Feeding Kids After Orthorexia with Heather Caplan

The Messy Intersection

The Messy Intersection is back with Season 2! Welcome to The Messy Intersection, hosted by Diana Rice, RD of @anti.diet.kids. Today we're talking to Heather Caplan, an anti-diet registered dietitian, eating disorder survivor and mom of three.

Content warning: Discussion of an unplanned pregnancy.

Heather and Diana discuss:

• Heather's shock of discovering she was pregnant again when she'd just had her second baby mid-COVID.
• Feeling that your body is not your own because of pregnancy and breastfeeding.
• When a new pregnancy interrupts your breastfeeding relationship with the older child.
• Holding space for both women challenged by unplanned pregnancies and women enduring infertility.
• Heather's experience with hypothalamic amenorrhea (loss of menstruation) related to her past eating disorder and her belief at the time that she wouldn't be able to conceive.
• Heather's experience with orthorexia in young adulthood and what orthorexia is.
• How an orthorexic mentality (unhealthy obsession with healthy eating) can show up or resurface when feeding children.
• The challenge of normalizing our kids eating and enjoying all foods, even when we have already done the work of making all foods fit for ourselves.
• How messages about positive child feeding practices, including the Division of Responsibility, can easily become warped into diet culture messages.
• Why there are not more resources for parents in the anti-diet space.

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