Life without Diets
Life without Diets
Podcast Description
Life's too short to spend it obsessing over food and weight. That's why we are all about living Life without Diets.
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The podcast covers various topics surrounding disordered eating, anti-diet culture, and mental health advocacy. Specific episodes include discussions on options for supporting those with eating disorders, the societal pressures of body image as seen in The Diet Free Revolution, addressing PCOS without diet culture bias, and exploring the need to recognize harmful language in diet discourse.
Life’s too short to spend it obsessing over food and weight. That’s why we are all about living Life without Diets.
If you struggle to filter through fact, fiction and fluff in the wellness arena Christy Harrison is your gal. Christy offers critical thinking and compassionate skepticism about wellness and diet culture, and reflections on how to find true well-being.
In this episode we explore:
☑️ the science (or lack thereof) behind popular
wellness diets
☑️ the role of influencers and social-media algorithms
in spreading wellness misinformation
☑️ problematic practices in the alternative- and
integrative-medicine space
☑️ how wellness culture often drives disordered eating
☑️ the truth about trending topics like gut health
☑️ how to avoid getting taken advantage of when
you’re desperate for help and healing
☑️ how to care for yourself in a deeply flawed
healthcare system without falling into wellness traps.
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS is a journalist, registered dietitian, and certified intuitive eating counselor. She’s the author of The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being (Little, Brown Spark 2023) and Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating (Little, Brown Spark 2019). Christy is also the coauthor of The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook (PESI Publishing 2024) and The Making Peace with Food Card Deck (PESI Publishing 2021).
Christy produces and hosts two podcasts, Rethinking Wellness and Food Psych, which have helped tens of thousands of listeners around the world think critically about diet and wellness culture and develop more peaceful relationships with food.
In addition to her media work, Christy offers online courses and private intuitive eating coaching to help people all over the world make peace with food and their bodies.
Christy began her career in 2003 as a writer and editor covering food, nutrition, and health, and she’s written for publications including The New York Times, SELF, BuzzFeed, WIRED, Refinery29, Gourmet, Slate, The Food Network, and many others. Learn more about Christy at christyharrison.com, and read her latest work at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.
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