With gold standard treatment yet to be defined, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) represents a lesser known and lesser understood eating disorder diagnosis. Clients present with a wide range of ages, symptoms, subtypes, etiologies, and therapeutic experiences, leading many providers to feel uncertain about working with this population. We’ve heard: “ARFID clients are so different…
The decision to open a private practice as a dietitian can feel overwhelming. Will you accept insurance? Will you establish and strictly enforce a cancellation policy? What about branding? These are the kinds of questions that may not have been discussed during your undergraduate degree or dietetic internship but are vital to launching your new…
Take a moment to slow down and reflect. Do you remember when you first learned about Health At Every Size®? How and when did you decide that you would practice dietetics from a weight inclusive approach? What personal, educational, or experiential factors led you to where you are today? Whatever the roots, working from a…
A destructive myth runs rampant and widely unchallenged among athletic communities. Its underlying assumptions, unspoken yet pervasive, endanger the mental, physical, social, and emotional health of our athletes. The misconception is this: more slender physique equals more competitive performance. Nothing could be further from the truth. When athletes fixate on shrinking their bodies, the risk…
This post was written and submitted by EDRDpro member Caroline L. Young, MS, RD, LD, RYT. Connect with Caroline at caroyoung1121@yahoo.com or on her website at http://www.thewholeyogird.com Ever since I knew I was going to become a registered dietitian (RD), I dreamt of merging my yoga background with my nutrition expertise – a fusion of Eastern…
This post was written and submitted by Kailey Adkins. Connect with Kailey on Instagram and Facebook @thedisordereddietitan or online at https://thedisordereddietitian.weebly.com/ Hello All! This post will provide some background on, as well as my personal experience with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. “Let’s start at the beginning, a very good place to start” The Sound…
“Food, no matter how pure, cannot fill the space in your soul that longs for love and spiritual experience. If you are trying to use it for this purpose, you may have gone astray on your journey.” Steven Bratman, MD Can the pursuit of healthy eating be taken to an unhealthy extreme? Conversations around orthorexia…
This post was written and submitted by Hannah Frazee. Hannah is a junior at the University of Iowa who is rooted in the Health at Every Size paradigm and is especially interested in studying how systemic oppression impacts health outcomes. You can connect with her on Instagram at @haesrd2be Health at Every Size (HAES) practitioners…
The transition to life as a college student represents an exciting, and often incredibly overwhelming, time. Alongside new friends, a new schedule, new classes, and a new environment, students face the added challenges of independence around food, limited money, social pressure, and a lot of attention to the bodies and body changes. As Claire Mysko,…
This post was written and submitted by Emily Taylor, RD, LDN. Emily Taylor works as an outpatient clinical dietitian in the Greater Boston, MA area. She is a generalist with interests in eating disorders, diabetes management, and IBS/GI symptom management. She is also a recent alumna of the University of Connecticut Coordinated Program in Dietetics,…