Dietitians Unplugged Podcast
84 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 337 ratingsWelcome to the Dietitians Unplugged Podcast with Aaron Flores and Glenys Oyston. Join us as we explore the idea of health and wellness from a new perspective. Each episode we will discuss topics that we hope to help you improve your health, body image and fitness without obsessing on the scale or counting calories. We believe in Health at Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, and body positivity and we want to help you build the confidence to ditch the scale, and embrace your health without shaming your body.
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Episode 84 - Farewell for Now: Hitting Pause on the Podcast
January 06, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBAfter 5 years, Aaron and Glenys are pressing pause on the Dietitians Unplugged podcast for now. In this episode they talk about what they're currently offering clients (see links below), where they were when they started the podcast, what they've learned along the way, and some of their favorite podcast moments. Show Notes: Aaron's Men's Body Trust Group Glenys and Rebecca's Self-Care for Diabetes online learning and group support program Keep in touch with the hosts: Aaron's web...
Episode 83 - Sleep Apnea and Weight Stigma
November 21, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBAaron and Glenys talk about their personal experiences with sleep apnea. They discussed how weight stigma sadly surrounds this diagnosis, and how they overcame related shame to get appropriate treatment. Also discussed in this episode were: How better sleep has changed their lives The importance of good sleep for health The different levels of weight stigma they experienced in pursuing treatment Developing a bedtime routine for easier falling asleep Some of the treatments available...
Episode 82 - No Wrong Way to Yoga with Marc Settembrino
October 21, 2020 06:00 - 53 minutes - 75 MBGlenys and Aaron welcome Dr. Marc Settembrino to the podcast to talk about his experience with becoming a yogi and creating inclusive yoga classes through Fat Kid Yoga Club. Marc discussed: -how yoga helped him feel better in difficult times -how there is no wrong way to do yoga -the intersection of LGBTQ+ and fat identities -letting your body be the guide in how you adapt yoga for you Marc began practicing yoga in 2015. As a fat, queer, yoga practitioner, they understand that starting a...
Episode 81 - The Fear of Weight Gain
September 22, 2020 06:00 - 44 minutes - 62.1 MBAaron and Glenys talk about weight. The global pandemic has put many people in a panic about changing weight. For those recovering from EDs and disordered eating, weight gain is often necessary and a part of healing, but hearing weight gain stigmatized constantly can feel like a huge setback. In this episode, our hosts talk about how they support their clients in normalizing weight gain and taking the focus of healing off of weight and put it more on supportive self-care. They also discussed...
Episode 80 - Caroline Dooner Said "F*ck It!" to Diets
August 22, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBAaron and Glenys talk with Caroline Dooner, humorist and author of The F*ck It Diet, a book that helps chronic dieters untangle themselves from a dysfunctional relationship with food. She used to be a chronic dieter, fully convinced she was a food addict, until she realized that dieting and body hatred were actually the roots of the issue. Caroline talked about her journey towards true non-diet eating: how she tried to manage her PCOS with diets, her foray into the Paleo Diet, the time she t...
Episode 79 - Fat Positive Fertility with Nicola Salmon
July 16, 2020 06:00 - 45 minutes - 64 MBAaron and Glenys invited Nicola Salmon to the podcast to discuss fat positive fertility. In this episode, they discussed: -Nicola’s experience of having fertility issues and being in a larger body -The lack evidence for weight loss improving fertility -The mixed research on weight-related fertility issues and the development of gestational diabetes in higher weight people -The weight stigma higher weight people face at the doctor’s office -What behaviors actually help to support fertil...
Episode 78 - Part II: Mindfulness in Traumatic Times with Fiona Sutherland
June 29, 2020 06:00 - 48 minutes - 68.5 MBAaron and Glenys continue their conversation with their friend and colleague, Fiona Sutherland, Health At Every Size® and non-diet dietitian and director of The Mindful Dietitian in Melbourne, Australia. Fiona is host of the podcast “The Mindful Dietitian” and teaches across Masters Level Dietetic training programs at several different Universities in Melbourne specifically in Counseling Skills and Weight Inclusive Approaches in Dietetics. Fiona is also a dedicated mindfulness practitioner...
Episode 77 - Part I: Mindfulness in Traumatic Times with Fiona Sutherland
June 17, 2020 06:00 - 46 minutes - 65.7 MBRecorded mid-April of 2020, Aaron and Glenys welcomed their friend Fiona Sutherland, a Health At Every Size® and non-diet dietitian and director of The Mindful Dietitian in Melbourne, Australia. She is host of the podcast “The Mindful Dietitian” and teaches across Masters Level Dietetic training programs at several different Universities in Melbourne specifically in Counseling Skills and Weight Inclusive Approaches in Dietetics. Fiona is also a dedicated mindfulness practitioner and Yoga Tea...
Episode 76 - Eating Disorders, Orthorexia and Aging with Meg Bradbury
May 21, 2020 06:00 - 59 minutes - 83.4 MBAaron and Glenys welcomed Meg Bradbury to the Dietitians Unplugged podcast! Meg Bradbury is a Certified Body Trust Provider®, anti-diet nutritionist, Accessible Yoga® Teacher, and registered Yoga Alliance yoga and meditation teacher. Meg is in private practice working with individuals, groups, and families, advocating for body acceptance, eating disorder/disordered eating/body shame recovery, freedom with food, joyful movement, and stillness/breathwork. She also co-leads the Elderqueer proje...
Episode 75 - Body Image, Anxiety, and Food Stress during COVID-19
April 08, 2020 06:00 - 44 minutes - 63.2 MBAaron and Glenys reach out to you from home during the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is a time of stress and fear for everyone, and it can really bring up a lot of distress around body image, food insecurity and scarcity, and eating in general. In this episode they discuss: Their personal experiences of navigating scarcity at the grocery stores and the emotional roller coaster they’ve both been on The hard work and ingenuity their clients and so many others are putting into their heali...
Episode 74 - Being Okay with Discomfort with Jessica Wilson
March 16, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBJessica Wilson, MS, RD joined Aaron and Glenys to generously share her wisdom about how we need to create more inclusivity in the non-diet, Health at Every Size and eating disorder worlds. She talked about the inadequacy of dietetics education around trauma and what real nutrition looks like (vs the “calories in/calories out” paradigm). She also discussed her past involvement with the Health at Every Size Movement and the challenges with there, including an early lack of inclusivity beyond b...
Episode 73 - Trust Your Body with Whitney Catalano
February 17, 2020 07:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBAaron and Glenys are joined by Whitney Catalano, RDN. In this episode we discuss what it means to trust our body and how to work on tackling the difficult issue of emotional and binge eating. Whitney also shares amazing information on how to deal with the stigma that often shows up when visiting medical providers. Learn more about Whitney Catalano Trust Your Body Project Podcast Get on the list for announcements: Self-Care for Diabetes More about Glenys More about Aaron
Episode 72 - Dismantling Diet Culture with Christy Harrison
January 23, 2020 07:00 - 57 minutes - 80.1 MBAaron and Glenys are joined by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, author of the book Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating and host of the popular podcast Food Psych. They discuss Christy's origin story and her evolution towards the Health at Every Size philosophy, how diets cause harm, the need for the "honeymoon phase" with restricted foods, how weight gain isn't about what you think it is, and the value in reclaiming the word "fat". Show notes:...
Episode 71 - Building Fat Positive Community with Dr. Rachel Millner
December 24, 2019 07:00 - 49 minutes - 69.9 MBAaron and Glenys welcome Dr. Rachel Millner to the show. Dr. Millner shares with us her brilliant thoughts on the importance of fat-positive spaces for clinicians and individuals and how weight stigma continues to negatively impact those working on healing from their eating disorder. Rachel Millner, Psy.D., CEDS-S, CBTP (she/her) is a psychologist/activist, a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Supervisor, and a Certified Body Trust Provider. Dr. Millner has been practicing as a psych...
Episode 70 - Emotional Eating, Overeating and Holiday Eating
December 03, 2019 07:00 - 44 minutes - 62.6 MBAaron and Glenys talk about the issues that are on people's minds at this time of year - emotional eating, overeating and how all that ties into holiday eating. What is emotional eating? Is overeating okay? How do we get through the holidays when food is such a challenge for us? BONUS: Aaron gives his tips for flying while fat. Show notes: Investigate the best seats on Seat Guru Ragen Chastain has written about fat discrimination by airlines, and what can help More about Aaron Mor...
Episode 69 - Clinical Coaching with Mollie Birney
November 26, 2019 07:00 - 38 minutes - 54.4 MBAaron and Glenys welcome Mollie Birney, Clinical Coach and Recovery Consultant with a specialization in the area of Eating Disorders and compulsive behaviors around food. She holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Addiction and Eating Disorders from Antioch University in Los Angeles, and has been in the field of mental health and addiction recovery since 2009. She has worked as a therapist with groups and individuals at all levels of care including inpatient, resident...
Episode 68 - Cults and Diet Culture with Dr. Natalie Feinblatt
November 03, 2019 16:26 - 51 minutes - 71.6 MBHas diet culture become a cult? Aaron and Glenys welcome therapist Dr. Natalie Feinblatt to the show to talk about the similarities between cults and diet culture. As a therapist who specializes in working with people who have left cults, Dr. Feinblatt compares and contrasts cults with dieting, and leaves us with some useful tools to assess if we are caught up in the cult of dieting. This was a fascinating and interesting angle on diet culture and we learned so much in this episode. We think...
Episode 67 - Exploring Exercise Dependence and Avoidance with Lauren Anton
October 08, 2019 06:00 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MBAaron and Glenys welcome their friend Lauren Anton, MS, RD, CEDRD-S, CPT to talk about all things exercise! Our relationship to movement and our bodies can be complicated by eating disorders or a lifetime of dieting. While some people experience life-interrupting exercise dependence, others might be feeling a complete avoidance to movement, even when they want to. Lauren explains what we can do to address these issues and begin to heal our relationship to movement. She also talks about what ...
Episode 66 - Embracing Imperfect Eating with Laura Westmoreland
September 28, 2019 06:00 - 36 minutes - 51.2 MBAaron and Glenys welcome Laura Westmoreland, LMFT to the show to help talk about about challenging our perfectionist tendencies, especially when it comes to eating. Many of us come to this work with a strong drive to get it "right", to get a gold star and become the perfect intuitive eater. Laura helps us unpack this belief and learn to truly embrace our beautifully imperfect lives. If you find yourself fighting to be the perfect non-dieter, then this show is for you. Forget the black and w...
Episode 65 - What you Should Know About Weight Loss Surgery with Lisa DuBreuil
September 10, 2019 06:00 - 53 minutes - 74.7 MBAaron and Glenys welcome Lisa DuBreuil, LICSW to the podcast to discuss how she works with people who are considering weight loss surgery, or who have already had it. She talks about what the medical community isn't doing well when preparing people for bariatric surgery, the possible long-term consequences, and how the HAES® principles can help in building good self-care after surgery. Lisa DuBreuil, LICSW is a mom, wife, fat activist, and clinical social worker. Since 2003 she has been a ...
Episode 64 - Will I Ever Stop Gaining Weight?
August 20, 2019 06:00 - 37 minutes - 52.9 MBAaron and Glenys tackle an oft-heard fear from many of their clients: "I'm afraid I'll never stop gaining weight!" Thanks to societal weight stigma, we understand why anyone would have this fear. And we know, both professionally and personally, that there are also real differences between smaller bodies and larger bodies, from movement to clothes shopping, from sweating to knee pain. In this episode, we offer our compassion for this fear and also some real-life solutions to some of the chall...
Episode 63 - Challenging Unhelpful Beliefs with Kristina Bruce
August 05, 2019 06:00 - 47 minutes - 66.1 MBAaron and Glenys welcome Kristina Bruce to the show to help our listeners challenge negative, unhelpful beliefs about themselves and their bodies. Kristina is a certified Integrative Life Coach, Body Acceptance Coach and Certified Body Trust® Provider and a strong advocate for Health at Every Size®. She employs Byron Katie's method, The Work, to help clients question beliefs that cause them stress and to help see those beliefs for what they are - thoughts, not reality. Kristina shared an imp...
Episode 62 - A Buddhist Framework for Eating Recovery with Jenna Hollenstein
July 22, 2019 06:00 - 51 minutes - 71.8 MBWe welcomed Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, CDN, author of the book Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life, to the podcast to talk about her framework, which is based in Buddhism, for healing disordered eating. In this episode, she explains the six Paramitas (generosity, discipline, patience, exertion, meditation and wisdom) and how we can apply them in approaching intuitive eating. Her compassion-based framework asks us to see ourselves as a b...
Episode 61 - Grieving the Thin Ideal for Body Acceptance with Meredith Noble
July 11, 2019 06:00 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MBGlenys and Aaron invite Meredith Noble of Made on a Generous Plan to the show to discuss a blog post she wrote a while back that our hosts love and refer to frequently. Meredith, a Certified Body Trust® Provider and coach who helps plus-size and fat-identifying people find food and body peace and fat liberation, wrote a poignant essay about how grieving the thin ideal is essential in our body acceptance journey. Glenys and Aaron have been sharing this article with clients for a long time so ...
Episode 60 - Nike Plus-Size Mannequin Does NOT Promote Obesity
June 26, 2019 06:00 - 31 minutes - 44.8 MBNike recently unveiled a new plus-size line of athletic clothing and with it, a plus-size mannequin on which to display the clothing. One journalist railed against this move as "promoting obesity." In this episode, Aaron and Glenys talk about the reaction to the mannequin, both good and bad, how promoting obesity is not actually "a thing", and the role that internalized weight stigma may have played in this reaction. Show notes: We're not linking to the original article because it's bia...
Episode 59 - Fat TV Reviewed: Shrill, Dietland
June 11, 2019 06:00 - 49 minutes - 69.4 MBAaron and Glenys have been watching TV and want to tell you all about it. Our hosts discuss the most recent TV shows that seem tailor-made for those of us craving fat-positive entertainment, specifically the TV shows Dietland (season 1 now streaming on Hulu) and Shrill (also on Hulu). They breakdown what worked, what didn't, what they liked, and what they're hoping for more of. They also discuss the return of The Biggest Loser, which seems to be co-opting the movement-of-the-moment, and a TV...
Episode 58 - This is Body Liberation with Jes Baker
May 30, 2019 06:00 - 48 minutes - 67.8 MBAaron and Glenys are excited to welcome to the podcast Jes Baker, author of the books Landwhale and Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living. Jes Baker is a positive, progressive, and magnificently irreverent force to be reckoned with in the realm of self-love advocacy and mental health. She is internationally known for preaching the importance of body liberation, hard conversations, strong coffee, and even stronger language. Jes burst onto the body image scene w...
Episode 57 - What is Emotional Eating? with Jennifer McGurk
May 17, 2019 06:00 - 48 minutes - 67.3 MBGlenys and Aaron welcome registered dietitian and eating disorder specialist Jennifer McGurk to the show to discuss the topic of emotional eating. In this episode, we talk about the differences between emotional eating and binge eating, and also what they both have in common. While eating is almost always done with some sort of emotion, when does that become a problem, and when does emotional eating become a binge? We also talk about the importance of having many coping tools in your toolbo...
Episode 56 - Sick Enough with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani
April 23, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBAaron and Glenys were thrilled to talk to Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani of the Gaudiani Clinic in Denver, CO which provides in-person and telehealth care to people with current or a history of eating disorders. Dr. G is also the author of the book Sick Enough, a Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders. She talked to us about her journey to becoming a HAES-aligned doctor, and how she realized that HAES is the only ethical way to treat patients, especially those in larger bodies. She ex...
Episode 55 - Getting Back to Our Bodies with Tracy Brown, RDN
April 08, 2019 06:00 - 53 minutes - 74.7 MBAaron and Glenys dive deep into the body with Tracy Brown, RDN, LD/N. Tracy is a somatic nutrition therapists who helps her clients reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies through the principles of Intuitive Eating. Glenys, Aaron and Tracy discuss the effects of trauma on the body, how "feeling fat" isn't really about body size at all, how the fight/flight/freeze reflex can keep us trapped in the diet cycle and how reconnecting with the body can help end the cycle. Bonus content: Witness G...
Episode 54 - What We Mean By "Thin Privilege"
March 26, 2019 06:00 - 44 minutes - 62.4 MBAaron and Glenys discuss a talk they gave in they discussed the term "thin privilege" which was perceived to mean "thin shaming" by some members of the audience. But is mentioning thin privilege the same as thin-shaming? Is thin-shaming even a thing anyway? And what does it mean to have such a negative response to the concept of thin privilege? They discuss these questions and more in this episode! Melissa Fabello's Article on Skinny Shaming - https://www.self.com/story/skinny-shaming-is-n...
Episode 53 - What BED Relapse Looks like with Sunny Sea Gold
March 13, 2019 06:00 - 52 minutes - 73 MBAaron and Glenys talk to Sunny Gold, a longtime health journalist and former magazine editor who is in recovery from binge eating disorder. She wrote a book for young women who binge eat, called Food: The Good Girl's Drug that came out in 2011. In this episode, she generously shares her story of a relapse back into her eating disorder after trying weight loss diets again, and what she learned from that experience about body acceptance. If you want to keep up with her, follow her on Instagram...
Episode 52 - Is There a Size Limit for HAES?
February 28, 2019 05:14 - 35 minutes - 49.7 MBAaron and Glenys answer a listener's question about how they address the health of very large clients. Is there a size limit to HAES, and do they still feel HAES is appropriate for even the largest bodies? Or is there a size at which they start recommending weight loss? Visit the ASDAH website to learn more about HAES More about Aaron www.bvmrd.com More about Glenys www.daretonotdiet.com
Episode 51 - When Caring About Food Becomes Orthorexia
February 14, 2019 07:00 - 28 minutes - 40.5 MBAaron and Glenys tackle the topic of orthorexia. Orthorexia, while not an official eating disorder, describes the the obsessive behavior that some people develop in pursuing a "healthy" diet. Like any eating disorder, it can be complex and involve other mental health issues, such as anxiety disorders. And while most people don't have orthorexia, your hosts see more and more people showing up in their practices who are suffering from symptoms of orthorexia linked to years of chronic dieting -...
Episode 50 - Finding Fat Friendly Providers on Ample with Alissa Sobo
January 24, 2019 05:56 - 44 minutes - 62.2 MBIs it Ample? Aaron and Glenys talk to Alissa Sobo, the creator of Ample, the first app that rates businesses specifically on their accessibility and inclusiveness towards marginalized bodies (fat, trans, people of color and more). In this episode, Alissa talks about her origin story of being fat-shamed at the doctor when she was pregnant and why she decided she needed to create a review site for people in marginalized bodies whose needs are just not being met. She also explains how this amaz...
Episode 49 - Why Your Weight Loss Diet is a Bad Idea
January 04, 2019 07:00 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MBIt’s the new year and self-improvement is on the minds of many. For some, that translates to going on a diet and weight loss. Aaron and Glenys are here to tell you why that might not be such a great idea, and what you can do instead. They discuss the failure rate of weight loss diets, why the body’s biology and psychology fight weight loss, and how diet culture upholds body oppression. This rant will get you fired up for the year and ready to take on self-care from a place of true self-compa...
Episode 48 - Sex and Body Image with Dr. Linda Baggett
December 24, 2018 07:00 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBAaron and Glenys get to the topic you’ve all been waiting for: SEX. More specifically, sex and body image. In this episode, they speak to Dr. Linda Baggett, a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in counseling psychology and an expert in the intersections of gender, body image, sexuality, and trauma. They discuss all things sex and body image: the embarrassment many feel of being seen naked, the cult of secrecy around female genitals, the role of patriarchy in sexual relations, how sexual orie...
Episode 47 - Binge Eating Disorder: A Journey to Recovery and Beyond with Chevese Turner and Amy Pershing
November 16, 2018 07:00 - 53 minutes - 73.9 MBIn this episode, Aaron and Glenys interviewed two leaders in the Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and Health at Every Size® community, Amy Pershing and Chevese Turner to discuss their new book Binge Eating Disorder: A Journey to Recovery and Beyond. They discuss the book and share valuable insights into the treatment and recovery from BED. These two people have so much wisdom and this is a must listen for any clinician or individual who wants to know more about the treatment of BED. Binge Ea...
Episode 46 - Exploring The Eating Instinct with Virginia Sole Smith
October 29, 2018 06:00 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBAaron and Glenys talk to journalist Virginia Sole-Smith, author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Elle and many other publications. She’s also a contributing editor with Parents Magazine and co-host of the Comfort Food Podcast. The Eating Instinct begins with the story of how Virginia’s daughter lost the ability to eat by mouth and then delves deep into a profound exploration of how food and ...
Episode 45 - We Discuss Tess Holiday on Cosmo, SELF Magazine, and being Anti-Diet Dietitians
October 10, 2018 06:00 - 55 minutes - 77.3 MBAaron and Glenys get together to talk about the sensation and then backlash of Tess Holiday of Cosmo; SELF magazine’s recent evolution toward Health at Every Size; how we help our clients define “health” for themselves; and what being a non-diet dietitian means to us. Show notes: Why Piers Morgan sucks SELF Magazine’s Weight Issue (HAES friendly) More about Aaron www.bvmrd.com More about Glenys www.daretonotdiet.com
Episode 44 - Changing the Narratives of Eating Disorders with Filmmaker Elizabeth Ayiku
August 22, 2018 15:38 - 45 minutes - 63.3 MBAaron and Glenys welcomed Elizabeth Ayiku to the Podcast to share her story about her eating disorder experience as well as her work as a filmmaker. Her current project is a feature film about a woman of color living who is struggling with an eating disorder, going trough treatment while also juggling her career. This independent film is a passion project of Elizabeth's and we are asking out listeners to help support her project to bring this story to light. To contribute to Elizabeth's f...
Episode 43 - Healing through Dance with Queer Fat Femme Bevin
August 09, 2018 03:34 - 52 minutes - 72.8 MBAaron and Glenys talk to Queer Fat Femme Bevin of Fat Kid Dance Party about how she's helping people heal from body oppression through fun and accessible dance classes. A childhood of bullying because of her weight kept her off the dance floor until she found body liberation activism, the idea that all bodies are worthy of love no matter what. She has been reclaiming dance floors along with teaching, performing and writing about body liberation for over fifteen years. She is an AFAA certifie...
Episode 42 - Practicing Mindful Self-Compassion with Cori Rosenthal, LMFT
July 26, 2018 00:05 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBAaron and Glenys talk to Cori Rosenthal, a mindfulness-based marriage and family therapist, meditation and mindful eating teacher about introducing mindfulness and self-compassion in your self-care routine. Cori shares with us her experience of dieting since childhood and the critical inner voice she finally came to recognize after practicing mindfulness. She explains the neurobiology of our brains on mindfulness and how it can truly change the way our brains function in a positive way that ...
Episode 41 - Mindfulness for Diabetes Self-Care with Megrette Fletcher
July 11, 2018 06:00 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBAaron and Glenys dive deep in to a discussion on non-diet, HAES-based care for diabetes with Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDE. Megrette is a certified diabetes educator who provides non-weight-focused education for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes, and teaches other professionals how to provide this care as well. Founder of the Center for Mindful Eating, Megrette advocates for pleasurable, mindful eating and shame reduction to help manage blood sugars instead of restriction and weight lo...
Episode 40 - Body Image Work is Crucial
May 21, 2018 06:00 - 41 minutes - 57 MBShould dietitians talk about body image with their clients? Aaron and Glenys discuss how this can be a difficult topic to broach with clients, but how it is essential to the work of making peace with food. Both share their experiences in talking about body image and weight stigma with clients and how it helps to move the work of finding peace with food forward. Aaron and Glenys also do a quick review of how they ended up at a place of Health at Every Size in their personal lives and in their...
Episode 39 - Is Sugar Addiction a Real Thing? with Tiffany Haug
May 15, 2018 06:00 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBEver wonder if you’re addicted to sugar? Or some other kind of food? Aaron and Glenys talk to Tiffany Haug, MS, RD, EDOC, who breaks down the science of addiction and why your diet history makes all the difference in how you approach highly palatable foods. Tiffany also talks about the problem with how food addiction is studied and the problems with the Yale Food Addiction Scale. Find Tiffany Haug here More About Aaron: www.bvmrd.com More About Glenys: www.daretonotdiet.com
Episode 38 - ED Treatment for Marginalized People with Gloria Lucas
April 16, 2018 06:00 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBAaron and Glenys were thrilled to welcome to the podcast Gloria Lucas, founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP). Gloria shares her story of how and why she came to found NPP, which provides eating disorder resources to marginalized communities. She also talks about how eating disorder communities must learn to do better to include people of color into the discussion and make treatment more available and inclusive of marginalized people. Also discussed: the role of colonialism in historica...
Episode 37 - Aaron and Glenys Tackle Their Inner Critics
April 02, 2018 06:00 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBWe all have an inner critic. Sometimes this little voice can be really helpful in keeping us safe...but sometimes it can hold us back or send us damaging and unhelpful thoughts. Aaron and Glenys talk about their own inner critics, how they manifest, and how they deal with them. This is a truly unplugged (and sometimes unhinged!) discussion that we're sure you'll enjoy and hopefully will give you a few more tools for your self-care toolbox. More about Aaron www.bvmrd.com More about ...
Episode 36 - You are More than Your Body with Summer Innanen
March 19, 2018 06:00 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBIn this episode, Aaron and Glenys talk to Summer Innanen about body image and finding your value outside of your body. Summer is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps women all over the world through her private and group coaching to break out of the diet culture cage and cultivate their inner, rampant untameability so they can wear, say and do what they want. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, creator of the You, On...
Episode 35 - Metaphors & Storytelling in healing Eating Disorders with Dr. Anita Johnston
February 26, 2018 07:00 - 52 minutes - 73.1 MBGlenys and Aaron were thrilled to have a chance to talk to Dr. Anita Johnston, author of the book Eating in the Light of the Moon. This book is an amazing resource for those struggling with eating difficulties of all kinds. Our interview focused on how Dr. Johnston was first exposed to metaphor as a way of healing, and how this can be a source for a deeper understanding of our behaviors. She also takes a deep dive into the discussing the popular “log metaphor” from her book and why it reson...