Podcast Episodes

#321: Eating-Disorder Healing and the Importance of Community Support with Akiera Gilbert

Season 10 Episode 321

Project HEAL CEO Akiera Gilbert joins us to discuss her relationship with food growing up, why she didn’t realize she had an eating disorder, how she finally began to find healing, the importance of …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Preview: Let Your Community Be Your Compass with Akiera Gilbert

Season 10

In honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW), we’re sharing a teaser of next month’s episode. It’s with Akiera Gilbert, the new CEO of Project HEAL, whose theme for EDAW is “let your community …

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

#320: Healing from Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating, and Body Shame with Judith Matz and Amy Pershing

Season 10 Episode 320

Therapists and authors Judith Matz and Amy Pershing join us to discuss our new collaboration, The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook; why the typical diet-culture r…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Are You Looking for Support with Intuitive Eating? New Course Enrolling Now!

Hey there! It’s been a minute, but I wanted to pop in and let you know that my Intuitive Eating Fundamentals course is enrolling a new cohort now. 

I designed the course for anyone who wants to give …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

#319: Rethinking Wellness: The Wellness Trap with Christy Harrison and Katie Dalebout

Season 9 Episode 319

Katie Dalebout guest-hosts the show to interview Christy about her new book, The Wellness Trap! Christy shares why she wanted to write a book about wellness, the potential harms of integrative and fu…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

#318: Do You Really Need to Track Your Body?

Season 9 Episode 318

In the penultimate episode of Food Psych, Christy answers an audience question about the wellness-culture trend of monitoring every bodily function, and whether it’s compatible with intuitive eating.…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

#317: Rethinking Wellness: The Wellness to Woo Pipeline and the Kids in the Long Shadow of Clean Eating with Laura Thomas

Season 9 Episode 317

Nutritionist and author Laura Thomas joins us to discuss what it’s like for kids living in the long shadow of “clean eating,” the “almond mom” trend on TikTok, the "wellness to woo pipeline," how par…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

#316: The Truth About Those New Diet Drugs

Season 9 Episode 316

Christy answers a listener question about Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonist drugs, and why we all should be extremely wary of any new diet drug being hailed as a "miracle."

Pre-order Christy's upcoming…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

#315: Rethinking Wellness: The Problems with "Natural" Wellness with Alan Levinovitz

Season 9 Episode 315

Alan Levinovitz, religious-studies scholar and author of Natural and The Gluten Lie, joins us to discuss the problems with framing eating and wellness practices as “natural,” the weird parallels betw…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

#314: Do Autoimmune Diets Really Work?

Season 9 Episode 314

We discuss whether autoimmune diets really work, placebo effects and the problem with anecdotal evidence about diets, and the harmful side effects that can come from restricting what you eat.

For lot…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago