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Hello everyone! Welcome back to the podcast. It has been a while since I've shared an interview with you and I'm excited about this one because I welcome back a former guest and one of the coaches who works inside Wayza Health. Christina Claytor, the founder of Mindful Health Revolution, joins me again but this time to talk about raising her two young daughters as intuitive eaters. She's here to enlighten us with her story and the truth about what it really takes to instill and maintain intuitive eating in your children.Christina's two daughters are 4 and nearly 2 and she and her husband are raising them as intuitive eaters. So what does that look like? Christina explains the many conversations that go into helping her kids navigate food and hunger but also the many conversations with family members about how she is raising her daughters to avoid food rules and diet culture. She explains her experience with the common myth that if you let kids eat sugar that's all they'll eat, how to still say no and set reasonable boundaries without labelling food as good or bad, and how to navigate your feelings about food waste and snacks when guiding kids through intuitive eating. This episode is a glimpse into the reality of bringing intuitive eating into children's lives and teaching them mindfulness about food.__About Christina Claytor:Christina Claytor is the founder of The Mindful Health Revolution where she helps clients break up with overwhelming diets and workout plans so they can stop feeling like a failure and start confidently taking action to have health on their own terms.__Resources discussed in this episode:“How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence” by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson“Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture” by Virginia Sole-SmithEpisode 143: Operationalizing Your Goals with Christina Claytor__Learn more about Christina Claytor:Website: TheMindfulHealthRevolution.comInstagramFacebookLearn more about Dr. Michelle Tubman and Wayza Health:Website: www.wayzahealth.comFollow me on Facebook and InstagramEmail Michelle: michelle@wayzahealth.com

Want to change your relationship with food? This incredible interview with Judson Brewer, a pioneer in the field of habit change and author of The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop, will not only deepen your understanding of your eating behavior patterns and triggers, but you'll also learn how to completely shift your habits with kindness and curiosity. Listen in for a slew of actionable tips, modern science, and ancient wisdom from Judson; discover which foods are best for your body while still enjoying the foods you like; and strengthen your understanding of how your brain works and how to make permanent changes in your life based on that knowledge. Listen and Learn:  How his struggle to help patients with binge eating and overeating led Judson to write The Hunger Habit What's the issue we're facing as a society and culture with eating and food in general? Why keeping a healthy diet by measuring what you eat comes with its own set of challenges How our food consumption instincts have evolved and gotten mixed up in modern times Identifying the patterns that bring us to eat How you can practice kindness to facilitate openness and learning from experiences  Recalling past experiences before engaging in habitual behavior to make better decisions and avoid repeating negative experiences in the future Resources:  Visit Judson's Website: https://drjud.com/ The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop A simple way to break a bad habit | Judson Brewer | TED Connect with Judson on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook About Judson Brewer  Judson Brewer M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is a professor in the School of Public Health and Medical School at Brown University. His 2016 TED Talk, “A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit,” has been viewed more than 19 million times. He has trained Olympic athletes and coaches, government ministers, and business leaders. His first book, The Craving Mind, was published in more than sixteen languages. His second book, Unwinding Anxiety, was an instant New York Times bestseller. Related Episodes: 188. Unwinding Anxiety with Judson Brewer 167. Get Curious and Change Unhealthy Habits with Judson Brewer 231. Eating Skills and Emotional Eating with Josh Hillis 264. Raising Intuitive Eaters with Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson 31. DBT for Binge Eating with Debra Safer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is the second of five in our Prevention of Eating Disorders series, and is brought to you by Children's Mercy Eating Disorders Center, Kansas City. Sumner Brooks, MS, RD In this episode, Sumner Brooks shares common questions parents have when kids aren't eating the way they 'need' to. Her goal is to raise the next generation with food and body confidence - it CAN be done! BIO Sumner is a master's level registered dietitian, eating disorder specialist, parent, and public health professional with 15 years of experience in the field of dietetics. She is the co-author of How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence (St. Martin's Press, 2022) which has been featured on Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Science, and The Seattle Times. Sumner's work has been published in Good Housekeeping and Goop.  

Alcohol. It's become as ubiquitous as dieting. Today I interview Sumner Brooks, a dietitian in the weight-neutral space who has discovered the joy of sobriety. We chat about the difference between giving up alcohol, and giving up sugar. Is it the same? Is sugar addiction akin to alcohol addiction? And importantly, why might giving up […] The post Can I Be An Intuitive Drinker? This, and More About Alcohol, with Sumner Brooks, RD appeared first on Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Intuitive Eating Columbus OH.

How do we protect our kids from negative images about bodies, diet culture, and food without locking them in a Rapunzel tower? The truth is, we can't. But we CAN start nonjudgmental conversations about body positivity, food, and and self-esteem with our kids at home. In this episode, Molly and Blaire discuss: how to pay attention to your thoughts and beliefs around food and body image how to praise your child for things other than their appearance the R.E.A.L. acronym Links to the resources mentioned in the episode: Sumner Brooks for Good Housekeeping: "How to Raise a Kid Who Is Satisfied With Their Body, According to a Registered Dietitian" Carolina Public Health Magazine: "Survey finds disordered eating behaviors among three out of four American women" Bodies are Cool by Tyler Feder Special thanks to this month's sponsors: Masimo Stork provides continuous & accurate tracking of your baby's health data. Go to MasimoStork.com for more info. Skylight Frames is a touchscreen photo frame you can send photos to, straight from your phone, and they appear in seconds! Get $15 off your purchase of a Skylight Frame when you go SkylightFrame.com/TODDLER.   KiwiCo - Unwrap super fun science, technology, and art projects for kids with KiwiCo. Get your first month FREE on ANY crate line at kiwico.com/TODDLER. Hungryroot is the easiest way to get fresh, high-quality food delivered to your door. They've got healthy groceries and simple recipes, all in one place To get 30% off your first delivery and free veggies, go to Hungryroot.com/TODDLER. Magnetic Me was created to make dressing easier with magnetic closures. No snaps, no buttons…no fuss You can try Magnetic Me for yourself by visiting magneticme.com and using code TODDLER for 20% off your next order.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The topic of weight and body image is more prevalent in today's society than ever before. Every day we are bombarded with messages that convey the thin ideal and encourage us to strive for certain body types. Sadly, what is often overlooked is the harmful impact of these societal expectations, especially on people who don't fit the narrow definition of beauty. Our guest for this episode is Dr. Sarah Pegrum, a clinical psychologist, ACT peer-reviewed trainer, and author of the groundbreaking book "Break the Binds of Weight Stigma." Sarah provides an insightful perspective into the role of weight stigma and anti-fat bias in our culture, as well as how the wellness and health industries perpetuate these prejudices for their own gain. We discuss how this, in turn, leads to shame and consequent unhealthy behaviors and underline the importance of analyzing the "obesity epidemic" narrative more critically, as it is often more complex than it is often portrayed. Tune in for this empowering conversation on breaking free from body image struggles using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and start embracing life to the fullest! Listen and Learn:  Sarah's experience putting this book out into the world and her fears of being a voice on the topic of weight stigma and body image  How weight stigma manifests itself in the media and everyday conversation Weight stigma and the negative impact it has on mental and physical health How does the sense of belonging and fitting in pertain to weight stigma? How our personal learning history may contribute to issues surrounding body image How we get into patterns of avoidance and control and how that can be problematic The emotional impact of weight stigma How important is it to feel positive about your own body to have a healthier relationship with it? How to apply the acceptance part of acceptance and commitment therapy when we aren't feeling so positive about our bodies Sarah's words of wisdom for people consumed by thoughts of body criticism What needs to change at the cultural level in terms of weight stigma and discrimination? Resources:  Sarah's website Order your copy of Sarah's book, Break the Binds of Weight Stigma: Free Yourself from Body Image Struggles Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy   Related Episodes:  68. Body Image and Eating Disorders with Emily Sandoz 151. Intuitive Eating with Evelyn Tribole 129. Yoga for All and Body Kindness with Jennifer Webb  231. Eating Skills and Emotional Eating with Josh Hillis 264. Raising Intuitive Eaters with Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where do you find your nutritional and medical information for yourself and your kids? Are you dedicated to helping your kids develop their bodies and minds in a fully healthy, wholesome way? How can you navigate the diet culture noise and find what is real? In this podcast episode, I speak about parenting and supporting children around diet and weight stigmas with Sumner Brooks. Sign up for the FREE e-course to understand your eating disorder and embark on the road to recovery. SHOW NOTES: Click here Follow me on Instagram @behind_the_bite_podcast Visit the website: www.behindthebitepodcast.com

Where do you find your nutritional and medical information for yourself and your kids? Are you dedicated to helping your kids develop their bodies and minds in a fully healthy, wholesome way? How can you navigate the diet culture noise and find what is real? In this podcast episode, I speak about parenting and supporting children around diet and weight stigmas with Sumner Brooks. Sign up for the FREE e-course to understand your eating disorder and embark on the road to recovery. SHOW NOTES: Click here Follow me on Instagram @behind_the_bite_podcast Visit the website: www.behindthebitepodcast.com

Chelsea and Kevin sit down with dietitian, eating disorder specialist, parent, and public health professional, Sumner Brooks, to talk about all things intuitive eating, especially what it means to raise an intuitive eater. Whether you've heard about the concept of intuitive eating, have no idea what it is, or have been one for years and want to translate this information for your children in a society filled with diet culture, this episode has it all! More about Sumner: Sumner Brooks is a master's level registered dietitian, eating disorder specialist, parent, and public health professional with nearly 15 years of experience in the field of dietetics. She is the co-author of How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence (St. Martin's Press, 2022) which has been featured on Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Science, and The Seattle Times. Sumner's work has been published in Good Housekeeping and Goop.   She loves consulting with parents and other providers to help them learn about the psychological underpinnings of Intuitive Eating and understand their own relationships with food and body, to ultimately make a positive difference for the lives of kids as they grow in to their unique and wonderful selves. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Sumner enjoys getting outdoors with her husband, two kids, and dogs, playing tennis, and curling up with a good book. She is the founder of an international professional training platform for eating disorder dietitians called EDRD Pro. Instagram: @intuitiveeatingrd Buy the book! How to Raise an Intuitive Eater

Intuitive Eating holds the key to protecting children's relationship with food from diet culture's influence. If you're thinking about having kids or you've had kids, I'm sure you're desperate to avoid raising them with the same issues around food. But, when you're raised with diet culture as your guide - how do you know where to start? Sumner Brooks is a registered Dietician, eating disorder specialist & the author of How To Raise An Intuitive Eater. She explains how we can protect children's inbuilt ability to eat intuitively in & outside of our homes. Find a transcript of our conversation here. SUPPORT THE PODCASTSupport the podcast for as little as $5 a month. Sign up for bonus content & community, or have your business become a sponsor via Patreon. CONNECT WITH USConnect with That's Helpful & Ed Stott on Instagram. Find Sumner on Instagram & Facebook. Got an episode suggestion or feedback for me? Email me - ed@edwinastott.com

Wow! One Bad Mother reveals the secret to getting your body back! Step 1: Build a time machine! Body Trust Provider Meg Bradbury joins Biz to talk the nefariousness of diet culture and the kindness of body positivity. Plus, Biz is up late.Learn more about Meg Bradbury's work by visiting their website, www.lamplight.space. Follow Meg on Instagram @lamplight.space.Meg's Reading List:Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation by Hilary Kinavey and Dana SturtevantWhat We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey GordonHow to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence by Sumner Brooks and Amee SeversonFat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-SmithA Kids Book About Body Image by Rebecca AlexanderThe Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love by Sonya Renee TaylorThank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of MaximumFun.org. This week, we're sponsored by Bombas. Go to Bombas.com/BADMOTHER and use code BADMOTHER for 20% off your first purchase.Be sure to tell us at the top of your message whether you're leaving a Genius moment, a Fail, or a Rant! Thanks!!Share a personal or commercial message on the show! Details at MaximumFun.org/Jumbotron.Visit our Linktree for our website, merch, and more! https://linktr.ee/onebadmotherYou can suggest a topic or a guest for an upcoming show by sending an email to onebadmother@maximumfun.org.Show MusicSummon the Rawk, Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)Ones and Zeros, Awesome, Beehive SessionsMom Song, Adira Amram, Hot Jams For TeensTelephone, Awesome, Beehive SessionsMama Blues, Cornbread Ted and the ButterbeansMental Health Resources:Therapy for Black Girls – Therapyforblackgirls.comDr. Jessica Clemmens – https://www.askdrjess.comBLH Foundation – borislhensonfoundation.orgThe Postpartum Support International Warmline - 1-800-944-4773 (1-800-944-4PPD)The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Helpline - 1-800-662-4357 (1-800-662-HELP)Suicide Prevention Hotline: Call or chat. They are here to help anyone in crisis. Dial 988 for https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org and there is a chat option on the website.Crisis Text Line: Text from anywhere in the USA (also Canada and the UK) to text with a trained counselor. A real human being.USA text 741741Canada text 686868UK text 85258Website: https://www.crisistextline.orgNational Sexual Assault: Call 800.656.HOPE (4673) to be connected with a trained staff member from a sexual assault service provider in your area.https://www.rainn.orgNational Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org/help/Our advocates are available 24/7 at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) in more than 200 languages. All calls are free and confidential.They suggest that if you are a victim and cannot seek help, ask a friend or family member to call for you.Teletherapy Search: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/online-counseling

This week, we're talking to Debra Benfield, M.Ed., RDN/LDN, RYT. Debra has helped hundreds of women heal their relationship with food, eating, and their bodies in her 35-year career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specializing in the prevention and treatment of disordered eating. Debra brings her wisdom, passion, and lived experience to the intersection of pro-aging and body liberation. Her work is rooted in helping her clients: Recognize internalized ageism and end it; Dismantle internalized diet culture/fat phobia; Nourish their bodies to support vitality in aging; Create ease in the fight to “control” their eating and body size; and develop a respectful partnership with their bodies. She integrates the practices of self-compassion and nervous system regulation withher nutrition and body image coaching to support embodied and sustainablechange.Debra offers 1:1 coaching, small group coaching, and professional supervision. She also owns and administers a private practice of big-hearted and wonderfully talentedRDNs who specialize in weight-neutral care and the treatment of eating disorders.We had an amazing conversation about...The fatphobia in pro-aging spacesThe ageism in fat liberation spacesThe parallels between the anti-aging industry & diet cultureThe ableism in the concept of "aging well"And the importance of interrupting intergenerational diet culture narratives!Debra's new small group coaching program, Aging with Vitality and Body Liberation, is open for enrollment until January 10th! And she's hosting an open house for anyone who wants more information on January 6th at 12pm ET/9am PT. Get all the details at https://www.debrabenfield.com!Or you can connect with Debra via social media on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn!Referenced in this episode:Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-SmithHow to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence by Sumner Brooks & Amee SeversonWant to connect with us to deepen the conversation? Join us in our online community, The Satisfaction Space!Want to show the world that you love the pod? Get t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, stickers, totebags & more at Teepublic!You can stay up to date on all things Satisfaction Factor by following us on IG @satisfactionfactorpod!Here's where to find us:Sadie Simpson: www.sadiesimpson.com or IG @sadiemsimpsonNaomi Katz: www.happyshapes.co or IG @happyshapesnaomi

Today's self care episode is all about alcohol. Can it play a role in self care? Sumner Brooks join us to talk about her experience with alcohol, and how quitting has changed her life for the better. Patreon | Love what you're hearing? Help fund ongoing episodes through donations as little as $1/month. Learn more here! Leave a review | When you leave a five star iTunes review, it helps others with similar interests and passions find us when they're looking for new content. Thank you in advance! Sumner's favorite NA beer @intuitiveeatingrd

Many of us grew up being told we must be members of “the clean plate club” or that we shouldn't waste food because there are starving children in other countries. The diet industry rakes in billions, profiting off messages around striving for an unattainable “thin ideal.” All of this contributes to the development of unhealty relationships with food and our bodies. As parents, we are at risk of passing along unhealthy messages and patterns. In this episode, Jill interviews Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson about how we can break these patterns and raise children outside the toxic diet mentality so they have healthier relationships with food and their bodies.  Listen and Learn: What is meant by “intuitive eating.” What is diet culture and why is it problematic The inaccuracy of data around obesity and morbidity/mortality The three keys to raising an intuitive eater Why it's important to talk about bodies The power of modeling healthy attitudes and behaviors toward food and bodies  The difficulty and importance of letting go of over-control How Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help Resources Sumner and Amee's book, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resche's book Intuitive Eating The ALLHAT study about the surprising relationship between BMI and cardiovascular risk. About Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson Sumner Brooks is a mom and licensed registered dietitian nutritionist (LD, RDN) based in Oregon who has spent over 13 years working in the field of nutrition and eating disorders. Her experience includes providing nutrition therapy for adolescents and adults, public speaking and pursuing advanced training in trauma-informed, weight-inclusive healthcare. She is also the founder of the online training platform Eating Disorder Registered Dietitians and Professionals (EDRD Pro). Amee Severson a Registered Dietitian (RD) in the Washington State (CD) with a private practice outside of Seattle, Washington. Amee specializes in eating disorder recovery, healing and preserving food-body relationships, and focuses on gender-inclusive and LGBTQ+ affirming care. She is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and a Certified Body Trust Provider. Related Episodes Episode 231. Eating Skills and Emotional Eating with Josh Hillis Episode 68. Body Image and Eating Disorders with Emily Sandoz Episode 129. Yoga for All and Body Kindness with Jennifer Webb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, CEDRD Topics include: Always remember there's more that we don't know.  We're always making mistakes. How many people are suffering?!? – Weight loss (or requiring kids to eat vegetables) will never be the answer to well-being and happiness. 3 keys in "How to Raise an Intuitive Eater" Unconditional love and support for your child's body - emotional implement flexible and reliable feeding routine – technical Develop and use your own intuitive eating voice – body language, speaking about bodies, and why being aware is important HOW TO NOT TO DISTURB MENTAL HEALTH WITH FOOD Nuggets on helping resistant parents    ED RD PRO  - Coming Up - September 1st Athletes, November – Family Based Treatment Informed How to Raise an Intuitive Eater Book    Sumner's Seasonings: Intuitive Eating Supervision Work experiences Learning more about weight neutral care and weight stigma Vulnerability Bio: SUMNER BROOKS, MPH, RDN, CEDRD, is a mom and licensed registered dietitian nutritionist based in Oregon who has spent nearly 15 years working in the field of nutrition and eating disorders. Her experience includes providing nutrition therapy for adolescents and adults, public speaking, and pursuing advanced training in trauma-informed, weight-inclusive healthcare. She is also the founder of the online training platform Eating Disorder Registered Dietitians and Professionals (EDRD Pro). With your host Beth Harell

How do we protect our kids from negative images about bodies, diet culture, and food without locking them in a Rapunzel tower? The truth is, we can't. But we CAN start nonjudgmental conversations about body positivity, food, and and self-esteem with our kids at home. In this episode, Molly and Blaire discuss: how to pay attention to your thoughts and beliefs around food and body image how to praise your child for things other than their appearance the R.E.A.L. acronym Links to the resources mentioned in the episode: Sumner Brooks for Good Housekeeping: "How to Raise a Kid Who Is Satisfied With Their Body, According to a Registered Dietitian" Carolina Public Health Magazine: "Survey finds disordered eating behaviors among three out of four American women" Bodies are Cool by Tyler Feder Special thanks to this month's sponsors: Faherty is a family-run brand making high-quality, timeless clothing with modern design and functionality. Head to fahertybrand.com/LAUGHING and use code FRESH at checkout to snag 20% off ALL your new spring staples. Firstleaf is a no-brainer if you love finding and tasting new wine! Join today and you'll get 6 bottles of wine for $29.95 and free shipping! Just go to tryfirstleaf.com/TODDLER. Little Passports offers globally inspired, award-winning monthly subscription kits designed for curious kids to fuel their inner explorer. For listeners of the show, Little Passports is offering new customers 20% off when you go to littlepassports.com/purgatory Metabolic Reds is a delicious superfood blend. Go to getreds.com/toddler to get a FREE bottle of Metabolic Greens with your first order.  Peloton has workouts for every schedule, every goal, and every fitness level. The Peloton Bike+ is now $500 less, its best price yet! Including FREE delivery and setup. Visit onepeloton.com to learn more. Prose is the healthy hair regimen with your name all over it. Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order today! Go to prose.com/toddler Ready, Set, Food! helps prevent food allergies in children. Go to readysetfood.com/todpurgs & use code TODPURGS for 30% off your first order.  With Thrive Market, you can shop everything from healthy pantry essentials and sustainable meat and seafood to non-toxic cleaning and beauty products - all delivered right to your door. Go to thrivemarket.com/laughing to get $80 worth of free groceries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The question I get most often is a version of "how can I raise my kids to be intuitive eaters while also helping them choose healthy foods?" In this episode, Sumner Brooks, RD and I explore exactly this. What is the role of nutrition in raising intuitive eaters and what is a caregiver's job in making nutrition decisions, especially for young kids? Sumner is a mom of two young kids herself as well as the co-author of the new book, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater. Follow Sumner on Instagram Sumner's continuing education platform: EDRD Pro  How to Raise an Intuitive Eater website: IntuitiveEating4Kids.com How to Raise an Intuitive Eater on Amazon  Study mentioned in this episode: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3086849/ Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids Work with Diana: Tiny Seed Family Nutrition Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)

If you don't feel positive about your body image, it's not your fault. You have a brain designed to seek out flaws, a learning history that may have punished or praised certain body features, and a culture built around unrealistic body expectations. In this episode of Your Life in Process, Diana discusses the concept of body image flexibility, a newer psychological term, that describes your ability to be present with and accept uncomfortable feelings and thoughts about your body, while creating a life that matters to you.  About Dr. Diana Hillhttps://drdianahill.com/ (Diana Hill, Ph.D.) is a clinical psychologist, speaker, and co-author ofhttps://drdianahill.com/book/ ( ACT Daily Journal: Get unstuck and live fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.) Diana encourages clients to let go ofhttps://drdianahill.com/striving-thriving-summit/ ( unhealthy striving) and build psychological flexibility so that they can live more meaningful and fulfilling lives. Diana blogs forhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/striving-thriving ( Psychology Today), is on the clinical advisory board ofhttp://lightfully.com/ ( Lightfully Behavioral Health), and is a guest teacher at InsightLA, Mindful Heart Programs, PESI and Praxis CE. Go tohttps://drdianahill.com/ ( drdianahill.com) or her channels on https://www.instagram.com/drdianahill/ (Instagram), https://www.facebook.com/drdianahill/ (Facebook), https://twitter.com/drdianahill (Twitter), and http://youtube.com/drdianahill (YouTube) (@drdianahill) to learn more. Key TakeawaysBody image flexibility, which emphasizes awareness of emotions and thoughts about your body while living a life you value, is an alternative perspective to the body positivity movement. Being present in your body is central to noticing what your body needs, grounding into the wisdom of our bodies, and opening up to the practice of connecting with your body. Living fully free in our bodies allows us to decide to show up for our life rather than becoming stuck in the story of waiting until our bodies meet an impossible standard to live our lives. Relevant Resources Mentionedhttps://drdianahill.com/extras/ (Download Your Daily Practice for Episode 27 Here) Sign up for https://catalog.pesi.com/speaker/diana-hill-1217160 (Diana Hill's Body Image Flexibility On-Demand PESI Course) Listen to https://insighttimer.com/drdianahill (Diana Hill's Body Gratitude Meditation on Insight Timer)  Listen to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-raise-an-intuitive-eater-with-sumner-brooks/id1596820706?i=1000548099140 (Diana and Sumner Brooks discuss How to Raise an Intuitive Eater) Listen to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overcome-overeating-using-behavioral-neuroscience-with/id1596820706?i=1000565349980 (Diana and Dr. Judson Brewer discuss Overcoming Overeating Using Behavioral Neuroscience) Read https://www.newharbinger.com/9781608821044/living-with-your-body-and-other-things-you-hate/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_ISWBhBkEiwAdqxb9tzspNhPBfuFFq2z1R5mqJwaOCIRqf44m-vuFAvNsBIPMMG8gLEQ_BoC5NIQAvD_BwE (Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate by Emily Sandoz and Troy Dufrene) Learn More about https://lightfully.com/ (Lightfully Behavioral Health ) https://drdianahill.com/events/ (Join Diana at an upcoming events) Join Diana in https://drdianahill.com/values-rich-living-retreat-april-2023/ (Costa Rica on a Yoga Retreat)!  Thank you for listening to Your Life in Process! If you have any questions or feedback you can contact me by email at podcast@yourlifeinprocess.com, leave me an audio message at (805) 457-2776, or message me on Instagram @drdianahill and remember when you become psychologically flexible, you become free. Thank you to my team Craig, Angela Stubbs, Ashley Hiatt, Abby Diehl, and to our sponsorhttps://lightfully.com/ ( )InsightLA Meditation for making this podcast possible. Thank you to Benjamin Gould of https://bellandbranch.com/ (Bell & Branch) for your beautiful music. 

Raising an Intuitive Eater just got a bit easier, with the new book How to Raise An Intuitive Eater, by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson, both Registered Dietitians and moms. Today Gina interviews Sumner about a range of topics, including whether it's possible to raise an Intuitive Eater when you're still struggling yourself, and how to pull back the reins of control when it comes to your kids food choices.     Patreon | Love what you're hearing? Help fund ongoing episodes through donations as little as $1/month. Learn more here! Leave a review | When you leave a five star iTunes review, it helps others with similar interests and passions find us when they're looking for new content. Thank you in advance! Resources and Show Notes How to Raise an Intuitive Eater (the book) @intuitiveeatingrd We Are the Luckiest, The Surprising Magic of Sober Life Quit Like a Woman Bake Believe's No Sugar Added Baking Chips, Bars, & Wafers (letsbakebelieve.com) Hail Mary Snacks

Brittany and Aleen are joined by registered dieticians and co-authors of How To Raise an Intuitive Eater, Amee Severson and Sumner Brooks! They dive right into what intuitive eating is, before getting into - the principles of it and the most important things for parents to understand. They also discuss how to navigate "off-limits food," and language to use (and avoid) when talking about food. Plus, they chat about the right time to introduce intuitive eating to your kids, and whether it's actually "too late" to teach intuitive eating. Finally, they close with the importance of ditching the diet mentality, celebrating bodies of all types, and unlearning toxic thoughts and habits.

Amee Severson (she/they) joins this episode to chat about a few big life changes—publishing a book (How to Raise an Intuitive Eater, co-authored with Sumner Brooks), changing their Instagram handle to open up more possibility for what they share on the platform, and sharing their identities as non-binary and queer. We catch up on all of the above! Learn more about Amee's work:  Prosper Nutrition Practice How to Raise an Intuitive Eater book IG @ameeistalking  Reach out anytime: RDRealTalk at Gmail.com Leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts!  Your host: Heather Caplan RD , on IG @heatherdcRD RD Real Talk Podcast on IG @RDRealTalk

#210: What is intuitive eating? And how can I raise my baby to be an intuitive eater? Finding a balance between offering a variety of foods and the necessary nutrition is an important key to creating a healthy relationship between a baby and food. In this episode author and registered dietitian Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, CEDRD defines what intuitive eating is and how infants are naturally born as intuitive eaters. She also discusses the importance of allowing our babies to develop their curiosity for trying new foods through feeling, touching, and experiencing food without the need to “push” them to do so.       Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie's free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/210   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you're seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!)

#210: What is intuitive eating? And how can I raise my baby to be an intuitive eater? Finding a balance between offering a variety of foods and the necessary nutrition is an important key to creating a healthy relationship between a baby and food.  This is a two-part interview series with the co-authors of the book ‘How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence'. In this episode co-author and registered dietitian Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, CEDRD defines what intuitive eating is and how infants are naturally born as intuitive eaters. She also discusses the importance of allowing our babies to develop their curiosity for trying new foods through feeling, touching, and experiencing food without the need to “push” them to do so.    Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie's free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/210   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you're seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sumner Brooks is a registered dietitian (RDN), author, and mom who has spent over 13 years working in the field of nutrition and eating disorders. She most recently co-authored her second book, entitled How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence. Sumner earned her RDN credential and M.P.H. in Community Health Sciences from UCLA in 2008. Her experience includes providing nutrition therapy for adolescents and adults with eating concerns for over a decade, public speaking and pursuing advanced training in trauma-informed, weight-inclusive healthcare. She is also the founder of EDRD Pro, a global, online continuing education platform for eating disorder dietitians. Raising two kids in Oregon, Sumner knows the importance of informing caregivers and medical providers on how we can ultimately prioritize mental health as we move toward the common goal of building a true sense of wellbeing for our future generations. In this week's episode we talk about how diet culture disrupts our relationship with food and our bodies, why fear-based messaging is unhelpful in those relationships, and how to go about raising kids with food and body confidence. In a culture where we are inundated with unhelpful messaging that so easily disconnects us with the gift of food and our very own bodies, Sumner Brooks kindly and articulately helps us let go of diet culture messages, so we can usher in something different for the next generation.

Meet Lexie Stoneking, Registered Dietitian with WIC at Polk and Dallas County. She is also the Policy Chair for the Iowa Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics. She will be discussing pressing issues on the hill and what you can do to support these important issues. How to Raise and Intuitive Eater by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson To learn more about how to become involved check out our website https://www.eatrightiowa.org/advocacy and contact policyeatrightiowa@gmail.com

Sumner Brooks, MPH RDN, co-author of the new book, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater, joins the show for a conversation about why this book needed to exist, even though we are born as intuitive eaters. This episode covers how strongly diet culture has impacted the way parents feed and nourish their kids, what role social media plays in misinformation around IE for kids, and the 3 keys to intuitive eating for kids, which Sumner and Amee outline in their book! Order from Bookshop.org: How to Raise an Intuitive Eater by Sumner Brooks MPH RDN and Amee Severson MPP-D RDN Follow Sumner's work: @IntuitiveEatingRD on IG Resources mentioned: IntuitiveEating4Kids.com NEW Client packages are open. Let's work together! The RD Real Talk question and/or topic request form! Reach out anytime: RDRealTalk at Gmail.com Leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts!  Your host: Heather Caplan RD , on IG @heatherdcRD RD Real Talk Podcast on IG @RDRealTalk

Join dietitian Sumner Brooks in today's podcast as she helps us grasp “the three keys” crucial for raising intuitive eaters. Leave the food shame and blame behind – parent and guide your children compassionately as they explore food and eating. Sumner will share tips from her book, “How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next … Continue reading Nutrition Therapist Sumner Brooks Shares the “Three Keys” to Raising Intuitive Eaters →

How do you help your kids develop a balanced relationship with food and their body? An intuitive eating approach supports kids in developing confidence and trust in their bodies. In this episode, Diana and Summer explore 3 keys to raising intuitive eaters by supporting children to find ways of eating that are nourishing and internally driven. About Sumner BrooksSumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, LD, CEDRD is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and certified eating disorder specialist (CEDRD) based in Portland, Oregon who has been working with clients on all levels of the disordered eating spectrum for 15 years. Sumner is a mom and has put her knowledge, intuition, and parenting skills of Intuitive Eating to the test of real life. She is also the founder of an online training platform for weight-inclusive eating disorder professionals geared toward dietitians, called EDRDPro. Key TakeawaysNutrition is complex, and we often oversimplify it by labeling foods as good or bad Intuitive eating is not a “free for all” approach without routines or structure. Instead, we balance routine with flexibility Culturally we are conditioned to overthink about food, body size, and weight management The three keys of raising an intuitive eater are 1) expressing unconditional love and support of your child's body, 2) setting up flexible and reliable eating routines, 3) developing an intuitive eating voice Psychological flexibility processes such as values and acceptance can be very helpful in taking an intuitive eating journey Relevant Resources Mentionedhttps://drdianahill.com/extras/ (Download Your Daily Practice for Episode 6 Here) Read https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-raise-an-intuitive-eater-raising-the-next-generation-with-food-and-body-confidence/9781250786609 (How to Raise an Intuitive Eater by Sumner Brooks) Read https://bookshop.org/books/the-body-is-not-an-apology-the-power-of-radical-self-love/9781523090990 (The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor) Check https://drdianahill.com/guest-post-intuitive-eating-helps-you-support-your-childs-mental-and-physical-well-being-for-the-long-term/ (Sumner's guest blog post on Intuitive Eating) Learn more about Sumner Brooks and https://intuitiveeating4kids.com/ (intuitive eating with kids) https://www.instagram.com/intuitiveeatingrd (Follow Sumner on Instagram) https://offtheclockpsych.com/intuitive-eating/ (Listen to Diana's conversation with Evelyn Tribole), the co-founder of Intuitive Eating Want to dive deeper into ACT? Take Diana's course: https://courses.drdianahill.com/courses/foundations-of-ACT?_ga=2.10043261.917674935.1641323412-277337094.1634184861 (Foundations of ACT) Thank you for listening to Your Life in Process! If you have any questions or feedback you can email me, send me a voice message at (805) 457-2776, or message me on http://instagram.com/drdianahill (Instagram). Remember when you become psychologically flexible, you become free. Subscribe for free on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-life-in-process/id1596820706 (Apple Podcasts), https://open.spotify.com/show/1Kpkt3xGpyZm5UQYMKu4Uo (Spotify), https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0veW91ci1saWZlLWluLXByb2Nlc3Mv (Google Podcasts) Follow Diana on https://www.youtube.com/drdianahill (YouTube) Follow Diana on https://www.instagram.com/drdianahill/ (Instagram) Follow Dana on https://www.facebook.com/drdianahill/ (Facebook) Diana's https://drdianahill.com (Website) Thank you to my team Craig Schneider, Angela Stubbs, Ashley Hiatt, Abby Diel and to our sponsor https://lightfully.com/ (Lightfully Behavioral Health) for making this podcast possible. Thank you to Benjamin Gould of https://BellandBranch.com (Bell & Branch) for your beautiful music. Stay tuned for my next episode on YLIP when we explore Acceptance with ACT Expert Dr. Diana Hill Episode Segments[00:00] - Introduction [01:58] - Welcome To Sumner Brooks [09:04] - Where Do You Start With Intuitive

“I think in general, we all know too much about nutrition. I say that as a dietitian. Even the most intuitive eating of kids will be a picky eater. And that’s fine. We don’t need to nutrition them out of that. There isn’t of a nutrient in broccoli or kale that they can’t get from something else, I promise.”Welcome to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast about about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. I’m Virginia Sole-Smith. I’m the author of The Eating Instinct and the forthcoming Fat Kid Phobia.Today’s guest is Amee Severson. Amee is co-author of How to Raise an Intuitive Eater with Sumner Brooks, RD. Amee is also a registered dietitian who specializes in eating disorder recovery, healing and preserving food/body relationships, and provides gender-inclusive and LGBTQ-affirming care.Amee joins us today to discuss their new book. We will be talking about feeding kids but also about doing your own work and why we need to forget everything we know about nutrition.If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe, rate and review us in your podcast player! And make sure you’re subscribed to the Burnt Toast newsletter for episode transcripts, reported essays, and so much more. (Here’s a 20% discount if you’d like to go paid!)Have a question or a topic you want us to tackle in a future episode? Post it as a comment on this episode of the newsletter or send it to virginiasolesmith@substack.com. Episode 26 TranscriptVirginiaI am so excited. I’ve interviewed you a few other times for articles and things, but it is always such a pleasure to chat with you.Today we are talking about your new book, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater. This is the book I’ve been dying to be able to hand to people. This is a resource we desperately need. I think a lot of people are expecting that they’re going to pick up this book and be told, “Step one to feed your child. Step two to feed your child.” Instead you spend the first 150 pages or so—really half the book—talking about parents. Why we as parents need to do our own work and how we can do that work. So, why start there? Especially because it is so hard, Amee. You’re making us do really hard work.AmeeI know. I wish I could make it easy and just have it be a complete step-by-step guide, but we would have been missing a lot.It’s not an uncommon question: Why make so much extra work in there? I remember when I was a kid, every woman in my family had super short hair. Over the age of like 35 or 40, everyone just cut their hair short. I had this assumption that you got old (because that was old to me when I was seven) and you cut your hair short. You didn’t have long hair when you were old. That’s ridiculous, you know? There’s just this assumption that this is what you do. And it was the same for dieting for my family. You reach teenage-hood and you joined Weight Watchers. You hated your body and you tried to lose weight. I just assumed that’s what you did as an adult. I know that I’m not alone because we see it everywhere. The way parents or caregivers talk about not just their body, but food in general. You don’t ever have to say anything explicitly to your child. You never have to say, “I think your body is wrong,” or “I think you’re eating wrong,” or “This is your fault.” If you are saying it to yourself, if you are living your life like that, your kids are tiny sponges who soak up all that and reflect it back in the world.VirginiaSomething I hear a lot from parents is, “My child is three or my child is thirteen and I’m now realizing I need to do this. And is it too late?” They’re wishing this was something they fixed about themselves before they became parents. Of course, we cannot go back to our pre-child selves and work on this. AmeeJust like with intuitive eating, it’s never too late to start working on it. I think at a certain point, it is probably more beneficial for your older teenage child to do their own work, as opposed to you having different rules or attitudes around food. It can feel so overwhelming to start, like, oh, I have to fix myself and master the first half of the book before I’m allowed to start trying to introduce these concepts to my kid. Especially when your kid is older, it can feel more urgent, too, like I need to do this now. I already screwed up so much. As a parent, I get that. You, as a parent or as a caregiver, are repairing your own relationship with food while continuing to foster your kids having a good relationship with food—those two things can happen concurrently. It can be very important, especially if your relationship with food isn’t what you want your kid to grow up with or if you get that sinking feeling that this is not what I want to see my kid doing in 20 years. Then doing it concurrently is important.VirginiaI think that’s reassuring, too, because it lets us know that we don’t have to fix it completely to do better for them. I hope people find that liberating. I know I do! I just think, okay, I don’t have to be getting an A+ on this, you know? I was trying to get dieting perfect for so long and now I have to get this perfect?AmeeYeah, there’s a lot of pressure to be the perfect parent all the time. Especially in this way I am so tired of, like “My kid eats kale, so they’re perfect.” My kid knows that kale goes to work with my husband. He puts it in a seafood case at work because it’s pretty, but we don’t eat it. And that’s totally fine! Because perfect parenting is a myth, I think. Sumner Brooks and I really emphasize throughout the book how faking it till you make it is totally okay. Having a lot of compassion for yourself for not having it all figured out and not being perfect is fine.VirginiaLet’s talk about your Three Keys concept. This is what you see as the building blocks of the feeding relationship. The first key is providing unconditional love and support for your child’s body. Am I right that this is often one of the hardest parts for folks?AmeeYeah, it definitely is. Partly because I think that it can be hard to recognize that we aren’t providing unconditional love and support for our kids. If someone is picking up this book, if someone’s listening to this podcast, if someone is looking up any sort of parenting advice online, they’re probably trying their damnedest to help their kid as much as possible. It’s not malicious, it’s none of that. They’re trying their best and hearing that we can be harming, for lack of a better word, our kids through setting expectations on their bodies or even praising bodies—any of that can be hard to hear. Like, oh crap I’m doing something wrong. We live in a society that has put conditional love and support on bodies and we want to change that, because one of the least important things about a person is what their body looks like or even what their body can do.VirginiaWhat is an example of when someone may think they’re providing that support, but they really aren’t? AmeeI think praise is a big one. Like, “You’re so pretty,” or “You’re so strong,” or “You’re so handsome.” It also can be subtle things. Something like, “are you sure you really want to wear that? You look really pretty. But are you sure you want to wear that?” It’s a lot of the buts, the “You’re doing really well at this thing, but your body is taking away from it.” And those are those unintentional jabs that build up over time.VirginiaI was just interviewing someone for my book and we were talking about athletics. Kids get told way, way, way too young that they don’t have “the body” for a particular sport, even if they love a sport. You might love running, but you don’t have a “runner’s body” or “You’re not tall enough to play basketball.” Even if you’re still putting your kid on the team or encouraging them to love that sport, you’re letting them know that they won’t be the best at it, and so that it’s somehow not worthwhile because of their body.Key number two is to implement a flexible and reliable feeding routine. This is something that you all articulated so well in the book that was really helpful for me. Often, we can either be very structured about meals or have zero structure and both can be really problematic. You said that what kids really need is to know they’re going to get enough food. The point of structure is to let them know that this is a need that will be met. I was like, oh, it’s not about trying to get the kid to eat on a certain schedule. It’s about reassuring that they are going to be fed. How did you come to that realization and why that is so important for parents to realize?AmeeOne of the reasons why it felt so important to talk about enough-ness is because of the central importance of enough-ness in all of nutrition. It’s not about what you’re eating or the timing of it, or anything. It’s just enough-ness, overall. It can feel really uncomfortable to say no, because that’s often how we’re told to do it as an adult for ourselves is if you want something, you eat it, regardless of when you want it, regardless of how you want it. That’s totally fine. Absolutely encourage that. Kids have very one track brains. They’re not quite as prefrontal cortex-developed as we are as adults. It can be harder for them to recognize, like truly recognize, that if I’m hungry and I don’t eat now, I will get enough food later. Especially if there has been a time where they were maybe presented with food, like a dinner for example, that they didn’t want to eat. It’s a lot of food, maybe on a plate, that they don’t enjoy. They’re going to probably leave the table hungry. And the same with snacks, the same with lunches, breakfast, all of it. If they’re not given enough and given the option to have enough, they develop the sense of okay, I need to get it when I can. And we want to make sure that they know that if you don’t eat all your lunch, that’s fine. And you can have more when you get home. I have an elementary school kid. And elementary school lunches are a whole thing where they only get like 10 minutes to eat food. My kid is a very slow eater. So I know she never finishes her whole meal. So she comes home hungry. We’ve fallen into the routine that she gets  another lunch when she comes home from school. Because otherwise she’s hungry. We want her to know that like, okay, you don’t have to feel sad or upset that you didn’t finish your lunch. You don’t need to feel chaotic when you come home and just go for whatever food is available. You can make yourself some mac and cheese, or we can. She’s figured out the microwave and it’s beautiful. So she can do more.VirginiaWe love that. Yeah, my eight year old has the toaster and the microwave down now.AmeeSame! It’s beautiful. It’s a lovely day as a parent when that happens.One other thing that comes up in that space is if we’re about to have dinner and she’s hungry, I will say “No, we’re not gonna have a snack right now because I want you to eat dinner. It will come and it’s food that you like. There will always be one part of it that you will eat. So I want you to be hungry for that.” It’s normal to be hungry leading up to a meal and there will be enough food for you to eat. My seven year old does not understand that whole sentence, but her brain will conceptualize and understand if we do it again and again. And that’s the goal.VirginiaYes, that’s helpful. I think you’ve just articulated this thing that parents struggle with. There are times when kids want to eat a lot of food and it’s not, in our brains, a time to eat. We think you had lunch at school but now you’re coming home starving. But you’re compensating for a lack, where she’s not getting enough time to eat her lunch at school. Versus, it’s 20 minutes to dinner and I’m not creating a lack by saying no at this point. Your enough-ness will be achieved very shortly, I’m just helping you understand 20 minutes. When you’re saying no, are you saying no in a way that’s restrictive or supportive? AmeeThat phrase right there—restrictive or supportive—is a conversation Sumner and I had a lot as we wrote this book. How can we phrase this in a way that is supportive and not restrictive? VirginiaYes. That’s a helpful phrase for us all to keep in our hearts and come back to in those moments when there’s a request for food that’s catching you off guard. And then the third key is to develop and use your intuitive eating voice. What is my Intuitive Eating voice, Amee? AmeeIt’s the voice that tells us we are hungry, we want food, that we don’t really want to eat this food tonight, but we want to eat that one. It’s I want to move my body today because I feel like I’ve got energy. It’s I don’t have energy and I think I need to take a nap. We are all born with that voice, all of us are, and sometimes we shut it down. Sometimes we’re just raised and in this culture that is not allowing us to foster that, not allowing us to hold on to that and to trust it. So, by developing and using that intuitive eating voice, we get the chance to pull it out of hiding and keep it from being lost. By doing that as a caregiver, as a parent, we show how safe it is, how okay it is to do that. We get to be the home base forever, for these kids. Like, this is what my my family did and it was fine. This is what I learned is safe and okay. We can really allow that space to be held for ourselves. For our kids, it looks like not letting this thing that is really cool and really important fade away and be locked in a deep dark corner of our brain. Because it’s a really cool space where we get to trust our bodies.VirginiaI’m almost tearing up as you talk about that because it’s really such an honor to be able to do that for our kids. It’s a privilege that we can be that space for our kids. So, you take us through these three keys and then we start to talk about nutrition. I love how late in the book nutrition comes because all too often this is where the conversation starts and stops, right? Why do you think it’s so important to shift the focus off nutrition? When is there a place for nutrition in the conversation?AmeeI think in general, we all know too much about nutrition. I say that as a dietician. 90% of the work that I do is un-teaching nutrition to people because there’s so much that’s contradicting itself or so overblown. How the heck are you supposed to navigate all of that? The last thing Sumner and I want to do is throw on even more rules. The rules are not the point. We didn’t want to make it the main focus of the book because it’s not the main focus of intuitive eating. It’s not the main focus of raising kids. If you are shoving vegetables on your kid, they’re not gonna eat it. My kid ate a bite of a carrot last night. That was it. Her vegetable for the day was a single bite of a carrot. And that was fine. I was glad she ate a bite of the carrot because they were good. Because when we obsess about nutrition—did you eat enough vegetables, did you eat enough fruit, protein, fat—we take away from that intuitive eating voice. We take away from that instinct that it’s okay to eat food. It’s okay to to not like things. It’s normal to have a picky kid. It’s not a screw up on parents part. it’s not a broken thing within your kid. Even the most intuitive eating of kids will be a picky eater, and that’s fine. We don’t need to nutrition them out of that. There isn’t of a nutrient in broccoli or kale that they can’t get from something else, I promise. We can expose our kids to these things, expose them to us as parents, normally eating food andtaking the pressure off of ourselves and off of them to find the most important thing that we could possibly eat on our plate is the brussel sprout. It’s just a piece of food, same as this chicken, same as this french fry. I don’t need to fight with you about this one. I’m allowed to not like this and I’m allowed to try it. That comes up, too, how many exposures it takes for a kid to be willing to try a food, to be willing to accept a food. It’s a lot, like 18 to 20 exposures, which is just looking at the food existing.VirginiaRight, without pressure to eat it. I think so often people hear that exposure number and think that means they have to push it on their kid 18 to 20 times. They just need to be in a room with it.AmeeYeah, It’s like sparkling water, like if the essence of it exists in a room with you.VirginiaIt’s the Lacroix of vegetables. Just a waft. Check, we got another exposure down. The hyper focus on nutrition and the anxiety parents have about nutrition so often gets in the way of the meal being relaxed, fun, maybe you have a conversation you enjoy with your child. All of that gets lost, right? We’re not getting that opportunity for food as connection and food as comfort. AmeeYeah, when it turns into a food fight at the table, like just eat this food, it takes takes the focus away from a time where we can hang out or just be together. My daughter, she’s almost eight and she goes in and out of more picky periods, but she’s also a kid and her tastes do not line up with that of mine and my husband’s. I like really spicy curry. She does not, to my great disappointment, like really spicy curry. So if I’m going to make curry, I don’t expect her to eat it. I don’t even really expect to present it to her because she knows what it is. She isn’t gonna touch it. But I know she’ll eat some of the dino nuggets I keep in the freezer. So she can have that and some white rice and she’ll eat one of those things.The other night we had fish tacos, again spicy and fish, two big no-no’s. So, we made her a quesadilla because we figured she would eat a quesadilla. It did not land that night. I don’t know why, could not figure it out. But it was not the ticket. And she was visibly really sad. She ate a couple bites and was like, “I’m full.” And we were like, “No, you’re not, like, we know you’re not full. What’s wrong?” Just very quietly, she was like, “I just don’t like this tonight.” And we’re like, “Oh, just go get something else then. You can make yourself a sandwich or have some mac and cheese.” Like, “Eat food, please.” She got up and made herself an easy mac. It was beautiful.VirginiaYes, that’s awesome. It does get easier when they can use the microwave themselves so you’re not the one having to get up and make the whole second meal. That’s the tension, right? Is all the labor that goes into that. AmeeThe food she can make herself, she can switch out a dinner for. That’s the rule.VirginiaThat’s a great rule. That’s a great way to put it.AmeeAnd we always, always have some foods that–well, there’s a really weird Uncrustables shortage right now. It’s very sad, actually, because it makes lunches a lot harder to pack. But, even before she could use a microwave, we would have Uncrustables in the freezer, and she would just pull those out and eat those. Or a bowl of cereal, which is totally fine, too.VirginiaI think folks are gonna find this deeply reassuring. I want to talk a little more about the nutrition piece. I liked how you said that you do a lot of un-teaching in your work because I think a big problem is we’ve absorbed so much of this nutrition knowledge and accumulated it so intensively over the years. Is there a way to incorporate nutrition in a more useful way into your life? Or is it a matter of just letting a lot of that information go? AmeeYeah. I think there is a little bit of case-by-case for that because there is some nutrition information out there that is really valuable for some people, given their circumstances in life or what’s happening for them. And some of that same information is really not useful for anyone else. For example, my partner is diabetic. He needs to count carbs because he needs to dose insulin. If he doesn’t, It could be bad. I however, don’t need to count carbs. Neither does my kid. The only reason my kid is learning any carb ratios at all is for “Daddy has low blood sugar. Can you please go get him a soda?” She did absolutely bring him a Diet Coke one time.VirginiaLove the effort but…AmeeSo, we’re learning this one has carbs so we need you to bring this one to Daddy. But so many of those little specific nutrition like tidbits can be really important for one person but really unimportant for another. We are in such like a black and white society that if this thing is important for one, we assume it’s important for all. If this thing is unhealthy for one person, we assume it’s unhealthy for all, but that’s not true. We can pick and choose what is important and for the most part, we also get to pick and choose that forever. For example, I like to use my husband’s example. He doesn’t drink sugar sodas, for example, because he didn’t drink them growing up and he doesn’t think it’s worth his insulin. But Fritos and queso, like Fritos scoops and the crappy Fritos queso, is his jam. He will eat an entire bag in 30 minutes. That’s one of his Christmas presents every year. That’s worth his insulin.There are a few exceptions to that, like allergies is one. But for the most part, we get to pick and choose when it’s important and when it’s not. We don’t have to cut anything out ever. If it will kill you, then maybe. But for the most part, we don’t have to. If we are interested in or willing to do the work to unpack our own internal diet culture beliefs, internal fatphobia, and the way we externalize that as well, then we really get to pick it apart, which is a lot of work and sometimes not the most fun work. But that’s what leads to having a better relationship with all of this. I find most of the work we do around nutrition is unpacking what’s not important.VirginiaThat’s a really empowering way to frame it. I think people think they don’t get to choose. Nutrition is given to them as the set of cardinal rules they have to follow instead of something you can filter through your own life and your own context.I really love that you call the last chapter of the book “what to do when this feels harder than you thought.” I do not want to give away the ending of the book. There’s so much more in this book than Amee and I have talked about—you need to read the whole thing. But I do think when people are working on divesting from diet culture and fatphobia it just feels so hard some days. You hit these brick walls and you don’t know where to go. Then you end up worrying that what you did caused more harm because you’re trying to reduce harm. So what do we do when we hit those brick walls? AmeeI think accepting, believing, expecting that we will hit a wall at some point. There’s always a wall, whether it’s exhaustion or just confusion or frustration because we all have limits. We don’t have to be ready for every circumstance that’s gonna come our way. And we can have a lot of compassion for ourself in that space. I expect it to be hard. I haven’t met a single person that’s like, “Oh, my God, that was the easiest thing I’ve ever done.” Most people come to me, as a clinician, and are like, this is so much harder than I thought it would be. It is challenging. And it is for our kids, too. The longer we’ve been stuck in our own diet culture mindset, the harder it can be to encourage our kids to re-trust this space. It can feel really frustrating and hard and that’s okay. I think self compassion is probably the most important thing we can hold.In our house we have a lot of conversations about how we’re not going to have any more candy right now. We’re gonna save this candy for later and you can have more tomorrow. Or no, you don’t get to eat more Halloween candy before bed because you just brushed your teeth and I’m tired. You’re going to bed and you can have more tomorrow.VirginiaI had a cool moment with my four year old recently. We had popcorn and we hadn’t had popcorn in the house for a while because my kids are really messy with popcorn so I stopped buying it for a few months. Then I was like, Oh, they love popcorn, I should get popcorn again. And the first day we had it, my four year old wanted only popcorn. At dinner she was having a plate of popcorn. And then she wanted another plate of popcorn and another plate of popcorn and I could see Dan, my husband, getting a little tense. Like, are we gonna watch her eat a whole bag of popcorn? Is that okay? I knew that it was just because it was new and we hadn’t had popcorn for a while and she loves it and she was really happy to have it. I said to her, “Just so you know, I want you to have as much as you want with dinner. We can also, if you’re getting full, save your plate and have this popcorn with breakfast tomorrow.” Immediately her posture changed and she was like, “Oh, oh yeah, I’m full.” and gave me the plate and we put it aside for breakfast and she ate it for breakfast the next morning. And it was clearly that she was just like, “I better eat all the popcorn right now because I don’t know when I’ll have it again.” As soon as I explained that it’s here in the house now and we’ll have it again, she was like, “Oh, Okay, got it.” That was very cool to watch happen  in real time with her.AmeeYeah, once you see your kids start to do it, it’s really cool. We had a similar experience with a chocolate orange, those ones you whack on the table and they break apart. That fun, interactive food is really exciting for my kid right now. We found one at Trader Joe’s and she was so excited about it, and we bought it. She ate that first one within a few days. Then we went back to Trader Joe’s a couple days later and there was another one. So we got it. It’s been like a week and a half and it’s still sitting in the cupboard and she keeps forgetting it exists because it’s just not exciting anymore.Butter For Your Burnt ToastAmeeWe are currently watching—we’re late to the game—Succession. That is what we spend our nights doing. I’m very invested in all these people that I really hate so if you want to hate watch something…VirginiaIf you have not read it yet, the New Yorker profile of Jeremy Strong is a fascinating and hilarious read. Definitely check it out.It turns out he is just as horrible as Kendall Roy is. He’s not actually acting at all. At times I even found it a little triggering because I find all the men on Succession a little triggering. I was like, “Oh, God, he’s like so many like, boys I had crushes on in high school who turned out to be these theater jerks.”AmeeThat’s the whole reason we stopped watching House of Cards after one season. We’re like, this is too close to home. We have to stop.VirginiaExactly. Okay, my recommendation is also something to watch. It is a movie I watched recently. As folks know, I do a monthly movie club with my siblings. My siblings are significantly younger and cooler than me, so we each take turns picking movies and my movie is always a terrible pick and then they all pick these amazing things. This was my brother-in-law’s pick, actually, it’s called The Sound of Metal. It is a really moving film about a musician. He’s a drummer in a heavy metal band and he loses his hearing overnight. He goes completely deaf and you never really find out why he loses it. But you watch him coming to terms with being deaf. It’s also a powerful story about addiction. He’s in recovery and you see his quest to get his hearing back almost as like a form of relapsing. It’s just a beautiful movie, it takes you into the deaf community. It’s very thought-provoking about addiction, mental health, and disability and it’s beautifully shot and acted. So Amy, thank you so much for joining us. This was such a great conversation. The book is How to Raise an Intuitive Eater. Tell folks where they can find more of your work.AmeeMy website for my professional work is Prosper Nutrition Wellness. I’m based in Washington State. You can find me on Instagram or Twitter at Amee Severson. Thanks so much for listening to Burnt Toast! If you’d like to support the show, please subscribe for free in your podcast player and tell a friend about this episode. Or consider a paid subscription to the Burnt Toast Newsletter. It’s on sale this month for just $4 per month or $40 for the year. You get a ton of cool perks and you keep this an ad- and sponsor-free space. The Burnt Toast Podcast is produced and hosted by me, Virginia Sole-Smith. You can follow me on Instagram or Twitter.Burnt Toast transcripts and essays are edited and formatted by Corinne Fay, who runs @SellTradePlus, an Instagram account where you can buy and sell plus size clothing.The Burnt Toast logo is by Deanna Lowe.Our theme music is by Jeff Bailey and Chris Maxwell.Tommy Harron is our audio engineer.Thanks for listening and for supporting independent anti diet journalism! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe

Supporting today's young people to stay connected with food, eating and their body by building parental confidence.   Links from the episode: How To Raise an Intuitive Eater; Raising the next Generation with Food and Body Confidence EDRDPRO   About Sumner: SUMNER BROOKS, MPH, RDN, LD, CEDRD is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and certified eating disorder specialist (CEDRD) based in Portland, Oregon who has been working with clients on all levels of the disordered eating spectrum for 15 years. Sumner is a mom and has put her knowledge, intuition and parenting skills of Intuitive Eating to the test of real life. She is also the founder of an online training platform for weight-inclusive eating disorder professionals geared toward dietitians, called EDRD Pro.   

Children are born intuitive eaters in a society where diet culture dominates. Parents are concerned about how to best feed their children, and nearly everyone is offering solutions on how to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic. But these solutions miss the most important thing: a healthy relationship with food. The absence of this healthy relationship can lead to disastrous consequences: weight cycling, low self-esteem and eating disorders can result from this fear-based approach to food that has become the norm for us all. How to Raise an Intuitive Eater is a compassionate guide for parents to help improve the health, happiness and well-being of their children. Based on their experiences working with parents and children, Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson understand that parents want their kids to live their best lives in the bodies they were born to have.

Welcome to another episode of the Understanding Disordered Eating Podcast. In this segment, I happened to speak with Sumner Brooks, a registered dietitian (RDN), mom, and eating disorder specialist who spent 15 years working in nutrition. Her involvement includes providing nutrition therapy for adolescents and adults, public speaking, and pursuing advanced training in trauma-informed, weight-inclusive healthcare.   Today, Sumner shares her knowledge working with clients at all levels of the eating disorder spectrum. Which includes the following: Why she decided to divert into intuitive eating, the journey of writing her book, as well as some tips on how to create a supportive environment that helps support children with their food relationships. I hope that this episode will shed light on your food journey.   [00:01-5:30] Opening Segments Introducing our guest speaker Sumner shares her experience with her first job Why did she become interested in intuitive eating? Why did she decide to specialize in eating disorders?   [5:31-11:46] Raising Intuitive Eaters Co-writing a book and raising awareness How did they structure their book? Her take on weight stigma Risks and consequences of eating disorders  Understanding the food problems within the status quo   [11:47-16:00] Creating a Supportive Environment that Supports Children Helping kids fall in their natural ability Supporting children as they follow their internal body cues Allowing children to give opportunity to act out to their internally driven biology   [16:01-27:01] Consistent Feeding Structure How do parents deal when their child is a picky eater? Associating eating time that is calm and safe Opinion on nutrition classes in schools   [27:02-35:36] How important is it to focus on your relationship with food? Sumner's take on public health and food accessibility  How important is it to educate parents on how to deal with their child's eating habits? Dealing with fat phobia as a parent Pathological dieting   [35:37-42:30] Parenting styles that will help their kids find their place and development  Helping parents to think critically  Parents-children communication  There's always opportunity for repair and healing Encouraging parents to ask food inputs to their children  Giving children choice and opinion    [42:31-43-26] Outro Where to find Sumner?   Resources Mentioned: Sumner on Instagram Amee on Instagram  How to Raise an Intuitive Eater Division of Responsibility    Tweetable Quotes “There's not a right way to feed a child, everyone is coming from their own cultural heritage, their own traditions, their own preferences and differences due to economic situations.” - Sumner Brooks   LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who may need this podcast by sharing this episode.   You can connect with me, Rachelle Heinemann on Instagram, through my website www.rachelleheinemann.com, or email me directly at rachelle@rachelleheinemann.com.

Please support EndoGenius by subscribing on Apple Podcasts, leaving a 5-star review, and sharing with your friends and family!While dieting itself might lead to short-term results, it often results in constant weight fluctuations, decreased muscle mass and metabolism, and even an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes. Toxic diet culture almost unanimously uses fear and shame-based marketing to convince you that you're fat, unhealthy, and unworthy. This makes diet and exercise feel like a punishment rather than a form of self-love. Instead, we should celebrate food and fitness and choose to fuel ourselves with compassion and gratitude.In her book, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence, Sumner Brooks and her co-author Amee Severson provide a guideline for priming our kids to love themselves and listen to what their bodies tell them. Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, LD, CEDRD is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and certified eating disorder specialist (CEDRD) based in Portland, Oregon who has been working with clients on all levels of the disordered eating spectrum for 15 years. Sumner is a mom and has put her knowledge, intuition, and parenting skills of Intuitive Eating to the test of real life. She is also the founder of an online training platform for weight-inclusive eating disorder professionals geared toward dietitians, called EDRD Pro. In this episode, we discuss: The fundamental principles of intuitive eatingMisconceptions about intuitive eatingHow to understand your body's biofeedbackThe problem with diet culture Why intuitive eating is important for kids How to promote self-awareness and acceptance in ourselves and our children  Connect with Sumner:Book(s): How to Raise an Intuitive EaterWebsite: https://edrdpro.com/ Instagram: @intuitiveeatingrd Connect with Ahmed:Website: https://ahmednayel.com/ Facebook: Ahmed NayelInstagram: @the.ahmed.nayelTwitter: @theahmednayelYouTube Reminder: Listening is great, but don't forget to apply what you learned in your life. Thank you for tuning in!

Today, Lauren chats with Sumner Brooks who is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and certified eating disorder specialist. You will learn more about intuitive eating which is basically the anti-diet.  In this episode you will learn: Exactly what intuitive eating is Simple steps to incorporate intuitive eating into your life Why tracking and weighing yourself doesn't fit the intuitive eating lifestyle  How to help your children become intuitive eaters Stay Connected with Lauren on Instagram: @lauren.kubat Stay Connected with Sumner on Instagram: @intuitiveeatingrd To receive your copy of Sumner's Book: How To Raise An Intuitive Eater For Your Insurance Needs, Contact Rachel Davenport at L H Griffith and Company Phone Number: 864-828-0579 Website: www.LHGriffithandco.com Facebook: RachelSellsInsurance For Coaching Sessions, Send An Email To: lkubatpt@gmail.com, subject line “more coaching information” Learn More About Lauren: https://www.laurenkubat.com/ Etsy: Visionbylauren https://www.etsy.com/shop/VisionByLauren?ref=search_shop_redirect 

In this episode, Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport are joined by Sumner Brooks, a registered dietitian and eating disorder specialist and founder of EDRD Pro. We highlight ways to raise intuitive eaters and discuss Sumner's new, upcoming book on this topic. We also discuss:  The term positive embodiment The need for parents to be aware of contributing to the prevention of disordered eating and eating disorders What gets in the way with raising intuitive eaters nowadays How to move away from “perfect parenting” (Note: that doesn't actually exist!) The three keys to raising intuitive eaters Tips for parents to support their children's relationship with food during the holiday season Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, LD, CEDRD is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and certified eating disorder specialist (CEDRD) based in Portland, Oregon who has been working with clients on all levels of the disordered eating spectrum for 15 years. Sumner is a mom and has put her knowledge, intuition and parenting skills of Intuitive Eating to the test of real life. She is also the founder of an online training platform for weight-inclusive eating disorder professionals geared toward dietitians, called EDRD Pro.  Links:  How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence EDRD Pro Website Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast  Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy Pinney Davenport Nutrition

Sumner Brooks, RD is educating and empowering parents to raise intuitive eaters, even when they've had a tumultuous relationship with food and their own body.  On the podcast, Sumner shares the starting point for parents raising an intuitive eater is creating a paradigm of health based on personal values and teaching children how to relate to their bodies, which includes considering all of the other ways their bodies are impacted by their choices (food isn't the primary one, it's just one of them).  Sumner also emphasizes that raising an intuitive eater isn't about being a perfect parent, it's allowing parents to heal where they are.  We also talked about how our children can be our greatest teachers around food and our body and how parents can not be happy with their own bodies, and still encourage their children to be happy with theirs.  Sumner shared that when parents are worried about their child's health and weight, it's important to understand the significant health issues behind dieting and weight cycling.  Social media handles: @IntuitiveEatingRD @edrdpro Sumner is the co-author of How to Raise an Intuitive Eater that is available now for preorder and comes out on January 4, 2022.

In this episode Lori speaks with Sumner Brooks, one of the co authors of the new book "How to raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence. Sumner goes over some of what you can find in the book, her writing process and how her and Amee Severson came to write this particular book.   If you are interested in connecting with Sumner check her out on  IG: @intuitiveeatingrd How to Raise an Intuitive Eater is available for pre-order!! Pre order link for Indigo Canada Pre order link for Amazon Canada

Episode 11 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa and Katy. In this episode, we interview Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson. Both are registered dietitians who practice a weight-neutral, Health at Every Size® approach to intuitive eating and nutrition — and they recently joined forces to write the book entitled How to Raise an Intuitive Eater. Naturally, we peppered them with questions related to the struggles we've faced feeding our kids with a gentle nutrition approach while also existing in a fatphobic world that views our children's health in terms of their body size. We also talk about how their upcoming book works with Ellen Satter principles and also how it departs from her work. We address some of the socioeconomic issues around nutrition, including access to food, and also address food rules with neurodivergent kids and the ongoing hysteria around sugar and children. Enjoy! Sumner is a registered dietitian and eating disorder specialist, and the founder of EDRDpro, the international online training platform for eating disorder dietitians and health professionals. You can also find Sumner on Instagram @intuitiveeatingrd. Amee is a registered dietitian whose work focuses on body positivity, fat acceptance, and intuitive eating through a social justice lens. Find Amee at Prosper Nutrition and Wellness, and on Instagram @amee_rd.

Amee Severson on Trauma Informed care and raising Intuitive Eaters In this episode, Amee makes a very exciting announcement (which might just involve a book and a partnership with the amazing Sumner Brooks!!), how she found her voice (which includes crossing paths with body positive leading advocate; Lindo Bacon), every dietitians responsibility when working with human beings, more on the weaponizing of words, how dietitians are so much more than ‘food managers’, what trauma informed care really is and how to have thoughtful and empathic conversations with fat / larger bodied clients and self-care on social media.   Here Fi and Amee speak about: What Amee has been up to; from working online at home to finishing her final semester of grad school and becoming a body trust provider. Amee’s new and exciting project with Sumner Brooks and how it evolved; YES, you heard right! It’s an intuitive eating book for kids (geared towards parents and caregivers)!  How Amee and Sumner are working to ensure the book is inclusive, HAES aligned and informed by social justice.  Amee’s personal growth and evolution; how she found her place and how she found her voice – and it includes an informative car ride with the inspiring Lindo Bacon! Every dietitian’s responsibility when working with human beings.  The weaponizing of words and how the words we use really, really matter! Understanding how our role is so much more than ‘food managers’ and ‘just listening’ to clients. The essential need for ongoing unlearning and relearning.  Trauma-informed care; what it really means and what it isn’t.    How smaller bodied dietitians can be alongside, and have truly thoughtful and empathic conversations with fat / larger bodied clients. Self-care on socials; Amee shares how she cares for herself whilst communicating on social media and how you can too!   As mentioned in the podcast: Sumner Brooks, MPH, RD, LD – you can also hear Fi and Sumner chat on Ep. 6 of The Mindful Dietitian podcast, find it here! Ellyn Satter Institute – Division of Responsibility  Lindo Bacon, PhD, Author, Researcher and Advocate   More about Amee: Amee is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) in private practice in Bellingham, Washington and has also worked with students at Western Washington University. Amee’s work with individuals focuses on repairing relationships with food and body for all of her clients. She found this work after recovering from an eating disorder herself. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Food and Nutrition from Montana State University, is completing her Master’s of Professional Practice from Iowa State University. She is a dietitian registered in the State of Washington, and has received training under the Original Intuitive Eating Pro’s Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole. She is undergoing  certification as a Body Trust Provider. Amee has written articles for Healthline, Greatist, and the Scientific American blog.

This episode talks about intuitive eating and how to start the process with guest speaker Sumner Brooks. Sumner is a registered dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating counselor, Body Trust provider and certified eating disorder specialist who has been working as an outpatient counselor with clients on all levels of the disordered eating spectrum for over 12 years. In partnership with her clients, Sumner helps people to identify how you can heal your relationship with food and your body. As a nutrition therapist who has worked under the supervision of Elyse Resch co-author of the original book, Intuitive Eating, and a mom of two kids, Sumner is excited to announce that she and Amee Severson are currently writing the forthcoming book, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater, which you can look forward to reading in January 2022! Sumner is the founder and director of EDRDpro, the fastest growing international online training platform for eating disorder dieticians and any dieticians or students who are seeking credible continuing education and training from leading experts on eating disorders, weight-inclusive care, and Intuitive Eating. You can find more info on that at EDRDpro.com.

Sumner Brooks, founder of EDRDPro sits down with Jennifer on this inspiring episode of the Pursuing Private Podcast. You’ll hear Sumner’s journey of embracing Intuitive Eating, how a business idea kept her up all night, and how EDRDPro is uplifting the dietetics industry with training for eating disorder around the world. Together they begin with Sumner sharing her own journey of disordered eating throughout her youth and school, including as a dietetic intern. She shares the pivotal and life-changing moment of seeing Evelyn Tribole speak at a CE event, which ultimately led her to find her own path of Intuitive Eating.  Specializing as sports dietitian early in her career, she tells how her personal recovery journey influenced her professional work, and her desire to stay in private practice in order to specialize in eating disorders. With sudden life changes including a new baby, a divorce, and a move to Portland, OR requiring the closure of her practice in her familiar community, Sumner reflects on starting fresh in a new location with no connections or referrals, making it necessary to take on jobs in the corporate world for several stressful years. You’ll love hearing how the conception of EDRDpro was born from an idea that kept her up all night; an idea for a solution to affordable and accessible training in the eating disorders community. “I really think that all dietitians need to have training on eating disorders, simply because of the prevalence of eating disorders.” - Sumner Brooks With the creative spark ignited to bring ED training online for better accessibility, Jennifer was the first person Sumner called with her new idea and business plan. Launched as a yearly symposium, you’ll hear how EDRDPro has evolved since its inception, with two symposiums in 2020 that are focused on core themes, such as a deeper dive into a 6-session symposium in April on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. “I really hope what we’re doing here is something that will feel like more than just an introductory step, and really give people a hearty dose of something useful.” - Sumner Brooks Some of the topics discussed include: Sumner’s process of trying different things in her business that didn’t work, and why she took a break and stepped back for a year. The creative process of building EDRDPro, why she created a membership branch, how it’s changing for 2020 with deeper training on core themes, and the launch of EDRDpro Ambassadors. Why the constantly changing and complex field of eating disorder requires more access to training, and why the learning never stops. Why hiring experts is necessary to grow a business, and how collaboration within the eating disorder community helps broaden the perspective and interpretation of Intuitive Eating, and the value from sharing, discussion and collaboration. Her passion for helping dietitians with their own healing process and then helping them take it to the next level of helping others, with the goal of reaching more people to minimize the suffering and time. For more information, visit https://www.pursuingprivatepractice.com/30   SPONSOR INFO: This Pursuing Private Practice podcast episode was recorded before the traumatic events of the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States.  Jennifer McGurk recently did an encouraging support group call and training for the Pursuing Private Practice group on Thriving in Uncertainty. Right now is an incredibly difficult time for our world with the COVID-19 virus and ripple effect of trauma felt around the world. The recent Pursuing Private Practice call was recorded to be shared with everyone: Sign up at www.pursuingprivatepractice.com/thrive

Sumner Brooks creator of EDRD Pro shares on PHIT for a Queen “It is the behaviors that create the health outcome, not the weight that creates Health At Every Size.“   What is HAES? Heath At Every Size Found that if she was going to focus on weight loss as a solution it felt wrong. While Body positivity may be a trend the harm that those in larger bodies have experienced is not a trend. HAES is a way of living centered around well-being, not size. HAES is delivering the same care to everybody. Health is not a guarantee. Humans are hard-wired to believe common sense over science. People will do anything to avoid bullying including weight. Created EDRD PRO to bring high-quality education to those anywhere, anytime. Where you can find Sumner & her EDRD Pro: https://edrdpro.com/ Savvy Girl- A guide to Eating  So you know she is legit: Sumner is a registered dietitian and eating disorder specialist who has been working as an outpatient counselor with clients on all levels of the disordered eating spectrum for over 10 years. Sumner’s work currently focuses on supporting and educating new and established dietitians with integrating a weight-inclusive approach into their practices and creating resources to improve skills for the identification and treatment of eating disorders. In 2014 Sumner published Savvy Girl: A Guide To Eating available now on Amazon. She wrote and published this book in collaboration with a client to provide readers with both the counselor and client perspective. This non-diet living handbook written around the Intuitive Eating model, helps people get away from chronic dieting and learn Intuitive Eating. Sumner is enthusiastic about disseminating a weight-neutral approach for health and chronic disease management to reduce oppression and stigma for people living in larger bodies. Other special interests include Binge Eating Disorder and Intuitive Eating in the treatment of disordered eating. Sumner’s most formative Influencer in the field is the one and only, Elyse Resch! One of the Original Intuitive Eating Pro’s and co-author of the book Intuitive Eating, Elyse has been a mentor and friend who has impacted Sumner’s work, beliefs and counseling style greatly. Sumner has studied under the supervision of Elyse since 2011.

Sumner Brooks, an eating disorder dietitian and founder of EDRDpro, joins me to discuss the first principle of Intuitive Eating, Rejecting the Diet Mentality. As long as the diet mentality is prioritized—or as Sumner puts it, we make food decisions based on the outcome expected—it will be nearly impossible to eat intuitively.  ETA: There seems to have been an issue with the audio recording, so Sumner's voice sounds a little off. Technology isn't always our best friend. :)  While listening to this episode, think about your own diet mentality and what drives the food choices you make every day. Are you avoiding or working toward a certain outcome (e.g. weight, "health", or something else)? Or are you trying to tune into your body's signals of hunger, fullness, satisfaction, etc? (More on all of that to come!)  It may be uncomfortable to realize that even though you may not be following a "diet," there are still many filters, or rules, by which you make food decisions. We know how that feels. We've been there. Stick with us. We give examples of the various levels of diet thinking, and how to work through this principle to bring yourself some food freedom. It helps you build the foundation on which you'll continue to build your intuitive eating habits throughout this series.  Questions? Reach out anytime: RDRealTalk at Gmail dot com.  For more information about this series, and my work, visit HeatherCaplan.com or follow along @HeatherDCRD on Twitter, @RDRealTalk on Instagram, and Facebook.  Follow Sumner's work on EDRDpro.com, and sign up for her upcoming EDRDPro Symposium.  Subscribe to the weekly RD Real Talk newsletter for more show notes, Off the Air anecdotes, and weekly reads! 

This episode covers the topic of intentional weight loss through restrictive eating or lifestyle changes. We discuss why intentional weight change does not work long term and why it can cause more harm than good for people’s health. I am joined by a guest co-host, Sumner Brooks, RD of Eating Disorder Registered Dietitians & Professionals. Her insight and knowledge were invaluable.

Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, LD and I discuss how providers, family members and communities can change the conversation about weight. We discuss the term "weight neutrality" and do our best to explore it in a way that will help listeners be able to not only apply this paradigm in their own life, but also in a way that listeners might be able to share this episode with friends and family who may not understand why you approach food and your body neutrally.    To us, weight neutrality is a way of moving throughout the world that doesn't judge others by the way they appear. It's also a way of approaching ourselves with love and gentleness, allowing yourself to really tap into learning how to take the best care of yourself in a way that's right for you. It's also a way that providers can approach their patients and clients in a manner that is ethical, evidenced-based and effective.   Sumner's work as a registered dietitian revolves around not only helping people make peace with food individually, but also in providing continuing education for dietitians through her online symposium and membership site, EDRDpro. If you're a wellness professional looking for more training in eating disorders and disordered eating, check it out!   Links mentioned: Sumner's practice website: https://eattolivehappy.com/ EDRDpro symposium:https://edrdpro.com/ Leave a review for the podcast here Check out Paige's online course: https://www.paigesmathersrd.com/course Apply to work with Paige long-distance here: https://www.paigesmathersrd.com/individuals Nutrition Matters Podcast Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/151307215407026/

Sumner Brooks on her new #EDRDPro Series, navigating bumps along the road and the importance of listening.   Fellow Eating Disorder Dietitian and founder of #EDRDPro Sumner Brooks shares valuable insights about how she came to being a dedicated Health At Every Size practitioner and support for people who want to be free from dieting.  Here Sumner shares: The personal and professional bumps along the road that led to her understand the experiences of others in a way that has enhanced her skills and  Her thoughts on the importance of listening, and being with clients Why going to conferences is so important! Who have been the most influential Dietitians for Sumner? The book that EVERY SINGLE DIETITIAN needs to read What is culture? What can you expect from EDRDPro including a sneaky peek at hearing about some of the guests presentations! You can find Sumner here: www.eattolivehappy.com with direct links to the EDRDPro Symposium      

Are you someone who has recovered from an eating disorder, but are suddenly experiencing symptoms again? Do you feel like you're falling down a slippery slope, and recovery is slipping out of your grasp? Are you needing some new tools to pursue a peaceful relationship with food? Listen now for some new ways to experiment with the recovery process. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Episode's Key Points: Recovery is NEVER linear! It's messy and complicated, and super personal. This experience is so common the experiencing symptoms even after recovery is the rule, more than the exception. Self-compassion is key for dealing with relapse. Sumner Brooks joins to chat about recovery some more! Disappointment and shame can make us feel so stuck in eating disorder behaviors and relapse. It's so important to NORMALIZE this struggle! You are not alone, and there are a number of reasons we can experience a return of behaviors. Try to react with compassion when you notice the shame and disappointment bubbling up. Recovery will come much quicker with self-compassion! If you're trying to examine the return of a behavior, think about whether or not there are physiological needs not being met (such as hunger), or if there are emotional needs triggering these behaviors meant to soothe and cope. Be aware if medications (such as birth control, SSRIs) or other environmental changes are potentially impacting your mood and contributing to the return of these behaviors! Nothing about recovery or relapse is black or white... figuring out where to go next is a journey!! What are your needs?? Are they being met?? Explore this! Be CURIOUS about this experience! It's an important part of finding what you need to change. Even the slip ups are a part of moving forward. Acknowledge that you may feel like you've screwed it all up, but believe that it isn't true! Spiral UP rather than out!! Show Notes: Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food's Season 1's Food Peace Syllabus. EDRDProSymposium Sign up here! Savvy Girl, A Guide to Eating by Brittany Deal and Sumner Brooks ---> This week's Food Peace Syllabus addition Sumner's Instagram and main website Eating Disorder Dietitians Julie Dillon RD blog Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue! Thank you for listening to the Love, Food series.

Body-positive dietitian Sumner Brooks shares why she started bingeing at a young age, how she finally healed her relationship with food through intuitive eating, how diet culture convinces us we're "not good enough," why emotional eating is related to restriction, why it's so important (and difficult) to accept and honor your hunger, how conventional nutrition education leads us astray, and lots more! Sumner Brooks is a registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in eating disorders and a Certified Intuitive Eating counselor. She's the producer of the EDRDpro Symposium for professionals, She's also the co-author of the non-diet guidebook Savvy Girl: A Guide to Eating, a short 4 hour-read for women of all ages based on the Intuitive Eating philosophy. Sumner also works at a gastroenterology specialty clinic in Portland, Oregon where she utilizes a non-diet approach to treat patients struggling with digestive concerns and eating disorders. Out of the office she's found soaking up time with her 2 year old daughter and getting outdoors in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Sign up for her EDRDpro Symposium for webinars with 15 experts on intuitive eating and Health at Every Size (including Christy!). This episode is brought to you by Plum Deluxe, a Fair Trade tea company that's committed to fostering mindfulness, compassion, and community. Check out their delicious teas and great self-care resources at christyharrison.com/plum!  Join the new Food Psych Facebook group to connect with fellow listeners around the world! To learn more about Food Psych and our guest, visit christyharrison.com/foodpsych Join Christy's intuitive eating online course at christyharrison.com/course How healthy is your relationship with food? Take the quiz and get free resources at christyharrison.com/quiz!

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