Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

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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...

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Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

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#47: Orthorexia Recovery & Giving up the "Healthy" Label with Kaila Prins, Certified Health and Wellness Coach 17.11.2015 55:21

Fellow podcaster Kaila Prins (Finding Our Hunger) joins us to discuss why having an identity as a "healthy" eater kept her from getting help for her eating disorder, and how she finally started down the path to recovery. Kaila Prins is a certified health and wellness coach and the host of Finding Our Hunger , a podcast about eating disorder recovery and Health at Every Size. She has recov...

#46: Conquering Body Shame and Weight Obsession with Harriet Brown, Author of "Body of Truth" 03.11.2015 51:30

Author Harriet Brown ( Body of Truth ) discusses how she overcame her longtime struggles with body shame and weight stigma, how her daughter's anorexia changed her relationship with food, why she became a vocal proponent of the Health At Every Size® movement, how to fight back against diet culture, and lots more. Harriet Brown is a professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School...

#45: Fat Acceptance & Body Positivity with Virgie Tovar, Author and Activist 20.10.2015 57:22

Activist and author Virgie Tovar joins us to discuss why she gave up the battle to lose weight and started focusing on loving her body exactly as it is. We talk about fat acceptance, body positivity, smashing diet culture, embracing feminism, Instagramming your food, and lots more! Virgie Tovar, MA is an author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discriminati...

#44: Yoga for Health at Every Size with Anna Guest-Jelley of Curvy Yoga 06.10.2015 58:25

Christy talks with Anna Guest-Jelley, the founder and CEO of Curvy Yoga, about why she ended her long history of dieting, how yoga helped her heal her relationship to food and her body, and lots more! Anna is founder and CEO (Curvy Executive Officer) at Curvy Yoga, a training and inspiration portal offering classes, workshops, teacher trainings, retreats, a virtual yoga studio and lots of love an...

#43: Feminism and Eating Disorder Recovery with Melissa A. Fabello, Body-Acceptance and Eating-Disorder Activist 22.09.2015 51:46

Christy talks with the fabulous Melissa A. Fabello, a body acceptance and eating disorder activist and the managing editor of Everyday Feminism. Melissa shares what led her to develop an eating disorder in her early 20s, and why feminism played an important role in her recovery. Melissa A. Fabello is a body acceptance and eating disorder activist, scholar in the field of sexology, and Jurassic P...

#42: Health at Every Size with Linda Bacon, Weight Scientist and Author 08.09.2015 55:27

Season 3 premiere! Christy talks with Linda Bacon, a leading researcher in the field of weight science and the author of the groundbreaking anti-diet book Health at Every Size . Linda shares her personal struggles with weight and dieting, how she overcame them and developed a healthy relationship with food and her body, and how you can get off the diet roller-coaster, too. Linda Bacon, PhD, is a...

#1: START HERE 07.09.2015 9:01

This episode is your guide to the podcast, explaining what Food Psych is all about and pointing you to the essential episodes to start with. Before you dive into our huge back catalog, start here! Check out Christy’s three books, Anti-Diet , The Wellness Trap , and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook for a deeper dive into the topics covered on the pod. If...