Sumner Brooks is a registered dietitian (RDN), author, and mom who has spent over 13 years working in the field of nutrition and eating disorders. She most recently co-authored her second book, entitled How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence. Sumner earned her RDN credential and M.P.H. in Community Health Sciences from UCLA in 2008. Her experience includes providing nutrition therapy for adolescents and adults with eating concerns for over a decade, public speaking and pursuing advanced training in trauma-informed, weight-inclusive healthcare. She is also the founder of EDRD Pro, a global, online continuing education platform for eating disorder dietitians.

Raising two kids in Oregon, Sumner knows the importance of informing caregivers and medical providers on how we can ultimately prioritize mental health as we move toward the common goal of building a true sense of wellbeing for our future generations. In this week’s episode we talk about how diet culture disrupts our relationship with food and our bodies, why fear-based messaging is unhelpful in those relationships, and how to go about raising kids with food and body confidence. In a culture where we are inundated with unhelpful messaging that so easily disconnects us with the gift of food and our very own bodies, Sumner Brooks kindly and articulately helps us let go of diet culture messages, so we can usher in something different for the next generation.