The Mindful Dietitian

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Hosted by Fiona Sutherland, Dietitian from Melbourne Australia, these are much needed conversations which elevate our practice and encourage ownership for our learning and unlearning. The Mindful Dietitian community is for Dietitians and health professionals world-wide who are committed to promoting peace with food and bodies alongside individuals and communities. Please join us! Hosted by Fiona Sutherland, Dietitian from Melbourne Australia.

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Diet Culture in Schools with Gwen Kostal

Aug 09 2022 74 mins  
Help! My kid has been sent home with a serve of diet culture! If you recognise this, either as a parent, or as a health professional, you'll love this episode with Gwen Kostal from Dietitians 4 Teachers. Educators, we love you! And we would love to work with you to make our schools and education settings a safer place for more kids. In this episode, Gwen shares her career trajector

Responsive Feeding & Reflective Practice with Grace Wong

Mar 06 2022 76 mins  
Grace Wong on inclusive, flexible feeding modalities and how we can bring a more reflective spirit to our work. In this episode, Grace discusses the ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) umbrella diagnosis and its shortcomings, Responsive Feeding Therapy (RFT); how it was developed. who was part of its curation and its rationale, what each of the 5 interrelated values o

Affirming Neurodivergence with Naureen Hunani

Feb 15 2022 47 mins  
Naureen Hunani on how the diversity of the human brain, and shifting from shame, to affirmation. In this episode, Naureen discusses Neurodiversity, Neurodivergence and The Neurodiversity Movement/Paradigm and how they differ from each other, how generalising and stereotypes are unhelpful, why we need to consider all underlying challenges for neurodivergent people when it comes to f

Disrupting Transgenerational Disconnection with Sumner Brooks

Jan 04 2022 55 mins  
Supporting today's young people to stay connected with food, eating and their body by building parental confidence. Links from the episode: How To Raise an Intuitive Eater; Raising the next Generation with Food and Body Confidence EDRDPRO About Sumner: SUMNER BROOKS, MPH, RDN, LD, CEDRD is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and certified eating disorder specialist (CEDRD) ba

1980‘s Diet Culture Horror Meets Raising Body Positive Teens with Signe Darpinian

Dec 06 2021 61 mins  
Signe Darpinian on life in the diet culture horror of the 1980's and supporting parents to raise teens who feel good in their bodies. In this episode, Signe Darpinian shares how her sequence of co-authored books came to be, her experienced collaborating with Wendy Stirling and Dr Shelley Aggarwal and beauty of bringing all your experiences to the table, the diet culture horror film

Gentle Nutrition with Rachael Hartley

Jun 03 2021 39 mins  

Body Belonging with Virgie Tovar

May 20 2021 74 mins  
Virgie Tovar on how we lose our sense of body belonging, then how we can make our way back. In this episode, Virgie shares what fat phobia and diet culture is and how they are linked, the many ways healthcare professionals can bring themselves and others closer to body justice, how people lose belonging of their bodies, the first thing we need to do in the unravelling of fat phobia

Dismantling Anti-Fat Bias in Healthcare with Dr Natasha Larmie

May 06 2021 74 mins  
Dr Natasha Larmie (aka "The Fat Doctor") on getting serious about the harms of anti-fat bias in healthcare. In this episode, Natasha shares her arrival onto the Instagram scene, what the weight stigma research shows, the difference between implicit and explicit biases and how they impact clients and patients, what’s really happening when a doctor prescribes ‘weight loss’, the

Barriers to HAES in Dietetic Practice With Rachel Larkey

Apr 22 2021 56 mins  
Rachel Larkey on her recent research investigating barriers to HAES(R)-aligned Dietetic practice. In this episode, Rachel shares how her thesis evolved into a research paper recently published in journal of critical dietetics, she shares the three key barriers identified by dietitians when introducing IE and HAES approaches with clients in the community setting and how they showed

Plate by Plate to Recovery with Wendy Sterling

Apr 08 2021 57 mins  
Wendy Sterling on using the practical Plate by Plate Approach to support people in healing from an Eating Disorder. In this episode, Wendy steps us through her career as an Eating Disorder Dietitian and she shares more about historical exclusion of dietitians from the Family-Based Treatment (FBT) model, how the plate-by-plate aims to support FBT and empower parents, practical ways