#211: Orthorexia and Diet Culture In the Family with Anti-Diet Nutritionist Meg Bradbury & Daughter Carson
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Anti-diet nutritionist and Certified Body Trust® Provider Meg Bradbury joins us with her daughter Carson to discuss how Meg’s orthorexia affected their relationships with food and with each other, why Meg decided to share her recovery journey on social media, how the restrict-binge cycle can show up in children, how The Wellness Diet affects people of different identities, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, gluten, and “leaky gut syndrome.”
Meg Bradbury (she/her) is certified as a holistic anti-diet nutritionist, Body Trust® Provider, Accessible Yoga™ Teacher, and registered Yoga Alliance™ yoga and meditation teacher. Meg is in private practice working with individuals, groups, and families, advocating for body acceptance, eating disorder/disordered eating/body shame recovery, freedom with food, joyful movement, and stillness/breathwork. Meg’s work is guided by the principles of Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size®, and the Ellyn Satter Institute through a social justice and intersectional feminist lens. Meg’s practice is fat positive, weight neutral, and Q/T/GNC affirming. As an eating disorder and exercise bulimia survivor, Meg’s work is centered in the tenants of Relational Cultural Therapy; she holds space for clients of all ages with compassion, empathy, and humor. Meg is a member of the Association of Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) and the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). Meg lives and works in the Los Angeles area. Find her online at Lamplight.Space.
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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 break free from diet culture 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. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:22.0 | and taking down diet culture. I'm your host christiharrison and I'm an anti-diet register |
| 0:27.2 | dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the forthcoming book, |
| 0:32.0 | Anti-diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating, |
| 0:37.2 | which is available for pre-order now. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people |
| 0:42.0 | from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. And by the way, |
| 0:46.8 | on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:51.2 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:57.6 | And a guide revolution, |
| 1:03.6 | if you help at every size, |
| 1:07.9 | take the food to my food sign. |
| 1:21.3 | Hey there, welcome to episode 211 of Food Psych. I'm your host christiharrison, |
| 1:25.9 | and today I'm talking with certified body trust provider, anti-diet nutritionist and yoga teacher |
| 1:31.2 | Meg Bradbury, who joins us with her daughter, the first mother daughter appearance on food psych. |
| 1:36.6 | Her daughter Carson, they discuss how Meg's orthorexia affected their relationships with food and with |
| 1:42.3 | each other. Why Meg decided to share her recovery journey on social media? How the restrict binge |
| 1:48.3 | cycle can show up in children? How the wellness diet, that sneaky modern guys of diet culture that I'm |
| 1:54.1 | always talking about affects people of different identities differently and so much more. It's a great |
| 1:59.6 | conversation and I can't wait to share it with you in just a moment. But first, I'll answer this |
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