Social Justice, Equitable Care, and Navigating a Field That is Still Unlearning with Whitney Trotter - EFTROU: S3, Ep10

Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 3, Episode 10: Whitney Trotter

Chavonne (she/her) and Jenn (she/her) interviewed Whitney Trotter (she/her) about their embodiment journey.

Whitney Trotter (she/her) is dually licensed as a Registered Dietitian, Nurse, and yoga instructor and is currently working on her doctorate degree to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Whitney has over ten years of experience working as a registered dietitian serving various communities such as the HIV/AIDS community and the eating disorder field. Whitney also previously worked at a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center as a Pediatric emergency room nurse. In addition to working as an RDN and RN, Whitney has served as a member of her county's Rape Crisis Center. Her work at the Rape Crisis Center equipped her to co-found an anti-trafficking organization Restore Corps, where she now provides medical training to the community focusing on human trafficking response. 

Whitney's career in the Eating Disorder field includes being a former Nutrition and Nursing director of a Residential, PHP, and IOP center. Whitney is also the owner/founder of Bluff City Health, a private practice that bridges the gap in the eating disorder field of equitable care and social justice. This past year Whitney created the first-ever BIPOC Eating Disorders Conference and started #BIPOCEatingDisordersAwarenessWeek

Content Warning: discussion of privilege, discussion of diet culture, discussion of fatphobia, discussion of racism, discussion of fatphobia in the career space, discussion of mental health, discussion of chronic medical issues

Trigger Warnings: None for this episode

The captions for this episode can be found at https://embodimentfortherestofus.com/season-3/season-3-episode-10-whitney-trotter/#captions

A few highlights:

4:21: Whitney shares her understanding of embodiment and her own embodiment journey

8:10: Whitney discusses how the pandemic affected her embodiment practices 

14:26: Whitney shares her understanding of “the rest of us” and how she is a part of that, as well as her privileges

24:46: Whitney discusses how the word “Rest” right in the middle of the podcast name feels, occurs, and shows up for her

43:58: Whitney shares how her education and career have changed and challenged her relationship with her own embodiment 

51:18: Whitney discusses her process in co-creating the BIPOC Eating Disorders Conference

1:10:31: Whitney shares her experience learning and unlearning while calling out what is oppressive in our systems

1:19:27: Whitney discusses how listeners can make a difference based on this conversation

1:26:05: Whitney shares where to be found and what’s next for her

Links from this episode:

Ableism

Angela Goens

BIPOC Eating Disorders Conference

Body Trust

Fatness Spectrum

Intersectionality

Marquisele Mercedes

Relative Fat vs. Absolute Fat

Tiana Dodson 

Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons​)​, Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License

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