The Appetite: Recent Episodes
Opal: Food+Body Wisdom
The Appetite is a podcast by the founders of Opal: Food+Body Wisdom, an eating disorder treatment center in the University District of Seattle, WA. Psychologist Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, Marriage and Family Therapist Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, will meet every other week to discuss all things food, body, movement, and mental health.
Learn more about us at www.opalfoodandbody.com.
Part 3 of a 3 part series: "The Menopause Series"
Episode 3: Menopause + Mental Health -- Opal's Nutrition Director and Co-Founder, Julie Church, RDN, speaks with therapist Katie McKenna, LMHC, about the connection between perimenopause, menopause, and mental health. Katie explores how hormonal changes can affect mood, anxiety, sleep, cognition, body image, and identity, while increasing vulnerability to eating disorder relapse or new onset.
Building on our previous conversations about the biological and workplace aspects of menopause, this episode focuses on the emotional and psychological dimensions of this transition. Julie and Katie discuss common misconceptions about menopause, the impact of cultural messages about aging, and invites listeners to approach menopause not only as a transition, but also a time of increased self-awareness, renewal and growth.
Connect with Katie:
McKenna Counseling --- Integrative Psychotherapy and Nutrition
Menopause Talks
@katie.mc.kenna
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
@Opal.Movement
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Part 2 of a 3 part series: "The Menopause Series"
Episode 2: Menopause + Work — Opal's Nutrition Director and Co-Founder, Julie Church, RDN speaks with Janie Stuart, PhD, about the intersection of menopause and workplace experiences. Drawing from her research in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Janie describes how menopause often occurs during pivotal career years and how workplace norms—like "work-first" cultures, ageism, and gender expectations—can shape how symptoms and transitions are perceived. Building on our previous conversation about the biological aspects of menopause, this episode explores the social and psychological dimensions of the transition. Julie and Janie also discuss practical ways individuals, leaders, and organizations can foster more inclusive workplaces that support employees through menopause and other major life transitions.
Connect with Janie: LinkedIn.com/in/stuartjanie
Janie is a consultant at Re-center Consulting
Menopause Resources: National Menopause Foundation
Menopause at Work
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
@Opal.Movement
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Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
When injury sidelines an athlete—or performance outcomes fall short—it has a way of revealing growth edges within us. Tune in to The Appetite as Opal Co-Founder and Director of the Exercise + Sport Program, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, sits down with high school distance runner and podcaster Nicholas Macha. In this powerful conversation, Nicholas shares how his injuries and performance disappointments led him to a deeper exploration of identity, relationships, faith, and the constant balancing act between sports, school, and social life. His honesty and insight as a young male athlete offer a refreshing and inspiring look at navigating challenges while maintaining a perspective of growth, clarity and hope. Macha's podcast: Opening Up About 2026 & What t… - The Sunday Shakeout - Apple Podcasts @thesundayshakeout Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
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Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Part 1 of 3 part series: "The Menopause Series" ---
Episode 1: Menopause + Eating Disorders — In this episode, Opal's Nutrition Director, Julie Church, RDN, speaks with Naomi Busch, MD, about menopause through the lens of an eating disorder physician. Together they explore the biological changes of peri-menopause and menopause, common symptoms, and current treatment approaches. The conversation also highlights parallels between menopause care and eating disorder treatment—particularly around body changes, medical support, and navigating vulnerability during major life transitions. Dr. Busch shares insights especially those with a history of eating disorders, as well as guidance for loved ones who want to offer meaningful support. This reflective conversation invites listeners to better understand menopause and approach it with compassion, curiosity, and informed care. 🎙️
Find Naomi @seattlemenopausedoc and Seattle Menopause Medicine
Other links: SWAN– Study of Women's Health Across the Nation Study
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@opalfoodandbody
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Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Does better education around period health, proper fueling, and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport actually lead to healthier behaviors in female athletes? In this episode, Opal's Director of Exercise + Sport, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, sits down with seasoned provider Heather Caplan, RDN to share what they're seeing firsthand in their clinical work. Together, they unpack the systemic pressures that push teen and young adult athletes to prioritize performance over long-term health.
Heather also shares how she supports young athletes in restoring their period health—and speaks candidly about what still needs to change in our culture to truly protect and empower them in today's increasingly intense, professionalized youth sports environment. Coaches, parents, athletes—this conversation is for you.
Links:
Lane 9 project Lane 9 Project - Clinician Directory
Heather's website Heather Caplan | Weight-Inclusive Dietitian
Stanford FASTR Stanford FASTR Program
Link to article I read: Built for Someone Else: Why Female Athletes Are Still Pushing Through Systems That Don't Support Them - JRN | The World's Leading Rowing Platform
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Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
In this episode, Gabe and Hank courageously open up about vulnerable moments through a process of group self-inquiry. Gabe explores the bitterness that arises from receiving positive affirmations after dance performances, while Hank examines the feelings of stupidity and pointlessness that surfaced when anger was physically expressed. Together with Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin, PhD, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, Gabe and Hank offer each other the gift of provocative questions that elicit new learning. You are invited to kick back, notice what questions you might have asked and what questions hit something spicy for your own growth.
To learn more about Self Inquiry listen to : Self Inquiry Overview episode
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Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
In this episode, Johanna Kandel, founder of the National Alliance for Eating Disorders, joins Julie Church, RDN, Co-Founder of Opal: Food+Body Wisdom, for an honest and inspiring conversation. Johanna shares how her own eating disorder recovery led her to create a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to care, support, and education in the eating disorder field.
Listeners will hear more about the Alliance's impactful support groups, recent policy shifts shaping treatment access, and ways to get involved in advocacy (see links below). Johanna's grounded presence and humble passion bring recovery to life in a conversation filled with hope, insight, and practical ways to support healing for yourself and others.
Find Johanna:
The Alliance for Eating Disorders: https://www.allianceforeatingdisorders.com/team/
Here book: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/life-beyond-your-eating-disorder-johanna-s-kandel?variant=39308848562210
Advocate with your local lawmakers for The Nutrition CARE Act and/or Kids Online Safety Act:
https://eatingdisorderscoalition.org/email-your-legislators/
Register for Eating Disorder Coalition Advocacy Day on April 15, 2026 (virtual or in person in Washington DC):
https://secure.everyaction.com/KEt8EKlzMUq5DoFK-CouzQ2
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
@Opal.Movement
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Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
GLP-1 medications are everywhere in the conversation about weight—but how much do we really understand? In this episode, Dr. Lexi Giblin, Executive Director of Opal, sits down with Meredith Blumenthal, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist in private practice, to unpack the most common misconceptions surrounding GLP-1s and body weight. Together, they explore what these medications actually do, what they don't do, and how changes in nutrition, metabolism, and food relationship occur for those taking GLP-1s. Whether you're a clinician, patient, or just curious, this episode offers a thoughtful, evidence-based look beyond the headlines.
Connect with Meredith: Nutrition with Meredith
@nutritionwithmeredith
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
@Opal.Movement
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Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Listen in to this one-of-a-kind episode of The Appetite as Opal's co-founders, Lexi Giblin, PhD, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, sit down with Opal client Koa to explore her experience receiving in-person care at Opal. With honesty and vulnerability, Koa shares how her relationships with fellow clients and Opal staff became a pivotal part of her recovery, ultimately leading to profound and transformative change.
Whether you're considering a higher level of care, currently in treatment, or hoping to better understand a loved one on their recovery journey, this episode offers meaningful insight and connection. Koa bravely invites listeners into an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at what in-person, intensive treatment can offer someone who is truly suffering.
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
How does your story with food from childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood impact your current relationship with food? Opal Co-Founder, Julie Church, RDN interviews Jessica Setnick, RDN the creator of the “Healing Your Inner Eater” workshop and workbook which invites individuals to look back in order to move forward in one’s relationship with food. Listen in to Jessica’s passionate story telling to learn about the three parts of your inner eater and how learning about your eating legacy could help heal your current eating concerns. This episode is like a buffet– there is something in it for everyone!
Connect with Jessica:
www.jessicasetnick.com
Healing the Inner Eater Workbook – coupon code “podcast”
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
@Opal.Movement
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Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Want to hear a secret? In this episode, Opal Co-Founders Julie Church, RDN, and Lexi Giblin, PhD, reveal Opal's unique approach to therapeutic meal support. Tune in to learn how the Opal team stepped beyond traditional meal support methods and embraced radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RODBT) to guide their work. This innovative approach has helped create a supportive community where eating becomes an experience of connection, curiosity, and courage—less about rigid rules and more about trust, play, and the belief that recovery is possible.
To learn more about RODBT go here.
or listen to some of our self-inquiry series podcasts, like:
The Appetite episode 134 or The Appetite episode 124
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Join Lexi Giblin, PhD (Opal Co-Founder) for a heartfelt conversation with mother-daughter duo Kara Bazzi, LMFT (Opal Co-Founder and Director of Opal's Exercise+Sport Program) and Sophia, a soon-to-be collegiate athlete. Together, they walk down memory lane to explore the stand out intersections of parenting and running in Sophia's high school career. With honesty and vulnerability, Kara and Sophia reflect on the joys and tensions of sharing a passion for the same sport, the challenges of navigating high-performance environments, and the influence of Kara’s own eating disorder recovery on her parenting.
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Eating disorders don’t exist in isolation—they are deeply connected to relationships. From the “why” behind disordered eating and movement patterns to the healing process, relationships have the power to either support or harm recovery.
In today’s episode of The Appetite, Opal’s Co-Founder & Clinical Director, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, sits down with therapist Nikki Wolf, LMHCA, to explore the role of relationship therapy in eating disorder treatment. They dive into what support people should (and shouldn’t) do when walking alongside a loved one struggling with food, body, and movement concerns.
Learn more about Opal's Family+Relationship Therapy, including our curated list of resources for family and loved ones of those struggling with eating disorders.
To reach Nikki Wolf you can find her at Opal and at Wolf Heart Counseling, which gives details about her Family + Relationship Support Group - for loved ones of people with eating disorders.
F.E.A.S.T. --Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
In this episode, Delancey and Makaila wrestle with the gaze of others as their bodies change in eating disorder recovery. Off the mark, well-intentioned comments from others leave them flooded with shame and confusion. Delancey wishes others would not perceive her while Makaila is in conflict, on one hand desiring to be "fetishized" and on the other hand, not wanting to be objectified at all. Opal Co-Founders, Lexi Giblin, PhD and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, join Delancey and Makaila in drumming up the most provocative self-inquiry questions they can muster. Tune in to see which of these questions land with Delancey and Makaila while noticing what their work elicits in you.
To learn more about Self Inquiry listen to : Self Inquiry Overview episode
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Join us for a trip down psychedelic lane! Temple Morris, LCSW-C and Dr. Brian Pilecki, PhD throw down their expertise in conversation with Opal Co-Founders, Kara Bazzi, LMFT and Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD. Temple and Brian put to words what is often experienced as “beyond language” and help us understand the potential therapeutic value of psychedelics in “clarifying what matters” and fostering psychological flexibility. To name just a few of the topics we cover, we touch on qualities of the psychedelic experience, the importance of integration work, risks of psychedelic use, and, of course, how psychedelics may treat eating disorders and body image.
For more information on Temple and Brian:
Perspective Retreats
True North
Entropia
Brian Pilecki’s email: pilecki@gmail.com
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Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, and Mary Cain all share something powerful in common: they’ve bravely opened up about their mental health journeys, using their platforms as elite athletes to advocate for change. Their courage is paving the way for a healthier, more supportive sports environment—especially for those facing mental health challenges.
On today’s episode of The Appetite, Kara Bazzi, LMFT—co-founder and Clinical Director of Opal’s Exercise+Sport program—chats with Katie Steele, former Division I runner at the University of Oregon and now a mental health therapist and co-author of The Price She Pays. Together, they dive into Katie’s new book and the critical conversation about athlete mistreatment and mental health.
Links:
Katie's book: The Price She Pays
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
@Opal.Movement
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
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Phoebe and Asha, friends who are both in eating disorder recovery, join Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin, PhD and Kara Bazzi, LMFT in studio for some self-inquiry action. It is Phoebe's last day in higher level of care and she wonders about her guilt related to nostalgia for her time in eating disorder treatment. Phoebe says treatment has been one of the "most connecting experiences of my life" and opens to exploration about her longing for her treatment days. Asha feels embarrassed for the high anxiety she experiences after a difficult dinner and gets curious about how her vulnerable emotions came to be a place of shame. Listen in and enter our on-air challenge network as we help Phoebe and Asha learn from their unwanted emotions.
To learn more about Self Inquiry listen to : Self Inquiry Overview episode
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
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"Even within the male-centric model, women have accomplished incredible feats of athleticism, smashing long-held beliefs about what women can or cannot achieve. Imagine what would happen if everyone had access to better information and guidance.” These are the words of Christine Yu, in the introduction of her book “Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes”. In this episode of The Appetite, Opal’s Director of Exercise+Sport and Co Founder, Kara Bazzi, LMFT talks with Christine about her reflections on the intersection of sport and gender through the lens of her work as a journalist and author. Christine is working to disseminate much needed information (and highlighting the work that is still needed) to better understand gender differences in sport in an effort to support all athletes in their similar and differing experiences.
Links:
Up to Speed
The Price She Pays
Christine's Instagram
Christine’s newsletter
Alyssa's instagram
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
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Dr. Lisa Erlanger returns to the podcast for a conversation with Julie Church, RDN, CD on GLP-1 agonists, medications widely prescribed for weight loss. Through a weight-inclusive lens, Lisa explains GLP-1 agonists history, current use, and side effects with a special attention given to the unique considerations for individuals with current or past eating disorders. Spoiler alert--- these medications are not game changers, bodies still need food and nourishment to thrive! Despite what the shiny marketing says about these being "miracle drugs", safe and long-term weight suppression is not possible.
To find Lisa: Dr. Lisa Erlanger's website
As mentioned on show: GLP-1 Agonist Medications: Informed Consent Resource
Medical Students for Size Inclusive Medicine
Dr. Lisa Erlanger's Appetite Podcast interview, A Physicians Journey to Weight Inclusive Medicine
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Human stories are a powerful force in influencing the way we see the world and how we can expand or shift our perspective on any given subject matter. Rosalie Fish, a collegiate athlete and activist, has just that- an impactful story as a Native American distance runner who has used her sport to enact social change. Listen in as Kara Bazzi, LMFT, Opal’s Co-Founder and Clinical Director, and Rosalie talk about how Rosalie’s cultural identity has shaped her experiences as an athlete- from advocacy work with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, to how her cultural heritage impacts her relationship to food and mental health as an athlete.
Find Rosalie @rosaliefishx
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Aleta Storch, MS, RDN, LMHC joins Julie Church, RDN to discuss how ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) can lead to different feeding and eating challenges. Her personal story highlights the benefit of understanding how the brain works for everyone, especially those desiring to heal from disordered eating and eating disorders. Listen in for a sneak peek of a few practical tips from her model of care for ADHDers and expect this episode to give you a full dose of information about the brain, ADHD and neurodivergence.
To learn more about Aleta:
Website: https://www.wiseheartnutrition.com/
Membership: https://www.wiseheartnutrition.com/neurished
Free FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingwithadhdofficial
@the_adhd_rd
@wiseheart_nutrition
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
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Dr. Lisa Erlanger joins Opal's Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN to share the evidence and compassion that led her to evolve into a weight-inclusive physician. Lisa explains how the body is impacted by dieting (aka starvation) and emphasizes the importance of adequate nourishment as a strong focus of weight-inclusive health care practices within eating disorder treatment and beyond. She even gives some quick tips on how to help medical providers get out of their weight-centric trance and provide respectful medical care, regardless of body size. Wherever you are on your journey of weight-inclusivity, this is a must listen!
To find Lisa: Dr. Lisa Erlanger's website
And to see what she is doing to advance education of medical practitioners go to:
Size Inclusive Medicine
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
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Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, Opal Co-Founders, sit down with Poppy and Lily to do a self-inquiry double click on these two particular experiences of shame management. Poppy shares an encounter with shame and disgust where her response is to “mask everything and puff up” while wanting her “old body back.” A “deep, profound worthlessness” prompts an urge for Lily to work hard to be likable, meet others' expectations, and “shrink” herself, not just physically. The group does their self-inquiry job and successfully hits on some angsty edges of learning for Poppy and Lily.
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
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Fitness, movement and sport spaces continue to be saturated with diet culture rhetoric and belief systems that disrupt our innate connection, wisdom and joy to movement and our bodies. Diet culture is rooted in social justice issues where movement and sport spaces are not inclusive of all bodies and walks of life, particularly those who are most marginalized. Yet the story doesn’t stop here. More and more folks are recognizing the harmful messaging and practices and are doing it differently! Meng Wang, a dietitian and yoga instructor at Opal, and Ashley Davies, co-founder of Club Seattle Run Division (CSRD) are two of these change-makers– disrupting the “normal” practices in mighty ways! Listen in to this episode of The Appetite as Kara Bazzi, Opal’s Director of the Exercise + Sport program, has a conversation with Meng and Ashley that will give inspiration and encouragement that we can all make meaningful change.
Links:
Find Ashley Davies @dreambig_davies
Find Club Seattle Run Division @run_csrd
Book: Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex (Edited by Justice Roe Williams, Roc Rochon and Lawrence Koval)
Book: The Body Liberation Project (Chrissy King)
Opal's Stretch Your Learning is monthly for anyone who has a desire to create more inclusive movement spaces
To Learn more about Opal:
@opalfoodandbody
@opal.movement
www.opalfoodandbody.com
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Maddie Louder, Miss Washington 2021, joins Julie Church, Opal's Nutrition Director, to share her personal experience of how participating in pageants was both empowering and detrimental for her relationship with food and body. Maddie shares how advocacy work through the Miss Washington platform was important for her eating disorder recovery journey and also unpacks how the crowns and glitter of achievement culture can have its downfalls. Maddie's experience highlights the limitations of the "all good or all bad" binary and invites us to embrace the nuances of contest and competition. To reach Maddie: simplysincerelymaddie.com @maddielouder To learn more about pageants: www.misswashington.org Connect with Opal:
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@opalfoodandbody
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If you are new to self-inquiry, start here!! This is your go-to episode when you need a quick self-inquiry tutorial, refresher or a little help coaxing you into the self-inquiry mood. Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, orients you to the key components and process of self-inquiry. With these basics in hand, you can more fully take in The Appetite's Self-Inquiry series and possibly begin your own self-inquiry journey. For a deeper dive, go to Episode # 18 Emotion and Learning: The Self-Inquiry Process in Radically Open DBT.
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Take a deep breath and bend your ears towards Cozette and Marrow as they bravely explore the psychological forces at play in their eating disorder recoveries. Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, Opal Co-Founders, join Cozette and Marrow in their quest to use self-inquiry to learn from unwanted emotion. Shame is a starting point for both self-inquirers but the learning takes them to different places. Cozette grapples with urges to restrict food despite her motivation to recover, while Marrow reflects on how her desire to have a child played a role in her recent relapse.
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Feeding and eating is a realm of family life that changes as kids get older, which is easy for some parents and more difficult for others. What does empowerment and leadership look like as teens eat more socially and have more time away from the home? How can parents be a healthy part of a teen's relationship with food? In this episode two of Opal's Co-Founders, Julie Church, RDN, CD and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS offer invitations for parents to trust, talk and support their teens, using some of Ellyn Satter's materials to guide what is most important in the parent and teen feeding relationship.
Further resources: Ellyn Satter Institute Body Talk Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
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And the Self Inquiry Series is off and running! In this first self-inquiry episode, Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD opens by giving us the 411 on RO DBT's self-inquiry process and then we turn to Sally and Andrea's live self-inquiry. Kara Bazzi, Opal Co-Founder, and the group pose questions to try to open up new learning for Sally and Andrea. Sally struggles with parenting guilt and wanting to do it "right". Andrea wants to be a "good daughter". Listen in on how their distress gets opened up and challenged in new and interesting ways!
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Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Has your life become all about setting and achieving goals? When you encounter problems in life, is your solution to do more, work harder, and put another goal in place only to turn around and repeat this cycle when the next problem presents itself? Listen to this episode of The Appetite where Opal Co-Founders, Lexi Giblin, PhD and Kara Bazzi, LMFT discuss how this compulsive striving approach to life can work for you AND against you. With a particular eye on disordered eating and movement, they ask questions to help you discern if your values or the achievement hustle is driving your life. With society's value on high productivity, this conversation offers a welcome reprieve from hustle culture and suggests that practicing the art of non-productivity is exactly what is most needed.
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
@opalfoodandbody
@Opal.Movement
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Listen in as Opal’s Director of the Exercise + Sport program, Kara Bazzi, and Opal’s Movement Coach, Caitlin Jacobsen have a conversation about “Good for a Girl”, a newly released book written by former professional runner, coach and author, Lauren Fleshman. "Good for A Girl" is a memoir (and part manifesto) which follows Lauren's distance running career to the upper echelons of elite levels of sport performance. Although the elite distance running world is exclusionary, and centers the white, thin, able bodied, cis-male experience, Lauren's story highlights something that is relatable to a wider audience: how society's toxic cultural messaging about who "belongs" is a driving factor for developing disordered eating and eating disorders. Kara and Caitlin draw from their identities as distance runners as well as clinicians working in the eating disorder treatment field, as they highlight important themes from the book. They also use this as an opportunity to encourage and inform listeners about eating disorder treatment, which was a topic not discussed in the book. This episode offers hope that specialized treatment does exist for the athlete! **Check out our other . Links: Book: Connect with Opal: Thank you to our team... Editing by David Bazzi Music by Aaron Davidson: Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at
Listen in as Opal’s Director of the Exercise + Sport program, Kara Bazzi, and Opal’s Movement Coach, Caitlin Jacobsen have a conversation about “Good for a Girl”, a newly released book written by former professional runner, coach and author, Lauren Fleshman. "Good for A Girl" is a memoir (and part manifesto) which follows Lauren's distance running career to the upper echelons of elite levels of sport performance. Although the elite distance running world is exclusionary, and centers the white, thin, able bodied, cis-male experience, Lauren's story highlights something that is relatable to a wider audience: how society's toxic cultural messaging about who "belongs" is a driving factor for developing disordered eating and eating disorders. Kara and Caitlin draw from their identities as distance runners as well as clinicians working in the eating disorder treatment field, as they highlight important themes from the book. They also use this as an opportunity to encourage and inform listeners about eating disorder treatment, which was a topic not discussed in the book. This episode offers hope that specialized treatment does exist for the athlete!
**Check out our other Shifting Toxic Sport Culture episode here.
Links:
Lauren Fleshman + Link to her book "Good for a Girl"
Wildwood Running
Mind Body Endurance
Athlete Edge EDCare
Book: Girls Running
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
@The.Appetite.Podcast
@Opal.Movement
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
We are launching a new Self-Inquiry Series, within The Appetite podcast, where we will take the style of Opal’s Self-Inquiry Group to the podcast airways. We are looking for folks interested in doing private journal self-inquiry work followed by receiving questions from the podcast group - just like in Opal’s Self-Inquiry Group (but recorded). Participants can call in to the show or join us at the studio in Seattle. The Appetite will take measures to protect your identity, including using an alias, altering the sound of your voice, and editing out any identifying information disclosed post production. To be eligible, participants must actively be in individual therapy in order to have a place to process what may arise from the self-inquiry. To apply, email us at theappetite@opalfoodandbody.com or click here to go straight to the application form.
If you want to hear former episodes where self-inquiry was done, check out:
Episode #81: Rethinking Resolutions: Self-Inquiry as Self-Improvement
Episode #94: Getting Emotional: Using Self-Inquiry During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
@The.Appetite.Podcast
@Opal.Movement
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Cultural Center
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
"My story is a running journey, but at its heart, it's a story for anyone who has experienced the harm and powerlessness that comes from not fitting into society's expectations, anyone who has ever existed in the margins. It is a story of finding and creating your place and space." Listen into this episode of The Appetite where Alison Désir- runner, activist, disruptor- reflects and expands on parts of her powerful, newly released book, Running While Black. Kara Bazzi, LMFT, Director of Opal's Exercise+Sport Program, talks with Alison about belonging, creating and developing a culture of inclusion in sport, and the historical context that is often missing from the origin stories of the American distance running boom. If this is the first time you are introduced to Alison or you are already connected with her work, this episode will not disappoint!
Connect with Alison:
Alison's website
Buy Alison's book: Running While Black
Watch Alison's TV show: Out and Back
Alison's previous interview on The Appetite
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
@The.Appetite.Podcast
@Opal.Movement
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios
Connie Sobczak of The Body Positive gives us this wise nugget: "Aging is something we get to do, if we are lucky." Julie Church, Opal's Co-Founder and Nutrition Director, discusses with Connie the many considerations that arise as we age, covering the topics of appearance, body image, health, and self-care. Listen here for invitations to gratitude, non-judgement, and consciousness that can start at any stage of life and help ease one into the gift of aging. Connie shares openly about how she personally navigates aging with her eating disorder recovery and personal commitment to embodiment. Links from show: Maya Angelou interviews About the 70s and About the 80s The 5 Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Fully Living
Connect with Connie: www.thebodypositive.org ConnieSobczak.com Connie's book: Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!)
Connie's artistic booklet, Bodies of Nature/Nature of Bodies
Medium.com essay, Experience Over Appearance.
TEDx talk link: Embracing Your Critical Voice: The Gateway to Self-Love
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Are you a "perfectionist" who is exhausted and tired of hustling for your worth? Or perhaps you have entered perfectionism recovery but remain in a long term battle with compulsive perfectionistic striving? Either way, this podcast is just the ticket for you! Take a listen to Lexi Giblin, PhD, Maggie Ritnour, LMHC, LCAT, ATR-BC, RYT, CEDS and Noni Vaughn-Pollard, NDTR, MHC-LP chat about the difference between perfectionism and excellence, the importance of celebrating achievements, and shame as the birthplace of perfectionism. Lexi, Maggie and Noni look through a radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT) lens to shed light on the topic. Along the way, you will get the inside scoop on the origin story of the Opal mascot: The Owl.
To find Noni and Maggie, go to: Roots Art Therapy at
https://www.rootsarttherapy.nyc/
@afroandappetite
@rootsarttherapy
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Part 3 of a 3 part series: "Creating Social Change in the Sport World" Episode 3: Power of Sharing Your Recovery Journey-- Most people who struggle with disordered eating or an eating disorder grapple with how much and to whom they share their struggle with. Amelia Boone, a world class obstacle racer and ultrarunner, is no exception. Amelia talks about her “why” of sharing vulnerably and openly about her recovery journey with an eating disorder to her social media community. Listen as Kara Bazzi, co-founder and Clinical Director of Opal, and Amelia talk about the risks and rewards of sharing your story, both in the public and private domains. They explore how to discern when to speak up and when to set personal boundaries in service of your recovery. To get to know Amelia more: http://www.ameliabooneracing.com/
@arboone11
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Part 2 of a 3 part series: "Creating Social Change in the Sport World" Episode 2: Power of Writing-- Diet culture messages pervade all media- from advertisements, to magazines, to Instagram and TikTok. It’s no exception in the sport world- harmful, antiquated messages pop up everywhere that perpetuate disordered eating and body image distress. These harmful messages promote a particular athlete body ideal, overemphasizing the connection between weight and performance. Elizabeth Carey, author, writer and running coach, is determined to change the narrative in media and is taking meaningful action. As a journalist and author, she uses her experience in the sport of distance running, along with her talent and opportunities, to boldly combat the destructive myths that public forums of media serve us. Listen in as Kara Bazzi, Opal co-founder and Clinical Director, talks with Elizabeth about the power of writing to create necessary change. You will leave feeling inspired by hope in the “turning of the needle” that is happening in media, along with considering a personal invitation to use writing as a tool for individual change and healing. To learn more about Elizabeth Carey's work:
www.elizabethwcarey.com
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Youtube
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Part 1 of a 3 part series: "Creating Social Change in the Sport World"
Episode 1: Power of Coaches-- The "win at all costs" sport culture needs to retire and be replaced by the "whole person athlete" culture. In this episode of The Appetite, Opal co-founder and Clinical Director Kara Bazzi, talks with two coaches who are doing just that-- actively working towards the "whole person athlete" sport culture. Listen as Marie Davis Markham and Robyn McGillis share their story as coaches who developed a community of learning called Wildwood Running to make an impact beyond their respective sport teams in the Portland, Oregon area. Wildwood Running's mission is to guide, empower, connect and educate young female runners and coaches that impact young female runners. Coaches and athletes, tune in to be inspired and learn that a healthy sports culture is possible! To learn more about Wildwood:
www.wildwoodrunning.com
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Youtube
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Administrative support by Camille Dodson
We're excited to bring you our conversation with Christy Harrison MPH, RD, CEDRD author of Anti-Diet and host of the Food Psych podcast. Many of you might know of Christy's work, but might not know what led her to shift her career from working as a journalist reporting on food sustainability to becoming an anti-diet dietitian, author, and host. She breaks down her personal journey with food and eating disorder recovery and how it ultimately led her to write Anti-Diet, a culmination of her research on the history of diet culture, its roots in systems of oppression, Health at Every Size, intuitive eating, and so much more.
Connect with Christy:
Website URL: https://christyharrison.com/
Instagram Handle: https://www.instagram.com/chr1styharrison/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/christyharrisonnutrition
Twitter Handle: https://twitter.com/chr1styharrison
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/food-psych/id700512884
Book: Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
Podcast: Food Psych
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Administrative support by Camille Dodson
"Food is fuel". " You are a machine". "You look fit". "You are what you eat". These are all messages about food and our bodies that are commonplace, yet born out of diet culture. Opal Co-Founder and Clinical Director Kara Bazzi talks with dietitian and endurance athlete Maria Dalzot, RD about how these messages are falling short and not supporting our athletes well-being and performance. In this episode, Maria passionately offers important alternatives to the cultural messages, informed by Intuitive Eating and trauma-informed care. She helps us understand the role our autonomic nervous system plays in our relationship to food and why we need to go beyond prescriptive nutrition interventions in talking with our athletes.
Links:
Maria Dalzot RD
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology): Dana, Deb, Porges, Stephen W.: 9780393712377: Amazon.com: Books
Social Determinants of Health | NCHHSTP | CDC
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www.opalfoodandbody.com
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Administrative support by Camille Dodson
You will be happy to bend your ear (maybe again) for this one! Julie Church, RDN and Carter Umhau, LMHC talk with Erin Harrop (now doctor Erin Harrop, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Denver) about healthism, the use of the word "fat," fat liberation and intersectionality. Dr. Harrop shares their personal experience to spotlight problems with the over-focus on weight in eating disorder treatment. The Appetite crew released this interview 3 years ago and it is even more relevant to our cultural conversation today.
If you are interested in learning more about Health at Every Size, you can join Julie Church for her yearly Introduction to Health at Every Size training this month! Julie's training is available as a pre-recorded webinar and will be followed by a live Q&A panel with Julie, Erin Harrop and Opal dietitian Alyssa Davis on March 23rd at 12pm. You can find more information here.
Links:
Dr. Harrop's article in Women and Therapy (2018): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31595100/ For more learning, Dr. Harrop recommends: 1. Fat Girls in Black Bodies by Joy Arlene Renee Cox Ph.D. 2. The Adipositivity Project: https://theadipositivityproject.zenfolio.com/all 3. Children's book: Free to be Me: Self Love for all Sizes by Dr. Leslie Williams Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Thanks to David Bazzi for editing, Camille Dodson for podcast administrative and social media support.
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
What does eating disorder recovery have to do with the Biden-Harris inauguration ceremony? Take a listen to Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin, PhD, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, and Julie Church, RDN consider this question on the heels of the historic inauguration ceremony. They connect the dots through themes of learning to celebrate, divesting from perfectionism, self-compassion, empathy, authenticity, celebration of diversity, and unity.
Links:
@amandascgorman
@kamalaharris
@michelleobama
President Joe Biden's inaugural address: Watch full speech video from Inauguration Day 2021
READ: Transcript of Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem | TheHill
Brené on Words, Actions, Dehumanization, and Accountability Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Thanks to David Bazzi for editing, Camille Dodson for podcast administrative and social media support.
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
If you haven't heard about or tuned into the Netflix docuseries, MOVE, now's the time! MOVE takes you through the lived experiences of dancers around the globe, and offers a visceral experience of movement that brings transformation and healing- both individually and collectively. These dancers are not motivated to lose weight or change their bodies- their dancing is about passion, healing, emoting and liberating from oppression. The series does a brilliant job of addressing social identities such as race, gender, class, and sexual expression within the context of dance. Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, Co-Founder, Clinical Director and Head of the Exercise+Sport team at Opal talks with Josh Spell, LICSW, Primary Therapist and Exercise Experiential therapist at Opal, as well as a former professional ballet dancer and consulting therapist for Pacific Northwest Ballet. Kara and Josh offer their reflections on MOVE, tying the themes of the docuseries into the work of healing one's disordered relationship to movement that often comes with the territory of an eating disorder.
If you want to hear more from Josh, talking about body image in dance, yoga and fitness, please consider registering for his upcoming seminar on January 14th at 10am PST. Link here: Body Image in dance, yoga and fitness: Am I contributing to the problem?
Links:
MOVE- Netflix
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Editing by David Bazzi
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Administrative support by Camille Dodson
Originally released in 2018, we felt this interview was worth repeating! At a time where sports and athletics are turned upside down due to the pandemic, a silver lining is that it's creating new time and space for both athletes and coaches to learn and become more centered in what is most important and enduring in athletics. In this conversation about the influential position a coach has on an athlete's life and performance, Opal Co-Founder Kara Bazzi LMFT, CEDS and Carter Umhau, LMHCA interview Sally Revere, head Cross Country and Track & Field coach at Lakeside High School in Seattle. Sally offers practical advice on how she addresses food and body concerns on her team, as well as addressing the power of coaching from a whole athlete perspective. Kara and Carter bring in questions about temperament as it relates to sport performance, and how a coach can facilitate a sense of community and joy on their team. If you are a coach or an athlete, you don't want to miss this episode! Sally offers incredible wisdom and inspiration from her 30 years of coaching experience.
Resources:
Letter to Coaches From a Mental Health Therapist, by Kara Bazzi: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Letter-To-Coaches.pdf
Compulsive Exercise and Eating Disorders, by Caroline Meyer et al: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/erv.1122/abstract
Perfectionism versus excellence: https://wp.me/a5Br2M-7To
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team…
David Bazzi for editing.
Camille Dodson for podcast administrative and social media support.
Aaron Davidson for the original music https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Let us re-introduce you to Shilo George--- our guest from episode 57 (which is a worthwhile listen too!!) where she shared honestly about mental health and food concerns as a "super-fat, indigenous, queer woman". Shilo is a Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho and Scottish international speaker, trainer, and owner of Åush Kumtux Tumtum Consulting. Today Julie Church, Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director reconnected with Shilo for a little update and some great nuggets of wisdom arose. Asking for help. Eating in the pandemic. Reframing the things that challenge us. And honoring Native American culture and history, especially during this Thanksgiving/Thanks-taking week.  Links: Shilo's Instagram Shilo's Linkedin where you can find more about Åush Kumtux Tumtum Consulting Book: Rethinking Columbus The Uprise Collective  Connect with Opal: www.opalfoodandbody.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ Instagram: @opalfoodandbody Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos  Thank you to our team⦠Thanks to David Bazzi for editing, Camille Dodson for podcast administrative and social media support, and Aaron Davidson for the original music https://soundcloud.com/diet75/   Â
How does being marginalized impact a person’s health and physiology? Dr. Lindo Bacon, who has spent their career advocating for social justice at the intersection of weight and health, joins this episode to share about their newest book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better). In conversation with Opal Co-Founder Julie Church and host and therapist Carter Umhau, Lindo shares how their experience of being other-ed for their gender identity led them into their research on interpersonal neurobiology, and why self-help won’t save us.
Links:
Learn more about Dr. Lindo Bacon and their work at https://lindobacon.com/
Dr. Lindo Bacon on Instagram: @lindobacon
Twitter and Facebook: @LindoBaconX
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Welcome to the first ever episode of The Appetite. Clinicians from Opal: Food+Body Wisdom, an eating disorder treatment center in Seattle, Washington, will meet every week to discuss all things body, food, movement, and mental health. Today you will meet the three women who founded Opal: Psychologist Dr. Lexi Giblin, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Julie Church, and Family Therapist Kara Bazzi. Today’s discussion and future conversations will be facilitated by host and Opal therapist Carter Umhau. In this episode we introduce ourselves and Opal, and suss out how the themes that come up in the treatment of eating disorders might speak to one’s appetite for life at large. Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
What does it look like to center narrative in racial identity work? Aiko Bethea is the principal and founder of Rare Coaching and Consulting, which offers executive coaching to leaders on their diversity, equity, and inclusion journey. She joins host Carter Umhau and Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin and Julie Church today in a tender and empowering conversation around what diversity and inclusion work can look like when narrative and shame resilience are part of the process. Aiko has been working with Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin, Kara Bazzi, and Julie Church over the last year to reflect on and analyze Opal’s systems to make them more actively anti-racist.
Links:
Follow Aiko on Instagram: @rare_coach
And check out her website at https://www.rarecoaching.net/ and follow her on Linkedin.
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Thanks to David Bazzi for editing, Camille Dodson for podcast administrative and social media support.
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
How do you know when it’s time to let go? On this more reflective and personal episode of The Appetite, Opal Co-Founder’s Lexi Giblin, Kara Bazzi, and Julie Church join host Carter Umhau to explore themes around loss, grief, accepting change, and letting go. Inspired by an announcement from Carter about her departure from the podcast, the crew reflects on where The Appetite has been and where we’re headed next!
Links:
Stay in touch with Carter Umhau, LMHC via www.carterumhau.com andwww.piththerapy.com
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com and www.piththerapy.com
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Editing by David Bazzi
And support from Camille Dodson
How has whiteness in the running world contributed to the toxicity around sport culture? Runner Alison Désir joins host and therapist Carter Umhau and Opal Co-Founder and Head of the Exercise + Sport Program, Kara Bazzi, to talk about the intersection of race and running, and why representation and mental health support in running—and the athletic world at large—matters. Alison Désir is a runner, mental health advocate, activist, speaker, and mother. She is the founder of the Harlem Run club, Meaning Through Movement, and Womxn Run the Vote. After the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed while running as a Black man, Alison called out the running community for being divided by race. She leads the running world in building a healthier and more inclusive community and, in this episode, it’s clear why...Alison’s passion, wisdom, and expertise are on full display! Links:
Find Alison on Instagram @alisonmdesir and learn more about her here: http://alisonmdesir.com/ and here: https://www.oiselle.com/pages/alison-desir
Check out Alison’s Meaning Through Movement events on fitness and mental health: https://www.meaningthrumovement.com/
Find out how you can be a part of the virtual relay, Womxn Run the Vote: https://racery.com/r/womxn-run-the-vote/ and on Instagram @Run4AllWomen
Check out the Harlem Run Club: http://www.harlemrun.com/about and on Instagram @HarlemRun
Read Alison’s article called Ahmaud Arbery and Whiteness in the Running World: https://www.outsideonline.com/2413115/ahmaud-arbery-murder-whiteness-running-community
Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
How does Opal think about anti-racism work within eating disorder treatment? After a bit of a hiatus following the murder of George Floyd and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, this episode breaks the silence on what we’ve been learning and implementing within the walls of Opal: Food + Body Wisdom around anti-racism. Co-Founders Julie Church, Lexi Giblin, and Kara Bazzi sit down with host Carter Umhau to discuss what Opal’s been up to the last few months and how treatment at Opal hasn’t been adequately anti-racist in the past and what they plan to do about it. They’ll share a bit about their own process, how they see the need for anti-racism work within the eating disorder field, and touch on what this looks like in the HAES, RO DBT, and sport worlds.
Links:
Aiko Bethea and RARE: Coaching and Consulting Gloria Lucas -- Nalgona Positivity Pride Desiree Adaway --Whiteness at Work Summer Series Barbara Love --The Liberatory Consciousness Model The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese Singh How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 15 Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture by Kennith Jones and Tema Okun White Fragility by Robin Diangelo The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor Connect with Opal:
www.opalfoodandbody.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
Instagram: @opalfoodandbody
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody?lang=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Has your relationship to food changed since the pandemic began? Whether you’re snacking more, eating a different variety of food, or finding yourself restricting or bingeing due to high emotions, we imagine a lot could have shifted. While a mainstream perspective might tell you to use this “opportunity” to “take control of your diet,” we have a very different perspective. Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD and host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC are sharing their insights on the difference between emotional eating and binge eating, why you should give yourself grace right now (and always!), and how to reframe the expectations you may have right now for your eating. They’ll be walking through specific scenarios that may have impacted your eating, as well as explaining what is happening in your body right now due to the collective stress of the coronavirus.
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Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Who are you outside of the identity of your job? Over the last year, Opal: Food + Body Wisdom’s Co-Founders (Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, and Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS) each took a month away from Opal in order to rest and recharge. They’ll be sharing how they spent their free time, the questions of identity that arose, how their perspectives changed around work and life, and how they brought these changes back into their work lives upon returning to Opal. This conversation took place pre-coronavirus and addresses an experience that is certainly not comparable to the widely experienced circumstances around work now—skyrocketing unemployment rates, a whole new world of working from home, and the immense gratitude we feel for all the healthcare and essential workers that are putting themselves and their families on the line to take care of the rest of the world. Instead of never releasing this episode, we wanted to offer it with the hope that it will get your juices flowing on new ways to be thinking about the changes in work that you may be going through. At the very least, we hope it’s entertaining!
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Why does delight matter? We believe that, during the coronavirus pandemic, delight offers an opportunity for mindfulness, connectedness, and a boost to your mental health. Inspired by a This American Life episode called, “The Show of Delights,” Opal Co-Founders Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD are talking with host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC about what delight is, and how we can distinguish it from joy and pleasure. They’ll also be sharing what delights each of them and how these things have a place in their lives, particularly during the time of COVID-19. Join us for this feel-good episode!
Links:
We were so inspired by This American Life’s episode about delight, that it became the jumping off point for this episode. Listen to it here and enjoy: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/692/the-show-of-delights
Chatbooks: https://chatbooks.com/
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Did you tune into Netflix’s docuseries, Cheer? What did you think of the Navarro team culture portrayed? In light of all the tv-watching that’s been happening while sheltering in place, we decided to keep it casual for this episode and chat about our perspective on this inspiring and intense show that follows the Navarro College cheer squad as they train for competitive cheerleading championships in Daytona, Florida. Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS is one of Opal’s Co-Founders, head of the Exercise + Sport program, eating disorder expert, and a former collegiate athlete. She chats with host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC, about the coaching style of Monica Aldama, and how it straddles the lines between a demand for perfectionism versus excellence, discipline versus dogma, all while creating a true team family. As professionals that work closely with those struggling with compulsive exercise, athlete identity, and eating disorders, Kara and Carter had a lot to talk about!
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Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
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How have you been doing lately? Mental health is of utmost importance during the coronavirus pandemic. In this mini episode, we’re offering you a Loving Kindness meditation, led by Opal Co-Founder, Executive Director and Radically Open DBT expert Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS. Lexi will walk you through this externally-focused meditation which will ask you to connect to your heart’s center and offer love, warmth, and kindness to others. Allow yourself the time to pause, breathe deeply, and send loving thoughts to those out there that are on your mind--a far away friend, the healthcare workers at your local hospital, or even that worried-looking grocery clerk you saw earlier this week. We hope you feel free to return to this episode again and again when you need a moment to re-center.
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http://www.radicallyopen.net/
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Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
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How have social distancing and sheltering-in-place impacted your relationship to exercise? There is loss of all kinds during this time—there are relational and fiscal losses, losses of routine and identity, and of course, loss of life. However, as an embodied people, there is a lot freedom our bodies have lost—including when it comes to movement and exercise. Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Co-Founder and head of the Exercise + Sport Program, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS offers a way to understand your relationship to exercise through the lens of the stages of grief. In conversation with host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC, Kara shares how she’s handling the grief of not getting to move in the ways she so enjoys and inspires curiosity in listeners about what and how they may be grieving during this pandemic.
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How have you experienced unwanted energy and emotion during the coronavirus pandemic? The Appetite crew is getting vulnerable and answering this question, using the Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) skill of self-inquiry. Opal Co-Founder and RO DBT expert Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS shares how the skill of self-inquiry can be used during this time to move toward emotion in a compassionate, curious, and containing way. Lexi, along with Opal’s other two Co-Founders—Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD—and host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC will each reflect on what has been coming up for them emotionally during the shelter-in-place order. We hope that this episode will serve as both companionship and inspiration to you during this time where emotions are high, and each one of them arrives with something to teach you.
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How has the global pandemic impacted your relationship to food? As restaurants close, grocery shelves are emptied, and anxiety levels go up, you deserve compassion when it comes to the way your body is responding to this global pandemic. For those struggling with disordered eating or eating disorder recovery, we’re here to help with guided meal support. Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD—Opal: Food+Body Wisdom’s Co-Founder and Nutrition Director—sits down with host Carter Umhau, LMHC to walk listeners through the fundamentals of full permission of food and attuned eating in action! She’ll talk through the stages of selecting food to eat, setting the stage for eating, attuning to hunger and fullness cues, and how to move on from food after you’re done with a meal! If you’re ready for some food, grab a plate and start listening! This episode can be a companion to your mealtime or an inspiration for later to eat with structure, mindfulness, and pleasure in mind.
Links:
Marc David's eater's agreement:
https://psychologyofeating.com/the-eaters-agreement/ Ellyn Satter's "How to Eat" Resources: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-eat/the-joy-of-eating-being-a-competent-eater/ covid19eatingsupport on Instagram: offering hourly meal support every day Connect with Opal:
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Thank you to our team...
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
What might it be like to be a professional athlete—the symbol of health and strength in our culture—and to have a gut instinct that something is not well in your body? This was the case for elite runner and marathoner Tina Muir, when after nine years without a period she decided to stop running altogether, recover from amenorrhea, and try to get pregnant. Now the author of Overcoming Amenorrhea: Get Your Period Back. Get Your Life Back., podcast host of Running for Real, and voice of inspiration for the running community, Tina has fallen back in love with running. She sits down with Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Co-Founder Kara Bazzi, LMFT and host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC to discuss disordered eating, her former body image struggles as a runner, and how she’s using her voice to promote mental health in athletes. (Disclaimer: This episode was recorded before the COVID-19 global pandemic began.)
Links:
Tina Muir on Instagram: @tinamuir88
Learn more about Tina Muir on her website: www.tinamuir.com
Running for Real podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/running-for-real-podcast-celebrating-runner-highs-embracing/id1225735334
Buy Tina’s book, Overcoming Amenorrhea: Get Your Period Back. Get Your Life Back on Tina’s website https://tinamuir.com/product/overcoming-amenorrhea/ or on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Amenorrhea-Your-Period-Back-ebook/dp/B07ML1TSSP/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=tina+muir&qid=1585942045&sr=8-
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How can we best prepare for the psychological impacts of social distancing during the age of Coronavirus? In this episode, host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC shares her experience with self-isolating a couple weeks ahead of the curve in Seattle, a city already ahead of the curve in shelter-in-place mandates than most other US cities. Opal: Food + Body Wisdom’s Co-Founders, Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, ask Carter the questions, exploring topics such as loneliness, loss of routine, experience of food, and relationship to exercise during this unprecedented time. Julie, Lexi, and Kara offer insights and wisdom from their areas of mental health and eating disorder expertise. While this episode speaks to the privileged experience of getting to self-quarantine and work from home, it doesn’t significantly address the growing economic crisis or the experience of the many people working jobs to keep the rest of us afloat, with no option to stay at home. Despite these gaps, we hope this conversation offers you a place to find resonance and support while we all live into the new, challenging realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Links:
Deliciousness Matters, by Sam Sifton for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/dining/deliciousness-matters.html
Encouraging Messages from Italians in Quarantine: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/608113/italy-coronavirus/
Research: The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30460-8/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email
Research: The Healing Benefits of Nature: https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/reflections-on-covid-19-and-spending-time-in-nature/
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
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As the pandemic is rapidly removing what we’ve come to rely on in our day-to-day lives, it is becoming clear that we are not only in a health and economic crisis, but also a crisis of mental health. Opal’s Co-Founders Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS sit down with host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC to offer an inspiring call to self-care and grace during an unprecedented time. Listen in to hear what Opal has to say about how to take care of your mental health as well as your relationship to food and exercise in the era of coronavirus.
Encouraging Messages from Italians in Quarantine: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/608113/italy-coronavirus/
Research: The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30460-8/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
“Leaning out” and manipulating body weight have been widely accepted modes of performance preparation for elite athletes. But as the sports world wakes up to the harm that the emphasis on weight manipulation can have on athletes’ mental and physical health (like in runner Mary Cain’s story), this question should be front and center: Is it ever appropriate to manipulate weight and body composition to enhance sport performance? What about using instrumental eating strategies to enhance performance? Opal Co-Founder and Exercise + Sport Director Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS sits down with host Carter Umhau, LMHC to discuss periodization in sport, attitudes around racing and competition, and what nutritional skills are essential for athletes to master before even contemplating nutritional strategies for performance enhancement.
Links: The Appetite Episode 23: Was I Only Fast Because I Was Anorexic? The Appetite Episodes 64-67: four-part series on Ellyn Satter’s eating competency skill Tina Muir podcast RED-S in Sport time for a revolution in sports culture and systems to improve athlete health and performance. Connect with Opal:
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Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
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Does design impact mental health? Inspired by Opal’s recent remodel, Opal Co-Founder, Executive Director, and design-enthusiast Dr. Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS sits down with host Carter Umhau, LMHC to talk about the psychology behind Opal’s interior design. Lexi will describe how even the smallest details at Opal were chosen to reflect Opal’s mission of offering transformative healing to our clients. She also addresses how—even while the process of eating disorder recovery seeks to deemphasize appearance—the aesthetics of space can support healing and connection.
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Take a Tour of Opal's new space
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What should you do if a medical provider is offering a treatment recommendation based on your BMI? In the second of a two-part series, Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church RDN, CEDRD-S, CD is answering this listener question (and others!) about the Body Mass Index. In conversation with host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC we’re diving into even more about the racist and unscientific measurement that a Belgian astronomer created without the intention of it becoming our main measurement of health.
Links:
The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI: https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Can you actually measure health? BMI— or Body Mass Index—has become a widely embraced measurement of health, but is actually based on an entirely unscientific and racist 19th century research project. In this first episode of two parts, Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD sits down with host Carter Umhau, LMHC to talk about the history of the BMI, why it’s bogus, and what the implications of this reductionistic measurement are on our health.
Links:
The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI: https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb
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Body Image can be a struggle at any time, but what about when you’ve had a baby? For the birthing person, one’s relationship to food and body can be vastly impacted by the perinatal experience. In a roundtable conversation, Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Co-Founders Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS are sharing their (quite varied) experiences of pregnancy and being postpartum. As eating disorder experts, their stories serve as a reminder that everyone’s body and story is different. From the experience of infertility, the role of recovery during pregnancy, and thoughts on the “pre-baby body,” we’re jumping in!
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
What assumptions do you think are made about pregnancy and the postpartum experience? Doula Davinah Simmons and postpartum-focused therapist Julie Davidson, LMHC join Carter Umhau, LMHC to explore the ways in which our society under-prepares the birthing person or mother for the “emotional infancy” that begins when baby arrives. They’ll explore how the perinatal experience brings about new body image concerns, can impact eating disorder recovery, and the identity crisis that can often ensue. This conversation elucidates the powerful work that is required in matrescence, and why this “development phase” requires a new way of thinking about body, personhood, attachment, and becoming.
Learn more about the work of Davinah Simmons at https://www.bornrooted.com/ and on Instagram @rootedbirthdoula
Learn more about Julie Davidson, LMHC’s work at http://www.juliedavidsoncounseling.com/ and on Instagram @onbeingamother
Alexandra Sacks’ TED talk on matrescence: https://www.ted.com/talks/alexandra_sacks_a_new_way_to_think_about_the_transition_to_motherhood?language=en
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Can we truly control our bodies in order to change the way we look? As talk of New Year’s “lifestyle changes,” diets, and new exercise regimens fill our feeds, we’re here to talk about a major function of the body impacted by unhealthy dieting and changes in exercise: METABOLISM. In this episode we’re exploring what it is, how it works, and whether or not the assumptions diet culture has made about our ability to control it are scientifically valid. (Spoiler alert: they aren’t.) In conversation with host, therapist and not-a-scientist Carter Umhau, LMHC, Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD expertly explains and debunks myths around metabolism, explaining how dieting can harm our metabolic processes for good.
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Thanks to Taylor Chan, MS, RD, CPT for the banner art today! Check them out here: https://www.instagram.com/foodandfearless/?hl=en
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What makes a good coach? With no agreed upon definition of a "qualified coach," this is a question often ignored! Julie McCleery, PhD, of the Center for Leadership in Athletics at the University of Washington, joins us to talk about how the often toxic culture in sports could be transformed through better, more holistically-minded training for coaches. With Opal: Food+Body Wisdom's Exercise+Sport Director Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC, Julie discusses how allegations of abuse in the professional sports sphere reflect our need for a more robust understanding and care of the athlete as a whole person. Julie will offer context around her training model of “Ambitious Coaching” and how coaches can approach youth sports differently to create positive change starting in athletes’ younger years.
Links:
Make sure you join us for the “Creating a Healthy Sports Culture: Facilitating Athletes’ Positive Relationship with Food, Body, and Exercise.” Workshop hosted by Opal: Food + Body Wisdom at the University of Washington THIS Saturday January 11th. More information is available here: https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/event/creating-a-healthy-sports-culture/
Learn more about the Center for Leadership in Athletics here: http://sites.education.washington.edu/
“What To Do If You Have (or Notice) an Abusive Coach” by Elizabeth Carey: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a30150327/what-to-do-if-you-have-an-abusive-coach/
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Are you sick of making New Year’s resolutions you don’t keep? Instead of goal setting, try commuting to self-exploration! As an alternative to resolutions, Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS leads The Appetite crew in the journaling process of “self-inquiry,” a Radically Open DBT concept in which you move toward discomfort for the sake of growth. Lexi, along with Opal Co-Founders Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, and host Carter Umhau, LMHC share from their journals about the hopes they have for the new year and the kinds of questions they hope to live into.
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
How do the holiday festivities impact your diet? For many—especially those already struggling with a disordered relationship to food and body—the holiday season can be chock-full of challenges. From holiday drinks with friends, to office parties, to busy schedules, and all of the special treats and seasonal foods, there’s a lot that’s both exciting and stressful! Opal Co-Founders Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD and host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC talk about how to approach the novelty of the holidays through attuned eating skills. In this episode, they’ll offer not only helpful tips on how to prepare on the day of a big food-filled party, but also how to embrace the celebratory spirit.
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
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Does sport culture need to change? We say, absolutely—and especially around weight! Mary Cain was the fastest high school distance runner in the world until she joined the best distance running program in the country, the Nike Oregon Project, coached by Alberto Salazar. From there, the abusive pressure to become thinner and thinner consumed her running career, leading her to disordered eating and suicidal thoughts, until she finally quit the team. In this episode of The Appetite, Opal Co-Founder and head of the Exercise + Sport Program Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS sits down to talk about how Mary Cain’s story has started a landslide of advocacy within the distance running world. Kara explores how the culture of sport has become toxic, and what coaches can do about it.
Join Opal: Food + Body Wisdom on January 11, 2020 for our coaches workshop (hosted at the University of Washington): Creating a Healthy Sports Culture: Facilitating Athletes’ Positive Relationship with Food, Body, and Exercise
Watch the NYT Opinion piece on Mary Cain via YouTube: “I Was the Fastest Girl in the World, Until I Joined Nike”
Read Mary Cain’s OpEd in the New York Times:
Sports Illustrated on Nike
Mary Cain tells her story on the Clean Sport Collective podcast
Mary Cain on The Science of Sport podcast
The Amelia Boone Interview: How the "Queen of Pain" Faces Down Her Demons
Lauren Fleshman, “I Changed My Body for My Sport. No Girl Should.” | NY OpEd
Jen Rhines on Weight and Body Composition in Running
Hierarchy of Food Needs
Relative Energy Deficiency-Syndrome (RED-S) Clinical Assessment Tool
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
What does food and body wisdom look like? With the concept front and center in Opal’s name, we decided to poll the staff (dietitians, therapists, and beyond!) to hear what body wisdom means to them. From pursuing the wisdom of one’s appetite cues, attachment style, and experience of privilege, our awesome staff came at this topic from all sides, all while exemplifying the Opal spirit. Listen to this unique episode where we leave the studio and record within the walls of Opal.
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
How does your body carry emotion? Did you know that the answer to this question can serve as a window into understanding not only your relationship to food but your attachment style and personality as well? Opal’s Milieu Therapist Lead, Madeline Young, BS, RYT, LMT, joins host Carter Umhau, LMHC to discuss her work with somatic psychotherapy and Core Energetics. Carter and Madeline will discuss the connections between mind, body, and emotions and how this can be applied in eating disorder recovery. Madeline will walk listeners through a visualization exercise to better understand these concepts through embodied learning.
Links:
More about the Seattle School of Body Psychotherapy and a a place to find their blog: http://www.bodypsychotherapyschool.com/
Learn more about Madeline’s offerings: https://www.madelinelyoung.com/
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Why is anger an important emotion? The Appetite crew talks about why anger is useful, and how our perception and expression of it is impacted by gender and race. Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Co-Founders Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS let you into a small moment of anger between them, displaying how we often “sanitize” anger. Then, with host Carter Umhau, LMHC, we discuss how Beyoncé’s visual album, “Lemonade” portrays the many facets of anger, and why we think it's so effective.
Links:
Good and Mad Book
Watch Beyoncé’s visual album, by purchasing “Lemonade” on iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/album/lemonade/1460473526
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
How does talk about diets and weight impact you? One of the hardest things about recovery from an eating disorder is holding onto a new awareness of your needs, desires, and thoughts around food while out in the “real world.” This is especially difficult during the holiday season. Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD, Co-Founders of Opal: Food + Body Wisdom, brainstorm with host Carter Umhau, LMHC about ways to combat the unnecessary commentary.
Links:
The Body Project
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
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Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Is it normal to lose your period when changing up your diet or exercise routine? Nicola Rinaldi, PhD joins the podcast today to discuss her journey to recover her period once it was lost, and offers her wealth of knowledge on hypothalamic amenorrhea (aka the loss of one’s period). Drawing from the research in her book, No Period. Now What?, Nicola joins Carter Umhau, LMHC and Opal Co-Founder Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD to explain how even small caloric deficiencies can cause disruptions in menstruation, how weight bias impacts the treatment of this, and why menstruation matters beyond fertility.
Links:
No Period. Now What? By Nicola Rinaldi, PhD
No Period Now What Facebook support group Helpful info sheets and chapters (free downloads): Http://noperiod.info/HA http://noperiod.info/HAvsPCOS Work with Nicola directly Blog posts: Time to recovery is not associated with length of time period was missing, http://noperiod.info/time. Time to recovery after going all in: http://noperiod.info/time2. Birth control pills and HA: http://noperiod.info/bcp Why estrogen, progesterone don't jumpstart cycles: http://noperiod.info/progesterone Connect with Opal:
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Do you work out to deal with your emotions? There are so many messages out there that exercise will make you happier, healthier, and thinner…but none of these assumptions are a given, especially when movement is your only way to regulate or have a good day. This episode will explore the connection between exercise and emotions—unpacking the much more nuanced reality in order to broaden our understanding from the simplistic “exercise = happiness” equation. Opal: Food + Body Wisdom’s Co-Founder and head of the Exercise + Sport Program, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS sits down with host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC to talk overexercise, exercise avoidance, and how the inclusion of emotion in movement can be a place of beauty and healing.
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
What’s the difference between being “in recovery” versus being “recovered” from an eating disorder? And is full recovery possible? At Opal, we believe that YES—it definitely is! Today Opal Co-Founders Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD are talking with host Carter Umhau, LMHC about what the process of recovery looks like, why it’s different than the traditional recovery model (which is based off of substance use addiction), and how to know you’ve arrived at the end of your recovery journey.
Links:
Carolyn Costin's webpage on this topic:
https://www.carolyn-costin.com/recovered-vs-recovering Connect with Opal:
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
What would your personal style look like if you weren’t concerned about size or body image? Hear how Erin Drischler has changed lives through changing the closets of women in recovery from eating disorders. Through The Garment Project—the non-profit she founded—those in recovery are getting a chance to find clothing without having to deal with the often triggering experience of navigating clothing size. Erin talks in this episode with host Carter Umhau, LMHC about how her own recovery story inspired the empowerment of so many others’!
Links:
Learn more about (or donate to) The Garment Project: https://thegarmentproject.org/
The Garment Project on Instagram: @thegarmentproject
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Are you ready for a change? We’re exploring what the stages of change are and why acknowledging ambivalence is often the linchpin when it comes to transformation. In a roundtable conversation that touches on self-care, creative habits, routines, and recovery, Opal Co-Founders Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD sit down with host Carter Umhau, LMHC to explore the many things that get in the way of making the changes you desire, and what they’re each doing about it!
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
How are bodies political? The vibrant dietitian and podcast host Aaron Flores, RDN (of Dietitians Unplugged) joins Opal’s Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD and host Carter Umhau, LMHCto share his feminist perspective on the politics of being in a fat body. Aaron talks about how being fat (as a cis, white man) has given him access to understanding the lack of safety people with more marginalized identities experience being in their bodies. Carter, Aaron, and Julie will explore male body image, fat phobia, privilege, and the entirely unethical dieting scheme Weight Watchers has been recently marketing to children.
Links:
Follow along with Aaron Flores, RDN’s via his…
IG: https://www.instagram.com/aaronfloresrdn/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/aaronfloresrdn
Website: www.smashtheweightriarchy.com
Listen to Aaron on Dietitian’s Unplugged: http://dietitiansunplugged.libsyn.com/
Redefining Wellness: The Ultimate Diet-free Guide for Teenagers
Sign the petition to stop the kurbo app.
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
What does it take to heal? Obviously there’s a lot to it, but we’d dare to say that COURAGE (in all its forms) is at the heart of it all. Opal Co-Founder and Executive Director Dr. Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS joins host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC to explore the many types of courage and their roles within eating disorder recovery. Lexi and Carter will pull from psychologist Rollo May’s work, which defines courage within four spheres: physical, moral, social, and creative.
Links:
Rollo May’s book, The Courage to Create: https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Create-Rollo-May/dp/0393311066/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=courage+to+create&qid=1569283078&sr=8-1
Jesh de Rox on The Creativity Habit podcast, as Carter mentioned: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-creativity-habit/id1211324060?i=1000434382827
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Do you trust your body’s appetite cues? It’s all about internal regulation on the last of this four-part series inspired by Ellyn Satter’s “Eating Competency Skills” and we’re talking body wisdom. Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD talks with host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC about the wisdom your body holds around food and eating. They’ll be exploring the power of honing this skill, which is the heart of intuitive eating.
Links:
Ellyn Satter Institute
Take the ecSI ( Satter Eating Competency Inventory)
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
What habits and routines can support healthy eating? This third of our four-part series on Ellyn Satter’s eating competency skills, offers a look into how to build a healthy context and environment to support your food choices. Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD talks with host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC about grocery shopping, a full pantry, and all that should happen to metaphorically set the table for success. This episode continues to define healthy eating through the question of how to eat, rather than what to eat.
Links:
Ellyn Satter Institute: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/
Take the ecSI ( Satter Eating Competency Inventory) here: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ecSI-2.0-Test-scoring-restricted.pdf
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
What is a healthy attitude around food and eating habits? This second of a four-part series on Ellyn Satter’s eating competency skills, continues to define healthy eating through the question of how to eat, rather than what to eat. Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD talks with host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC about the work of understanding one’s own “eating attitudes.” Julie and Carter will unpack the cultural, familial, and social norms that influence their own ways of relating to food. Follow along to open the door into insights around your own attitudes and style of eating.
Links:
Ellyn Satter Institute: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/
Take the ecSI ( Satter Eating Competency Inventory) here: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ecSI-2.0-Test-scoring-restricted.pdf
Chef David Chang challenges eating attitudes around MSG on his hit Netflix show, “Ugly Delicious:” https://www.netflix.com/watch/80191119?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C6%2Cf47900a6-00e0-4804-a73b-ad94c1ca0d5f-18168329%2C%2C
Carolyn Costin’s book 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience
https://www.amazon.com/Keys-Recovery-Eating-Disorder-Therapeutic/dp/0393706958/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=EEV4EWKYCHR0BQW7H0WA
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Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
Do you know how to eat in a healthy way? Most answers to the question of healthy eating actually have more to do with what foods you should be eating, rather than the HOW; Ellyn Satter digs into this, offering adults scaffolding for the how behind building a healthy relationship to food (both for one’s self and for those adults that are parents, modeling healthy eating for their kids). In this first of a four-part series on Satter’s “eating competency skills,” Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD talks with host Carter Umhau, LMHC on the skill of “Food Acceptance.” Food Acceptance is all about the acceptance of appetite and our desire for food.
Links:
Ellyn Satter Institute: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/
Take the ecSI ( Satter Eating Competency Inventory) here: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ecSI-2.0-Test-scoring-restricted.pdf
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
How can we take care of the athlete as a whole person? Often considered a lesser concern, the mental health of the athlete is of key importance—both on and off the field. Jason Durocher, ATC, LAT head athletic trainer, and Monica VanWinkle, MS, RDN, CD sports dietitian—both at Seattle Pacific University athletic department and beyond—join Opal Co-Founder and Director of the Exercise + Sport team Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and host Carter Umhau, LMHC to help us all reimagine a healthier circle of support in the athletic environment. From athletic conditioning for the whole person to coaches’ attitudes, this episode offers an empowering and educational window into mental health support and eating disorder prevention for those on all sides of athletics.
Links:
Handout: Tips for Athletic Directors, Coaches, Parents and Anyone Else Wanting to Help Athletes and Artists
Fundamentals of Glycogen Metabolism for coaches
Australian Institute of Sport: Nutrition Handouts
NEDA: Developing and Modeling Positive Body Image
NEDA: Coach and Trainer Toolkit
Reach Monica VanWinkle, RDN, CD: http://www.nutritioninaction.net/
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/OpalFoodandBody/videos
Thank you to our team...
Daniel Guenther at Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Editing by Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Host and Producer Carter Umhau: www.carterumhau.com
How can yoga help in eating disorder recovery? Opal therapists and yogis Kendra Appe, LMHC, RYT and Lauren Donelson, RYT join The Appetite to answer this question. Creators of the “Do No Harm” workshop series at Opal, they also speak to how the Western culture around yoga can inadvertently encourage disordered eating and the exclusivity of bodies beyond the thin, white ideal. Kendra and Lauren will talk about their stories practicing yoga, what body positive yoga looks like, and how yoga has the potential to be therapy for every body.
Join us at Opal’s next Do No Harm Yoga workshop this September: https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/event/do-no-harm-yoga-workshop/
Lauren Donelson’s article: “My Career As A Yoga Instructor Was A Cover For My Eating Disorder” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yoga-teacher-eating-disorder_n_5d23916ae4b01000e1b6c57b
Resources to Support You in Creating Body-Inclusive Yoga Spaces
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Thank you to our team...
Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
What does it mean to have a healthy diet? At Opal: Food + Body Wisdom, that means attunement, adequacy, and freedom with food. It also means letting memory play a part in our food choices! In this podcast, Opal Co-Founders Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Appetite host Carter Umhau, LMHC share the foods that hold the greatest memories for them (raspberries straight off the bush, peanut butter M&Ms, carrot casserole) and how their relationship to those foods have developed and changed. Focusing on food memories, good and bad, Kara, Julie, and Carter will talk about how their tastes have changed, stayed the same, or grown in attunement over the years.
Links:
One of Carter’s most nostalgic recipes: https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Fennel-Baked-in-Milk-Finocchio-con-Latte-al-Forno/
Our episode with restaurant-owner Mark Canlis around what it means to share food around a table with others: https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/around-the-table/
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Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
How are eating disorders a social justice issue? Gloria Lucas, founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride, has a world of wisdom to share in explanation. She joins host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC to explore historical trauma and eating disorders. Gloria created Nalgona Positivity Pride--a Xicana-indigenous and body-positive organization—to offer support, education, and mental health resources for people of color struggling with food and body image issues. Today, she offers illustrative bits of her own recovery story and educates the audience on how people of color need to be centered in healing spaces.
Key words: indigenous, native, intersectional, social justice, body positive, therapy, eating disorder, mental health, recovery, support, health, HAES
To follow along with Gloria Lucas find her on…
Instagram: @NalgonaPositivityPride
Twitter: @NalgonaPride
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nalgonapositivepride/
On her site: https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/
To support Gloria’s work: https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/support-my-work
Shop NPP merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NalgonaPositiveShop
Events:https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/upcoming-events
Seattle Events:
Gloria at Opal: https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/events/seattle-wa-historical-trauma-and-eating-disorders-talk
Gloria Lucas at Chicas Roadshow Pop-Up: https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/events/chicas-roadshow-seattle-wa
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How do you deal with change in life? Former competitive figure skater Chrissy Hughes (and therapist at Opal!) shares about her retirement from skating and what the process taught her about dealing with big life transitions. Chrissy—who joins host Carter Umhau, LMHC and Opal Co-Founder and head of the Exercise + Sport Program, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS—explores the psychological, social, and physical components that impacted her mental health during that time and how her story with figure skating can speak to anyone going through the grief or identity crisis that comes with change in life.
To Learn More:
Check out this book by Scott Tinley that Chrissy drew from her in research: https://www.amazon.com/Racing-Sunset-Athletes-Quest-After/dp/1592280951
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How can nature be a part of your self-care ritual? Lisa Hasselman of Forest Garden Farm on Vashon Island, WA joins Carter Umhau, LMHC to share her story of leaving her job as an attorney and starting a job as a flower farmer on Vashon Island, WA. Lisa’s story speaks to the risk it can be to defy expectations and live a more congruent life and how choosing farming has increased her mental health and sense of well-being. Whether you have farming aspirations or you’re someone that simply wants to go outside more, consider how nature can be therapy for you.
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Forest Garden Farm: www.instagram.com/forestgardenfarm
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Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Shilo George talks about the intersections of fatness, queerness, and indigeneity in her story of eating disorder recovery and advocacy. Shilo, a Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho and Scottish international speaker, trainer, and owner of Łush Kumtux Tumtum Consulting, shares her story with host Carter Umhau, LMHC and Opal Co-Founder Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD. Her advocacy work and story speak to the need for a deeper conversation around race in the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) and Health At Every Size (HAES) communities (and beyond!), while also offering a vibrant window into her Body Sovereignty project which pursues the reclamation of her “SuperFat” body through the pursuit of joyful movement, therapy, storytelling, and the wisdom of her ancestors.
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Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Jo Langford, MA joins The Appetite to talk with host Carter Umhau, LMHC about consent. This conversation—which focuses first on helping parents help their teens learn the language of sexual consent and the role of technology within it—contextualizes consent within the work of attunement, empowerment, and embodiment that’s so often pursued in the process of eating disorder recovery. Whether you’re a parent wanting to learn more on behalf of your kids, or a grownup that never got a chance to learn how to advocate for what your body wants or doesn’t want, listen in to engage a new way of listening to your body.
Links:
Learn more about Jo Langford here, including links to his books, his teaching, his practice: https://www.beheroes.net/
If you’re a parent interested in learning more about the role of technology, you may want to listen to Jo on his podcast, APPropriate: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jo-langford/appropriate
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Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
How would you describe your style of exercise or workout? Opal: Food + Body Wisdom’s Co-Founders, Dr, Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD talk with host Carter Umhau, LMHC about their own styles of movement, how they incorporate it into their lives and why (or why not!) they find themselves moved to move. In a mainstream culture where exercise is glorified for body-shaping and weight loss purposes, this conversation introduces a new way of thinking about how movement can serve a whole host of needs for very different people.
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Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
What does it look like to pursue movement or working out while recovering from a fraught or disordered relationship to your body? Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Co-Founder Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and host and therapist Carter Umhau, LMHC sit down to talk about the “grey areas” of movement—where “healthy” behaviors are defined by the nuances and attitudes toward exercise, sport, or movement, not the type of movement in and of itself. Kara and Carter will explore body-shaping, training, and whether or not you should actually enjoy every form of movement you pursue—all as an invitation to explore your own personal transformation when it comes to your body in motion!
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Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
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If you’ve had a pet at some point in your life, you may be aware of the inherently therapeutic presence of that animal in your life. But what happens when a pet spends most of their days in an eating disorder clinic? Zoe, Opal’s therapy dog, joins her owner (and Opal Co-Founder and Executive Director) Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS and host Carter Umhau, LMHC to showcase the amazing empathy and support she offers as pet therapy to those needing support and soothing.
Links:
Unbridled Counseling: http://unbridledcounseling.com/
Saratoga Warhorse: https://www.saratogawarhorse.org
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Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Emotional eating is never just about the food. Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD and therapist and host Carter Umhau, LMHC discuss the differences between binge eating, compulsive eating, and emotional eating. Julie contextualizes overeating within the realm of normal eating and full permission with food, and Carter shares some of her own journey, honing in on the ways to address the emotional work that accompanies moving toward more mindful eating.
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Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Sugar. It’s loved, it’s feared, and apparently it’s in everything. In pop culture, this often leads to it being demonized. At Opal: Food + Body Wisdom, we’re debunking sugar myths, normalizing sugar, and talking about how sugar can be a part of any and everyone’s attuned eating style. Host Carter Umhau, LMHC sits down with Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD to discuss the sweet stuff.
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Thank you to our team…
Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
In episode Links:
Myths about Diabetes (note that we do not support all the language and the fat-phobic language in this link but look for the message about sugar not causing Diabetes): http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/myths/ Sugar Addiction Review Article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27372453 Find Blood Sugar Graph and Infographic about Carbohydrates at: https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/the-appetite-episode-51-sugar-sugar-debunking-myths-about-the-sweet-stuff/
After ditching the diets, have you ever wondered what “normal eating” actually looks like? The truth is that attuned eating looks differently from person to person. So on this episode, the Opal Co-Founders (Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Julie Church, RD, CEDRD-S, CD) talk with host Carter Umhau, LMHC about their own eating styles, debunking the myth that there is a “normal.”
Ellyn Satter Eating Competency Inventory: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/ecsi-2-0/ Benefits of Family Meals: https://thefamilydinnerproject.org/about-us/benefits-of-family-dinners/ and https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/family-meals-focus/101-celebrate-national-family-day-with-a-family-dinner/ Previous episodes referred to in this episode: Episode #19: https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/can-trust-body-with-food/ Episode #13: https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/how-to-eat-in-a-food-obsessed-world/ Connect with Opal:
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Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
In what ways do you use indirect communication to make your thoughts, needs, or feelings known? Opal Co-Founders Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, and host Carter Umhau, LMHC explore the nuances of direct and indirect communication through a Radically Open DBT lens. They each reflect on how socialization has impacted their communication style, and speak from their expertises around how eating disorders themselves are a form of indirect communication.
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Behind the scenes, Opal Co-Founders Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, have been hosting workshops for young girls to start them early on learning body wisdom and developing a healthier relationship to their body image. One of Kara’s daughters--and a participant in the workshop--joins us today to share her impression on the key tenets of the workshop, ranging from identity, to genetics, to nutrition.
Links to books mentioned:
Healthy Bodies, by Kathy Kater
https://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Bodies-Teaching-Kids-What/dp/0615706886 Mindset, by Carol Dweck https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck-ebook/dp/B000FCKPHG Connect with Opal:
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Jack Straw Cultural Center: http://www.jackstraw.org/
Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/
Hans Anderson: http://www.hfanderson.com/
Filmmaker Elizabeth Ayiku joins host Carter Umhau, LMHC to talk about her upcoming feature film, Me Little Me. Elizabeth’s own struggles with an eating disorder and her difficulties pursuing recovery as a black woman in a flawed treatment world are both the inspiration for the film and at the center of this conversation. Listen in to learn about the filmmaking process and Elizabeth’s vision for expanding the face of eating disorders in Hollywood.
Key words: filmmaker, eating disorders, treatment, recovery, diverse stories
Links:
To donate and learn more about Me Little Me: https://www.melittlemefilm.com/
Me Little Me on Instagram: @melittlemefilm
More about Elizabeth Ayiku: https://www.elizabethayiku.com/
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“Self-care” is practically a buzzword these days as more people embrace the importance of creating space for self-restoration. But what does “self-care” look like beyond bubble baths and treating yourself? Sibel Golden, PhD--psychotherapist and eating disorder specialist in private practice and Executive Director of the Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Therapy Institute--sits down to talk with host Carter Umhau, LMHC about building a self-care practice that reflects both your needs and your values. Sibel and Carter--both artists--reflect on the role of creativity in self-care, and Sibel presents ideas on “serious leisure.”
Links:
Sibel Golden, PhD: https://sibelgoldenphd.com/
Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Therapy Institute: https://seattlearttherapy.org/
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Are you good at doing absolutely nothing at all? In mainstream American culture, the values of productivity and accomplishment can be so front and center that the need for rest and play can take the backseat or—worse—be deemed useless. Opal Co-Founders Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD sit down with host Carter Umhau, LMHC for a roundtable conversation around the “art of non-productivity.” The concept, a key tenet of Radically Open DBT (a therapeutic modality targeted for the treatment of those with a more over-controlled temperament) emphasizes the importance of learning how to be unproductive.
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The ever-popular Whole30 and Paleo diets are often described as a “lifestyle change” or even a “return to the basics.” Though they’re packaged differently than the diets of yore (like Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, or Atkins, to name a few), the restrictive mentality and the long term ineffectiveness remains the same as any other diet. In this episode, Opal Dietitian Kelly Finan, MS, RDN talks with host Carter Umhau, LMHC to explain the key principles behind Whole30 and Paleo, and debunk the myths behind their success.
Links: Summary of Whole30 and Paleo, by Kelly Finan, MS, RDN
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What does it look like to get un-stuck? Dr. Amy Burns, MD shares her expertise in Motivational Interviewing and explains how this person-centered approach to behavior change embraces the ambivalence so often thought to be in the way of growth. Opal Co-Founder Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS offers her own struggles with making a change in her life while Dr. Burns playfully interacts with her in an on-air example of the Motivational Interviewing technique!
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Have you considered how a deepening connection to your body’s desire for food may impact your body’s sexual appetites as well? Longtime Opal therapist Tahney Jones, LMHC, CEDS joins Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and host Carter Umhau, LMHC in an exploratory conversation around the intersection of recovery from disordered eating and sex. (P.S. Though this conversation could feel applicable to all, we’re aware that it centers around a cis female perspective.)
Girls and Sex book by Peggy Orenstein
http://www.emilynagoski.com/ https://www.estherperel.com/
Can you really control your weight? Diet culture certainly says you can, but in this episode Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CD, CEDS sits down with host Carter Umhau, LMHC to challenge this, highlighting the real cost of weight loss. Julie explains “set point theory” as a new way to understand our bodies’ protective responses to weight loss, introducing an element of mystery into what’s often widely categorized as merely an issue of willpower.
In a culture that moralizes exercise and reveres star athletes, avoiding exercise can elicit discomfort (at best) and at worst, can induce loads of personal shame. In this episode, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS (Opal’s Co-Founder and head of the Exercise + Sport Program) and host Carter Umhau, LMHC will explore why people find themselves avoiding exercise and the barriers in moving towards a relationship of trust and attunement with movement and sport. Practical tools will be offered for listeners to be encouraged if they identify as avoidant.
When you come to terms with the fact that diets just don’t work, what comes next? Listen to your hunger and fullness! In this episode, Opal Co-Founder and Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD talks with host Carter Umhau, LMHC about what it looks like to eat from a place of attunement, rather than the rules and structures of one diet or another. Julie and Carter will walk through how to identify the cues of hunger and fullness, and how attunement in and of itself can ask you to stay an active participant in your relationship to food.
“Intuitive Eating” Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN and Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD, Fiaedp, FADA, FAND.
“Moving Away from Diets” Karen Kratina, PhD, RD,
Hunger Fullness scale
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Love is in the air! Embrace new ways of thinking about the different kinds of love in your life by joining Opal’s “love tour.” All three of Opal’s Co-Founders--Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS--join host Carter Umhau, LMHC to explore “irrationally crazy love,” “limerence,” “radically open kindness,” and “amae"--terms for love that show up in all kinds of relationships, even beyond the romantic.
Envy shows up in all kinds of relationships, but how often does it actually make us closer to one another? Host Carter Umhau, LMHC talks with Opal Co-Founders Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS about their envy for one another and explore the ways in which their envy--after it almost created distance--brought them into a deeper relationship as business partners and friends. Plus, Lexi brings in her Radically Open DBT expertise to lay out the differences between helpful versus unhelpful envy!
Virginia Sole-Smith--author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America and co-host of the Comfort Food podcast--joins host Carter Umhau, LMHC to share the story of how the feeding issues that arose for her newborn daughter inspired a new way of thinking about body trust and the diet industry in America. Virginia and Carter talk body image, parenting, feminism, and what it means to relearn your own “eating instinct.”
The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America: https://www.amazon.com/Eating-Instinct-Culture-Image-America/dp/1250120985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548431931&sr=8-1&keywords=the+eating+instinct
virginiasolesmith.com Listen to Virginia on the Comfort Food podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/comfort-food/id1418097194?mt=2
How can perfectionism and the avoidance of failure be keeping you from living out your values and desires? Opal Co-Founder Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and Carter Umhau, LMHC draw from experiences in their own lives (basketball and writing, respectively) to explore the differences between perfectionism and excellence, and how to embrace mistakes as a means of learning. In sharing both their own stories and their expertise as therapists, Kara and Carter offer an alternative way of being in relationship with yourself around your goals and failures. Links:
To explore more of the themes Carter and Kara talked about in this episode, we suggest taking a look at these three books:
Mindset by Carol Dweck: https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547780115&sr=1-1&keywords=mindset+carol+dweck
Better by Mistake by Alina Tugend: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Mistake-Unexpected-Benefits-Being/dp/1594487855
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron: https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547780198&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=artist%27s+way&psc=1
Former collegiate and professional football player Patrick Devenny joins us again for the second of two episodes, expanding on his eating disorder recovery story and sharing the identity crisis that ensued upon leaving professional athletics. Patrick joins Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS (Opal’s Co-founder, Clinical Director, and head of the Sport+Exercise Program) in this laid-back conversation around how issues of identity are impacted at the intersection of sport, masculinity, and eating disorders. Links: Patrick Devenny's story: https://www.bornfitness.com/male-eating-disorders/ What Made Maddy Run: https://www.amazon.com/What-Made-Maddy-Run-All-American/dp/031 Broke: http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=broke6356549 Connect with us: theappetite@opalfoodandbody.com www.opalfoodandbody.com www.facebook.com/opalfoodandbody
Have you ever considered that maybe your unprocessed grief could be keeping you from the transformations you’re desiring in your life? Opal Co-Founders Julie Church, RD,CD, CEDRD, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS and Lexi Giblin, PhD., CEDS join host Carter Umhau, LMHC to explore the necessity of grief and how mainstream American culture often doesn’t hold space for rituals and rights around the grief we all hold. Listen in for Lexi’s story about a recent grief ritual she participated in, and dietitian Julie’s thoughts on why eating with emotion is part of good grief.
Easter egg hunts and Easter baskets bring similar amounts of candy into the home. So if you missed this episode in the fall, you might find it useful now!
Halloween is on its way and there’s likely candy everywhere...and that’s not a bad thing! This episode is certainly for adults who feel like you don’t have enough “willpower” when you’re suddenly around candy, but also for parents, struggling to figure out what attitude they should have when letting their kids have candy. Opal Co-Founder Julie Church, RDN, CD, CEDRD sits down with host Carter Umhau, LMHC and challenges common misconceptions around the “addictive” nature of candy.
Links:
- Article: The sticky topic of Halloween candy
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/family-meals-focus/30-halloween-candy/
- Research: The effect of sugar on behavior or cognition in children. A meta-analysis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7474248
- Research: Hyperactivity: is candy causal?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8747098
What does it look like for two middle-school-aged girls to have been parented by eating disorder specialists? Opal Co-Founders Kara and Lexi talk about parenting around food and body image concerns. Plus their daughters Ila and Sophia join host Carter Umhau, LMHC to dish out the wisdom!
Does weight really matter when it comes to sport performance? Host Carter Umhau, LMHC, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS explore culture around food and body within the sport world, and the idealization of the athlete. Kara, Clinical Director and former division I collegiate distance runner, shares her own experience with an eating disorder, and we bring in dietitian Kelly Finan, RDN with the hard science to break some myths around the importance of low weight in sport performance.
Links:
Lane 9, a resource for athletic women struggling with eating disorder or amenorrhea recovery:
https://medium.com/lane-9-project
NEDA coaches and athletic trainers toolkit: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/sites/default/files/Toolkits/CoachandTrainerToolkit.pdf
Former professional football player Patrick Devenny joins Opal Co-Founder Kara Bazzi, LMFT to share his eating disorder recovery story. He offers his perspective on the unique challenges that men--particularly male athletes--face in seeking and receiving care for food and body-related issues. In this first of two episodes, Patrick--an advocate for eating disorder awareness--talks gym culture, why he used to think therapy was "woo woo," and how he moved from keto diets and counting macros to full recovery.
Holiday festivities, time with family, and a change in routine often inspire a diet or “lifestyle change” immediately following. May we suggest that you consider NOT starting a diet this new year? In this episode, Opal's Nutrition Director Julie Church, RDN and host Carter Umhau, LMHC discuss the negative physical and psychological ramifications of diet-mentality, how the diet industry has been rebranded as "wellness," and why eating a lot of the foods you like doesn't make you "bad."
Opal: Food + Body Wisdom:www.opalfoodandbody.com
'White People Food' is Creating an Unattainable Picture of Healthby Kirsten Aiken: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-people-food_n_5b75c270e4b0df9b093dadbb
12 Reasons to Ditch the Diet Mentality by Christine Byrne
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reasons-to-ditch-diet-mentalit_n_5c19594ee4b0432554c518f3
The Dangers of Dieting and "Clean" Eating:
https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/dangers-dieting-clean-eating
It’s possible that the punishment you inflict on yourself may be preventing you from healthy, happy relationships. In this episode Opal Co-Founder Dr. Lexi Giblin explores why self-punishment can actually be selfish. Plus, Lexi and host Carter Umhau, LMHC offer an alternative—self-forgiveness—which may bring you closer to those around you.
In this second of a two-part series, this episode will literally take you inside the dressing room and in front of the mirror with The Appetite. Exploring self-expression and her identity through style, host Carter Umhau, LMHC gets led through a styling session at Armoire--a Seattle fashion rental startup. Opal Co-Founder Lexi Giblin, PhD shares her thoughts on the psychology of clothing, while Armoire CEO Ambika Singh and stylist Marie-Caroline Moir share their philosophy on using clothes as a tool for empowerment and risk-taking.
What would you wear if you were more concerned with self-expression than you were about something “flattering” or “thinning”? Drawing from her experiences doing “retail therapy” outings with clients, Dr. Lexi Giblin describes the psychology of clothing beyond thin-optics. Host Carter Umhau, LMHC chimes in about past body image concerns and her own struggle to define a style congruent with her sense of self.
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Mark Canlis, third generation co-owner of Canlis, a Seattle fine dining institution, Relais & Chateau property, and James Beard award winning restaurant--joins Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, Julie Church, RD, CD, CEDRD, and host Carter Umhau, LMHC around the table, to share stories in the spirit of Thanksgiving. As the women of the Appetite bring their clinical expertise and compassion for those struggling around issues of food, dieting, and body image, Mark shares the poetic landscape of the restaurant world and the real reasons to gather.
In Part 1: Good Grief, we discussed processing grief through ritual and how grief is part of our relationships with food and body. For Part 2, Clinical Director and Opal Co-Founder Kara Bazzi and Primary Therapist and host of The Appetite Carter Umhau talk with Arlene Thomas about her story of profound loss and how she was able to integrate her own experiences into her work as a therapist and to transform her life and relationships.
What does your fear tell you about the particularity of your values or desires? Dr. Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS talks with host, Carter Umhau, LMHCA about the role of fear in personal growth. Lexi and Carter discuss the Facing Fears therapy group at Opal and why risk-taking matters.
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In this mini episode, host Carter Umhau, LMHCA--therapist, artist, and writer-- explains the story behind naming The Appetite. Citing a revelation from The Minnesota Starvation Experiment around the differences between hunger and appetite, Carter speaks to how tuning into the specificity of one's appetite translates to a greater appetite for other areas of life. Links and Resources:
www.refinery29.com/minnesota-starvation-experiment https://archive.org/stream/MenAndHunger#page/n1 Connect with us: theappetite@opalfoodandbody.com www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opal https://twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
Today's episode features the story of Sarah Taylor--The Appetite's behind-the-scenes magic-maker! Sarah talks with host Carter Umhau, MA, LMHCA, and explores the story of her own recovery from an eating disorder, sharing about her experiences in treatment and the deeper healing that happened after-the-fact. Considering that every recovery story is so different, Sarah gracefully shares the ways that her own struggles with her body eventually lead her into a life postured toward advocacy for all bodies and a deeper spiritual connection with herself.
Links and Resources:
Eating in the Light of the Moon by Dr. Anita Johnston http://a.co/h16um7Z Not mentioned in the podcast but a relevant film about the pressure on students today http://www.racetonowhere.com/ Connect with us: theappetite@opalfoodandbody.com www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opal
Regular listener Tam O’Donnell joins us to respond to a previous episode, “How to Eat in a Food-Obsessed World.” Tam brings questions and wonderings around how to provide both structure and freedom for kids around food, and asks the crucial and vulnerable question of, “Can I really trust my body?” The Opal team, including Julie Church, RDN, CEDS, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Carter Umhau, LMHCA, respond with nutrition science, words of wisdom, and questions that beget more questions.
Links and Resources:
www.ellynsatterinstitute.org Division of Responsibilities in Feeding: www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/ How to Eat in a Food-Obsessed World: www.opalfoodandbody.com/blog/the-appetite-13-how-to-eat-in-a-food-obsessed-world/ Souper Tomatoes: The Story of America's Favorite Food by Andrew Smith: https://amzn.to/2MLpiPf Below studies are in reference to Julie statement about binge eaters actually being restrictive Risk Factors for Bulimia Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9193191 Ten-year follow-up of anorexia nervosa: clinical course and outcome: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/779234 Connect with us: theappetite@opalfoodandbody.com www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opal
Would you engage yourself differently if you assumed that all the emotions you experienced had something to teach you? Today, Opal: Food+Body Wisdom’s Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, and Carter Umhau, MA, LMHCA explore the process of “self-inquiry”--a key tool in Radically Open DBT. Self-inquiry is all about seeking growth rather than trying to fix one’s shortcomings. In this episode, Lexi will lean into the strength of her own vulnerability in order to model the process of self-inquiry in action!
Links and Resources:
The Appetite Episode #02: Introduction to RO DBT https://www.opalfoodandbody.com/blog/appetite-episode-02-introduction-radically-open-dbt/
Radically Open DBT NorthWest Team http://www.rodbtnorthwest.com/
http://www.radicallyopen.net/
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It's common to hear messages in the sports world like "More is better!" "No pain, no gain!" or "Keep pushing!" Sports Psychologist Riley Nickols,PhD, Director of The Victory Program at McCallum Place, joins Opal Co-Founder Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS to explore the athletic identity and how widespread ways of thinking about performance as an athlete may also translate into other areas of an athlete's life and self-identity. Bazzi and Nickols explore how these postures are reflected in an athlete's relationship to food, and discuss the importance of expanding the categories of one's identity to promote more holistic well-being that still includes high performance in sport.
Links and Resources:
Victory Program Website - www.mccallumplace.com/the-victory-program/
The Appetite Episode #08: Sport and Performance: Exploring the Athletic Temperament - www.opalfoodandbody.com/blog/sport-and-temperament/
The Appetite Episode #16: Who Am I? the Role of Identity in Food, Body Image, and Sport - www.opalfoodandbody.com/blog/the-appetite-identity/
Upcoming Webinar on Eating Disorders in Sport featuring Kara Bazzi - https://iaedp.site-ym.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1111326&group=
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This episode is all about identity. Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Co-Founders, Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Host Carter Umhau, MA, LMHCA discuss topics of identity development and explore how struggles with disordered eating and body image can sometimes point to a crisis of identity. The Appetite crew shares both from their expertise as clinicians and from personal experience, and Kara brings specific attention to the experience of those that identify as athlete’s and what the loss of sport can mean for one’s sense of self.
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In this heartfelt and vulnerable conversation, host Carter Umhau, MA, LMHCA, asks Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS about who they were when they were younger and how the people that came before them influenced the women and leaders they’ve become. This episode is released in honor of Mother’s Day. Links:
Betty Reid Soskin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Reid_Soskin Connect with us: theappetite@opalfoodandbody.com www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
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Opal co-founders Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, join together with host Carter Umhau, LMHCA to reflect and debrief after a transformative experience at the MUSE Conference--a yearly gathering of movers and shakers to kick off Women's History Month. The Founders explore their role as leaders within the eating disorder community and beyond and share with vulnerability and strength how MUSE spoke to each of them in this particular season of life.
Links and Resources:
Muse Website Janna: https://www.facebook.com/Janna.Jihad/ Nadia: https://www.facebook.com/2SunsShamsaan/ Betty Reid Soskin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Reid_Soskin Connect with us: theappetite@opalfoodandbody.com www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/
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Today we're talking about the ever-conflicting messages American culture gives us about what and how to eat. We explore the potentially detrimental nuances of fad diets like Whole 30, detoxing, and the idea of “eating clean,” highlighting the work of Ellyn Satter as a map to a more nuanced relationship with yourself as an attuned eater and emphasizing new, more flexible ways to think about competency with food. TW: In this episode, we do name several diets and talk some specifics (no numbers). Links and Resources: Hierarchy of Food Needs by Ellyn Satter This is the published article in the Journal of Nutrition Education that addresses food hierarchy in public health nutrition education, especially shows the application of this across the socioeconomic profiles Division of responsibility by Ellyn Satter Eating Competency Model by Ellyn Satter Her website explanation of the competency model Published review of the Competency Model Connect with us: theappetite@opalfoodandbody.com www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
What is health and how do we get it? Today we challenge the idea that this question can be answered in a one-size-fits-all way. We explore today's obsession with health, challenging how much of a moral issue health has become, and how we might be able to start looking at it not as an absence of disease, but more holistically as an intersection of well-being in body, mind, and spirit. Links and Resources: Ansel Key's Starvation Study Summary: https://www.refinery29.com/minnesota-starvation-experiment Fast Food versus Supplements: http://www.audyn.org.uy/sitio/repo/arch/Cramer_Michael_Thesis.pdf Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift: https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-10-9 The Weight-Inclusive versus Weight-Normative Approach to Health: Evaluating the Evidence for Prioritizing Well-Being over Weight Loss: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobe/2014/983495/ Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
Dr. Anita Johnston joins us to talk about how to learn more about your relationship with food by looking through the lenses of myth, storytelling, and metaphor. Author of Eating in the Light of the Moon and Clinical Director of 'Ai Pono eating disorder treatment center in Hawaii, Dr. Anita Johnston speaks to how the matrilineal society in which she grew up shaped her persceptive on food and body struggles, the neuroscience behind metaphor, and how one's struggle with food communicates the things a person sometimes cannot. Links: You can find her at: www.DrAnitaJohnston.com www.LightoftheMoonCafe.com or contact her at: DrAJ1@aol.com Anita@LightoftheMoonCafe.com Free .pdf for Food & Metaphors Guide: http://lightofthemooncafe.com/opal Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
In this special bonus episode, our very own host, Carter Umhau, LMHCA, shares her work as a poet, reading five works from her collection. Her writing touches on themes of friendship, birth and grief, being around the table with memorable food, the loss of an old version of life, and passionately enjoying one’s self. Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS join the conversation, interviewing Carter about her creative process, why writing is healing, and how the arts fit into therapy. This episode is in honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Resources: www.CarterUmhau.com Carter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rooneycarter/?hl=en "Free Play" by Stephen Nachmonovitch: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ROAKG2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy has been a big topic on The Appetite...but today RO DBT creator Dr. Thomas Lynch and his wife and colleague Erica Smith Lynch join us for a conversation around its application within eating disorders. Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy--the newest evidence-based treatment targeting disorders of overcontrol (including anorexia, chronic depression, OCD, and autism)--encourages open expression as a way to combat emotional loneliness in those that are typically more emotionally inhibited. In this conversation, Opal Co-Founder Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS and Appetite Host Carter Umhau, LMHCA ask about the roots of the modality, how RO DBT thinks about the topic of food in eating disorder treatment, and how understanding your temperament can increase the health of your relationships. Resources: Radically Open DBT's Website: http://www.radicallyopen.net/ Upcoming Introductory Training in Seattle: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/event/introduction-to-rodbt/ Upcoming Intensive Training in PNW: http://www.radicallyopen.net/training-events/ro-dbt-intensive-portlandseattle/ The New RO DBT Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XGCP36Z/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
In this conversation about the influential position a coach has on an athlete's life and performance, Opal Co-Founder Kara Bazzi LMFT, CEDS and Carter Umhau, LMHCA interview Sally Revere, head Cross Country and Track & Field coach at Lakeside High School in Seattle. Sally offers practical advice on how she addresses food and body concerns on her team, as well as addressing the power of coaching from a whole athlete perspective. Kara and Carter bring in questions about temperament as it relates to sport performance, and how a coach can facilitate a sense of community and joy on their team. If you are a coach or an athlete, you don't want to miss this episode! Sally offers incredible wisdom and inspiration from her 30 year coaching experience. Resources: Letter to Coaches From a Mental Health Therapist, by Kara Bazzi: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Letter-To-Coaches.pdf Compulsive Exercise and Eating Disorders, by Caroline Meyer et al: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/erv.1122/abstract Perfectionism versus excellence: https://wp.me/a5Br2M-7To Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
What are the temperamental factors that make a good athlete? Today, Opal Founders Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, and host Carter Umhau, LMHCA talk sport and performance, exploring the topic through the Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy lens of “overcontrol.” The Appetite crew discusses how this overcontrolled temperament in athletes might lead to high athletic performance on one hand, but might also be the very thing that leads an athlete to struggle with food, body, and movement. Kara—creator of Opal’s Exercise and Sport Program—speaks to the potential these athletes have to increase freedom and flexibility in their relationship with themselves and movement, putting the joy back into sport again. Resources: Compulsive Exercise and Eating Disorders, by Caroline Meyer et al: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/erv.1122/abstract Perfectionism versus excellence: https://wp.me/a5Br2M-7To The Founders: Thirteen women shared one common goal to change sports forever. http://www.thefoundersfilm.com/ Unmatched: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova were fierce tennis rivals in the 1970s and 1980s, but through it all they forged an unbreakable friendship. http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=unmatched Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
Erin Harrop is a doctoral student at the University of Washington who uses a Health at Every Size®, anti-oppression, and critical feminist lens to explore the intersection of weight stigma and eating disorders. She joins Julie Church RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Carter Umhau, LMHCA for The Appetite’s first interview, in which we talk about fatness, weight stigma, and the necessity of intersectionality when looking at the systems of oppression that inform our understanding of the body and eating disorder treatment. To see all of Erin's publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erin_Harrop/publications More Resources: kimberlybgeorge.com The Fat Pedagogy Reader by Linda Bacon et al - https://goo.gl/fJnWqM A User's Guide to White Privilege by Cynthia Kaufman - https://goo.gl/dBxVsH White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun - https://goo.gl/PJEbVN White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack by Peggy McIntosh - https://goo.gl/NbsK7R Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
Opal’s co-founders Julie Church RDN, CD, CEDS, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, and host Carter Umhau LMHCA, discuss body image through the lens of both eating disorder treatment and their personal stories. They explore what it means to have a healthy body image, shifting away from seeing one's body as a project to "fix", and use their own stories to highlight the complexity of moving towards a more embodied relationship. Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
As a person explores their appetite for life, forgiveness is worth considering. Opal founders Julie Church, RDN, CEDS, CD, Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, --along with host and Opal therapist Carter Umhau, LMHCA--discuss what forgiveness looks like within relationships, as well as within a person's relationship to food, to themselves. and to their body. This conversation brings in principles from Radically Open DBT, as well as a good dash of vulnerability from the group. Stick around until the end of the episode to be led by Lexi in a RO DBT mindfulness exercise. More Resources: www.radicallyopen.net/ Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
In the first of three episodes introducing Opal’s core tenets, Dr. Lexi Giblin leads our discussion about the evidence-based treatment Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT). RO DBT is a new therapy approach that was founded and developed by Dr. Thomas Lynch to target those who temperamentally lean toward too much control and emotional inhibition. The Appetite crew talks about how RO DBT principles speak to our need for connection and belonging. Learn more about RO DBT at http://www.radicallyopen.net/ Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
One of the many things that makes Opal a unique eating disorder treatment center is our incorporation of movement, exercise, and sport into the recovery process. We believe that movement is more than just a means for losing weight or shaping one's body. In this introduction to Opal’s final core tenet, therapist and co-founder Kara Bazzi, founder, and developer of Opal’s Sport+Exercise program leads our discussion about how widening one’s perspective on what movement is can be a game-changer.
More Resources:
Compulsive Exercise and Eating Disorders Study: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/erv.1122/abstract;jsessionid=C013C704FFECBAF1238334856686BCA4.f02t04
Perfectionism vs. Excellence: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/perfectionism-vs-excellence.pdf
Important Human Needs: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Important-Human-Needs.pdf
Mover’s Agreement: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Movers-agreement.pdf
Nourishing Wisdom by Marc David: https://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Wisdom-Mind-Body-Nutrition-Well-Being-ebook/dp/B004G6011W
Marc David’s Organization, Institute for the Psychology of Eating: http://psychologyofeating.com/
Opal Sport Resources: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/resources/helpful-books/
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Opal: Food+Body Wisdom founders talk about Health at Every Size (HAES) in this second of three conversations introducing Opal’s core tenets. Nutrition Director and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, leads the discussion as we talk about what HAES is, how it is paradigm-shifting within a culture that is obsessed with body size, and why it may inspire a growing appetite for a deeper relationship to one’s body. More Resources: https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/index.asp https://haescommunity.com/ https://lindabacon.org/ https://haescurriculum.com/ Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody