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137: Happiness isn't a Size: An Interview with Jes Baker, Author of Landwhale

Paige Smathers

Oct 17, 2018

137: Happiness isn't a Size: An Interview with Jes Baker, Author of Landwhale

Jes Baker is a positive, progressive, and magnificently irreverent force to be reckoned with in the realm of self-love advocacy and mental health. She is internationally known for preaching the importance of body liberation, hard conversations, strong coffee, and even stronger language. Jes burst onto the body positivity scene when she created her own ads mocking Abercrombie & Fitch for discriminating against all body types—a move that landed her on the Today Show and garnere

126: The Intersection Between Addiction and Nutrition

Paige Smathers

Aug 1, 2018

126: The Intersection Between Addiction and Nutrition

Nutrition during addiction recovery is an often very misunderstood and mischaracterized element of healing. Healing from addiction requires a multi-faceted approach and nutrition can play an important role. However, it's not the end-all-be-all of wellbeing. In this podcast episode, Tessa Acker, MPH, RD and I talk about our work in the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) world where we both engage in nutrition groups for those in recovery. We talk about why this intersection is so tr

8 Signs your Healthy Eating Efforts Might Be Problematic

Paige Smathers

Aug 1, 2018

8 Signs your Healthy Eating Efforts Might Be Problematic

In our feverish quest for health, do we sometimes lose sight of what’s really important? Do we sometimes take *healthy eating too far? Yes. I believe we often do. Although most people’s intentions are good, as a private practice registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in eating disorders/disordered eating, I see the negative consequences of taking healthy eating too far. What makes it even harder is that many of these concerning behaviors are actually seen as healthy,

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 this episode about the importance of representation in the field of eating disorders and talks about how she is passionate about breaking down and ending the stigma related to mental health conditions. She also explains some of the interesting trends she's seeing in her area about who is seeking help from a therapist today, versus who was seeki

Paige Smathers

Apr 11, 2018

110: How to Feel Your Feelings

Tiffany Roe is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, teacher, speaker, social media influencer, podcaster, & the owner of Mindful Counseling LLC in Orem, Utah. She passionately helps her clients remember they are enough. Tiffany has focused her career on treatment for women navigating eating disorder recovery, disordered eating, poor body image, poor relationships with themselves and food, substance abuse, anxiety, and low self-worth. She feels called to work with wo

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 between. When she sought treatment, she was ready to tackle her struggles with bingeing, but she was hell-bent on maintaining her restriction behaviors. This is a fascinating look at something we don't talk about enough with eating disorder treatment—the fact that bingeing and restricting are both worth recovering from. And, restriction is often

Paige Smathers

Mar 21, 2018

107: The Intersection of Art & Healing

Lauren Brereton, RDN writes poetry to heal, to learn and to grow. She has been publishing her poems on social media and she came on the podcast to talk about her poetry and how creating art has been a critical part of her healing. We talk about her story with food and body and in this episode of Nutrition Matters Podcast, she reads some of her favorite poems related to those topics. They are beautiful and powerful ways to express complex emotions and experiences. Links mentio

Paige Smathers

Feb 14, 2018

102: Becoming Body Positive

Clare Sheehan started an Instagram account about a year ago to document her journey in recovery and discovering body positivity. In this episode of Nutrition Matters Podcast, she shares her personal story of becoming body positive and the complexities and struggles in her ongoing journey. Clare talks about how her definition of body positivity has changed throughout the years and months of diving into the research, culture and movement behind it. She shares how growing up in

98: A Male Perspective on Eating Disorders

Paige Smathers

Jan 17, 2018

98: A Male Perspective on Eating Disorders

We often think of eating disorders and other food issues as a young, white female issue and neglect the many, many men who struggle with various forms of disordered eating and eating disorders. In this episode, we talk with Andrew Walen, LCSW-C and author of the book Man Up to Eating Disorders about his personal experiences as well as his wisdom as an eating disorder therapist and owner of the Body Image Therapy Center. Men struggle too, and this episode aims to provide a tri

Paige Smathers

Jan 10, 2018

97: Leaving Diet Culture 7 Times

Have you ever walked away from dieting only to find yourself right back in there a few months or weeks later? Dieting is intoxicating and alluring—we can find ourselves in situations where we're more vulnerable to go back to dieting, even when we intellectually understand why it's not working. And, going back to dieting when you know it doesn't bring you what you really want, can bring up all kind of shame and guilt. So, why does this happen? I sat down and talked about this

86: Building Body Trust and Better Health through the Little Things

Paige Smathers

Oct 26, 2017

86: Building Body Trust and Better Health through the Little Things

Tracy Brown, RD, LD/N is a somatic nutrition therapist, intuitive eating coach and embodiment teacher. She helps people come home to themselves through their bodies by healing their relationship with food and weight as well as feel safer and less frazzled in their bodies. For eleven years, she has guided people in healing from disordered eating and chronic dieting, as well as stress-related conditions. In this episode of NMP, Tracy and I discuss her own story of how she was

85: From Anorexia to Eating Disorder Dietitian

Paige Smathers

Oct 19, 2017

85: From Anorexia to Eating Disorder Dietitian

Reba Sloan suffered from an eating disorder as an adolescent and young adult. She was able to recover fully and eventually went on to become one of the pioneers in the eating disorder world, working to provide hope for many individuals to heal their relationship with food. In this episode, she shares her perspective on food, health, nutrition, weight and body image and I'm sure you'll love what she has to say. Links mentioned: Leave a review for the podcast here Positive Nutr

84: Navigating Two Worlds—A Story of Body Image & Food Struggles Across Cultures

Paige Smathers

Oct 11, 2017

84: Navigating Two Worlds—A Story of Body Image & Food Struggles Across Cultures

Melissa Carmona, LPCA is passionate about helping Spanish-speaking people have access to support and resources for mental health concerns. As a Colombian-American woman and mental health therapist, she is helping so many in their journey toward a more peaceful relationship with food and their body through her advocacy and professional work. In this episode of NMP, she shares her very personal story of her own struggle with body image and food and sheds light on how difficult

83: Giving Up Dieting and Exploring Health at Every Size

Paige Smathers

Oct 5, 2017

83: Giving Up Dieting and Exploring Health at Every Size

Nutrition Matters Podcast first explored the Health At Every Size paradigm in episode 41. In this episode with Meredith Noble, we take on the topic of HAES a second time, exploring it in even more depth than the first time. Together, we answer common questions about the HAES paradigm and attempt to dispel myths and misunderstandings about its scope and mission. Meredith Noble is a coach who helps plus-size people find food and body peace. Her practice combines Health at Every

Paige Smathers

Sep 20, 2017

81: Gut Health and Elimination Diets

"A stressed out person often has a stressed out gut." In this episode, Paige invited her good friend Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD-S. LDN, cPT to join her on Nutrition Matters Podcast to talk about gut health and the dangers of elimination diets. Bloating, constipation, gas, and many other GI symptoms are often met with recommendations of elimination diets as the standard protocol and intervention for gut health. Many people in our society right now are removing entire food groups a

79: How Racism and Historical Trauma Manifest Themselves in Struggles with Food and Body Image

Paige Smathers

Sep 6, 2017

79: How Racism and Historical Trauma Manifest Themselves in Struggles with Food and Body Image

Gloria Lucas is a champion for eating disorder awareness and body positivity and the owner and founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP). NPP is not your regular body positive project. NPP is a Xicana-Brown*-Indigenous project that focuses on intersectional body positivity, eating disorders awareness, and cultural affirmation. NPP was started in 2014 by Gloria in Southern California with the goal of relating historical trauma, social oppression, and eating disorders. NPP beli

Paige Smathers

Aug 23, 2017

77: Confessions of a Fitness Model

There have been some changes with the podcast over the last few weeks. Starting with this episode, I will be republishing some of the fan favorites from the earliest episodes of the podcast. The first of a series of earlier NMP episodes is this classic from Madelyn Moon. Maddy is a former fitness model who shares her personal story of what it’s really like to prepare for a fitness competition and what the physical and mental side effects are to living that lifestyle. Madelyn

70: A Discussion Around the Controversy of the Netflix Film 'To The Bone'

Paige Smathers

Jun 28, 2017

70: A Discussion Around the Controversy of the Netflix Film 'To The Bone'

Netflix is releasing a film chronicling a woman who is suffering from anorexia nervosa. While the documentary clearly has good intentions, it's stirring up a great deal of controversy within the eating disorder recovery community. I spoke with Jennifer Rollin, MSW, LCSW-C about her concerns about the documentary and broaden the conversation about how we, as a community of people who are about these issues, might do better in the future. Jennifer is an incredible writer, thera

67: Food Freedom After Forty—It's Never Too Late

Paige Smathers

Jun 2, 2017

67: Food Freedom After Forty—It's Never Too Late

Rana Olk is extremely passionate about the work she does in helping women find food freedom. She is passionate about that work because she has been through decades of struggling herself. Today on the podcast, she shares her story of recovery from binge eating disorder after decades of feeling like it was hopeless. In this episode, Rana talks about her childhood and where the behaviors started. She explains some of the cultural differences she experienced in her youth growing

66: Triggers—Sensitivity without Censoring

Paige Smathers

May 24, 2017

66: Triggers—Sensitivity without Censoring

We live in a world saturated with information. More than ever, podcasts, blogs and social media have exposed each of us to more information about how other people live and what other people's struggles. Culturally, it seems there is a trend toward more awareness about how our words and behaviors affect other people. Many posts on social media will contain trigger warnings as an effort to help warn people about potentially triggering content in the post or episode. All of thes