Resources and research on eating disorder diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Books Appetites: Why Women Want – Caroline Knapp Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies – Margo Maine, PhD When Food is Love – Geneen Roth Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family – Ellyn Satter The Beauty Myth – Naomi […]
The Appetite Episode 93: Guided Meal Support: How to Eat While Sheltering-in-Place How has the global pandemic impacted your relationship to food? As restaurants close, grocery shelves are emptied, and anxiety levels go up, you deserve compassion when it comes to the way your body is responding to this […]
The Appetite Episode 88: Sport Performance: Should Weight Ever be Manipulated? “Leaning out” and manipulating body weight have been widely accepted modes of performance preparation for elite athletes. But as the sports world wakes up to the harm that the emphasis on weight manipulation can have on athletes’ mental and […]
Metabolism: How a Diet Can Harm the Body Is there such thing as a metabolism diet? Can we truly control our bodies in order to change the way we look? As talk of New Year’s “lifestyle changes,” diets, and new exercise regimens fill our feeds, we’re here to talk about […]
The Appetite Episode #67: Internal Regulation Skills: Learning How to Eat (Part 4) An Opal: Food+Body Wisdom Podcast Do you trust your body’s appetite cues? It’s all about internal regulation on the last of this four-part series inspired by Ellyn Satter’s “Eating Competency Skills” and we’re talking body wisdom. […]
The Appetite Episode #66: Food Responsibility + Context: Learning How to Eat (Part 3) An Opal: Food+Body Wisdom Podcast What habits and routines can support healthy eating? This third of our four-part series on Ellyn Satter’s eating competency skills, offers a look into how to build a healthy context and […]
The Appetite Episode #65: Eating Attitudes: Learning How to Eat (Part 2) An Opal: Food+Body Wisdom Podcast Have you ever thought about learning how to eat? What is a healthy attitude around food and eating habits? This second of a four-part series on Ellyn Satter’s eating competency skills, continues to […]
The Appetite Episode #64: Food Acceptance: Learning How to Eat (Part 1) An Opal: Food+Body Wisdom Podcast Do you know how to eat in a healthy way? Most answers to the question of healthy eating actually have more to do with what foods you should be eating, rather than the […]
The Appetite Episode #50: Eating Styles: What’s Normal? An Opal: Food+Body Wisdom Podcast After ditching the diets, have you ever wondered what “normal eating” actually looks like? The truth is that attuned eating looks differently from person to person. So on this episode, the Opal Co-Founders (Lexi Giblin, […]
The Appetite Episode #19: Can I Trust My Body With Food? An Opal: Food+Body Wisdom Podcast Regular listener Tam O’Donnell joins us to respond to a previous episode, “How to Eat in a Food-Obsessed World.” Tam brings questions and wonderings around how to provide both structure and freedom for kids […]