Shoulders Down
When you live in the diet mindset, you spend much of your time living in your head- constantly tallying, dwelling, and stressing over your food and lifestyle choices. When you become an intuitive eater, you learn to drop into your body and start living shoulders down. The territory below your shoulders contains your innate wisdom and power. Shoulders Down is a podcast designed to teach you how to harness your intuition to govern not just how you eat but also how you live. Shoulders Down Podcast is hosted by Anti-Diet Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Leah Kern, who works with clients to heal their relationships with food in her private practice, Leah Kern Nutrition. Disclaimer: All content in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The information and education provided is not intended or implied to supplement or replace professional medical treatment, advice, and/or diagnosis.
Shoulders Down
Is TikTok Wrecking Your Body Image & Self-Esteem? with Lizzy Pope, PhD, RD
In this week’s episode I’m joined by return guest Lizzy Pope, a professor and director of the undergraduate dietetics program at the University of Vermont. Lizzy is also a certified intuitive eating counselor and her research focuses on weight-inclusive nutrition education and manifestations of diet culture in social media.
Together, we discuss:
- How weight inclusivity & the rise of Ozempic have impacted dietetics
- The glorification of weight loss on TikTok
- The lack of expert voices providing nutrition content
- How TikTok videos perpetuate thin privilege and racism
- The challenges of learning and teaching weight inclusivity
Mentioned in the episode:
- Listen to Lizzy’s previous episode
More from Lizzy:
- Learn more about Lizzy’s work at UVM
- Check out her TikTok weight-normative messaging research
More from Leah:
- Get access to The Mindset Matters Free Mini Course
- Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
- Join my self-paced course, The Return
- Subscribe to my personal Substack
- Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
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