255. Neurodivergence, Food Struggles, and Finding What Actually Works for You with Abbey Roberts

About this episode

This episode discusses the unique challenges neurodivergent individuals face with food and how to heal their relationship with it.

"The curiosity and compassion route is always going to be so much more helpful and enjoyable than the route diet culture brings you on." Healing your relationship with food can look very different when you have a neurodivergent brain, and in this episode, I’m joined by registered dietitian Abbey Roberts to talk about why traditional nutrition advice often misses the mark. From Abbey’s own late ADHD diagnosis and diet culture struggles to practical tools for creating a flexible, supportive way of eating, this conversation will help you rethink food, body trust, and what healing can look like for your unique brain. ✅ What You'll Learn: What it looks like to heal your relationship with food when you are balancing neurodivergence and food struggles How diet culture can amplify food struggles, guilt, and all-or-nothing thinking Why traditional nutrition advice often misses the mark for neurodivergent eaters Practical ways to create structure around food without falling into rigid food rules How to develop self-compassion and create structure without rigidity in your eating Simple, realistic tools to make eating feel easier, more accessible, and more supportive of your real life 🔗…

People in this episode

Host: Bonnie Roney

Guest: Abbey Roberts

Topics covered

• neurodivergence
• food struggles
• diet culture
• nutrition advice
• self-compassion
• flexible eating

Keywords

• neurodivergent
• food relationship
• diet culture
• nutrition
• self-compassion
• flexible eating
• ADHD
• food struggles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fork Diet Culture, DietCultureRebel.com, Instagram

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