Episode: 85
On today’s episode I chat with Diana Richards, registered dietitian, Anusara yoga teacher, and who is certified in IFS. Diana offers workshops, consultation groups, and Intuitive Eating groups. She is a frequent staffer at IFS trainings and partnered with Jeanne Catanzaro in the IFS Continuity Program about Self Led eating and using IFS to heal food and body concerns.
On this episode we talk about:
– Diana’s own personal story
– “It is not about the food at all.”
– A parts driven approach
– Impact of family, culture and society
– Self led Eating
– Manager, Firefighter and Exile roles in the eating cycle
Check out Diana’s website here to find out about ALL of her amazing offerings.
Follow Diana’s on Instagram @dianarichards and on Facebook @Dianaduganrichards
Also, this is the workshop in June I mention in the intro. Sign up here:
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Hi Tammy! I just listened to episode 85 with Diana Richards. I’m a HAES-aligned, anti-diet, trauma therapist. We do often have manager parts that mimic abusers or oppressive systems (I.e. inner critic, parts that tell us mean things about ourselves, etc mimicking internalized sexism/racism/patriarchy/capitalism/weight stigma/etc.) It’s been helpful to look at body shame/internalized diet culture as a legacy burden and often a manager protector part to manage living in a weight-stigmatizing and fatphobic culture. These parts pick up messages from our environment that help us survive/be more accepted based on the type of environment we’re in. Since our culture in the US is so often fatphobic and soaked in diet culture (more on this on the FoodPsych podcast by Christy Harrison), it makes sense we have parts that internalize these messages to help us ‘fit in’. Which can feel ‘helpful’ and is so often backed by medical doctors with their own internalized weight biases, but it harms us (and our intuitive relationship/connection to our body) in the long run. Diet culture benefits from our body shame. Helping these internalized diet culture type parts heal/unburden can lead us more to and intuitive relationship with food and our bodies.
Thank you so much for your comment!!! Love alllll of this!