The Mindful Dietitian - Snack Sized Insights

Finding Courage in Discomfort and Tough Conversations with Grace Wong


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Grace Wong, RD on finding courage in discomfort, the importance of tough conversations both with our clients and within our communities and the confusions around HAES and client-centered practice.

Join to me hear the inspiring Grace Wong from Calgary, Canada who is a registered dietitian specializing in eating disorders, mental health nutrition and parent-child feeding relationships. Graces advocates for the non-diet approach, HAES and weight acceptance in her practise and campaigns for a supportive community where practitioners can engage in respectful disagreements and ongoing professional and personal develop to broaden perspectives and strengthen and advance our work.

Here Grace shares:

  • ‘Renting & Venting’ - meeting on The Mindful Dietitian FaceBook page and the importance of giving our emotions a safe space.
  • ‘Weight/Food’ = Emotions. Why and how we need to move emotionally with our clients.
    • Working with Ellyn Satter - Models and Attitude in practise;
    • Understanding the entire development process and behaviours and how they progress.
  • Being clear, assertive and confident in our work.
  • The importance of talking through our disagreements with other professionals.
  • Exploring discomfort; how to become comfortable with conflict and how it can advance our work.
  • Emotions continued; making room for clients to experience the full spectrum of emotions for change and healing.
  • Patient Centric Care in HAES/non-diet approach and the confusion around motivational interviewing
  • ‘Focussing not only on the approach, but discussing the science with clients means weight loss will not stand’.
  • Uncertainty and perfectionism in practise and hopes for the future.
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