#160: How to Fight Healthism and Embrace Body Positivity with Elizabeth Scott, Co-Founder of The Body Positive
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2018
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Psychotherapist and co-founder of The Body Positive Elizabeth Scott joins us to talk about the problems with concern trolling and healthism, why it’s helpful to be vulnerable when defending the Health at Every Size paradigm, the process of unlearning diet culture and oppression, why dietitians are in the best position to support body acceptance, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how healthcare practitioners can unlearn everything they’ve been taught about weight and make peace with food and their bodies.
Elizabeth Scott, LCSW, is a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist who has been helping people learn to love their bodies and lead happier, more productive lives for more than 25 years. In 1996 Elizabeth co-founded The Body Positive, a nonprofit organization that builds grassroots, peer leadership programs to prevent eating disorders and other forms of self-harm. As Director of Training, Elizabeth instructs treatment professionals, educators, and students to use the Be Body Positive prevention model to promote resilience against body image problems and eating disorders. Find her online at TheBodyPositive.org.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my Intuitive Eating Online course. |
| 0:04.3 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:08.2 | learn more and sign up at christieharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:11.9 | That's christieharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:20.1 | and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified |
| 0:26.2 | intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs to help people all over |
| 0:30.4 | the world make peace with food. |
| 0:32.5 | Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their |
| 0:36.6 | relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:38.8 | I remember I was teething, little gums bleeding, cry day or evening, it was all about eating. |
| 0:47.6 | When I became a teen it was all about beef and now I'm ready for the world. |
| 0:52.0 | Try and sink my teeth in. |
| 0:53.8 | Stacking it. |
| 0:54.8 | Welcome to episode 160 of Food Psych. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and today I'm talking with Elizabeth Scott, a weight-inclusive |
| 1:01.6 | psychotherapist and co-founder of the body positive, an organization dedicated to the prevention |
| 1:06.7 | of weight stigma and eating disorders. |
| 1:08.9 | We talked about the problems with concern, trolling, and healthism and what those even |
| 1:12.6 | mean, why it's helpful to be vulnerable when defending the health at every size paradigm, |
| 1:17.6 | the process of unlearning diet culture and oppression and so much more. |
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