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Join Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist, as she explores popular topics in nutrition, interviews experts in the fields of wellness and health, and celebrates the successes of people who have overcome eating disorders, weight struggles, and food issues.
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84: Navigating Two Worlds—A Story of Body Image & Food Struggles Across Cultures from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Melissa Carmona, LPCA is passionate about helping Spanish-speaking people have access to support and resources for mental health concerns. As a Colombian-American woman and mental health therapist,...
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182: Goodbye — context, thank you, parting advice and some social commentary from 2020-11-25T23:39:12
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 decisio...
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181: Intuitive Exercise&How to Train Happy from 2020-08-31T05:30
180: Eating Disorders&the Higher Level of Care from 2020-08-17T15:24:44
179: Evelyn Tribole&Elyse Resch on Intuitive Eating Fourth Edition from 2020-08-03T06:00
178: Rest, Play, Humor&our Health from 2020-07-20T16:00
177: What to do if You're Afraid of Food from 2020-07-06T19:47:11
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176: Menopause—Weight, Health, Changing Bodies and Eating Disorders in ages 50+ from 2020-06-22T16:00
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175: Exploring what Healthy Really Means and Reclaiming it for Good from 2020-06-08T16:00
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174: Pregnancy&Postpartum Body Image from 2020-05-25T05:30
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173: Finding Your Authentic Voice in Challenging Diet Culture from 2020-05-11T06:00
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172: Medical Nutrition Therapy&Intuitive Eating: How Nutrition Improves with Connection&Kindness from 2020-04-27T06:00
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171: Fat-Phobia in the Eating Disorder Treatment Community from 2020-04-13T16:18:02
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170: Navigating our New Normal—Adjusting to Social Distancing from 2020-04-06T05:30
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169: Ditching Diets and Practicing Body Acceptance in the Latina Community from 2020-03-31T17:57:11
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Coronavirus Thoughts — What a Year this Week has Been from 2020-03-23T22:17:41
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 ch...
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168: The Role of Intention, Flexibility,&Self-Compassion in Gentle Nutrition from 2020-03-16T20:24:57
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We're in this Together — Mindset&Practical Ideas for Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic from 2020-03-15T22:41:22
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...
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167: Intuitive Eating and Weight-Inclusive Care in Black Communities from 2020-03-02T07:30
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166: Shame Spirals&Wounded Healers from 2020-02-17T22:40:01
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165: What One Doctor Wished Every Doctor Knew About their Patients with Eating Disorders from 2020-02-03T17:00
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164: How the Binge-Restrict Pattern Shows Up in Other Areas of Life from 2020-01-20T08:00
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163: Q&A—Peace with Food During the Holidays from 2019-12-04T20:57:47
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162: What Every LDS Missionary Should Know About Food, Nutrition&Body Image Before Serving from 2019-11-18T21:38:47
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161: The Diet-Binge Cycle and How Isabel Foxen Duke Finally Stopped Fighting Food from 2019-11-04T22:48:01
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160: Intentionally Diversifying Who you Learn From Online and In-Person from 2019-10-21T17:49:46
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159: The Similarities and Distinctions Between Addictions&Eating Disorders from 2019-10-07T06:30
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158: Exploring Enoughness in Eating and Beyond from 2019-09-23T05:30
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 orde...
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157: Demystifying Gentle Nutrition&Its Role in Intuitive Eating from 2019-09-09T06:00
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, an...
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156: Fatness in Indian Culture from 2019-08-26T06:30
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 regist...
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155: "Is it My Fault?"—Tips and Resources for People who Love Someone Struggling with Food from 2019-08-12T14:53:28
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 ...
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154: Navigating a Vegan Lifestyle while Embracing Intuitive Eating from 2019-07-29T05:30
Are Intuitive Eating and Veganism mutually exclusive philosophies?
Taylor Wolfram, RDN and Paige wrestle with this question in this podcast episode. As a dietitian passionate abo...
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153: Hitting Diet Rock Bottom from 2019-07-15T06:30
We're all familiar with what the term 'rock bottom' means—but, what does that look like with food and body image?
Jennifer McGurk, RDN, CDN, CDE, CEDRD-S joins Paige on the podcast to ex...
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152: What Does it Look Like When Things are Going Well with Nutrition and Body Image? from 2019-06-24T17:24:11
This podcast outlines ways to identify when things are going well with your relationship with food. It's understandable that we spend significant amounts of time talking about where things go wr...
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151: The Distinction Between Mindfulness and Intuitive Eating from 2019-06-10T07:30
This week on the podcast, I'm sharing an episode where I was a guest discussing mindfulness, intuitive eating, self-compassion and more: some of my all-time favorite concepts! We discuss how min...
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150: A Simple, Straightforward Way to Decide What To Eat from 2019-05-27T17:03:17
"Okay this is all great, but what should I eat?!"
If I had a nickel for every time I've been asked this question, I'd a rich woman! While it's totally understandable to want answers to t...
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149: How Connecting to our Instinct to Eat can Help us Make Peace with Food from 2019-05-13T06:00
As a journalist, Virginia Sole-Smith tells stories of women. With her new book, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America, Virginia explores how we can find the p...
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148: Practical Tips for Cooking for One from 2019-04-29T16:00
Cooking for one can be difficult to navigate for many reasons. It's easy to get into the mindset that it's not worth it to cook for one. All the diet rules swimming around in your brain can ma...
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147: Q&A—Comparison, Diet Culture Messaging, Bingeing vs. Restricting and More from 2019-04-15T16:10:11
In this episode, I go through listener questions about intuitive eating, making peace with food and how to navigate diet culture.
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146: Demystifying Gut Health&the Microbiome from 2019-04-01T16:00
In this episode, I speak with Jessie Hoffman, PhD about her experience as a nutrition researcher and gut health expert. We discuss her dissertation studies on the gut microbiome and environmen...
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145: Bodies&Modesty in Mormonism: the Complexities of a Religious Culture&Body Image from 2019-03-18T06:00
Lexie and Lindsay Kite, PhD of Beauty Redefined® joined Paige on the podcast to talk about a topic that they've been outspoken about since the inception of their non-profit: modesty and ...
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144: Writing to Get Free&Unlearning to Heal from 2019-03-04T06:00
Melissa Toler is a speaker, writer, and educator. Her work encourages people to make the connection between our culture's oppressive beauty standards and our personal struggle with self-...
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143: The Paradox of Permission with Intuitive Eating from 2019-02-18T06:00
Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD is the co-author of the book: Intuitive Eating. Evelyn is an award-winning registered dietitian, with a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, California...
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142: What Marie Kondo Can Teach Us About Food from 2019-02-04T07:30
Marie Kondo's approach to tidying up is taking the world by storm. Her new Netflix special has shot her into the spotlight and has gotten people discussing joy and tidiness on all sides of the...
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141: When Intuitive Eating Is Your Native Language from 2019-01-21T06:30
Diana K. Rice, RD, LD, is known as The Baby Steps Dietitian and is the founder of Diana K. Rice Nutrition, LLC, where she works with families to eat well and reduce the stress surrounding thei...
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140: The Magical Power of Saying No from 2019-01-07T07:30
I've missed all of you while I took a two month break from podcasting!! Happy New Year and welcome to 2019.
This podcast episode is all about what I've been up to over ...
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139: Your Holiday Food&Body Image Survival Guide from 2018-10-31T06:30
Molly Bahr, LMHC is a licensed mental health counselor currently stationed for a year in Haiti. She has a private practice primarily focused on individual therapy for eating disorders, disord...
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138: Sports Nutrition&How Athletes Can Work with their Bodies from 2018-10-24T14:46:02
Fiona Sutherland is Director of The Mindful Dietitian & Body Positive Australia and has been practicing for 15 years primarily in the areas of eating behavior, eating disorders, body image, sp...
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137: Happiness isn't a Size: An Interview with Jes Baker, Author of Landwhale from 2018-10-17T12:57:36
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 ...
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136: Exploring Privilege and Why it Matters in Health&Nutrition from 2018-10-10T05:30
Nicole McDermid is a Social Worker, Counsellor (Australian spelling) and an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, with over ten years experience working in the mental health field. Not only does Nicol...
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135: What is Intuitive Eating? [Part II] from 2018-10-03T06:30
I'm stepping outside the box again on this podcast episode and bringing you another solo recording. Before I recorded last week's episode, I asked my Instagram followers what their quest...
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134: What is Intuitive Eating? from 2018-09-26T06:30
I'm stepping outside the box on this podcast episode and bringing you a solo recording. This episode is full of the main things you need to know about intuitive eating. If you've been exposed ...
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133: Exploring a Path to True Health&Happiness from 2018-09-18T05:30
Monica Mo, PhD is a brand and media strategist and business coach for health professionals. She shares her process of being involved in the scientific world with models and studies and how she...
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132: We Are All Born to Eat from 2018-09-12T08:30
Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN came on the podcast to talk about her book Born to Eat. We talk about Leslie's guiding philosophy that each of us is truly born to eat. We talk about her unique appro...
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131: What It Means to Nourish Yourself Inside&Out from 2018-09-05T06:30
Heidi Schauster, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S just came out with a new book called Nourish: how to heal your relationship with food, body and self and she came on the podcast to talk about the question so...
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130: Why #nuancematters in Conversations about Gut Health&Nutrition Science from 2018-08-29T07:00
Jessie Hoffman, PhD (c) came on the podcast to talk about why nuance matters when it comes to nutrition, health and science. Jessie is an expert in gut health, so we take some time in this epi...
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129: When It's About the Food and It's Not About the Food from 2018-08-22T06:30
In this episode, Laura Thomas, PhD explores the concepts of weight stigma and weight bias in detail, and discuss how sometimes it's about the food but it's not about the food. Laura shares abo...
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128: Beyond Halal—Understanding Muslim Practices and Eating Patterns from 2018-08-15T06:30
Rahaf Al Bochi is a registered dietitian and owner of Olive Tree Nutrition LLC. She specializes in diabetes prevention and management and intuitive eating. She also has a special interest in t...
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127: Tips for Shifting from Rigid Meal Plans to Flexibility with Food from 2018-08-08T06:30
Devrie Pettit, MS, RD is a registered dietitian who has gone through an interesting professional journey from selling meal plans online to supporting a message focused on Intuitive Eating, HAE...
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126: The Intersection Between Addiction and Nutrition from 2018-08-01T06:30
Nutrition during addiction recovery is an often very misunderstood and mischaracterized element of healing. Healing from addiction requires a multi-faceted approach and nutrition can play an i...
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125: Resilience Through Loss from 2018-07-25T08:00
Laura Iu is a registered dietitian, intuitive eating coach and yoga teacher who is passionate about helping people heal their relationships with food and body. She lives and works in New York ...
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124: Performative Health vs. Embodied Wellbeing from 2018-07-18T07:00
This podcast episode dives deep into some of the most critical and core concepts within the realm of health and healing. I spoke with Dr. Lilia Graue, who is both a physician as well as a psyc...
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123: Answering Common Questions about Being a Health at Every Size Private Practice Dietitian from 2018-07-11T06:00
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be in private practice? Have you wondered about how it works to be an entrepreneur who is offering a counter-cultural approach to food and nutrition?
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122: Let Freedom Ring—Body Liberation&Emotional Freedom from 2018-07-04T06:30
On this day of Independence—at least for the United States listeners—I'm sharing a podcast episode all about liberation and freedom as it relates to food, dieting and bodies.
121: What it's Like to Feel You Don't Fit In with the Non-Diet Message from 2018-06-27T07:00
Have you ever felt like you don't fit in with the non-diet message? Have you ever scratched your head about a post you saw on social media from someone who represents the intuitive eating appr...
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120: Practicing Mindful Eating&Self-Compassion with Diabetes from 2018-06-20T06:30
Can mindfulness and mindful eating work with a diabetes diagnosis? Is the compassionate approach to health—Health at Every Size and Intuitive Eating paradigms—in alignment with diabetes manage...
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119: Getting Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable from 2018-06-13T07:30
Dr. Judi-Lee Webb is a licensed psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist who practices in Atlanta, Georgia. She talks in this episode about the importance of representation in the...
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118: Exploring Hormonal Health from 2018-06-06T07:00
Hormonal health is a trendy topic right now. But, how can we navigate figuring out what's fact versus fiction when it comes to hormones?
I invited the fabulous Robyn Nohling, FNP, RD, MSN...
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117: Is Food Medicine? from 2018-05-30T06:30
Hippocrates famously declared: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
While this sounds nice and seems harmless, there are important nuances to explore ab...
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116: Letting Go of the Shoulds with Food from 2018-05-23T07:00
In this episode, Jenn Hand—food and eating coach—and I talk about food rules and their sneaky tendency to create perfectionistic thinking and chaos with food. We dive deep into the practical way...
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115: Finding Self-Worth&Identity Beyond Food&Body from 2018-05-16T07:00
Dr. Stephanie Waitt specializes in treating eating disorders at her practice, Texoma Specialty Counseling. In her work, with people she helps men and women find balance, peace, confidence, and...
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114: Why Diversifying Dietetics Matters from 2018-05-10T08:30
Tamara Melton, MS, RDN, CPHIMS and Deanna Belleny, MPH, RDN are the co-founders of a new non-profit, Diversify Dietetics which is a a community to attract, encourage and empower students and y...
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113: Exploring Weight Stigma from 2018-05-02T07:00
Have you heard the term "weight stigma" and wondered what it's all about? Even if you're a seasoned expert with this concept, you're going to love this episode with Ashlee Bennett, MAT, aka @b...
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112: Challenging All-or-Nothing Thinking from 2018-04-25T07:00
In this episode, Kara Lydon of the Foodie Dietitian Blog talk about her evolution of healing her relationship with food. We also then discuss how all-or-nothing thinking can get in the way of ...
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111: Breaking Down Weight Science from 2018-04-17T06:30
Fiona Willer, AdvAPD is a dietitian and academic who has devoted her career to empower health professionals to adopt weight neutral practice by providing support and training in how and why to...
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110: How to Feel your Feelings from 2018-04-11T07:00
Tiffany Roe is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, teacher, speaker, social media influencer, podcaster, & the owner of Mindful Counseling LLC in Orem, Utah. She passionately helps h...
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109: Recovery When You're Hell-Bent on Not Recovering from 2018-04-04T07:30
Jennifer Ball struggled with an eating disorder for many years. Her struggle morphed from restriction to bingeing and everywhere in between. When she sought treatment, she was ready to tackle ...
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108: How Nutrition&Weight Messages are Affecting our Children from 2018-03-28T06:30
We all want the same things for our kids—happiness, health and overall positivity. After spending years listening to adults talk about the formative messages they received about their body and...
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107: The Intersection of Art&Healing from 2018-03-21T07:30
Lauren Brereton, RDN writes poetry to heal, to learn and to grow. She has been publishing her poems on social media and she came on the podcast to talk about her poetry and how creating art ha...
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106: Beauty Redefined and Body Image Resilience from 2018-03-14T08:00
Beauty Refined is a passion project of twins Lindsay and Lexie Kite who both have PhDs from the University of Utah and specialize in body image. Their nonprofit helps girls and women improve t...
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105: But, I Don't Want to Accept This Body from 2018-03-07T17:00
The body positive movement has so many elements to love about it. Not only is it making significant headway politically, but we are also seeing more and more research being conducted to look at ...
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104: The Basics of Breastfeeding from 2018-02-28T17:00
Jessica Clayton, RD, IBCLC is an international board certified lactation consultant and has a passion for helping new moms figure out breastfeeding. She came on the podcast to talk about the w...
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103: The Slippery Slope of Wellness Culture from 2018-02-21T08:00
Pursuing health and well-being is completely natural and understandable. It can be incredibly positive and life-enhancing. The trouble is, though, that true wellness has been reduced down to lis...
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102: Becoming Body Positive from 2018-02-14T08:00
Clare Sheehan started an Instagram account about a year ago to document her journey in recovery and discovering body positivity. In this episode of Nutrition Matters Podcast, she shares her pe...
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101: The Power of Permission from 2018-02-07T08:00
What would happen if you all of a sudden gave yourself permission? Permission to eat what you want, permission to be your authentic self, permission to move your body in a way that feels good (r...
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100: What is Mindful Eating? from 2018-02-01T09:00
What exactly is mindful eating? We throw the term around regularly but don't always dive into the nitty gritty details of where the practice of mindfulness came from. This podcast was originally...
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99: Strategies for Navigating Diet Talk from 2018-01-24T08:30
So, you've decided to stop dieting. But now, all of a sudden you are hearing dieting messages and diet talk all around you! How do you navigate social situations where people are constantly talk...
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98: A Male Perspective on Eating Disorders from 2018-01-17T09:30
neglect the many, many men who struggle with various forms of disordered eating and eating disorders. In this episode, we talk with Andrew Walen, LCSW-C and author of the book Man Up to Eating...
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97: Leaving Diet Culture 7 Times from 2018-01-10T09:30
Have you ever walked away from dieting only to find yourself right back in there a few months or weeks later? Dieting is intoxicating and alluring—we can find ourselves in situations where we're...
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96: How the Challenges of Motherhood can be a Catalyst for Growth&Healing from 2018-01-03T10:00
The shifts in identity, roles, responsibilities and every other aspect of life during motherhood can really throw a person for a loop. Lindsay Stenovec, MS, RD, CEDRD has created a supportive an...
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95: How to Heal Your Relationship with Exercise from 2017-12-27T10:00
We spend a lot of time on Nutrition Matters Podcast talking about how to heal your relationship with food and your body. One of the very important components of approaching behaviors from a he...
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94: Food Addiction—Fact or Fiction? from 2017-12-21T09:30
Have you ever wondered if your struggles with food should or could be characterized by the food addiction label?
Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD, cPT is a renowned eating disorder expert and nutr...
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93: Embracing the Gray with Intuitive Eating from 2017-12-12T09:30
Have you ever felt like your process of ditching dieting has become another all-or-nothing pursuit where you used to do things one way when you dieted, and now you are doing the complete opposit...
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92: How to Care About Your Eating Without Caring Too Much from 2017-12-05T09:30
The purpose of food and nutrition is to enable you to live a fulfilling and meaningful life, but not necessarily to be the object of life. Food is important, but doesn't need to occupy so much...
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91: Incorporating Intuitive Eating with a Chronic Illness from 2017-11-29T17:00
Tori Smedley is a registered-dietitian-to-be and a University of Utah student pursuing a degree in nutrition. In this podcast, she shares her personal story with navigating health concerns and...
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90: Exploring Normal Eating from 2017-11-22T09:00
It's that time of year!
I wanted to publish this conversation right before the holiday season because the end of the year tends to bring chaos and nervousness around fo...
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89: Fat: An Evolving Story from 2017-11-17T17:00
Is fat our friend or our foe? Listen as I interview Thunder Jalili, PhD, Associate Professor and director of the Nutrition Sciences Department at the University of Utah’s Division of Nutrition a...
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88: Exploring Weight Neutrality from 2017-11-10T17:00
Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, LD and I discuss how providers, family members and communities can change the conversation about weight. We discuss the term "weight neutrality" and do our best to exp...
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87: Pregnancy Nutrition Questions Answered from 2017-11-02T08:00
In this episode, I'm sharing a podcast I recorded with the host of the Birds and Bees podcast all about nutrition during pregnancy. We take a different look at the information and discuss the co...
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86: Building Body Trust and Better Health through the Little Things from 2017-10-25T08:30
Tracy Brown, RD, LD/N is a somatic nutrition therapist, intuitive eating coach and embodiment teacher. She helps people come home to themselves through their bodies by healing their relation...
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85: From Anorexia to Eating Disorder Dietitian from 2017-10-18T08:30
Reba Sloan suffered from an eating disorder as an adolescent and young adult. She was able to recover fully and eventually went on to become one of the pioneers in the eating disorder world, wor...
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