Tune into the Pursuing Private Practice Podcast as Kimmie Singh discusses how dietitians can reduce weight stigma in their practice.
In this episode:
In this episode of the Pursuing Private Practice Podcast, Kimmie Singh talks with Jennifer about the importance of understanding weight stigma as a dietitian and how weight stigma impacts our profession. She shares her insight on the importance of understanding bias, and how bias has impacted her as a dietitian living in a larger body.
We cover the following topics:
- How every RD has a bias, especially weight bias– what it is, how it harms clients, and how it also harms our profession
- How RDs and RD2be to be can learn more about weight stigma and feel empowered to create change from a social justice lens
- What can we do as a healing profession, wanting to help others, to challenge weight stigma for the health of the clients we serve.
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