This episode is all about identity. Opal: Food + Body Wisdom Co-Founders, Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Host Carter Umhau, MA, LMHCA discuss topics of identity development and explore how struggles with disordered eating and body image can sometimes point to a crisis of identity. The Appetite crew shares both from their expertise as clinicians and from personal experience, and Kara brings specific attention to the experience of those that identify as athlete’s and what t...
May 25, 2018•29 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this heartfelt and vulnerable conversation, host Carter Umhau, MA, LMHCA, asks Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS about who they were when they were younger and how the people that came before them influenced the women and leaders they’ve become. This episode is released in honor of Mother’s Day. Links: Betty Reid Soskin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Reid_Soskin Connect with us: theappetite@opalfoodandbody.com www.OpalFood...
May 10, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Opal co-founders Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, join together with host Carter Umhau, LMHCA to reflect and debrief after a transformative experience at the MUSE Conference--a yearly gathering of movers and shakers to kick off Women's History Month. The Founders explore their role as leaders within the eating disorder community and beyond and share with vulnerability and strength how MUSE spoke to each of them in this particular season of life. Li...
Apr 26, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Today we're talking about the ever-conflicting messages American culture gives us about what and how to eat. We explore the potentially detrimental nuances of fad diets like Whole 30, detoxing, and the idea of “eating clean,” highlighting the work of Ellyn Satter as a map to a more nuanced relationship with yourself as an attuned eater and emphasizing new, more flexible ways to think about competency with food. TW: In this episode, we do name several diets and talk some specifics (no numbers). L...
Apr 09, 2018•43 min•Season 1Ep. 13
What is health and how do we get it? Today we challenge the idea that this question can be answered in a one-size-fits-all way. We explore today's obsession with health, challenging how much of a moral issue health has become, and how we might be able to start looking at it not as an absence of disease, but more holistically as an intersection of well-being in body, mind, and spirit. Links and Resources: Ansel Key's Starvation Study Summary: https://www.refinery29.com/minnesota-starvation-experi...
Mar 28, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Dr. Anita Johnston joins us to talk about how to learn more about your relationship with food by looking through the lenses of myth, storytelling, and metaphor. Author of Eating in the Light of the Moon and Clinical Director of 'Ai Pono eating disorder treatment center in Hawaii, Dr. Anita Johnston speaks to how the matrilineal society in which she grew up shaped her persceptive on food and body struggles, the neuroscience behind metaphor, and how one's struggle with food communicates the things...
Mar 14, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this special bonus episode, our very own host, Carter Umhau, LMHCA, shares her work as a poet, reading five works from her collection. Her writing touches on themes of friendship, birth and grief, being around the table with memorable food, the loss of an old version of life, and passionately enjoying one’s self. Opal Co-Founders Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS join the conversation, interviewing Carter about her creative process, why writing is healing, and how the arts fit...
Mar 07, 2018•47 min
Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy has been a big topic on The Appetite...but today RO DBT creator Dr. Thomas Lynch and his wife and colleague Erica Smith Lynch join us for a conversation around its application within eating disorders. Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy--the newest evidence-based treatment targeting disorders of overcontrol (including anorexia, chronic depression, OCD, and autism)--encourages open expression as a way to combat emotional loneliness in those ...
Feb 27, 2018•58 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this conversation about the influential position a coach has on an athlete's life and performance, Opal Co-Founder Kara Bazzi LMFT, CEDS and Carter Umhau, LMHCA interview Sally Revere, head Cross Country and Track & Field coach at Lakeside High School in Seattle. Sally offers practical advice on how she addresses food and body concerns on her team, as well as addressing the power of coaching from a whole athlete perspective. Kara and Carter bring in questions about temperament as it relat...
Feb 15, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 9
What are the temperamental factors that make a good athlete? Today, Opal Founders Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, and host Carter Umhau, LMHCA talk sport and performance, exploring the topic through the Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy lens of “overcontrol.” The Appetite crew discusses how this overcontrolled temperament in athletes might lead to high athletic performance on one hand, but might also be the very thing that leads an ath...
Feb 01, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Erin Harrop is a doctoral student at the University of Washington who uses a Health at Every Size®, anti-oppression, and critical feminist lens to explore the intersection of weight stigma and eating disorders. She joins Julie Church RDN, CEDRD, CD, and Carter Umhau, LMHCA for The Appetite’s first interview, in which we talk about fatness, weight stigma, and the necessity of intersectionality when looking at the systems of oppression that inform our understanding of the body and eating disorder ...
Jan 18, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Opal’s co-founders Julie Church RDN, CD, CEDS, Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, and Lexi Giblin PhD, CEDS, and host Carter Umhau LMHCA, discuss body image through the lens of both eating disorder treatment and their personal stories. They explore what it means to have a healthy body image, shifting away from seeing one's body as a project to "fix", and use their own stories to highlight the complexity of moving towards a more embodied relationship. Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.co...
Dec 20, 2017•51 min•Season 1Ep. 6
As a person explores their appetite for life, forgiveness is worth considering. Opal founders Julie Church, RDN, CEDS, CD, Lexi Giblin, PhD, CEDS, and Kara Bazzi, LMFT, CEDS, --along with host and Opal therapist Carter Umhau, LMHCA--discuss what forgiveness looks like within relationships, as well as within a person's relationship to food, to themselves. and to their body. This conversation brings in principles from Radically Open DBT, as well as a good dash of vulnerability from the group. Stic...
Dec 13, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In the first of three episodes introducing Opal’s core tenets, Dr. Lexi Giblin leads our discussion about the evidence-based treatment Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT). RO DBT is a new therapy approach that was founded and developed by Dr. Thomas Lynch to target those who temperamentally lean toward too much control and emotional inhibition. The Appetite crew talks about how RO DBT principles speak to our need for connection and belonging. Learn more about RO DBT at http://ww...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 2
One of the many things that makes Opal a unique eating disorder treatment center is our incorporation of movement, exercise, and sport into the recovery process. We believe that movement is more than just a means for losing weight or shaping one's body. In this introduction to Opal’s final core tenet, therapist and co-founder Kara Bazzi, founder, and developer of Opal’s Sport+Exercise program leads our discussion about how widening one’s perspective on what movement is can be a game-changer. Mor...
Nov 30, 2017•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Opal: Food+Body Wisdom founders talk about Health at Every Size (HAES) in this second of three conversations introducing Opal’s core tenets. Nutrition Director and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Julie Church, RDN, CEDRD, CD, leads the discussion as we talk about what HAES is, how it is paradigm-shifting within a culture that is obsessed with body size, and why it may inspire a growing appetite for a deeper relationship to one’s body. More Resources: https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/ind...
Nov 29, 2017•56 min•Season 1Ep. 3
