Respect Your Body Intuitive Eating Paper

Chapter 13: Principle 8 – Respect Your Body 

The authors provide several suggestions on “How to Respect Your Body.” Which one hits home for you, and why?

What is åight stigma!nd how can you, as a nutritionist in your future career, fight it.

What do you think about the Health at Every Size paradigm? How can this paradigm help in one’s journey to enhance body image and live a fulfilling life?

Chapter 12: Principle 7 – Cope with Your Emotions with Kindness 

1. Out of all the emotional triggers in the book, which one(s) do you personally struggle with or relate to. If none of them apply, you can talk about an acquaintance and their emotional trigger(s).
2. List coping tools that help you “feel nurtured” or provide “distraction.”
3. What strategies do you use or do you plan to use to help tolerate your negative emotions?

In what ways can emotional eating be a “strange gift?”