The Appetite

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 athlete to struggle with food, body, and movement. Kara—creator of Opal’s Exercise and Sport Program—speaks to the potential these athletes have to increase freedom and flexibility in their relationship with themselves and movement, putting the joy back into sport again. Resources: Compulsive Exercise and Eating Disorders, by Caroline Meyer et al: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/erv.1122/abstract Perfectionism versus excellence: https://wp.me/a5Br2M-7To The Founders: Thirteen women shared one common goal to change sports forever. http://www.thefoundersfilm.com/ Unmatched: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova were fierce tennis rivals in the 1970s and 1980s, but through it all they forged an unbreakable friendship. http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=unmatched Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody

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 treatment.   To see all of Erin's publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erin_Harrop/publications   More Resources: kimberlybgeorge.com The Fat Pedagogy Reader by Linda Bacon et al - https://goo.gl/fJnWqM A User's Guide to White Privilege by Cynthia Kaufman - https://goo.gl/dBxVsH White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun - https://goo.gl/PJEbVN White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack by Peggy McIntosh - https://goo.gl/NbsK7R Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody

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.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody

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. Stick around until the end of the episode to be led by Lexi in a RO DBT mindfulness exercise. More Resources: www.radicallyopen.net/ Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody

Welcome to the first ever episode of The Appetite. Clinicians from Opal: Food+Body Wisdom, an eating disorder treatment center in Seattle, Washington, will meet every week to discuss all things body, food, movement, and mental health. Today you will meet the three women who founded Opal: Psychologist Dr. Lexi Giblin, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Julie Church, and Family Therapist Kara Bazzi. Today’s discussion and future conversations will be facilitated by host and Opal therapist Carter Umhau. In this episode we introduce ourselves and Opal, and suss out how the themes that come up in the treatment of eating disorders might speak to one’s appetite for life at large. Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody

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://www.radicallyopen.net/ Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody

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. More Resources: Compulsive Exercise and Eating Disorders Study: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/erv.1122/abstract;jsessionid=C013C704FFECBAF1238334856686BCA4.f02t04 Perfectionism vs. Excellence: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/perfectionism-vs-excellence.pdf Important Human Needs: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Important-Human-Needs.pdf Mover’s Agreement: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Movers-agreement.pdf Nourishing Wisdom by Marc David: https://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Wisdom-Mind-Body-Nutrition-Well-Being-ebook/dp/B004G6011W Marc David’s Organization, Institute for the Psychology of Eating: http://psychologyofeating.com/ Opal Sport Resources: http://www.opalfoodandbody.com/resources/helpful-books/ Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody

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/index.asp https://haescommunity.com/ https://lindabacon.org/ https://haescurriculum.com/ Connect with us: www.OpalFoodandBody.com www.facebook.com/Opalfoodandbodywisdom/ www.twitter.com/opalfoodandbody