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.
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Today on The Messy Intersection, Diana chats with Amee Severson, co-author of the brand-new book How to Raise an Intuitive Eater.
Resources:
- How to Raise an Intuitive Eater on Amazon
- How to Raise an Intuitive Eater on Bookshop
- Book website: intuitiveeating4kids.com
More about Amee: Instagram | Website | Twitter
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)
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.
Follow the new @anti.diet.kids
More about Heather: Instagram | Website
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
***The Messy Intersection is taking a break until November of 2021. Please enjoy the archive and connect with Diana through The Messy Intersection Podcast Community to chat about future episode ideas. Thanks for your support!***
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This episode is a follow-up to episode 014. My guest Gwen Kostal of Dietitians4Teachers and I will discuss how school assignments rooted in diet culture show up from elementary school up through high school. We discuss:
- How Dietitians4Teachers aims to support teachers and provide them with resources to teach children about food in a positive way.
- How diet culture shows up in curriculums from K-12 in both Canada and the U.S.
- The language about food and health that tends to appear in U.S. state and Canadian province curriculums and how that language can be interpreted into assignments that either do or do not help children develop a positive relationship with food.
- The types of school assignments that hold the potential to encourage behaviors that may lead to eating disorders.
- How stock images and avatars used in educational settings, especially in virtual learning, tend to reinforce the thin ideal and perpetuate weight stigma.
- The challenges that teachers face as generalists who are required to teach nutrition and health lessons without a formal background in these subjects.
- How teachers and parents can recognize assignments that may not be in a child's best interest when it comes to helping them cultivate a positive relationship with food.
- How teaching about food can positively intersect with other areas of the curriculum such as math and science.
- Whether lessons on what different nutrients do in our bodies are appropriate for elementary school age children.
- At what age it's appropriate to teach students about calories and macronutrients and how to do so in a way that does not encourage dieting.
- How teaching kids to use critical thinking when faced with nutrition and health assignments helps kids develop resilience against diet culture messages.
Follow Gwen:
Instagram: @dietitians4teachers
Follow Diana:
Instagram: @baby.steps.dietitian
Visit Diana's website to learn more about her counseling services:
(https://dianakrice.com/)
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Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
In this episode, we'll hear from Amie Guice, a Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian, owner of Guice Nutrition Counseling and mom of two young sons. Amie shares her story of when her five-year-old son was assigned a worrisome nutrition assignment in preschool and what she did as a result. We discuss:
- Amie's story of the assignment her son received and how it later influenced his food choices.
- The value of cultivating a positive food and body environment for our kids.
- The importance of children being able to trust that the food their parents provide is an appropriate and good choice.
- How classroom assignments about health vs. unhealthy for preschool aged children can lead to children developing disordered thinking about food.
- What parents can do if their children receive a similar assignment in school.
- Ways to proactively work with your school to support educators in assigning positive assignments related to food.
- How educators certainly aren't out to sabotage our kids' relationships with food, it's just that there's a lot of misinformation on this topic.
- How to "fake it till you make it" in helping your kids develop a positive relationship with food if you're still unsure about your own relationship with food.
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
Follow Amie:
Instagram: @guicenutritioncounseling
Follow Diana:
Instagram: @baby.steps.dietitian
Visit Diana's website to learn more about her counseling services:
(https://dianakrice.com/)
Join The Messy Intersection Podcast Community on Facebook:
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/messyintersectionpodcast)
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Today on the show, I am talking to Yaffi Lvova, a registered dietitian nutritionist, teacher, speaker, author and mom of three.
Yaffi and I discuss:
- Our biggest challenges in food parenting
- Self-care in motherhood and the importance of having your own non-family pursuits
- The cultural evolution of infant feeding
- The distinction between feeding a baby healthy food and demonstrating that you have a baby who eats healthy foods
- How so many rules about baby-led weaning originated and whether they're helpful
- The role of a parent's anxiety in choosing to do baby-led weaning or purees with their infant
- How infants can learn to eat a family's cultural foods regardless of introduction method
- The hard and fast rules about starting solids, regardless of which method of introduction you use
- All about responsive feeding and how to incorporate the practice whether you are doing purees or baby-led weaning
- How getting starting solids "right" has a lot less to do with how or what you feed and much more to do with your own relationship with food
Yaffi's work:
- Nourishing Baby Food Cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Baby-Cookbook-Stage-Stage/dp/1648766188/
- The Stage-By-Stage Baby Food Cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Stage-Stage-Baby-Food-Cookbook/dp/1641529717/
- Nap Time Nutrition Podcast: https://naptimenutrition.libsyn.com/
Follow Yaffi:
Instagram: @babybloomnutrition
Follow Diana:
Instagram: @baby.steps.dietitian
Visit Diana's website to learn more about her counseling services:
(https://dianakrice.com/) or explore her starting solids coaching service here: https://p.bttr.to/2YOikCv
Join The Messy Intersection Podcast Community on Facebook:
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/messyintersectionpodcast
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
In this episode of The Messy Intersection, we hear from Clara Nosek, a weight-inclusive dietitian and the Instagrammer behind @yourdietitianbff.
Clara, who was pregnant with her second child at the time of recording, discusses the experience of being pregnant in a large body and the ways that weight stigma in prenatal care has influenced her physical and emotional well-being.
We discuss:
- Clara's work as an activist raising awareness about issues of bias and inclusion stemming from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
- Clara's lived experience of being in a larger body, both before and during her pregnancies.
- How her body size has influenced her experience of testing for gestational diabetes.
- What pregnant people in larger bodies can do to advocate for the same care smaller-bodied people receive in pregnancy.
- How the pressure to "snap back" after pregnancy often relates to an unfulfilled need for community and identity in new motherhood.
Resources mentioned:
- Beyond Beautiful: A Practical Guide to Being Happy, Confident, and You in a Looks-Obsessed World (https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Beautiful-Practical-Confident-Looks-Obsessed/dp/0399582096/)
Follow Clara:
Instagram: @yourdietitianbff
Follow Diana:
Instagram: @baby.steps.dietitian
Visit Diana's website to learn more about her counseling services:
(https://dianakrice.com/)
Join The Messy Intersection Podcast Community on Facebook:
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/messyintersectionpodcast
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
In this episode of The Messy Intersection, I chat with Dani Lebovitz, a pediatric dietitian, early childhood education advocate and mom of three who loves the show Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood just as much as I do.
Why a show about feeding our kids and feeding ourselves is dedicating an entire episode to a children's television show? As Dani and I will discuss, children learn through stories. And because there are so few shows that do an excellent job of helping kids learn about food in a positive way, we thought that discussing the show deserved an entire episode!
In this episode, we'll how these episodes of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood can help your child develop a positive relationship with food.
🐯 Be a Vegetable Taster / Daniel Tries a New Food
🐯 A Trip to the Enchanted Garden
🐯 A Night Out at the Restaurant
🐯 Daniel's Love Day Surprise
🐯 Daniel's Allergy / Allergies at School
🐯 Daniel's Lunch
🐯 Making Mozies with Nana
🐯 Daniel and Mom Go to the Market
Be sure to check out Dani's free resources for exploring food with kids here: http://experiencedeliciousnow.com/freebies-form/
And follow her beautiful Instagram account here: https://www.instagram.com/kid.food.explorers/
We'll keep the conversation about food talk in children's media going in the Messy Intersection Podcast community on Facebook. Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/messyintersectionpodcast
And grab Diana's recipe PDF with recipes for banana swirl, rainbow heart pizza and mozies right here: https://dianakrice.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/daniel_tiger_recipes.pdf
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Content warning: infant loss
In this episode, we hear from Rabiya Bower, RD, LDN, a registered dietitian aligned with the intuitive eating approach who experienced a personal loss and turned to emotional eating as a coping tool. In the episode:
- Rabiya's story of infant loss
- Her healing journey, including why she turned to food
- Preconceived notions of emotional eating
- Emotional eating outside of the loss community
- How some women use food restriction as an emotional coping mechanism in a similar way
- That emotional eating is a symptom of an issue but not a condition in and of itself
- How to understand if you are using emotional eating in a constructive way
- Helping our children learn to connect food and emotions in a positive way
Follow Rabiya online:
https://www.instagram.com/rabiyabowerrd/
Follow Diana online:
https://www.facebook.com/BabyStepsRD/
Visit Diana's website to learn more about her counseling services:
https://dianakrice.com/
https://www.instagram.com/baby.steps.dietitian/
Join The Messy Intersection Podcast Community:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/messyintersectionpodcast
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Andrea Paul, a registered dietitian specializing in intuitive eating, joins us on The Messy Intersection this week to discuss intuitive eating in pregnancy.
Andera was 27 weeks pregnant with her first child at the time of recording and discusses how, even as a person well-rooted in her food choices, she struggled at times throughout her pregnancy with the messages about food she received.
We discuss:
- The role that food and vitamins play in the process of getting pregnant.
- Navigating morning sickness and how to nourish your body (and your baby) when you don't want to eat.
- Understanding feelings of guilt when you start to think you're not nourishing your baby in the best way possible.
- Embracing food aversions.
- Reconciling what our providers tell us about nutrition vs. listening to our bodies.
- Making food choices when certain foods are "off limits" in pregnancy.
- Whether pregnancy cravings may be women finally listening to their bodies and food preferences without the influence of diet culture.
- How our providers may also be influenced by diet culture messages and how to make food choices that are right for us.
- Reframing the concept of "flunking" the gestational diabetes test.
- What intuitive eating is all about and how to learn more.
Learn more about Andrea:
- https://www.andreapaulrd.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/andreapaul.rd/
- https://www.facebook.com/andreapaul.rd
Connect with host Diana:
- Join The Messy Intersection Podcast Community on Facebook to discuss this episode and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/messyintersectionpodcast
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baby.steps.dietitian/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BabyStepsRD/
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Mandy Major joins us on this episode of The Messy Intersection to discuss her own experience of becoming a mother and how it led her to explore how we can better support birth people through postpartum doulas.
Mandy shares the difference between a postpartum doula and a birth doula and shares information on her company, Major Care Doulas, and the innovations they are using to deliver the care new mothers desperately need in the critical postpartum period.
We discuss:
- Mandy's own birth and postpartum story and how it inspired a career change for her
- Diana's birth stories and how postpartum doulas would have made a world of difference for her, had only she known about them.
- The difference between a BIRTH doula and a POSTPARTUM doula.
- The various roles that postpartum doulas can play depending on the needs of the birth person and the personality and strengths of the doula.
- How postpartum doulas are NOT just baby expert know-it-alls. They're there to support the birth person with expertise AND empathy.
- The current state of the postpartum period in the United States and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the situation.
- The latest about Mandy's company, Major Care Doulas and how they are supporting women with virtual postpartum doula care and and brand new free app called My Fourth (launching January 24th of 2021).
Get in touch with Mandy:
- Major Care Doulas website: https://thatismajor.com/
- Free app: My Fourth: https://thatismajor.com/my-fourth
- https://www.instagram.com/majorcaredoulas/
- https://www.facebook.com/majorcaredoulas/
- mandy@thatismajor.com
And be sure to join The Messy Intersection Facebook Community to share your motherhood experiences and meet a community of other moms navigating life in the messy intersection just like you: https://www.facebook.com/groups/messyintersectionpodcast