Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
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380 Episodes
Helping people make peace with food since 2013. Registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and journalist Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS talks with guests and answers listener questions about making peace with food, healing from disordered eating, learning body acceptance, practicing intuitive eating, escaping harmful wellness culture, and more--all from a body-positive, anti-diet perspective. Along the way, Christy shares her own journey from disordered eater and dieter to food writer and anti-diet dietitian. This podcast challenges diet culture in all its forms--including the restrictive behaviors that often masquerade as wellness and fitness. Food Psych® is designed to offer safe and non-triggering support for listeners in recovery from eating disorders, weight stigma, and body shame. Subscribe for new anti-diet inspiration every week! Learn more and get full show notes and transcripts at christyharrison.com/foodpsych (Disclaimer: All content in this podcast, including medical opinion and any other health-related information, is for informational purposes only and should not be considered to be a specific diagnosis or treatment plan for any individual situation. Use of the information contained in this podcast does not constitute a doctor-patient relationship.)
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Episodes (380)
#330: Fashion for Every Body, Functional-Medicine Failings, and Finding Your True Style with Dacy Gillespie
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Dacy Gillespie, an anti-diet personal stylist, discusses diet and wellness culture, her experience with functional medicine, managing chronic symptoms, and redefining fashion to unapologetically take up space. She shares advice on shopping for clothes post-body changes, discovering authentic style beyond diet culture's ideals, and parallels between intuitive eating and fashion.
December 19, 2024
#329: Challenging the Hype About Gut Health and Ultra-Processed Foods with Laura Thomas
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Registered Nutritionist Laura Thomas joins to discuss the truth about plant foods and gut health, distinguishing good science from hype, the demonization of ultra-processed foods, anti-fat bias, and healing relationship with food via intuitive eating.
November 07, 2024
#328: Escaping Diet and Wellness Culture in Fashion and Dietetics with Shana Minei Spence
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Registered Dietitian Shana Minei Spence discusses her personal relationship with food and body, career in fashion, holistic care experiences, and recovery from an eating disorder while advocating for inclusion, non-diet, and weight-neutral nutrition. She shares insights on her public health work and stances on cultural appropriation in wellness.
October 10, 2024
#327: Hormone-Health Myths and Facts with Endocrinologist Gregory Dodell
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Endocrinologist Gregory Dodell discusses hormone misconceptions such as myths surrounding diets and supplement protocols for 'hormone balancing', truth about 'adrenal fatigue', managing thyroid conditions without wellness fads, and the Ozempic craze among other topics.
September 05, 2024
#326: Body Image: What the Evidence Really Says, with Charlotte Markey
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Psychologist Charlotte Markey discusses body image myths, impact of chronic illness/pain on perceptions, body positivity vs. neutrality debate, social media's influence, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs' effect, and more.
August 08, 2024
#325: Recovering in a Larger Body with Shira Rosenbluth
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Therapist Shira Rosenbluth discusses her journey towards solid eating-disorder recovery after many years, navigating weight stigma in a larger body, experiences as a plus-size bride, impacts of GLP-1 hype on her recovery and clients, and her work specializing in treating disordered eating using a weight-neutral approach.
July 11, 2024
#324: Weight-Loss-Industry Influence in "Obesity" Research with Alexis Conason
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Eating disorders psychologist Alexis Conason discusses her shift from 'obesity' research to a weight-neutral approach, questioning industry influence behind classifying obesity as a disease in 2013, mental health effects of bariatric surgery, and more; she is the author of The Diet Free Revolution, founder of The Anti-Diet Plan, and can be found on social media @theantidietplan.
June 13, 2024
#323: The Hidden Risks of Weight-Loss Drugs: Behind the GLP-1 Hype with Ragen Chastain
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Ragen Chastain discusses potential side effects and downsides of using GLP-1 drugs (like Ozempic) for weight loss, influences of drug manufacturers on public discourse, missed reporting on conflicts of interest in media, co-opted talking points about weight stigma and weight cycling, ongoing body size stigmatization in certain medicines spaces, and more.
May 08, 2024
#322: From Picky Eating to Peace with Food: Feeding Kids with Heidi Schauster
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Heidi Schauster discusses why putting kids on restrictive diets can backfire, promoting a healthy relationship with food, appropriate ways to talk about nutrition with kids, and emphasizing pleasure over nutrition.
April 11, 2024
#321: Eating-Disorder Healing and the Importance of Community Support with Akiera Gilbert
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Project HEAL CEO Akiera Gilbert discusses her journey with food, eating disorders, and healing, emphasizing the importance of community in recovery and advocating for equitable access to eating disorder care.
March 14, 2024
Preview: Let Your Community Be Your Compass with Akiera Gilbert
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CEO Akiera Gilbert discusses the importance of community in eating-disorder recovery and her goals with Project HEAL, a leading national non-profit providing $5M+ worth of free eating disorder services in 2023. Known for fostering healing spaces for people of color, she aspires to make mental healthcare more affirming, accessible, and affordable.
February 29, 2024
#320: Healing from Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating, and Body Shame with Judith Matz and Amy Pershing
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Therapists Judith Matz and Amy Pershing discuss their collaboration, challenges with diet-culture response to emotional eating, identifying chronic dieters, role of trauma in binge eating, and differences between high weight and trauma.
February 22, 2024
Are You Looking for Support with Intuitive Eating? New Course Enrolling Now!
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Course 'Make Peace with Food' by [Name not provided] is now enrolling a new cohort until September 4. A community-based program focusing on intuitive eating principles over 3 months with access to forum, Q&As, and over hundred hours of content.
August 29, 2023
#319: Rethinking Wellness: The Wellness Trap with Christy Harrison and Katie Dalebout
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Christy Harrison shares insights on her new book about wellness, discussing potential harms of integrative and functional medicine, connections between wellness culture and diet culture, legacy of 'hysteria' diagnosis affecting women, role of social media in spreading wellness misinformation and more.
April 24, 2023
#318: Do You Really Need to Track Your Body?
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In this Food Psych podcast episode, Christy answers a question about the compatibility of wellness-culture trends and intuitive eating.
April 17, 2023
#317: Rethinking Wellness: The Wellness to Woo Pipeline and the Kids in the Long Shadow of Clean Eating with Laura Thomas
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Nutritionist Laura Thomas discusses her work on ending intergenerational dieting and body shame, focusing on kids living under 'clean eating' influence, TikTok 'almond moms', wellness-culture beliefs about food, and feeding/eating challenges.
April 10, 2023
#316: The Truth About Those New Diet Drugs
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Christy discusses concerns about GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic and advocates caution towards 'miracle' diet drugs.
April 03, 2023
#315: Rethinking Wellness: The Problems with "Natural" Wellness with Alan Levinovitz
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Scholar Alan Levinovitz discusses the problems of framing eating and wellness practices as 'natural', parallels between gun culture and wellness culture, balancing empathy with misinformation call-outs, nuance in discussing physical and psychological issues, and more.
March 27, 2023
#314: Do Autoimmune Diets Really Work?
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Discusses whether autoimmune diets are effective, their placebo effects, issues with anecdotal evidence about diets, and harmful side effects of food restriction.
March 20, 2023
#313: Rethinking Wellness: Wellness Culture and Infertility, the Challenges of Baby Feeding, and Unpacking Food Sensitivities with Jenee Desmond-Harris
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Jenée Desmond-Harris discusses her journey towards food acceptance, the impact of infertility on wellness culture treatments, harmful wellness messages during breastfeeding, social media influences on food and body image, and more with Christy Harrison on Rethinking Wellness podcast.
March 13, 2023
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