Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

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EP 113 - How to Start Building Positive Body Image with Ashlee Bennett Sep 20, 2019

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In this week's episode, I'm talking to Ashlee Bennett, a.k.a. The Body Image Therapist, an art therapist based in Australia.

We discuss:

✨ Why changing your body to try and conform to our society's feminine ideal is not the key to flexible and healthy body image ✨ What internalised fat-phobia and sexism are and how they relate to our body image ✨ How we can start to unpack our internalised beliefs about bodies from diet culture ✨ Tools to help develop positive body image

This episode is sponsored by Raising Intuitive Eaters, our online course for parents and carers who want to raise kids who have a healthy and happy relationship with food and their body. And don't forget to use the code 'DSMG50' to receive £50 off all our online courses between now and 30th September 2019.

{Ashlee on Instagram | Twitter | Website} {Ashlee's USA Workshop Tour} {Get my book!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {In-Person Workshops for Nutrition and Health Professionals in London & Edinburgh} {Understanding Emotional Eating Edinburgh Workshop} {Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit online course} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Laura at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 112 - How to Navigate Your Relationship with Food When the World Tells You Your Body Is Wrong w/ Vaughn Darst Aug 30, 2019

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In this week's episode, I'm talking to Vaughn Darst, a public health dietitian specialising in paediatric and adolescent nutrition and eating disorders among under-served populations including trans and gender non-conforming youth, children on the autism spectrum and children with special healthcare needs. We discuss:

✨ Growing up in a world that tells you your body is wrong ✨ Experiencing medical fat phobia ✨ How not being able to express gender identity led to an ED ✨ How common narratives around transitioning often lack nuance ✨ Discussing the multifactorial aspects of health outside of weight ✨ The research on disordered eating in GNC and trans people ✨ The complicated reasons that eating disorders develop in these groups ✨ The unrealistic body image ideals placed on GNC and trans people ✨ Steps providers can take to provide gender affirming care

This episode is sponsored by Raising Intuitive Eaters, our online course for parents and carers who want to raise kids who have a healthy and happy relationship with food and their body.

{Vaughn on Instagram} {www.allgendernutrition.com} {Vaughn's TEDX talk} {Sand Chang's Book} {Genderqueer} {Kate Bornstein's My Gender Workbook} {Get my book!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Workshops for Nutrition and Health Professionals} {Understanding Emotional Eating Edinburgh Workshop} {Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Laura at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

Ep 111 - Makeup, Street Photographers and Why Queer Rights are Feminist Issues w/ Jamie Windurst of Fruitcake Magazine Aug 23, 2019

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In this week's episode, I'm talking to the sensational editor, model and activist, Jamie Windurst about life as a visibly queer person. We discuss: ✨ Why visibly queer people are not public property (and why treating them like they are violates their safety) ✨ Their complicated and beautiful relationship with makeup ✨ How Jamie accidentally fell into an activist role and the fundamental rights they're fighting for ✨ Why feminism doesn't end with women's rights ✨ Why we need to stop demanding free education from the queer community

This episode is sponsored by Raising Intuitive Eaters, our online course for parents and carers who want to raise kids who have a healthy and happy relationship with food and their body.

{Get my book!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Jamie on Instagram} {Jamie's Website} {jamie on Twitter} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Workshop for nutrition and health professionals} {Understanding Emotional Eating Edinburgh Workshop} {Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Laura at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 110 - Elyse Resch - Intuitive Eating + Eating Disorder Recovery For the Teenager in All of Us Aug 16, 2019

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I'm so excited to have Elyse Resch join us on this week's episode! Elyse is the co-author of Intuitive Eating and the Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens. She's a highly experienced Registered Dietitan specialising in intuitive eating, eating disorders and Health at Every Size. In this fully loaded 'sode we talk about:

✨ How to talk to teens about Intuitive Eating ✨ Why it's important for adults to do their own work on body image and intuitive eating and connect with their rebellious inner teenager ✨How to integrate IE into eating disorder recovery ✨Why autonomy is essential for good IE counselling ✨How to explain diet culture and weight stigma to teens ✨How the fear of weight gain might mask the fear of growing up ✨How to talk to parents and teachers about intuitive eating

This episode is sponsored by Raising Intuitive Eaters, our online course for parents and carers who want to raise kids who have a healthy and happy relationship with food and their body.

{Get my book!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Elyse on Instagram} {Elyse's Website} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Workshop for nutrition and health professionals} {Understanding Emotional Eating Edinburgh Workshop} {Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Laura at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 109 - Returning to BoPo's Radical Roots + 'No Big Deal' w/ Bethany Rutter Aug 09, 2019

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In this week's episode, I'm talking to the sensational Bethany Rutter, journalist and author of the new book 'No Big Deal'. We're going deep on super important topics around body liberation and fat-phobia and why we need to return to BoPo's radical roots if we are actually going to make a difference. Lean in, because Bethany is this episode is gold and Bethany is dynamite 💥

In this ep, we discuss;

✨Bethany's awesome new book, No Big Deal, and why Bethany was so passionate about writing a YA novel centering a fat babe✨Why we need to stop putting pressure on fat-representation in popular media to be boiled down to one experience + resonate with everyone all of the time✨Fat-shion + Bethany's experiment to find a sartorial essential (a plain white tee) on the high street and why this highlights everyday discrimination against fat bodies✨The 'thin-washing' of the bo-po movement + why we need to return to it's radical roots

This episode is sponsored by Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit, our online course guiding you through the principles of Intuitive Eating and helping you deepen your practice. Find out more here.

{Get my book!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Bethany on Instagram | Twitter | Website} {No Big Deal on Amazon} {Plus+ - Style Inspiration for Everyone on Amazon} {Navabi clothing} {Loud Bodies clothing} {Tamara Malas clothing} {I Who Have Never Known Men on Amazon} {Mao Chow Restaurant} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Workshop for nutrition and health professionals} {Understanding Emotional Eating Edinburgh Workshop} {Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Laura at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP108 Navigating Common Intuitive Eating Sticking Points w/ Devinia Noel of The Diet Boycott Aug 02, 2019

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Welcome back to season 5 of Don't Salt My Game - our guests today is psychotherapist and Intuitive Eating Counsellor Devinia Noel. In this episode we're exploring common road bumps that people experience when they begin rejecting diet culture and embracing intuitive eating. Devinia shares her own experience of being a fat, black woman in the IE space, as well as advice she might give to clients who are dipping their toes in IE. Topics we cover are: ✨How to talk to your partner or the people around you about IE ✨How to build trust in your body signals ✨How to move past the fear of weight gain ✨Why vulnerability is integral to healing from diet culture ✨The desperate need for diversity in the IE space ✨Not taking up space or centring yourself at the expense of more marginalised people

{Get my book!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Devinia on Instagram} {The Diet Boycott} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Workshop for nutrition and health professionals} {Understanding Emotional Eating Edinburgh Workshop} {Just Eat It: Your Intuitive Eating Toolkit} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Laura at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 107 - How Social Media Impacts Our Body Image w/ Dr Amy Slater of the Centre for Appearance Research Mar 15, 2019

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This week on the pod Laura's chatting to Dr Amy Slater, body image researcher at University of West England.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ Thin ideal internalisation + its physical and psychological consequences ✨ How social media holds certain body types up as the ideal + can leave us feeling dissatisfied ✨ The fact that labelling images as digitally altered is not actually helpful in reducing comparison + dissatisfaction and can actually backfire ✨ How advertising in traditional media + social media can impact body image ✨ That even positive feedback about appearance impacts negatively on our body image ✨ What social comparison is + how this has changed with social media ✨ The consequences of viewing fitspiration + self-objectification on Instagram ✨ How we can curate a social media feed that's supportive of positive body image

Show Notes

{SIGN UP TO OUR JUST EAT IT ONLINE COURSE!} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Amy on Twitter | UWE website} {My Brilliant Friend book} {This Girl Can campaign} {Celeste Barber on Instagram} {Who The Hell Is Hamish? podcast} {Bon Appetit on YouTube} {Social Media + Body Image - Appearance Matters Podcast} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 106 - Real versus Fake Intuitive Eating w/ Jess Rann Mar 08, 2019

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This week on the pod Laura's teaming up with Jess, Registered Dietitian and clinician here at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating, to tackle some myths that we've seen flying around about intuitive eating.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ What Intuitive Eating is + what it isn't, including a summary of the principles of IE ✨ Whether you need to be hormonally and biochemically "restored" before working on IE ✨ Why emotional eating isn't inherently a bad thing + what we can learn from it ✨ Why the idea that IE = "eating what you want when you want" is trash ✨ How working through IE looks different on everyone and will take different people different amounts of time to make peace with food and their bodies ✨ Why IE is actually health-promoting ✨ How to spot fake IE versus true IE

Show Notes

{SIGN UP TO OUR JUST EAT IT ONLINE COURSE!} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Jess on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook} {The Simple Nutrition Blog} {Guts, Periods + Hormones episode w/ Robyn Nohling} {The Body is Not An Apology - Sonya Rene Taylor} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 105 - What to Consider if You've Ever Fancied the Freelance Life w/ Katherine Kimber Mar 01, 2019

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This week on the pod Laura's speaking to Katherine Kimber, of Nude Nutrition, all about the realities and considerations of freelance life as a Registered Nutritionist or Dietitian.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ Their individual education and career backgrounds before setting up their own private practices ✨ The nuts and bolts of what it means to go freelance as a nutrition professional ✨ The day-to-day of freelance life ✨ The importance of peer-to-peer support as well as formal supervision when working privately ✨ The practical considerations to make if you're thinking of starting a private practice

Show Notes

{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Katherine on Instagram | Twitter | Website | Facebook} {British Chambers of Commerce} {Female Founders Hatch Enterprise} {Fiverr Freelance Services} {UK Non-Diet Professionals Facebook group} {The Mindful Dietitian Facebook group} {Freelance/Private Practice Dietitians' Facebook group} {Canva} {No Code} {Nutritionist Resource} {Doctify} {Association for Nutrition website} {British Dietetic Association website} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date about our Just Eat It course} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

EP 104 - How Intuitive Eating Helped Me Find Peace with My Body During Pregnancy w/ Kirstin Kade Feb 22, 2019

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This week on the pod Laura's speaking to Kirstin Kade, Registered Associate Nutritionist and author of Taste and See Blog. As a mum-to-be, she has become more interested in the area of women's health in recent months - particularly relating to the pre-pregnancy (fertility), pregnancy, and postnatal periods - and hopes to support and encourage others who are curious about or navigating their way through these things themselves.

In this episode they discuss:

✨ How Kirstin's own relationship with food has evolved through finding Intuitive Eating to finding peace with food and her body and how pregnancy has affected this ✨ How to apply the principles of Intuitive Eating during pregnancy, particularly when navigating sickness, nausea + cravings ✨ How to manage (hopefully well-meaning) but unhelpful comments from others ✨ The effect that pregnancy and motherhood can have on body image + how to navigate this ✨

Show Notes

{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I'll share international links when they become available!} {Kirstin on Instagram | Twitter | Website | Facebook} {The Physiology of Breastfeeding - Taste and See Blog} {Latch by Robin Kaplan} {How to Have a Healthy Body Image During Pregnancy blogpost - Crystal Karges} {To The Muma Trying to Accept Her Postpartum Body blogpost - Crystal Karges} {Building a Positive Body Image in Motherhood - Crystal Karges} {Belly Love podcast by Rachel Cole} {Nurture by Erica Chidi Cohen} {How to Handle Diet Chat this Holiday Season - DSMG w/ Jenna Daku} {My Size 24 Body Is Capable of Birthing} {Should You Lose Weight Prior to Pregnancy?} {A Goodbye to My Pre-Pregnancy Body - Kylie Mitchell} {Ep 66 of DSMG w/ Robyn Nohling} {I Refuse To Panic About My Baby's Health - Guardian article}{} {Plus Size Birth website} {Big Birthas website} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date about our Just Eat It course} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

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