Episodes

  • "Nothing Sounds Good"

    "Nothing Sounds Good"
    Apr 12 2024
    In Episode 1, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker explores how we might understand what is being communicated when we're hungry, but nothing sounds good. She digs into how we might understand this struggle and ways to approach a solution from a place of curiosity and empathy.
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    8 mins
  • What Are We Really Weighing?

    What Are We Really Weighing?
    Apr 26 2024
    In Episode 2, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker investigates what we might really be attempting to weigh when we step on a scale and how we can better understand ourselves in light of this pursuit.
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    9 mins
  • Disordered Eating as a Solution

    Disordered Eating as a Solution
    May 13 2024
    In Episode 3, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker explores how disordered eating behaviors are often urgent and creative attempts to solve seemingly unmanageable problems, and how we can accept more nourishment as we find relational means to resolve the original problems.
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    8 mins
  • "Once I Start, I Can't Stop"

    "Once I Start, I Can't Stop"
    May 27 2024
    In Episode 4, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker discusses the phenomenon of not being able to stop eating once you start. She explores its biological and evolutional underpinnings and suggests how to interrupt the cycle.
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    10 mins
  • When Food Hurts

    When Food Hurts
    Jun 17 2024
    In Episode 5, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker delves into what happens when eating food has negative physiological repercussions and how eating disorder treatment can be prolonged when these digestive disturbances go unacknowledged and untreated. She focuses on two such digestive disorders: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS).
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    11 mins
  • Cleanse Thyself

    Cleanse Thyself
    Jul 2 2024
    In Episode 6, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker explores the appeal around cleanses and generally getting rid of things from the body or diet. She then extrapolates these desires to the eating disorder treatment world, where she suggests clinicians may inadvertently seek to eliminate things from the clinical landscape too, for similar reasons as clients.
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    9 mins
  • Looking Beyond the Food: A Paradox

    Looking Beyond the Food: A Paradox
    Jul 30 2024
    In Episode 7, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker distinguishes between food as a supporting cast member in digestive distress, exacerbating symptoms, rather than the root cause of the condition. She discusses the importance of identifying and treating the root cause so that food intake can remain diverse and sufficient, and the digestive system can remain intact and functional.
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    8 mins
  • Carbohydrates: The Pleasure Molecule?

    Carbohydrates: The Pleasure Molecule?
    Aug 19 2024
    In Episode 8, Amy considers why carbohydrates specifically have received the level of notoriety they have in the nutrition and diet world. She touches on the science of what a carbohydrate molecule is, it's chemical role in the body, and describes how our unconscious mind may be operating when it comes to our complex craving for and aversion to carbohydrates.
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    9 mins