This week I spoke to Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, who, in addition to being my close friend of over a decade, is someone whose work has significantly impacted me. As a journalist she’s covered food, nutrition, and health for more than 20 years. She's also a clinician working with people as a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor. She helps tens of thousands of people around the world think critically about diet and wellness culture and develop more peaceful relationships with food. Her writing has appeared everywhere from New York Times to the Food Network, and she's written two books: 2019's Anti-Diet and her latest, The Wellness Trap. We talked about how she’s handling the praise and criticism of a large platform, what well-being practices she does participate in, and in a clip from an interview I did with her on her new show Rethinking Wellness we talk about how we met in 2013. She asks me about how I got so into wellness culture so young and how my episode on her first show, Food Psych, where we talked about orthorexia was one of the early influences for this new book. We cover some topics from this book including how some of the pitfalls of modern healthcare can drive people to alternative wellness approaches and then how social media algorithms intensify this, leading people far down unexpected rabbit holes, what the care effect is, the history of the hysteria diagnosis, and much more.

Show Notes:

- My interview with Christy on well-being > wellness

- Find Christy on the Web | Instagram

- Christy's podcasts: Rethinking Wellness & Food Psych

- Christy's books: The Wellness Trap  & Anti-Diet 

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If you liked this episode, try out:

Episode 369: Seasons of Overwhelm with Christy Harrison (Part 1)

Episode 354: Don't Let It Get You Down with Savala Nolan (Part 1)