Jan 14, 2020
Happy New Year! We're spending our first four episodes of 2020
on a very popular and requested topic from our listeners- body
image. Ever wondered how bathroom scales got in your bathroom? Or
who invented the BMI chart? Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN joins us to
shed light on the topics of diet culture, our bodies, raising kids
who don’t pick themselves apart in front of a mirror, and learning
to be nice to ourselves and pursue health in a realistic and, well,
healthy way. The interview was so dense and rich that we've split
it up into two episodes. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do, and
big thanks to Rebecca for bringing your wisdom and passion to
Woven! (that's 3 Rebeccas if you're counting, ha ha.)
About Rebecca Scritchfield:
Rebecca is a well-being coach, registered dietitian
nutritionist, ACSM certified exercise physiologist, and author of
the book, Body Kindness: Transform your health from the inside
out and never say diet again (Workman Publishing), which
Publisher’s Weekly calls “a rousing guide to better
health” and The New York Times Book Review calls “simple
and true”.
Through her weight-inclusive Body Kindness counseling
practice, Rebecca helps people reject diets and body shame to
create a better life with workable, interesting self-care goals to
fit individual’s needs and preferences, not society’s unrealistic
weight and beauty standards.
Rebecca has influenced millions through her writing, podcast,
workshops, and appearances in over 100 media outlets including NBC
Nightly News, CNN, the TODAY show, O Magazine, Real
Simple, Time, and many others. Rebecca is a freelance
writer for The Washington Post and Self magazine,
an advisor to Health Magazine (2019) and Diversify
Dietetics, and a mom of two young girls. She lives in Washington,
D.C., where she was recognized as one of ten “Supermom”
entrepreneurs in the Nation’s Capital.