This week, Karin welcomes Jessica Grosman, MS, RD, LDN, RYT-500, weight-inclusive Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Yoga Teacher, to the show for, "Dropping Into Your Body."

Tune in for a discussion on the shift from disordered eating to an eating disorder, the challenges that arise when disengaging from dieting, identifying disordered eating in a diet-focused culture, how yoga is more than a physical practice, the importance of self-compassion, the BYB model, and more!

Jessica Grosman, MS, RD, LDN, RYT-500 is an experienced weight-inclusive Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Yoga Teacher. Her patient-focused nutrition therapy work centers on helping individuals re-establish a comfortable connection with food and body, most often after years of living in diet culture. Jessica is a member of ASDAH (Association for Size Diversity & Health) and uses HAES (Health at Every Size) principles in her compassionate care.

Jessica is a faculty member of Yoga for Eating Disorders, where she created and teaches the popular Compassionate & Mindful Yin Yoga series. Jessica also teaches a weekly online Yin Yoga practice to a wide range of students. She brings together her love for education and somatic experiences as a Befriending Your Body (BFYB) Certified Professional; she guides the virtual group recovery program several times a year, helping individuals recover from the traumas of years of disordered eating behaviors.

Jessica is passionate about disentangling diet culture from yoga. She has witnessed, first hand, the harms of diet culture’s influence upon yoga. Her mission is to help inform yoga practitioners how to preserve the sanctity of yoga without the modern harmful influences of diet culture.

Prior work experiences include culinary education, recipe development and cookbook recipe testing. Jessica is a wife and mom, an avid cook and baker, an enthusiastic traveler and a voracious reader.

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