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7. Diet Culture Recovery: How to Keep Your Freedom in Family w/ Dr. Alisa Shanks and Amy Shaller
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If you finally got out of diet culture and now you are watching your family stay stuck in it, or someone you love keeps telling you that you need to lose weight, this Q&A mixtape’s got your name on it. Chrissy sits down with Dr. Alisa Shanks and Amy Schaller to answer listener questions about what it looks like when one person in the family stops dieting, and everyone else is still in it.
Dr. Alisa, Amy, and Chrissy get into how to talk to family and friends about weight without wrecking the relationship, and what it means that the science we grew up trusting was shaped by diet culture itself. They explain why yo-yo dieting is harder on your body than staying at a larger weight, and they walk through what real boundaries look like when the people pushing you back into old patterns are the ones closest to you. You'll leave knowing what Amy learned in her clinical work: the people who try to pull you back into diet culture are often scared, and their fear is not yours to fix. You still get to stay free.
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Interlude music by “Hotham” – Morning Thoughts
Intro music by “MokkaMusic” – Old Jeans (Funk)
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