#109: Body Acceptance and Disability with Anna Sweeney, Certified Eating-Disorders Dietitian
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Fellow Health at Every Size RD Anna Sweeney shares how having a disability has affected her relationship with food and her body, how she's come to terms with the identity of being a disabled person, why anti-diet work is about social justice and equality for *all* bodies (not just those that are considered socially acceptable), why having a loved one with an eating disorder can bring up conflicting emotions, how diet culture permeates mainstream healthcare including eating disorder treatment, and lots more. PLUS, Christy answers a listener question about the early stages of intuitive eating!
Anna Sweeney, MS, RD, LDN, CEDRD is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian, who provides nutrition care using a non-diet, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size paradigm. Anna is an expert in providing care for individuals struggling with eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image concerns. Over the last decade, she has served in a supervisory role at multiple eating disorder treatment centers, and currently holds the position of National Director of Nutrition Services for Monte Nido.
Anna is also the owner of Whole Life Nutrition Counseling in Concord, MA, where she works exclusively with clients with eating disorders, disordered eating, or an interest in intuitive eating. Anna is passionate about nutrition, balance and wellness and works to empower her clients to trust their own body wisdom. Find her online at WholeLifeRD.com.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every |
| 0:06.3 | size. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified |
| 0:11.2 | intuitive eating counselor, specializing in weight-inclusive wellness. |
| 0:15.6 | Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 0:19.3 | with food. |
| 0:21.3 | Hey there, welcome to episode 109 of Food Psych. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today I'm talking with Anna Swini, a fellow registered |
| 0:43.2 | dietitian who specializes in health at every size and eating disorder recovery. |
| 0:47.7 | We had a really great conversation where she shared some stuff that she's never talked |
| 0:51.4 | about publicly before about how coming to terms with her disability affected her relationship |
| 0:57.0 | with food and her body and what it's like to be an eating disorder dietitian helping |
| 1:01.6 | people recover and restore their relationships with their body while she was grappling |
| 1:06.9 | with this identity of her own. |
| 1:09.3 | It's a really powerful, really important conversation. |
| 1:12.0 | We haven't really discussed issues of ability enough on the podcast, so I'm really excited |
| 1:16.8 | to share this episode with you and to get into all that with Anna in just a minute. |
| 1:21.9 | First I want to share a cool new feature that we're doing on the podcast, which is starting |
| 1:26.8 | now every week I'm going to be answering a listener question at the beginning of each |
| 1:31.2 | episode. |
| 1:32.2 | So if you want to submit your questions on intuitive eating or health at every size, eating disorder |
| 1:37.4 | recovery or any of the stuff we talked about on the podcast, you can do that at KristiHarrison.com |
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