Everybody eats, but when is it concerning? How do we define “healthy eating behaviour”? What’s the opposite of disordered eating? This episode with Dr. Sylvi Martin RN & ND opens up the conversation about the landscape of eating behaviour in general, exploring eating disorders, disordered eating behaviour, “normal” eating and introduces evidence-based intuitive eating and mindful eating.

 

Dr. Sylvi Martin, ND is offering an Eating Behaviours Workshop on February 10, 2023, inside the Confident Clinician. Make sure you are on our mailing list to be the first to know when registration opens at the end of January. 

 

Dr. Sylvi Martin BScN RN ND (she/her)

Sylvi is a naturopathic doctor, registered nurse psychotherapist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor and Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT) facilitator based in Toronto. Sylvi applies a weight-inclusive approach to helping individuals experiencing mental health related challenges and disordered eating behaviour.

 Sylvi maintains dual practises in nursing and naturopathic medicine. After completing her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Laurentian University in 2004, she practised acute care psychiatric nursing at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto where she also completed a nursing research fellowship. She went on to graduate from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2009 after which she began her private naturopathic practice in Toronto. In addition to her naturopathic practise, Sylvi maintained her nursing practise by working on a mental health team for an Ontario health regulator where she was also part of a mental health response team for individuals in crisis. She has also completed additional training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders.

When she’s not furthering her training or working on her latest workshop or course, she can be found perfecting her chocolate-savouring skills, feeding her “trust fund squirrels” at the cottage in between dips in the lake, or on the hunt for more scarves in some corner of the world with her partner Dave.

 

References

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• Kristeller, J. L., & Hallett, C. B. (1999). An Exploratory Study of a Meditation-based Intervention for Binge Eating Disorder. Journal of Health Psychology, 4(3), 357–363. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/135910539900400305
• Mason, A. E., Epel, E. S., Kristeller, J., Moran, P. J., Dallman, M., Lustig, R. H., … Daubenmier, J. (2016). Effects of a mindfulness-based intervention on mindful eating, sweets consumption, and fasting glucose levels in obese adults: data from the SHINE randomized controlled trial. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 39(2), 201–213. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-015-9692-8
• Ralph, A. F., Brennan, L., Byrne, S., Caldwell, B., Farmer, J., Hart, L. M., … Hay, P. (2022). Management of eating disorders for people with higher weight: clinical practice guideline. Journal of Eating Disorders, 10(1), 121. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-022-00622-w
• Satter, E. (2021). Normal Eating. Available at: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Normal-Eating-1-up-with-EC-2021-secure.pdf
• Tribole, E. & Resch, E. (2020). Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition. St. Martin’s.
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