This is shocking but true. Diet culture shows up even in safe spaces like churches, medical offices, schools, sports, family and friend relationships. Join Leslie Schilling MS RDN CEDRD as she describes where she's seen diet culture show up in safe spaces, including the Christian faith.
Leslie talks about how her career as an anti-diet dietitian has shape-shifted over the years from working with athletes, treating eating disorders, working with families and feeding young kids, to now taking down diet culture within the Christian faith.
Leslie shares why she's passionate about this new focus in her work, and how diet culture intersects with Christianity.
She talks about how Christian religious practices can be helpful or harmful to your relationship with food (including fasting), and how Intuitive Eating is a gift of grace that we were all born with.
Finally, Leslie shares her passion for how nourishing your body by feeding yourself is essential to standing up for what you believe in and doing the work you were meant to do in this world - especially as a woman.
If you've been taught by any religious tradition that eating must be restricted to be closer to God or that uber-healthy eating makes your body more worthy as a temple of God, this episode might leave you questioning those beliefs and help you start nourishing your body knowing that all bodies are divine - independent of size, health status, or capabilities.
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