Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation with Emiko Davies, Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer and cook-book author. 

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• Edited by Joeli Kelly

Our very first guest on the Can I Have Another Snack? pod is artist Laxmi Hussain whose stunning work depicts the softness of bodies and the tenderness of early motherhood. We talk about her postpartum experience, and how, even as a mother of three, her instincts were undermined and gaslit. We talk about how new mothers (especially pandemic mums) are repeatedly let down and dismissed. Laxmi shares her experiences of sharing her studio with a toddler and how he has become part of her process. We then go on to discuss her family’s food culture and her own relationship to food and appetite. Lastly, we consider all the ways that our kids are told there is something fundamentally wrong with them, and how we as parents can give them the tools to develop resilience to these messages. Also, just a heads up that this will be the final episode coming through the DSMG feed, so make sure to subscribe to the new Can I Have Another Snack? pod to catch all the new episodes!

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Hold tight folks, this is a good one! This week, I’m chatting with Molly Forbes, journalist, campaigner, author of Body Happy Kids and founding director of the Body Happy Organisation.

Molly gives loads of practical and pragmatic advice for how you can begin to open up conversations with your school to stomp out diet culture and support positive body esteem. It's such a helpful episode for anyone who has wondered whether or not schools are undoing some of the things that you're doing at home to protect your kids' relationship with food and their bodies. 

Some of the topics we cover include:

• How influential schools really are when it comes to supporting/disrupting body esteem. 
• Where diet culture creeps up in schools in areas like school uniform policy.
• How we can open up conversations with schools about diet culture, and how teachers can get their schools on board with an anti diet culture policy.
• How you can begin to tackle food policing policies. 
• National weight measurement programme and why you should opt your kiddo out. 

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Show notes:

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• Check out Molly’s Instagram post school uniform policies
• Check out Dieticians 4 Teachers on Instagram
• Laura’s Website
• Body Happy Org Website
• Buy a copy of Just Eat It | How to Just Eat It 
• Buy a copy of Body Happy Kids
• Sign up for a Learn with LCIE Course
• Buy an Intuitive Eating friendly guide to managing different health concerns
• Edited by Joeli Kelly

This week, I'm joined by the Dr. Asher Larmie AKA The Fat Doctor. Asher is a transgender, non-binary GP and fat activist who campaigns for an end to medical weight stigma. I really loved this conversation and am so excited for you all to hear it. We cover things like;

• Why you can't control your child's body and why you shouldn't want to
• Advice on how you can raise kids who are resilient to body shame
• What to say when your doctor wants to weight you and you don't consent
• How they are working to disrupt weight stigma in the medical profession

Show notes:

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• Laura’s Website
• Asher’s Website
• Check out Asher’s #NOWEIGH campaign
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• Sign up for a Learn with LCIE Course
• Buy an Intuitive Eating friendly guide to managing different health concerns
• Edited by Joeli Kelly

You’re gonna love this one team! This week’s episode is here and this time, I’m joined by Jeanette Thompson-Wessen, AKA @themindsetnutritionist. Jeanette is an anti-diet, Intuitive Eating, fat positive nutritionist and all-round bad-ass in this field. In this conversation, we cover things like;

• Jeanette’s experience of bumping up against anti-fat maternity policies
• How leaning into social justice helped her make peace with her body
• Snapback culture and our experiences of breastfeeding
• Modeling healthy body esteem to our kids
• How diet culture shows up in our parenting
• How raising anti-diet kids is a form of resistance and rebellion 

This is such a great conversation ya’ll, so don’t forget to subscribe and give it a share if you enjoyed it!

Show Notes:

• Follow Laura on Instagram | Twitter
• Follow Jeanette on Instagram
• Follow Don’t Salt My Game on Instagram
• Laura’s Website
• Jeanette’s Website
• Check out Jeanette’s crowdfunding campaign here 
• Check out my IG post on where diet culture shows up in your parenting
• Buy a copy of Just Eat It | How to Just Eat It 
• Check out Body Happy Org
• Sign up for a Learn with LCIE Course
• Buy an Intuitive Eating friendly guide to managing different health concerns
• Edited by Joeli Kelly

HEYO - look who’s back on the pod!

Tally first shared her journey with us back in 2019 {listen to that here}. Since then she’s published two books and completely shaken up the fitness industry, challenging the notoriously weight-centric, aesthetics focussed industry to move in ways that feel joyful and to prioritize rest (and not feel guilty about it!). She also joined us in 2021 to break down the principles of Intuitive Movement {you can listen to that here}.

This episode was recorded back in January as part of a live Q+A we did (before things got weird). I decided to save this episode to share with you on International No Diet Day because it felt like the perfect way to celebrate!

In this episode we cover:

- The difference between exercise and intuitive movement
- How we can approach rest without feeling guilty
- Why I hate the daily mile in schools 
- Ableism in the fitness space
- How to know if movement is motivated by self-care or coming from a place of wanting to control your body and your weight

This is such a fun episode - Tally is a dream. If you enjoy this conversation then please don’t forget to share and keep the conversation going over on our socials!

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Edited by Joeli Kelly

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Kristen is back for round 2 this week! Kristen joined me a couple weeks back to talk about all things child feeding (if you haven’t checked it out yet, you can listen here!). This time round, we’re diving into some of the challenges listeners are facing while feeding your kids and answering questions you submitted about your specific struggle. We’re going to cover things like;

• What to do if your breastfed toddler is a boob fiend
• Child led ways to support older kids who are quite particular about what they like and don't like, and are maybe struggling to expand the variety of foods that they're eating
• How diet culture shows up at the table
• What to do when a kid starts dropping food or goes through a food jag
• What if kids aren't interested in foods
• How you can support a picky or fussy eater

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Check out my IG post highlighting the main red flags for requiring more support with feeding kids
Check out my IG post about “beige” foods
If you are looking for a professional trained in responsive feeding, you could reach out to myself, Jo Cormack, Julia Wolman, Natalia Stasenko, Katja Rowell or Naureen Hunani
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Edited by Joeli Kelly

I hope you’re buckled in because this one’s a doozy! Today I’m joined by Dr. Martha Deiros Collado, a clinical psychologist with expertise in parenting, child development and paediatric health. In this conversation, we explore how to support kids in building healthy body esteem and preserving a positive experience of embodiment. Some of the topics we cover in this episode include;

• The necessity of bringing an intersectional lens to conversations about body esteem
• Why promoting body esteem is about so much more than teaching kids they look good 
• We cover BIG ideas like agency, autonomy, consent and honouring differences in identity (but don’t sweat - Martha makes these ideas super accessible)
• We touch on how letting kids have autonomy around food is so critical (and why you should let them blow their own nose!)
• And lastly, we name some of the power structures and systems of oppression that make us feel as though our bodies are not good enough in the first place

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Edited by Joeli Kelly

In the second episode of DSMG's brand new season, I chat with Nicola Salmon, a fat-positive fertility coach and author of 'Fat and Fertile'. This is such an important conversation to have to support people in relearning how to trust their own bodies and ability to get pregnant. Some of the topics we touch on in this episdode include;

• Fat-positive fertility
• Why you don't have to lose weight before starting a family
• The BS that are BMI cut-offs in assisted fertility
• Things you can do to support your fertility at any size

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Check out Nicola’s IG post on the research behind fertility and BMI
Check out Nicola’s book ‘Fat and Fertile’
Locate a fat-positive fertility clinic here
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Edited by Joeli Kelly

Here it is! The very first episode of DSMG’s brand new season - are you ready?
In this week’s episode, my guest Kristen Scher and I are diving deep into all things child feeding. Some of the topics we’ll be covering in this episode are;

• What the Division of Responsibility is and who has what role in the child-feeding relationship
• Unpacking the parent's job when it comes to feeding - the what, the when, and the where of feeding our kids
• How diet culture shows up in child feeding and the problems that can cause
• The importance of unpacking our own issues with food before they trickle down to our kids

Don't forget to hit subscribe to keep in the loop with new eipsodes and keep an eye out for part 2 with Kristen, coming in a couple of weeks!

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Edited by Joeli Kelly