On this enlightening episode from last fall, Whitney Trotter (RD / RN) joined us to talk about intersectionality, trauma-informed care, and how eating disorder treatment fails BIPOC communities (plus, of course, what needs to be done to improve access and approaches to care).

I have Virginia Sole-Smith here and I couldn’t be more thrilled for you to listen to this nuanced episode. We explore how our relationship with food and our body is shaped and influenced by our parents.

We’re revisiting a favorite episode of mine from this past year! On this episode of Full Plate, we hear from Savala Nolan, who talks with me about belonging versus conforming, understanding the body as our home, and how to walk away from a lifetime of disordered eating. It’s a great one!

We’re joined by my dear friend and client, Kimberly, to discuss her experience with weight loss surgery, what led her to it, and her experiences after getting it. Tune in to this bonus episode on Patreon for this brave and honest conversation!

We’re joined by Edie Stark, MSc, LCSW, owner of Stark Therapy Group to explore the relationship between anxiety and disordered eating, and how we can protect our authentic selves in both healthcare settings, when on social media, and in life.

We’re joined by an incredible client of mine, Rachel Garrett, who is a career and leadership coach. We get into childhood influences and coping mechanisms, the ongoing struggle with self-acceptance, and the constant pursuit of aligning our life with our values, and the parallels between diet culture and professional growth.

We’re joined again by Ragen Chastain to explore all things pharmaceutical companies, weight loss drugs, and celebrity culture. Tune in to this bonus episode on Patreon for this informative and fascinating discussion!

We’re joined by Ragen Chastain to explore the question: “Isn’t being fat bad for your health?”. Ragen helps us unpack the science — as well as the social rhetoric — that continue to perpetuate lies about fatness, health, and disease. And oh yes, we get into pharmaceutical companies, weight loss drugs, and celebrity culture.

This week on the pod we’re chatting with the incredible Becca King (@adhd.nutritionist on Instagram), a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor who specializes in helping folks with ADHD heal their relationship with food.

This week, I’m joined by body image coach and children’s book author, Debbie Saroufim. We delve into why it's vital to adopt a fat-positive, anti-diet perspective when it comes to children's well-being, and how parents can take an active role in supporting their children’s body image.

On this week’s episode, Dacy Gillespie joins me to talk all about a weight-inclusive approach to fashion, clothing grief, and what the hell to do with our closets.

On this week's episode, we're joined by Leslie Schilling, registered dietitian and author. We focus on themes in her second book, Feed Yourself, which explores the intersection of diet culture and religion — how diet culture shows up in the safest spaces, including places of worship.

This is free preview of a paywalled episode, which is available to our wonderful supporters on Patreon. This episode is an answer to a question submitted on Patreon from Erica, who asked about how to manage acid reflux without restriction, because just thinking about restricting is triggering. We dive into the dangers of restriction for your digestive system, what to do to improve acid reflux, and how to avoid the traps of disordered eating in “gut health”.

Kirsten Morrison (@intuitive_rd on Instagram) joins us this week on the pod to discuss her experience as a former weight loss surgery dietitian. We explore the consequences on physical and mental health, her journey from working in bariatrics to now specializing in intuitive eating, how dietitians often experience their own disordered eating, and the overlap of disordered eating and bariatric surgery.

This week we are joined by the incredible Lauren Fleshman, New York Times bestselling author of "Good for a Girl", to discuss how our sports systems fails women and girls and how we can create a better future for the next generation of female athletes.

There is a special brand of diet and wellness culture that comes for you when you're pregnant. From the “permission” for your body to change, to pressure around food choices, to beauty standards for pregnant people, we're getting into it all.

If you’ve ever been curious if intermittent fasting’s claims about health benefits during menopause are true, this is the episode for you. This week on Full Plate, we're digging into the claims, the science, and debunking the myths around intermittent fasting during this season of life.

This week I am so thrilled to be joined by Kimmie Singh, RD to discuss PCOS: what it is, common misconceptions, why medical providers are so confused about it, its relationship to disordered eating, how to take a weight-inclusive and trauma-informed approach, and more.

What is alive in you right now? What does it mean to return to the body as the place where we experience life? The concept of embodiment has become more present in the lexicon of body image and body liberation. While deeply important to our collective divestment from diet culture, exploring your own embodiment may feel confusing, intangible, or incongruent with your lived experience.

Emma Green joins us this week to talk about her diagnosis of autism as an adult and how it impacts her understanding of her eating disorder as a teen, as well as how healthism, ableism, and anti-fatness intersect. We can’t talk about disordered eating and eating disorders without acknowledging healthism and ableism, and this conversation brings in both Emma’s lived experience and a discussion on how to build inclusive, supportive spaces for neurodivergent folks.