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The Allender Center Podcast

Engaging Food & Body

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Food and how we feel about our bodies can be a place of great conflict, especially as  we emerge from the pandemic. It’s imperative we treat our bodies with kindness and be able to name the dangerous influence of diet culture. So today, we’re bringing this episode out from the archives! You’ll hear the first part of a conversation recorded in 2020 featuring guests Matt Tiemeyer, LMHC, and Diane Summers, RDN, CEDRD-S, CD about how we can step into greater kindness around food and our bodies.

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.

0:06.7

I'm Dr. Dan Allender.

0:08.7

And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.

0:10.5

We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.

0:14.7

And restoration for the heart.

0:17.2

Thank you for joining us.

0:18.5

Let's get this conversation started.

0:26.1

Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, I have the privilege to talk with two dear friends about something so very important always, but also very, very important as we make our way through this COVID-19 era.

0:41.5

So let me introduce Matt Temeier, who's a therapist in private practice in the Seattle area

0:49.6

and runs and owns Blue Harbor counseling.

0:54.4

So, Matt, thank you for being with us, and Diane Summers, who is a dietitian, who runs the Hope Nutrition Therapy Center.

1:04.6

And Diane and Matt work often together in a conference with a friend by the name of Kate on body and food and have taught a number of times at the Seattle School on behalf of the Allender Center both have what I would call deep bonds with the Allender Center.

1:26.1

So it is a privilege to have the two of you in this conversation.

1:31.6

So Matt, Diane, tell me at least a little bit and tell our audience a little bit about

1:36.7

who you are, how you got into this conversation about food.

1:42.3

And I have a bunch of questions after that to be able to walk on through this process.

1:50.8

Well, yeah, Dan, thanks for having us.

1:54.7

I would say that I came into the conversation around food and body completely by accident.

2:03.6

I had absolutely no idea that I would want to work with individuals struggling with eating disorders.

2:11.6

And I was involved shortly after I graduated at a facility in which I plan to avoid people with eating disorders.

2:24.3

And I was recruited over time to be involved in some intensive situations with some of these folks and found out that I really enjoyed

2:37.0

the clients.

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