#201: The Path Back to Intuitive Eating with Devinia Noel, Anti-Diet Psychotherapist and Intuitive Eating Counselor
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Psychotherapist and fellow certified intuitive eating counselor Devinia Noel joins us to discuss how her work as a therapist influenced her own process of re-learning intuitive eating, why using food as a coping skill isn’t a bad thing, how diet culture creates shame, the need for diversity among intuitive-eating counselors, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about what to do if you get a diagnosis of pre-diabetes.
Devinia Noel is a cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist and certified intuitive eating counsellor. She believes in a health at every size paradigm and a weight-neutral approach. Her mission is to create a safe diverse intersectional space for all individuals to develop peace with food and their bodies. Devinia is passionate about making non-diet spaces more diverse by sharing her experiences as a black woman previously trapped by diet culture. She also works in the community as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist helping people with a wide range of problems including depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and disordered eating. Her experience of implementing self-care and self-compassion, inspires her to encourage clients to implement these practices. When Devinia has free time, she can be found baking, lifting weights and spending time with family and friends. Find her online at DeviniaNoel.com.
This episode is brought to you by Christy's forthcoming book, Anti-Diet, which is now available for pre-order! Learn more and pre-order now at christyharrison.com/book.
Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, to get started on the anti-diet path.
If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, join Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.
Ask your own question about intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, or eating disorder recovery at christyharrison.com/questions.
To learn more about Food Psych and get full show notes and a transcript of this episode, go to christyharrison.com/foodpsych.
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyTranscript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course Intuitive Eating Fundamentals, |
| 0:04.3 | which is now reopened for enrollment. If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim |
| 0:09.3 | the life it stole from you, learn more and sign up for the course at christieherison.com slash |
| 0:14.4 | course. That's christieherison.com slash course. Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive |
| 0:21.0 | eating, health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. I'm your host |
| 0:26.8 | christieherison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, |
| 0:32.4 | an author of the forthcoming book anti-diet reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness |
| 0:38.0 | through intuitive eating, which is available for pre-order now. Join me here every week as I talk |
| 0:43.2 | with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:57.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 201 of Food Psych. I'm your host christieherison and today I'm |
| 1:18.8 | talking with divinia noelle, a psychotherapist, and fellow certified intuitive eating counselor who's |
| 1:24.0 | based in the UK. We discuss her process of relearning intuitive eating and how her work as a therapist |
| 1:30.3 | influenced it, why using food as a coping skill isn't a bad thing, how diet culture creates shame, |
| 1:37.3 | the need for diversity among intuitive eating counselors, and so much more. Can't wait to share |
| 1:42.4 | our conversation with you in just a moment. It's such a good one, divinia is so lovely. But first, |
| 1:46.7 | I'll answer this week's listener question, which is from a listener named Kate who writes, |
| 1:50.9 | Hi christie, I love your podcast so much. I feel like it helps ground me anytime my ingrained fat |
| 1:55.9 | phobic, diet culture thoughts start to overwhelm me. It's helped me feel less alone as a try to heal |
| 2:01.3 | from the trauma of living in a larger body in a culture that is so anti-fat. Thank you for your |
| 2:06.4 | work and getting the health of every size perspective out there. Today I've been freaking out a bit |
| 2:11.1 | because my doctor let me know that my blood test results came back as pre-diabetic and I can feel |
| 2:16.4 | the sense of internalized stigma and overwhelm setting in. My doctor told me for now just to watch |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.