#140: How to Heal from Over-Exercise & Find Joyful Movement with Jessi Haggerty, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Personal Trainer
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
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🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Anti-diet dietitian and personal trainer Jessi Haggerty joins us to discuss how to make the transition from instrumental exercise into joyful movement, why it’s so important to have a trauma-informed approach to movement, ableism in the fitness world, the shape-shifting nature of diet culture, embracing a Health at Every Size paradigm, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to deal with the desire to change a particular body part.
Jessi Haggerty is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Certified Personal Trainer with a private practice in Somerville, MA. She specializes in treating people struggling with eating disorders and disordered eating using using a customized, therapeutic, non-diet approach that combines nutrition and movement therapy, and also offers virtual recovery coaching.
In addition to her practice, Jessi has a podcast called the BodyLove Project where she hosts conversations about intuitive eating and body acceptance, with a special interest in how eating disorders and body dissatisfaction intersect with other tough-to-talk-about subject such as addiction, trauma, and postpartum. Despite the heavy topics, the BodyLove Project is about how to come out the other side, and live an authentic, embodied life.
Most recently, Jessi has launched an online workshop series for personal trainers, called Nutrition & Body Image Coaching Skills; How to Help Without Harming. This series is designed to empower trainers to coach from a HAES perspective, screen for eating disorders and disordered eating, and refer clients to a higher level of care when necessary. Find her online at JessiHaggerty.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course Intuitive Eating Fundamentals. |
| 0:04.8 | If you're ready to leave diet culture behind and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:08.9 | learn more and sign up at christiharrison.com slash course. That's christiharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, and body liberation. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm your host christiharrison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified |
| 0:24.8 | intuitive eating counselor offering online courses and programs to help people all over the world |
| 0:29.5 | make peace with food. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks |
| 0:34.2 | of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:53.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 140 of Food Psych. I'm your host christiharrison and today I'm |
| 0:58.1 | talking with Jesse Haggertey, a fellow anti-diet registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating |
| 1:02.6 | counselor, as well as a personal trainer. We talked about how to make the transition from |
| 1:07.2 | instrumental exercise into joyful movement, why it's so important to have a trauma informed |
| 1:12.5 | approach to movement, ableism in the fitness world, and the shape-shifting nature of diet culture, |
| 1:18.0 | and so much more. I can't wait to share our conversation with you in just a few minutes, but |
| 1:22.0 | first I'll answer this week's listener question, which is from a listener named Abby who writes, |
| 1:26.4 | Hi christih, I'm a huge fan of the podcast and I want to thank you for your persistent work at |
| 1:30.0 | dismantling diet culture. It has been four years since I admitted myself to a program for binge eating |
| 1:34.8 | disorder. I now embrace non-diet wellness and have grown increasingly more loving towards my body. |
| 1:39.6 | However, there's a part of my body that I have always felt self-conscious about, and no matter |
| 1:43.1 | how much I learn to love the other parts, I can't seem to bring myself to feel comfortable about |
| 1:46.9 | this body part. It seems like I'll never get to a place where I'm comfortable with it. I've even |
| 1:51.3 | considered cosmetic surgery to alter that part of my body. I know it sounds crazy, but there's a |
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