Diet Culture Dropout

By Atheana Brown RD

Diet Culture Dropout aims to break down the pervasive cultural narrative that revolves around dieting and disordered relationships with food and body image. By dropping out of diet culture we can cele... more

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How many episodes does Diet Culture Dropout have?

The podcast currently has 84 episodes available.

Diet Culture Dropout episodes:

November 15, 202355. Mom Guilt, Shame and Self-Care with Kyla Balderson
Today I am joined with Kyla Balderson a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist having an important conversation around mom guilt, shame and self-care.

Here is what this episode is about:
Unpack the difference between mom guilt and shame.

Explore what contributes to this systemically and individually for mom's.

Discuss how common it is for women postpartum.

Review how these feelings are different for the primary versus secondary parent

Get some tangible take home tips if you are in this space.

Unpack how important is self-care is for parents.

Resources mentioned:
Kristin Neff's Work
Brene Brown's Work

You can connect with Kyla by:
Website
Instagram
Psychology Today

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47min
November 01, 202354. Managing Food Waste While Practicing Intuitive Eating with Ange Defosse
Joined again for a second time with Ange Defosse (my older sister) and we are talking about food waste when feeding kids.
Here is what we talk about in this episode:
Ange starts us off by sharing her personal experience of feeding her young boys and trying to raise intuitive eaters.

Shares some ways we can work at managing food waste when feeding ourselves or families.

Explore how we can include our children in these climate conversations without being to polarizing or inflict environmental anxiety onto them.

Reviews how to have conversations with kids when they notice the world doing things differently.

Empowers us with some success stories about kids leading the way.

Resources mentioned:
Box of life- worm composter
Lomie

You can connect with Ange by:
Website
Blog
Instagram
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October 04, 2023 53. Trauma and Disordered Eating with Jessica Trainor
Joined today with Jessica Trainor a Registered Psychotherapist who specializes in trauma, eating disorders and body image. Talking today about trauma and how it may show up when working on your relationships to food and body.

Here is what we cover:
Start by defining trauma and the different categories of it (big T and little T)
Review how common it is within the area of disordered eating and body relationships
Discuss how restrictive or disordered eating is a trauma of itself within the body
Jessica explains what trauma work entails and does not have to be reliving these emotional experiences
Review what life can look like after healing
Some take homes to remind yourself when approaching this for yourself initially

Connect with Jessica below:
Email [email protected]
⁠Website⁠ ⁠
⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠
Facebook

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35min
October 04, 2023 52. What is the Division of Responsibilities with Atheana Brown
In this solo episode I review what the Division of Responsibilities are for both parents and children. This framework was developed by Ellyn Satter and is foundational when working with families to feed children. The feeding relationship can thrive when both the caregiver and child are working within their roles. Many times there are inbalnces which tip the feeding relationship.

Tune in to learn more about:
This framework
How to identify your role as a caregiver
What the roles of the child is in the feeding relationship
Why this is helpful in feeding
How you can start to make small strides in implementing it.

⁠⁠Join the podcast community here⁠⁠⁠! A safe non-diet space that keeps you updated on the latest episodes.
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20min
September 20, 2023 51. Emotion Regulation with Erin McGuinty
Today's episode is a deep dive into the intersections of emotion regulation and disordered eating. Joined with Erin McGuinty a Social Worker and Psychotherapist from Ottawa.
A big aspect to disordered eating recovery is learning to regulate your emotions. Emotions are a big part of our human experience. Not everyone is taught at a young age about how to regulate their emotions effectively. So it can be an extra layer of challenge when faced with disordered eating behaviours.

Here is what we discuss in the episode:
Explain what emotion regulation is
Review the various ways we can regulate our emotions
Explore why the emotion regulation piece is so vital for many when working on disordered eating
Take a moment and explain attachment theory and review how it impacts how we regulate our emotions
Erin explains what attachment-focused therapy looks like
How this all relates to intuitive eating
Lastly, Erin shares three ways people can incorporate when they are working towards managing their emotions

Connect with Erin McGuinty by:
⁠⁠Website⁠ ⁠
Instagram at @erinmcguintytherapy
Email at [email protected]

⁠⁠⁠Join the podcast community here⁠⁠⁠! A safe non-diet space that keeps you updated on the latest episodes.
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46min
September 06, 202350. Are you Using Pressure at Mealtime?
Join me while I discuss all the aspects around using pressure at the table with your kid. This is a very common strategy parents use (with best intentions) but it usually backfires and only works temporarily. Tune in to learn more about what to do instead.

Listen to the full episode to learn how you can:
Identify if you are using pressure

Understand the types of pressure

Review the outcomes of it on your child's food relationships and experiences

Learn some other supportive ways to do and role model

Get some reflective questions to ponder your current approach

Follow along the podcast on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠@dietculturedropoutpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠
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26min
August 23, 2023 49. Reducing Your Lunch Pail Carbon Footprint with Ange Defosse
Today I am taking an environmental spin on the podcast. Talking with Ange Defosse who is the owner of Harlowe Green about reducing carbon footprint with our lunch choices. She is an environmentalist, low waste advocate and my older sister.
Here is what we discuss:
Start by defining what a carbon footprint or carbon budget is?
Explore the many ways our carbon footprints have gotten larger.
Discuss the initial ideas of what a litter less lunch was in the Covid days. Along with why we should work towards bringing them back.
Review all the how to's of bulk shopping. Along with tangible ways to get started.
do better here.
Explore how this may modify grocery shopping habits following a new bulk shopping routine.
Review common questions people have around storage, freezing and organizing their food.
Ange shares the environmental impact certain ingredients have that are common amongst ready to eat foods.
Discuss some tips for families that have food allergies within the home and ways they can be included in litter less lunch packing.

Resources mentioned:
Book: Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee

Connect with Ange Defosse by:
⁠Website⁠
Her blog Zero Waste Adventures
⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠Join the podcast community here⁠⁠! A safe non-diet space that keeps you updated on the latest episodes.
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55min
August 09, 2023 48. How to Improve Your Inner Critic with Julie Gerber
Joined with Julie Gerber a Social Worker, Empowered Body Mentor and Consciousness Coach. Today we are chatting about inner critic work. A much needed area many people likely need support around. The dialogue within our mind is one of the longest relationships we have in our lives.
Here is what we discuss in this podcast episode:
Explore what an inner critic is and the common two narratives most people have
Review how is it formed and what influences it
Understand how you can modify it to be more loving, intentional and supportive
Julie shares what this process looks like for her clients
Discuss how improving the inner critic can impact people’s body confidence and acceptance

Connect with Julie below:
Website⁠
⁠Instagram⁠⁠
Her Podcast Soul Talks with Sarah and Julie

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44min
July 26, 202347. Diet Culture in Places of Worship with Leslie Schilling
Today I am joined with Leslie Schilling who is a Registered Dietitian and book author. We are exploring how diet culture comes up in places of worship. Growing largely is this purity culture in faith based communities or church brands as Leslie calls it. We explore various elements to yet another way people can be upholding and mislead by diet culture.

Here is what we discuss:
Leslie shares various examples of how diet culture comes up in the Christian faith.

Discuss the root of food moralization, fasting based intentions and a common scripture that is taken out of context.

Review how diet culture has been aligned within churches and faith-based communities.

Explore how this wellness spin on diet culture is becoming harder to recognize.

Leslie shares her best advice for anyone navigating this situation.

We talk about the new book she is releasing called Feed Yourself

Resources mentioned:
Sarah Bessie's books - https://www.sarahbessey.com/books

Connect with Leslie by:
⁠⁠Website⁠ ⁠
Her new book Feed Yourself
Instagram @leslieschilling

⁠⁠⁠Join the podcast community here⁠⁠⁠! A safe non-diet space that keeps you updated on the latest episodes.
Follow along the podcast on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠@dietculturedropoutpodcast⁠⁠⁠
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As always if you would like a question answered on a future episode send a DM to my podcast Instagram account at ⁠⁠⁠@dietculturedropoutpodcast
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48min
July 12, 202346. How Women are Socialized into Burnout with Ahuva Hershkop
Today's episode is for all those perfectionists and people pleasers out there. Joined with Ahuva Hershkop a pediatric dietitian and burnout coach. Exploring a much needed topic for women who usually fall into the trap of burnout. Whether they realize it yet or not.

Here is what we discuss:
Explore how one would describe burnout and the common red flags.

Review how common is for men and women.

Dive into how it relates to diet culture and food relationships.

Unpack how women are uniquely socialized into burnout.

Chat about working mom hustle culture and how women can step out of it.

Ahuva explains her 3 P's to burnout and leave us with some strategies.

Connect with Ahuva Hershkop by:
On Instagram ⁠or her Facebook group Beyond Burnout

⁠Join the podcast community here⁠! A safe non-diet space that keeps you updated on the latest episodes.
Follow along the podcast on Instagram at ⁠@dietculturedropoutpodcast⁠
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41min

FAQs about Diet Culture Dropout:

How many episodes does Diet Culture Dropout have?

The podcast currently has 84 episodes available.