Breaking up with diet culture and learning gentle nutrition can be a challenge, but finding the right balance is possible with support, time, and compassion. Noticing the places where diet mentality is still holding on can be tricky business. Sometimes it can show up looking like black-and-white thinking; in other words, an inflexibility when it […]
Bringing Vulnerability into the New Year
This new year while making your ‘New Year’s Resolutions,’ decide to do something different. Instead of heading into 2020 with a new diet in hand, resolve to change things on a deeper level. Welcome vulnerability—and it’s counterpart, strength—into your life this new year. At Second Breakfast Nutrition we learn as much from our colleagues as […]
No, I won’t be telling you what you can and can’t eat: AKA, So…what do you do exactly? Practicing as a HAES dietitian
“So….what is it you DO exactly?” I often hear this question from clients or other professionals when trying to explain the way I approach my work. I understand the confusion – the common conception of a dietitian is someone who tells other people what to eat. As an RD grounded in the Health at Every […]
An ACT Approach to Healing your Relationship with Food and Body
Healing from diet culture is a process, and many approaches to unlearning diet mentality may actually be doing more harm to our self-esteem than good. How do we heal from diet culture without berating ourselves for not getting it “right?” An ACT approach may help get you there. One of the most challenging parts of […]
The Second Breakfast Approach to Health at Every Size
At Second Breakfast Nutrition, we are fully committed to weight inclusive, Health at Every Size aligned care because it is the only ethical approach to healthcare. What is a Health at Every Size (HAES) Approach to Healthcare? The tenets of Health at Every Size as defined by the Association for Size Diversity and Health are […]
The Second Breakfast Approach to Intuitive Eating: Moving From the 10 Principles to the 3 Core Concepts
Intuitive Eating is becoming more and more part of the cultural zeitgeist. In many ways this is a wonderful thing – an increase in visibility and accessibility of the non-diet approach– yet this relatively newfound popularity also lends itself to potential pitfalls. For example, it’s common to see intuitive eating co-opted in the service […]
Welcome to Second Breakfast Nutrition!
Welcome to Second Breakfast Nutrition, a space to heal your relationship with food, learn more about your relationship with your body, and let go of dieting. Second Breakfast Nutrition was founded by me, Annie Goldsmith, in 2015 with a vision to help clients truly heal. As a practitioner fully grounded in the Health at Every […]