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Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Helping people make peace with food since 2013. Registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and journalist Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS talks with guests and answers listener questions about making peace with food, healing from disordered eating, learning body acceptance, practicing intuitive eating, escaping harmful wellness culture, and more--all from a body-positive, anti-diet perspective. Along the way, Christy shares her own journey from disordered eater and

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31:56

Parenting for Positive Body Image with Charlotte...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2026/04/02

Body image scientist and researcher Charlotte Markey, PhD joins us to discuss the many factors that impact body image and how parents can help their kids develop a positive sense of self.Christy and Charlotte both share examples from their own parenting, including how to handle tricky conversations about body size, gender, and more. They also unpack the difference between body positivity and body neutrality—and why the popular definitions of those terms are different from their use in

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34:24

Healing from Dubious Diagnoses, Disordered Eating,...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2026/03/19

New York Times bestselling author and former CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers joins us to discuss her history of chronic fatigue and her experience with dubious diagnoses and wild wellness treatments.She also shares what she discovered about the true causes of her issues, how disordered eating helped mask and exacerbate her symptoms, how she’s rethought her relationship with work in general (and her own past work in particular), her viral post “The way we live in the United States is not

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37:14

“The Trickiest Part Of All Is When I Felt it Actually...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2026/03/05

Pharmacist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Sarah-Jane Garcia joins us to discuss how smart people get caught up in wellness culture.She shares her path from the realities of being a pharmacist experimenting with elimination diets to how getting certified in integrative medicine exacerbated her orthorexia to why becoming a parent finally opened her eyes to the fear-mongering happening in wellness communities.Behind the paywall, Christy and Sarah-Jane discuss what it actually took for

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38:34

[Repost] The Hidden Risks of Weight-Loss Drugs:...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2026/02/19

Writer, speaker, and weight-inclusive health/fitness professional Ragen Chastain joins us to discuss the potential side effects and other downsides of using GLP-1 drugs (like Ozempic and its ilk) for weight loss, the massive influence the manufacturers of these drugs are having on the public discourse about them, why the media don’t often report on these conflicts of interest, how drugmakers have co-opted talking points about weight stigma and weight cycling, how opposition to these drugs in some

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18:06

Can a Diet Really Help Solve Your Period Problems?

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2026/02/05

In this episode, Christy answers two audience questions about period pain, endometriosis, and whether “anti-inflammatory” protocols or elimination diets can alleviate symptoms.This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast, Rethinking Wellness.More from Christy:Check out Christy’s three books, Anti-Diet, The Wellness Trap, and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook for a deeper dive into the topics covered on the pod. If you’re ready to break free from

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56:42

Anxiety Dieting, Disordered Eating, and the...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2026/01/22

Anti-diet dietitian Leah Kern joins us to discuss how struggling with anxiety made her susceptible to a wellness diet that promised safety and longevity, how that diet quickly spiraled into full-on disordered eating, how being eco-conscious and “earthy” can easily lead into wellness traps, the connection between spirituality and wellness culture, why she finally stopped trying to fix her anxiety with food and started taking meds, and more. This episode previously aired on our other podcast,

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22:38

How to Handle the Onslaught of Diet Culture This New...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2026/01/08

Christy offers 5 tips for dealing with diet evangelists and diet-culture messaging this time of year. This episode originally aired in January 2023.If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.Pre-order Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, for its April 2023 release!Christy's first book, Anti-Diet, is available wherever you get your books. Order online at christyharrison.com/book, or at

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33:42

The Elusiveness of “Full Recovery” from Disordered...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/12/11

Journalist and professor Mallary Tenore Tarpley joins us to discuss her new book Slip and the realities of life in the middle of eating disorder recovery. She shares how losing her mother as a young girl led to disordered eating, why residential treatment was beneficial (and not), and how the pressures of maintaining “full recovery” led to years of struggle.Behind the paywall, Mallary and Christy discuss the many definitions of “full recovery,” the challenges of writing a book about disordered

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31:04

How to Feed Picky Eaters (Without Diet Culture) ft....

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/11/20

Katja Rowell, M.D. joins us to discuss responsive feeding, picky eating, and how to parent without passing diet culture norms on to your kids. We also explore the science behind a few common misperceptions from parents and doctors including: why playful or gamified tactics to change eating habits can be harmful and backfire, the problems with many “early interventions” around child BMI, and reasons to question growth charts in early childhood.This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast,

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25:54

Neurodivergence and Nutrition: Separating Myths from...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/11/06

Registered dietitian Jackie Silver joins us to discuss nutritional approaches that are helpful for neurodivergence, why neurodivergent people are often the targets of wellness and diet culture, the kinds of wellness-culture messages she’s gotten as a person with a disability, and why the advice to cut out gluten for autism is often harmful. Behind the paywall, we get into why ultraprocessed food consumption doesn’t cause autism and why cutting out these foods doesn’t “cure” it, the harmful discourse

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35:10

From Taking Ozempic for Weight Loss to Practicing...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/09/29

Physician and writer Mara Gordon joins us to discuss diet and wellness culture among medical doctors, why she took Ozempic for weight loss (and what made her quit), how she came to practice weight-inclusive care, and lots more. Behind the paywall, we get into why she was initially reluctant to write about weight inclusivity, her perspective on Ozempic and other GLP-1s now (and whether she prescribes them to patients), her upcoming book, and more. This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast,

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69:26

"Food Addiction" + Ultraprocessed Foods + Disordered...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/09/04

Eating-disorders dietitian Marci Evans joins us to discuss the current science on “food addiction” (sometimes called “ultraprocessed food addiction”)—and what’s changed since I first interviewed her about this topic for Food Psych back in 2016. We get into how food addiction is defined and measured (and what that definition leaves out), the overlap between disordered eating and high scores on food-addiction scales, how food-addiction discourse perpetuates weight stigma, the nuances behind the

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73:10

Secrets of the Notorious "Camp Shame," a Hotbed of...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/08/21

Filmmaker and podcaster Kelsey Snelling joins us to discuss her new podcast, Camp Shame, which exposes the troubling history of a notorious weight-loss camp. We get into the effects of deprivation and starvation, the cult-like nature of the camp, how it weathered its many scandals, whether it’s possible to run a camp for larger-bodied kids that’s weight-inclusive or ethical, how she made the podcast, and more. Kelsey Snelling is a Philadelphia filmmaker whose work centers social and environmental

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34:47

#337: Why Ozempic Isn't a Miracle Weight-Loss Drug...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/07/24

Author and activist Amanda Martinez Beck joins us to discuss her experience of taking Ozempic for diabetes while also working to accept her body and break down anti-fat bias in society. She shares her history of dieting and disordered eating, how chronic conditions including diabetes as well as fibromyalgia and post-Covid syndrome have impacted her relationship with food and her body, why she started taking Ozempic in the first place, how diet culture is a new form of religion, and how her actual

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41:17

#336: Dispelling Diet-Culture Myths About Blood Sugar...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/06/26

Registered dietitians and diabetes educators Jessica Jones and Wendy Lopez join us to discuss why weight loss isn’t necessary for managing blood sugar, why the popular wellness-culture notion of diabetes “remission” or “reversal” can be harmful, how the popularity of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs as diet drugs is affecting people who use them for diabetes, the continuous-glucose-monitor trend for monitoring blood sugar in people without diabetes, Jess’s experience navigating prediabetes and other

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39:05

#335: GLP-1 Hype, Handling Haters, and Dating in a...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/05/22

Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith joins us to discuss how GLP-1 hype has changed the conversation about diet culture, the importance of body autonomy, how “bro” diet culture became public policy, how she handles haters, the “fed is best” approach to parenting, and lots more. Behind the paywall, she shares her experience of weighing herself for the first time in years, what it’s been like to date for the first time in a larger body, how she’s changed her relationship to cardio, and more. This episode is

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43:23

#334: “Adrenal Fatigue” + Anti-Inflammatory Diets +...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/04/24

Parent coach Oona Hanson joins us to discuss how going to a physical therapist for back pain led her down a wellness-culture rabbit hole, why dietary restrictions to “fight inflammation” just ended up harming her relationship with food and her body, how she got the dubious diagnosis of “adrenal fatigue,” and more. Behind the paywall, we get into how she helped her child heal from an eating disorder (and how that process changed the course of her career), how parents can help their kids navigate

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31:32

#333: Blood-Sugar Myths and Intuitive Eating for...

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/03/27

Dietitian and diabetes educator Janice Dada joins us to discuss why there’s so much stigma and blame on people with diabetes, the wellness-culture belief that people can “reverse diabetes” by restricting foods and taking a bunch of supplements, why people don’t “give themselves diabetes” by eating too much sugar, the myth that people with diabetes can’t eat sugar or carbs, her new book on intuitive eating for diabetes, and more. Behind the paywall, we get into the myths about diabetes and body size,

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35:51

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Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/02/20

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41:02

#331: How Is Your Relationship with Alcohol? Ft....

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison ·

2025/01/23

Dietitian and author Jenna Hollenstein joins us to discuss her experience with alcoholism and recovery, the intersection of disordered eating and disordered drinking, the sobriety trend in wellness culture, Dry January, mindful drinking, “food addiction,” and more. (This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast, Rethinking Wellness.) Paid subscribers can hear the full interview, and the first half is available to all listeners. To upgrade to paid, go to rethinkingwellness.substack.com. Jenna

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