You’ll Never Know All The Things

Alison St. Germain, MS, RD

Like so many dietetics students and nutrition professionals, Alison ended up working in dietetics as a result of her own disordered relationship with food. She has since realized how much freedom there is from shame and embarrassment in sharing her story, now that she has recovered.

Her first RD job was at WIC, where she first learned about Ellyn Satter, the Division of Responsibility, and Intuitive Eating. Though these things were not a part of her university dietetics program, they struck an interest with her. 

Alison has learned (and teaches) that more often than not, weight loss programs help you gain more weight.

We need to consider sleep, stress, and access to food

Trying to get word OBESITY taken out of healthcare curriculum -try BMI >30 or High Weight

Teaching about weight stigma, harm, scenarios, case studies, motivational interviewing

Providing Respectful Care with our patients

Policy and making health access and equity

Works at Iowa State, counseling and outreach to students, to help them with disordered eating and developing modules for lectures, or lecturing for weight stigma and weight centric healthcare.

“Weight-centric programming can be very harmful and is also not sustainable.”  

What Alison wishes she would have known before working one on one with individuals with eating disorders: “You’ll never know all of the things… however, the amount of things I learned from my clients, my students, there’s no other way to learn it than to do the work… until you do the work with the client, you can’t learn it any other way.” 

Alison’s private practice- training for other healthcare professionals on weight-inclusive care and trauma informed care.

 

Alison’s Seasonings:

Going to counseling class as a student

Trauma-informed care: Tracy Brown & Fiona Sutherland 

HAES & why weight stigma is a social justice issue 

Learning from Eunice Bassler, RD

Sonya Renee Taylor; The Body is Not an Apology and the Workbook

Small Group Supervision, webinars, conferences

Jessica Setnick Boot Camp and pocket guide

Tammy Beasley

What is weight stigma? 

Motivational Interviewing 

The Body Griever’s Club Podcast with Bri Campos

Tammy Beasely 

 

BIO:

Alison St. Germain, a Registered Dietitian, recently changed positions from an Associate Professor of Clinical Practice at Iowa State University (ISU) in the department of Food Science Human Nutrition to ISU Student Wellness RD, and she is the owner of St. Germain Consulting: Redefining Health—Nutrition for ALL Bodies, LLC. She is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, a Health For Every Body® Facilitator and Certified Craving Change™. St.Germain is passionate about Health at Every Size®, Body Respect, Body Neutrality & Liberation, and spreading awareness and prevention of eating disorders. She has two daughters, which lead to her passion of promoting weight inclusivity and anti-diet approaches and speaking regularly at professional conferences, the community, middle and high school classes, college undergraduates and postgraduates.

Alison's website for her private practice is: www.alisonstgermain.com;

Her social media is instagram/facebook @nutrition4allbodies"

https://www.gpidea.org/program/dietetics

 

With your host Beth Harrell 

IG  @beth.harrell.cedss  

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