Has your body weight or shape affected the quality of your health care? Probably.

In today's episode, we tackle weight bias and stigma head-on with a guest Dr. Sylvi Martin, a Naturopathic Doctor, registered nurse psychotherapist, certified intuitive eating counsellor, and mindfulness-based eating awareness training (MB-EAT) facilitator who has a dual passion for supporting patients with their eating behaviour while also supporting clinicians to eliminate weight bias in medicine and improve the delivery of nutrition therapy in a less harmful way. 

We explore topics throughout the episode such as:

• How your weight or body shape may have affected the tests you received or the treatments you were offered from your doctor. 
• How weight bias has influenced your thoughts about yourself and others and may be influencing your health behaviours. 
• How your thoughts about food can affect the way you value yourself. 
• How the training that Naturopathic Doctors and nutritionists receive may be causing harm (and what to look for in a practitioner). 

Dr. Sylvi Martin offers both patient and practitioner programs to support healthy eating behaviour. You can connect with Sylvi as a patient through her website nourishingwellbeing.ca where she offers online patient programs. Sylvi will be spearheading continuing education programs for The Confident Clinician in February 2023 including small group training for NDs to become confident using intuitive eating practices with their patients. If you're a practitioner be sure you are on the Confident Clinician waitlist to learn more about our upcoming practitioner training here.