Join JWI’s Young Women’s Impact Network as we explore our relationship with food and our bodies. We’ll learn from a registered dietitian (@leahkern.rd) who specializes in intuitive eating, which teaches how to govern your eating behavior based on internal cues. We will also talk about how Jewish culture can inform our relationship with food, and how things have changed since the pandemic.
Please note: this event is at 5:00 p.m. PT/8:00 p.m. ET.
Helpful Terms:
Intuitive eating is about trusting your inner body wisdom to make choices around food that feel good in your body, without judgment and without influence from diet culture. (source)
Diet culture is the glorification of losing weight at all costs. (source)
Body Neutrality is a body image movement that doesn't focus on your appearance (source)
Leah Kern, RD.
Leah Kern is an anti-diet registered dietitian who specializes in helping people heal their relationship with food and body through the framework of intuitive eating. Intuitive eating is an approach centered on tuning into the body’s innate wisdom to govern how you eat. Really, if diet culture didn’t exist, intuitive eating would just be called eating. Diet culture is the oppressive system of beliefs centered around convincing the consumer that their body can’t be trusted. The 70+ billion dollar diet industry is largely to blame for the mess that is diet culture. In her private practice, Leah helps her clients recognize how diet culture shows up in their lives in the form of food rules, restrictive behaviors, and ingrained beliefs. Leah teaches her clients to harness their body’s innate wisdom to govern how they eat and live. Food and body image concerns take up lots of precious mental real-estate; It is Leah’s mission to help her clients heal their relationship with food so they can live their most aligned and fulfilling lives.
