#216: The Life Thief, Part 2: How Diet Culture Steals Your Money and Thwarts Eating-Disorder Recovery with Shira Rosenbluth, Health At Every Size Psychotherapist and Style Blogger
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Eating-disorder therapist and style blogger Shira Rosenbluth joins us to discuss how diet culture steals our money through the high cost and low effectiveness of eating-disorder treatment, why she decided to share her story as a therapist recovering from an eating disorder, fatphobia in eating-disorder treatment centers and its effect on recovery, eating disorders as a form of trauma, and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how meal preparation can fit in with intuitive eating.
Shira Rosenbluth, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in New York City. She has a passion for helping people feel their best in their body at any size and specializes in the treatment of disordered eating, eating disorders, and body-image dissatisfaction using a weight-neutral approach. She’s also the author of TheShiraRose.com, a popular body-positive style blog that’s been featured in Verily Magazine, The Everygirl, Glam, and laurenconrad.com. You can find her on Instagram @theshirarose, and on her blog, TheShiraRose.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 break free from diet culture and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:09.2 | learn more and sign up at christieherison.com slash course. That's christieherison.com slash course. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, |
| 0:19.8 | health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet register dietitian, |
| 0:28.1 | certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the forthcoming book Anti-Diet, |
| 0:33.1 | reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating, |
| 0:37.4 | which is available for pre-order now. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people |
| 0:42.3 | from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:46.6 | And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:51.8 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
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