to nutrition justice and finding ways to bring food freedom to those facing food insecurity and living in food deserts. When she’s not fighting injustice, she enjoys getting lost in a new book, trying new restaurants, and diversifying outdoors. She is the voice behind the podcast Intuitive Eating for the Culture, and the blog Encouraging Dietitian. Links mentioned: Christyna's website: Christyna's podcast: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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159: The Similarities and Distinctions Between Addictions & Eating Disorders
10/07/2019
159: The Similarities and Distinctions Between Addictions & Eating Disorders
Amanda E. White is a licensed professional counselor and yoga teacher. She specializes in working with women with eating disorders, substance use disorders and trauma and specifically how they overlap and intersect. She is in recovery from a substance use disorder as well as eating disorder. She owns a private practice in Philadelphia, Therapy for Women. Amanda also leads yoga and mental health retreats, using the physical practice of yoga along with the power of group therapy to allow people to break free from patterns that are keeping them stuck. Amanda shares her personal story of struggling with both substance use disorder in addition to an eating disorder. She explains this intersection and explores the difficult road of recovery both from her personal perspective as well as her perspective as a therapist. She talks about the role that the desire for control played in her struggle with these disorders as well explains how to develop a more healthy relationship with our emotions. Amanda is a big believer in her experiences of pain have been the impetus for deeper purpose and have helped her find meaning in her life. Amanda talks about: Food addiction theory and limitations Her experience of finding healing in the intersection of eating disorders and substance use disorders The role control played in her disorders Emotional granularity The role of emotion in our coping mechanisms Finding Intuitive Eating The wisdom of retrospect: how her painful experiences have brought meaning to her life Links mentioned: Amanda's website: Nutrition Matters Podcast ep 94: New course: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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158: Exploring Enoughness in Eating and Beyond
09/23/2019
158: Exploring Enoughness in Eating and Beyond
Intuitive Eating simplified and boiled down is essentially about getting enough. Enough food, enough satisfaction, enough enjoyment, etc. The concept of enoughness is critical to explore in order to move forward with healing your relationship with food. Linda Tucker joined Paige to explore this concept in how it relates to food, body image and beyond. Linda Tucker is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Body Image Coach. She "helps people walk away from diet culture" while learning how to care for themselves using compassion and kindness rather than fear and/or shame. Linda uses insight from own disordered eating recovery, while also trying to manage her chronic illnesses, to create a space of curiosity, empathy, and radical acceptance. Links mentioned: Linda's website: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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157: Demystifying Gentle Nutrition & Its Role in Intuitive Eating
09/09/2019
157: Demystifying Gentle Nutrition & Its Role in Intuitive Eating
The last principle of the Intuitive Eating book is "Honor your Health with Gentle Nutrition" and this podcast episode dives into this topic, exploring what it means, how to know you're ready, and what it looks like on a practical level. Rachael Hartley, RD, LD, is a Columbia, SC-based nutrition therapist, certified intuitive eating counselor and nationally-recognized food and nutrition expert. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Human Nutrition and a Bachelors of Art in Psychology from Clemson University. After completing her dietetics internship at Emory University, she worked as a clinical dietitian and, later, as the outpatient dietitian for a large medical center where she provided individual nutrition counseling and led multidisciplinary disease management programs. In 2014, Rachael opened her private practice, where she specializes in intuitive eating, eating disorders and disordered eating, women's health, and digestive disorders. She also runs the popular food and wellness blog . She is active in her field, currently serving as the public policy coordinator of her state dietetics association, and having previously served as the president of her local dietetics association and newsletter editor for the Nutrition Entrepreneurs dietetic practice group. Links mentioned: Rachael's website: Ellyn Satter's : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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156: Fatness in Indian Culture
08/26/2019
156: Fatness in Indian Culture
In this episode, Kimmie Singh shares her experience of the intersection of fatness in Indian culture. She shares her experience of eating disorder recovery and going to school to become a registered dietitian while being a higher weight person. She shares particular critiques of eating disorder treatment that can be more culturally sensitive as well as sharing ways Indian culture might move toward compassion for folks in various sizes. Kimmie Singh is a fat Registered Dietitian based in New York City. She completed her Master of Science in Nutrition at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her Dietetic Internship from The City University of New York-Hunter College. Kimmie is an associate at LK Nutrition, a Health at Every Size private practice that supports clients who are trying to heal their relationship with food and body. She also presents and consults on weight stigma in dietetics and dietetics training. Kimmie is a believer in kindness, compassion, and the power of advocacy. Links mentioned: Kimmie's website: : online courses and webinars to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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155: "Is it My Fault?"—Tips and Resources for People who Love Someone Struggling with Food
08/12/2019
155: "Is it My Fault?"—Tips and Resources for People who Love Someone Struggling with Food
Nutrition Matters Podcast provides many resources and conversations exploring how people can heal from disordered eating and struggles with food. This episode goes in a different direction than the norm: Kathleen and Paige dive into providing tips and resources for those who love someone who is struggling with food. While there are many resources for those struggling, there aren't as many for those who support and love someone who struggle with food. This podcast episode does just that. Kathleen and Paige discuss what it's like to be a support person: wrestling with feelings of guilt, not being sure what to say, not knowing how to help, and not really knowing what the balance is with being involved but caring for yourself in the meantime. Kathleen Meehan is Houston-based dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor with a virtual private practice. She specializes in Intuitive Eating and a weight-inclusive approach to help clients develop skills to trust their internal cues and wisdom. Kathleen partners with clients to help them rediscover the pleasure and satisfaction of food, while exploring body image concerns and unhelpful beliefs about food and eating. Outside of counseling, Kathleen enjoys a good book, spending time in the outdoors (especially in Vermont!) and exploring new restaurants with friends and family. Links mentioned: Kathleen's website: National Eating Disorders Association: Fall groups to keep in touch : online courses and webinars for laypeople and registered dietitians to the podcast Positive Nutrition Follow Paige on
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