#77: How to Handle Weight Stigma & Body Shame in the Family with Joanne Soolman, Health At Every Size Dietitian
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Fellow Health at Every Size dietitian Joanne Soolman shares how weight stigma manifested in her family, how she overcame body shame and discovered Health at Every Size, how she handles having a sister who's a prominent Weight Watchers leader, and lots more!
Joanne Levy Soolman, MS, RD, LDN, is a registered dietitian and co-owner of Soolman Nutrition and Wellness, LLC located in Wellesley, MA. She and her husband Jonah, who is also a registered dietitian, provide outpatient nutrition counseling services for those in southeastern New England. Joanne got her BA in Psychology from Brown University and her MS in Nutrition and Health Promotion from Simmons College. Joanne specializes in nutrition counseling for individuals struggling with eating disorders and disordered eating. In addition to being a professional member of the Multiservice Eating Disorder Association, she is a proud member of the Association for Size Diversity and Health, promoting the principles of Health At Every Size®.
Check out Joanne's blog post about her sister being Oprah's personal Weight Watchers consultant (TW: mentions numbers), and find her on her website at SoolmanNutrition.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every |
| 0:06.2 | size. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified |
| 0:11.2 | intuitive eating counselor, specializing in weight-inclusive wellness. |
| 0:15.4 | Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 0:19.3 | with food. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 77. |
| 0:38.9 | I am of course your host, Kristi Harrison, and today I am talking with a fabulous guest, |
| 0:44.0 | a fellow body positive and health at every size dietitian named Joanne Suelman. |
| 0:50.0 | She has a great story of her own relationship with food and how she healed it, but also |
| 0:55.0 | how she continues to have to practice many of the tools that I share with a lot of my |
| 1:00.7 | clients around navigating diet culture in all of its various forms that surround us because |
| 1:06.5 | she has sort of a living breathing embodiment of diet culture in her own family, someone |
| 1:12.0 | who is very stuck in the diet mentality and in fact makes a great living off of selling, |
| 1:16.8 | weight loss to others. |
| 1:18.4 | So we'll talk about how Joanne navigates that and how she stays true to her health at every |
| 1:22.9 | size and body positive focus in the midst of that kind of pressure from her very own family. |
| 1:28.8 | It's a really fascinating episode and I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment. |
| 1:32.9 | First I want to let you know about a couple of great resources for improving your relationship |
| 1:36.5 | with food. |
| 1:37.5 | The first is my free quiz which you can take at chrisdiharrison.com slash quiz and I'll |
| 1:43.4 | send you dozens of great tools and tips and resources for wherever you're at on the |
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