The SeasonED RD

Fiona Sutherland, APD   Food and eating and the way we regard our bodies can’t be disconnected from the other parts of our lives.   Bring questions and a reflective spirit to supervision.   Supervision is a powerful burnout-protective mechanism   Burnout can carry with it feelings of shame, especially for new dietitians. But, it is not abnormal; many professionals experience burnout.   Eating diso...

Alison St. Germain, MS, RD Like so many dietetics students and nutrition professionals, Alison ended up working in dietetics as a result of her own disordered relationship with food. She has since realized how much freedom there is from shame and embarrassment in sharing her story, now that she has recovered. Her first RD job was at WIC, where she first learned about Ellyn Satter , the Division of...

Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CEDRD-S Dietitians, therapists, and medical providers don’t get much education or training about eating disorders.  We are led to believe that if we don’t specialize in the area of eating disorders, we don’t need to know much because we aren’t seeing them.    You’ve heard previous guests talk about the importance of asking the simple questions about eating as we conceptual...

Marcia Herrin, EdD, MPH, RDN, LD, FAED How does a dietitian provide family based care virtually? What is Dr. Herrin's opinion about meal plans? Is focusing on weight as a clinician disordered? The reason our guest joined every insurance panel and fights for coverage. Virtual Best Practices episode with Jessica-Lauren Newby Marcia’s Seasonings: Chris Fairburn early book on CBT Reiff and Reiff "Note...

Valerie Grogan, MS, RDN, LD, CEDRD   The RD can be the most despised team member.  How do you as the dietitian handle the tears?  Valerie-isms on healthy, paleo, keto, clean and how to work with families  Let Food Be Food!  ( Cereal Blog ) “It’s ok to be feared and hated because it’s not going to be forever.”  Valerie says, start here:  (Krause – lol)  Life Without ED  The Body Project  Father Hun...

Dr. Anne Marie O’Melia   Nutrition matters, brain, and personality come back  Dr. O’Melia makes a pact – “Give it one year after we restore nutrition before you decide you want to go back to the eating disorder.  How to retrain those neurons that have fired together for so long  TMS – trans magnetic stimulation for ED with depression  NOTHING WORKS WITHOUT NUTRITION  Medications, interactions, and...

Dr Abby Bleistein, MD Goal is sustainable lifestyle change.  Live the best life and thrive  Perception of hunger varies on the spectrum of eating disorders.  LANGUAGE – pts don’t fail treatment, the treatments fail them  STAY CURIOUS – what would that be like for you?  Are Anorexia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder opposite?  People’s perception of hunger can be very individual  Medication can dec...

Dr. Jeffrey Hooper, DO Dr Hooper attempts to bridge the gap between the too common one-size-fits-all medical recommendations for weight loss and eating disorders.  He describes the desperation of his patients to lose weight and recognizes the impact of cultural stigma.  He also talks about the *medical* sequelae of diabetes and hypertension as well as the *physical* sequelae of knees, back, and jo...

  Dr. Mark McGrath, MBBS, MPhil, FRACGP, CEDS, CEDC Dr. McGrath’s interest in biology and psychology are the perfect ingredients for medical providers to work in the field of eating disorders, around the world. (see “seasonings” below).  Dr. McGrath shares what is most rewarding for him is spending longer time with patients. He reminds us that medical providers (and all professionals) can make a b...

Dr. Shelly Bar, MD Virtual Orthostasis and heart rate  Growth charts and determining appropriate weight in growing kids.   Bone growth is an important consideration.  Open weights vs blind weights.   Besides weight, how do we measure progress?    Dr Bar’s Seasonings:  * Dr Charles Wibbelsman   *Breathing through it, finding the lesson in the ‘mess up’  Bio:  Dr. Bar is a Clinical Assistant Profess...

Riley Nickols, PhD, CEDS   Rebecca McConville, MS, RD, LDN, CSSD, CEDRD-S Psychology and Nutrition of Sports are discussed today, including injury, playing and performance. There’s discussion about higher levels of care (HLOC) for athletes with eating disorders. Find out why attunement is important and how to use RPE – Rate of Perceived Exertion What if the Athlete’s One Gear is To Hammer? Calorie...

Jessica-Lauren Newby, MA, RDN, LD, CEDRD-S, IBCLC  Many ED professionals use blind weights, as Jessica-Lauren talks about, to protect people from the emotional roller coaster of completely normal weight changes from morning to night.   (BIA =  bioimpedance analysis.)  People in all “corners” of the state can receive care virtually – more people can get service.  A benefit of virtual work for the p...

Amy Gardner, MS, CEDRD, RYT Is your client wondering if their exercise or movement is compulsive?  Amy shares the ONE question that can help us help our clients? Find out a simple non-invasive try to improve digestion and how collaborating with Occupational Therapy (OT) helps us prevent food trauma. Sensory work is a base for healing. Talk to your supervisor about your own personal history to addr...

Tammy Beasley, MS, RDN, CEDS-S, CSSD Tammy shares a LOT with us today:   What she’s learned about disclosure and what questions to ask yourself when you feel like sharing personal information.  Our training does not prepare us for working with eating disorder clients – no shame.  We are trained to give all the answers, but it’s NOT our job to give answers.  Listen in for what our job IS.  "All tho...

Jillian (Croll) Lampert, PhD, MPH, RD, LD, FAED Dr. Lampert shares her story of being in medical school but being drawn to nutrition.  We are glad she shifted to become an RD (then PhD) to be that force we need in the ED world.  The theme of her work is “Joining and Helping”, doing things together, bite for bite.  She has created for her clients what she wishes she would have had many years before...

Jenny Copeland, PsyD   So many of us in the community, whether it’s in healthcare, or university settings, or fitness centers, are told “We don’t see eating disorders here”. Dr. Copeland describes her setting in community mental health, and how they have grown to not only screen for eating disorders (and SHOCK to find many with Eds) but to provide excellent eating disorders care for those without...

Alexandra Georgiadis RDN, MPH As dietitians, people often show up in our offices for a meal plan for weight reasons.  This is often related to worry about actual or perceived potential for chronic illnesses like diabetes or GI concerns.   “Because I work with eating disorders, sessions with general health concerns are so different than they would have been – it opens up conversations, sort of ‘see...

Beth Harrell , RDN and Abbi Brown , RDN Your favorites: Enhancing Brain Plasticity from Medical Series – Dr. Katherine Godwin, MD Abdominal Wall Dysfunction Is Everything – Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, MD Your Brain On Diets – Dr. Scott Moseman, MD Cake And Tears at 3:00 – Valerie Grogan, RD   Please rate, review and subscribe to keep bringing this to professionals just like YOU. Shoutouts to those of y...

Joel Jahraus, MD, CEDS, FIAEDP, FAED  Many of our guests describe how there weren’t resources to help them learn what they needed to provide eating disorders care.   Thankfully, that has changed.    Several guests on The SeasonED RD also have referred to the  iaedp Core Courses  as an important part of their formation, and Dr. J was on the founding board for the courses.  He reflects how today, di...

Kayla Jessop, RDN, CDN, CEDRD-S   Registration is open for RO-DBT (Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) for dietitians.  This modality might be a game-changer for us ED RDs.  It sure has been for our guest, Kayla Jessop RDN, CDN, CEDRD-S.  Kayla shares that RO-DBT is considered THE most effective for adults with AN, and she answers questions for us like:  How is RO-DBT different from DBT...

Rebecca K. Brumm, MA, LPC, CEDS-S •Data from the body has to be interpreted in addition to thoughts and the ability to be connected and fine-tuned to the body is something individuals with ED struggle with. 
   •What is interoception and how does it impact those with eating disorders? 
   •The same experience can be interpreted in many different ways by different people, so what if I have a differ...

Crystal Bowlby Simmons, Ph. D., CEDS-S    Full and complete healing and recovery are possible  Remember as a clinician, we are humans first   Honest direct conversations  Desperate people do desperate things  It’s not about BLAME  Trying to will ourselves into ‘right actions’ leads to burnout and exhaustion  Finding a container or place to land  Butterfly metaphor – DNA is the same for the caterpi...

Anna Sweeney, MS, RD, LDN, CEDRD-S Anna Sweeney, MS, RD, LDN, CEDRD-S is a social media phenomenon for all things anti-eating disorders and gives us nuggets that help our clients shift the messages that pull them down.   She challenges us to think about what happens when a person surrounds themselves with messages from influencers to “Eat like me, Move like me, Look like me”.  She reminds us that...

Stefanie Boone, MS, RD, CEDRD-S DBT and RO-DBT for the EDRD  Two Opposite Things Can Be True at the Same Time  Radical Acceptance   Mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation  DBT skills are like psychoeducation and are within the scope of practice of the RD  What does it take to reach AND’s Expert Proficiency level for eating disorder dietitians?   RDs can’t gloss over the feelings i...

  Dr. Anna B. Tanner, MD, CEDS-S   With kids, some medical complications are not reversible.  Systems affected are bone density, height, brain growth  Intrusive thoughts vs Healthy thoughts  Never play the woulda, coulda, shoulda game – if it led to an eating disorder, something would have anyway.   American Academy of Pediatrics Publication on prevention of obesity and eating disorders   The fami...