The Wellness Trap: How an Innocent Interest in Wellness Can Devolve into Disordered Eating with Christy Harrison
In this episode, we are joined by fellow anti-diet dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Christy Harrison! In this episode, we discuss
- Christy’s food and body story
- How an innocent pursuit of wellness can quickly lead to disordered eating
- How wellness culture kicked diet culture out of the mainstream spotlight
- The “care effect” as a possible explanation as to why some people claim that wellness interventions “work”
- The role of wellness in creating stigma around using medications for mental health support
- Christy’s take on whether or not we should avoid alternative medicine approaches altogether
- Why Christy can’t stand the cultural obsession with gut health
Visit Christy's website to learn more about her work.
Apply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching program
Join my self-paced course, The Return
Subscribe to my personal Substack
Visit my website to learn more about my coaching offerings
Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered straight from my heart to your inbox each week.
Follow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rd
Email me: Leah@leahkernrd.com
The podcast Shoulders Down is embedded on this page from an open RSS feed. All files, descriptions, artwork and other metadata from the RSS-feed is the property of the podcast owner and not affiliated with or validated by Podplay.