GUT with Christy Harrison
Julie and Casey sit down with prolific podcaster and Anti-Diet revolutionary Christy Harrison of Food Psych to talk about the racist and sexist roots of diet culture, the Health at Every Size movement, and why "trusting your gut" requires . . . well, trusting your gut.
TOP TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:
Your voice and your ideas have value - if you know you have something to offer, don't let a lack of confidence (or vocal fatigue) hold you back from getting your voice out there.
Weight loss as a health intervention wasn't a thing until the thin ideal was demands and deified by other sources.
Anyone outside Audre Lord's "mythic norm" will be extra affected by diet culture - and diet culture is a potent political sedative, because we don't have the time, energy, or brain space to think about or act on more important things.
Progressives in particular have work to do around fat phobia. We tend to be more conscious of other issues of diversity and inclusion but still default to jokes about bodies. We gotta work on this.
Struggle with seeing pictures of yourself? Fill your social feed with diverse bodies!
Your gut has actual wisdom - indeed, science thinks that our "gut" is actually a second brain. But we can't listen to it when we aren't truly IN our bodies - and we can't be IN our bodies while diet culture has its claws in us.
Power is the power to uplift, to include, to make changes that benefit everyone.
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor based in New York City. She offers online courses and private intuitive eating coaching to help people all over the world make peace with food and their bodies. Since 2013 Christy has hosted Food Psych, a weekly podcast exploring people’s relationships with food and paths to body liberation. It is now one of iTunes’ top 100 health podcasts, reaching tens of thousands of listeners worldwide each week.
Christy began her career in 2003 as a journalist covering food, nutrition, and health, and she’s written for major publications including The New York Times, SELF, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, Gourmet, Slate, The Food Network, and many more. Her forthcoming book, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, will be published by Little, Brown Spark in December of 2019 and is available for pre-order now. Learn more about Christy and her work at christyharrison.com.