146: Intuitive Fasting | An Opinion Piece on Our Wellness Culture

There’s a growing trend in Wellness Culture where opinions and recommendations are increasingly standardized, leaving little room for nuance or exception. Today Erin gives us a peek into how her mind operates in this opinion episode on our wellness and diet culture, and it’s centered on a recently released intuitive eating nutrition book that has a large portion of the wellness world falling into two camps: FOR or ANTI.

Unfortunately this leaves a lot of folks who are simply searching for some help to think they have to “choose a side” when it comes to their health. Who’s to blame for this polarization and distortion? Where has our compassion gone? In this episode, you won’t hear Erin take a hard stand for or against this topic, or even defend her own position. Instead she asks questions about our collective reactivity - in the nutrition space and beyond - and attempts to understand what that means about us. How can we utilize that reactivity to affect the change we’re looking for? This one is certainly food for thought...

In this episode:

-The purpose behind this episode [2:06]

-If you’re new here… [4:58]

-Erin’s opinion on intuitive fasting [6:52]

-Why one book is causing such a rift [11:15]

-Will Cole’s approach to fasting for women [16:43]

-Thin, white wellness in the greater wellness sphere [18:22]

-How standardization of wellness is harmful [20:22]

-Is Gwyneth Paltrow harmful to diet culture? [24:22]

-Who do we blame for bad/overly simplified diet or health advice? [27:17]

-Our cultural obsession with watching women fall from grace [29:38]

-The lost art of critical thinking, intuition and processing different opinions on a topic [31:43]

-The increasing polarization of diet and food culture [37:30]

-Making space for all truths in the field of nutrition [40:02]

-The importance of self-auditing [42:18]

-Where the problem lies with intuition and food [43:48]

-Embracing shame-free inquiry [46:41]

-Hyperreactivity & the lack of middle ground in the nutrition world [47:31]

-The right to choose your own path when it comes to your healing [52:41]

-The importance of paying attention and asking WHY when you’re triggered [54:11]

Resources mentioned:

Organifi supplement powder (save 20% on your order with code FUNK) https://organifi.com/FUNK

BioKult Boosted probiotic supplement (NEW CODE! save 15% off your entire order with code FUNK15) https://www.bio-kult.com/bio-kult-boosted/p9

Blog: On Finding Peace Amid Troll Culture https://www.erinholthealth.com/erin-holt-health-1/trolls

Episode 43: Intersectional Feminism & the Co-opting of Movements: Interview with Chrissy King https://www.erinholthealth.com/funktional-nutrition-podcast/2019/1/20/episode-43-intersectional-feminism-amp-the-co-opting-of-movements-interview-with-chrissy-king

The Unplug Collective Explores How Diet Culture Is Rooted In Anti-Blackness https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2020/09/13/the-unplug-collective-explores-how-diet-culture-is-rooted-in-anti-blackness

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia https://amzn.to/3q0eJh3

Dr. Tee Williams: Foundations of Social Justice https://imdrtee.com/foundationslive/

The Carb Compatibility Project™ (next round starts in May) https://www.erinholthealth.com/carb-compatibility-project

Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything https://amzn.to/3QNRzpP

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love https://amzn.to/3wrfOSA

Follow Erin on Insta https://www.instagram.com/the.funktional.nutritionist/

Related episodes:

135: Intermittent Fasting: Who It’s For, Who It’s Not For https://www.thefunktionalnutritionist.com/podcast/135-intermittent-fasting

118: Intuition, Energy Medicine & Personal Power https://www.thefunktionalnutritionist.com/podcast/118-intuition-energy-medicine