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Fearing The Black Body - Sabrina Strings

The Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor

My Black Body Podcast - Rawiyah Tariq and Jessica Wilson, MS. RD.

Ep 132 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 11: Gentle Nutrition Feb 12, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 9 of this series will drop on Tuesday 16th Feb!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Paige Smathers RDN, CD is a registered dietitian nutritionist in private practice and podcaster whose work revolves around helping people heal their relationships with food and their body. She specializes in chronic dieting, addiction recovery nutrition, eating disorders and family feeding dynamics. Her approach to nutrition and health is grounded in mindfulness and is rooted in the intuitive eating and Health at Every Size frameworks. In this episode we’re talking all about the final principle of Intuitive Eating; Gentle Nutrition.

In this episode we talk about:

How choosing what to eat is like choosing what to wear
Unconditional permission to eat; what it is and what it isn’t
Why it’s important not to come to Gentle Nutrition before we are ready
Food flexibility
How mindfulness can support our relationship with food
Letting go of ‘food perfection’
Food satisfaction
Food curiosity

Paige talks us through how we can start to take the power back into our own bodies to find what feels good for us.

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Resources Mentioned: Weight Inclusive Guides: https://gumroad.com/lcie

Ep 131 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 10 - Intuitive Movement, Part 2 Feb 09, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 12 of this series will drop on Friday 12th Jan!

In today’s episode, I’m talking to Jake Gifford, a personal trainer and doctoral researcher at Brunel University London whose aim is to reframe fitness and what it means to move our bodies. In this episode, we’re talking about the bigger-picture and socio-political considerations that often get left out of the conversations about movement.

In this episode we talk about:

How a lot of public health rhetorics around moving our bodies make oversimplified recommendations
Healthism
Some of the problematic discourse around how exercise is described e.g. “exercise is medicine”
Looking at the bigger picture of movement
Factors that could stop an individual from engaging in movement
Hierarchies of exercise - and why they’re problematic
How to make movement more inclusive
Issues with movement being associated with morality
Structural and social determinants of health

Jake talks us through how movement has historically been associated with moral righteousness and personal responsibility; as well what we can do to shift the narrative so ensure it becomes more inclusive and accessible.

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Previous episode with Jake: http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/podcast/ep-jake-gifford/

Podcast episode with Dr. Oli Williams: http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/podcast/oli/

Ep 130 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 10 - Intuitive Movement, Part 1 Feb 05, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 11 of this series will drop on Tuesday 9th Feb!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Tally Rye. Tally is a London-based Personal Trainer and Content Creator, who specialises in weight-inclusive, non-diet fitness. She is also the Author of the book ‘Train Happy’ and hosts the ‘Train Happy’ podcast. In this episode we’re talking in-depth about all of the principles of Intuitive Movement. Tally shares her experience and advice on how we can reframe exercise in a way that feels good for us, rather than it feeling like a punishment.

In this episode we talk about:

The principles of Intuitive Movement
Reframing the way we think about exercise
Ways movement can be a tool for self-care
The problem with fitness watches/trackers
How diet culture has co-opted mainstream fitness
Why we might have a complicated relationship with movement

Tally shares how one of the biggest benefits of Intuitive Movement is regaining valuable headspace that has been lost to diet culture; through numbers or counting or “rules”, and how we can channel that back into the really meaningful parts of our lives.

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Ep 129 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 9: Feeling Your Fullness Feb 02, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 10 of this series will drop on Friday 5th Feb!

In today’s episode, Laura gives us the run down of Chapter 9 of How to Just Eat It - Feeling your Fullness. Laura gives some useful tips on how we can reframe our negative thoughts when we start to feel uncomfortable with feelings of fullness, as well as why ‘what I eat in a day videos’ need to get to fuck!

In this episode we talk about:

Feelings of fullness
How Diet Culture has distorted our idea of how much food we really need
Why ‘what I eat in a day’ videos are problematic
How we can reframe fear mongering language around feelings of fullness
Tips on what to do when struggling with feelings of fullness

Laura explains how learning about fullness is a process and something that we don’t need to get ‘perfect’ every time. She reiterates that throughout this journey, self-kindness and compassion are key.

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Ep 128 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 8: Mindful Eating and Finding Pleasure in Food Jan 29, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 9 of this series will drop on Tuesday 2nd Feb!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Jenna Hollenstein (MS, RDN, CDN). Jenna is an anti-diet dietitian who helps heal disordered eating using a combination of Intuitive Eating, mindfulness techniques, and meditation to help her clients move toward greater peace, health, and wellness. In this episode we’re talking about why the pursuit of weight loss is antithetical to Mindful Eating & Intuitive Eating, what Mindful Eating actually is (and what it isn’t) and how you can start to practice it in your daily life.

In this episode we talk about:

How Diet Culture has co opted Mindful Eating
Why Mindfulness practice and weight loss are incompatible
What Mindfulness really is
Acknowledging our thoughts in the moment
Meditation
Breath awareness
Regaining trust in our own bodies
Is your desire to be vegan coming from a place of control or compassion

Jenna shares her experience, expertise and advice on how to incorporate Mindfulness into our daily lives to help support our Intuitive Eating practices.

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Jenna Hollenstein - Instagram Website Twitter Book

Resources Mentioned:

Jenna’s website: https://jennahollenstein.com/

The Open Heart Project: https://openheartproject.com/

DSMG episode with Fiona Sutherland: Ep 121 - How To Just Eat It - Chapter 1: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit

Ep 127 - How To Just Eat It: Chapter 7 - Neutralising the Inner Food Critic Jan 26, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 8 of this series will drop on Friday 29th Jan!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Devinia Noel, a cognitive behavioural therapist and certified intuitive eating counsellor. In this episode we’re talking about unhelpful thinking styles that show up when we’re working through the intuitive eating process, how we can recognise them and how we can begin to shift them towards more flexible ways of thinking.

In this episode we talk about:

Black and white, all-or-nothing thinking
Mental filters
Catastrophization
Emotional reasoning
Jumping to conclusions
Compare and despair
Labelling
Should and must statements

Dee shares how we can notice when unhelpful thinking styles show up and how we can begin to reframe them towards thinking patterns that move us away from diet mentality and towards self-compassion.

Finally catch another definition for your glossary on page 35/36 of HTJEI - this time from Eliza Khinsoe on ‘healthism’.

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Ep. 126 - How To Just Eat It: Chapter 6 - Letting go of food rules Jan 22, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 7 of this series will drop on Tuesday 26th Jan!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Dalina Soto, a Registered Dietitian who specialises in intuitive eating and helping people break free from chronic dieting and food rules. In this episode we’re talking about fears people have when they embark on intuitive eating and letting go of food rules, plus unpacking some of the most common food rules we hear in our nutrition practices.

In this episode we talk about:

Common fears people have about Intuitive Eating like:

“I’ll never stop eating! )
“What if I gain weight”
“I can’t control myself”
“I will only eat unhealthy foods”

And how we can work through them.

Plus we unpack common food rules people have like:

Not allowed to eat anything that isn’t ‘clean’
Can’t eat more than one type of carb in a meal
I can’t have a snack unless I workout
No food after X time at night
Can’t have dessert in the house

Plus Dalina’s best advice for people who are struggling to let go of food rules

Finally catch another definition for your glossary on page 35/36 of HTJEI - this time from Steph Yeboah

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Steph Yeboah - Instagram Twitter Website

Ep. 125 How To Just Eat It: Chapter 5 - Understanding Emotional Eating Jan 19, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 6 of this series will drop on Friday 22nd Jan!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Jess Sprengle, a therapist specialising in disordered eating and eating disorders, who is perhaps best known for her Meme Mondays on her Instagram account @thecrankytherapist. In this episode we’re talking about emotional eating and how we can come to understand it from a more compassionate perspective.

In this episode we talk about:

An eating disorder therapist’s take on emotional eating
Why we can’t divorce our emotions from eating
Differentiating emotional hunger and hunger due to restriction of food
How restriction can show up in different areas of our lives
Tapping into our emotional coping toolkit (and how to reinforce the one we already have)
And loads more mic drop moments!

Plus catch another definition for your glossary on page 35/36 of HTJEI - this time from anti-diet dietitian Christy Harrison.

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Christy Harrison - Instagram Twitter Website

Ep 124 - How To Just Eat It: Chapter 4 - Body Compassion Jan 15, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 5 of this series will drop on Tuesday 19th Jan!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Nicola Haggett, a Body Trust provider and Intuitive Eating counsellor. In this episode we’re talking all about the concept of embodiment as a tool to help us feel more connected to our bodies.

In this episode we talk about:

How writing our body story can be an act of reclaiming the narrative of our bodies
What exactly embodiment is and how we can find examples of it in our lives (babies, kids, cats!)
The difference between embodiment and more ‘performative’ or ‘hustle’ self-care
How embodiment can help us feel connected to our bodies without necessarily ‘loving’ or feeling ‘positive’ about them.
Reclaiming pleasure, appetite, autonomy and more.
Finding spaces that feel safe to reconnect with your body.

There’s also a brilliant definition of The Social Determinants of Health from Jake Gifford for your glossary on page 35/36 of HTJEI. Watch out for a whole episode of Jake later in the series.

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Jake Gifford - Instagram Twitter Website

Ep 123 How To Just Eat It: Chapter 3 - Getting to Know Hunger Jan 12, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book (out now!) How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. Episode 4 of this series will drop on Friday 15th Jan!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Olimata Taal, the newest member of the LCIE team and creator behind the Instagram account @wellwitholi. In this episode we’re talking all about learning to honour your hunger.

In this episode we talk about:

How diet culture teaches us to be distrustful and fearful of our bodies
How ignoring our hunger is a form of self-neglect
The problem with what I eat in a day videos and comparing what we eat with other people
What to do if you feel hungry soon after you’ve had a meal or snack
The difference between fullness and satisfaction
Treating yourself with love and compassion when things feel difficult
The role of racism in making us feel less than and second guessing our choices around food and our body

I’m also sharing a visualisation technique to help you get more in touch with your signals around hunger and satisfaction

Finally Jess Sprengle is here to tell us the difference between disordered eating and eating disorders.

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Olimata Taal - Instagram

Jess Sprengle - Instagram Twitter

EP 122 - How To Just Eat It: Chapter 2 - Breaking Up With Diet Culture Jan 08, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It Came out yesterday! Episode 3 of this series will drop on Tuesday 12th Jan!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Nadia Craddock, a body image researcher and host of the Body Protest and Appearance matters podcasts. In this episode we’re talking all about the impact (positive and negative) social media has on our body image.

In this episode we talk about:

How social media can shape how we feel about ourselves (both positively and negatively)
What exactly self objectification theory is and the impact it has on our ability to engage in things that are meaningful to us
How we can build a nurturing social media environment
How we can learn to ‘zoom out’ and ‘soften our gaze’ when it comes to viewing our own image on social media

There’s also a brilliant definition of Fat Phobia for your glossary on page 35/36 of HTJEI from body liberation coach Nicola Hagget. Stay tuned for a whole episode with Nikki soon!

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Nadia Craddock - Instagram Twitter

Nicola Haggett- Instagram Website

Previous podcasts with Nadia

Don’t Salt My Game Part 1 & Part 2

The Body Protest

Appearance Matters

EP 121 - How to Just Eat It: Chapter 1 - Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit Jan 05, 2021

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It will be released on Thursday 7th January so make sure and pre order your copy now (links below). Episode 2 of this series will drop on Friday!

In today’s episode I’m talking to the incredible Fiona Sutherland, a dietitian and yoga teacher, better known as The Mindful Dietitian, who is helping us build our Intuitive Eating Toolkit; a selection of skills and tools that help us lay the foundation for our intuitive eating practice.

In this episode we talk about:

What acceptance is and isn’t and common misconceptions about acceptance
How we can lean into uncomfortable feelings to help us heal our body image and relationship with food
Why acceptance doesn’t mean we are OK with things like fatphobia or racism and other systems of oppression that harm bodies
What exactly values are and how they differ to goals
How we can find our core values and use them to steer us in the directions we want to move in
How diet culture disconnects us from our values and moves us away from acceptance towards dissatisfaction

I’m also excited to share a guided created activity by Tasha Bailey that helps us weather emotional storms and a definition for the glossary on page 36 of your book from Christy Harrison

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Fiona Sutherland - Instagram Twitter Website

Tasha Bailey - Instagram Twitter Website

Christy Harrison - Instagram Twitter Website

Ep 120 - How To Just Eat It is almost here, get excited! Dec 03, 2020

With only a few short weeks left until How To Just Eat It hit book shops, I wanted to check in with my DSMG family to give you a teaser of what to expect from my new book! In this mini-sode I’m walking you through HTJEI, chapter-by-chapter to give you a flavour of what’s covered. I’m also spilling the beans on who some of my guest contributors are (spoiler; they’re all awesome) and letting you in on some of the activities in the book.

I’m also sharing details of the upcoming How To Just Eat It takeover of Don’t Salt My Game; new episodes coming JAN! IIf you can’t wait for that though, you can head to @laurathomasphd on Instagram to watch my weekly Instagram lives, the first of which is Thursday 3rd December at 7pm.

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