34: The Letter I Wish Someone Had Written to Me
Nutrition Matters Podcast
Paige Smathers
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Episode 5 in the NMP Body Image Series welcomes back to the show Blair Mize, RDN, LDN who wrote a beautiful letter to her younger self about what she'd say to herself if she could go back in time and provide comfort, assurance, and love. She reflects on her own story and history with disordered eating and an eating disorder and talks about her highlights of recovery. Today she works as a registered dietitian who helps people make strides to improve their relationship with food. She has so much wisdom and passion for the subject and I think you'll love what she has to say.
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Blair's letter to herself
- Brene Brown's book Daring Greatly
- Blair's blog post about weight at the doctor's office
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nutrition Matters podcast with Paige Smathers, registered dietitian nutritionist. |
| 0:11.3 | Hi everyone, it's Paige, your favorite nutrition podcaster and dietitian. Nutrition Matters podcast |
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| 0:48.6 | thought. Thank you for listening. |
| 0:54.0 | Hey everyone. Thanks for being here. Welcome to episode 34 of Nutrition Matters podcast |
| 0:58.5 | in the fifth episode in the body of its series. Just a little bit of housekeeping before |
| 1:03.5 | we begin. I wanted to let all of you know that I'm going to start numbering each of |
| 1:08.0 | the episodes in the title so that as you share with your friends and family, |
| 1:11.0 | you can say, hey, episode 19 was really interesting. Unfortunately, I can't go back and |
| 1:16.9 | do the ones that I've already published, but I'm going to do this from now on. And today |
| 1:21.8 | we have a letter that my guest is going to read in the beginning, and then we'll get into the |
| 1:27.4 | interview. |
| 1:28.2 | Hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:29.8 | Dear precious girl, I know you are in a season of life when loving or even just being content |
| 1:35.3 | and accepting of your body seems impossible. |
| 1:38.2 | I remember standing in similar shoes years ago throughout high school and college. |
| 1:43.3 | I recall feeling as though I could never |
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