Rebecca Scritchfield
Dietitian nutritionist and author
Rebecca Scritchfield is a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified exercise physiologist. She wrote Body Kindness, which offers a weight-inclusive approach to health.
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About Rebecca Scritchfield
She hosts the Body Kindness podcast and runs a weight-inclusive counseling practice. There she helps people make peace with food, enjoy exercise and set goals that suit their own interests. She developed the Body Kindness approach, which sets aside diet restrictions and focuses on personalized self-care. Her work aims to build self-compassion in place of shame, and it rejects the idea that better health requires weight loss. She also mentors registered dietitians and supports women in online learning spaces. Her work has appeared in outlets including CNN, the TODAY show and The Washington Post. She lives in Washington, D.C.