#233: COVID-19 and Eating-Disorder Recovery, Plus How to Handle Weight Gain and Body Changes with Rachel Millner, Fat-Positive Psychologist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Fat-positive psychologist and eating-disorder specialist Rachel Millner joins us to discuss how she navigated a changing body while helping clients in eating-disorder recovery, coping with discomfort in a larger body, how the HAES community responded to her weight gain compared to the culture at large, teaching kids how to navigate diet culture and other forms of oppression, and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to navigate eating-disorder recovery while socially distanced from your support system because of COVID-19.
Rachel Millner is a fat-positive psychologist and activist, certified eating-disorder specialist, and Certified Body Trust® Provider. She specializes in working with adolescents and adults with all forms of eating disorders and those wanting to break free from diet culture. Rachel is in private practice in Bucks County, PA and sees clients virtually and in-person. She has given talks nationally on topics related to “atypical” anorexia, incorporating HAES® and weight-inclusive care into clinical practice, and adapting clinical approaches to HAES. Find her online at RachelMillnerTherapy.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my book, Anti-Diet, Reclaim Your Time, |
| 0:04.8 | Money, Wellbeing, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, which is now available wherever books |
| 0:09.5 | are sold. |
| 0:10.9 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:16.6 | and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, Certified |
| 0:23.1 | Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Author of the Book Anti-Diet. |
| 0:27.2 | Join me here every week as I talk with fellow Anti-Diet advocates about their journeys toward |
| 0:31.6 | peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:33.8 | And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie |
| 0:37.8 | numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion |
| 0:42.5 | is advised. |
| 0:57.2 | Hey there, welcome to episode 233 of Food Psych. |
| 1:12.9 | The world is upside down right now with COVID-19, but I am still your host, Christy Harrison, |
| 1:18.8 | and I'm still going to be talking with a guest today, but I'm also going to answer a listener |
| 1:23.4 | question about COVID-19 and have a feeling that most of my answers to listener questions |
| 1:27.2 | are going to be about this for a long time or for a while at least. |
| 1:31.4 | But in the interview portion of this episode, I'm going to be talking with fat positive |
| 1:35.2 | psychologist and eating disorder specialist Rachel Melner about how she navigated changes |
| 1:40.2 | in her body while helping clients in eating disorder recovery, coping with discomfort in |
| 1:45.0 | a larger body, how the health at every size community responded to her weight gain compared |
| 1:50.3 | to the culture at large, teaching kids how to navigate. |
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