The Appetite

By Opal: Food+Body WisdomHealth & Fitness

The Appetite episodes

May 25, 2018 #16: Who Am I? The Role of Identity in Food, Body Image, and Sport
This episode is all about identity. Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Co-Founders, Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Host Carter Umhau, MA, LMHCA discuss topics of identity development and explore how struggles with disordered eating and body image can sometimes point to a crisis of identity. The Appetite crew shares both from their expertise as clinicians and from personal experience, and Kara brings specific attention to the experience of those that identify as athlete's and what the loss of sport can mean for one's sense of self.
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30 min
May 10, 2018 #15: Mothers, Grandmothers, and Great-Grandmothers, The Women Who Got Us Here
In this heartfelt and vulnerable conversation, host Carter Umhau, MA, LMHCA, asks Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS about who they were when they were younger and how the people that came before them influenced the women and leaders they've become. This episode is released in honor of Mother's Day.
Links:
Betty Reid Soskin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Reid_Soskin Connect with us: [email protected] www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
43 min
April 26, 2018 #14: The Humanity Behind Leadership: Inspiration, Vulnerability, Strength, and Relationship
Opal co-founders Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, join together with host Carter Umhau, LMHCA to reflect and debrief after a transformative experience at the MUSE Conference--a yearly gathering of movers and shakers to kick off Women's History Month. The Founders explore their role as leaders within the eating disorder community and beyond and share with vulnerability and strength how MUSE spoke to each of them in this particular season of life.

Links and Resources:
Muse Website Janna: https://www.facebook.com/Janna.Jihad/ Nadia: https://www.facebook.com/2SunsShamsaan/ Betty Reid Soskin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Reid_Soskin Connect with us: [email protected] www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
39 min
April 12, 2018 #13 How to Eat in A Food Obsessed World
Today we're talking about the ever-conflicting messages American culture gives us about what and how to eat. We explore the potentially detrimental nuances of fad diets like Whole 30, detoxing, and the idea of “eating clean,” highlighting the work of Ellyn Satter as a map to a more nuanced relationship with yourself as an attuned eater and emphasizing new, more flexible ways to think about competency with food. TW: In this episode, we do name several diets and talk some specifics (no numbers). Links and Resources: Hierarchy of Food Needs by Ellyn Satter This is the published article in the Journal of Nutrition Education that addresses food hierarchy in public health nutrition education, especially shows the application of this across the socioeconomic profiles Division of responsibility by Ellyn Satter Eating Competency Model by Ellyn Satter Her website explanation of the competency model Published review of the Competency Model Connect with us: [email protected] www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
44 min
April 09, 2018 #13 How to Eat in A Food Obsessed World
Today we're talking about the ever-conflicting messages American culture gives us about what and how to eat. We explore the potentially detrimental nuances of fad diets like Whole 30, detoxing, and the idea of "eating clean," highlighting the work of Ellyn Satter as a map to a more nuanced relationship with yourself as an attuned eater and emphasizing new, more flexible ways to think about competency with food. TW: In this episode, we do name several diets and talk some specifics (no numbers). Links and Resources: Hierarchy of Food Needs by Ellyn Satter This is the published article in the Journal of Nutrition Education that addresses food hierarchy in public health nutrition education, especially shows the application of this across the socioeconomic profiles Division of responsibility by Ellyn Satter Eating Competency Model by Ellyn Satter Her website explanation of the competency model Published review of the Competency Model Connect with us: [email protected] www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
44 min
March 28, 2018 #12: What is Health?
What is health and how do we get it? Today we challenge the idea that this question can be answered in a one-size-fits-all way. We explore today's obsession with health, challenging how much of a moral issue health has become, and how we might be able to start looking at it not as an absence of disease, but more holistically as an intersection of well-being in body, mind, and spirit. Links and Resources: Ansel Key's Starvation Study Summary: https://www.refinery29.com/minnesota-starvation-experiment Fast Food versus Supplements: http://www.audyn.org.uy/sitio/repo/arch/Cramer_Michael_Thesis.pdf Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift: https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-10-9 The Weight-Inclusive versus Weight-Normative Approach to Health: Evaluating the Evidence for Prioritizing Well-Being over Weight Loss: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobe/2014/983495/ Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
49 min
March 14, 2018 #11: Dr. Anita Johnston: Myth, Storytelling, and Seeking Metaphor in Your Relationship to Food
Dr. Anita Johnston joins us to talk about how to learn more about your relationship with food by looking through the lenses of myth, storytelling, and metaphor. Author of Eating in the Light of the Moon and Clinical Director of 'Ai Pono eating disorder treatment center in Hawaii, Dr. Anita Johnston speaks to how the matrilineal society in which she grew up shaped her persceptive on food and body struggles, the neuroscience behind metaphor, and how one's struggle with food communicates the things a person sometimes cannot. Links: You can find her at: www.DrAnitaJohnston.com www.LightoftheMoonCafe.com or contact her at: [email protected] [email protected] Free .pdf for Food & Metaphors Guide: http://lightofthemooncafe.com/opal Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
56 min
March 07, 2018 Bonus Episode: Poet and The Appetite Host Carter Umhau on Healing Through The Creative Process
In this special bonus episode, our very own host, Carter Umhau, LMHCA, shares her work as a poet, reading five works from her collection. Her writing touches on themes of friendship, birth and grief, being around the table with memorable food, the loss of an old version of life, and passionately enjoying one's self. Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS join the conversation, interviewing Carter about her creative process, why writing is healing, and how the arts fit into therapy. This episode is in honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Resources: www.CarterUmhau.com Carter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rooneycarter/?hl=en "Free Play" by Stephen Nachmonovitch: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ROAKG2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
48 min
February 27, 2018 #10:Targeting Emotional Loneliness: Interview w/ RO DBT Creator Dr. Thomas Lynch & Erica Smith Lynch
Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy has been a big topic on The Appetite...but today RO DBT creator Dr. Thomas Lynch and his wife and colleague Erica Smith Lynch join us for a conversation around its application within eating disorders. Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy--the newest evidence-based treatment targeting disorders of overcontrol (including anorexia, chronic depression, OCD, and autism)--encourages open expression as a way to combat emotional loneliness in those that are typically more emotionally inhibited. In this conversation, Opal Co-Founder Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS and Appetite Host Carter Umhau, LMHCA ask about the roots of the modality, how RO DBT thinks about the topic of food in eating disorder treatment, and how understanding your temperament can increase the health of your relationships. Resources: Radically Open DBT's Website: http://www.radicallyopen.net/ Upcoming Introductory Training in Seattle: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/event/introduction-to-rodbt/ Upcoming Intensive Training in PNW: http://www.radicallyopen.net/training-events/ro-dbt-intensive-portlandseattle/ The New RO DBT Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XGCP36Z/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody
59 min
February 27, 2018 1.10 Interview with Dr. Thomas Lynch and Erica Smith Lynch
1.10 Interview with Dr. Thomas Lynch and Erica Smith Lynch by Opal: Food+Body Wisdom
59 min

About The Appetite

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The Appetite is a podcast by the founders of Opal: Food+Body Wisdom, an eating disorder treatment center in the University District of Seattle, WA. Psychologist Lexi Giblin, PhD, Marriage and Family Therapist Kara Bazzi, LMFT, and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Julie Church, RDN, CD, will meet every other week to discuss all things food, body, movement, and mental health.