Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with Dana Sturtevant.

Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD is a nutrition therapist, facilitator, educator, speaker, writer, and activist specializing in chronic dieting, disordered eating, and body acceptance. A Certified Kripalu yoga teacher, Dana draws from her yoga teaching experience to incorporate mindfulness and self-acceptance practices into her conversations about food, body shame, health, and healing. After becoming a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers in 2002, Dana has traveled around the country training thousands of helping professionals in the art and science of behavior change counseling. As a speaker and writer, Dana advocates for compassionate, weight-neutral self-care and offers supervision, training, and consultation for helping professionals. Her work has been featured in Self, Real Simple, Huffington Post, and The New York Times.

We chat about her history studying nutrition, how she became disillusioned with the weight loss model, and her use of motivational interviewing.

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Rebroadcast: Interview with Dana Sturtevant

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