"Talking With Our Mouths Full" is a podcast hosted by Amy Isabella Chalker. As a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist in private practice, Amy uses each episode to address a common challenge from real client sessions that explores how people experience (or don’t experience) hunger, what hunger means for how they feed themselves, and how hunger impacts their relationships with their bodies and the world around them. She also weaves in more complex questions that consider gastrointestinal conditions and other chronic health conditions that both externalize hunger and interfere with real nourishment. Above all, Amy advocates for seeing and hearing the individual person beneath the clinical symptoms and addresses how relationships can nourish, too. New episodes air monthly.
In this episode, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker discusses how she addresses clients' wishes for weight loss in her practice. She mentions factors that drive thin ideals, factors that influence weight, and describes how she works with clients who present with eating disorders that include fixation on weight loss.
20 Nov 2024
Measuring Wellness: A Moving Target
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker shares how lab values and data points often fall short in measuring wellness, highlighting the importance of critical thinking and individualized care.
10 Oct 2024
What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
In episode 10, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker discusses how talking about food and body is a gateway into even deeper, relational conversations that can help clients heal from disordered eating in a more meaningful way. She gives case examples to illustrate this process and encourages addressing the clinical relationship to effectively treat eating disorders.
4 Sept 2024
"Phantom Limb" Feeding
In Episode 9, Amy discusses the flip side of "When Food Hurts"; when digestive conditions are effectively managed and foods that were once off limits can be re-introduced, how might we understand the seemingly contradictory feelings that arise, and how do we go about re-integrating foods in a way that feels both physically and emotionally possible?
19 Aug 2024
Carbohydrates: The Pleasure Molecule?
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.
30 Jul 2024
Looking Beyond the Food: A Paradox
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.
2 Jul 2024
Cleanse Thyself
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.
17 Jun 2024
When Food Hurts
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).
27 May 2024
"Once I Start, I Can't Stop"
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.
13 May 2024
Disordered Eating as a Solution
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.
26 Apr 2024
What Are We Really Weighing?
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.
12 Apr 2024
"Nothing Sounds Good"
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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