#138: Body Peace, Fat Acceptance, and Yoga for All Bodies with Sarah Harry, Body-Image and Eating-Disorder Specialist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Psychotherapist and yoga instructor Sarah Harry joins us to discuss how to handle fatphobia in the family, the most important step in her journey to body peace, how diet culture drives eating disorders, weight stigma in the fashion industry, the complications of weight-loss surgery, the role of yoga in diet-culture recovery, moving from body-positive activism to fat activism, avoiding burnout as a clinician, and lots more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how intuitive eating can help end the restrict-binge cycle.
Sarah Harry is one of Australia’s leading Body Image and Eating Disorder specialists. Her roles in this field are varied and she offers a unique perspective as an experienced Clinician, Lecturer, Researcher, Yoga Teacher and Author. She is the co-director of Body Positive Australia alongside the amazing Fiona Sutherland.
Sarah was the first yogi in Australia to offer yoga for bigger bodies. She has practised yoga for more than 20 years and has been running specialist classes and retreats for the last few years all over Australia.
Sarah has more than 15 years’ experience counselling individuals and groups with all kinds of eating and body image issues, she has worked in the public and private sectors, lectures at universities and has just published her first book Fat Yoga - Yoga for All Bodies. Find her online at fatyoga.com.au or bodypositiveaustralia.com.au.
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| 0:41.7 | Welcome to Food Psych, podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, and body liberation. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm your host, Christy Harrison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:53.4 | offering online courses and programs to help people all over the world make peace with food. |
| 0:58.6 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 1:20.8 | Hey there, welcome to episode 138 of Food Psych. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm your host, Christy Harrison and today I'm talking with Sarah Harry who's a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, |
| 1:29.5 | and the author of the book Fat Yoga. |
| 1:31.8 | We discussed how to handle fat phobia in the family, how diet culture drives eating disorders, |
| 1:37.4 | fat phobia in the fashion industry, the complications of weight loss surgery for her, |
| 1:42.0 | the role of yoga in diet culture recovery, and so much more. |
| 1:45.4 | It's a really great episode and I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment. |
| 1:48.7 | But first I'm going to answer this week's listener question which is from a listener named |
| 1:52.1 | or with initials KMH who writes, |
| 1:54.6 | I've been doing intuitive eating for several months after a little over a decade of disordered eating. |
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