173: Finding Your Authentic Voice in Challenging Diet Culture

05/11/20 • 53 min

Cara Harbstreet is a Kansas City based Intuitive Eating Registered Dietitian and nationally-recognized food and nutrition expert, author, and consultant. In 2016, Cara founded her private practice and began focusing on sports nutrition, intuitive eating, and applying the Health At Every Size model for clients in the Kansas City area. She is passionate about helping people rediscover joy in eating deeply nourishing meals without restriction or fear, and enjoys candid conversations about the food system, nutrition, and cooking. Cara is also an active volunteer in the dietetics field and has transitioned her business to a media and communications focus to help spread an anti-diet message to more diverse audiences. Find her on social media or learn more about her work at www.streetsmartnutrition.com. Cara joined Paige to talk about Cara's process in finding her authentic voice and how her experiences can inform our own process with healing our relationships with food and body. Links mentioned:

Cara's website: www.streetsmartnutrition.com
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Cara's website: www.streetsmartnutrition.com
Positive Nutrition® Academy: online courses and webinars
Donate to the podcast
Positive Nutrition Blog
Follow Paige on Instagram

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172: Medical Nutrition Therapy & Intuitive Eating: How Nutrition Improves with Connection & Kindness

Click here to support the podcast and receive 3 extra episodes per month! Kirsten Ackerman is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Registered Dietitian and proud anti-diet advocate. During the day, Kirsten works as a renal dietitian, helping patients with end stage renal disease navigate their eating while receiving life-saving treatments. Outside of her day job, Kirsten hosts the Intuitive Bites podcast, puts out phenomenal content on social media and is currently writing a book. Kirsten joined Paige to talk about a common question they both get as intuitive eating dietitians. Together, they explore the common sticking point of wondering if medical nutrition therapy and intuitive eating go together. In other words, they explore how intuitive eating and other non-diet frameworks enhance nutrition and health and are inherently pro-health interventions. Links mentioned:

Kirsten's website: https://www.theintuitiverd.com/
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174: Pregnancy & Postpartum Body Image

Catie Lynch Shockey, LCSW is an eating disorder and body image therapist located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is a licensed clinical social worker who graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South and Tulane University. After recovering from her own eating disorder, Catie began to specialize in eating disorders and body image concerns. She is a mother of two girls—a two year old and an infant. Having girls has made dismantling diet culture and creating peace around food even more important to Catie. Catie joined Paige to talk about pregnancy and postpartum body image. They discuss what the struggles are, why it's important to work on body image at any phase of parenthood (aka it's not too late wherever you are right now!), and some practical ideas to work toward more peace with your body. Links mentioned: