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The Appetite

Oct 1, 2025

How does your story with food from childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood impact your current relationship with food?  Opal Co-Founder, Julie Church, RDN interviews Jessica Setnick, RDN the creator of the “Healing Your Inner Eater” workshop and workbook which invites individuals to look back in order to move...


Oct 1, 2025

Want to hear a secret? In this episode, Opal Co-Founders Julie Church, RDN, and Lexi Giblin, PhD, reveal Opal's unique approach to therapeutic meal support. Tune in to learn how the Opal team stepped beyond traditional meal support methods and embraced radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RODBT) to guide...


Aug 11, 2025

Join Lexi Giblin, PhD (Opal Co-Founder) for a heartfelt conversation with mother-daughter duo Kara Bazzi, LMFT (Opal Co-Founder and Director of Opal's Exercise+Sport Program) and Sophia, a soon-to-be collegiate athlete. Together, they walk down memory lane to explore the stand out intersections of parenting and running...


Jun 5, 2025

Eating disorders don’t exist in isolation—they are deeply connected to relationships. From the “why” behind disordered eating and movement patterns to the healing process, relationships have the power to either support or harm recovery. 

In today’s episode of The Appetite, Opal’s Co-Founder & Clinical...


May 22, 2025

In this episode, Delancey and Makaila wrestle with the gaze of others as their bodies change in eating disorder recovery. Off the mark, well-intentioned comments from others leave them flooded with shame and confusion.  Delancey wishes others would not perceive her while Makaila is in conflict, on one hand desiring...