The Appetite

#139: From Rules to Trust: Opal's Meal Support Approach


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Want to hear a secret? In this episode, Opal Co-Founders Julie Church, RDN, and Lexi Giblin, PhD, reveal Opal's unique approach to therapeutic meal support. Tune in to learn how the Opal team stepped beyond traditional meal support methods and embraced radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RODBT) to guide their work. This innovative approach has helped create a supportive community where eating becomes an experience of connection, curiosity, and courage—less about rigid rules and more about trust, play, and the belief that recovery is possible.

To learn more about RODBT go here.

or listen to some of our self-inquiry series podcasts, like: 

The Appetite episode 134 or The Appetite episode 124

 

Connect with Opal: 

www.opalfoodandbody.com

@opalfoodandbody

@Opal.Movement

 

Thank you to our team...

Editing by David Bazzi

Music by Aaron Davidson: https://soundcloud.com/diet75/

Sound engineering by Ayesha Ubayatilaka at Jack Straw Studios

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