We continue our discussion with Dr. Rachel Goode. Dr. Rachel is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) and a licensed clinical social worker. She received her PhD, MPH, and MSW from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions to address racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in obesity and eating disorders.

HER Health Collective has four key initiatives after narrowing down the myriad of topics affecting mothers. These include, Equity of maternal care, Rejecting Diet Culture, Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders and Expectations of Motherhood. Dr. Rachel’s work targets several of these same areas. We discuss how our work coincides and the importance of sharing our personal experiences with food insecurity. Dr. Rachel shares ways to make peace with food, and so much more!

Today’s episode includes a discussion of the following topics:

• The difficulty of the public and medical system to recognize when something is disordered.

• The importance of sharing your story.

• How to heal your relationship with food and how to eat again.

• Building a healthy relationship with food at any weight.

• Why it’s more important to feel good in your body.

• How to make peace with food.

• The importance of self-determining your desires.

• The vision of her research going into the medical system.

• The changes needed in how the medical community is trained to approach and treat marginalized patients.

Episode Resources:

NCEED - https://www.nceedus.org/

SBIRT screening tool - https://eatingdisorderscreener.org/

Living FREE Lab - https://livingfreelab.org/

Dr. Rachel featured in The Daily Tar Heel - https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2023/01/university-rachel-goode-feature

Intuitive Eating Resources:

https://www.intuitiveeating.org/

Counselor Directory:

https://www.intuitiveeating.org/certified-counselors/

https://christyharrison.com/haes-anti-diet-intuitive-eating-providers-eating-disorder-recovery

HER Health Collective, Directory of Providers: https://herhealthcollective.com/her-experts/

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