#84: Body Kindness Secrets with Rebecca Scritchfield, Author and Health At Every Size Dietitian
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2016
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Fellow Health At Every Size dietitian Rebecca Scritchfield shares how her family's identity as "emotional eaters" led to their embrace of diet culture, how childhood poverty and food insecurity affected her relationship with food, how she finally discovered the anti-diet movement after starting to work as a dietitian, how she developed the idea for her new book, Body Kindness, why the concept of kindness is so essential in relating to your body, why weight loss isn't a path to health, and lots more!
Rebecca Scritchfield is a well-being coach, registered dietitian nutritionist, certified health and fitness specialist and author of the book, Body Kindness, which Publisher’s Weekly calls “a rousing guide to better health.” Through her weight-neutral mindfulness-based counseling practice, she helps people create a better life with workable goals that fit individual interests.
She is the co-founder of Dietitians for Body Confidence, www.RD4BC.com, a website and free bi-monthly e-mail dedicated to shared learning among dietitians and future RDNs to improve body image in people they serve.
Rebecca has influenced millions through her writing, Body Kindness podcast, and appearances in over 100 media outlets including NBC Nightly News, CNN, the Today show, the Washington Post, O Magazine, Health, Shape, and many others. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she was recently recognized as one of ten “Supermom” entrepreneurs in the Nation’s Capital. Find her online at rebeccascritchfield.com, and get her book for 25% off from 12/27-1/31 at workman.com/products/body-kindness using offer code KIND.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every |
| 0:06.3 | size. |
| 0:07.3 | 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 |
| 0:19.4 | with food. |
| 0:21.4 | Hey there. Happy holidays. I hope you're having a good time. If you celebrate Christmas |
| 0:42.0 | or Hanukkah, you enjoyed yourself yesterday. If you're listening to this, the day comes |
| 0:46.2 | out and that you're having a relaxing holiday week, hopefully you get some time off for |
| 0:51.2 | self-care. I'm recording this ahead of time because I'm going to be visiting family this |
| 0:58.0 | week. So hopefully as you listen to this, I will be relaxing as well. But we have a great |
| 1:03.9 | episode today actually sort of on the topic of self-care and kindness towards yourself |
| 1:09.7 | because my guest is Rebecca Skrychfield, who's a fellow body-positive dietitian, and she |
| 1:14.5 | has a brand new book out called Body Kindness that's all about how to treat your body well |
| 1:19.7 | and compassionately. It's informed by intuitive eating and health at every size and all of |
| 1:24.4 | the great approaches that we talk about here. The book is gorgeous. So here I just talk |
| 1:29.7 | about it a lot in the episode, but it's available now so you can order it on Amazon. I think |
| 1:34.0 | it drops this week. If you're listening to this, the day comes out. It actually drops tomorrow, |
| 1:39.5 | but I think you can still pre-order it the day before and then regular order it the rest |
| 1:44.0 | of the week. So a little gift to yourself there for the new year. Grab that book and I can't |
| 1:49.0 | wait to talk to Rebecca in just a moment. Before we get into that, we are sponsored today |
| 1:53.7 | by my Intuitive Eating Online course, which you can find at chrisdharrison.com slash course. |
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