The “win at all costs” sport culture needs to retire and be replaced by the “whole person athlete” culture. In this episode of The Appetite, Opal co-founder and Clinical Director Kara Bazzi, talks with two coaches who are doing just that– actively working towards the “whole person athlete” sport culture. Listen as Read more
We’re excited to bring you our conversation with Christy Harrison, author of Anti-Diet and host of the Food Psych podcast. Many of you might know of Christy’s work, but might not know what led her to shift her career from working as a journalist reporting on food sustainability to becoming Read more
What is the connection between weight stigma and eating disorders? You will be happy to bend your ear (maybe again) for this one! Julie Church, RDN and Carter Umhau, LMHC talk with Erin Harrop (now doctor Erin Harrop, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Denver) about healthism, the use of the Read more
Join us in re-visiting this conversation on whole athlete coaching with Sally Revere. Originally released in 2018, we felt this interview was worth repeating! At a time where sports and athletics are turned upside down due to the pandemic, a silver lining is that it’s creating new time and space Read more
An Update from Shilo George: Navigating the Pandemic and Thanks-taking from an Indigenous Women’s Perspective Let us re-introduce you to Shilo George— our guest from episode 57 (which is a worthwhile listen too!!) where she shared honestly about mental health and food concerns as a “super-fat, indigenous, queer woman”. Shilo Read more
How does being marginalized impact a person’s health and physiology? Dr. Lindo Bacon, who has spent their career advocating for social justice at the intersection of weight and health, joins this episode to share about their newest book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming Read more
Racial Identity and Healing at Work: An Interview with Aiko Bethea What does it look like to center narrative in racial identity work? Aiko Bethea is the principal and founder of Rare Coaching and Consulting, which offers executive coaching to leaders that find themselves as “the Only” underrepresented individual in Read more
Race and Mental Health in Running: Alison Désir Talks with Opal Runner Alison Désir joins host and therapist Carter Umhau and Opal Co-Founder and Head of the Exercise + Sport Program, Kara Bazzi, to talk about the intersection of race and running, and why representation and mental health support in Read more
The Appetite 92: Why an Elite Runner Stopped Running to Recover True Health: An Interview with Tina Muir What might it be like to be a professional athlete—the symbol of health and strength in our culture—and to have a gut instinct that something is not well in your body? This Read more
The Appetite Episode 88: Sport Performance: Should Weight Ever be Manipulated? “Leaning out” and manipulating body weight have been widely accepted modes of performance preparation for elite athletes. But as the sports world wakes up to the harm that the emphasis on weight manipulation can have on athletes’ mental and Read more