Disrupting narratives with Lucy Aphramor

Lucy Aphramor on disrupting narratives, how relationships with food can serve as a vehicle for deeper work, & redefining the default for "good Dietitian."

 

• What interrupts our access to our body story – what is permissible and accessible?
• How can we provide a space where “I am OK” is available?
• Relational ways of connecting using a variety of frameworks using metaphors and stories
• Assumptions that are made through the dominant medical framework
• The importance of validation & enquiry
• When people discover it for themselves, then I help theorise it
• How we can support people to understand their own story
• The “health” narrative is so powerful that people will erase their own story
• Supporting people to take their own story seriously
• Food, eating and body are the vehicle for the deep work….
• Being guided by values
• Being able to sit with our own discomfort, stepping away from “fixing”
• What defines a “good Dietitian”
• If “fixing people” and “telling people what to do” is a strong part of our professional identity, and if I want to be a “good Dietitian” then that will be our default…..
• Acting with integrity and acknowledging when we’ve got it wrong
• Self compassion is for everyone, including us!
• How Lucy weaves in self compassion
• Disconnection stops compassion from flourishing
• What does "The Magic Biscuit" say to you?
• Honouring story as a powerful way of connecting
• Visibility, and taking risk
• Walking away is always a walking towards.....
• The practice of taking choices......
• Creating three examples as a way to move away from the binary
• Lucy's dream Dietetic course!!
• Expand the definition of what it means to be a Dietitian, "do" Dietetics
• How we can understand how trauma shows up - and why it's pivotal

 

 Link to The Magic Biscuit

More About Lucy:
www.lucyaphramor.com