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Why It's Harmful to Equate Thinness with Health

Paige Smathers

May 20, 2019

Why It's Harmful to Equate Thinness with Health

If I could wave my magic wand and change one thing about how people thought about health it would be this. You cannot look at a person...

7 Ways Intuitive Eating and Body Positivity Have Changed Me (Professionally and Personally)

Paige Smathers

Feb 25, 2019

7 Ways Intuitive Eating and Body Positivity Have Changed Me (Professionally and Personally)

I absolutely love my job! I feel grateful every single day for the work I get to do. In a nutshell, I get to hold space for folks who are...

138: Sports Nutrition & How Athletes Can Work with their Bodies

Paige Smathers

Oct 24, 2018

138: Sports Nutrition & How Athletes Can Work with their Bodies

Fiona Sutherland is Director of The Mindful Dietitian & Body Positive Australia and has been practicing for 15 years primarily in the...

136: Exploring Privilege and Why it Matters in Health & Nutrition

Paige Smathers

Oct 10, 2018

136: Exploring Privilege and Why it Matters in Health & Nutrition

Nicole McDermid is a Social Worker, Counsellor (Australian spelling) and an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, with over ten years...

Perfectionism [with food] Is A Shapeshifter

Paige Smathers

Sep 26, 2018

Perfectionism [with food] Is A Shapeshifter

I talk a lot about intuitive eating, positive nutrition, trusting your body and learning to be at peace with food in the work I do as a...

119: Getting Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable

Paige Smathers

Jun 13, 2018

119: Getting Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable

Dr. Judi-Lee Webb is a licensed psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist who practices in Atlanta, Georgia. She talks in...

Paige Smathers

Jun 6, 2018

118: Exploring Hormonal Health

Hormonal health is a trendy topic right now. But, how can we navigate figuring out what's fact versus fiction when it comes to hormones?...

Paige Smathers

May 30, 2018

117: Is Food Medicine?

Hippocrates famously declared: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." While this sounds nice and seems harmless, there are...

115: Finding Self-Worth & Identity Beyond Food & Body

Paige Smathers

May 16, 2018

115: Finding Self-Worth & Identity Beyond Food & Body

Dr. Stephanie Waitt specializes in treating eating disorders at her practice, Texoma Specialty Counseling. In her work, with people she...

112: Challenging All-or-Nothing Thinking

Paige Smathers

Apr 25, 2018

112: Challenging All-or-Nothing Thinking

In this episode, Kara Lydon of the Foodie Dietitian Blog talk about her evolution of healing her relationship with food. We also then...

109: Recovery When You're Hell-Bent on Not Recovering

Paige Smathers

Apr 4, 2018

109: Recovery When You're Hell-Bent on Not Recovering

Jennifer Ball struggled with an eating disorder for many years. Her struggle morphed from restriction to bingeing and everywhere in...

106: Beauty Redefined and Body Image Resilience

Paige Smathers

Mar 14, 2018

106: Beauty Redefined and Body Image Resilience

Beauty Refined is a passion project of twins Lindsay and Lexie Kite who both have PhDs from the University of Utah and specialize in body...

64: Healing from Trauma, PTSD, and Struggles with Food: #DontMissIt with Jenni Schaefer

Paige Smathers

May 2, 2017

64: Healing from Trauma, PTSD, and Struggles with Food: #DontMissIt with Jenni Schaefer

Happy Eating Recovery Day! May 2 is a day where we shed light on signs and symptoms of eating disorders to help increase awareness to...

63: Living with Type I Diabetes and an Eating Disorder

Paige Smathers

Apr 24, 2017

63: Living with Type I Diabetes and an Eating Disorder

Quinn Nystrom has been a diabetes advocate for over 20 years. She is the author of the book "If I Kiss You, Will I Get Diabetes?" and is...

62: How Each of Us can Help Prevent Struggles with Food and Body Image

Paige Smathers

Apr 13, 2017

62: How Each of Us can Help Prevent Struggles with Food and Body Image

"No one is responsible for causing eating disorders...but, everyone is responsible to help prevent them." This was one of the many...

What to Do if You Have a Rocky Relationship with Food

Paige Smathers

Mar 1, 2017

What to Do if You Have a Rocky Relationship with Food

If you've spent any amount of time during your life dieting, you probably intuitively understand why the statistics say that around 95%...

55: What Really Matters about Nutrition & Health during College

Paige Smathers

Jan 9, 2017

55: What Really Matters about Nutrition & Health during College

Angi Mook is a PhD candidate at Indiana State University and she and I sat down to talk about what really matters in nutrition and health...

Paige Smathers

Nov 23, 2016

How to Deal with a Food Craving

It’s 9pm. You finally have the chance to sit on the couch and relax from a long day; it’s time for a little me time. You turn on Netflix...

47: Letter from a Listener—There are Times when Hope Seems Fleeting

Paige Smathers

Sep 30, 2016

47: Letter from a Listener—There are Times when Hope Seems Fleeting

Emily Fonnesbeck, RD and Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD, cPT are back on the podcast to have a discussion about a listener letter all about...

45: A Personal Story of How a Perceived Gluten Sensitivity Masked an Eating Disorder

Paige Smathers

Sep 6, 2016

45: A Personal Story of How a Perceived Gluten Sensitivity Masked an Eating Disorder

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN is a registered dietitian and journalist who specializes in HAES and intuitive eating. She does such...