The Messy Intersection explores the tangled-up place where a generation of parents seeks to raise body-confident intuitive eaters while simultaneously undoing decades of their own diet culture learnings. Guests share stories and insight about about feeding kids, feeding ourselves, intuitive eating, stress, anxiety, the mental load and raising kids with the resilience to defy diet culture and develop a healthy relationship with food. Hosted by registered dietitian Diana Rice, RD of @anti.diet.kids.
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Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
The Messy Intersection is back with Season 2! Welcome to The Messy Intersection, hosted by Diana Rice, RD of @anti.diet.kids. Today we're talking to Heather Caplan, an anti-diet registered dietitian, eating disorder survivor and mom of three.
Content warning: Discussion of an unplanned pregnancy.
Heather and Diana discuss:
- Heather's shock of discovering she was pregnant again when she'd just had her second baby mid-COVID.
- Feeling that your body is not your own because of pregnancy and breastfeeding.
- When a new pregnancy interrupts your breastfeeding relationship with the older child.
- Holding space for both women challenged by unplanned pregnancies and women enduring infertility.
- Heather's experience with hypothalamic amenorrhea (loss of menstruation) related to her past eating disorder and her belief at the time that she wouldn't be able to conceive.
- Heather's experience with orthorexia in young adulthood and what orthorexia is.
- How an orthorexic mentality (unhealthy obsession with healthy eating) can show up or resurface when feeding children.
- The challenge of normalizing our kids eating and enjoying all foods, even when we have already done the work of making all foods fit for ourselves.
- How messages about positive child feeding practices, including the Division of Responsibility, can easily become warped into diet culture messages.
- Why there are not more resources for parents in the anti-diet space.
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