- New Jersey Counseling Association Pre-Conference Event - April 22, 2025
- Project Heal Blog - March 14, 2025
- Glucose Riot Podcast - October 8, 2024
- Glucose Riot Podcast - August 27, 2024
- Fat Girl Book Club Podcast - February 17, 2022
- Outdoor Magazine - May 26, 2021
Virtual webinar sign-up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ethics-of-weight-inclusivity-an-anti-oppressive-perspective-tickets-1304901067219
The Ethics of Weight Inclusivity: An Anti-Oppressive Perspective
Pre-Conference Event
This webinar seeks to educate counselors about the often-overlooked presence of weight bias/stigma in counseling training and experience that clearly contradicts standards of practice and ethics requirements. The presentation will provide strategies for adapting counseling interventions to address the unique needs of individuals of all body sizes through weight-inclusive practices. Ultimately, this knowledge will empower counseling clinicians to provide more ethical and anti-oppressive care, leading to improved outcomes for patients across the size spectrum.
Earn 1 Ethics CE & Learn How To:
☑️ Define and describe weight stigma/bias and explain the importance of identifying weight bias/stigma in self and others
☑️ Define and describe weight-inclusive care and critically contrast it with weight-centric care
☑️ Assess how weight-inclusive practices fit into counseling and psychotherapy standards of practice and ethics requirements
☑️ Advocate for anti-oppressive approaches both within counseling sessions and in the counseling field at-large
ACA Code of Ethics: https://www.
About Your Speaker:
Jennifer “Jenn” K. Jackson, MPH, RDN, LD (she/they)
Jenn is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. She is a white, disabled, demisexual, cishetero female provider in a mid-fat body with AuDHD, and has lived experience with Type 2 diabetes as an adult. Their primary work is with intuitive eating, and healing from disordered eating and eating disorders. All services they provide in their virtual private practice are anti-oppressive, disability-affirming, fat-positive, HAES®-aligned, queer- and trans-affirming, actively non-diet, kink- and sex-positive, trauma-sensitive and -responsive, from a neuroaffirming approach, and are both justice- and liberation-driven.
Tuesday, April 22nd 9am – 10am EST
NJCA members: free
Non-members: $10
https://www.theprojectheal.org/blog/eating-disorder-podcasts
13 Eating Disorder Podcasts Worth Tuning Into in 2025
We are living in the era of podcasts. What’s more, nearly 35 percent of global podcast listeners use this medium to access mental health-related content for a wide range of reasons, including:
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Sense of connection and relatability.
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To experience a safe outlet from the stigma, bias, or discrimination they encounter out in the world.
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For practical resources, therapeutic interventions, or actionable coping mechanisms to support their healing journey.
No matter where you might fall on this continuum, if you listen to podcasts, I know you’re probably always looking for new ones to add to your subscriber list. Here are 10 reputable and beneficial eating disorder podcasts I think you’ll love.
Embodiment for the Rest of Us by Chavonne McClay and Jenn Jackson
Want to break free of cultural biases and step into body liberation? In “Embodiment for the Rest of Us,” dietitian Jenn Jackson (they/them) and therapist Chavonne McClay (she/her) join forces to decolonize recovery through inclusive, multifaceted conversations.
These two Health at Every Size (HAES)-trained clinicians explore the intersection between eating disorders and systemic injustice to help dismantle barriers that often prevent marginalized folks from accepting their own bodies.
Jackson and McClay also chat with experts from diverse walks of life to amplify all identities, experiences, and narratives in the recovery space.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4nD3RxMMojTcMkDkgVJ0Hh?si=cf218687d833403b
9. Jenn Part 2: The Importance of Protein and Informed Consent
Part 2 of our interviews with Jenn Jackson! Feel free to listen to this episode as a stand alone, but if you’re wanting to hear more from Jenn, go back to our previous episode to hear more.
In this episode we cover:
- Diabetes management philosophies and technology that can be the most disordered to the most flexible
- Why restriction is not a good idea with diabetes
- Protein! What it does and why it’s helpful
- Living with a stigmatized condition as a health care provider
- Using nutrition along with meds to get the best support
- Being OK with not knowing the exact right answer (as a diabetes “expert” and as a person with diabetes)
- How a sense of urgency is normalized in diabetes care and diet culture, and how to slow down the instinct and get to authentic choice and care
- Using informed consent, self compassion, and professional support as part of your diabetes strategy.
We mention several resources including:
- https://self-compassion.org/
- Medical Students for Size Inclusivity document on Informed consent in diabetes care www.sizeinclusivemedicine.org
LINKS:
Find out more about Kelly here
Find out more about Erin here
DISCLAIMER: We are dietitians and diabetes educators but we are not YOUR dietitians and diabetes educators. The information provided in this podcast is not intended as individualized medical advice, nor is it a substitute for professional medical expertise or treatment. If you have a medical concern, go to your health care provider or seek other professional medical treatment.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1VoTr49Y1hfMqdVQGtlz5L?si=7fb29a2f856d47d3
8. Jenn: Unlearning the “Shoulds” of a Diabetes Diagnosis
Jenn joins us in this episode to talk about their diagnosis with type 2 diabetes. Jenn is a dietitian and future diabetes educator and explores the idea of learning about diabetes as a clinician vs learning to have diabetes as a human.
This is the first of a two part series with Jenn. We focus in this episode on her personal experience. Join us next episode for part 2 were we talk more in depth about diabetes management and nutrition.
Here we cover:
- How values, identities, and privileges play into experiences as a person with diabetes
- Learning and unlearning messages and shame about what diabetes “should” look like and what being a professional “should” look like
- The message of “I should know better” when it comes to getting diabetes as a health professional
- How a diabetes diagnosis can re-trigger old eating disorder behaviors and thoughts
- How anti-fatness can show up in diabetes care
- How and why food groups (especially carbs) have been vilified over time
LINKS:
Find out more about Kelly here
Find out more about Erin here
DISCLAIMER: We are dietitians and diabetes educators but we are not YOUR dietitians and diabetes educators. The information provided in this podcast is not intended as individualized medical advice, nor is it a substitute for professional medical expertise or treatment. If you have a medical concern, go to your health care provider or seek other professional medical treatment.
https://fatgirlbookclub.simplecast.com/episodes/unashamed-by-leah-vernon-with-jenn-jackson
Unashamed by Leah Vernon with Jenn Jackson
February 17th, 2022 | 01:22:06 | E65
Episode Summary
My discussion with Jenn Jackson about Unashamed by Leah Vernon
Episode Notes
Oh boy is this discussion juicy! You remember my chat with Chavonne McClay about Savala Nolan’s book Don’t Let It Get You Down? Well, my guest this week is Chavonne’s cohost on their podcast, Embodiment for the Rest of Us. Meet Jenn Jackson! I am delighted to be chatting to her about Leah Vernon’s book Unashamed and boy do we dig deeply into the meaning of that word! We also talk about a bunch of other things, including:
- Jenn’s body justice and fat liberation journey
- Discussing embodiment
- Playing the comparison game and finding the space of frictionlessness
- What does it mean to be unashamed?
- The difference between being unashamed and being vulnerable
- How Jenn relates to the word unashamed
- Leah’s intersections
- Handling the binary
- How this is different than other autobiographies
- Why representation is important
Keep reading everyone!
Jenn’s Links
Embodiment for the Rest of Us Podcast
Fat Girl Book Club Links
I Wish I Were Me Website/ Your Better Body Image Checklist
Book Recommendations
https://www.outsideonline.com/2423755/fat-shaming-people-wont-improve-health
Fat-Shaming People Won’t Improve Their Health
Body fat is not a reliable indicator of health. So why are we obsessed with it?
This “I can do it, so can you” attitude is out of touch with many people’s reality, says Jennifer Jackson, a dietitian based in Albuquerque, New Mexico…Health behaviors often have more to do with someone’s privilege than their motivation, Jackson says.